The real proof that the American political scene is about to experience a new revolution
The Democratic Party for the past half century
While the conservative press is today going ga-ga over Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter yesterday — noting accurately that Biden’s action proved himself once again to be a liar and a fraud, having spent the last four years insisting he would never do such a thing while also insisting that “no one is above the law” — I think it more instructive to look at what some of the most rabid partisan leftists have been saying, before and after the election of Donald Trump.
You see, some of these partisan leftists are actually doing something I have not seen a partisan leftist do since before Bill Clinton was president — they are showing an ability to have an open mind.
Let’s begin with two members of a leftist podcast group dubbed the Young Turks that for years saw nothing good about any Republican and considering Donald Trump the epitomization of the devil himself. Anything Trump did was wrong. Everything Trump and the Republicans represented was evil and must be opposed blindly. During and after this presidential election campaign however two of the more noted members of this podcast, Ann Kasparian and Cenk Uygar, changed their tune, and did so in an astonishing way.
First there was Kasparian’s announcement in October that she has left the Democratic Party. Watch:
NEW: The Young Turks producer Ana Kasparian says she left the Democratic party after she was mol*sted by a homeless man with an er*ction in Los Angeles.
Kasparian said she was shamed by liberals for stating that she felt fearful to leave her house after the incident.
Kasparian… pic.twitter.com/R1Ds980urO
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 12, 2024
She had been molested by a homeless man on the street, and when she said this incident made her fearful of leaving her house, leftists she had thought “were the good people” immediately attacked her as a “racist” for daring to say anything critical of the homeless, even though she never mentioned the man’s race.
Since then, her analysis of the political landscape has been far more objective and thoughtful. Instead of being consumed by partisan hatred of Republicans, she suddenly is, as she notes, awake to the lies and corruption within the Democratic Party. It might have taken her a long time, and she certainly remains a dedicated leftist in policy matters, but she has finally seen the light.
Her partner at Young Tucks, Cenk Uygar, has similarly seen the light. As he wrote on X last week:
I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left). My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!
Nor was this statement by Uygur a sudden outlier.
Uygur, who said he disagreed with the “majority” of Trump’s agenda, has been openly critical of the Democratic Party on a host of issues, including a perceived delay in calling on President Biden to drop his reelection bid since last year. “[Biden] is not going to win,” Uygur said in October last year when announcing his primary bid, nearly a year before Democrats pressured Biden to withdraw following a disastrous debate with Trump. “It should not have been me, it should have been somebody else, but unfortunately it was not anyone else.”
Both of these leftists have for years spouted standard Democratic Party talking points blindly. No more.
We can also see this change with Andrew and Chris Cuomo, two of the Democratic Party’s most visible party hacks. Until the last year, both could see nothing good from Trump or any Republican. Now, both have been changing their tune in remarkable ways.
Andrew Cuomo, who was kicked out as governor of New York because of accusations he was sexually harassing his employees, had spent years using lawfare in his state against conservatives while routinely opposing violently anything Donald Trump did. In recent months however he been finally able to admit that such lawfare against Trump is wrong.
Andrew Cuomo tells the truth about the political Trump prosecution.
The crowd goes silent and Bill Maher agrees.pic.twitter.com/oK08xD47m4
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 22, 2024
His brother Chris meanwhile immediately issued an apology to Trump after many Democrats publicly expressed disappointment that the two assassination attempts against him had failed.
“I called former President Trump,” Cuomo said. “I didn’t ask him any questions. I didn’t go after him about his role. I just want to know how his family’s taking this.”
“I wanted to just say, listen, I’m really sorry that this is going on and it’s being dealt with this way,” Cuomo continued.
Cuomo — who was fired by CNN when evidence showed he had helped keep secret his brother’s sexual harassment — repeatedly slammed Democrats for expressing hope another attempt might succeed, calling it “unacceptable.” He has since shown — like Kasparian — an unprecedented willingness to criticize Democrats and agree with Republicans and Trump, something he simply would not have done when he was an anchor on CNN.
