The Democratic Party seems to be careening down a road to destruction as a major political party in the United States.  Leaning farther and farther to the left in a country that is basically center-right is an obvious misstep, but what they have done in the past eight years under the Obama administration that is just now coming to light, combined with the moronic public comments and actions of many Democrats seem to be adding the nails to the coffin.

It is tough to be a Democrat these days.  The Presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the vast majority of governorships and most state legislative bodies are in the hands of Republicans.  The Supreme Court is back to a slight conservative edge, numerous conservative judges are being confirmed for federal court positions, the economy which limped along with an average 1% growth through the 8 years of the Obama administration is booming at a 3%+ rate which the coming tax bill many judge will boost  to 4-5%, jobs are coming back, the Stock Market has hit highs never before seen, and people keep insisting upon the rights of Americans to free speech even from those pesky conservatives who don’t agree with you.  Sad days indeed!

Sadder still is your failed 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, the gift that just keeps giving!  Not only has she been on a world-wide book tour, blaming everyone but Martians for losing the election, but now some very nefarious dealings from her camp are coming to light.

First, the Uranium One deal.  Democrats would have you believe that Secretary of State Clinton’s role in the approval of selling 20% of American Uranium (even before the sale we did not have sufficient uranium in the U.S. and were buying it elsewhere) to the Russians, yes, the Russians, was a minor role.  Several others also had to agree to the deal, they say, and yes, they are correct.  However, Clinton could have single-handedly stopped the deal just as Secretary of State John Kerry single-handedly stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline.  But she did not, and as the New York Times reports, her approval may have had something to do with the 3 separate payments by Uranium One officials to the Clinton Foundation from 2009-2013 that totaled $2.35 million and were not publicly disclosed despite an agreement that Mrs. Clinton had made with President Obama to disclose all contributions.  It may also have had something to do with the visit former president Clinton had made to one of Putin’s homes and the $500,000 he was paid for a single speech in Russia.

As for President Obama.  He was informed long before the deal took place that the Russians were engaged in bribery in an attempt to gain control of the uranium.  For whatever reason, he let the deal go ahead.  Now, one fifth of American uranium, you know, the stuff they make nuclear bombs out of, belongs to Russia.  Smart, huh!

Next, the Steele dossier.  An online conservative paper first paid Fusion GPS to obtain dirt from the public domain on then candidate Trump and others during the primaries, but stopped the crusade when it became apparent that Trump would become the Republican nominee.  In steps the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Party.  Between them they paid over $9 million dollars to the law firm of Perkins Coie which attorney Mark E. Elias then passed on to Fusion to remove the direct link to the Clinton camp.  Fusion then passed the “dossier” back to Elias and from him it went eventually to the FBI which for a time, also paid Steele.  Steele obtained “information” from Russians, most of which has been debunked.  (For example, the dossier gives a detailed account of a meeting in Prague between Russians and a Trump attorney who, investigation quickly showed, has never been to Prague in his life and was in fact in California at the time of the supposed meeting.) Since the payments to the law firm were reported as fees for “legal and compliance consulting” rather than obtaining opposition reports on the Republican candidate, the Clintons and the DNC could be in legal trouble with the Federal Election Laws.  The interesting and worrying question remains:  was that “dossier,” a collection of made-up lies, used by the FBI under the Obama administration to get the FISA warrant to tap phones in Trump Towers (and yes, we now know they did tap phones in Trump Towers) and was it further used by the Obama administration as an excuse for the unmasking of names so that the Democrats could spy upon their opponent in the presidential election?  If so, we are looking at a government operating far more like that of Venezuela or Cuba or Russia!  This is a serious concern!

Then we have Donna Brazile’s report.  While working for CNN, Brazile had fed Clinton one of the debate questions prior to a debate with Bernie Sanders.  But that seems small potatoes to what the DNC was up to.  As she reports, President Obama basically left the DNC bereft of funds by the end of his administration but with a more than $20 million dollar debt, a problem which left state and local democratic candidates without financial support for their campaigns.  In stepped the Clintons.  Election laws state that an individual donor can only give up to $2,700 to any single candidate.  So, the Clintons made a deal with the DNC, the Victory Fund agreement, that included 32 states.  Big Democratic donors would give $10,000 to each of the individual states ($320,000) and another $33,400 directly to the DNC.  Purportedly, that money would support the needs of state candidates, but in fact, according to Brazile, “states kept less than half of 1 percent of the $82 million they had amassed from the extravagant fund-raisers Hillary’s campaign was holding.”  The rest went directly to the Clinton campaign, some of which is still  paying 8 members of her campaign staff more than a year after her loss. The Clinton’s then gained virtual control of the Democratic Party, making all decisions and deciding upon strategy. Bernie Sanders had no chance and you trusting Democratic voters had no choice.

A free and democratic election?

We now also find that President Obama and his administration knew perfectly well that the IRS was targeting conservative groups prior to the 2012 election, preventing many of them from gaining the ability to work for conservative candidates and especially for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  He knew they were breaking the law and yet he went on television to say that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption.”  But then, he lied about Benghazi in order to win the 2012 election, and he said “If you like your doctor, you can keep him.”

