As Kamala continues her fall free-fall, the Democrats fear the worst. They fear that Kamala, like her predecessor and boss, has been found out. And the American people don’t like what they found out.
The people have found out that Kamala has always advocated an open border, is apparently ambivalent (at best) about Israel defending itself, wants taxpayer-funded “gender correction” surgery for male convicts so that women in female prisons can “enjoy” their company, and wants to double the capital gains tax.
In a nutshell, the Democrats fear that Kamala has been found out to be a hard-left socialist. Indeed, she has a voting record to the left of Bernie Sanders.
The last point bears repeating because it encapsulates everything else: Kamala has a voting record to the left of self-described, long-time socialist Bernie Sanders.
In view of these belated revelations, the Democrats have become increasingly shrill in their shrieks. Today’s example is, “We Have Every Right To Demand Our Men Vote For Kamala Harris,” by Michelle Obama.
Hmm, now we know who makes the demands in the Obama household. But I won’t go there.
Of more interest than the Obamas’ personal life is how mail-in voting has dramatically increased the coercive power of demanding people. That’s because mail-in ballots are not necessarily confidential.
In traditional voting, the voting booth is generally a one-person affair. Nobody else – nobody – knows how you voted, unless you tell them (and you could always fib, to preserve the peace). But with mail-in voting, the “demander” of a household can fill out the ballot, demand that the demandee sign it (or simply forge the demandee’s signature), and mail it in.
I won’t accuse Michelle of advocating that sort of fraud. But even short of telling Democrats to engage in fraud, she is certainly telling Democrats to “demand” that people sharing the same household, over whom a demanding Democrat has influence or even raw power, such as a battered spouse or an elderly parent, vote for the Democratic candidate.
If such actions involved a different political party, they could be characterized as a threat to democracy.
Speaking of demands, next up in the shrieks from the left is a left-wing British newspaper called The Guardian which announced in an editorial that “Americans who believe in democracy have no choice but to vote for Harris.” When your foreign guardians say you have “no choice” then I suppose you’d better do what they say.
Another recent headline from this same foreign newspaper informs us that “There’s Nothing Wrong With Foreign Volunteers Working for Harris.” (This one seems to have been buried by The Guardian, but the link can still be found at Real Clear Politics.)
It’s true that there’s nothing illegal about foreign “volunteers” working for the Kamala campaign, and there’s nothing illegal about a leftist foreign newspaper defending that practice. But whether it’s right or wrong is a matter of ethics and American politics. A foreign left-wing newspaper has no standing or moral authority on the subject.
Back to the Democrats’ parade of horribles. Take a look at “Trump Is A Fascist And A ‘Clear And Present Danger’ To This Country,” by Hillary Clinton.
Ah yes, the allegation that Trump is a fascist, a Hitler, a Mussolini, a Stalin, a Pol Pot, a Mao, and a poo-poo breath. Let’s take those in order.
First, “fascism.” That word has lost its meaning, if it ever had one. Today, it’s simply the left engaging in name-calling against the right. One component of “fascism” that people generally agree on, however, is that it entails government control over the economy and censoring speech that is critical of the regime.
Compare the extent to which Joe Biden and Donald Trump, respectively, sought government control over the economy and over people’s free speech in their presidential administrations, and you will realize the extent to which Democrat allegations of Trump’s supposed “fascism” are pure projection.
On to Hitler. Lost or buried by history is that “Nazi” stood for National Socialist German Workers’ Party. It’s doubly ironic that socialist Democrats who want to eradicate the Jewish state of Israel (or let others do the dirty work of eradication) accuse Trump – a stout defender of Israel and a man with close Jewish relatives – of being something like the monster who sought to exterminate the Jews under the flag of . . . socialism.
Mussolini? A two-bit Hitler tag-along who died at the end of a rope wielded by his own people. To the extent he had any political principles, they were as a labor union leader – another leftist.
Stalin? Pol Pot? Mao? Weren’t they leftists?
We can’t leave Hillary’s rant without noting her warning that Trump is a “clear and present danger.” Hillary might not recall that this person she warns is a “clear and present danger” has already been the target of at least two assassination attempts by people who viewed him as . . . a clear and present danger. Or maybe she does recall that.
Poo-poo breath? That one, I made up. I’m tempted to admit that Trump is a poo-poo breath, but I’ve actually changed my opinion of him over the years. He seems happy. Moreover, his breath may or may not be good but he’s a breath of fresh air in the fetid fever swamps of Washington DC.
Trump these days seems truly interested in people. Working the frier for hours at McDonalds seemed to make him happy, fun and – dare I say it? – full of Joy.
Maybe the experience of surviving two assassination attempts gives a person that.
