It’s a pretty bad time to be a Democrat. Joe Biden continues his historic venture into record disapproval ratings, everyday life is in turmoil thanks to inflation, and nobody seems to care about the January 6th show trials. That’s bad enough, but recently the Supreme Court has handed down multiple rulings that have the left up in arms.
Most people I know are sick of the so-called "left". Even many of those who used to be glad to call themselves the "left" are embarrassed to say so now. I hope these monsters posing as "democrats" keep on keeping on with their bad selves. It shows who they really are, and I hate to break the news to them, most Americans are *not* like that and don't want to live in a violent hateful world where supposed adults throwing tantrums and burning things to the ground when they don't get everything they want is the rule instead of the exception. Keep it up you childish dividers. You are swelling the ranks of those of us who just want to be left the ef alone and live in peace with one another in liberty.
If for the Left, ‘my body, my right to choose what I do with it’ = Constitutional Right to abortion…
does ‘my body, my right to choose what I do with it’ = Constitutional Right to euthanasia?
This dichotomy…
The Left maintains there is a Constitutional Right to abortion which actually is not written in the Constitution in order to permit killing the young in wombs… whilst simultaneous maintaining there is no Constitutional Right to bear arms, which IS written in the Constitution, in order to prevent killing the young in schools.
An explanation from a foreigner, if it's all right.
Tl;dr-version: democracy means you get to vote and then the politicians tells you what to do.
Longer version:
It becomes quite clear what kind of party, including their hangers-on all the way down to Antifa and the black nazis of BLM are if you look at it with a european perspective:
During the rise of democracy in Europe, it rose together with nationalism, due to a great many people heeding the truth that all peoples have the right to self-governance should they so wish it. This of course scared the britches off both the old aristocracies, the budding capitalists and the bourgeiosie as well as the marxists (remember, this is way before the Russian Revolution - we're talking early to mid 1800s, the inspiration being the American and French revolutions).
As both the idea and actual parliamentarism grew in many nations and areas and the idea came to be accepted as the golden standard (mid to late 1800s, generally speaking) and "the normal", so did the various proto-parties. On the conservative and liberal sides, the worry was that uneducated masses could be easily led astray by demagogues promising a Schlaraffenland if they got the vote, and on the nationalist sides the amoral and predatory international capitalism was seen as a danger to kith and kin, it not putting anything before profit, and on the marxists side(s) the people were again seen as uneducated and stupid ready run right back into the fold of the old masters (conservatives moral-wise and liberals financial-wise) if these masters only tugged on the heartstrings of nationalism, church and blood & soil.
A tangled mess to be sure.
The conservatives and liberals generally allied with the financial and commodity-owning elites, alloying politics to (capital) ownership and in effect becoming the political branch of capitalism. This naturally made them smalle in number than the various marxists, who instead took control of the unions, often by founding and funding supra-unions, or a union for unions so to speak, complete with international co-operation. It was this structure soviet-loyal marxists then tried to co-opt for the entire 20th century. The marxists in many nations had to concede that the last thing most people wanted was violent and armed insurrection, and that the working class had "bourgeois" values: honest pay for honest work, one law for all, criminals get taken care of or taken out as need be, family values, tradition and no imperalist expansionism, racial hatred or any other progressive notions.
So what to do, if the marxists were to take control of the means of production and usher in a communist Golden Age, when the people wasn't interested in that? Simple: add democrat to socialist. Use the democratic system and its institutions to take control of civil society, from there take control of the banks and the economy via law and taxation, and then legally buy the entire economy with its own resources, essentially moving money from your right pocket to your left.
Socialist Democracy, and drop the -ist for good measure.
So to sum up this lenghty tirade (?), that's what's happened to your Democratic Party in the US: they have added Socialist to their name and ideals, without spelling it out. While the US certainly has done its share of "cultural imperialism" as we used to say during the Cold War, the exchange goes both ways. How many times have US liberals, progressives and Democrats held up the Scandinavian nations as paragons and proof a high-tax strong and all-encompassing state-system can work and is good? Unfortunately, that misses the main point why our societies worked like literal clockwork up until recently: we were ethnically, culturally and racially homogenous and had been since before Christ*. US isn't, never was, and if I may say so as a foreigner the very idea of racial and cultural homogenity is alien to the idea and ideals of the US (and should be too, I think, as your nation is consciously and purposefully founded - it didn't grow naturally out of Ice Age tribal societies).
That's why the policies of the US (Socialist) Democrats are doomed to fail, and might drag the entire nation, plus Canada and Mexico, down with it.
