In 2012, I thought the GOP might ditch bigotry. Whoops.
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After Barack Obama’s decisive reelection victory in 2012, it looked as though the long process of conservative radicalization might be at a turning point. Democrats had trounced Republicans among all minority groups. The Republican National Committee, aware that the white GOP base constituted a shrinking share of the electorate, released a stunning “autopsy” report, diagnosing what had gone wrong. The document warned that the party was becoming closed-minded, that it needed to move left on LGBTQ issues, and that its stance on immigration would have to change.
By 2013 there appeared to be a burgeoning conservative reform movement—and I decided to write about it. I interviewed many of the reformers, including former Reagan administration official Bruce Bartlett and then conservative commentators Josh Barro and Ramesh Ponnuru. At the time, they were pushing for moderate immigration reform and for tentative moves away from the traditional right-wing insistence on tax and welfare cuts. Their efforts were fairly weak, I argued, and they faced “an extremely steep climb” to achieve influence. But, I concluded, “if in 2016 a Republican presidential contender can break free from the death grip of conservative Know-Nothingism and still succeed electorally,” the reformers “may well become very influential.”
Whoops.
Instead, the Republican Party drank even more deeply from the well of Know-Nothingism in 2016, nominating a racist game show host with literally zero political experience—and he won. Despite my caveats, the whole premise of the article was disastrously wrong. Now it’s time for an autopsy report of my own.
There were four factors that made a hash of my thinking. First, I failed to anticipate Republicans winning a blowout victory in the 2014 midterms. This seriously dented what little momentum reformers had.
Second, I didn’t realize what a disaster nominating Hillary Clinton in 2016 would be for the Democrats. She had an astoundingly difficult time putting away Bernie Sanders, who at the time was a barely known weirdo from the second-smallest state in the nation. By late 2015—long before the email story got going—her popularity numbers were deep underwater, where they would remain. She ended up being the second-most-unpopular major-party nominee in the history of polling, behind only Donald Trump himself.
Third, I failed to anticipate the depths of moral depravity to which the Republican Party would sink. I implicitly assumed that if Republicans continued to bleed support among younger generations, they would have to moderate their positions. But this assumed that they would play by the rules. In reality, they have compensated by cheating, using counter-majoritarian strategies like gerrymandering and voter suppression and stuffing the federal courts with right-wing ideologues who will rubber-stamp those maneuvers. Using these tactics, plus their undemocratic advantage in the Electoral College and the Senate, Republicans cling to power even as their elderly white voting base shrinks.
For my entire life, the Republican Party has been a geyser of awful policies and even worse moral behavior. Despite that, I gave into wishful thinking that perhaps, this time, they would turn things around of their own volition. Instead, the reformers I profiled have been sidelined by the party or have left it altogether. Barro now identifies as a neoliberal, while Bartlett is so disgusted with Republicans that he’s closer to Elizabeth Warren than to Mitt Romney. Ramesh Ponnuru, David Frum, and Reihan Salam are Trump skeptics, cast out in the cold by a party that approves of their president by a nine-to-one margin. It is clear that nothing will halt the spiral of Republican depravity aside from repeated, crushing political defeat.
That leads to my final mistake, which was a tacit overestimation of the strategic sense of the Democratic leadership. Republican extremism provided an opportunity that Democrats failed to exploit—in turn weakening the hand of reformers.
As I detailed in the article, Democrats had undergone their own reform process in the 1990s, when they ditched much of the New Deal liberalism that had defined the party for a generation, and moved to the center. But that was nearly thirty years ago, and it’s now clear that moderate thinking is dragging Democrats down. Millennials, the oldest of whom are nearly forty, are arguably the most left-wing generation of voters in American history. The Gen Z cohort coming up behind them is further left still.
Even so, Democratic Party leadership seems nearly incapable of shaking off the ’90s-vintage belief that the country is implacably conservative. Indeed, surveys show that both Republican and Democratic legislators over-
estimate the rightward slant of the average citizen. In 2016 the party elite united around Hillary Clinton, who had run to Obama’s right in the 2008 primary and lost. Even after Democrats won a sweeping victory in the 2018 midterms, the party leadership spent most of 2019 squashing calls for impeachment hearings.
estimate the rightward slant of the average citizen. In 2016 the party elite united around Hillary Clinton, who had run to Obama’s right in the 2008 primary and lost. Even after Democrats won a sweeping victory in the 2018 midterms, the party leadership spent most of 2019 squashing calls for impeachment hearings.
