Scratch a liberal of today, find a fascist ...

It wasn’t always like that. Yet that’s the reality today. 
 
The majority of people who claim to be liberal now really aren’t – at least in terms of what liberal once meant. When I was in my teens and 20s, even into my 30s, I considered myself a liberal.
 
Because, back then, being a liberal meant supporting a lot of beliefs that somehow today are considered right wing, if not far right.  I’m not sure how that happened. I don’t know precisely when yesterday’s liberal beliefs became ultra conservative and the object of abject hatred by the same people who were proud to share the very same beliefs not all that long ago. 
 
Even though many like me are openly loathed as anti-science, anti- progress, and racist – none of which we ever were or are today – my core beliefs in then liberal principles haven’t changed. What has changed is that those beliefs are no longer considered acceptable in liberal orthodoxy. 

Stunningly, the very same people and politicians that once championed traditional liberal concepts like equal rights, equal justice under the law, opposition to segregation, free speech, and the right to peacefully protest, are embracing the exact opposite. 
 
Think about this for a moment.  I have, a lot.  It’s baffling. 
 
As liberals, we treasured the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, because both protected our rights as individuals and our freedoms as citizens from government overreach.  The ACLU helped keep others in power from trampling on our Constitutionally protected rights.  And we could count on watchdogs in a free press to keep government and politicians honest and in check. 
 
Mostly, back then, we just wanted to be left alone to live our lives without a lot of interference. We didn’t want anyone spying on us, censoring what we could see or read, deciding for us what jokes we could tell or hear, what friends we could have, or who we were allowed to associate with.
 
By that, I do mean anyone: the government, schools, politicians, big corporations, whomever.  It was nobody’s business what we or anyone else did, read, watched, ridiculed, laughed at, or hung out with, as long as nobody was putting others at risk of physical harm.     
 
We eyed more and bigger government suspiciously. Honestly, we just flat didn’t trust government and most politicians; we simply didn’t believe most of what they told us – they were too often caught lying to us.  We especially didn’t put much faith in the FBI, the CIA, and politicians willing to use violence and dirty tricks against our fellow citizens to suppress dissent.
 
We took to heart the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  We called people who judged others by race alone racists. Those who thought the races should always be separate and treated differently were racists. Those who thought one race or another was superior or inferior to another race were racists. 

People who taught children to blame other races for their own problems were the worst racists.   

 
Finally, we had a sense of humor. In fact, most of the funniest people and shows featured liberals like us. It was okay to make fun of us, too – we laughed right along.  It was even funnier to skewer those who took themselves way too seriously, like fatuous politicians, government officials, and the talking heads on network news shows. If someone was offended, that made it even funnier. 
 
No topic was off limits for ridicule.

Comedians of all colors and ethnicities told jokes about blacks, whites, Asians and every other race or ethnicity and their mixed-race audiences laughed their asses off. Few comedians had any issues telling funny jokes about stupid stereotypes to all kinds of audiences. Network comedies like All in the Family, Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons, Chico and the Man, Soap, The Golden Girls, and so many others were enjoyed by audiences of all races, genders, and ages. Just as movies like Blazing Saddles, The Producers, or Young Frankenstein were.  Nobody called for them to be boycotted; we recognized a joke when we saw one.   
 
So we didn’t cringe at stereotypes being mocked; we laughed. And that’s because, as old-time liberals, we believed that despite skin color, sex, or religion, we were all pretty much alike. We all do stupid shit at times. We might not agree on everything else, but we all knew what’s funny.
 
On the flip side, we weren’t blind to bad things around us. We knew what censorship was. What intellectual repression was.  What happened when government leaders and intelligence agencies felt they had enough power to do whatever they wanted.
 
We’d seen vivid, heart wrenching examples in the USSR, East Germany, Cuba, and in numerous banana republics in our own backyard. We saw how they suppressed dissent, often violently. 
 
We were dismayed to learn our own government engaged in similar activities. Certainly not as much in the open as the Soviets and other dictators. But often just as bad. 

We only learned all this because our media at the time took their job seriously of exposing what those in power were doing, and what those in power were trying to hide from us.        
 
Through the media we also learned what actual racism looked like. We’d seen George Wallace blocking blacks from the doorway to the University of Alabama.  We’d seen video of Bull Conner turning fire hoses and dogs on civil rights protestors.  We’d witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. We’d seen firsthand the very worst of racism.  We certainly weren’t naïve about real racism.  No American was. We could thank the media of the day for that.   
 
