CV NEWS FEED // The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) newly announced 2024 platform adopts a number of controversial far-left positions, eliciting widespread criticism as the party’s National Convention commences in Chicago.
The Democratic Party wrote in a statement on Sunday that it released its final platform to “be voted on by delegates at the Convention” Monday evening.
“This platform was passed by the Platform Committee on July 16, prior to the President [Joe Biden] stepping aside,” the Democrats continued:
It makes a strong statement about the historic work that President Biden and Vice President Harris have accomplished hand-in-hand, and offers a vision for a progressive agenda that we can build on as a nation and as a Party as we head into the next four years.
Critics particularly singled out several areas of the party’s over-90-page platform.
Land acknowledgement
At the beginning of the document – before its preamble – is a “land acknowledgement.”
Land acknowledgements are a type of statement only recently propelled into the mainstream by left-wing activists. Now increasingly popular in academia and corporate America, the still relatively new practice is likely to perplex many American voters.
“The Democratic National Committee wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial,” the platform’s acknowledgement states:
While we meet in Chicago, we also recognize and honor the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.
We acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.
Despite their rising prevalence, land acknowledgements are highly controversial even on the political left.
Dems to ‘vigorously oppose’ child-protective laws
Page 57 of the Democratic platform vows that the Party “will vigorously oppose state and federal bans on gender-affirming health care.”
“[Former President Donald] Trump is running on an extreme plan to punish doctors who treat transgender youth and to ban gender-affirming care,” the platform continues, “and his MAGA Republican allies have pushed a tidal wave of extreme anti-LGBTQI+ bills in statehouses across the country.”
The Democrats were likely referring to the growing number of states – not all of them red – that have passed laws in the past few years to protect children from being subjected to hormone drugs and sexual surgeries. Democrats have also generally opposed similar but more moderate laws that simply require parental notification before a child is introduced to “transgender” medical interventions.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a controversial last year that critics decried as a radical opposite of such protective legislation.
As The Washington Post reported, the Minnesota law “allows courts to have ‘temporary emergency jurisdiction’ during custody disputes crossing state lines if a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming care.”
‘Joe Biden back in the race?’
Outside of the substance of the document, the platform’s repeated mentions of Biden’s “second term” drew the largest amount of criticism.
Biden made worldwide headlines when he announced he was dropping out of the 2024 election and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris – now the Democratic presidential nominee – last month.
The DNC’s platform mentions the prospect of Biden’s second term 20 times. Biden’s name appears nearly 300 times, compared to only 32 mentions of Harris – who was previously the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee.
The National Desk reported: “The DNC’s Platform Committee voted on the platform shortly before President Biden dropped out of the race, which is likely the reason for the misidentifications.”
Many observers nonetheless questioned why the DNC did not update the platform to highlight the name of its new nominee in the weeks since Harris became the Democratic Party’s standard bearer.
Trump himself weighed in on the oversight, writing on TRUTH Social: “It shows that the Platform is not that important to [the Democrats] when they won’t even make the change.”
TrumpWarRoom, an X account affiliated with Trump’s campaign, wrote: “It’s hilarious incompetence but it’s also the truth. Kamala’s presidency would be a Biden second term. A continuation of his broken economy, broken border, and broken world.”
Readers can find the 2024 Democratic Party platform in its entirety here.