Nor are these four leftists outliers. Numerous Democrats across the board have shown similar open-mindedness. The endorsements of Trump by Democrats Robert Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard illustrate this trend as well.
Don’t misunderstand me. I am not naive. I do not think any of these partisan leftists have my interests at heart. All remain socialists who would do great harm to the country and my individual freedom if they ever gained extensive political power. With the Cuomos especially the goal is regaining their positions of power in the media and Democratic Party. They have realized that their only path to success is to show themselves to be fair-minded, and so that is what they are doing.
Similarly, both Kennedy and Gabbard should not be trusted blindly. They now have positions of power within the Trump administration. As they are definitely not conservative, if they not watched closely they could easily do more harm than good.
The former mantra of Democrats,
now finally showing signs of cracking
Nonetheless the actions of all here are truly unprecedented. In forty years, since Nixon, Democrats have almost never shown any similar open-mindedness. Instead, their approach was to always attack, to always assume they were 100% right, and to never ever for an instant consider the other point of view.
Thus, reasoned debate became impossible. Our society became divided, with no way to cross the divide. Worse, the Democrats unwillingness to debate allowed them to take increasingly radical and insane positions — such as supporting the castration and mutilation of little kids in the name of “gender,” the unwillingness to recognize the difference between men and women, the advocacy of racial quotas and blacklisting, and the blind support of genocidal terrorists like Hamas.
That so many Democratic Party partisans are finally showing they can have an open mind is the most positive sign I have seen for America in decades. It means that we might at long last have a real debate about what to do next.
It also means that these truly insane leftist policies pushed by Democrats in the past decade can finally be defeated, and quickly. Furthermore, this new open-mindedness on the left has made it possible for other radical changes — such as making real and deep cuts to size the federal bureaucracy and its budget — to finally be considered seriously.
Change now is happening. And while it will not go in a straight line, nor be as fast as some (like myself) might desire, it is still going to happen. Hold onto your seats. The roller-coaster ride we are about to take is going to be quite exciting.
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Piers Morgan Uncensored
Ana Kasparian {& Victor Davis Hanson}
November 27, 2024
https://youtu.be/MkEZXp0GJe8?t=1403
(cued to Anna)
I criticized your use of the term ” the coming holocaust” , and respect that you have stopped using it. I have also being saying for a decade that the pendulum will swing back. It is very visably doing so right now.
Some of your left are going full on chicken little, but even tho I have major issues with some of Trump’s pick for important posts, democracy is democratic, I doubt he will break the US political system in 4 years… It’s interesting times, but from this pinko commie leftists point of view… I see no cracks in the sky.
Both Chunk Yogurt and Ms. Kasparian in their “evolution” come from the wackiest edge of the wacky Left. I suspect Chunk more than Ms. Kasparian.
So, one must ask: What the hell was going through your brain that made you think and say the words and things that came out of your mouth over the last 9 years?
I welcome all evolved humans at the point that they realize they might have to make adjustments to their thinking. Welcome to the real world.
But where you come from is either the result of a pure infantile thought process OR you were just taking an oppositional position just for the heck and the cash.
Tell me why you realized you were thinking wrong and why now you are thinking right.
And if you are unable to do so then I must assume you are just taking a position in opposition to your former position out of practicality.
Ms. Kasparian had a come to Jesus’ moment after thinking wrong her entire life because a bum on the street made a lude gesture? Really?
And Chunk has been all over the place for years, yelling and screaming his Liberal Leftist childish blather.
Just like a drunk or a druggie that has for the last 20 years invested in robbing and stealing from you to get high who all of a sudden decides to reform. And they expect you to forget about the last 20 years they invested in getting high, robbing and stealing from you.
And they scratch their heads and wonder what is wrong with you that you refuse to take them at their word.
You got a long way to go before anyone trusts you.
