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In this American Thinker article, Joseph Ford Cotto reveals that as America nears its 250th anniversary, the Democrat Party’s embrace of woke ideology and critical social justice threatens the foundational principles of individual rights, ordered liberty, and self-government enshrined in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights, issued June 12, 1776, proclaimed all men equally free and independent with inalienable rights from their Creator, establishing separation of powers, free speech, trial by jury, and religious liberty as bedrock of the republic.
- These Enlightenment-rooted ideals, inspired by thinkers like John Locke and influencing Jefferson and Madison, stand in direct opposition to today’s Democrat-dominated woke worldview of group-based power struggles and equity of outcomes over equality under law.
- Democrats have shifted from broad working-class coalitions to identity politics and cultural radicalism, accelerating after 2014 with support for BLM, defund the police, DEI mandates, and viewing institutions through oppressor-oppressed lenses.
- This transformation rejects evidence-based universalism for perpetual grievance, deconstruction of Western norms, and anti-Western, anti-capitalist, anti-Israel convictions that alienate working-class and even some minority voters.
- A recent Elon University/YouGov poll found 55% of Democrats would rather live in another country than the United States, compared to just 10% of Republicans, highlighting profound partisan alienation from America’s founding heritage.
- If Democrats win the 2026 midterms, their ideology risks dismantling borders, merit, and American exceptionalism in favor of collectivist policies that erode prosperity and freedom.
- Cotto warns that voters must defend the founders’ framework of limited government and individual rights to ensure the semiquincentennial celebrates renewal rather than loss.
Read the full story:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/250_years_into_the_experiment_democrats_threaten_catastrophe.html
