After seven years of this work, I became disillusioned because 95 to 99% of all my single mother clients were not only career welfare recipients but also were very capable of working and making it on their own. The only help I was giving them was to help them remain co-dependent.   What I found was that these people had fallen victim to the liberal lie that some people are just victims and government needs to help them.  I decided to get out and got another job.

The abortion issue was prominent in my mind.  How would I prove that the unborn was not a human being?  I could not find a shred of evidence that the unborn was just a clump of meat or cells or something akin to a bad tooth that could be removed if it hurt.  Democrats called this “women’s health.”  On the contrary, the evidence was heavily on the side that the unborn was a human being.  Other issues that Democrats championed were repugnant to me, especially their view of poverty and how to help people out of poverty.  Their answer was to have government throw money at them.  I studied what happened with the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty and discovered that not only did the War on Poverty not help the poor it helped to make them more dependent.  When President Johnson got Congress to approve his War on Poverty in 1964, the poverty rate had actually declined in the previous five years from 24 to 19%.   Since then the poverty rate has ranged from 12 to 15%.  History has shown that all the huge social spending from FDR in the 1930s to Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s shows that government spending had no effect on poverty and some economists think it had a negative impact.  The huge spending of the 1930s had no impact.  What helped the economy was the spending for World War II.

The philosophy of the Democrats can be described as “government knows best.”  Government must rule your life and help you otherwise you’re just a helpless person.  This looks eerily similar to what socialist societies believe.  I grew up dependent on no one, not my parents, not any government.  I worked since I started walking.  In High School I would get up at 4:00 AM and go on my paper route, throwing the Los Angeles Examiner in Compton, California. I’d return around 6:00 AM, shower, eat and go to school.   I saved my money and bought what I wanted only if I had the money.  I never asked my parents for any money.  The current generation would find this very foolish.  Most of the youngsters today are on the dole from their parents – they have a hand out from everything from a car to paying the rent.  This is very close to the Democratic Party philosophy.  To be a “victocrat” is politically correct with the Democrats.

If you look at the world economies, which ones are the most successful?  The Socialist economies of Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, South America?  No, the most successful economies are the ones where the free market rules; where individual responsibility is encouraged.  Can you name one socialist economy that has succeeded?  No, there are none, yet the Democrats always go to the socialist model to solve any problem.  Look at Obamacare today, and the massive bailout of private business who spent like drunken sailors during the good times and then put their hand out to the government asking for a rescue when their house came crashing down due to their irresponsible spending and out of control Ponzi schemes.  Government told us that they were "too big to fail" so they had to rescue them.  Really?  In the real world if you're irresponsible with your finances you pay the price if you fail.

There is a saying that if you’re not a Democrat in your 20s you have no heart and if you’re not a Republican by your 40’s you have no brains; or words to this effect.  This is eerily true, I believe.  Now I believe that my Democratic friends are good and compassionate people who think that their view is the right one.  Having been there myself I’ve concluded that they are sincere but sincerely very wrong.

A “Love’ in” was a term used in the 1960s, a decade of enormous change.  The term refers to the a gathering of “Hippies.”  The gathering was sort of a party with like-minded people, who loved to smoke dope, and hang out together, and do what young people usually do, usually not of the approved moral order.  The 1960s changed America forever, most for worse. 

I attended college in the 1960s, an era that was the start of the decay and fall of the great American society.  It took me about 20 years to unlearn all the false and stupid stuff I learned in College.   The decay started with the assassination of President Kennedy.  Not only did Camelot end with Kennedy, but also the start of the degeneracy of our society started and has now given fruit.  I’m referring to our culture of self-gratification, our drug culture and the fall of Hollywood as a force for good. 

In the 1960s I was a happy Democrat.  The Democratic Party was the party of the people in those days; the party of the workers.  The impact of what was happening in 1960s changed everything, even the Democratic Party.  It took me another 20 years to realize that the party I belonged to no longer represented my values or me.  As a matter of fact, the party represented everything I opposed by the time I got out in 1990.  What follows is why the Democratic Party is no longer a party I can support – it is a party that I oppose now 100%.  I can’t think of one thing that I agree with in the Democratic Party. 

The Democratic Party was a respectable party, in my view, up to the 1970s.  Something happened to the party; the party went from a moderate party to a hard left party.  There are many reasons why the party changed.  I will concentrate on two of them. 

