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Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us.
Still, leftists look around at what they have done to America in the last four years and implicitly know that the plan did not work, the people detested it, or both.
How do we know this? By a variety of barometers.
None of the major Biden “achievements”—10 million illegal aliens across a nonexistent border, key components of the cost of living 25-30 percent higher than in 2020, wars and chaos abroad, DEI racial and tribal obsessions, wars on fossil fuels—poll at even 40-45 percent. Biden’s own approval ratings, as the nominal architect of the most left-wing agenda since the Roosevelt administration, hover between 36 and 34 percent.
But most importantly, the left is not running on its record of the last three-and-a-half years but instead studiously ignoring it, at least temporarily through November. Suddenly, we aren’t hearing so much about cancelling pipelines and freezing federal oil leases, or so much demonization of the “greedy” oil companies. Instead, Biden is further draining the strategic petroleum reserve and begging OPEC in general and the no-longer-demonized Saudi Arabia in particular to pump oil as fast as possible.
We were lied to for nearly four years that the border was “secure,” as 10 million foreign nationals flooded across. Then we were told Biden was helpless to stop the deluge since he had no legal right to enforce federal immigration law through executive orders—a ridiculous excuse that even he would soon drop. Despite their eagerness for new constituencies, no one on the left dares to openly praise the influx of the last four years, much less demand more illegal immigration.
Instead, as November looms, Biden is suddenly reinstating the very Trump executive orders that once, despite deep state and court obstruction, finally closed the border—and which Biden himself had originally overturned. Note that Biden is now partnering with the Mexican government—which terribly fears another Trump presidency endangering Mexico’s annual $60 billion in remittances from mostly illegal aliens in the United States—to curb some of the illegal immigration before the November election.
The administration’s pandering at election time is a de facto admission that its agendas did not work, permanently alienated the people they hurt, and are now being forgotten or reversed—albeit temporarily—to retain power at all costs.
Few on the left praise the disastrous COVID lockdown, the canonization of Dr. Fauci, the mask and social-distancing craze, and the gospel that endless boosters were necessary to protect Americans. Even the left, although again quietly, assumes that the lockdowns did more damage than the virus, that Dr. Fauci repeatedly lied when he swore he did not subsidize gain-of-function viral research at the Chinese top-security virology lab at Wuhan, and that the virus came not from the lab but from a wandering pangolin or errant bat.
Biden and his supporters are no longer blaming or firing the police but rather trying (albeit quietly) to get more law-enforcement officers to serve—given the predictable crime wave that followed the George Floyd riots.
Ditto for all the left-wing hysterias of the last eight years. No one any longer claims that Christopher Steele’s dossier was factual. No one insists that Hunter Biden’s laptop was likely “Russian disinformation”, or that “Anonymous” was a courageous “top-ranking” administration official. All these hysterias, it is tacitly admitted, were cooked-up left-wing canards to emasculate the Trump candidacy and presidency.
Outside of politics, leftists are quiet as their failed bromides are being undone. The idea of the FBI partnering with social media to suppress politically-dangerous news is something the left is not eager to repeat.
The same recognition is beginning to apply to the lawfare waged against Donald Trump. Jack Smith’s crusade to get Trump is undermined by prosecutorial misbehavior concerning the evidence seized at Mar-a-Lago and by the asymmetrical treatment by another special counsel accorded Biden in comparison with Trump. Smith’s efforts to speed up the trial before the election only made his persecution more politically transparent.
Fani Willis’s outrageous behavior will likely delay indefinitely her weaponized indictments. The James and Bragg convictions will likely be overturned and were intended mostly to embarrass Trump, bankrupt him, and harm his presidential campaign.
All of the left’s once-grandiose ideas of packing the Supreme Court, ending the filibuster, admitting two new states to win four more liberal senators, and destroying the Electoral College have little public support and will go nowhere. Corporations like Disney, Target, and Anheuser-Busch have all begun backtracking on their money-losing, market-share-eroding woke/DEI agendas.
