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left-wing/democrats are simultaneously hitting the panic button and desperately casting about for explanations as to why Trump is winning, but the answer is at once simple and overwhelming: They haven’t reckoned with the fact that the electorate, including a lot of traditionally Democrat constituencies, are starting to notice that in recent years the default right-of-center position on just about every major political issue has proven correct, where the left-wing ruling class has been quite definitively wrong. Obviously, making this broad observation is not necessarily an endorsement of Trump or the GOP, and there are probably some finer policy points where you can plausibly disagree. But on just about every issue that has dominated the public discourse post-Trump, the pro-left-wing/democrat establishment either staked out a fringe position or was proven wrong by subsequent events. It’s hard to even know where to begin.On Covid, it’s abundantly clear that red states that refused mass shutdowns and excessive regulations didn’t see any worse health outcomes — and the damage from the shutdowns and Covid mandates is still lasting. The idea that our strained health care system was laying off people for refusing to take a “vaccine” that we now know doesn’t prevent you from getting the virus has been a disaster, to say nothing of our strained military, in the middle of a massive recruiting crisis, forcibly ejecting thousands over vaccine mandates. Then there’s the fact that Covid killed off 200,000 businesses in just the first year. How many businesses could have been saved with more reasonable Covid regulations? Then there was the distrust sewn with the public through all of the coronavirus propaganda and social media censorship. Your posts could be banned from Facebook for even speculating that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an outcome that the government now acknowledges is more likely than not. The worst outcome, however, might have been the angry biden regime irresponsibly outsourcing its Covid policy on schools to the teachers unions, who fought to keep schools closed for more than a year in some places, followed by an insistence on ineffective and difficult-to-enforce mask mandates on children. Even left-wing publications now openly acknowledge Covid school closures were unnecessary and disastrous for America’s kids, but by the time they found the courage to say what was abundantly obvious to the rest of us, the damage was done. The bottom line is that the Covid response fundamentally eroded trust between citizens and the government like no other issue in generations, and left-wing/democrat lawmakers were pretty clearly on, as they like to say, “the wrong side of history.”
Of course, the school closures issue was just emblematic of the long-running decline of American education, which is almost wholly a result of teachers unions. Their enormous donations to left-wing/democrats effectively serve as protection money, and for decades, this unholy alliance effectively made even the most basic education reforms impossible. Post-Covid, however, Americans who were forced to see what their kids were learning via remote schooling have largely woken up to the fact that education has been politicized beyond repair. In just the last three years, West Virginia, Arizona, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Indiana have all passed school-choice legislation, and more states such as Texas are likely to enact it soon. The good news is homeschooling is skyrocketing in popularity, and private and religious schools are popping up everywhere. Meanwhile, large urban school districts are failing in ways that should be a national emergency. Washington, D.C., high schools have a 60 percent chronic absenteeism and a 47% truancy rate. In 53 Illinois schools, not 1 student can do math at grade level, and there are reportedly 30 where no one can read at grade level. If left-wing/democrats cared about kids, they would be moving heaven and earth right now to fix these schools. They don’t care about educating kids, but libs/dems and their union funders will fight a national political battle to make sure your kids can access pornography in schools.
As for the economy, which is typically the biggest issue in any given election, the reaction from Democrats has been… disbelief. For months now, leftist pundits have expressed incredulity that Joe Biden is not being given credit for an improving economy. After all, who isn’t reassured when the president says things such as, “We have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America!” Meanwhile, his own Treasury secretary is apologizing for saying inflation was “transitory,” and food prices are still 21 percent higher than when he took office. The average 30-year mortgage rate is near 7 percent, after hovering around 2-3 percent during Trump’s presidency. While Biden didn’t inherit the best economic situation coming out of Covid, there’s zero doubt that his absurd spending policies, including the erroneously named inflation reduction act, are largely to blame, especially considering the White House spent the first several months of biden’s regime gaslighting anyone warning they were about to trigger runaway inflation.
