Posted on 09/18/2023 5:13:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On paper, Biden’s candidacy makes no sense. Unpopular even in his own party, most Americans believe that at the age of 80 he’s too old to run, and his long string of gaffes, lies and inappropriate behaviors are only bringing more Americans over to that view.
Even the majority of Democrats would like another candidate. Yet, bafflingly, the party has allowed Biden’s people to rig the primary calendar. Alternative candidates, most notably California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, have been told to back down, and more fringe candidates, in and out of the party, have been subjected to harassment and smear campaigns.
A party uniting around an incumbent isn’t unusual, but in a bad economy and with widespread public dissatisfaction, there’s no apparent reason why the party should be clinging to an unpopular old white man from one of the smallest states in the country who has no strong base. It would have been nearly unthinkable for the Dems to drop Obama in 2012, but there’s no real reason for the Dems to make a politician who can barely campaign its presumptive nominee.
The Democrats (like the Republicans) have become even more of a party of superannuated elites where Sen. Dianne Feinstein may not know where she is and Rep. Nancy Pelosi has just announced she’s running for another term, but none of them could lose the White House.
Biden can. That’s what makes the DNC gamble on Biden seem so implausible. Unlike the Obamas or the Clintons, Biden doesn’t have the deep base of loyalists or the political machine to intimidate, silence and clear the field. Nor does he have even their minimal political appeal.
And yet that is exactly the point.
Biden is the presumptive nominee not because he is a sure thing, but because he can’t win. That would make no sense to.a traditional Democrat’s way of thinking, but the party is no longer run by the old school, but by a new school of radicals. Its goal is not to win elections, but to radicalize the party and the country. A hopelessly weak candidate facing an unwinnable election against Trump or DeSantis serves that purpose far better than a Newsom victory.
An unwinnable candidate in an election they can’t afford to lose will once again radicalize the Democrats and force them to break rules they hadn’t even previously thought of breaking.
To leftists the election isn’t the issue, only the revolution. From the leftist perspective they won in both 2016 and 2020 because they were able to radicalize the party, its apparatus and rank and file members. Getting suburban housewives to put on pink hats and howl in the streets after a massive defeat doesn’t look like anything that the party would have found rewarding in 1956, but the Left is not out to win elections, but to end them and take over the entire country.
While Republicans celebrated, leftists broke new ground in radicalizing Democrats and in coordinating the machinery of the administrative state to act openly against Trump and Republicans. Republicans had won an election, but leftists had unleashed a state within a state. Openly sidelining elected officials for unelected ones is much more fundamental to the leftist agenda than any of the culture war battles because it prepares the way for a totalitarian state.
Then after terrorizing Democrats and some independents with monstrous caricatures of Trump for four years, the party and its allies were willing to do anything in 2020. And they did.
Biden’s weakness, elderly and running a basement campaign, was a strength, not a weakness.
Democrats, convinced that they couldn’t win naturally, pulled out all the stops, at the state level, exploiting public health emergencies, unilaterally changing voting rules, setting off race riots and bringing the country to its knees. Would they have been as desperate with a strong candidate?
Now Democrats know just how weak their candidate is and how bad their position is. What can the Left convince them to do to win in 2024? The real question is what won’t they do.
The serial raids, indictments and investigations are just a sample of what is being unleashed.
The real purpose of this exercise is not the 2024 election. The next presidential election, like the previous ones, and all those before it, is just a means to an end to the Left. It uses those elections, win or lose, to radicalize and tear apart the country, to seize control of governing institutions and encourage those under its control (and even sometimes those on the other side) to dismantle the governing processes and safeguards against a totalitarian dictatorship.
It’s not even 2024 and leftists have normalized arresting and indicting presidential candidates and trying them during an election season. Democrats were not ready for that in 2016. If Biden weren’t on the ticket now, maybe they would still hesitate. But desperate people do anything.
The two-sided process of radicalization is to prepare the people and institutions for an emergency seizure of power. The Left finally grasped in the seventies that Americans will never go 0-60 to an overnight dictatorship. Comrade Sunshine and Brother Number 19 showing up on television tomorrow to announce food will be rationed will lead to a swift civil war.
Incremental radicalization however opens the Overton window for certain emergency power grabs and acts of domestic violence. Whether it’s temporary suspensions of the 2nd Amendment, pandemic shutdowns, domestic surveillance, or BLM riots, they’re all tests of what we are willing to incrementally accept as the new normal until our rights have been slowly cooked..
The Left exploits or manufactures a crisis, and then sees what desperate people will be willing to go along with. What do you do if you believe children are being massacred to protect the profits of gun manufacturers? What kind of violent acts would you be willing to commit if you believe black people are being subjected to genocide by police descended from slave institutions? What kind of repression would you be willing to sign off on to survive a virus? What would you do if the country were on the verge of falling to a fascist dictator who will lock you up?
These are all things that the other side has been sincerely taught to believe. And act on.
People are being made desperate to radicalize them into being willing to do anything. The more desperate they are, the weaker their position looks, the more crimes they will commit.
Even though the Left controls the country’s institutional power, much of its wealth, almost all of its culture and communications, and is far more effective than conservatives, your average leftist believes that his movement is beleaguered and fighting against the rich and powerful.
How do you make all of those people even more desperate and radical in 2024?
