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Surely This Scares Even Democrat Voters…
Republican presidents endure press conferences with insulting accusations screamed at them from all angles. But it’s different for Democrat presidents.
President Biden was photographed at his press conference today with a crib sheet, with a photograph of the “journalist” he was supposed to call on first, her name (with pronunciation), and the question she was going to ask. Sure enough, he called on her first, and she asked the question on the crib sheet. And sure enough, his answer still made no sense. But not for lack of trying with the coordinated efforts of the “media” and the Biden administration.
Democrats are the party of centralized government power. And the “media” and every bureaucratic organization from the FBI to the CDC supports the party of centralized government power however they can. Surely this gives even Democrat voters the creeps. The coordination of the propaganda media, the power of all the federal agencies, federal control of social media, etc. – all in lockstep. Holy crap. This is scary, scary stuff. No matter what side you’re on. Surely this scares even Democrat voters. Surely…
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I live in an area surrounded by Democrats. While we Republicans regularly find fault with our party leaders and policies, my friends on the other side never have a bad word to say about theirs. It’s almost as though they’ve been hypnotized to stay in lockstep with each other. My neighbor and closest friend, despite her excellent post grad education and solid family values, proudly told me she considers herself woke when I expressed my disdain for the movement. We each are convinced the other is just plain wrong and never the twain shall meet.
Hmmm… interesting observation.
How are you with the idea that your neighbor and closest friend votes for people who are okay with government-mandated mutilation of children, etc? That is, for the ones that manage to get born.
Should that read “because of her excellent post-grad education”?
I would like to give credit to the person who took that photo. They will never be in the white house again and probably lost his or her career. Does anyone know the source?
One of the oddest things about progressives is that they seem pissed off all the time, almost incapable of experiencing simple joy. In fact, I once asked a coworker, why he seemed angry all the time, and he said it’s because we have the power to create a Utopia, and we waste that power on… Well, I can’t remember what he said we wasted it on, but it was a nonsensical comment to me. I pointed out to him that Utopia meant “nowhere” because it was an impossible dream, but that seemed to piss him off even more.
I always thought that progressivism is a perverted form of Puritanism because they seem to be terrified by the idea that someone somewhere is actually enjoying life. It’s their responsibility to do something about that.
They probably think nobody should be allowed to enjoy life until EVERYONE does. Which of course, is impossible. i.e., Utopia.
To me, this brings up two things…
One is a Scott Adams presentation where he pointed out that elements of BLM (and I’ll extend that to the left in general) run opposite the elements of his rules of success:
And the other is that, while the left has certainly talked about creating a Utopia in the past, you don’t hear that as much nowadays, as the cities that have been run by progressives for decades have become dystopian nightmares (crime, filth, poverty, homeless, drugs,…) and nobody is even *talking* about them getting better.
I could give a long list of people I’d recommend over Scott Adams (Jesus, Confucius, Socrates, Seneca, William James, Martin Seligman, etc., etc., blah, blah, etc.)
Having said that–well done, Scott Adams!
Whenever I bring things like that up she always manages to blame Republicans for neglecting the poor who can’t afford to raise those children and talks of the people who are born with defects. She is convinced that government is the answer to transgenders since there is so much prejudice against them.
My whole point in all this is to share what it’s like to be friends with someone whose political point of view is as set in stone as your own. There just is no room for compromise, and it’s so frustrating. I also know a husband and wife who have different political persuasions who regularly have knock-down drag-out fights during elections. Oddly enough, they’ve been married for 45 years.
Or like a scene from ‘Idiocracy.’
Ah, but you are overlooking why Lefties cannot express joy.
It’s because we so often make comments that offend them.
It’s also because when we don’t apologize for our white privilege, then we must be planning on increasing those privileges.
Or so they believe. It’s almost like they believe that if Trump had been inaugurated a 2nd time,, he would have reinstated the Southern plantation system.
If those kids don’t get off of my privilege, I’m going to sic the hounds on’em.
Which the Ivy League schools reinstated over 30 years ago. Whites, Asians and Jews, go to the back of the line. Unless your parent was a grad and contributor. What cool educators.
The only thing that scares the left is the prospect of being mis-pronouned.
They long for that. “Come see my shiny new grievance!!! Bigots! Bigots everywhere!!!” And the shepherd’s crook reaches out from stage right…
Mis-pronouning is the new racism, now that the sting of the racism charge is abated due to its generous overuse.
My stepfather had his PhD in Education and taught graduate courses at NC State. Even he poopooed it . . .
They also vote out of habit. I remember in the first Meetup I attended, Frank Soto said that voting Democrat is the default position for students in high school . . .
I have had two social media friends who broke off their marriages due to differences in politics and how she wouldn’t get vaxxed for COV and he insisted on it.
Although the media would like the public to believe that it is always the women who realized “Trump is a racist” and who vote straight Democrat ticket, that is not true.
Hold on, there’s some interesting nuance here…
It’s not that their political point of view (or let’s say ideology) is set in stone. It’s not. Pronouns were not an issue last week, now they’re the only thing.
It’s that their politics is set on a train, secured by the belief that their causes are virtuous and the other side is evil, and they’re taking that train to pronoun-land, or racism-land, or poor-land, or whatever the latest excuse is for government excess.
Perhaps a train is not the best metaphor. Help me out here…
My point is that they’re on the side of “virtue”, so the other side must be anti-virtue, and they’ll ride that regardless of what the actual ideological position is.
And I think this is key to any sort of productive debate.
My strategy is to side with the virtue, and then ask if the ideological position is consistent with the virtue.
Not always, but mostly.
And it should probably be “believed” not “realized,” since “realized” seems to imply finally coming around to the truth.
You’re certainly right that they are convinced they are on the side of “virtue,” and they are convinced we are the bad guys. On the other hand, we think they are the bad guys. I think they’re better retail politicians than we are since they have succeeded in dominating many city governments while we were caught up in international affairs.
I had some serious health issues last summer that necessitated a two-week hospitalization wherein I made the effort to talk to the nurses and other hospital employees about their political points of view. I was astounded by their lack of constitutional knowledge. For example, 95% of them didn’t even know what the tenth amendment was. Ignorance is our real enemy.