CONSEQUENCES, COMMENERSATE WITH CHOICES MADE
In the headline: “The real prove that …”
The real *proof* that …
Give them time. Like a junkie who had a bad overdose scare, they’ll be back to their old tricks in no time.
Call Me Ishmael. Ugh. Dumb error. Thank you. Now fixed.
*language alert*
Alex Jones Crashes The Young Turks
Steven Crowder PARODY (November, 2016)
https://youtu.be/ATaQ7n1iSy8
3:35
I have been witness to true drug addict / alcohol abuser reformations, it does happen. It becomes either reform or death.
It usually takes a very long time, at least the time one spent invested in the gutter to get there.
Some cannot make it though.
Political wrong think I.E. Liberal Leftist think is more of a mental illness than a physical / psychological dependency. (Wayne would be a good person to comment of this kind of conversation).
And most people that are able and can make the transition become like ex-smokers in their proselytizing against what they were once burdened with. It must become your religion and your core, or you tend to backslide and cheat.
To my point, Wayne.
Thank you.
Hi Bob,
Please refer to the Rino Repulican party as the Republican wing of the Uniparty. Everyone else would be MAGA. The term Republicans has no meaning today.
“The Democratic Party for the past half century”
“If a meme is dank a man is not only right to steal it, he is obligated to do so.”
– Thomas Jefferson
https://t.ly/w3xar
Unfortunately it seems that for every leftist that is willing to open their mind a tiny crack, there are five more who push their fingers ever deeper into their ears and scream about structural racism, the inherent toxicty of the white male, the media and justice department are in fact right-leaning, etc.
It has been absolutely gobsmacking today to watch the number of people claiming that Biden’s pardon is not in fact a betrayal of his unequivocal promise not to do any such thing.
David Eastman: And those five who are crazy do nothing to convince anyone, and actual act to convince many others on the left that their side has been acting crazy during the Trump years.
All to the good.
Pardons, Political Realm privilege.
And what will be the cost?
The price will be paid politically in the Political Realm.
And the price will increase when the rest of the family will be included in the blanket pardonfest.
“Always Remember: Politics is not about truth and morality. Politics is about winning and the control of and the retention of power. Truth and morality are not the business that any politician or government is in.”
Politics is like playing blood and guts 3 dimensional chess.
Pardons? I do not have a problem with them they are choices that the executive gets to make, it is a privilege that is essential to right wrongs and unfortunately to take care of the dirty filthy business that is politics.
Politics truly is the dirtiest, filthiest most corrupt activity that human beings participate in.
Greatest show on earth!
“Don’t Be a Sucker” 1945
https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
22:48
“
I think the Young Turks understand that Trump is really more of a modern day Gephardt Democrat—“Jeb” and Biff Romney the enemy of the common man.
It didn’t help that the DNC ceased being the party of poor people and became the party of transgender snail-darter lives matter.
There are more Bob Beckel type Dems than you think–embarassed of having to toe the party line, they now free to take this brief moment of clarity with impunity.
But they are not alone
Long before Biden, Reagan helped start the influx of illegals because of cheap labor. He hoped social conservative Roman Catholics from the global south would be a model minority–but Anna Navarro was a result.
If Reagan was right, then Trump is wrong.
If Trump is right–then Reagan was mistaken.
Which idol will the Right abandon?
You can’t have them both as heroes and be at all intellectually honest.
Today’s GOP is true grass-root populism.
1980’s talk radio became popular because you didn’t hear much in the way of conservative thought outside of Bill Buckley–whose FIRING LINE was on PBS of all things.
Then, talk-radio’s take on economics was the right-winger version of Obama saying that jobs weren’t coming back–how great free trade was. Real blue-blood Cabot/Lodge thinkspeak.
But with the Internet, the tea-party folks found they really had more in common with occupy Wall Street than Bush.
Folks you might call RINOs are in fact the same old poor-hating blue-bloods they have always been.
It isn’t just Democrats having a moment of clarity.
