Posted on 01/22/2018 6:12:44 AM PST by mairdie
The good news for us conservatives and Republicans -- even in California -- is that the progressive Democrats are not anywhere near as smart as they tell us they are. They have made key unforced strategic errors in the past decade which have caused them to lose half of their legislative seats and governor’s mansions across the states, significant chunks of their agenda and of course the Grand Prize of them all, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
One major unforced strategic error was forcing ObamaCare down the public’s unwilling throats at midnight on Christmas Eve 2010 before passing their beloved Comprehensive Immigration Reform, or at least doing something about the ailing economy. They had made a promise to their captive ethnic voting bloc to pass immigration reform in exchange for those votes, and there were plenty of Republicans ready to go along with it, with ample goodwill left over for ObamaCare. But whereas immigration reform for the Democrats was just a means to an end -- the end of more votes for Democrats -- Socialized Medicine was the centennial end itself, the Holy Grail: absolute power over our lives and deaths. Smelling that blood in the water, they couldn’t help themselves. Screw the Republicans, screw the economy, screw our own mascots, we have Hillary’s and Ted Kennedy’s and Otto von Bismarck’s dream within our reach. They went all-in, damn the torpedoes.
They paid a price. As the inevitable consequences of ObamaCare began their steady drip, drip, drip of bad news, increasing premiums, lengthening waiting lists, reduced choices, and explaining that when Obama said “like your doctor, keep your doctor” he was just talking about Facebook friends -- the public’s mood went from euphoric to despairing, and then to disillusion.
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The good news for us conservatives and Republicans -- even in California -- is that the progressive Democrats are not anywhere near as smart as they tell us they are. They have made key unforced strategic errors in the past decade which have caused them to lose half of their legislative seats and governor’s mansions across the states, significant chunks of their agenda and of course the Grand Prize of them all, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.Sign up now for voting site volunteer jobs in order to help prevent the widespread fraud in 2018 that is surely in the works over at the Demagogic Party.
The Dems OWNED GOVERNMENT in 2009 and 2010...they could have passed their ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ (i.e., a huge amnesty) in 5 minutes if they simply pulled out one of the bills they were trying to get Bush to sign...but they didn’t. They wanted Republican fingerprints on any ‘immigration reform’ and the Republicans wouldn’t play that game.
Still, I don’t agree with the author, the Dems, overall are VERY SMART. They have an ideology that is TOTALLY DISCREDITED, but they manage to still get half of the votes in this country - that does take a lot of skill.
The smarts seems to be to recognize that people vote for their self interest, so if they can make people dependent on government, they vote for its continued, and increasing, beneficence.
Did you see an article, I’d have to look for it, stating that the number of people listed as disabled is down because they’re getting employed? Some people still enjoy the self satisfaction of taking care of themselves.
Yea, there is a group of Americans - destined to become a minority unless Trump can fix things - who prefer to work, rather than just take handouts.
Yea, there is a group of Americans - destined to become a minority unless Trump can fix things - who prefer to work, rather than just take handouts.
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