Democrats seem to be drifting farther and farther to the left with every passing day, frightened that they will lose the young voters who flocked to Bernie Sanders and his “free college and free health care for all” message. Sanders is a Socialist. He believes in the systems that drove the U.S.S.R. out of existence after they murdered 20 million of their own people (Hitler only managed to kill off about 7 million), has devastated the Chinese economy (after they murdered about 65 million of their people), and has left Cuban citizens driving cars from the 1950’s in 2017. Socialism is neither an efficient form of government, nor a particularly safe one for its citizens. Only the party elite live well. Yet, young people are taught the opposite by left-leaning professors who admire Che Guevara, a ruthless though somewhat inept murderer who managed to shoot himself in the chin one day while waving his gun around, and believe every “Pie-in-the-sky” promise made by Sanders.
But there are those of us who know that socialism doesn’t work for the People. There are those of us who know that socialism costs money, lots of money in tax dollars from every worker in the country. There are those of us who know that socialism kills individual freedoms, one after another, pushing individuals into jobs they don’t want in the name of efficiency, removing all incentives for hard work since there just is no “getting ahead” in socialism. Everyone shares equally. Except the party bigwigs, of course. The old mantra is that in socialism everyone is equal but some are more equal than others! There are those of us who know that the Che Guevaras and the Fidel Castros were anything but heroes.
But the far-left, which believes that conservatives, particularly those living anywhere but on the coasts, know nothing and understand even less, have done some other things that even we midland morons can’t buy.
In Ontario, Canada in 2008, a man was tried for murder for not informing his sexual partner that he was HIV positive. But now in California, he would just have gotten a slap on the wrist. Why? Because Governor Brown of California has just reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor the failure to tell a sexual partner that you are HIV positive or to inform a blood bank that you are HIV positive before donating blood. Don’t EVER get a blood transfusion in California and let’s hope they never share their blood with other states! What was the reason behind this insane, life-endangering change? To de-stigmatize HIV and AIDS.
Then let’s talk about “cultural appropriation.” It is not politically correct to dress up as an America Indian for Halloween anymore, or to have a taco party and wear sombreros, because to do so is like stealing a part of the identity of Native Americans or Mexicans, the left insists. That is stupid enough, but now fraternities and sororities on one campus can no long use the terms “Greeks” or “pledges” because that is appropriating the Greek culture. I wonder how many Greek-Americans in the U.S. have been gritting their teeth and suffering in silence over this gross misappropriation of their culture for the last century?
A debate on immigration at the Seattle University’s Law School was cancelled because it “might be ‘harmful’ to minority students and ‘undocumented immigrants,’ aka people who broke the law to get to America” in the first place. Hmmm. Then Ben Shapiro managed to speak to a group at Berkley College only after the College paid $600,000 in extra security and police presence after demonstrations against previous conservative speakers turned violent on four different occasions. The topic of the speech that so many at Berkley opposed? Free speech.
Then there is the Black Lives Matter leader who said that white Americans could help make up for slavery in the south by naming a black individual in their wills or moving out of their homes and giving them to a black family. Yet, in the 1860 census, only 385,000 people owned slaves out of a population of 31,443,321. That is .01% of the population of the United States. Of those 385,000, a few slave owners were actually freed black men. In addition, at least one-third of the white population in 2017 didn’t even have ancestors living here during the age of American slavery. Even if we were to say that all future generations are responsible for the misdeeds of their ancestors, an idea which most people would find ludicrous, the percentage of the U.S. population who are descendants of white slave owners is very small. Expecting the rest of us to pay for something we had nothing to do with is neither logical nor fair.
Even Bill Maher, a dyed in the wool Democrat, has decried some of the insane moves of the left. The latest bill in Congress is the Hot Cars Act of 2017 which mandates that cars be equipped with a sensor that goes off if you leave your child (or presumably your pet) in a hot car. According to Forbes magazine, 17.5 million cars were sold in 2015 and the industry expected as many to be sold in 2016. What would be the cost to the public (oh, yes, we all know the automobile industry would not absorb the expense) of retrofitting those cars as well as fitting all 2017 vehicles with such a sensor? Common sense suggests that neither children nor animals should be left in hot cars, but sadly, about 36 children die each year in hot cars. 36. Not 360 or 36,000. It might make more sense to pass a bill banning ladders since about 300 people die every year by falling from a ladder. Or better yet, if the Democrats could dream up a bill to stop the senseless violence in Chicago’s south side, I’m sure the Republicans would jump aboard, and such a bill could save about 800 lives a year. Oh, but those particular Chicagoans are all people of color. Many, perhaps most, of the 36 children were no doubt white. Is there some racial bias here, Democrats?