It’s always pleasant to see good-looking women moving rightward, politically. Ana Kasparian may never be out-and-out conservative, but she’s certainly an exemplar of that old saw about a conservative being a liberal who got mugged. It’s a process, not an event, even if an event is what starts the process.
I wonder a bit whether we may be seeing the first hint of such movement on the part of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has, after all, removed pronouns from her capsule bio and also swapped out the unisex term “Representative” for the gendered term “Congresswoman.” And she has seemed genuinely interested in why so many of her constituents voted both for President Trump and for her in the recent election – after getting over her initial shock at such an “impossible” circumstance.
Jeff Wright,
I don’t think Republicans have to entertain any cognitive dissonance in regarding both Reagan and Trump as heroic figures. Nobody is perfect and Republicans understand this in a way Democrats never really have.
Reagan was wrong about a lot of things besides immigration. On of his biggest failings was his general disinterest in most aspects of domestic policy. Another was his complete incomprehension of the danger of radical Islam in the wake of the Beirut Marine barracks bombing. Reagan’s entire foreign policy attention was on the superpower contest with the Soviets. He wasn’t wrong about that being Job One, but it tunnel-visioned him more than a bit.
Dick Eagleson-
referencing Alexandria O-C;
“… she’s tired of being perceived as a “street communist,” and wants to be in the politburo.”
Michael Malice/ Buck Sexton
https://youtu.be/zaQjwP20b2s?t=2540
Minor edit just before second quote: “has similarly seen the light”
Andi: Fixed. Thank you.
To the contrary, democrats are going to come roaring back in 2026 and 2028. When they do they will have just as few governing guard rails as the new populist version of the republican party has. In 2028 the democrats will run on the promise to tax wealth for the purpose of redistribution. Keep in mind the constitution provides no protection against asset seizure. The voters can effectively vote themselves a payday by electing a simple majority of lawmakers who promise to seize the stocks, bonds and property of the rich and give it all to the poor.
Steve Richter: Um, you might want to reread the Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. It says right there that asset seizure cannot be done with “due compensation.”
We are in the pre-dawn of Morning in America.
Sunrise is still 2 months away.
Some shadows are fading and many things we did not see
are starting to reveal themselves.
Many people have helped achieve this new day,
but the courage of one orange haired man,
to return to the arena,
again and again, has been paramount.
We are truly blessed.
Now go forth and be worthy of this new day.
RobinSolana
Couldn’t some of these changes simply be chalked-up to these Leftists seeing the writing on the wall, knowing Trump is going to be in charge for the next four years, and wanting to move from the top of the Trump/DOJ [deleted] to somewhere closer to the bottom? Making some pro-Trump or anti-establishment noises seems like a small price to pay if you really do think Trump is about to go on the warpath.
I put Elon in this list as well, and probably more consequential for supporting free speech on X.com. There’s a photo from UFC with Trump, Elon, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard. That says it all about the ongoing realignment, given the stance of most even four years ago of Elon, RFK, and Tulsi.
Note, Mr Zimmerman, that these folks are NOT generally criticizing Progressivism, just Democrats. Their criticisms are all that we should have gotten off the train at the last Progressive stop, and not this one. They’re OK with the Deep State and the Progressive agenda… up to, but not including some of the transgender stuff and maybe some racial stuff (mostly because it throws them under the bus, too).
It’s nice that they might help us stop the train. But they certainly – not at this point – are NOT going to help us get it on the other track. At least not without a lot of suasion from our side. We need to not sit back and relax, but get to work showing them all the ways in which Progressivism is a bad idea. Because if we don’t repeal Progressivism, Trump’s 4 years will just be a blip on the downward trend for America.
Steve R:
The Democrat party leadership now dominated by the radical “progressives” among them have DESTROYED the party. The Democrat party have displayed just how fraudulent and corrupted politics can become. Job well done!
