The Democratic far-left is touting a Global Marshall Plan. Global welfare is more like it.

Democrats Save the World?

At the DNC convention, Sixties radicals are still truckin’ — and promoting failed ideas from the seventies.

By Mark Hemingway

With the official events at the Democratic National Convention taking place just across the street, a hundred or so members of the “Network of Spiritual Progressives” are packed into a hotel room discussing their current plan to save the world.

True to form, the event began with bad folk music followed by a prayer. Not just any prayer, but a prayer by John Dear. According to his official bio, the Roman Catholic priest has been arrested 75 times “because he so fervently believes in peace.” Father Dear declares he is a Jesuit, “but don’t hold that against me,” he adds. [read more]