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The Democrat Party’s False Words
American Thinker ^ | 25 Sep, 2024 | E. Jeffrey Ludwig

Posted on 09/25/2024 4:17:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A look at the Democrat Party Platform will leave you gobsmacked at the lies and misdirection.

In T.S. Eliot’s classic poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” one of the lines reads, “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.” These eleven words capture the superficiality of the educated classes as they engage in cocktail party talk about the giants of artistic and cultural achievement. There is an affectation of knowledge, grounded in a superficial and vain foundation.

V.P. Kamala Harris is the embodiment of this vain combination — trying to appear wise and perceptive within a context of personal limitations that are quite extreme. She is being quoted online as saying, “Today is today and yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.” This seems amazingly consistent with the Eliot quote, where drivel tries to pass itself off as profound by including Michelangelo’s name. In this quote, she is attempting to project a profound paradox as being at the heart of a simple premise.

The Democrat Party Platform reflects this same mindset of trying to sound down-to-earth and normal yet at the same time taking a giant step on behalf of “the people” of the USA. This desire to sound normal and elevated — operating at the same time from a higher plane — is the essence of the cocktail party mentality. Superficial, yet drunk with lust for power, it lifts itself up while trying at the same time to appear normal.

Near the beginning of this year’s Platform, it is stated, “There is so much more to do. Democrats will fix the tax system so everyone has a fair shot. We will restore the right to choose. We will continue to bring down costs for families....

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To: MtnClimber

Speaking of Democrat lies, the Harris-Walz campaign is currently running an ad which claims to show two ordinary Pennsylvanians, both former Trump supporters and lifelong Republicans, who are now voting for Harris. Both individuals are in fact been Democrats and they have been since at least 2016, when they were both donating to Democrats, not supporting Trump.

https://twitter.com/joma_gc/status/1838726206478336070


21 posted on 09/25/2024 8:39:34 AM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrat Party’s False Words = All Of Them


22 posted on 09/25/2024 9:44:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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