Posted on 12/08/2024 3:52:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
While Biden disgraces the presidency, Donald Trump is treated as acting had of state.
Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory, we have a clearer picture of how Barack Obama (and through him, President Biden) destroyed his party and with it many of our institutions. We now have a leader and a plan to restore their strength. Much has been written about why the Democrats suffered such a devastating loss in the election, but I’m inclined to place great weight on the views expressed by Adam Mill in Chronicles Magazine, who argues persuasively that the Democrats’ decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change. “Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points,” he argues. To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any “single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise.” This explains as well as most theories why Kamala Harris’s rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads. Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.”
By contrast, Donald Trump, who had clear views of his own on significant subjects, met with hostile reporters, political critics, and opponents. “He preserves his own agency.” The consequences of their rigid orthodoxy not only damaged their party, but caused all of us to suffer from their tactics, not the least of which is “a widespread crisis of incompetence within the institutions that sacrificed merit for ideological parity.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The contrast could not be clearer. Somehow the left cannot see it. It seems like a mental disorder.
“Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.”
It’s simple really......the left is Godless.....it explains everything they do.
If you believe there will be no accountability for anything you do after this life, you have the freedom (or so they believe) to do whatever in this life.
Sad really.
‘the views expressed by Adam Mill “Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points,” he argues.
That sounds right.
“sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.” This was done before. The Japanese launched a surprise attack on Port Arthur in 1904.
Thank you for posting this. A must-read indeed.
“The contrast could not be clearer. Somehow the left cannot see it. It seems like a mental disorder.”
It is. It’s called “Group Think.” The left is a coalition of manufactured victim groups each having their own agenda, but coordinates as a single unit. That’s why when the Palis were protesting Israel, there were signs at the rallies saying things like LGBT stands with Palestine. That’s like saying, “Chickens stand with KFC.”
However, where the fun comes in is when two competing victims groups are vying for the same thing, but with different messages. This is where DEI was supposed to handle those differences to make sure each victim group was well represented. Well, we saw how that worked out.
The history leading up to Pearl was more complicated than the article got into. FDR wanted in the War and facilitated it’s escalation.
the destruction engineered by the democratic party started with LBJ, creating the welfare state.
As he says, the Democrats have many mutually-hostile factions.
We saw the conflict between Muslims vs Jews. We also have trannies vs Lesbians who do not want penises in their spaces. Gay pedophiles who want access to kids, etc.
The peace is only kept in times of a growing pie. If circumstances shift, and a faction is told they must give up something, then expect civil war.
It very much is. I have seen it first hand. It’s sad.
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