And the beauty of it all because they were not able to locally massage the national election numbers to the degree that was needed? The takeaway is that the Constitution is still functioning as designed and it is crafted to ultimately force the politically empowered in politics and government to reveal themselves to the people. So brilliant!
The Constitution is the enemy of every politically empowered politician and every government entity. Why? Because by design it constrains them and their human nature as it relates to power and control. All in the interests of the people retaining the control of THEIR government and country.
Not an easy thing to conceptualize and manifest. And that is why the Constitution is so brilliant! If and when the radicals can usurp that system then America will become what the Democrat party intended over the last 4 years, just another country under the control of their master Globalist / U.N. plan. That is how much they despise the Constitution and its constraining their aspirations.
Their push for absolute political power and control has resulted in the Pedestrian Realm populous which includes every day American Democrats who understand and will continue to further understand just how perverted, desperate un and anti-American the Democrat party leadership now dominated by the radicals / Socialists has become. And that condition will not be resolved in the 2 and 4 years you suggest IMO.
JGL 10/2/24 : “D.J. Trump is but the asymmetrical introduction to this modern-day re-founding of America. And it looks to me like J. D. Vance may well be the man to carry the torch of American Constitutional freedom after Mr. Trump is reelected and sets the stage for Mr. Vance and America to reconnect with the Constitution.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/refounding-or-death
Except for a scant few among us, each of us can be said to be “self-governed” by what we choose to believe is “right” (ideas) or what we believe “works” (evidence of our senses). By morality or practicality.
Rand powerfully argued that to someone dedicated to reason, both the moral and the practical are always the same.
We (supporters of the moral/political ideals of America’ s unique founding, must remain vigilant in discerning to what degree “supporters” of the presumed ideals of Trump and MAGA (I voted for him 3 times), do so for reasons that these ideals are “right” or that they now “work.”
I love this sight for, among other things, the commentary often triggered by Robert’s outstanding posts! In that regard, “Cotour” and Jeff Wright’s comments are instructive.
If the battle was only a “practical” one – i.e., what “works,” freedom and capitalism would have won hands down centuries ago! It is, as it alwasys is, a battle of ideas – i.e., what is “right. Remain vigiant………..
DJ: What part of “No obscenities” in my rules cannot you not understand? And replacing one or two letters when the intent is clear doesn’t cut it.
I have deleted the curse word, but do it again and you will be banned.
I wish you are right. In my personal circle, leftists have circled their wagons. There does not appear to be a lot of introspection or willingness to question. The cult mentality is strong.
Still the great thing is that all the change benefits them too. I hope they see it at some point.
Tim Dillon Show #416
(November 9, 2024)
“Election Analysis & Turning Yourself In”
https://youtu.be/KEgAMtLixRg
1:07:45
Re: Reagan
It is astonishing and perhaps depressing for a lot of us to appreciate, but Reagan’s last day in office is now 35 years in the rear view mirror – which is, to put it in even grimmer context, as far removed from us as Reagan’s first day in office was from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s last day. And if you are a Gen Z, Gen Y, or even Gen X voter (well, save for maybe those born in 1965-66), you never even had the chance to vote for Reagan. In short, it’s ancient history. The project of trying to reconcile (or contrast) Reagan with Trump is thus only going to be of interest to a shrinking pool of older conservatives, or the odd NRO essay.
For the rest, some variation of Dick Eagleson’s analysis will suffice. He’ll still be seen as an anti-establishment hero, a guy who “got the big stuff right,” but his successes and failures will increasingly be of the same historical relevance of Andrew Jackson’s or Robert Taft’s, because the historical context is so different. My sense is that he still gets a sort-of-a-pass from a lot of folks as having just been suckered on the 1986 Bill, which after all was the first of its kind. It’s almost touching to realize that there were only 3 million illegal aliens in the country when Reagan signed that thing.
To Mr. Eagleson
Peggy Noonan really disappointed me.