California’s regulations are driving industry and its citizens to neighboring states (between 1990 and 2010, 60 companies relocated to Texas alone and 3,642,490 people have left the state to live elsewhere) leaving California’s economy in less than stellar shape. Governing magazine surveyed entrepreneurs and business owners and gives Texas, Utah, Idaho and Virginia grades of “A+”, and Tennessee an “A.” California, whose businesses are strangled by red tape that makes starting and running a successful business difficult, gets an F, for failure. California annually ranks last in Chief Executive magazine’s ranking of “Best States / Worst States.” And this is the state from which Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi dare to lecture the rest of us on how we should live our lives?
And, in a move that no doubt sets many a conservative chuckling, the far left has now begun to devour its own. At the college of William and Mary in Virginia, a crowd affiliated with Black Lives Matter shouted down a speaker from the anything but conservative ACLU. The subject of the speech? Free Speech. Angry that the ACLU had defended the rights of the so-called “white supremacists” at Charlottesville (the crowd of 250 or so contained a Bernie Sanders supporter and others with no affiliation to Neo-Nazis or the KKK) to voice their opinions, the angry crowd shouted “Liberalism is white supremacy!” and “Your free speech hides beneath white sheets!” and other such things. Defending their actions, they put out this statement: “(O)ur protest of the ACLU event … was driven by our firm belief that white supremacy does not deserve a platform. The right to free speech is a fundamental human right. However, speech that condones, supports or otherwise fails to explicitly condemn injustice must be directly confronted.” (Bernie Goldburg, 17 October 2017). In other words, as we have seen over and over with conservative speakers and with scientists who have put forth data to disprove the catastrophic Climate Change rhetoric, free speech is a fundamental human right as long as that speech agrees with what the left says. Disagree with them, and your right will evaporate as they attempt to shut you down!
Since George Washington left office as President of the United States in 1797, relinquishing that position to John Adams who had defeated Thomas Jefferson in the election, one party has beaten the other for the presidency and the defeated party has accepted their loss with dignity and proceeded to help govern the country. But the Democrats have never gotten over their stunning defeat in 2016. Since Republicans now control the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and 67 of state legislative chambers (holding both chambers in 32 states) as well as 34 governorships, the Democrats have become the party of the coasts, unable to come up with a message that will appeal to the rest of the country. And something like a helpless beetle, caught on its back, legs flailing in the air, they still dream of ousting President Trump and putting Hillary Clinton in his place. Here is the scenario dreamed up by a Harvard professor (why would anyone want to sent their kids to school with nutty professors like this one?):
“1: If Trump is definitively found to have colluded directly with Russia, he would be forced to resign or be impeached. (Of course, after well over a year, no proof has been found.)
2: If Trump is removed, (By a Republican House and Senate?) Vice President Mike Pence would become president.
3: If Pence becomes president, he should resign too, given that he benefited from the same help from Mother Russia.
4: If Pence resigns before appointing a vice president, Ryan would become president.
5: If Ryan becomes president, he should do the right thing (leaving his brain behind) and choose Clinton for vice president. Then he should resign” (as reported in Newsweek).
What a bunch of dolts!
In another situation, the Air Force has punished Col. Leland Buchanan, suspending him from his command position and recommending that he not be promoted to one-star general. Why? Because his religious beliefs did not allow him to sign a certificate of spouse appreciation for a retiring master sergeant’s same sex spouse. After consulting both the chaplain and the Staff Judge Advocate, he first requested a religious accommodation which was returned “without action.” He then had the Air Force Deputy IG sign the certificate in his place. But when the sergeant realized that he had not signed the certificate himself, he sued on the grounds that the devout Christian Colonel had “unlawfully discriminated against him on the basis of his sexual orientation.” Here again the government is attempting to deny a Christian his constitutionally protected right to practice his religion. And they wonder why Trump is President?
I could go on and on. In New York City, the size of your soft drink is limited. No more big cups of soda! Honolulu has now made it a crime to look at your phone while crossing the street. Like the heat sensors in cars, these regulations may have good intentions at their core, but in the end, they simply further restrict the freedom of the citizenry. Sometimes in a democracy, you just have to let stupid people do stupid things.
Bill Maher wrapped it up nicely when he concluded, “Yes, I understand you [Mr. or Mrs. Progressive] have 1,000 good ideas on how I should live my life, reject my privilege, and sort my recycling. . . but first we need to get some Democrats elected and that’s hard when the movement to childproof the world had made Republicans the party of freedom and Democrats the party of poopers.”