Universities are terrified that their endowment income is either static or in decline, given a rising drop-off in public and alumni giving. They know their race-based, non-meritocratic admissions and hiring are increasingly destroying their brand names. To accommodate their new non-meritocratic student bodies, they have variously inflated their grades to the point of parody, watered down work requirements, or introduced gut courses—and as a result, they are quickly losing their once-coveted prestige. Some campuses are already reinstating the SAT and ACT requirements that were thrown out in 2020-21 in the hysteria that followed the death of George Floyd. Harvard and Stanford aren’t boasting that the erasure of the SAT created a more competitive student body and raised standards to new levels.
The twin ideas of foreign-funded Middle-Eastern-studies centers and of admitting tens of thousands of affluent, full-tuition-paying Middle-Eastern students led to institutionalized anti-Semitism on campus and eliminationist rhetoric right out the old Klan playbook. The appeasement by university presidencies only whets the appetites of those who unlawfully occupy, vandalize, deface, and disrupt. Their pro-terrorist chants and emblems are bleeding the universities of billions of dollars in lost donations.
In short, the policies that the left has given us over the last years—hyperinflation, spiking staple and gas prices, racial and tribal chauvinism, dangerous streets, an emasculated and politicized military, and wars abroad—did not work, and are now being masked to retain power, put on hold, or even reversed.
The reasons for the failure are ancient, given that socialism and progressivism are contrary to human nature.
Borders are essential to national sovereignty and confidence and delineate the unique values, traditions, and customs of a people, without which they revert to mere tribes without social commonalities and political cohesion. No society can pick and choose which national laws are enforced and which ignored—and still remain a nation of laws.
People obey laws because, in a cost-benefit analysis, they fear the consequences of lawbreaking. Otherwise, the laws of the wild prevail and the strongest dictate to the weaker. Citizens must be discouraged, not encouraged, from favoring their own tribe and race, tribalism being the oldest of human biases. Money is not a construct but represents the real value of capital and labor and cannot be printed into national wealth. Abroad, most nations are illiberal and their aggressiveness is deterred only through guarantees that they will lose more than they will gain through war.
We sometimes forget all that unpleasant human baggage, due to irrelevant distractions, or the utopianism that is the handmaiden of affluence and leisure. Often, the opulence and freedom arising from free-market economies and limited constitutional government create so much prosperity and liberty that its beneficiaries believe such good fortune to be their natural and commonplace birthright and so begin destroying the very system that blessed them.
But if Biden and his handlers have taught us anything, human nature cannot be fooled, and the current four-year experiment will have to end before it ends us—and soon.
Wow, that’s a lot of Mexicans.
Yes. Or something…
Really? As someone who lives in San Diego, I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are very few “Mexicans among them.
Unfortunately, people who don’t live in a border state wrongly assume that all illegal aliens entering the country via Mexico are Mexicans. That inane rationale doesn’t account all the Chinese, Arabs, Haitians, Pakistanis, etc., entering the country illegally via Mexico.
Note sure that I agree with that: most Leftists are idealistic brainwashed dolts who believe in “for the greater good” and other inane, suicidal altruistic, pseudo Christian Marxist maxims. While they can see and feel the damage, they mostly still believe that it is all for the future greater good (cannot scramble eggs without breaking the shells etc.) and especially with young people who are naturally iconoclastic and idealistic they accept the supposed costs.
BUT those running the show ARE not Leftists: nor are they the thousands of bribed/blackmailed judges, DAs, bureaucrats and politicians. The puppet masters are the WEF aligned multibillionaire elite who use their money as weapon ijn their plan to destroy teh west and 90% of humanity by any means: famine, war (islam vs communism), disease or fake treatments for the latter.
The Left are just tools: the useful idiots doing the trench work and will be discarded when no longer useful. That includes the bribed or blackmailed groups.
These elite want to become the new aristocracy and to do so they have taken over Marxism which is now about destroying the gateway to the elite (the middle class) as they see the numbers of new billionaires nocking in their doors as too high already. The rest of us (or the 10% who are left) will revert to serfs: no property and no rights and even the return of “droit du seigneur”
The responsible ELITE are the true enemy.