Of course, back then the media was not a propaganda arm of one political party. Real journalists went after Democrats as well as Republicans. Real journalists covered actual news about government policies and what those meant to ordinary citizens.  When government officials or politicians screwed up, it got reported.  When someone got caught misusing their office or taxpayer money, it got reported.  Regardless of which political party was involved.   
 
So it’s hard for many of us to understand how and why the media operates as it does today.
 
It’s just as hard to understand how still believing in the liberal principles we believed in decades ago – guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution – and still believe in today, are symbolic of “white privilege” and “racism” by today’s standards. 
 
I didn’t change. What’s acceptable apparently did. Not for the better.  

The people I identified with who once simply wanted to live and let live aren't satisfied with that anymore. They want the power to control everyone's lives, thoughts, and actions. 

They have become what they once professed to hate: fascists.  

And they've allowed their children to become fascists, too.    

America's most influential political party ...

Most people think we have only two major political parties: Democrat and Republican.
 
Yet in reality, there are three:  Democrat, Republican, and Establishment. 
 
That last one is by far the most powerful.  And the most seductive.  Almost all members of Congress, regardless of whether they have a D or R after their name, eventually join the Establishment Party. They may have campaigned for office as a Democrat or Republican and continue to fund raise as one or the other, but once in Congress they’re eager to join the Establishment Party.
 
In fact, almost all members of the Establishment Party are also nominally Republicans or Democrats. The only members of Congress not firmly in the party are Independents or Democratic Socialists.  But it’s only a matter of time before those outsiders get with the program; they always do. 
 
It’s easy to understand why. It’s much more enjoyable and lucrative to get on the winning team. The cocktail parties are better.  The perks are awesome.  There are always back-room deals to be made with fellow members. Favors to exchange.  Legislative support to be sold.
 
Plus, everybody in the party covers for each other. 
 
That alone makes it the best private club of all.  When you’re in you are largely protected from publicity on nettlesome things that might alarm ordinary citizens. Things like ethics investigations, sexual harassment charges, insider trading, nepotism, taxpayer funded junkets around the world with friends and family, swapping votes for pork projects in your home district, and of course taking money from lobbyists to sway your vote and sponsor legislation they want.   
 
All the things ordinary voters simply wouldn’t understand you absolutely deserve because you’re now so important. All the things that will be overlooked and hidden from public scrutiny, because you’re a member of the Establishment.  Everybody does it; so what’s the big deal?  
 
But don’t Republicans and Democrats in Congress fight all the time? Don’t they have profound differences on key issues? 
 
Not really.  It’s all for show. It’s to make ordinary voters think they’re on one side or the other. Each side has its villains and incendiary red meat causes for the other party to hate and rail against for media consumption.  But after the cameras are off they’re all back to being old friends.  Scratching each other’s backs. Feeding at the same trough.  No hard feelings, ever. 
 
Neither “side” ever expects a resolution on their red-meat issues.  Most could be easily resolved once and for all.  They could pass laws if they really wanted to, which is what they’re supposed to do.  Or we could have a nationwide referendum on legalized abortion, immigration, legalizing marijuana, the national debt, cracking down on crime, term limits, voting rights, whatever.  We could then let real democracy – via popular vote – have the final say on these. 
 
But that won’t happen. 
 
Candidly, that’s because Establishment Party members don’t want those issues to ever be resolved. Neither do their deep-pocketed donors.  We can’t solve immigration, for example, because the Establishment has a vested interest in flooding our country with illegal aliens.

Corporations, the fast-food giants, farmers and the agribusiness conglomerates, construction companies. and the hotel and restaurant industries – and even the big tech companies – want cheap labor. Mayors of big Democrat cities need immigrants to replace citizens fleeing to safer and lower taxed locales and to keep their headcounts up for Federal dollars. The Catholic Church wants immigrants to offset their loss of parishioners. The rich want an uninterrupted cheap labor pool to cook and clean for them, to maintain their yards, and to watch their kids. 
 
The apparent stalemate over enacting comprehensive immigration reform has nothing to do with human rights or a path to citizenship and more to do with economics.  Nobody in the Establishment gives a rat’s ass about closing our borders anytime soon, including Republicans frothing at the mouth every day about how our country is being overrun.  Especially Republicans. 
 
Imagine if suddenly all the red meat issues on both sides were resolved legislatively.  It would be a disaster for our current politicians. What would be left to run on or to smear the other side? How could the ordinary citizen see any remaining differences of importance between Democrats and Republicans? How devastating this would be to fundraising.  
 
