Posted on 11/04/2018 4:59:57 PM PST by Kaslin
Have you noticed a certain silence among not only Democratic candidates but their supporters in the streets and their enablers on cable news and in newspapers? Oh, they’re all still making plenty of noise, but there’s one thing you’re not hearing. The calls to “Abolish ICE!” which dominated the majority of the summer months have been replaced by the sound of crickets. So stark is the contrast over only a ten or so week period that even NBC News was forced to take note of it.
With just days to go before the midterm elections, the “Abolish ICE” issue has all but vanished from the radar.
The topic, which had initially been forecast by some politicos as a hot new issue for Democrats, and a possible litmus test for candidates seeking support from the progressive wing of the party for 2020, is largely gone from rallies and speeches. That’s due to what experts say is its failure to resonate with mainstream Democratic voters, a misplacing of blame for the nation’s immigration crisis and a successful counter-attack from Republicans, including President Donald Trump.
The biggest factor in the Democrats’ abandonment of the issue, Democratic strategists said, was that it deflected blame from those who they believe are responsible for creating a wave of new, harsh and divisive immigration policies.
Those are about the best excuses NBC News could hope to come up with, I suppose. The call to abolish our primary immigration enforcement agency “didnt’ resonate” with mainstream Democratic voters. And it “shifted the blame” away from the real culprit. (That, of course, would be Donald J. Trump.) If those explanations don’t make any sense to you, give yourself a cookie. You’ve cracked the code.
The real reason is that they knew they were tanking their chances at winning an election. After hammering away at the message for most of the summer with the full support of most of the mainstream media, the end of August brought some bad news. Polling showed that they hadn’t moved the needle a bit. Less than a quarter of voters (including a similar percentage of Democrats) were willing to consider abolishing the agency. They were losing the battle for hearts and minds badly.
As recently as that period in the final week of August, the New York Times was running an opinion piece literally titled, “The Power of Abolish Ice.” In it, they praised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her “bravery” in endorsing this policy and credited her stand on the subject for not only propelling her into the lead but pushing the party further to the left. How enlightening, eh?
But no matter how much they claimed it was an important moral stand to take, once the numbers sank in the Democrats folded their hands and walked. Almost as if it was a coordinated effort, you stopped hearing virtually anything about it on CNN or MSNBC. The Washington Post suddenly didn’t seem so interested in covering the subject. And now they’ve all fallen silent. That’s some real dedication to principles for you.
But here’s something to keep in mind: just because they’ve stopped talking about it doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. It’s just gone into the category of “things we don’t talk about until we get elected.” You can bet that if the Democrats take the House they’ll be trying to significantly defund ICE at a minimum when budget negotiation time comes around. They may not be able to “abolish” ICE, but they can certainly try to hogtie it.
LOL
Imagine if someone tried to walk down the street dressed like that today.
There would be howls of laughter and people rolling all over the sidewalk.....
Funny that nobody on the list is from a border state except for Grijalva who is already a known open boarders extremist.
MC Hammer’s parachute pants......oy........
CNN says that THERE IS NO CARAVAN! DID YOU HEAR THAT—THERE IS NO CARAVAN! Who do you believe CNN or your lying eyes? LOL :^D
Did you see lying CNN pretend they were interviewing a “random person” about Andrew Gillum?
And it was Gillum’s mother......SMH
How can ANYONE be fooled by CNN these days......?
As I stated, the “Medicare for All” mantra has diminished.
It gave the GOP a simple argument, the Liberals want to take Medicare away from the Elderly to fund Socialism, the same Medicare the current recipients have been paying for their whole working lives
It’s just like changing “Globull Warming” to “Climate Change”.
Different label, same smell.
Last minute ads to remind people.
Compiling a list is step one. Framing the guilty parties in an article with the right title is step two. Getting lots of FR people to comment and post clever pics is step three. Proper timing is the fourth. The end result = the article (with list) being followed in the current news cycle.
CNN is right; there is no CARAVAN. Caravan is like a singing group of minstrels, some circus group with animals, a group of marauding arabs with camels or prairie folk driving conestoga wagons, right!
This IS an invading horde of foreigners with ILL intent to crash our border crossing. And they demonstrated exactly who they are at the Mexican border-
ripping down gates
tearing apart fences
cursing and defying the laws
assaulting Mexican border police
wreaking havoc with all authorities
throwing rocks and molotov cocktail bombs
And worst of all, they are willing to use innocent children, the elderly and their women as pawns and human shields in order to exert control and paralyze border authorities.
Also, Antifa seems quiet lately.
I could be wrong, but I think they know their Terrorist-in-Chief Obama and Eric “we kick them” Holder are out of office.
Have you noticed as well that ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter, et. al. have not rioted or even shown themselves for the last several weeks? It would almost seem that “someone” directed them to cool it for a few weeks to improve the chances of the Dems for the midterm. And I don’t believe for a minute that the caravans slowing down was just an accident either! How curious! I personally believe that they will go nuts if the GOP win both houses. There has already been statements about “blood in the streets” if the Dems don’t win. Guess Hillary won’t get to be civil!
Any thoughts anyone?
All together now...’The children are being torn from their mother’s arms!!!’
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