Ana is an example of more centrist leading Democrat women who are attractive as compared to GOPs frumps. Katie Britt looks nice–but she reminds me a bit of the mother from the movie CARRIE.
Benghazi was nothing compared to the Beirut barracks attack–but the spirit of Grandcamp served as karma what with the port explosion.
In terms of spooks, you can have security but no stealth–as per the super-Inman Embassy in Baghdad, or you can go for stealth but accept less security (what Benghazi should have been–no flags).
In Beirut–you had neither stealth nor security.
Ironically, free trade made China stronger even as Reagan made the Soviets weaker.
I would have let Russia have Afghanistan–all the Charlie Wilson’s did was give us 9/11. And Nixon going to China was the WORST thing he did.
There is a part of me that misses the Cold War era –you knew where you stood.
A weakened USSR with a China still in the grips of Mao would be better than the situation we now face in my estimation.
Reagan/Nixon/GOP killed the one–but emboldened the other.
The Founders that Republicans purport to speak for knew bloody well that “no entangling alliances” was the way to go. Reagan never understood this. He destroyed the foreign enemy–but the party of free trade that made Clinton a DINO–became America’s domestic enemy in the 1980s.
No, if you have the chance to take the kill shot, you take it. Throwing the Soviet Empire on the ash heap of history will always go down as one of the great moral reckonings in human history. Whatever came after, it was a great moment, and not just for the 100 million people in Eastern Europe liberated from its shackles in 1989-91.
But there’s just too many contingencies in the intervening years to connect these dots as tightly as we might like to think. Arming the Mujaheddin was a low cost, high reward option at the time, and anyway, the men who became Al Qaeda were not even dominant within it at the time; it took a lot of other developments, including a whole series of bad foreign policy and intelligence mistakes, between 1989 and 2001 to get us to 9/11.
Nixon going to China was just classic balance of power politics, in the best tradition that Kissinger (whatever else was true of him) understood so well. Balance of power always comes with such risks: that in embracing a weaker power to check a stronger one, you may end up enabling an even greater threat in the long run. It still has great value in the “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” sort of political calculation. Lots of British pols in the Edwardian era were no doubt ruing their predecessors’ lean toward Prussia during much of the 19th century, who at the time had not unreasonably seen it as a more admirable and less threatening partner than Napoleon III’s France or an Austrian-dominated Germany. And after all…. in the 1860’s, it wasn’t quite so obvious what a Prussian-ruled Kleindeutsche Germany could evolve into; and after all, it could very well have evolved into something much less dangerous, had Frederick III not been struck down by throat cancer at such a young age. So, I’m inclined to cut Nixon, Reagan, Palmerston and Disraeli a lot of slack on this score.
And anyway….the political context for China policy fundamentally changed after 1991. Clinton and Dubya may have seen themselves as merely walking in Nixon’s footsteps, but they were really up to something different by that point. It was all about “democratization” (LOL) and making lots of money via cheap Chinese labor, not checking Soviet hegemony in Asia.
If you had a time machine–what would be your choice of changes?
EricB wrote: “I put Elon in this list as well, and probably more consequential for supporting free speech on X.com.”
Well, doesn’t that negate Robert‘s thesis? Musk joined the Republican Party for reasons similar to why Trump did: their party moved too far to the left than they are comfortable with. Their party left them, and it left them behind, they were not moving toward the right. The Democrats had moved so far to the left that the Republican Party met more of their philosophies than the Democrats now do.
Looked at in that light, the move to the right that Robert has written about may not be the pendulum swinging back to the right but merely an acknowledgement by Democrats that their party’s politics have left them behind, too. It isn’t a move to the right after all. Perhaps no one is changing their philosophy or changing their politics, all they may be doing is standing in place and telling the world where they stand: where they have always stood. They may no longer be willing to toe the party line as the party moves deeper and deeper into tyranny.