Think about all the times supposed adversaries worked together to raise the debt ceiling, to continue to fund profligate government spending, to pump billions into wasteful pork projects, to get us into meaningless foreign wars, and to plunge us into deeper and deeper debt.  Take away the parliamentary tricks to pretend they are taking “principled stands” and “fighting for the people” and “preserving democracy” and you’re left with one stark conclusion. 
 
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are essentially the same. Duplicitous whores.     
 
Despite both parties’ claims to be the party of fiscal responsibility, our collective national debt grows just as fast under Republicans as Democrats.  Both parties blame each other for our soaring debt but the truth is they share responsibility equally. 
 
They both also keep making government bigger, more intrusive, and more expensive.  That’s mostly to buy off key constituencies, partly to appear to be doing something about a problem, and, well, because spending other people’s money is fun.       
 
So there’s actually no substantive difference between them.
 
But they do share an overarching goal: to keep the office they have. And to do that by taking money from people they don’t know to give to people they do. 
 
Everything else is theatre. 

Why the left fosters chaos ...

It’s the fastest and easiest way to get the masses to accept a totalitarian government. 
 
Create enough chaos, scare enough people, foster enough uncertainty and they’ll willingly give up their rights and freedoms in exchange for safety, security, and stability.  It’s the time-tested playbook for the power-hungry throughout history. 
 
It’s how many authoritarian regimes get installed. Even in a democracy.
 
If, like me, you’ve often wondered why the left continues to push for programs and ideas that will obviously pose increased danger to the lives and financial well-being of ordinary working citizens and their families, it’s because creating chaos is actually their goal.  They want chaos.   
 
Look around you. Isn’t that what’s going on? Do you think defunding the police is about? The same goes for emptying our prisons.  Does anyone think these and no-cash bail won’t put more criminals among us? Won’t refusing to prosecute most crimes encourage more crime, too? 
 
Flooding the country with illegal immigrants is also intentional.  After the word went out that there was free healthcare, education, and benefits for illegals and their families for life what did anyone expect to happen?  Our borders were overrun. Still are.  On purpose.
 
The Biden administration is dumping these illegals all over the country. Nobody is telling governors and mayors they’re coming, or even who or how many they are dumping. And now we have no idea where any of these illegals are.  We never will.   
 
We don’t even try to keep the worst of these illegals out of our country. The welcome mat is out no matter who you are or what you’ve done.  Convicted murderers and rapists, MS13 gang members, human traffickers, illiterate pregnant teens, and adult males passing off unrelated young girls as daughters are among those also flocking here. What could possibly go wrong?
 
Better still, how does any of this benefit us? It doesn’t.  We all know this. It just burdens our systems more.  But that’s the idea: overwhelm our schools, our hospitals, and our justice system until everything crashes. Which they surely will.      
 
Our government is paying for all this by printing and distributing trillions we’ll end up borrowing. It’s using this fake money to feed and house illegals, to pay people not to work, to enrich millions of fraudsters, and to give money to people who don’t really need it. Why bother to work anymore? What’s the point when you can get enough free money to live on for doing nothing?  
 
Does anyone out there not see this money deluge devaluing our currency? Does anyone really not see the link between doing this and rising inflation? Think it’s accidental? 
 
After the revelations of the past couple of years, how can anyone still believe in the integrity of the mainstream media and social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook? Or, for that matter, the FBI, the State Department, CIA, IRS, CDC, NIH, and countless other government agencies? It’s hard to take seriously even our top military leaders after they’ve been engulfed in PC culture. 

Come on. Do you think all of this is unintentional? Honestly? 

Of course not. It’s by design.  The left wants anarchy. Anarchy breeds chaos. And as I noted, create enough chaos, fear and uncertainty and the masses will vote to make it end.  The masses will vote for any regime, no matter how brutal, that promises to stop the madness.    

 
Make no mistake, an authoritarian regime is exactly what the far left and pseudo elites in our country have always wanted. They truly believe democracy is far too messy and unpredictable for their tastes.  The general public is way too emotional and stupid to have a hand in running the country – that should always be left to their “betters.”
 
Which, of course, would be them. 
 
And just who are they – these betters? Well, it’s certainly not you or me or the millions of other Americans like us. It would be easy to say our betters are all highly educated graduates of elite Ivy League schools, or all live on the East or West Coast, but they aren’t.
 