I think that ,sadly, you are correct. ‘We The People ‘ everywhere are parasites and bothersome pests on ‘their apple’ and they just won’t stand for it.
All the while overlooking the structure and strength of the tree itself.
As a “deplorable”, so deemed by the most corrupt and privileged female politician in American history, I look forward to having a decent and agile AG in place on January 20, 2025, and taking down some of the grifters hell-bent on ruining this Nation. Listen closely for their squeals next January as they receive a bit of what they have dished out these last few years. I would even lower myself to take her measurements for a prison striped suit in 2025 although, on second thought, it would be much better to merely give her a very large striped bag.
Yes, I literally pray to God that Trump overcomes Dirtbagocrat vote fraud and cheating and orders midnight raids where the worst D-Bag criminals are dragged out of their homes in handcuffs. All the fake lawyers and judges that have persecuted him, all the FBI thugs who were given shoot to kill authorization when they illegally raided Mar a Lago, the Clinton, Pelosi and Biden crime families, Fraudci, Merrick Gayland, Yahya Brennan and so many more.
I’m sick and tired of those depraved criminals walking around free.
Yaya Brennan! Another perfect nick name! ….. And he can go hide in a tunnel somewhere or maybe a in a sewer like a rat!
Yes, Trump’s first move must be a strong AG and focused investigations with multiple special prosecutors. He needs real fighters like AG Paxton from Texas and or his attorney Tony Buzbee.
I would suggest a good starting place would be Congress and their 17 million dollar ‘hush money’ slush fund. Kneecap them right off the back. Congress is the enemy! Set their a**** on fire! Force the pervert rino crowd to flee before the records hit the fan.
Trump should be familiar with ‘hush money’ legalities by now and he for sure knows none of them came to his aid.
Buzbee will not be eligible.
Sounds good. Until it is put in practice. Think “Animal Farm”. You can’t change human nature. It’s in the genes. But Looney leftys still fantasize about the possibilities. Never successful anywhere. Pray for Peace.
“Pray for Peace” I think praying is good after the battle has been won! When times are bad, I think of how
this country was formed. This tiny little country beat the historic England. How can this be? Because
courageous men and women planned and fought together for what they believed in. Today our leaders
don’t do much of anything except filling their pockets! You got guys like Jordan and Comer(and others)
who wave their arms around and tell us how they are going to fix things. Sternly written letters!
Congressional committees etc., etc. Biden and his crew openly lie! So here we are.
In an act of unenlightened enthusiasm the early New Testament church at Jerusalem tried a socialism cure for poverty that failed. St. Paul remarks in his letters to other churches the need to help the “poor church” in Jerusalem. He concluded, “If a man doesn’t work, neither should he eat.” He stated further that self reliant Christians should be generous in their efforts to help the poor.
The similar 1620 experiment by the Pilgrims also failed. They returned to individual farming since the collective first efforts failed as did the Jerusalem fellowship.
Paul urged Christians to help the Jerusalem church by voluntary contributions to the original church. The Roman state was not involved. In a socialist STATE, “contributions” in the form of taxes are not voluntary.
Marxism and Marxists, the Obamas and Kerrys and Schumers and Pelosis of this world, always turn to Fascism to govern. They must because socialism does not work. That devil Free Enterprise has to be acknowledged but only so long as the National Government can control it. Republicans did this between 1860 and 1885, leaving an economic and political model called Mercantilism for Republicans to continue and Democrats to adopt until the 1970s when young Marxists took over the leadership of the Democrat Party.
Control was not enough for the Party. They had to destroy what remained of America, and in running and electing Barack Obama they began a subtle revolution that went unopposed until recently when it appears Republicans are waking up. So counting Obama’s eight year term, four years of a Trump term in which he was opposed by the Democrat Party and Deep State at every turn, and the three years and nearly five months of Obama’s hand puppet Joe Biden’s term we have had nearly sixteen years of Obama’s fundamental transformation of America.
The Constitution was broken. In Soetoro’s own words he was born in Kenya, came here as a foreign exchange student. Listen please:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcd41RO25k
BO lied about everything, including his birthplace and his paternity.
