Posted on 08/22/2024 5:14:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Have those who lectured us about democracy in danger now decided to save it by destroying it?
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.
Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.
That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.
A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton/Democratic National Committee/FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.
That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.
On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign.
That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.
Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.
For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.
The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.
Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump.
They all shared some strange similarities.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Will there ever be payback? I doubt it because it seems like all of the Republicans are being blackmailed by the FBI.
The Feebs are just Deep State’s Praetorian Guard.
We need to know who’s hiding behind the Feebs.
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A very well written and organized article. Thanks.
The dirty secret is that democrats don’t, and never have, given a rats arse about democracy.
They scream it, but it is another one of their scams. Cheat and fraud in elections is not democracy in action. They don’t even want to earn it so that is why they run vapid empty suit campaigns.
They want an autocracy, not democracy.
They probably plan on holding the power seat in a world government too.
I guess he eventually makes a point.
So, the Party that had proclaimed democracy dies in darkness now favors the shadows as the preferable means to obtain and retain power—whether by ignoring primary voters, open conventions, or transparent venues with the voters.
And the MSM still won't admit that these Dem losers have any faults.
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The Demonicrats are, in their very essence, traitors to the United States of America.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul.
Are criminal organizations run like democracies?
Do the street thugs vote for their leaders?
Do the victims of the crime syndicates get to vote on the syndicate’s policies?
The Democrat leaders don’t care about serving the citizens of The US.
They care about putting money in their pockets.
The Democrat party is really The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
Sadly America has become a banana republic where a figurehead “leader” and his followers jail political rivals, control the press, intimidate into silence those who might question the regime and run the country into the ground while enriching their supporters. The US is becoming Venezuela and under a Harris Walz administration will turn into communist East Germany
I do believe this wave of deceit from the DC crowd we have witnessed over the past 30 years is coming to an end. They will be put out to pasture soon and the replacements realize their efforts were in vain!! So they will adjust accordingly.
“The US is becoming Venezuela and under a Harris Walz administration will turn into communist East Germany”
Agree 100%.
It sounds like a cliche to say that this is the most important election in our lifetimes, but my gut tells that Trump-Vance in 2024 is our last chance to turn this thing around. If we lose, the country’s downward spiral accelerates and probably becomes irreversible.
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A. G. Janet Reno re burning the Waco TX Branch Davidian Christian compound to ground and killing 86 people to include children; “We (the Clinton FBI) had to destroy it in order to save the children.” Not one government puke has ever been held accountable for murdering those children and their parents.
Entrenched moles from the other side are there too.
All I can see among the legislators, judges and prosecutors, and executive branch politicians who claim to be GOP or conservative, is surrender and cringing cowardice.
But their immense wealth adds in the component of bribery.
So let's not sell them short: They are cowards who are on the take, and traitors, too.
I will add that the press and the Rats have become ever bolder since Trump left office.
The good conservative people may be enraged and possibly emboldened, but the elected/appointed soi-disant GOP-conservatives are weaker and more worthless than ever.
Our guy gets winged with a high powered rifle by one of their hired goons and there is NO MEANINGFUL retaliation from Dweeb of the House and all the other GOP elected maggots.
That is an outrage. F*ing outrage.
The democrats actions prove Donald Trump is the right person who can and will get the country back on track it’s why the democrats are spending so much time and billions to stop him liberty s what they fear the most.
It’s what comes after them for their deeds.
One truism that I believe to be true is that "You don't crap where you eat.". In this case, you do not willingly seek to destroy the country in which you live. (Who wants to get shot down in their own driveway?)
If this is the case, then, the "who" in "Who is destroying America?" is an international actor ... one that would benefit from the decimation of America. That "who" is, pretty obviously to me ... China.
America was the "world's policeman" ... China seeks to replace America in that role. They've given our politicians millions of dollars, and in doing so have captured them and bent them to China's will.
China's playing a brilliant game. Notice how they're just sitting on the sidelines, waiting to pick up the pieces after the West explodes.
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