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It’s an odd day when you have to openly wonder which side of anything one of the two major political parties is on regarding issues, either good or bad, for the country. Thanks to what the Democrats have become, this is where we find ourselves. Most movements try to control or marginalize their radical fringe. Democrats gave them the keys to the car and climbed in the trunk.
A big part of the left is so insulated from the reality that every other American lives in that they might as well live on a different planet. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes has been part of the chorus of unoriginal leftists insisting Kamala Harris lost because of racism and sexism, yet he now seems to think a significant portion of Trump voters would have shoved aside their racism and sexism if only they’d known he would ever consider bombing Iran over their nuclear program.
Chrissy tweeted, “I truly do not think that if Trump had campaigned on ‘if I win, we will bomb Iran’ that he would have won.” Tell me you don’t know any Trump voters without telling me you don’t know any Trump voters.
Trump has been calling for preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon for more than a decade and said as much on the campaign trail repeatedly. Chris must get his news from MSNBC or something.
Certainly not unique in any way, Hayes was one of many voices expressing confusion and anger over what our government did to protect us, our allies, and the free world. It really kind of tells you everything you need to know about them as a party.
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy – serious contender for worst father of the year as he settles in with the almost 20 years younger woman he left his wife and kids for – was desperate to undercut the moral authority of the United States of America because he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome (along with God knows what else, but I’d have to assume at least some of them are penicillin resistant and impact brain function) so he tweeted, “here was no imminent threat. I got briefed on the same intelligence as the Speaker.”
It’s disturbing how many Democrats are upset they weren’t briefed on the US raid before it happened, with many crying that they weren’t given a chance to weigh in on it by the White House seeking Congressional approval. These idiots have replaced thinking they should be President with thinking they ARE President.
We only have one Commander-in-Chief at a time, and none of those people are. The President doesn’t have to seek approval for acting in the country’s best interest – he has 90 days to seek it after the fact, should the action be sustained. These actions are not going to be sustained; they are over. Democrats seem mad that they weren’t able to leak the impending attack and indulge their urge to aid our enemies.
Ben Rhodes, who horrifyingly was Deputy National Security Advisor for Barack Obama, tweeted, “Trump’s message to the world: if you have nukes like North Korea, I’ll trade love letters with you, if you don’t, I’ll pull out of agreements you’re keeping and bomb you during diplomacy. Just devastating to non-proliferation.”
Did he really not realize that his “reasoning” is exactly why Iran cannot be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, and why they’ve been pursuing one? I mean, it explains a lot, but it’s like discovering that not only was your Uber driver dumb, he was legally blind too.
The ignorance on display has to be deliberate. Sure, some Democrats are genuinely stupid people – Eric Swalwell, AOC, Dan Goldman – but others are vile liars and frauds – Jamie Raskin, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi. Which camp is dominant at any given moment is something for each individual to decide for themselves, but there really are only those choices (and a third category that is a little from column A and a little from column B).
Whatever the case, the result is the same and leaves the audience wondering whose side the Democrats are really on? On issue after issue, none more clearly than taking out a terrorist regime’s nuclear weapons capabilities, the answer is abundantly clear: “Not America’s.”
It’s not that the Democrats are on the side of the enemy, 200+ years of history prove that the Democrats ARE the enemy.
Leftists are but adamant and persistent deconstructionists…and they have no idea why…
“I claim that the Democratic party embraces within its filthy arms the worst elements in American society. I claim that every enemy that this Government has had for twenty years has been and is a Democrat… every State that has seceded from this Union was a Democratic State… The man that shot Lincoln was a Democrat. And every man that was glad of it was a Democrat.” — Robert Ingersoll, 1876
The more things change, the more they remain exactly the same.
There are a few problems with using an 1876 quote from an atheist orator to make a point about modern politics. All of those “Democratic States” to which Ingersoll was referring are now the deepest red (Republican) states in America.
It’s a complicated history. From the late 19th century thru the administrations of Wilson and FDR the Progressive Democrats were ascendant in their party and the ideological foundations and policy positions of the parties had effectively switched by the time of LBJ’s administration. The Republican Party in the 20th Century became more Jeffersonian in its view of the dangers of a Federal leviathan eroding the sovereignty of the states. Interestingly it was the rebellion of the southern (mostly agrarian) states against the Federal leviathan that northern industrialists and Lincoln supported in contradiction to the views of state sovereignty vs the central govt role as spelled out by the original framers of the Constitution (Jefferson in particular) that paved the way to the “War for Secession” (a more historically accurate name for the “American Civil War”). The issue of slavery was an effective wedge issue that helped galvanize the north to support preservation of the Union at all costs (even though there were many in the north who facilitated and profited from the slave trade), as Lincoln himself admitted (he was willing to be more flexible on that issue if it was critical to preserving the Union).
As the Progressive Democrats took over the party during the 20th Century and promoted socialist policies and a dominant Federal govt at the expense of state sovereignty, it is not too surprising that the ideological foundations and policy preferences of the two parties effectively switched. The common thread you can see from 19th Century through the 20th Century in the southern states (and many of the western states as they came into the Union) was an opposition to the creeping dominance of a large Federal govt bureaucracy that imposed its will on the states and undermined their sovereignty, which was a principal concern of the Founders when they drafted the U.S. Constitution. That “golden thread” of opposition to the growing dominance of the Federal leviathan continues to this day.
Dems, lust for perpetual ownership of power, make them on the side of power.
“Retribution/reward”: abortions anytime, anywhere.
Lie-beral Demonocrats have always had issues with authority, whether it is the Constitution or the Bible. That’s why they have been cheating in elections since 1898.. They HAVE to have everything THEIR way.
The Jackass just cant stop running off the Cliff and the Big Splat on the ground below
I was thinking of Wile E. Coyote as a symbol for the current Democrat Party, and the Road Runner is Trump.