That brings us to foreign policy, where it’s hard to know where to begin. Trump had the distinction of being the first president since Carter not to get the U.S. involved in any new conflicts, and the Abraham Accords were a stunning step toward peace in the Middle East no one thought possible. Under judas joe, war now threatens to consume Europe and the Middle East, 6 American embassies around the globe have been evacuated, and corrupt biden handled the exit from Afghanistan so poorly that during his recent State of the Union address, the father of one of the 13 service members killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul Airport was arrested for protesting. Try to imagine the media meltdown if a Gold Star dad was arrested during a Trump speech. During his 1st month, biden removed the houthis from America’s list of officially designated terrorist groups. Currently, the houthis are basically in control of global shipping routes after numerous terror attacks in the Red Sea, including the sinking of a British oil tanker that has created a large environmental disaster. In response to this, corrupt biden has just undone sanctions on Iran, even though Iran is the major sponsor of Houthi terrorism. Incredibly, at the same time, the biden regime is sanctioning Israel in the middle of a defensive war where they are fending off houthi attacks, and libs/dems in Congress are openly trying to meddle in Israeli elections. Do you feel safer than when Trump was president?
Then there’s the not-insignificant matter of immigration, which is so bad that it has actually surpassed the economy as voters’ No. 1 concern in many polls. Allowing a whopping 10 million people to cross the border was a deliberate choice; senile biden bragged about repealing all of Trump’s border controls on day one. Even lib/dem strongholds and proud sanctuary cities such as Chicago and New York are now crying about being overwhelmed with the influx of migrants. Aside from the fact that the horrific crimes committed by illegal immigrants are now national news stories, migrants are also driving down wages, and “most of the post-pandemic job gains the administration continuously brags about have gone foreign-born (read immigrants, mostly illegal ones) workers.”
Finally, there’s a whole bucket of issues broadly related to the “Great Awokening” that seem to be starting to backfire. libs/dems staked their claim on transsexuals being the next big triumphant civil rights battle — but polling shows that, unlike gay marriage, “trans rights” are actually getting less popular. There’s overwhelming support for basic protections of women, such as not allowing men to compete in women’s sports — even though the biden regime has proposed using federal power to stop local schools from enacting bans on men in women’s sports. And at the college level, the White House wants to redefine Title IX to cover “gender identity,” even as female college athletes are launching federal lawsuits. Similarly, the fever is breaking on “diversity, equity, and inclusion and anti-racism” — the Harvard scandal was nothing less than a national embarrassment. The Supreme Court’s decision overturning affirmative action had significant popular support. Even Disney told investors they had gone too woke, resulting in a “misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment.”One could go on at length about the many, many ways in which left-wing/democrats have undermined themselves by adopting and defending extreme and unworkable policies, but the public revolt is plainly evident. Guess which city very recently rejected a slew of "progressive" leaders, voted to drug test welfare recipients, restored police powers that had been taken away, and overturned the local schools’ policy of refusing to teach algebra before high school because “racial equity”? That happened in San Francisco!
libs/dems and their public relations officers in the corporate media are very good at driving false narratives for political advantage, and they’re not accustomed to losing. However, there comes a point where having the left-wing media in your pocket might actually be harmful to libs/dems — they started believing their own press, which was working overtime to downplay how bad things were. Now the problems are so obvious, they can’t ignore them. They’re being forced to fight a war on reality on dozens of fronts, and they’re showing up late to the fight.Abortion is almost the sole issue where things are complicated for the right, and we probably shouldn’t underestimate the Republican Party’s ability to lose winnable elections. But for now, politically things are pretty stark. It’s not a mystery why Trump is leading in the polls; in very evident and practical ways, the lives of Americans were safer and more prosperous during his presidency. You can quibble with how much credit Trump deserves — but while the focus is often on Trump’s temperament rather than his policy record, things are so bad he’s quite clearly an avatar for the more sensible path America could have taken.
In short, Trump gets to campaign on being right, and lyin' biden and his left-wing/democrats have to defend being wrong.
The left-wing/democrat campaign of unceasing phony lawfare against the former president that disregards all American political norms and an honest rule of law, the comical amount of evidence implicating corrupt biden in illegal activity, and government persecution of Christians. Somehow, none of these appear to imperil democracy or the rule of law to the left-wing/democrat and their addiction to their ideology of hate. left-wing demagoguery — the thing that is actually denigrating our institutions and capacity for self-governance — doesn’t matter to them. To neo-liberals, institutions, norms, et al. are not meant to benefit the American people; they are intended to ensconce the neo-liberals' status as political, and therefore cultural, elites. Left-wing tyranny threatens neither their status nor the institutions that enabled them to attain it, but Trump and the political movement built around him do. To left-wing/democrats the “rule of law” is nothing more than a means to an end — as is “democracy,” as is “decency.” The American government, left-wing media, and Big Tech actively manipulate what you hear and see so they can control how you think and what you do. They’re not just attempting to manipulate political outcomes; they’re attempting to manipulate reality. There is nothing decent or democratic about it.