GWB is correct: “they certainly – not at this point – are NOT going to help us get it on the other track. At least not without a lot of suasion from our side. We need to not sit back and relax, but get to work showing them all the ways in which Progressivism is a bad idea. Because if we don’t repeal Progressivism, Trump’s 4 years will just be a blip on the downward trend for America.”
(Suasion. Good word choice.) This is the way I have felt about the Republican Party for near a decade. As the Democrat Party has moved farther left, the Republicans have followed, moving to the left hoping to pick up disgruntled Democrats. See how it is working? They now have Trump and now they have Musk. They may even pick up more prominent Democrats. This does not mean that the pendulum is moving any farther right, just that it has swept so far to the left that those who had been on the left side of the pendulum are now standing on the right side of it.
During the previous Trump administration, the pendulum continued its swing toward tyranny. There is no guarantee that it will ever swing back. Over the last century, many countries have moved left and stayed there. The model for those countries is not a pendulum but is the standard government that humans have put up with from the fall of the republic of the Romans until the rise of the republic of the United States: they tyranny of monarchies. A pendulum may be the wrong analogy, as there is no guarantee of a swing back toward the center or any momentum to take it back from tyranny to liberty. It didn’t happen in the Soviet Union/Russia.
Even the freedom and liberty enjoyed by many people around the world, over the past quarter millennium, was never enjoyed by a majority of humanity, just as the freedoms enjoyed by the Romans was a minority of the people in the world.
The real question is, how do we prevent what happened to the German people a century ago from happening to us now? For a short time, Germany had gone from a monarchy to elected leadership, but that democracy lasted only a short time before another leftist tyranny took power. Those who prospered in Germany were those who were loyal to the authoritarian leader, the Führer. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the twentieth-century population of the United States had liberty, the freedom to prosper despite not belonging to the party in power. These days, not so much, because your bakery can be over-fined for not toeing The Party line.
The problem is not that people now have their own pronouns and genders (I want to be an attack helicopter), but that Democrats truly hate what they consider to be a racist America. Rather than acknowledge that, at America’s founding, everywhere on Earth accepted slavery and that the northern of the American colonies were the first to abolish slavery of any kind, they insist that slavery and racism were the foundations of the United States. How Zinn of them. Vermont was the first place on Earth in all of history to ban every form of slavery, and the three-fifths clause was to prevent the slave states from having the power to keep slavery as an institution (check the topic of the sentence it resides in, Article I, Section 2, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence, in blue: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript#1-2 ), but three-fifths was still too much, as the south had the power to force the north to accept the expansion of slavery. What other country on the planet spent its blood to eliminate slavery? That is how repugnant slavery was to most U.S. citizens. The Democratic Party was founded specifically to defend the institution of slavery, and it still advocates control by the few over the many — governance by overbearing government.
These days, only the ones who belong to The Party have the privileges — and the pardons — and those who don’t are arrested and persecuted for minor crimes or for crimes not committed. We went from a justice system that finds the person who committed the crime to finding the crime that convicts the person — the person who goes against The Party line.
Ole Eichhorn‘s observation is my experience, too: “In my personal circle, leftists have circled their wagons. There does not appear to be a lot of introspection or willingness to question. The cult mentality is strong.”
Rather than the country moving to the right, it seems that Robert merely observes that some people are no longer willing to toe The Party line. Does this mean that the American political scene is about to experience a new revolution? The rest continue to toe the line. The 4B movement is one form of circling the wagons. Circling the wagons shows that they are not conducive to persuasion.
A revolution restoring liberty didn’t happen in NAZI Germany.
So, how do we make sure that a liberty-restoring revolution happens here? We cannot depend upon government to do this job for us. Government is the problem, not the solution, no matter who leads it. The Preamble declares that one of the six purposes of the United States government is to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Article IV, Section 4 promises: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” California is a one-party republic, which isn’t much of a republican system at all, if the choices of the people are limited to those that The Party allows. California believes that the rest of the country follows it, so how do we keep the rest of the country from following California — from being like NAZI Germany?