“The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator...That's what the Iranian government believes. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”—Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”—Thomas Jefferson, United States Declaration of Independence.
How many times—HOW MANY TIMES—have I written in various articles that the Left believes that our rights come from government, not God? This is a core doctrine of Leftism, it is what the Democratic Party in America today believes, and it is a direct refutation of the founding principles of our country. Kaine’s words are as unAmerican as any ideology can be. But people who don’t believe in God can’t believe that our rights come from Him, can they? With no God, the highest source of authority on earth becomes government. The Democrats who reject God, who reject the Declaration of Independence, MUST believe that our rights come from government. Where else could they come from?
Senator Kaine says our rights come from “laws” (and government). But who makes the laws? Governments do, of course. I lived under this heinous doctrine “government gives us our rights” for 10 years in Communist China. The Democratic Party adheres to the same system of thought as the atheistic Chinese Communist Party. And Democratic Party doctrine is just as repulsive and tyrannical as what the ChiComs believe and practice.
The Democrats are trying to change America, folks, into a country of totalitarian government, where all power is in the hands of government, a country where government gives you the rights you have. That’s what a totalitarian government is and does! And any right the government gives, it can take away. How can human freedoms be secure under such a system? That is the very antithesis of freedom.
“The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.”—James Madison. Again, this is NOT what the Democratic Party believes today. They have, of course, the right to believe anything they want to. We live in a free country—at least we do now and will until they get the power they lust for. But, Democrats, don’t deny the founding principles of America and claim to be honoring America. Be honest, Democrats. Tell Americans you are trying to change the country from the principles it was founded upon. Quit deceiving the American people. Quit lying to us. Quit trying to make us believe you are TRUE Americans. At least admit you are NOT believers in what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison wrote about where our rights come from and the foundations of American success. Admit you are trying to morph the country into something completely different from its founding principles. Be honest to the American people, for once in your lives.
I had someone on “X”, based on Kaine’s statement of our rights coming from government, ask me an interesting and perceptive question: “How can one become a lawyer and a U.S. Senator from Virginia, of all places, and not even have a basic understanding of our founding document?” Virginia—the home of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. One wonders if Tim Kaine has ever even heard of these men.
The answer to the question above would take more space than I have here. The question was on “X” and my answer thus had to be limited in space, but here is the gist of it: you become a lawyer and a United States Senator—from the Democratic Party, at least—by being an evil-hearted individual, educated in a totally biased educated system, and elected by a countless number of incredibly ignorant, uneducated, stupid, and/or evil people. And you selfishly love power, you don’t care about truth, history, or the well-being of your fellow man. That’s only a beginning of an answer to the fellow’s question, and the reader can supplement it with his/her own thoughts.
But I believe my answer neatly summarizes Tim Kaine and every elected Democrat in the country today. They hate America, at least the America of the Declaration of Independence. They have turned their backs on the God of Judeo-Christianity to a hedonistic, licentious paganism, and if they even believe in a “god,” it is one of their own creation. Rather than humans being created in the image of God, the Democrats have fashioned a “god” created in the image of man—in THEIR own image. Their “god” is a god who allows them to do whatever they want to do, a god who justifies every vile, despicable, licentious, heathen, barbaric action they crave to commit. A “god” who lets them rule, through government, however they want to, and give to the people any “rights” they want the people to have. A “god” who grants them total power. So, Democrats have created a “god” who is not omnipotent, but a “god” who makes THEM and their government all-powerful. It is the vilest, and most frightening, “god” of all. It is the “god” of Marxism and the mass slaughter of hundreds of millions of innocent human being, and the oppression of countless billions. It is the “god” they want to rule America.
Do not be deceived. The Democrats do NOT believe in the only true God or the principles upon which America was founded. Senator Tim Kaine just admitted it publicly. Let Americans become knowledgeable and beware the Democratic Party.
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