True, a lot of their top tier are very rich, and a lot are celebrities, but being rich or famous alone is not enough to be welcomed into their clique.  You have to completely ignore science, logic, history, facts, and math. You have to, as Biden said, believe in “truth over facts.” Since they constantly make up their own “truth,” facts are irrelevant. 
 
The sad reality is that those secretly pulling the strings actually know their “truth” is almost always factually incorrect.  But they promote it anyway because it serves their purpose, which is, frankly, to persuade as many Americans as possible that there’s no such thing as “fact.” Ultimately, they want an America where nobody believes in anything at all, except what they are told.       
 
In their perfect world, they alone will control what can be told and what the public should believe.  They’ve already begun distorting reality. Nobody is supposed to notice.  
 
But isn’t anyone else surprised that so much of the “woke” agenda is self-contradictory? That suddenly segregation, discrimination by race, and censorship are good things? That teaching children to judge themselves and others by the color of their skin is progress? That biology doesn’t matter and protecting and preserving women’s sports for women alone is somehow wrong? That black lives matter only when someone black is shot by someone white, but not by someone black? 
 
Or that “following the science” on stopping Covid turned out to have no scientific basis in hindsight? Yet politicians and charlatans like Fauci continue to claim that masks work, vaccines work, and the lockdowns were necessary, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.  Or that the same people who claim “my body my choice” in terms of abortion rights have no problem supporting policies that force others to submit to injections they don’t want or lose their jobs?    
 
And no one seems to recognize how crazy this all is? Or if they do and say it they are dismissed as a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a science denier, or possibly even a traitor.
 
It’s no wonder so many Americans are confused. 
 
All the confusion is contrived. It’s intentional. It’s gaslighting with a mission: to make everyone lose their faith in reality and institutions like law enforcement so lawlessness and chaos ensues. 
 
Then the authoritarians can step is to “save” us from the mess they’ve created.
 
Just watch.     

It's time to reboot the country ...

You know, shut it down and start it up again.  Yes, we did that for an entire year but the bad actors and slopware came back.  There are rumors we have another shutdown coming. 

So this time we need to do a clean install. 

Get rid of all the crap that’s insinuated itself into our system – the parasitic stuff that bogs down everything, makes our system run worse instead of better and drags down our overall performance.  The useless, distracting stuff that always pops up while we’re actually trying to get something meaningful done, attempts to propagate itself everywhere and tie up all our resources.

It's time to take back control of our system. 

We can safely delete most of the crap that’s accumulated over the years. It’s garbage.  Too much of it is simply redundant. Some of this bloatware may have been useful and well meaning at first, but now most of it’s just resource vampires that add absolutely nothing worthwhile. 

Here are some things that can go.  And the sooner the better.

End all programs paying able-bodied people not to work. Make parents – not the rest of us – totally responsible for feeding and caring for their own children.  It should never be socially acceptable to decide not to work and simply live off unearned government benefits.  Nor should it be acceptable for parents to shirk their obligation to feed their own children. 

Why are taxpayers now on the hook for feeding breakfast, lunch and dinner to 30 million school-age kids every day – even when school isn’t in session?  Because their parents can’t afford to feed them? Because SNAP benefits they already get aren’t enough? No, it’s mostly because a lot of parents have decided if someone else will feed their kids for free they don’t have to.    

I feel dumb even raising these blindingly obvious points.  What genius ever thought any of this was a good idea? Now, it’s okay to help people in need, but we’re way, way past that now. 

The longer we wait to address this, and we must, the more painful the remedy. 

An easy cut is eliminating the Department of Education.  We can easily do without it.  It’s absolutely useless, except as a mouthpiece for teachers’ unions and promoter of silly experiments dreamed up by out-of-touch academics constantly trying to find new ways to justify their existence by paving the cow path.

Do we really need a new way to teach students how to add, subtract, multiply and divide?  Or to address imaginary “racism” and “sexism” in math? Or to teach kids as young as six or seven years old that gender has nothing to do with biology or what’s in their pants – it’s entirely up to them to choose or change their gender any time they like.  Do we need any of this?

Nope. But the bureaucrats at the Department of Education think we do.     

After we dump this travesty let’s drill down and decertify the teachers’ unions.

Before we do that, I concede good teachers can have a powerful, positive, and lasting impact on a student’s future success.  They add value to our society.   

But teachers’ unions don’t provide a damn bit of value. Not a bit. If anything, they are an obstacle to reforming and improving our dreadful public education system.  These protect bad and incompetent teachers, fight any accountability, and support brainwashing impressionable kids with looney-tune racist ideas. Like that skin color alone determines their prospects for success in our country. That whites are automatically oppressors; everyone else is a victim of white oppression.  That we are a country of racists.  And that our Constitution was created almost exclusively to protect slavery.  