However, there are signs that the Democrats’ learned helplessness is finally shaking off. As of this writing, the House has begun an impeachment inquiry over Trump’s attempts to blackmail Ukraine into investigating the Biden family. (No doubt the bill of particulars will have expanded by the time you read this.)
Elections are always strongly affected by chance events, and incumbents always have an advantage. But it’s also clear that both Donald Trump and the Republican Party are extremely unpopular, clinging to power only through cheating and a geographically warped constitutional system. When it comes to the psychosis that grips the Republican Party, the particular course chosen by Democrats matters a lot less than the party coming to believe and behave as though it has a majority behind it—as it in fact does. Only when Republicans are shut out of power for a decade or more will there be any hope for a successful conservative reform movement.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
Their banksters and billionaires demand wider open borders to keep
wages depressed
"This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed
to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have
nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
‘The Left Case Against
Open Borders’: Liberal
Author Pans ‘Useful Idiots
of Big Business’
22 Nov 20188
5:13
Progressives’
enthusiastic support for mass immigration has converted them into “useful idiots”
for the nation’s business elites, says a left-wing writer.
Today’s
well-intentioned activists have become the useful idiots of big business. With
their adoption of “open borders” advocacy—and a fierce moral
absolutism that regards any limit to migration as an
unspeakable evil—any criticism of the exploitative system of mass
migration is effectively dismissed as blasphemy. Even solidly leftist
politicians, like Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the
United Kingdom, are accused of “nativism” by critics if they recognize the
legitimacy of borders or migration restriction at any point. This open
borders radicalism ultimately benefits the elites within the most powerful
countries in the world, further disempowers organized labor, robs the
developing world of desperately needed professionals, and turns workers against
workers.
Nagle
also argues that mass immigration operates extracts human talent from
developing societies for the benefit of wealthy, comfortable U.S. elites:
Advocates
of open borders often overlook the costs of mass migration for developing
countries. Indeed, globalization often creates a vicious cycle: liberalized
trade policies destroy a region’s economy, which in turn leads to mass
emigration from that area, further eroding the potential of the origin country
while depressing wages for the lowest paid workers in the destination country.
One of the major causes of labor migration from Mexico to the United States has
been the economic and social devastation caused by the North American Free
Trade Agreement (nafta). Nafta forced Mexican farmers to compete with
U.S. agriculture, with disastrous consequences for Mexico. Mexican imports
doubled, and Mexico lost thousands of pig farms and corn growers to U.S.
competition. When coffee prices fell below the cost of production, nafta prohibited
state intervention to keep growers afloat. Additionally, U.S.
companies were allowed to buy infrastructure in Mexico, including,
for example, the country’s main north-south rail line. The railroad then
discontinued passenger service, resulting in the decimation of the rail
workforce after a wildcat strike was crushed. By 2002, Mexican wages had
dropped by 22 percent, even though worker productivity increased by 45 percent.7 In regions like Oaxaca,
emigration devastated local economies and communities, as men emigrated to work
in America’s farm labor force and slaughterhouses, leaving behind women,
children, and the elderly.
Left-wing
servants of business elites spray claims of racism on the public to suppress
their rational and reasonable opposition to immigration exploitation,
Nagle argues:
The
immigration expansionists have two key weapons. One is the big business and
financial interests all working on their side, but an equally
powerful weapon—wielded more expertly by the left-leaning
immigration expansionists—is moral blackmail and public shame. People
are right to see the mistreatment of migrants as morally wrong. Many people are
concerned about the growth of racism and callousness toward minorities that
often accompanies anti-immigration sentiment. But the open borders position
does not even live up to its own professed moral code.
The
tacit alliance of the wealthy against the middle prompt some invective by the
Irish author;
In
the wealthiest nations, open borders advocacy seems to function as a fanatical
cult among true believers—a product of big business and free market
lobbying is carried along by a larger group of the urban creative, tech, media,
and knowledge economy class, who are serving their own objective class
interests by keeping their transient lifestyles cheap and their careers intact
as they parrot the institutional ideology of their industries. The truth is
that mass migration is a tragedy, and upper-middle-class moralizing about it is
a farce. Perhaps the ultra-wealthy can afford to live in the borderless world
they aggressively advocate for, but most
people need—and want—a coherent, sovereign political body to
defend their rights as citizens.