BO was born in Hawaii, but not in a hospital. His father was Frank Marshall Davis.
IF that is true then Barry Soetoro’s (BS) his grandmother (in Kenya) lied about being at the hospital for his birth in Kenya.
The depraved woke leftist berserk democrat party has a truly insidious and traitorous agenda …
that is to permanently dismantle America, its Constitution, its Freedoms and Liberty, and its demography
for the benefit of the political elite few. and the benefit of the bureaucratic state.
Their gravy train may provide enough drippings to keep them in power a little longer.
But it is inevitable that their comeuppance is not far off.
Unfortunately they are, and will be continuing to terribly harm America and her Citizens and true allies like Israel until the woke depraved psychopathic berserk morally corrupt war-mongering democrat party is crushed.
The democrat party has betrayed the legacy of America, betrayed her own citizens. and is on a path to betray its most faithful ally Israel.
It is almost incomprehensible that the elite democrat political leaders of America have sunk so low and their judgment become so warped and twisted that America is no longer recognizable as the leader of the free world anymore.
A nation and society and culture that declares war on its own citizens can not, and should not, survive.
That is the agenda and policy of the democrat party today.
How many times has Biden “threatened” citizens with F16s and F15s?
No previous President in the Nation’s history has said such things. It is significant.
We must support Representatives like Ana Paulina Luna of Florida in their attempt to return the DOJ to what it used to be.
IF the nation survives until election day, the down-ballot races are equally important.
Good run down of all the fallacies of the left. However, I don’t recall seeing anything on the trans-gender issue. Need to mention that too.
Of course, leftism doesn’t “work” according to our usual meaning of the word, and leftists know that or they wouldn’t be doing what they do. They don’t want it to “work” as a governing principle to benefit the country and its people. They hate the country and its people. What the left wants to achieve is destruction, and to that end their campaign is working brilliantly.
Whatever genuine setbacks they encounter are quietly tabled, to be doubled down on the next day as part of their political theater of intimidation, or they are shelved for a decade or so to be re-discovered later when most people will have forgotten the disaster. Remember, anti-Semitism and Nazism were long discredited (even by the left) after the victory in WW II, And yet … now they are both re-animated by Islam and its leftist Democrat allies. And so a few days ago the Massachusetts House approved a bill that would re-instate slavery, (albeit mostly for the unborn). Even the verdict of the Civil War is still up for grabs.
They never rest and never capitulate. There is a sizable portion of them that just want to watch the world burn with or without Karl Marx. They seem to be running the show for now. The masks famously didn’t work to stop the plague but they worked well enough to intimidate the people and get them used to following orders. Human nature can’t be changed, but it can be conquered and ruled with enough ruthlessness.
What might be needed is an undated and revised version of the Monroe Doctrine, which was originally designed to stop any further colonialism of the Americas by the European nations, as Spain, Portugal, and France.
That Monroe doctrine included the Latin countries In other words; it would halt European colonialism also in those lands.
Therefore, a new updated and revised version of that Doctrine would put an end , as in not tolerate,, any further “colonization” of North America and Latin America by any Islamic countries , iI it be massive Muslim immigration or “political intervention ” from or by Islamic nations as ,for example, Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan.
With ~$35 trillion in debt and growing rapidly with the Dems/rino wild spending, the US is not in a position to implement much in South America, especially with the inroads made they by the Chinese CCP. All we need to do is comprehend the meaning of SA going off the US Dollar.
Mr. Hanson:
I’m certain you know that leftism was never meant to work and was meant to assert control over people while concentrating all power into the hands of a small caste of ruling elites and their bureaucratic servants.
We’ve seen how so-called “leftism” (a circumlocution of the word communism) works in countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela and elsewhere around the globe.
Anyone who thinks the Left can better protect the Enviroment has Sawdust for Brains and watched way too many episodes of junk like Captain Planet and the Planeteers when they were young
I wish…yet 70 to 80% of American Jews will still vote for an openly anti-semitic party….and people will still be fooled by all the Biden pandering and attacks on trump for being a ‘felon’…..
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”-Robert Heinlein