*None of this entails or demands or even leads to 'racism' or racial hatred, quite the reverse. The normal attitude in any such nation is: "Foreigners have strange ways that are normal to them, if they come here they must obey our norms and if we go there we must obey theirs". Which is pretty much the opposite of racism.
A note on so called pro lifers. Some of these call for a return of this issue to the states. They call themselves pro lifers, and are considered as such. Not by me! I believe states should have much more powers, as stated in constitution. Catholic teaching is problems should be solved at lowest level possible.... so I think most problems should be at County level
What people forget - or perhaps never knew - is that the Republicans controlled the legislatures in all of the swing states. They set the rules which made it possible for the ballot box stuffing, and so forth, and then they certified the elections and slates of electors. No court will invade what the legislature does to regulate elections, unless there's a legit civil rights issue at stake - and none of the pleadings presented any such issue, so all of the court cases got predictably shot down. So the Republicans essentially threw the election, their Establishment never wanted Trump in the first place, and they weren't going to see him get re-elected, so they set the rules to make that highly improbable. January 6th was an utterly useless exercise, the proceedings in the Capitol were pro forma, the result decided on weeks before.
Jun 29, 2022·edited Jun 29, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander
My Dad during 60s would have been considered somewhat to the left. By the 80s, a Conservative Republican. By 2000, an ultra right.
His views remained fairly stable.
Many Republicans are cowards, but the killing of innocent babies, advocated by almost all democrats.
Killing babies After birth is now advocatrd by some democrats .
In early 70s abortion advocates had discussions on changing language to make abortion more acceptable to populace. They lied about stats about back alley abortions, wildly. And eventually, lied about established science on when human life began, which was always conception..
The left has lost its collective mind. Police Reform becomes Defund the Police because white police officers hunt down unarmed black males to kill. Too bad the data say otherwise. Limit police ability to enforce the law, and the law becomes whoever is least ethical about application of force. In both cases, the4 primary victims are black and brown.
Keep the Southern Border open. Result is drug trafficking, human trafficking for sexual slavery. That's "compassion." That's more B.S.
Respect sanctuary cities, Incoming migrants (can't call them "illegal aliens," hurts their feelings) head to urban centers where they victimize people of color and spread tropical diseases we haven't seen in decades. Again, compassion? No, B.S..
Transgenderism is real and affects no more than 0.4% of the population, less than one-quarter the number of flat-earth believers. We should join hands and walk with them through the adventure called life. We don't have to turn the whole country upside down.
Obama and now Biden's inexplicable dedication to ensuring Iran gets nuclear weapons has a greater chance of starting WW III than anything Putin does.
I actually know people, who not only care about the January 6th Show, but they also think it's real and that it will actually lead to some sort of punishment for past and present government employees.
it's laughable. they're mostly otherwise smart people... both of em hippie type natural health folks who got somehow got suckered to different degrees by the infection injection propaganda.
the nice lady who used to be a masseuse fell for it all, hook, line, and sinker; while the older gentleman who still does bodywork at least has an open mind to viable medical information even though he went and got his shots (at least one and I'm not asking about the total.)
I do think they're both avid Blue hat wearers who haven't realized just how corrupt their wing of the Republicrat Uniparty has showed itself to be, and that's probably why they're into the soap opera du jour.
Perhaps the left might even declare babies are evil creatures and display their true colors. They can announce what a fine public service that Planned Parenthood is providing and provide free tickets to all who wish to visit from wherever. Our friends in the EU might really want such a visit given their awful restrictions of 12-15 weeks. An excellent tourist opportunity.
To be real, once the furor dies down maybe both sides can arrive at a reasonable compromise for the ugly reality we must face.
Yep, Insanelee is all about medical privacy, unless it involves forcing experimental injections on unwilling subjects. That pompous twit really needs to just shut up and go away!
The state should have no interest in abortion before viability and then its only interest is to legislatively [arbitrarily] set when that is. Sad touching stories from either side should hold no sway over what must be a neutral common-sense issue of that bodily autonomy thingy balancing the recognition of a fully-formed human child that has attained the legal right to be considered separately from its mother.
It's a real irritation to me that all Republicans in govt. seem universally to be morons. I've never had a real political home but was always willing to vote Democratic when that seemed appropriate. But I done give up voting for morons regardless of some fantasized "big picture."
