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There’s a Reason Democrats Have Become So Ruthless
Much has been made of the recent Time magazine article which explained how a well-funded cabal of powerful people managed to get Joe Biden (think about that – Joe Biden!) elected president over a popular incumbent who won more votes for re-election than he did in his initial election. Lest you think I’m using provocative language to describe this well-funded cabal of powerful people, allow me to quote directly from the article on this well-funded cabal of powerful people who managed to get Joe Biden elected:
“a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information”
The article, written by Democrats in a leftist magazine, is terrifying. It openly discusses how Democrats won the last election, and it’s terrifying. Time Magazine is very open about their enthusiastic support of this well-funded cabal of powerful people, and how pleased Time is with the outcome of the 2020 election. They even titled their article, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.” But such fraud creative election strategies are only part of the plan for the modern Democratic Party.
Free speech and independent thought are encouraged. As long as you agree with whatever modern leftists say today. If they change their minds tomorrow, you should too. Conservative speech and thought have moved from being ignored to being actively eradicated. From cancel culture, to social media censorship, to conservative speakers being shouted down on college campuses, and so on, non-leftist thoughts are no longer permitted. Today, if you say something that leftists disagree with, you will not be ignored, you will be attacked. And everyone knows it.
The 1619 Project, and all related efforts to convert schools into indoctrination centers, is extremely important. Many young people today will graduate from college at the age of 22 having never encountered an out-of-the-closet conservative. Leftism isn’t a political ideology to them – it’s just normal. They can scarcely imagine an alternative. And they won’t imagine it, because whatever it is is evil, as far as they know. And they’re not evil. So there you go.
I could go on and you probably could too. But I’d rather not. It’s depressing.
If the Democrats knew they had the support of the American people, they would not do all these things. Even if Democrats were interested in earning the support of the American people, they would not do all these things.
Why would you meddle with elections, silence your opposition, and train children not to think about opposing ideas, if you knew your ideas were good? If you believe in the righteousness of your ideas, you encourage debate and elections – you don’t suppress them.
This is what bothers me the most about the current political environment. The left’s efforts to gain absolute, unchallengeable power in American society are terrifying, and they know it. So rather than conceal their true intentions, they’ve decided to become sufficiently ruthless to simply take power and keep it.
They’ve moving away from Bill Clinton and toward Joseph Stalin, as leftists always do. Every time. So predictable it’s almost boring.
I didn’t like Bill Clinton at the time. But now, I kind of miss him.
Modern leftists do not miss Bill Clinton. They’ve moved past him. Way past him. Progressives call this progress.
I call it terrifying.
Predictable. Almost boring. But terrifying.
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Which is why the regulation or order exists where feds can drop asylum seekers where they want.
I have to look up the regulation or order, but I read about it.
It’s like voter arbor day. Plant a democrat tree.
Or sometimes, as in Southwest Washington, DC, creating them.
That doesn’t require a special degree, and he didn’t care where he lived. Why would anyone trust some new college graduate to come to their berg and decide where to plant the trees and where to put the roads? I wouldn’t.
Satan was anti-utopian. He wanted Adam and Eve to break out of the celestial tyranny of heaven and think and create for themselves.
I’m not sure how many urban planners there are or how many are working in their chosen field. This man wanted to study International Law and apparently thought that the undergrad urban planner would fit his CV. He also chose to join the Marines with the same goal. But life got in the way I suppose, and his passion for building things with his hands won out.
On the other side, who would vote for a kid with just a degree in Political Science? What do they bring to the table? I suspect it’s nothing but a perverse ambition. I mean, you’ve got people who’ve lived and worked and been at least marginally successful, and who may want to improve the local government; or you’ve got people who went to college with the intent to enter and ride up the political ranks. The latter seem like they’re primarily pursuing power and ego-gratification (and nowadays, prosperity).
Just now I thought Eric Swalwell perfectly fit this type, and looked him up on wikipedia. Apparently he, too, has a degree in political science. “In 2003, he completed his bachelor’s degree in government and politics at Maryland.”
Democrats, the lefties, have always been like this. They have lost their fear of exposing who they are. That makes them more dangerous.
Learned about this from Bill Whittle. Still hits home: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
I’m writing a post that makes many similar points.
Yeah. In the 80s an 90s they would scream like pigs if you identified them as “liberal”. They were ‘moderate” and “centrist”.
For several decades they had to engage in Maskirovka and hide. They have recently dropped the mask as unnecessary .
Good point.
Means either they have spread their propaganda deep enough into our culture that they believe it is now accepted, or they have enough election fixes in place that they no longer fear not getting enough votes to win because of their beliefs, or both. I think the latter because they still had to paint Biden as a moderate and they are using EOs rather than Congress (not enough votes to pass even with Dem control). An argument against that is how many EOs they are doing at once, as if they are desperate to get it done before we turn them out in two years.
My question….Trump’s EOs were fought, stymied, and overruled by judges. Where is the pushback against Biden’s? The enemy isn’t just on the Dem side.
He’s only been in office a short time. The Supreme Court ruling on DACA should undo the Keystone Pipeline executive order.
The reason they are relying on executive orders is because they are fast and effective. Congress has given almost all of its power to administrative agencies that they no longer have to do anything at all, except to pass continuing resolutions for a budget.
Why should they bother when all the civil servants are their lackeys? Those lackeys obstructed much of Trump’s executive orders and can be relied on to advance the progressive agenda.
If we can ever overcome election fraud and get a republican in the White House again, he should fire everyone in civil service, and settle the resultant law suits, or transfer them all to jobs in Alaska, studying the mating habits of some kind of arctic mosquito. Or remove them all from any position of power one way or another.
And if we can ever control the Congress again, we need to eliminate the Administrative Procecures Act in a way to dismantle executive power. We’ve gone far beyond the level where agencies help smooth out the intent of Congress and they are now the primary legislative bodies of the government, working for the executive branch, and we are seeing that this is very dangerous.
Except I’m sure that eliminating the Administrative Procedures Act would violate the Administrative Procedures Act. Better check with John Roberts first.
The goal is absolute power.
Secondary goal is to eliminate the middle class and create a 3rd world government and nation
I’ve heard it said that if JFK were alive today, he would be a Republican. Ira Stoll wrote a book called JFK, Conservative and it’s on my TBR list. Funny how things change.
Your Dole/Romney/McCain point was along the lines of what I was thinking, as well.
It’s good to remember that despite the Biden win and the anomalous Georgia result the well funded cabal wasn’t successful. Republicans did fairly well despite expectations. The Biden win and the Georgia election had one thing in common, rejection of Trump. Without that the left would have gained nothing.
It was the surgical removal of a hated appendage, and the hatred of Trump on the right was mostly about his personality and brutishness, not about policy.
I think if JFK were to be plucked from 1963 and then placed in 2021, there would be a chance he would side with the Republicans.
If he had not been assassinated, I think he would have shifted left with all the rest and would still be a Democrat.
It’s hard to imagine any high level Democrat from that era fitting in today’s Democrat party.
I agree, if their politics/worldview remained the same. I’m not sure it would have, though. There’s a good chance they (or some of them at least) would have gradually shifted leftward along with the party. Remember, they’re politicians and will shift with the prevailing winds. Plus, party loyalty is a pretty strong factor.
I wonder about MLK in the same regard. If he had lived, would he have stayed true to his original vision or turned into a race-hustler like so many of his lieutenants?
I witness the behavior of his widow and I don’t wonder about it at all.
Wives aren’t the best predictor of a man. Think of Abraham Lincoln or Cesar Claudius.