Teachers’ unions today are engaged in nothing less than institutionalized emotional and intellectual child abuse.  It’s long past time to bring them to heel. 

Next up: fossils in Congress. Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, Libertarian or whatever, I don’t believe I’m alone in thinking Congress could use the legislative equivalent of a high colonic.  At the very least we should have term limits and enforce these retroactively.  Anybody already in the House for more than six years would have to go immediately. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts. We should also take this opportunity to repeal the 17^th Amendment and put selection of Senators solely back in the hands of each state’s legislature.  

Then, going forward, anyone new running for a House seat would be limited to two two-year terms.  Senators would be limited to one six-year term.  This combined action on Congress alone would fix the most grievous problems in our country. Want to reduce the distorting impact of dark money and special interest groups on Congress?  This would do that.  Almost instantly.   

Next, stop funding NGOs. I don’t care where they are, what they do, or who they are supposed to be helping. NGOs serve themselves as much as anyone else.

Think Catholic Charities is arranging housing, food, and transportation for illegals out of the goodness of their hearts? No, they, like all the other ostensibly “non-profit” social service NGOs are getting paid by our government to do this and paid pretty well at that.  Plus, funding to NGOs allows politicians to secretly send our tax dollars to groups below the radar to do things they don’t want the American public to know. 

Why? Because politicians realize taxpayers would be pissed if they did.   

Like quietly arranging for the transport of Covid-positive illegals and their families away from our borders to hide them somewhere else in the US. Like a small town near you. Secretly housing them in a hotel or motel in your town and providing them with spending money.    

Yes, NGOs – Catholic Charities in particular, and others – are doing that. Right now.

Next, stop sending money to “nonprofits” altogether. That includes NPR, the CPB, PBS and any other remnants of what have devolved into nakedly partisan “state” media.

First, these aren't actually “nonprofit.” Their “nonprofit” status is a technicality. These all make money and pay salaries, sometimes big, big salaries. Think anyone at a “nonprofit” works for free? Do you believe the staff at NPR, CBP and PBS work there for nothing?

Hey, Sesame Street makes money and charges local PBS stations to show it. 

State-supported media always have an inherent conflict of interest; now ours is just a propaganda mouthpiece for Democrats.  Doubt they are biased? Just listen to the slobbering PBS and NPR reporters kissing up at the current White House briefings or covering Democrats in general. Do they cover Republicans the same?  Did they cover Trump the same way? NFW. 

Our public broadcasting industry really has no reason to exist anymore with all our media options today.  They certainly aren’t providing objective news. There’s no dearth of content elsewhere.  Honestly, America can live just fine without Downton Abbey and other made-in-UK series nestled within the nonstop beggathons.  Nor should American taxpayers be paying for the far left’s social agenda promotions, such as the increasingly “woke” Sesame Street adding the obligatory transgender or gender-fluid Muppet.  Americans shouldn’t be paying to support any of this.

If advertisers want to support this, fine. Let them.    

Finally, get rid of the politicians on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and atop all our military branches.  Force their retirement, whatever, but get this current crop of woke bozos away from any say over our military. They are an embarrassment to our people in uniform, to our country, and are a laughingstock to our adversaries.  They are supposed to protect us from threats from abroad; instead, they want to focus on mythical threats from within our own country – that’s not their job, not now, not ever.

All of the above is just a good start.  We should do it.  

The Democrats' imaginary mandate ...

For some bizarre reason, Democrats believe they have a mandate to do all kinds of crazy things. Even though Biden never promised any of this looney stuff when he was running for President. And Democrats are scarcely holding on to the House and Senate. 

In fact, except for Biden’s win and Trump screwing up the Georgia Senate races, Democrats took it in the face in 2020.  They lost seats in the House, have to deal with a squeaker 50-50 seats in the Senate, and it was a bloodbath for them pretty much everywhere on the state level.

  
So where do they come off acting like the public demonstrated its support in the last election for whatever wild-ass crap Democrats want to do now.  

Democrats have to know the public’s not on board with all this.  They have to have some internal polls – not the self-serving push polls from their left-leaning media friends – showing how ordinary Americans really feel about all this. 

Just a wild guess here, but I bet it’s not good.  

I’ll concede Democrats have worked the free money angle to their advantage. But it’s like a sugar rush: feels great for a short while and then you feel sick.  There’s are more serious downsides, too – they’ve pumped so much free money out there people aren’t interested in going back to work, which hurts small businesses like restaurants, and inflation is also starting to creep up. 