I can’t quite imagine Hitler or Pol Pot working the frier at McDonalds and joking around with the customers and staff. For that matter, I can’t imagine that from Kamala – whose similar portrayals are all staged with actors and whose only connection to McDonalds is that she apparently lied about working there.
Then we have Kamala’s putative, putrid boss mumbling “lock him up.” Perhaps on Joe’s mind is the probable prison term to which his son will be sentenced for his various crimes. The offense for which Joe wants to lock up Trump is apparently the “offense” of ousting the Democrats.
Trump has beaten every single one of the Democrat’s lawfare schemes. But the “offense” of ousting the Democrats is one to which he will gladly plead guilty.
The national nightmare of wokeism, DEI, censorship, incompetence, disguised and undisguised socialism, open borders, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris is nearly over. As Ronald Reagan proclaimed, it’s almost morning in America.
Actually, Glenn, as a legal immigrant myself, I think that it may be technically illegal for these Brits to come over to work on the Harris campaign if they are on a visitor’s (tourist) visa. If they present themselves to an immigration official upon landing in the US, they typically ask the purpose of your visit to the United States. If they lie and say they are visiting friends, that is breaking US law. If they say they are there to “work” on a political campaign with no official documentation or permission, the immigration official will likely turn them back on the next flight home. Immigration enforcement is a whole lot tougher at airports than it is at our southern border. FWIW
Il Duce’s manifesto spells out what fascism truly is … no individual rights, anti-capitalist, anti-religion, lots of censorship, confiscation of private firearms, big government on steroids and in total control; hence the term he coined “totalitarianism” which about 100 years ago wasn’t seen as the nasty pejorative as it is today.
Mussolini saw his social utopian paradise as one in which the individual and the state are bound together, one in the same together; and also bound together with other elements of society … corporations bound with government, NGOs bound with government, sports leagues and scout troops bound to the government. Meanwhile, the fascist government controls the whip hand to keep everybody else synchronized like a well oiled machine. It is total top down, centralized, one-party state control with everybody dancing to Il Duce’s music.
See: https://worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/germany/mussolini.htm
Now … which party sounds more like the total and encompassing control freaks who are micromanaging our lives from cradle to grave? The Democrats or the Republicans? This answer should be quite obvious.
Lastly … last year I had read the book “Travelers of the Third Reich” by Julia Boyd documenting the perceptions of foreign travelers throughout Nazi Germany in the 1930s. She also noted the quiet complaints by average Germans about the exorbitantly high taxes and constant diktats imposed by the Führer and his pesky and intrusive commissars.
Many in the German professional class, i.e., doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, etc., were very resentful of the extremely high taxes imposed upon them so as to redistribute the money to the less prosperous working class, thus fulfilling the workers party aspect within the Nazi name; i.e., National Socialist German Workers Party.
The high rates of confiscatory taxes were seen by many German professionals as having little difference from the Bolsheviks seizure of wealth in Communist Russia … the Nazis just had snappier looking uniforms.
See: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34594504-travellers-in-the-third-reich
Perhaps the biggest lie and the biggest misperception about Italian Fascism and Nazism are that these are right wing ideologies. Both are characterized by really BIG and centralized government control, to the detriment of individual rights and liberties.
Fascism is in fact a leftwing ideology as it is such big government that it really stands nowhere near the right on a typical political spectrum. It just so happens that Communism is even bigger government than fascism; so fascism is just slightly to the right of it, while both are on the far left of the political spectrum.
This is how the Left gets away with calling fascism a right-wing ideology, because it is only slightly to the right of communism on the political spectrum. Yet both poisonous ideologies are practically falling off of the leftwing edge of the spectrum. Communism would just fall off the left edge first because it is so far leftwing, closely followed by fascism afterwards.
Conservatism … the notion of limited government with checks and balances and Constitutional controls, is an ideology that falls (of course) on the right side of such political spectrums. If such conservative ideas were taken to their extreme, then government would get smaller and smaller, until disappearing into an anarchist state, which too would fall off the right end of the spectrum.
Don’t believe the big lie that DJT or conservatives and Republicans are fascists. Fascists are statist control freaks who are only eclipsed by Communists. Both ideologies tend to hate each other because they compete for the same attention and base values.
While in office from 2017 - 2021, DJT cut taxes, cut regulations, promoted religious freedom, and throttled the government commissars in federal alphabet soup agencies like the EPA, IRS, ATF, etc., to the benefit of the general public and their freedoms. These are not the governing actions of a so called “fascist.”
Slandering DJT and MAGA as “fascist” is just the Left’s latest and most desperate attempt at gaslighting the American electorate.
G’day … and vote as if your life depends upon it; because it may very well indeed depend on it!
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