Party Democrats will do just anything to win!  Consider the ad that the Latino Victory Fund and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Northam’s camp put out in Virginia some days ago.  A white man in a Ford truck, with a Confederate flag on the back and a Gillespie (Republican gubernatorial candidate) bumper sticker tries to run down a number of children of color.  To make sure the Muslims in Virginia got the point, one little girl is wearing a traditional scarf.  The ad was ludicrous, hateful, untruthful, and beyond the pale.  When a few days later a Muslim man used a truck to mow down bikers in NYC, killing eight of them, including five Latinos, the ad was pulled.  However, that didn’t stop DNC Chairman Tom Perez from defending the indefensible ad.  As I said, party Democrats will go to any low to win!

Yesterday, a deranged white man, a self-proclaimed atheist, slaughtered much of a small congregation in a church in tiny Sutherland Springs, Texas and Democrat Chelsea Handler tweets: “Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God, and while doing so, get shot in[sic] killed. What country? America. Why? Republicans.”

And finally, there are all of those other things that most Americans find less than compelling:

  1. At Halloween, little girls couldn’t dress up as Moana, the sweet Hawaiian princess of the Disney movie because to do so would be “cultural appropriation,” a horrific no no!
  2. In Delaware, students at all schools and of all ages may soon be able to self-identify as the race and gender of their choice. Parents may think they are sending little Johnny off to kindergarten, but if he decides to call himself Janie at school, the school would have to go along with his choice, never mind his biological physiology.  Oh, and a white girl can self-identify as a black boy, an Asian boy as a Native American girl and so on.  Presumably they will then use the bathroom of their self-identified sex. Obviously the Democrats in Delaware who came up with this idea haven’t thought it through.  If a white man identifies as a black woman, by their standards he would be eligible for affirmative action, effectively killing affirmative action since the actual color of one’s skin or the race of one’s parents would no longer be an indicator of one’s actual race.  Real people, especially parents, know that this is stupid.  And it just makes Democrats look really, really dumb.
  3. Blacks, whose grandparents marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to end segregation, letting blacks and whites mingle freely everywhere, are now demanding (and getting) “black only” dorms at some California colleges and “safe spaces” where members of other races are not allowed to enter. Don’t these activists realize that what they are demanding is called “segregation?”
  4. And all of a sudden we have all kinds of new words and acronyms. LGBTQIA, for example, stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual and asexual. I stupidly thought there were just men and women.  Silly me!  And then of course, don’t forget cisgender (a term first used in 1994 by biologist Dana Leland but not in common use until recently) which refers to men and women who identify with the gender with which they were born. Despite what liberals believe, according to Gallup, over 96% of the U.S. population would be called cisgender.  In other words, all the hoopla in the last few years has been to accommodate the special “rights” of less than 4% of the population (the LGBTQIAs) at the expense of the other 96% of us.
  5. The Democratic party is the party of inclusion and diversity, except, of course, unless you are a white cisgender straight male. The DNC’s Data Service Manager Madeleine Leader recently posted an ad for an open position, clearly stating that “white cisgender straight males” need not apply. And many in the party want to exclude any Democrat who is pro-life. Then consider the primary for the Democratic presidential nomination.  The candidates included one women and a bunch of white men. On the Republican side, conversely, were the son of immigrants from India, the son of immigrants from Cuba, a woman, some white men, and a black man.  That, my Democratic friends, is true diversity!
  6. Many Democrats believe that freedom of speech only extends to speech that agrees with Democratic ideas. Anyone with opposing views is often ridiculed and, if  possible, silenced, even by violence.  This belief is in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States and contrary to the tradition of liberty that has been the bedrock of this country since its founding.  In addition, freedom of speech is strongly supported by a large percentage of the American population.  Eighty-five percent of Americans believes that freedom of speech is “more important than making sure no one is offended by what others say” and 73% believe that freedom of speech is worth dying for, according to a recent Rasmussen poll.  Democrats who continue to war against the free exchange of ideas do so at the peril of their party.
  7. People who are regularly called names tend to become unhappy and resentful, especially when those names are undeserved. Democrats don’t seem to understand this. Obama dismissed middle America as “clinging to their guns and religion” as if that were somehow wrong.  Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” with “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” views. That particular quote has become a badge of honor for many middle Americans and has sparked tee shirts, mugs, and other memorabilia. From the start of the Obama administration, anyone who disagreed with the President was dismissed as a “racist” and that accusation, along with Clinton’s list of “sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic,” has continued to be leveled at conservatives who offer any idea contrary to the Democratic party line.  That is no way to win friends and influence people.

Will the Democratic Party be able to survive all of its missteps and blunders?  Will they be able to win back the votes of the blue-collar workers on whom they turned their backs?  Perhaps.  After all, they still garner much of the black vote despite the fact that their very policies – demonizing school choice, undermining the police who protect black neighborhoods, encouraging the never-ending welfare circle – leave large populations of blacks mired in poverty, drugs, and death.  But just as blue-collar workers abandoned the Democratic candidate in 2016, more and more blacks are also leaving the party that gave us the KKK. More and more, the Democratic Party is becoming the party of the large cities on the coasts, leaving the bulk of America to the Republicans. As the party drifts farther and farther to the left, mired in more and more scandals, being a Democrat may become less inviting.