The voting public also never said they wanted socialism. Or authoritarian rule. Or censorship. Or a government takeover of healthcare.  

Or forced vaccination with a still experimental vaccine.  Or packing the Supreme Court. Or a Federal takeover of all elections.  Or open borders. Or providing full benefits to illegals. Or allowing non-citizens and teenagers to vote.  Or giving amnesty to millions here illegally.  Or paying off everybody’s student loans.  Or ending the filibuster in the Senate.  Or eliminating fossil fuels.  Or spending trillions to bail out financially incompetent blue states. Or trillions more to retrofit every house and business in America. Or providing Federal funding for abortions, even those for teens without their parents’ knowledge. Or a guaranteed income whether you work or chose not to. 

 
Or allowing biological males who identify as female to compete in sports against biological females. Or teaching children that gender is not biology, but merely how you feel. Or promoting that children as young as pre-teens should be allowed to get gender reassignment treatment and surgery.  Or providing Federal funding for any and all members of our military who want gender reassignment surgery.  

  
Or teaching public school students America is a horrible country founded on slavery, steeped in racism still today, and that skin color alone determines whether you are oppressed or an oppressor.  (Spoiler alert: white people are oppressors; black and brown people are oppressed.)  

And lots, lots more.  

Nope. The majority of voters in 2020 did not vote for any of those things. Apparently many only voted for Biden because they hated Trump.  Biden didn’t articulate any of the above while campaigning; in fact, Biden said he was opposed to many of these back then.

  
That’s probably why so many Americans are freaking out over what Democrats are trying to ram through now.  None of this was on the table when they voted.  Now it all is.  

Democrats do realize many of these are wildly unpopular with the American public. I suspect that’s what’s driving their frenzied rush to get their agenda passed and signed before the midterms in 2022.

    
Much of what they want to do is blatantly unconstitutional, like a Federal takeover from states of all elections.  Or creating new rules for anyone who wants to run for President.  Or, for that matter, working with tech firms and social media to censor things they don’t like.  Or dozens of other crackpot schemes they are trying to sneak into law. 

Still wonder why they pre-emptively want to pack the Supreme Court?  

  
Biden’s a senile idiot and Harris is stupid and obviously in way over her head. Neither of them has the brains to pour piss out of a boot with directions on the heel. Biden reads everything off a teleprompter or his cheat cards, and he still screws up even when he gets the questions in advance. When Harris get’s stumped, which is often, she just cackles and hopes the awkward moment passes. Or she makes some completely ridiculous statement Biden flacks have to walk back immediately. 

These two dimwits have no business even pretending to run the country. They are also dangerous because they seem incapable or unwilling to stop the true crazies in their party from destroying the country. Make no mistake, that’s what the Democrat loons are doing.  

They are the real danger to our democracy, not white supremacists and voter ID laws. 

The other day I said what scares me is about all this is that no one seems to remember history and how authoritarian regimes like those of the Bolsheviks, fascists, and Nazis came to power.  

But what scares me even more is that they actually do remember this history and are using it as a blueprint to create their own. 

       
BTW, none of these authoritarian regimes had a popular mandate either, when they started. They bluffed their way into power and control until it was too late to stop them.    

 

They're enhancing Trump's folk-hero status ...

It’s one thing to win an election. 
 
It’s quite another to try to destroy anyone who voted against you.  Or who had supported or served in the administration of the person you defeated. 
 
That’s the stuff of banana republics. And of despots throughout history.
 
It’s vengeance run amuck. It’s also a sign of fear that the people under attack might come back and overthrow you in time.
 
We’re living through that now. The left and Democrats are working hard to punish anyone who had anything to do with Trump. At the same time, they are actively dismantling Trump policies just because these came from Trump.  They’re doing this even when they are knowingly throwing out things that worked, such as his immigration policies and tax cuts.
 
They are using all the power they have – with assistance from the media – to blame Trump for the economic fallout from the pandemic and deny Trump credit for anything.
 
Trump created and funded Operation Warp Speed to produce and distribute the Covid-19 vaccines in record time, saving untold American lives. Trump did that, even while the media and Democrats said it was impossible to do so quickly.  Prominent Democrats like Biden and Kamala Harris said they wouldn’t trust any vaccine from Trump. 
 