The
establishment’s economic policy of using migration to boost economic growth
shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the
market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood
of outside labor spikes profits
and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for
manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees.
The
policy also drives up
real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, hurts kids’
schools and college education, pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans
and their families, including many who are now struggling with
opioid addictions.
Immigration
also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal
investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations
living in the coastal states.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves
and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
*
"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly
three-quarters of all household wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
*
"While
telling workers there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund
social programs, both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S.
Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build,
stuffing the pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."
Two Americas: De Blasio's
Amazon vs. Trump's Walmart
That the Democrat Party is
now the party of the rich is increasingly seen in its candidates. Forget the
occasional Ocasio-Cortez. A Democrat candidate is more likely to be someone
like Illinois’ new governor, J.B. Pritzer, who promises to complete Illinois’
financial collapse with single-payer insurance and a progressive income tax,
promising to
persist until he runs out of other people’s money:
John Edwards once spoke of
“two Americas,” one “for all of those people who have lived the American
dream and don't have to worry, and another for most Americans, everybody else
who struggle to make ends meet every single day”. One is reminded of this by
New York City mayor Bill De Blasio’s full-throated shouting of “socialism for
all” from the rooftops of buildings whose height his
politburo would determine and whose rents and occupants his commissars would
control.
Mayor
Bill de Blasio cited his "socialistic impulse" in describing an ideal
world where New York City government has control over all land and buildings in
his city.
“I
think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the
city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it
will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be,” de Blasio said in
a wide-ranging
interview with New York Magazine. “I think there’s a
socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community that
they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs.”
To each according to their
needs -- gee, where have we heard that before? One would be willing to believe
De Blasio’s socialistic impulses arises out of genuine, if wrongheaded, concern
for the working poor and the middle class, the people the Democrat “party of compassion”
is allegedly the champion of, if it were not for De Blasio’s
support for what some would call corporate welfare, welcoming cash-rich and
taxpayer-subsidized Amazon’s new HQ to New York City while closing its borders
to a Walmart invasion.
A listener asked just what
the difference was between the two retail giants during the
mayor’s weekly guest spot on WNYC radio:
“Amazon
is… part of the American economy,” he continued. “I would ask every good
progressive, every listener out there who has a concern about Amazon: How many
are using Amazon as part of their daily lives? Whatever you like or dislike
about Amazon, Walmart is an entirely different universe in terms of the efforts
they’ve undertaken to not only undermine labor, small business, the
environment… and obviously the politics of [Walmart’s owners] the Walton family
to add to it,” referring to the Waltons’ track record of funneling megabucks to
conservative causes.
Funny that De Blasio has no
objection to the likes of billionaires Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, and George
Soros funneling big bucks to liberal candidates and causes. One of the
takeaways from the 2018 midterms was the morphing of the Democrats to the party
of the rich as those stinky Walmart shoppers lined up at Trump rallies. The GOP
is now the party of the working class, or the deplorable bitter-clingers of Hillary
Clinton’s and Barack Hussein Obama’s disdain. As deep state coup
architect Peter Strzok
infamously said in a text message to fellow agent Lisa Page:
“Just
went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.”
Who wants Walmart greeters
and cashiers moving to New York when you can have the high-rollers who work for
Amazon? Amazon promises to deliver 25,000 jobs with an average salary of
$150,000, which is a lot more than the average Walmart greeter or cashier
makes.
Founded as a single
five-and-dime store in a small Arkansas town, its success story mirrors
America’s. It is a poster child for capitalism and the American dream. It is
ironic that Wal-Mart critics, who have long complained its employees live
paycheck to paycheck, forget that many of its customers also live paycheck to
paycheck, and seek quality merchandise at decent prices. They opposed “low”
wages for Wal-Mart employees while in effect supporting higher prices for
Wal-Mart customers.
