Posted on 05/24/2018 8:10:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Think about this – a significant portion of our country, including a majority of its elite, thinks that it’s A-OK for a Democrat administration to spy on a Republican candidate. Think hard about that. And think about whether or not we can ever put the pieces of our shattered republic back together again if we can’t even agree that using government power against our political enemies is a bad thing.
But the terrifying truth is that liberals and their Never Trump enablers actually think this kind of tyranny is a good thing. You see, they think Normal Americans are so transcendently awful (and, even more importantly, that the elite’s power so precious) that all is fair in order to stifle their opponents’ collective voice.
Yeah, I know they have reasons and excuses and elaborate theories about why it was absolutely necessary for a Democrat administration to spy on its designated replacement’s Republican opponent. And it was also totally cool for the IRS to suppress uppity Tea Party groups because they were getting to successful.
Excuses are always garbage, and theirs are garbage on fire in a dumpster. They know it. Offering them is just going through the motions. They are willing to embrace these tactics because they can.
The question all boils down to this – is it acceptable for the party in power to use the intelligence and law enforcement communities against its rivals? Are these convoluted and often delusional explanations – RUSSIANS TREASON OK NO RUSSIANS THEN UH QATARIS YEAH QATARIS TREASON! – enough to take that step, even if true?
Of course not. Even if Trump’s people sought to get the Russians to release the contents of the emails Hillary Clinton should never have had on her literally “password“ password-protected illegal server – and after two years, there’s zero evidence they did –was that enough to send spies into the campaign, to tap its phones, and leverage the power of FBI et ceterea to surveil them? Does the liberal elite have any concern that maybe, just maybe, it has to be about as serious a situation as you can get to do that? Is a coordinated campaign by the FBI backed up by the NSA and probably the CIA the proper remedy for the unauthorized release of Hillary’s yoga dates and wedding plans, because that’s all Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit said was on the 33K emails she deleted, right?
Who is the liberal who is shocked and appalled by all this? Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley seem upset, and former Clinton functionary Mark Penn, but that’s all. That’s it. Who is the single Democrat politician who stood up and said, “Hey, wait a second, we just can’t have one party’s administration spy on another party’s campaign?” And that doesn’t even address the deep state whitewash of Clinton’s email crimes that would have put any of us in jail.
No one objected. The Democrat Party is committed to the New Rules. And the New Rules are tyranny.
It can’t be a surprise. After all, the Democrat Party has bulldozed every norm, custom, and tradition out there in its quest for undisputed power. It spews hatred at its opponents – hey, everyone reading this is racist, sexist, and a denier of #science and so forth. The Democrats will happily deny you your free exercise of religion – put on your aprons people, because you can bake a cake or be bankrupted. They seek to suppress speech by encouraging fascism both in academia and by online tech companies, and if you think they won’t pass laws to limit speech given the chance, you’re fooling yourself. Hell, they tried to amend the First Amendment to overturn Citizens United, a case where the government tried to ban a movie critical of Hillary Clinton.
Let’s say that again, because it’s madness. The position of the left-of-center party in the United States is that the government should be allowed to arrest and imprison people for making a film critical of a politician.
As always, they have their excuses – “Let’s take the money out of politics (so that the only voices are the mainstream media which eagerly and slavishly suckles at our heaving liberal bosom)” – but in the end, they desire the consequences of the policies they support. They want to be able to arrest and imprison you for daring to make a film criticizing one of their icons.
Do you note the underlying premise, that they assume it is they who will be wielding the power to oppress?Good luck with that. We cannot have a functioning republic where about half of the population actively supports the trappings of tyranny. We can’t. No nation, especially one full of citizens who zealously guard their freedom, can tolerate a double standard for political behavior. It won’t be double for long. The New Rules, should they become ingrained in our systems, will inevitably go both ways.
They are going to hate the New Rules.
We need to return to the Old Rules, starting with the rule of law. It’s that or split our country in two, one free and one Democrat. Or it could be something even worse.
The United States of America cannot function where one of the two parties effectively recognizes no limits on the use of government power to impose its will upon the other half. We Normal Americans are woke, and we Normals are getting militant. We see what’s happening. But do the liberals and their Never Trump lackies? Do they really want to go down this road?
In the meantime...
“Eliminating unearned entitlements to the roughly half the country that takes advantage of US taxpayers may help lose socialist progressive supporters.”
Or serve to be the first shot of CWII, when the Gibbsmedats realize that they will no longer be paid to exist.
WE are fighting them - one of the first rounds was electing Donald Trump as President and STOPPING the witch from giving more power to a corrupt deep state. Round two is coming up and we'll fight corrupt 'elites' and their henchmen in 'intelligence' too. The field is broad - we've won a few battles but this war will go on for years... so cheer us on and don't sweat the small stuff..
“There is only one “hope” and that is for the host to start the purging.”
And that is why Trump needs to never intervene in Chicago and other places where Gibbsmedats congregate. Letting them kill each other will prolong our “experiment with Democracy. Trump should wall out Mexico and then turn to “walling in” our big RAT-run cities! Mad Maxx II is coming!
After all, the Democrat Party has bulldozed every norm, custom, and tradition out there in its quest for undisputed power.
That will never change until that party has a headstone on it.
It's not clear the Republic has survived the first one. We know out country is very sick. We don't know if it's terminal, but it may well be.
Didn’t Americans actually win the civil ware and the country was saved?
Democrats have NEVER wanted to be Americans.
One? Ha!
The Republican and Democrat parties both support Tyranny. It's why there's significant chunks of each that hate Trump and his goal to drain the swamp — unfortunately for Mr. Trump (and us) his greatest strength is also his greatest weakness: as a businessman he's trained and skilled to compromise, to make deals… this is not what is needed in DC. Instead of deals and compromise, we need someone who is uncompromising and vehemently anti-corruption, the sort who would not hesitate to arrest the Supreme Court for violating the Constitution (re: Obamacare, the USSC does not have the authority to make a 'fee' into a 'tax' as the law was written so as not to be a tax and Art. 1. Sec. 1 clearly states that ALL legislative power in the federal government resides with Congress).
Wow, imagine if they could build a wall around the south side of Chicago, and the west side of Chicago.
As an aside , I heard that about 10% of the black population of Chicago has moved out during this decade. That’s a huge drop. And a big number of those have left Illinois altogether for other states.
Bit one result of this, is that the many decent, law abiding, hard working black residents moving out, means that those left behind are increasingly poor and/or part of the youth gang culture which terrorizes Chicago.
That is your opinion
That is your opinion
“For the second time in our history, the Democrats don’t want to be Americans anymore.”
The current crop of Democrats are a totally different breed from those who fought in the Civil War.
The Confederates were Americans with a different point of view from those in the North.
These Democrats are not Americans but the enemies of a constitution they hate; the last president called it a document of”negative liberties”, a president who was
THE messiah to leftist Democrats.
These people are not American and never have been.
IMHO
One party supports tyranny and the other party won’t fight back.
-PJ
<>unless patriots are willing to wage a civil war - a REAL war.<>
Wow. What happens after the real war?
No. The Washington, DC all-powerful central government won the War Against the States. The "Union" was saved; the Republic was not.
The left can't be made healthy. They are the party of deception so they are the party of Satan. Their corruption reaches all the way over to a big part of the GOP.
What happens after any real war?
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