Most people I know are sick of the so-called "left". Even many of those who used to be glad to call themselves the "left" are embarrassed to say so now. I hope these monsters posing as "democrats" keep on keeping on with their bad selves. It shows who they really are, and I hate to break the news to them, most Americans are *not* like that and don't want to live in a violent hateful world where supposed adults throwing tantrums and burning things to the ground when they don't get everything they want is the rule instead of the exception. Keep it up you childish dividers. You are swelling the ranks of those of us who just want to be left the ef alone and live in peace with one another in liberty.
I am not a US citizen…
If for the Left, ‘my body, my right to choose what I do with it’ = Constitutional Right to abortion…
does ‘my body, my right to choose what I do with it’ = Constitutional Right to euthanasia?
This dichotomy…
The Left maintains there is a Constitutional Right to abortion which actually is not written in the Constitution in order to permit killing the young in wombs… whilst simultaneous maintaining there is no Constitutional Right to bear arms, which IS written in the Constitution, in order to prevent killing the young in schools.
As an onlooker, it certainly is confusing.
An explanation from a foreigner, if it's all right.
Tl;dr-version: democracy means you get to vote and then the politicians tells you what to do.
Longer version:
It becomes quite clear what kind of party, including their hangers-on all the way down to Antifa and the black nazis of BLM are if you look at it with a european perspective:
During the rise of democracy in Europe, it rose together with nationalism, due to a great many people heeding the truth that all peoples have the right to self-governance should they so wish it. This of course scared the britches off both the old aristocracies, the budding capitalists and the bourgeiosie as well as the marxists (remember, this is way before the Russian Revolution - we're talking early to mid 1800s, the inspiration being the American and French revolutions).
As both the idea and actual parliamentarism grew in many nations and areas and the idea came to be accepted as the golden standard (mid to late 1800s, generally speaking) and "the normal", so did the various proto-parties. On the conservative and liberal sides, the worry was that uneducated masses could be easily led astray by demagogues promising a Schlaraffenland if they got the vote, and on the nationalist sides the amoral and predatory international capitalism was seen as a danger to kith and kin, it not putting anything before profit, and on the marxists side(s) the people were again seen as uneducated and stupid ready run right back into the fold of the old masters (conservatives moral-wise and liberals financial-wise) if these masters only tugged on the heartstrings of nationalism, church and blood & soil.
A tangled mess to be sure.
The conservatives and liberals generally allied with the financial and commodity-owning elites, alloying politics to (capital) ownership and in effect becoming the political branch of capitalism. This naturally made them smalle in number than the various marxists, who instead took control of the unions, often by founding and funding supra-unions, or a union for unions so to speak, complete with international co-operation. It was this structure soviet-loyal marxists then tried to co-opt for the entire 20th century. The marxists in many nations had to concede that the last thing most people wanted was violent and armed insurrection, and that the working class had "bourgeois" values: honest pay for honest work, one law for all, criminals get taken care of or taken out as need be, family values, tradition and no imperalist expansionism, racial hatred or any other progressive notions.
So what to do, if the marxists were to take control of the means of production and usher in a communist Golden Age, when the people wasn't interested in that? Simple: add democrat to socialist. Use the democratic system and its institutions to take control of civil society, from there take control of the banks and the economy via law and taxation, and then legally buy the entire economy with its own resources, essentially moving money from your right pocket to your left.
Socialist Democracy, and drop the -ist for good measure.
So to sum up this lenghty tirade (?), that's what's happened to your Democratic Party in the US: they have added Socialist to their name and ideals, without spelling it out. While the US certainly has done its share of "cultural imperialism" as we used to say during the Cold War, the exchange goes both ways. How many times have US liberals, progressives and Democrats held up the Scandinavian nations as paragons and proof a high-tax strong and all-encompassing state-system can work and is good? Unfortunately, that misses the main point why our societies worked like literal clockwork up until recently: we were ethnically, culturally and racially homogenous and had been since before Christ*. US isn't, never was, and if I may say so as a foreigner the very idea of racial and cultural homogenity is alien to the idea and ideals of the US (and should be too, I think, as your nation is consciously and purposefully founded - it didn't grow naturally out of Ice Age tribal societies).
That's why the policies of the US (Socialist) Democrats are doomed to fail, and might drag the entire nation, plus Canada and Mexico, down with it.
*None of this entails or demands or even leads to 'racism' or racial hatred, quite the reverse. The normal attitude in any such nation is: "Foreigners have strange ways that are normal to them, if they come here they must obey our norms and if we go there we must obey theirs". Which is pretty much the opposite of racism.