That the Democrat Party is
now the party of the rich is increasingly seen in its candidates. Forget the
occasional Ocasio-Cortez. A Democrat candidate is more likely to be someone
like Illinois’ new governor, J.B. Pritzer, who promises to complete Illinois’
financial collapse with single-payer insurance and a progressive income tax,
promising to
persist until he runs out of other people’s money:
This
month saw the election of Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker as governor of
Illinois. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated
$3.2 billion, and spent $171.5 million to get himself elected, according to Money magazine.
Another
winner was Edward M. "Ned" Lamont Jr., in the Connecticut governor's
race. Lamont, an heir to the J.P. Morgan banking fortune of his
great-grandfather Thomas Lamont, estimated his assets in
2006 at between $90 million and $300 million, and showed reporters tax returns last
month with income totaling $18 million over 5 years.
The
winner of the election for governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, filed financial disclosure forms
as a member of the House of Representatives indicating estimated wealth of more
than $300 million.
Pritzker,
Lamont, and Polis are all Democrats…
Somehow,
the wealth of Pritzker, Lamont, and Polis has gotten less attention, perhaps
because it doesn't so easily fit the country-club Republican stereotype.
Instead of writing about the limousine liberals who are so rich they make the
Trump cabinet look like a bunch of paupers, the press has been obsessing about
how a newly elected congresswoman from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
can't afford to rent a place in Washington until she starts collecting her
congressional salary.
The socialism of the coastal
elites of which De Blasio is a leader is akin to the old Soviet politburo who
lived very well as they dictated what could be built and where, what people
would make and where and how they would live. Everyone was equal but some were
more equal than others.
I reject the Democrat Party
of the rich in favor of the GOP party of the working poor and the middle class,
the deplorable bitter clingers. God, how I love the smell of Walmart in the
morning.
Daniel John Sobieski is
a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s
Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among other
publications.
Report:
‘Impeachment’ Billionaire Tom Steyer Prepares to Launch Presidential Bid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/19/report-impeachment-billionaire-tom-steyer-prepares-to-launch-presidential-bid/
19 Nov 20184,609
2:17
Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer, who spent millions in the 2018
midterm elections pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is
preparing to launch a campaign for president in 2020, according to Politico.
Politico’s
Alex Thompson wrote Monday evening:
The former billionaire investor, climate activist and
impeachment agitator Tom Steyer will take several steps toward a 2020
presidential bid Tuesday.
That will include a six-figure web ad buy on Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, and Instagram along with a full-page ad in USA Today and other Gannett
newspapers outlining a political platform, a revamped TomSteyer.com, and the
announcement of five town halls across the country, the first of which will be
in the crucial early primary state of South Carolina, according to copies of
the ad and platform provided to POLITICO.
The first town hall is set for Dec. 4 in Charleston, S.C., and
the next will be in Fresno, Calif., sometime in December, according to Aleigha
Cavalier, senior communications adviser for TomSteyer.com who also works for
Steyer’s climate-focused group NextGen America. There will be one town hall for
each of the “5 rights” on Steyer’s platform: the right to an equal vote, to
clean air and water, to learn with pre-K education through college, to a living
wage, and to health.
Steyer has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on other
Democrats’ campaigns in recent years. He was the party’s top donor in 2014 —
buying few wins but allowing him to force the party to stage an all-night talk
session about climate change on the Senate floor.
In 2018, he
spent over $100 million on an effort to push for impeachment, reinforcing that message the day
after the election in a New
York Times op-ed.
Joel
B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author
of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
"This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
extravagantly wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never
be exposed to the downside of the invasion of millions of migrants, the
crime or the financial burden. They have nothing but contempt
for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded
upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These
people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome
them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Democrat Corruption is a Clear and Present Danger to America
On
November 6, it seemed the Republicans might hold their majority in the Senate
and in the House. Sadly, they lost their majority in the House. The
mystery is why so many Democrat candidates who are so obviously ethically
challenged won in races that should not have even been close.
How and why do Democrats continue to vote for unqualified,
dishonest candidates? Elizabeth Warren is a proven liar, a cheat who
claimed Native American heritage in order to get a job at
Harvard. Her baby, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was her
plan to wield control over all bank and non-bank institutions without
Congressional interference. In short, she is a hard-left socialist who
means to control how Americans earn, spend and borrow money, how they use their
savings. Warren is a blight on the Constitution and the guaranteed
freedoms of US citizens. She is an advance operative for the socialist America
the left envisions.
