Report Card # 8 on David Carlin's Book

Report # 8 on David Carlin’s Book
Can a Catholic Be a Democrat?
Tuesday, Oct. 30th, 2007
We continue today and tomorrow to understand the mind and heart of David Carlin on this very important book. This is a great education for what has happened to the Democratic Party. We will use his own words and try to finish this following section:

What the Democratic Party Has Become!
1. The Great Transformation, Part 1 (p. 42-53)
“So as we moved from one era of the party’s history (age of machines and bosses) into a new area (the age of moral-liberal ideologues), I was on the side of the ideologues – at least with respect to everything except abortion, to which I retained my old religious and philosophical objections. Little did I foresee that the party’s new power structure would produce? It would take me years - decades even – before I fully realized that I could no longer be on their side and that, indeed, I would have to become their enemy….

“The slow integration of the local machines in the 1950’s and ‘60’s and their rapid collapse after that meant that the national party was not longer answerable to the local parties – but by the same token, it could no longer rely on local parties to help win elections….

“TV political advertising has come to play a gigantic role in presidential election campaigns – and just in presidential campaigns but in any campaign in which the candidate has to reach a very large number of voters: … But TV advertising, as everyone knows, isn’t cheap: production is high… air time is even higher….

“And where this money come from? But now the wealthy were beginning to donate to the Democratic Party for another reason: to protect and advance their ideological concerns – that is the items on the agenda of moral liberalism….

“These affluent moral liberals were also strategically situated in what may be called the three “command posts” of American culture: tending to dominate the national press (reporters and editors), the national high-prestige colleges, universities, and law schools (as faculty and administration) and the entertainment industry (as performers, writers, and producers). Thus, they were in a position to influence public opinion….

“From the 1930s and for many decades following, the American intellectual class was predominately liberal … and Democratic. In fact, liberals and Democratic had something approaching a monopoly in the world of American intellectuals….

“Intellectuals are peopled who, by definition, take ideas seriously, and America’s liberal intellectuals remain loyal to the Democratic Party only as far as the Democratic agendas is favorable to their liberal beliefs and values…. If for example, the party were to abandon or moderate its strong support for abortion – and the liberal intellectual would jump ship. Fear of losing this support, I suggest, is one of the chief reasons that the big shots in the party aren’t about to shift away from their abortion and same-sex- marriage positions…."

George H. Kubeck, CINOPS BE GONE, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.