The first bad influence was the “Love-in” age of the 1960s.  This was the age of the popularization of drugs.  Timothy Leary, a psychologist and College professor at the time, was a proponent of taking drugs and was famous for the saying "Turn on, tune in, drop out."  The 1960s turned our culture upside down.  Young people started challenging authority – all authority, their parents and government.  These young people considered themselves as “enlightened” and smarter than their parents. 

Ask any mother or father who is dealing with the drug abuse problems of their child and see if they think that taking drugs is romantic or enlightened.  We owe the culture of the 1960s for the ravages of today’s drug problems.  Entire countries, such as Mexico and Columbia are being held hostage by the drug lords who have more power that their government.  The cost of the drug culture of our day is incalculable.  The rest of the world cannot control drug use. 

The second bad influence on the Democratic Party was the feminist movement.  The movement originally had honorable aims such as equality of women in the workplace and society in general.  However, the feminist movement quickly fell off the edge of the cliff.  The movement proclaimed that in order to be equal woman had a right to kill their unborn babies; they were equal to men in all respects.  College professors taught that there were no differences between men and women, for instance.  The feminist movement even went so far as to claim that women did not need men.  In fact it was considered honorable for women not to marry or prefer a career to motherhood.  What we’ve reaped as a result of the feminist movement is the breakdown of the traditional family, abortion for any reason for all nine months of pregnancy, the feminization of males, the loss and importance of a father in the home, and the breakdown of the nuclear family. 

As of this writing, 40% of all births are to unwed mothers.  The breakdown of the family has also given us more crime.  Our society has abandoned the importance of having a father in the home.  We now claim that fathers are not important for the rearing of boys.  Just look at crime statistics and see how many criminals are from single mother homes compared to a mother and a father homes.  The statistics quoted here are nothing short of alarming for fatherless homes.  The breakdown of the family has been the most damaging affects of feminism. 

These two events had a substantial influence on the Democratic Party.  The party went from being pro-life to pro-abortion; from a party of family values to a party that now promotes no moral values at all and more specifically the worst values of our society, such as homosexual marriage, out of wedlock births, and a proponent of replacing the nuclear family with the government taking care of you from the cradle to the grave (socialism in disguise). 

The Democratic Party endorses a culture of moral relativism.  Here are just a few ideas promoted and defended by the Democratic Party: 

Homosexual marriage,

Abortion on demand for all nine months,

Taking God and religion out of the public square,

Moral relativism,

Persecution of anyone who dares make references to the Bible, or standing in front of abortion clinics,

Promoting a socialist/ Marxist philosophy that government knows best not the family,

Taking God and religion out of the classroom,

European style secularism.

 There is a saying that your friends say a lot about who you are.  The best friends of the Democrats are the Hollywood crowd which believes in a narcissistic moral relativistic philosophy of life of anything goes as long as you want it; people like George Soros who believes in Socialist/Marxist political philosophy, America haters such as the American terrorist Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and the United Nations.  George Soros, who has become one of the richest men in world, thinks America is an oppressive state.  Soros loves communism but hates America, which has made him what he is today.  Democrats are big supporters of such Internet hate sites as Moveon.org and the Huffington Post. 

As a Christian with Judeo-Christian values, I find that the Democratic Party has none of my values.  Many Christians and Catholics are Democrats.  This is a contradiction to me.  How can a Christian support a party that has such degenerate moral values as described above?  A partial answer is that liberal Christians believe, for the most part, that as long as they take care of the poor, this is all that is required of them.  They have replaced the Bible with current political activism that they consider beneficial.  Leftist Christians such as Protestants Tony Compolo and Jim Wallis, or Catholics such as the Norte Dame Theologian, Fr. Richard McBrien believe that this is the sole Christian mission.  This philosophy is what is called Liberation Theology, a theology that came out of South America, based on Socialist/Marxist philosophy, in the late 1960s and which has been condemned by the Vatican.  

I vote according to my values.  I find that the Democratic Party has none of my values.  The party’s socialist bent is very disturbing because it promotes government as the father and mother to us all.  This also promotes irresponsibility and what Larry Elder calls “victocrats” – people who always consider themselves as victims with no responsibility for their lives; “ it’s always someone else’s fault for why I’m the way I am” type of thinking.  This is a very bad philosophy.  Socialism has been tried for over 100 years and failed at every attempt.  Don’t believe it?  Tell me of one socialist society that has been successful.