Andrew
Gillum, the left's choice to be Governor of Florida, is the failed mayor of
Tallahassee. He remains
under FBI investigation for corruption. Given
the information about that investigation that has been released, he appears yet
another greedy and corrupt Democrat pol in the Hillary Clinton
mold. The stability of Tallahassee declined catastrophically under
his leadership; crime
and murder rose drastically.
Gillum
sold out his city for money, and cries racism when confronted with his
crimes. He should never have been the candidate for the Governor of
Florida but the left cares only about race and power, not ethics or
honor. For progressives, race trumps everything else, even
character. If Gillum wins after the cheating Broward County is
infamous for, Florida will suffer the slings and arrows that are inevitable
under politicians like Gillum. Why was this race even
close? Have half the nation's voters scuttled any semblance
of traditional values in order to win? Yes.
Then there is Robert Menendez, the credibly accused pedophile
senator of New Jersey. He should be in prison but was saved by one
juror in his corruption trial with whom he partied after his win on November
6. Who votes for a man like this? There
is plenty of proof that he took bribes from a wealthy client for numerous
favors, trips to the Dominican Republic for sex with underage girls
being one of them. But New Jersey just re-elected this
man. They too have lost all sense of right vs. wrong.
Stacey
Abrams, the still grasping gubernatorial contender in Georgia, is a
hard-left, anti-capitalist, anti-Second Amendment candidate. She
owes about $200K in credit card debt and wants to run Georgia? She
too is corrupt and incompetent. She is also willing to cheat to win.
Are Georgians ignorant of her many, many negatives? If they are, they voted for
her anyway. Again, skin color trumps
everything.
The
left ignores fine men like John
James, who ran for the House in Michigan against
Debbie Stabenow. The left ignored Eddie Edwards who
ran in New Hampshire. Both men are conservative African
Americans. The American left today pretends such candidates do not
exist. They have ignored fine people like James and Edwards as they
have always ignored brilliant men like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Walter
Williams, Jason Riley, and Larry Elder. They revile the brilliant
Clarence Thomas. They don't like to be reminded of men like Frederick
Douglass or Booker
T. Washington. Neither of them, like
Sowell, Steele, Williams and Elder ever promoted the idea that African
Americans were or would be perennial victims. Each of them advocated
for quite the opposite, for self-reliance and independence.
This
notion of personal responsibility is anathema to today's left; they need and
promote subservience and dependency among their flock of reliable but
uninformed voters. This is why they encourage the immigration of so
many millions of illegal migrants. They assume they will be able to win for
them the right to vote. Judging by the number of them who likely
voted in the midterms, their plan is succeeding.
This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
extravagantly wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never
be exposed to the downside of the invasion of millions of migrants,
the crime or the financial burden. They have nothing but
contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities
being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us.
Then
there is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the thoroughly-ignorant-of-everything
candidate who won her district by 80%! This young woman
knows nothing about how any government works, let alone ours. She is
hopelessly uniformed; she knows even less about US history or the
Constitution. She is clueless about the economy. When
asked how she would pay for all the give-away programs she touts, she replied
that that was a "puzzling question"! "You
just pay for it" she answers. She
has no idea; no idea about anything. She thinks she will be
"inaugurated" to the House! Most fourth graders know more
than she does about US history. And yet she is already
thinking about running for President! This is a
wholesale indictment of our politicized, dumbed-down system of
education. Many of her constituents are immigrants; we are obviously
not educating them at all. They voted for all the free stuff --
college, medical care, basic income, housing, that Ocasio-Cortez has
promised to deliver. This is what socialist Democrats dream
about: perpetual power over a populace too ignorant to
rebel. American as founded is at grave risk.
In
addition to ODasio-Cortez, Gillum, Ilhan Omar, Abrams, Sinema,
who very likely cheated to
take the Arizona Senate seat, there is Linda
Sanchez. Kirsten Gillibrand is a Hillary clone;
she only cares about her own political power. She speaks like a small child but
is also considering a run for the presidency. She was best pals with
Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein until they were politically
inconvenient. Amy Klobuchar, who embraced the vicious and obviously
false allegations against Judge Kavanagh, was re-elected! Like every
other Democrat member of the judiciary committee, she knew those accusations
were false, without a shred of corroboration, but her constituents re-elected
her! Who are these voters? How do they reconcile voting
for people willing to destroy a fine man for political purposes? She
is exactly who every Democrat member of that committee is, who every member of
the Democrat Party is: nothing more than power-hungry political
operatives out to ruin any and all opponents by any means
necessary. They are a clear and present danger to American as
founded.
