Posted on 12/11/2024 3:36:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
They say that like it's a bad thing.
Sure they do! “suicide is painless/It brings on many changes…”
Bud Light, Jaguar, the Democrat Party…who’s next?
The title of the article reminds me of a song from the Rocky IV soundtrack.
“No Easy Way Out”
by Robert Tepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXaPE6gklI
This column uses the now popular construction of “democracy” and “populism” as antonyms.
Its really important to understand that what they mean by “democracy” and especially “Our Democracy™”refers not to individuals voting but to INSTITUTIONS set up to “safeguard democracy” by censorship, incarceration, and suppression of the truth in favor of lies.
Using this construction, people speaking freely and voting is a mortal threat to those institutions, and hence to “democracy”.
Kick em while they’re down. 😉
I came to a similar conclusion a while back:
Populists believe in limited government of, by and for the people.
The opposite of populism is elitism.
Elitists believe in unlimited government of, by and for an entitled, hereditary, autocratic political/bureaucratic class.
Parties who drift that far to the left have become captive to the “progressiver than thou” syndrome, and people who once considered themselves left of center have watched their former party in a lockstep march off into radical oblivion. I heard something like that from, of all people, Cenk Uygur the other day - he said that if you’re in a group of proggies and disagree 2% with the party line you’re cancelled and thrown out, but if you agree even 2% with the MAGA side, it’s “howdy, come on in.” That’s how populist movements work. Lefties, especially establishment lefties, who find it hard to imagine how a billionaire real-estate developer and long-time Democrat like Trump could possibly have managed to seize the populist high ground need to look no further than their own mirrors.
Don’t be fooled, we will lose one or both Houses in 2026 if we don’t turnout is not huge! Then 2 years of impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
>> a Republican Party determined to eviscerate liberalism and the left.
Mainly the Woke Left
Its really important to understand that what they mean by “democracy” and especially “Our Democracy™”refers not to individuals voting but to INSTITUTIONS set up to “safeguard democracy” by censorship, incarceration, and suppression of the truth in favor of lies.
Edsall buys a clue. /eyeroll
I would give them one month to divest/sell everything and then permanently leave the country.
Step on their throats. They are pestilence. Utterly destroy them.
Ill second that emotion.
Collectivism grows in the fertile soil of ignorance and evil. And we’ve got plenty of people to grow it.
Now is not the time to strut.
The democrats party must be completely removed from power for ever and relegated to the dustbin of history along with their ideological brethren of communism and naziism.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thrad winnah!
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