A note on so called pro lifers. Some of these call for a return of this issue to the states. They call themselves pro lifers, and are considered as such. Not by me! I believe states should have much more powers, as stated in constitution. Catholic teaching is problems should be solved at lowest level possible.... so I think most problems should be at County level
What people forget - or perhaps never knew - is that the Republicans controlled the legislatures in all of the swing states. They set the rules which made it possible for the ballot box stuffing, and so forth, and then they certified the elections and slates of electors. No court will invade what the legislature does to regulate elections, unless there's a legit civil rights issue at stake - and none of the pleadings presented any such issue, so all of the court cases got predictably shot down. So the Republicans essentially threw the election, their Establishment never wanted Trump in the first place, and they weren't going to see him get re-elected, so they set the rules to make that highly improbable. January 6th was an utterly useless exercise, the proceedings in the Capitol were pro forma, the result decided on weeks before.
We one upped you here in Cali, we are all in in abortion AND healthcare for illegals. Take that Inslee!!!
My Dad during 60s would have been considered somewhat to the left. By the 80s, a Conservative Republican. By 2000, an ultra right.
His views remained fairly stable.
Many Republicans are cowards, but the killing of innocent babies, advocated by almost all democrats.
Killing babies After birth is now advocatrd by some democrats .
In early 70s abortion advocates had discussions on changing language to make abortion more acceptable to populace. They lied about stats about back alley abortions, wildly. And eventually, lied about established science on when human life began, which was always conception..
The left has lost its collective mind. Police Reform becomes Defund the Police because white police officers hunt down unarmed black males to kill. Too bad the data say otherwise. Limit police ability to enforce the law, and the law becomes whoever is least ethical about application of force. In both cases, the4 primary victims are black and brown.
Keep the Southern Border open. Result is drug trafficking, human trafficking for sexual slavery. That's "compassion." That's more B.S.
Respect sanctuary cities, Incoming migrants (can't call them "illegal aliens," hurts their feelings) head to urban centers where they victimize people of color and spread tropical diseases we haven't seen in decades. Again, compassion? No, B.S..
Transgenderism is real and affects no more than 0.4% of the population, less than one-quarter the number of flat-earth believers. We should join hands and walk with them through the adventure called life. We don't have to turn the whole country upside down.
Obama and now Biden's inexplicable dedication to ensuring Iran gets nuclear weapons has a greater chance of starting WW III than anything Putin does.
Yes to all of that. And you didn’t even address the clear role of the democratic ecosystem/deep state/uniparty role in Jan 6.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/former-senate-security-chief-dies-death-not-considered-suspicious-rcna35705
“Not considered suspicious”! Why say that unless it’s suspicious?
So many crimes. So little time.
Love your essay today.
I actually know people, who not only care about the January 6th Show, but they also think it's real and that it will actually lead to some sort of punishment for past and present government employees.
it's laughable. they're mostly otherwise smart people... both of em hippie type natural health folks who got somehow got suckered to different degrees by the infection injection propaganda.
the nice lady who used to be a masseuse fell for it all, hook, line, and sinker; while the older gentleman who still does bodywork at least has an open mind to viable medical information even though he went and got his shots (at least one and I'm not asking about the total.)
I do think they're both avid Blue hat wearers who haven't realized just how corrupt their wing of the Republicrat Uniparty has showed itself to be, and that's probably why they're into the soap opera du jour.
I knew this episode would come in handy when all the blue dogs went running after the squirrel:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/roe-v-redux-leak-or-squirrel?
Perhaps the left might even declare babies are evil creatures and display their true colors. They can announce what a fine public service that Planned Parenthood is providing and provide free tickets to all who wish to visit from wherever. Our friends in the EU might really want such a visit given their awful restrictions of 12-15 weeks. An excellent tourist opportunity.
To be real, once the furor dies down maybe both sides can arrive at a reasonable compromise for the ugly reality we must face.
Yep, Insanelee is all about medical privacy, unless it involves forcing experimental injections on unwilling subjects. That pompous twit really needs to just shut up and go away!
Yeah, well each side does ugly real good.
The state should have no interest in abortion before viability and then its only interest is to legislatively [arbitrarily] set when that is. Sad touching stories from either side should hold no sway over what must be a neutral common-sense issue of that bodily autonomy thingy balancing the recognition of a fully-formed human child that has attained the legal right to be considered separately from its mother.
It's a real irritation to me that all Republicans in govt. seem universally to be morons. I've never had a real political home but was always willing to vote Democratic when that seemed appropriate. But I done give up voting for morons regardless of some fantasized "big picture."