Young
people are no longer taught the truth of American history. They are
not taught the truth of the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism
is acceptable, even promoted, by the Democrats. They
embrace Linda
Sarsour and Louis Farrakhan without
shame. Young people don't know that communism killed
over a hundred million people in the twentieth century. Their
calculated-by-leftists ignorance is destroying our country. They try
to sell the idea that gender is not a factor of biology! They
attempt to convince young people that climate change is man-made (a travesty)
and that global warming causes wild fires (a lie). Having control
over academia, they have willfully brainwashed students for nearly two
generations. Unless your children are a strong-willed, independent
thinkers, do not send them to college!
How
and why the American left has devolved into the kind of party one finds in a
banana republic is a mystery. That our media is so anxious to
promote their corrupt candidates and the low-brow
tactics they employ is a tragedy. Do they do it
because they can no longer win by promulgating their Orwellian vision of a
socialist state, mandated equality of
outcome? Perhaps. They will never sell socialism to
enough sentient Americans to win. They need millions of uninformed
voters to succeed.
We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of
us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need
to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty
picture. What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest
nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose. They have
nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this
country.
DEMOCRACY
DIES IN A LEFTIST COUP
The best midterms that San Francisco donors
could buy.
November 15, 2018
Daniel Greenfield, a
Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative
journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
After President Trump
took office, the Washington Post announced its new motto,
“Democracy dies in darkness.” But it was the Washington Post, not
Trump, that was guilty of undermining democracy.
President Trump had been
legitimately elected by a majority of states. The Washington Post was
an establishment paper in a government city owned by a dot com robber baron.
There’s nothing more undemocratic than a paper owned by the richest man in the
world working to overturn an election.
There was just as little
democracy to the midterm elections in which wealthy donors from blue states and
districts poured money into local races in red and purple states and
districts. San Francisco and New York billionaires buying elections in
Pennsylvania and Nevada is not democracy. It’s oligarchy.
American elected
officials were meant to be elected by local communities to serve their needs.
Instead the Left has nationalized local races by exploiting its cultural power.
And when that didn’t produce the immediate results that it wanted, began
overwhelming local elections with huge piles of outside cash.
The midterm elections
were the best elections that San Francisco donors could buy.
Senate Democrats picked
up $220 million in out-of-state donations these midterms. That huge pile of
cash also amounted to sixty percent of their haul. The
majority of Dem Senate cash came from donors who weren’t living in the states
they were running in, but who were trying to buy elections for them.
That’s the Washington
Post brand of democracy.
It’s not just Senate
races being bought up by out-of-state donors. 45% of House Dem money came from
out-of-state donors. And when they didn’t succeed in buying a local election
the first time, they just kept on pouring in more money into a district until
they got their way.
Last year, Democrats
poured in $22.5 million into a special election in Georgia’s
6th congressional district. 95% of the donations came from
out-of-state donors. Democrat Jon Ossoff received more donations from California than Georgia. Ossoff still lost to
Rep. Karen Handel, even though her donations amounted to only a fraction of his
ActBlue bucks.
But the same donors just
waited a year and bought the seat for Lucy McBath in the midterms.
In October, Lucy McBath
was appearing at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles hosted by Hollywood
royalty like Katzenberg, Tony Goldwyn and Cameron Crowe for a $500 a head
fundraiser.
A large chunk of outside
money behind McBath came from Michael Bloomberg. McBath touted his gun control
positions and the New York billionaire’s front groups put $4.5 million behind his lackey.
There’s nothing
democratic about Bloomberg buying the 6th the way he once bought Gracie
Mansion.
In Illinois' 13th
Congressional District, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan pulled in $1.7 million to Rep.
Rodney Davis' $700K in a three month period. And then outside groups poured in
nearly as much again in support of Londrigan. $300K of that money came from
California.
