By DEXTER DUGGAN
The title of scholar Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, might better be inverted, with the words about the party’s history coming before mention of Hillary Clinton and her America, because much of the movie isn’t about, but leads up to, her. And the party’s dismaying history is no secret, just neglected.
Still, in this election year, highlighting her name is the topical thing to do.
Or will it yet turn out that D’Souza should have highlighted Bernie Sanders instead? Or Elizabeth Warren? With new convulsions emerging from seriously damaging Democratic emails just as that party’s national convention was about to begin in Philadelphia, and more emails apparently still to come, who can say for sure who’ll lead that ticket into the November election?
Was D’Souza hedging his bets by making Hillary’s and Bernie’s and Elizabeth’s political party, not only Hillary, his theme? Does D’Souza have an alternate Bernie’s America ready to distribute as a substitute?
Another name winning attention from D’Souza is Saul Alinsky, Hillary’s college inspiration and hero, who died in 1972. Truly, the far-left community organizer Alinsky deserves a spotlight all his own, he the lodestar not only of Hillary but also of the man in the White House she seeks to succeed, utterly unscrupulous and radical Barack Obama.
Young Hillary didn’t admire Alinsky from afar but corresponded with him, wrote her thesis on him, and had him over to address her school.
And what topic had Alinsky chosen for his own doctoral dissertation? Chicago’s Capone Gang, murderous mobsters whom Alinsky followed around for his research. “I learned a hell of a lot” from the mob, Alinsky said.
Alinsky thought radicals had to push for change from outside the establishment, but Hillary had a better idea. Take over from the inside. Can we figure that Obama agreed it’s better to do an inside job?
On his radio program, conservative pundit Glenn Beck said that Alinsky’s rules teach how to hate, lie, and destroy. Sound familiar in this age of instigator Obama?
This movie, released nationally on July 22, already had left-wingers squirming over the justified damage it does to their mindset.
Back on March 8, criticism by a film writer at the left-wing UK Guardian said the movie’s trailer “has proven controversial for its use of racist imagery, including fictionalized footage of the Ku Klux Klan, to paint a picture of the Democratic Party’s early roots in opposition to abolitionism.”
Come again? A medieval monk’s classic question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin has been supplanted by seeing how much nonsense this Guardian post can cram into one sentence.
Is it racist if one condemns racism by portraying horrors — indefensible, by their very nature — of whip-wielding slave masters and cruel Klansmen?
To say footage has been “fictionalized” in this context suggests “falsified.” Is it false to say the Klan existed and terrorized?
D’Souza picturing the Klan serves to remind that this terrorist group was the military arm of the Democratic Party after the Civil War, not some Republican-controlled night riders.
Or when the Guardian critic refers to “fictionalized footage,” should he really say “re-created footage” — because there were no color movie cameras in 1870? By that definition, most movies are “fictionalized” regardless of the time period or veracity of their story line, because they use actors and studios instead of the actual persons and surroundings.
Is it only “fiction,” for instance, that anti-slavery Republican crusader Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, or Christ crucified, because no cameras filmed the events in real time?
The Klan night riders are only one element to set the stage as the movie begins. Another is an early 20th-century woman motioning to hush up. Why, it’s Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, a racist, eugenicist, and great heroine to current Democrat leaders like Hillary.
Sanger, s-h-h-h, didn’t want blacks to be on their guard about what she planned to do against them, using her best of intentions. Many if not most people are well-intentioned, even though some of them possibly are downright dangerous to others, too.
Woodrow Wilson, a liberal, internationalist Democrat who won the U.S. presidency with a plurality in a three-way race in 1912, had big, progressive visions, too. Which happened to include the liberal enthusiasm of that time for “scientific racism.”
Margaret Sanger hardly was alone in her theories of what needed to be done to alter the population — for its betterment, of course.
D’Souza’s film shows Democrat Wilson screening the racist movie The Birth of a Nation for an audience right at the White House. It portrayed blacks unfavorably, and the Klan as heroic.
Wilson told government officials that they were free to reverse integrationist employment practices.
If Germany’s malevolent National Socialist race-fixers hadn’t finally shaken American liberals awake as to where their shared ideals were leading, we might have someone like Margaret Sanger still being praised today by Hillary Clinton. Oh, we do? And the U.S. government is a mighty engine even now imposing Planned Parenthood on this nation? When does the liberal nightmare end?
Maintaining Illusion
D’Souza notes that Democrats’ official racism didn’t cease with the defeat of the South in the Civil War. (Indeed, he says that Democrats prefer to portray the war as South vs. North, rather than Democrat vs. Republican, even though pro-slavery Democrats hardly were confined to the South: Witness Lincoln’s famous debate foe Sen. Stephen Douglas, an Illinois Democrat.)
Instead, overt segregationists remained the underpinning of the Democratic structure throughout the South, and still exerted their influence in Washington, D.C., even when Massachusetts’ Catholic John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960.
Well, the civil-rights revolution of the 1960s finally helped most Democrats walk over to the correct side. Or did it? D’Souza says the Southern plantation owner was succeeded by the Northern big-city Democrat boss, whose own intense interest is that his dependent constituents don’t get off the urban plantation that gives him power.
This history may not be recognized by, for instance, some Northern urban Catholics who flocked to that party. Or who enjoyed material blessings dispensed by the minions and successors of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in their neighborhoods. All the more reason to see this movie, to better understand how we got to today.
Your neighbor Democrat voter Joe isn’t asked by Planned Parenthood if he wants permissive abortion throughout pregnancy. PP tells the party leadership what it expects to happen, and if Joe just swallows his party’s degeneracy out of inertia or even ignorance, so much the better. It wouldn’t be the first time that decaying institutions are run top-down.
People don’t have to apologize forever for old wrongs now being addressed. But D’Souza shows that maintaining illusion isn’t the same as effecting redemption.
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