Extreme platform

By Henry Fowler, Stevensville

Below is my version of a draft copy of the Democratic Party platform for 2020. The final version may differ in minor details, but policy statements by the Democratic presidential candidates suggest any changes will be minimal.

• Enact the Green New Deal because the concentration of government power in the hands of Democrats is the solution to the world’s problems;

• Replace Capitalism with Socialism because equality of outcome is more important than equality of opportunity;

• Medicare-for-All (including for illegal aliens) and private health insurance for no one because freedom of choice is not a Democratic value;

• Sign the Equality Act into law and impose transgender ideology on everybody, an ideology in which a man is a woman and a woman is a man if he/she/they say so, regardless of biology or anatomy;

• Strip tax-exempt status from churches, religious schools, and charities that act on their opposition to LGBT rights (e.g., don’t celebrate same-sex marriage) because religious liberty is not a Democratic value;

• Pay reparations for slavery (even though slavery ended over 150 years ago and there are no living former slaves or slave owners);

• Free college for all (including for illegal aliens) and cancellation of all student loan debt because hard work and personal responsibility are not Democratic values;

• Guarantee abortion on demand right up to birth and end the distinction between late-term abortion and infanticide (à la Governor “Blackface” Northam) because life is not sacred;

• Ban “assault weapons” and impose other restrictions on the Second Amendment right to bear arms (like in Virginia);

• Repeal the Trump tax cuts, raise taxes on the middle class, and impose a new wealth tax on the rich;

• Abolish ICE, open our borders to the world, end all deportations of illegal aliens, grant amnesty to all 12-22 million illegal aliens, protect sanctuary cities, increase legal immigration, and anything else to increase the number of Democrat-leaning voters;

• Abolish the Electoral College, pack the Supreme Court with liberal judges, lower the voting age to 16, give illegal aliens, incarcerated felons, and ex-cons the right to vote, give statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and anything else to ensure permanent Democratic one-party rule (like in California);

• Any resistance to this platform will be blamed on racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, trans-phobic, cisgender straight white males.