Run Joe Biden again.
Biden’s presidential candidacy makes no sense except to make Democrats so desperate that they will fall into the leftist trap and set even more of the Constitution on fire, use abusive tactics ever more likely to bring on a civil war and break any kind of credible system of elections.
Who benefits from that? Democrats would benefit more from running a strong candidate who can win rather than running a weak candidate who can’t. Leftists benefit from radicalizing the Democrats and tearing apart the country because their goal isn’t election: it’s revolution.
History shows that once leftists are arresting political candidates for having the wrong politics, they don’t stop with those on the right, they quickly go after Democrats, moderates and anyone who falls short of their radical doctrines. That is how it began in the USSR. It’s beginning here.
Biden may appear to be as unlikely an engine for the radicalization of a nation as he is an unlikely candidate, but an unwinnable candidate is the best incentive for breaking the rules. The more leftists convince Democrats that they need to break more rules, the closer they come to their true objective of breaking all the rules and then taking over America.
This is the dumbest post I've seen in a very long time.
>>”The only person who can get Biden elected, is Trump.”
Problem is Trump is not even running against Biden - apparently he is only running against DeSantis - who according to him, he is beating by 800% margin - and yet spends 90% of his waking moments talking and thinking about him.
...he spends the other 10% trying to figure out how he can get into a moderated debate with Meghan Markle.
To wild-eyed leftists, an election isn’t the issue, only The Revolution.
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Mmmmm, perhaps we'd better reacquaint the left w/ some time-honored advice.
And I quote: "There's many a slip 'twixt cup and the lip."
An old English proverb that cautions: even when a desired outcome or conclusion seems certain,
things can still go go wrong, kinda like "don't count your chickens before they hatch, baby".
Good post. You’re right.
“The only person who can get Biden elected, is Trump”.
That’s an ignorant thing to say. Ignorant and stupid.
My crystal ball is ridiculously fuzzy at this point.
I have absolutely no idea who will be the Democratic nominee.
There are no logical criteria to evaluate, no rules to understand.
The elites will do what they will and make up a narrative to justify it—whatever they do.
Unwinnable candidate?
Recall that Obama was weak, inflation was high, economy was a mess and the Pubbie was expected to make Obama a one-termer.
Romney floundered and several precincts gave O 120-130% of the votes — enough for him to get a second, devastating term at fundamentally changing America.
Dems have learned a lot of new ways to ‘enhance’ the votes for them since 2012.
Yup—once Democrats mastered mass cheating in precincts they control it made a mockery of any demographic analysis of voting patterns.
Anyone engaging in such analysis is just enabling the cheaters.
“An unwinnable candidate in an election they can’t afford to lose will once again radicalize the Democrats and force them to break rules they hadn’t even previously thought of breaking.”
In some ways, the whole piece makes sense to me. But, I can’t get over the feeling that the Socialist Democrats STILL want power at ANY price.
Luckily, they have 99% of the republicans rooting for them whichever way they go. :(
*SPIT*
If Trump despite all the phony legal ploys appears to be the nominee and likely winner in 2024, I would not rule out an assassination. Trumps assassination would immediately be blamed on Ultra MAGA extremists and br8ngthe imposition of emergency powers. Look to the 1933 Reichstag fire that secured Hitlers dictatorship as an example.
FR thread
Joe Biden’s chances of re-election are being jeopardized by voters’ concerns
over his age, the economy and crime, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination, w/ one in five voters undecided WRT 2024. Republicans had an edge among those worried about crime.
Trump remains politically viable despite a battery of orchestrated vengeful federal and state criminal charges revolving around his rightful attempts to expose Biden’s steal of 2020 and Biden’s manufactured falsified charges of Trump supposedly mishandling of classified documents since leaving office.
I think they're running Biden because they plan on cheating again... this time for an even larger slap in the face. NO ONE wants Biden but he'll win in a landslide and they'll challenge anyone who objects to the 'win' with a quick court date and a long time in prison.
So far the democrats are down to Newsom Hillary or Big Mike all the same who ever they select.
They are to close to the Marxist win to give up now it’s been a 100 years in the workings.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces formal impeachment inquiry against President Biden
Fox News ^ | 9/12/2023 | Chris Pandolfo
Posted on 9/12/2023, 8:34:53 AM by fruser1
“Through our investigations, we have found that President Biden did lie to the American people about his own knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings. Eyewitnesses have testified that the president joined on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners resulted in cars and millions of dollars into his sons and his son’s business partners,” McCarthy said.
Earlier, Fox News Digital confirmed that McCarthy will tell House Republicans today that beginning an impeachment inquiry against Biden is the “logical next step” for their investigations. An inquiry is the first step of the impeachment process, where evidence is gathered for the articles, or charges, of impeachment against an official.
In a statement responding to reports about the impending inquiry, White House spokesman for oversight and investigations Ian Sams blasted the effort as politically motivated. He accused McCarthy of advancing an impeachment probe to placate hardliners in the GOP conference.
“McCarthy is being told by [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.] to do impeachment, or else she’ll shut down the government,” Sams said. “Opening impeachment despite zero evidence of wrongdoing by POTUS is simply red meat for the extreme right wing, so they can keep baselessly attacking him.”
Wow.......very informative......thanks.
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