Clearly, someone is not paying attention to what is being put out by the Democratic Party, as it released its official platform on Sunday night, failing to update the document from July that called for re-electing President Joe Biden.
The bottom of page two of the 91-page ’24 Democratic Platform states, “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job.”
Who knows what the truth is these days, as everything seems to be so chaotic that up is down and down is up. From Harris rewriting news headlines to engaging in a cutesy banter with her “white guy tacos” running mate rather than engaging in pressing issues with the press, her overly cheerful, joyful, and hope-infused marketing of herself makes us wonder what might be truly happening behind the smiles and quirky jokes.
Additionally, the released platform supports numerous controversial topics that have been shown to harm rather than heal people, such as surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for “transgender adolescents,” without indicating the minimum age for providing such surgeries, as reported by Breitbart.
The Dallas Express reported on how such procedures on minors can leave dreadful, lasting side effects, mentally and physically.
Back to the Democratic platform. Here is more of what Breitbart reported in its deep dive:
The platform begins with a “land acknowledgment,” declaring that the convention is being held on lands once belonging to Native Americans. This is a left-wing practice that, the Wall Street Journal noted last weekend, is central to the ideology behind campus anti-Israel protests — the claim that the United States and Israel are guilty of “settler colonialism.” This also “means rejecting the understanding of American history that has been mainstream since the mid-20th century—that it is a story of slow progress toward fulfilling the nation’s founding promise of freedom for all,” the Journal notes.
The Democratic platform claims Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have achieved enormous progress for Americans, and that Donald Trump “is rigging our economy for his Mar-a-Lago friends and billionaire donors, who like him, are only in it for themselves.”
It omits some of Harris’s recent economic proposals, such as a taxpayer-funded $25,000 down payment for first-time home buyers and a $6,000-per-child tax credit. It does, however, include rhetoric claiming, without evidence, that companies are guilty of “price gouging,” a claim central to Harris’s demand for socialist-style price caps to fight inflation.
The platform makes a number of misleading claims, including the claim that the U.S. is “finally rebuilding … broadband” as part of the administration’s investment in infrastructure. Despite a $42.5 billion fund for expanding broadband under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which Harris was meant to supervise, not one new connection has been built.
Despite focusing on President Biden, the platform omits some of his recent plans to “reform” the Supreme Court by imposing term limits, which Democrats would hope to use to oust conservative justices and replace them with liberals.
Among other highlights, the platform defends surgery and drug treatments for “transgender youth,” without specifying the age at which children should be provided such surgeries. “Democrats will vigorously oppose state and federal bans on gender-affirming health care,” it says. It does not mention the issue of transgender sports, and the question of biological males participating in women’s sporting activities.
The platform repeats the “very fine people” hoax — the false claim that Trump praised neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in 2017, when in fact he said they should be “totally” condemned.
On migration and the border, the platform claims: “President Biden has led with the conviction that we must secure our border and fix a broken immigration system decades in the making.” The platform blames Republicans in Congress for rejecting Biden’s proposed immigration legislation, which would legalize current migrant flows at massive levels.
On foreign policy, the platform pledges to continue opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine. It does not mention a goal for U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine, or the prospect of peace talks. The platform calls for a Palestinian state and offers a counterfactual history of the Middle East — such as claiming credit for deterring the Houthis, after Biden removed them from a list of terrorist organizations on which Trump had placed them, encouraging their aggression.
The platform also boasts that “President Biden ended America’s longest war, bringing our troops home from Afghanistan,” without mentioning the disaster than ensued, including the death of 13 American troops in a terror attack during the haphazard evacuation of Kabul.