Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party Page #6

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Dreams From My Father.

[Obama] ''Seemed like we'd always

be second-class citizens. ''

Plantation politics.

''The man with the newspaper said.

That's just what it was, too,

a plantation. ''

Black people in the worst jobs.

The worst housing.

Police brutality rampant.

''But when the so-called

black committeemen

came around election time--''

We'd all line up and vote

the straight Democratic ticket.

Sell our souls

for a Christmas turkey.

White folks spitting in our faces,

and we'd reward them with a vote.

[D'Souza] So, what has Obama done to get

rid of the Democratic plantation?

Nothing. That's because he's running it.

The Democratic urban plantations

were not just for blacks.

They were also for other minorities

and immigrants.

When these groups arrived,

they found waiting for them

a Democratic welcoming committee.

- Hey, welcome to America.

- We're here to help you.

- No, no? Speak English?

- All right, let him know...

[D'Souza] They helped them out,

found them a place to live,

got them jobs.

The immigrant plantations had their

own names.. ghettoes, slums, barrios.

Welcome to America.

[D'Souza] The Democratic Party

built them,

put these vulnerable people in them,

and made sure no one left them.

But nothing's free, right?

In exchange, they made sure

these immigrants voted for them.

You, you! Let's go!

[D'Souza] Gangs have bosses

who control things.

The Democrats figured out they could

transfer this model to politics.

They invented the big-city boss.

[all chanting ''Daley'']

[D'Souza] Democrat city bosses sought

to control not just government

through patronage

and payoffs and corruption,

they also sought control of industry.

They wanted to control unions.

I want you to get out there and get

the votes out! That's what I want!

[D'Souza] And once in power,

they looted the city treasury

and used their power

to shake down businesses.

Gentlemen, you wanted city contracts?

Now I am the city.

[D'Souza]

So, really, the whole operation

was not for the people's benefit,

but for their benefit.

This is what makes them

the original community organizers.

Big-city bosses were a local racket.

The Democrats needed a pitch for why

they should be running the whole country

in the same way they were

running the inner cities.

I knew exactly who I should see.

Jonah Goldberg is an editor

at the National Review.

Jonah, Democrats used to call themselves

very commonly ''liberals.''

But today, more commonly,

they use the term ''progressive.''

What does ''progressive'' actually mean?

Social engineering and social control,

where experts and bureaucrats

and government officials

guide society in a very specific

forward direction,

towards an end goal in mind.

It kind of seems, Jonah,

like the film Metropolis.

It was all about class struggle

and social control.

[Goldberg] Right.

Now it was the era of political parties

and political movements that

were going to guide society forward.

Planning, which empowers the planners.

There was this revolution in Europe

and in the United States.

In America, we called it Progressivism.

Soviet Union, they called it Communism.

In Italy, they called it Fascism.

The flagship magazine of

American Liberalism, the New Republic,

celebrated Benito Mussolini

throughout the 1920s.

FDR had nice things to say

about Benito Mussolini.

Mussolini reviews FDR's book and says,

''Hey, this guy is one of us.

He's a Fascist.''

And it's important to remember

that Fascism back then

wasn't about the Holocaust.

It was about planning and experimenting

and ushering in

this new progressive era.

And one of the very important strands

of modern Progressivism,

the idea of eugenics,

who is the figure that comes to mind,

who embodies this?

I mean, the obvious answer to

the question is Margaret Sanger.

- Thank you for coming.

- Thank you.

I'm Margaret Sanger.

[Goldberg] Margaret Sanger was

the founder of Planned Parenthood.

Hello.

[D'Souza] In the mid-1920s,

Margaret Sanger spoke to a group

that came to hear her in full regalia.

''Eugenics'' means

the release and cultivation

of the better racial elements

in our society

and the gradual suppression,

elimination,

and eventual extirpation

of defective stocks...

those human weeds

which threaten the blooming

of the finest flowers

of American civilization.

The most merciful thing

that a large family does

to one of its infant members

is to kill it.

[D'Souza] By Sanger's time,

techniques of racial elimination,

like lynching, had become taboo

within the Democratic Party.

And so Sanger pioneered

a different approach

to bring about a similar result.

How would you describe Margaret Sanger's

so-called Negro Project?

The Negro Project was

to bring these birth control

and other eugenic measures

into the black community.

She hired black ministers

expressly to sell the idea.

[Sanger] We don't want word to go out

that we want to exterminate

the Negro population.

And the minister is the man

who can straighten out that idea

if it ever occurs to any of their

more rebellious members.

[D'Souza] Surely, today's

Democratic Party leaders

would repudiate Margaret Sanger.

I admire Margaret Sanger enormously.

I am really in awe of her.

And there are a lot of lessons

that we can learn from her life

and from the cause she launched

and fought for

and sacrificed so greatly.

[phone rings]

It is unfortunate

that Planned Parenthood

has been the object

of such a concerted attack.

[laughter]

So I'm hoping that this situation

will not further undermine

the very important services

that Planned Parenthood provides.

Today the vast majority

of Planned Parenthood clinics

are located in our neighborhoods.

[woman] We were tricked through

a slick marketing campaign,

but now that that's unraveling,

people are saying,

''Wait a minute.

They sell baby parts?

What happened to my baby?''

Standing up and fighting

for progressive values.

[D'Souza] And the Nazis admired Sanger

and actually patterned

some of their programs

along the lines of things

that she suggested.

Yeah, the first people

who get wiped out under the Nazis

actually aren't the Jews.

They're mentally unfit,

invalids, and all that.

They went through the hospitals,

and cleaned those guys out.

What happened to Carrie Buck?

Carrie Buck is a tragic,

but really important story.

Carrie Buck is this young woman

that was supposed to be ''feebleminded.''

They wanted to forcibly sterilize her.

Her case went all the way up

to the Supreme Court.

[Carrie crying]

[Carrie] No! No!

Get off of me! No!

- Miss, miss, you need to remain calm.

- Don't touch me!

Miss, miss! You need to calm down.

- [crying]

- I need assistance. I need assistance!

We're gonna need another doctor. Nurse!

[nurse] Shh.

[Goldberg] Oliver Wendell Holmes says

that it's okay to forcibly

sterilize this young woman,

who wasn't feebleminded.

She read, she was, you know,

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