December 27, 2021
The use of vile distractions is employed by those posing the biggest threats to democracy.
It has become a tiresome dose of hysterics in 2021. Ever since the riot that took place in the Capitol on January 6, the Democrats and the press (yes, yes, I know) have been in a constant state of issuing warnings. That event, and the suspicions behind the efficacy of the preceding election, have been described as being a direct threat to our democracy. That the riot –not an insurrection– did not damage the democracy is hardly an issue for the accusers. It did not even impact the verification vote, as it was held that same evening.
Yet we are constantly being told that almost any action or proposal by Republicans is a threat to our democratic system of government. Vice President Kamala Harris fumbled mightily Sunday as she showed how this claim has become the rote narrative from her administration, her party, and the media complex. She stepped on a rake as she appeared with Margaret Brennan on Face The Nation and tried to push this narrative.
When asked by Brennan what she considered to be the biggest threat to our national security Harris responded,"​Frankly, one of them is our democracy.†She eventually came around to correctly restate her comment, yet it is more than a shining example of her incompetent public performances – this was, after all not a live interview flub but a taped segment where she could have asked to rerecord her comment. It also displays how this topic is an automatic response anymore from the left side of the political spectrum.
All year, we have seen this accusatory rhetoric spread out from just the riot being an attack on our political system. Items as diverse as states passing voter integrity laws to gerrymandering are said to possibly topple our governmental foundation. Claims have been made that even repealing abortion laws and "radicalized Christianity†are threatening our democracy. These threats are always said to derive from the same source, with some even declaring the mere existence of Republicans constitutes the end of our political norms.
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The Democrats no longer want a representative republic. And they are trying very hard to get it.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 28, 2021 10:38 AM (NEYXp)
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 28, 2021 02:15 PM (zjwe/)
Gay marriage is a classic example. It was unthinkable in the '80's, but made popular in the '90's through an endless campaign to normalize homosexual behavior. Still, the public wasn't ready and we had the Defense of Marriage Act, which Obama pretty much repealed through executive order (illegaly; he simply refused to defend it in court.) When the Supreme Court issued it's ruling the idea of gay marriage would still have lost at the ballot box. But now the latest polls show it would win easily if put to a vote.
It's the principle of the dialectic. Or as Lenin said "two steps forward, one step back". And the American public keeps moving leftward to avoid seeming radical.
What we need is a counter-revolution. We need to be the guys making the two steps, opening the Overton Window and slamming it shut on the radicals. But there is nobody doing that on our side. We continue in a defensive shell.
As Patton said, fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of Man. We've been trying to hide in fixed fortifications for far too long. We have to attack.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 29, 2021 11:02 AM (1UEIk)
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 29, 2021 11:09 PM (zjwe/)
But it's all a tool, not about actual human rights.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 30, 2021 09:15 AM (1HUNr)
Posted by: kainat Khan at June 02, 2022 07:41 PM (JVqeb)
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