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is constantly telling us that there are two Americas: The haves and the have-nots. In doing so, he continues to reinforce standard liberal class-warfare propaganda. What he and virtually all Democrats would have us believe is that the Democrats can and will fix the economic inequities inherent in our system.

Notice he does not produce evidence that Democrats have a history of actually having helped the less-fortunate sector of our society. Rather, he tells you only that they will and that Republicans will not. Why? Because he also knows that his party has been telling us these things for decades and they have yet to deliver on their promises. In fact, most of their policies have not only failed, they have often been utterly disastrous to large portions of the American underclass. For example, until a Republican congress led by Speaker of The House, Newt Gingrich, reformed our welfare system it had all but destroyed the economic potential of millions of our citizens who had become "slaves" to the very system that was supposed to lift them up out of poverty. He also knows that Republican welfare reform has been quite successful and that it has literally changed the economic dynamic in our society from one of dire hopelessness for an entire class of people to one that has enabled new generations to educate themselves to become productive members of our society and to realize a sense of personal self-worth and dignity unattainable by their parents who were dependant on handouts from their government.

So when John Edwards and other Democrats talk about haves and have-nots, be careful to know exactly what they are doing. They are appealing to your sense of social dutyto your social consciencein order to get your vote, but not because they intend to actually fix anything.

It is an old Democratic strategy

They are appealing to your simplistic, emotional self in the hope you will not take it upon yourself to learn what the root causes of poverty really are and how to deal with them. They are demagogues. They are trying to convince you that they are the compassionate partythat if you don't vote for them, there is no hope for our society. Yet in a very real sense, their welfare system was far more successful in getting people to vote for Democrats than it ever was in lifting welfare recipients up and out of poverty. As long as the welfare recipients received their monthly checks, it was virtually guaranteed they would vote Democratic. It was an insidiously deplorable bargain between the Democratic Party and the welfare recipients: The Democrats got votes and gained power, which is always their primary goal, while the welfare recipients remained stuck in a state of virtual economic slavery. It stank.

There are two Americas

There are still have-nots among us. Yet, thanks to Republican welfare reform and other effective policies, there are far fewer as a percentage of population than during the decades of "Welfare Dependence", which was so near and dear to the hearts of Democratic vote getters. But now we know for certain that there is another significant social divide in our nation: The charitable ones and the less charitable ones.

So let's dispel this devilish, insidious liberal myth once and for all: The Democratic Party and its loud liberal component, is not, nor has it ever been, the compassionate, charitable party they would have us believe it is. Moreover, if they protest and argue differently; if they still insist they are the most charitable and compassionate among us; ask them, "Compared to whom, the Republicans?"

Of course there are many more myths in their red-hot bag of rhetorical lies. In fact, they have built their entire political house on a bed of deceit.

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