In Nevada, out-of-state
donors bought Jacky Rosen a senate seat. 85% of the radical lefty
candidate’s donations came from outside the state. Of her 5 top donor zip
codes, two were in New York, two in California, including Palo Alto, and the
odd zip code out was in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
The media frequently airs
complaints about how little political power New York and California have per
capita compared to a handful of small states. These complaints are not only
cynically specious, they ignore the fact that between the media’s messaging
force multipliers and the bicoastal wealth being used to buy elections,
political power has become as concentrated as economic and cultural power.
And that’s the opposite
of democracy.
The midterms weren’t a
populist wave. They were an angry tantrum by wealthy blue state donors who used
their money to buy local elections as payback for having their views ignored in
2016. Instead of listening to the rest of the country, they set out to buy it,
lock, stock and barrel. They found experts, consultants, strategists,
programmers and organizers who would buy them other people’s elections.
Much of their money was
wasted. Just ask Beto O’Rourke and his $70 million war chest. But their
hysterical frenzy of spending made an undeniable impact. If you throw enough
mud or money at an election, eventually it sticks. The Democrat raised nearly
$1 billion to take the House.
And they took it.
$166.8 million was pumped into 30 House
Democrat candidates. That’s compared to $90.7 million for the Republican
candidates in those races.
The most expensive
midterm elections in history paid off for Democrats. And there’s nothing
democratic about that.
Democracy doesn’t die in
darkness. It dies in the glare of lefty media, lefty money and lefty power
which strip away local issues and local agency in Arizona, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Florida. Big blue state donors bought the midterm elections to
send a message to President Trump. Many had been convinced by frenzied media
hit pieces in papers like the Washington Post that action
was desperately urgent.
When the Washington
Post, the rest of the media and their long tail of ActBlue donors
intervene in local elections, it doesn’t uphold democracy. It drowns it in the
bright actinic glare of flashes and floodlights.
The media postures as a
defender of democracy, but corporate media is more naturally a defender of
establishments, of the nostrums and platitudes of the elites whom it serves and
coddles. When it interferes in elections, it doesn’t do so for the sake of the
people, but for the sake of its people.
Political elites mistrust
the people and use the media to manipulate popular elections into endorsing
their unpopular agendas. The mainstream media is an inherently undemocratic
institution that amplifies elite voices at the expense of local communities. It
claims to be democratic only because it reinterprets democracy to mean the
political agendas of the Democrats rather than those of the people.
Lefties often misuse
democracy to mean a set of values while actual democracy, the vox populi, is
tarred as populism. But democracy isn’t a set of social issues. It’s the power
shift between the voters and elected officials. Big media and blue state
billionaires have shifted that balance away from local voters by buying local
elections and seeking new voters when the old won’t vote their way.
If a few million in
attack ads won’t influence local voters, you register new ones. If that doesn’t
work, then you legalize felons. And if that won’t do it, there are the illegal
aliens, and voter and ballot fraud. Buy a few secretary of state races. Set up
housing for out-of-state college students. Sign up aliens to vote. And then
even if the local voters don’t vote your way, it won’t matter. They’ll have
been outvoted.
This isn’t democracy. But
it is how Democrats have won some local races.
The shift away from local
voters to a national political infrastructure is undemocratic. But it neatly
fits into the larger leftist cause of centralizing all of politics (and all
other areas of life) in elitist strongholds. The partnerships between elitist
leaders and their local crony stakeholders act as a fig leaf for the
dismantling of local autonomy with performative diversity replacing
representational democracy.
The Democrats have waged
an undemocratic war on democracy in the name of democracy. The midterms were
the latest leftist coup against democracy. And democracy lost to the Left.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
"GOP estb. is
using the $5 billion border-wall fight to hide up to four blue/white-
collar cheap-labor
programs in lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are worried that
salaries are too
damn high, & estb. media does not want to know."
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals
were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6
million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
AS
WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s
Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
MASSIVE TRANSFER OF
WEALTH TO THE RICH: YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK…. for Wall Street, Banksters,
Billionaires and LA RAZA.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-democrat-party-for-billionaires.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
"America’s elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the
Democratic Party, have a single overriding interest: their self-indulgent
lifestyle."
