Posted on 01/04/2019 10:18:58 PM PST by vannrox
I rarely make predictions -- whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what will be done.
I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019.
2019 will be a dark year in America.
Thanks to the left's control of the House of Representatives and the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 -- with innumerable hearings, exposes, criminal investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the point. Defamation will. Anything that might muddy the president, no matter how spurious, no matter how thin the evidence, will be pursued with gusto. The media will drop "bombshell" after "bombshell." If lives and careers are ruined, so much the better; no one should be associating with this president anyway, as far as the left is concerned. The Robert Mueller investigation into alleged "collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government -- which has led to guilty pleas and imprisonment of people around President Trump for offenses having nothing to do with such collusion -- is a preview of what lies ahead.
The goal of the left to weaken, disable and impeach the president is the heart of its mission to undo the 2016 presidential election. If the Republicans had done anything comparable during the Obama administration, the Democrats and the media would not only have charged Republicans with racism -- as they labeled all criticism of Barack Obama -- they would have howled "fascism." And, for once, they wouldn't have been far from the truth. The misuse of government institutions for political ends is indeed a fascist tactic. But because most media serve as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, there will be no protest from the media, only support.
There is nothing Trump or any member of his administration has done that is comparable to Hillary Clinton's use of her own email server while U.S. secretary of state, or her destroying tens of thousands of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress, or foreign governments' and corporations' paying vast sums of money to Bill Clinton and The Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Nor is there anything Trump or anyone in his administration has done comparable to the Obama administration's use of the IRS to suppress conservative nonprofits; its selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, at least one of which was later found at the scene where a Border Patrol officer was killed; or the lies it told about the cause of the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi. Yet any suggestion by Republicans that these activities be investigated is effectively shouted down by the Democrats and the media. And let's not talk about the real collusion in 2016 -- between the FBI, the State Department, the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House, using material sourced in part from the Russian government -- to undermine the Republican candidate for president and his presidency. The mainstream media isn't interested in that.
In other words, the Democratic Party and the media will do to American political life what it has done to the arts; the universities; the high schools; the Boy Scouts; race relations; religion; the happiness of so many women (misled by feminism regarding marriage and career); the moral fabric of American life (morality reduced to feelings); late-night television; mainstream Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism; pro football; and the sexual innocence of the young: It will poison it.
From the French Revolution to this day, the two great aims of the left have been promising utopia to the malcontented and accumulating as much power as possible. All moral values are subservient to these goals. After all, what could be more important than "social justice" (the left's term for everything it advocates); "equality" (of result); women's liberation from the "sexist oppression" of the "patriarchy"; combatting "white privilege"; fighting the "rape culture" that pervades campuses; saving life on planet Earth from the "existential threat" to it; "resistance" to the "authoritarian," "fascist," "white supremacist," "racist" Trump administration; supplanting national identities and institutions with a "world citizen" identity and international institutions; and undoing the most fundamental built-in identity of the human race, that of male and female, in the name of transgender rights?
Compared with almost any country, America is freer; gives its people more opportunities to economically advance; is less racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic; has a friendlier population; has less corruption; and has far more medical innovation. Yet this coming year, the left, the Democratic Party and the media will continue purveying the lie that the Trump administration is fascist, racist and authoritarian and poses a mortal threat to American democracy. (Given all this Trumpian fascism, how exactly did the Republicans lose the House?)
Thanks to Democratic control of the House of Representatives, the left will use the levers of government to keep the American people in a constant state of agitation. The only thing the left hates more than a happy population is losing elections. And it knows the two are linked -- because happy and grateful Americans rarely vote Democrat. The road to Democrat victories lies in convincing women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews and young people to be as unhappy, ungrateful and angry as possible -- in the greatest country ever made.
That is the left's agenda for 2019.
Nevertheless, in wishing a happy new year to my fellow Americans, I hope I'm wrong.
I think yesterday's meeting went better because President Trump went in there with 19 MILLION PRIVATE AMERICAN DOLLARS TO THROW IN THEIR FACES.
And we can do more.
THIS must be proclaimed over and over again by we whom are supposed to travel a higher road if we will be smart and use their tactics against them.
I still have good, Christian friends that are offended by my Trump gear (hat and/or t-shirt) because "of the way he treats women", meaning the "grab them by the pussy" remark of two years ago.
They burnt that into the conscience of so many people in a relatively short time, that any adverse commentary, true or false, more easily found a nest in the decision making process.
It's our turn now.
At every opportunity ...
The penalty should have been good people standing up and demanding she resign and not letting up until she does. but try to find good people
At EVERY opportunity.
I, personally, think Praeger is wrong.
I was really bummed after the election, but watching the behavior of the new and old loonies gives me hope.
I take all this seriously and when I see how outrageously the Left is acting, I think it is laughable.
Not kidding, I feel they are destroying themselves.
They are destroying themselves when you look at it through your lens. The problem is , it seems, that through many other peoples’ lenses the dems are bold and courageous...and the media cheer-leads it on... It sucks
Democrat voters do not care and you can’t make them care. As long as they get their free stuff they could care less what these sleazebags do. It’s not costing them anything.
There is a break point where the big pushback begins. Violence promotes violence. When not if it starts we will see blood in the streets.
All those pundits down playing losing the House in the election will be shown to be whistling past the Grave Yard
Largely because economic oppression continued for several generations after the war, from both public and private polices.
Here's one way that was done:
We are seeing people in countries all over the world turn on totalitarian socialists. Perhaps 2019 will be a dark year. It may be the year people are “woke” to the fact that the only good socialist is one that doesn’t create carbon emissions.
And if the Democrats want to investigate something, they can start by investigating all of those unsolved murders in the cities they run.
There! Fixed it!
I’m curious...how about your lens?
I hope you’re optimistic..
The left isn’t going to make my year “dark”. I’m not going to pay any attention to them, I’ll change a channel or turn off the tv or radio if I see or hear any of this crap. I can’t do anything about it except vote... if people want to wallow in the day-to-day politics ... fine with me, but count me out I have better things to do and my year is not going to be “dark” because of Democrats.
Me too. Stocking up.
Let’s stop the whining. It will be truly dark only if the conservatives quit and run away. George Washington thought that things were really dark when he was encamped in Valley Forge — he faced getting hanged, not just losing votes in the Continental Congress.
As was 1919, a year of political and economic turmoil and social unrest.
Ummm...there’s lots of us fighting in left coast states...we don’t just give up. For first time in years or maybe ever, high school students are organizing Conservative Clubs...times, they are a changing
I think that Trump will need to eventually invoke emergency powers this year or next to resolve this mess. The Dems almost certainly won’t give in at this point. Timing will be crucial; building the wall via emergency powers may be a only pretext to more sweeping actions against the traitors.
I don’t think he can play soft, give in to the Dems, go back to Florida and live out a quiet life with his family. The Dems are all in and they want to take him out by any means. He won’t be able to make a deal with Nazi Pelousy and Chuck U schumer that assures his personal comfort and survival after he is out of office. Would you trust these people?
So this conflict is not just about the survival of national sovergnity, it’s about his and his family’s personal survival. Remember, Ceasar was faced with a similar situation. He could have disbanded his Gaulic legions and gone back to Rome to face prosecution by the Senate. He would have been lucky to survive. This will be a Rubicon year for Trump.
He will need a loyal defense secretary.
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