However, their new story is that Biden inherited nothing from Trump, had to start from scratch, and was the one who produced and distributed the vaccines. If Biden hadn’t been elected and taken control of the situation millions of Americans would still be waiting to be vaccinated.  In fact, Biden says, there were no vaccines before he took office.  Which is hard to take since Biden and his wife got vaccinated on December 21 of 2019 – almost a month before he was inaugurated.     
 
It's all part of a new narrative; a revisionist history of sorts.  Something the Democrats and the media try to do all the time.  They want to turn Trump into a non-person. A boogey man. A bad dream. A nightmare they have vanquished for all time – you’re welcome, America.       
 
They are making it also crystal clear that anyone now who opposed them in the past and might foolishly think of opposing them anytime in the future will be destroyed personally, professionally, and financially.  Trump, his family, the members of his administration, his friends, his allies, and his supporters will serve as examples of what can happen.
 
They want their heads on spikes.  All of them. 
 
I’m not all that surprised. Disgusted, yes; surprised, no. 
 
Even before Trump was the Republican nominee, the left, Democrats, the media, and many in the Republican establishment as well, wanted him destroyed.  Democrat hacks like Cyrus Vance in New York and other states’ attorneys in blue states started investigating everything Trump in hopes of finding something to take him out forever. Letitia James was elected attorney general in New York on the campaign promise to prosecute Trump; precisely for what, wasn’t important.    
 
Democrats, the left, and their media sycophants might believe they are doing God’s work to purge America of all things Trump.  The constant harassment of Trump, his family, his allies, and former members of his administration – which has gone on since before he was elected and continues today – will probably have the completely opposite effect of what they have hoped. 
 
Whether or not they realize it yet, they are turning Trump into an even bigger folk hero than he was.  Their obsession with destroying him and anyone associated with him appears overtly and unnecessarily mean-spirited and vindictive to many Americans.  

The more frenzied they become, and the broader they expand their target for rage and retribution, the less it appears entirely warranted. 
 
Especially now that anyone who voted for him is also a pariah. That’s over 74 million Americans at last count.  That’s a lot of the electorate to write off as hopelessly evil, stupid, racist, and worthy of scorn. That’s close to half of all those who voted in 2020. 
 
Could just be me, but if somebody continues to ridicule and belittle that many Americans every day, there’s going to be a backlash.  Yet that’s exactly what Democrat party leaders, late night talk show hosts on ABC, CBS and NBC, alleged “news“ anchors on CNN and MSNBC, and daytime network shows like The View are doing every single day.
 
They are all spewing unrelenting contempt for millions of Americans.
 
All that’s going to leave a mark. And it is. 
 
It’s already having a dramatic effect on ratings, which is one metric that gauges where America is going.  CNN and MSNBC are losing viewers in record numbers; some former “hit” shows on CNN are struggling to attract more viewers on average than attend an Ohio State football game. The Gutfeld! Show on Fox is outpulling every other show in his time slot – at times more than a couple of them combined.  The number one morning show in cable is Fox and Friends.  In terms of the demographic most wanted by advertisers, four of the five top cable news shows are Fox News properties.  
 
Apparently, ordinary Americans don’t like being insulted. Who knew?
 
Obviously not the folks running the other media outlets and networks. 
 
Instead of demoralizing Trump supporters, which is what they hope they’d accomplish, they’ve simply fanned their passion for Trump and against Democrats, the left, and the media. Support for Trump has hardened among his supporters and increased among independents.
 
Once again, people may not have liked Trump the man, and may not still, but they liked that he pretty much did what he promised to do.  No one ever doubted what he thought or would do because he always told everyone right up front. Often bluntly. His supporters loved that candor.   
 
Unlike the current administration, Trump never hid his agenda or waffled on his beliefs.        
 
I’m pretty sure Democrats in Congress and the left-leaning media are starting to feel the ground shift beneath them. They can produce any number of self-serving polls showing people like Joe Biden personally and are always in favor of getting free money. When Joe stands up for something with which they don’t agree, like open borders and free benefits for illegals, and the free money runs out, it will be a different story. No matter how hard the media tries to spin it to protect him.  
 
Right now, Democrats, the left and the media are in a state of denial that this could ever happen.
 
But it will. It’s a certainty.   

Why there's systemic racism in America ...

When the government creates policies and programs designed specifically to benefit one group over another purely on the basis of skin color, that’s the definition of systemic racism. 
 
Doesn’t anyone else see this?  It’s so obvious. 
 
It surprises me that this is ignored all the time.  Maybe I shouldn’t be. 
 
Democrats and the left have a long history of overt institutionalized racism. 
 