Class Conflict within the
Democratic Party
Over many decades, the American Left, the Democratic Party and
their mutual propaganda arm, the self-styled “mainstream media,” have
successfully portrayed conservatives and the Republican Party as a coalition of
the wealthy and intolerant. Further, the Democrats and the left have
claimed that they are the true champions of the working or middle class as they
unceasingly fight to defeat and marginalize this evil menace.
The reality, however, is that this cabal has virtually no interest
in defending or aiding the working class as they are, in fact, the party of a
bifurcated constituency: the wealthy and those dependent on the largess of the
government.
America’s elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the Democratic
Party, have a single overriding interest: their self-indulgent
lifestyle. This
is manifested in their mistaken belief that conservatives (i.e. the “right”)
are hell bent on enforcing their version of morality on the nation, thus
potentially calling into question the lifestyles of the rich and
solipsistic.
The veracity of this claim is immaterial as it would require an
element of deliberation not emotion -- a trait in extremely short supply
among the nation’s privileged class, nearly all of whom have difficulty in
generating an original thought due to the ill-education rampant in America’s
universities. Thus, the mindless accusations of racism, misogyny and
Fascism directed at the conservative rubes in middle America are acceptable,
and in far too many instances believed, particularly as many had the temerity
to vote for Donald Trump – who, although wealthy and Ivy League educated, is
considered the ultimate unsophisticated rube.
As conservatives are the dominant force in the Republican Party
and this nation cannot function politically with more than two major political
parties, the alternative is the Democratic Party. An entity dominated by the
American Left, an assemblage whose core philosophy is antithetical to the
interests of the wealthy and privileged. Yet, determined to protect their
lifestyles and vilify conservatives, they willingly ally with the left and
overwhelmingly support virtually any Democratic candidate. In the recent
2018 mid-terms, Democratic House candidates outspent their Republican opponents
by a two to one margin thanks primarily to this wealthy but myopic
assemblage.
Their colleagues in the Democratic Party, and the preponderance of
the membership, are those dependent on the largess of the federal and state
governments. On the other hand, the growing segment of the citizenry who
are working and self-sufficient are increasingly joining those who believe in
limited government in migrating to the Republican Party-- a process that is
accelerating with the policies and tactics of Donald Trump in combating the
entrenched left and their determination to culturally and economically
transform the nation. The Republican Party will inevitably become the
party of the working or middle class. As such, they could potentially
dominate the political agenda for the foreseeable future.
The left and the Democratic Party, in order to offset this
possibility, must aggressively seek to increase the number of dependents by
promoting the legalization and ultimate citizenship for untold millions of
illegal immigrants and promising all Americans cradle to grave economic
security. In order to enact this strategy to defeat the Republicans, the left
must have the active participation and financial support of the nation’s
wealthy-- which they have.
The Democratic Party has evolved into essentially an incompatible
two-tier class-driven entity encompassing the nation’s wealthiest and the
nation’s poorest. Nonetheless, it is at present a convenient home for the
elites to hold off the imaginary horde of conservatives outside their gilded
doors.
However, the voting numbers within the party are overwhelmingly
with those who generally support the leftist philosophies of redistribution
(e.g. socialized medicine and guaranteed incomes) and curtailing of freedom
(e.g. speech, assembly and religion). While it may not manifest itself to
the affluent who have cast their lot with the Democrats, the redistribution of
wealth must, by necessity, come from the wealthy, as that is where the bulk of
the nation’s wealth resides. It is also this same small-in-numbers
group that benefits the most from freedom of speech and assembly.
Once fully embroiled in this marriage of convenience, a divorce
will be impossible as the co-inhabitant of the Democratic Party, the dependent
class, must continue grow in order to electorally defeat the Republicans and
protect the left’s agenda. Further, the oversold expectations promulgated
by the left will never be satisfied regardless of how many promises are made or
token redistributive programs are enacted by the current ruling class.
Only a complete transformation of this nation into a failed socialist state
will satiate the left, their acolytes and their attendant army of
dependency. A goal more in reach than ever thanks to the inability of the
nation’s elites to give a damn about the future of the country.
There is not a more short-sighted and self-absorbed group of
citizens in this nation than the white, wealthy well-educated urban and
suburban voters. They
are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order to protect their
privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of Americans will
ultimately pay the price, the current ruling class and their progeny will have
far more to lose.
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