The Trump Right is composed of Americans who are most identifiable by their resentful attitude toward a cynical government and its patronage network. left-wing/democrats are blind to the fact their actions created the conditions for their own loss of credibility while simultaneously facilitating the rightful opposition of their countrymen. Decades of fruitless foreign wars, free-trade adventurism, despotic unaccountable, corrupt government, and weaponization of the media strip-mined the country of its political, social, and cultural capital.
Are these honest Americans not right to be angry? The people they were supposed to trust, who they had no choice but to trust, betrayed them. So, naturally, these betrayals and woes manifested into “political, cultural, and moral expression” that led to Trump winning the presidency in 2016, thus marking the first time since 1992 that any major conservative political figure pushed back on the neoliberal consensus in both economics and foreign policy. The “woke ethic,” practiced by elites, which made them accountable only to their own interests, faced an existential crisis by way of an actual democratic process.
The Republican electorate, has realized what’s happening. They are aware that there is an unaccountable, managerial left-wing bourgeoisie seeking to undermine them any time they attempt to assert their sovereignty. And the reality is that left-wing/democrat elites are aware of how their actions damage the nation and our republican methods of governance. Rather, they continue to lie, even to themselves, saying they are the good guys, Trump and his base are the bad guys; (because they might stop us and make us less rich and powerful), so they lie saying whatever the left does is for the benefit of the nation because they are the good guys. So they invoke and pervert “democracy” and the “rule of law,” knowing very well that those devices are what will hold them accountable in their nightmare scenario. That's because if your worst dreams are about to come true, you can throw the baby out with the bathwater to prevent them. You can cheer on the destruction of norms because the only norm that really matters is the preservation of your status.
The left-wing/democrats have squandered the American people’s goodwill and irrevocably harmed the republic to protect their status as "the special people." So the neo-liberal agenda is to use language to manipulate and obfuscate, and they are very good at it. The result? Nothing is concrete. Even “truth” is relative. It no longer points to facts but opinion. They call conservatives and Christians intolerant, saying their moral beliefs aren’t “inclusive.” neo-liberals are for tolerance except for those on the right, who aren’t allowed to speak. There is no such thing as "let’s agree to disagree." Tell a neo-liberal you don’t support gay marriage, the LGBT or abortion rights and their heads will explode. Why? Because to them there is one truth -- theirs -- and to prove it, they will even change language. It has been going on for years: Illegal alien to illegal immigrant to undocumented worker to migrant. Gay pride to pride. Sexual preference to sexual orientation. transexual to transgender. liberal to progressive.
leftists will also create negative labels for people with opposing views. How many times have we heard the words “misinformation” and “disinformation”? Know the difference? It doesn’t matter, because both are used to dismiss anything or anyone that challenges the leftist narrative. Another popular one is “conspiracy theorist,” a term that dates to the 1960s. The left-wing’s shiny new toy is “White Nationalist” or “Christian nationalist,” both iterations of “right-wing extremist, white supremacist and domestic terrorist.”
What is the origin of this and other prevalent words today? Researching this is difficult, considering that Google is the number one search engine, and most of the others also slant left. It’s like asking a Starbucks barista what she (or “they”) thinks.
3 factors fuel the language evolution: left-wing academia, woke lobbying groups and woke corporations/media. The latter carries the most weight because it disseminates information. Most reporters are leftists, operatives disguised as journalists. Here is one AP definition: “Phrasing like pregnant people or people who seek an abortion seeks to include people who have those experiences, but do not identify as women, such as some transgender men and some nonbinary people.” Groups like the lgbt and planned parenthood will keep inventing and redefining words while pressuring government and corporations to embrace wokeism.
We must change course and reject these bogus definitions instead of parroting them. Otherwise, the left-wing will continue to influence and erode culture by distorting language.
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