Racial segregation before and after the Civil War was always a Democrat thing.  Jim Crow laws came from Democrats.  So did poll taxes and tests.  The Klan was essentially a Democrat social club.  The Democrats’ abortion-rights hero – Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood – specifically set up her clinics in poor black neighborhoods to minimize the number of black babies born.  Democrats, led by former Klan recruiter Robert C. Byrd, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in an attempt to keep it from passing. Even the current President, Joe Biden, was opposed to desegregation because, in his own words, he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle.”  
 
So you can spare me and the rest of America the BS that Democrats have always been on the side of blacks and other minorities. Nope, they haven’t. And while they – along with the progressives and other leftists – like to huff and puff about the need to address our “systemic racism” they’re actually the ones promoting and instituting what can only be called systemic racism throughout our nation.
 
Here's the thing: anytime you have elected politicians supporting quotas and preferences based on race, that’s automatically racist.  They are defining who gets what, and who doesn’t, based on skin color.  When government incorporates those quotas and preferences into laws and regulations, it becomes institutionalized racism.  In other words, systemic racism. Got it? 
 
That’s what Democrats, the progressives, the left, and committed racists like BLM and the SPLC claim to be trying to eliminate. They have a curious strategy, however.  
 
They want to end systemic racism by making more of it. 
 
The key for them is codifying preferences and quotas to reward one racial group over another.  If it were about equality, everybody would be treated the same. But they don’t want equality; they now claim they want “equity.” That means they are still discriminating by race, yet not because they’re racists, which they are, but because they claim they want a level playing field. 
 
Which, of course, they don’t really want. If they wanted a truly level playing field everybody would be treated equally and play by the same rules. That would eliminate their leverage to raise money, appease their constituencies, and demand allegiance from affected minority blocs.            
 
There already are real and implicit government quotas by race for all kinds of things.  Who gets government contracts.  Who gets promoted in the military.  Who gets a mortgage, bank loan or a loan guarantee.  Who gets research grants and funding.  Who gets hired in any company that gets Federal money.  Who gets a board seat in publicly traded companies.  Most recently, the Biden administration, in the name of addressing systemic racism, pushed through a program that disproportionately rewards black farmers over farmers of other races. 

Thereby promoting more systemic racism. Thanks, Joe.   
 
Our government’s not the only one pushing racist quotas. 
 
Our colleges and universities are happily enforcing quotas of their own. They are quietly discriminating on the basis of race; when they are caught, they plead that they must, to ensure “diversity” on their campuses.  

The truth is, based only on pure test scores and performance, Asians would beat out most other applicants at many of our premier academic institutions. So, much like the days when Harvard discriminated against more qualified Jewish applicants, the admissions departments at Harvard and other top universities have been penalizing Asian applicants and giving extra points toward acceptance to black and Hispanic applicants.  That’s racist, regardless of who is doing it.

But no one in power is brave enough to say the blindingly obvious. They know if they did, they'd be branded a racist, which, at the very least, is ironic.   
 
The discrimination in academia by race alone is illegal, no matter the rationale.  In fact, any discrimination by race alone is illegal under our laws.  No ifs, ands, or buts, about it. 
 
Think about this: if colleges and universities started discriminating against black or Hispanic applicants based solely on race, the ACLU and pretty much everybody else would be appalled. Lawsuits would fly and the Supreme Court would be involved. 
 
No, in our current political and cultural environment it’s okay to discriminate by race as long as it’s at the expense of races that aren’t black, or to a lesser extent Hispanic. 
 
It’s a bizarre world we live in. Consider that there’s a Black Entertainment Network, a BET Awards Show, an Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards Show, a Black Film Festival, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a Black Caucus in Congress.  There are also demands today on many campuses by blacks for black-only segregated dorms. Some “black-only” protests demand that when these occur all whites, including white students, faculty, and staff must leave campus.
 
Somehow, all those are perfectly fine.  Laudatory, even, by the liberal Democrats, progressives, the left, and their friends in the media. Yet if you substituted “white” for “black” in all of the above, they’d be screaming that you’re a racist bigot. A white supremacist, too. Perhaps a Nazi.     
 
Not them, of course. Whether they’re cognizant of it or not, they’re using government policies and laws to institutionalize systemic racism to fight against systemic racism.  Weird, huh? 
 
Talk about a lack of self-awareness.   
 
They can call it “equity,” “leveling the playing field,” “addressing historic wrongs” or whatever they like, but the reason there’s systemic racism here is because they continue to create more of it. 
 
Intentionally.