Posted on 12/11/2020 6:34:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's not alarmist to state that the future of our country could be defined by the two Georgia Senate races. We are in an existential moment, and it sure feels like we are floating through it in a daze, without the sense of urgency you would expect if the entire future of your country were on the line. We just had a tough election, but for those who care about our future, it's past time to wake up from the daze.
Democrats are livid about the Trump era. They feel wronged by President Donald Trump's Supreme Court picks -- even though the process that led to them was started by their own former leader Harry Reid. They feel wronged by Trump's muscular use of executive authority -- even though the president's actions followed a trend that has been growing for a few successive presidential administrations on a bipartisan basis.
Regardless of the merits leading to this perceived case of injustice, it's a fact that many Democrats are out for revenge. If they have the White House, the House and the Senate, the pressure on President-elect Joe Biden to enact a pretty extreme agenda is going to be immense. Will Biden have the strength to push back against this? Will he even want to push back? The games he played during the campaign on the question of packing the Supreme Court and the fact that his own vice president is all for a more radical agenda do not bode well for those hoping Biden will stand in the way of the radical elements who have all the energy in his party today.
A Democratic Senate looking to change America would start by killing the Senate filibuster so they no longer need 60 votes to pass a bill. They don't need any Republican votes to do that, and once it's done, the Republicans won't be able to stop anything. First up for grabs would be expanding the Supreme Court to the point that a solid majority of liberal justices are in place to rubber-stamp a newly activist agenda.
The second step would involve adding new, reliably Democratic states to the Union. This, too, could be done without a single Republican vote. Once the new states and their new Democratic senators are admitted, it would become that much harder for Republicans to retake a majority to roll back the radical agenda.
Once these structural changes are in place, you can name any radical policy goal, and it would have a shot at enactment -- without a judicial check to make sure the Constitution was followed. Socialized medicine, the end of fossil fuels, confiscatory tax levels and a huge reduction in military spending would all be on the table.
This scenario may be extreme, but every single part of it has been endorsed by mainstream liberals in recent times. Stopping this should be priorities number one, two and three. Stopping it only takes a win or two in two very winnable Georgia Senate races, yet we are not on course to stop it at all. The Democratic candidates in Georgia are surging and ahead in most recent Georgia polling. The Republicans are blowing these races.
If this trend continues and the Republicans lose in Georgia, leading to radical changes in our country, a lot of people are going to want answers as to how it all happened and who or what is to blame. That won't be hard to pinpoint.
First, Republicans have been oddly overconfident about these races. Georgia is no longer a reliably Republican state. Anyone banking on that is setting themselves up for a loss.
Second, in the wake of the highly charged national election, people are tired and emotionally drained. There seems to be some apathy over these Senate races. Given what's at stake, that has to change fast.
Finally, and most importantly, we are seeing some horrible Republican infighting with people purporting to act for the president, some of whom are even encouraging Republicans not to vote. It's not clear what's motivating these people. Some of it is just standard-issue tension between wings of the Republican party and grumbling among those who don't like the nominees. There's a time and place for that sort of thing. We call them primaries. They're over. The choice now is between the candidates we have, however imperfect, and a potentially radical Democratic agenda.
Some people encouraging Georgians not to vote are also raising and making incredible amounts of money off the current situation. It's not clear if that's what's motivating them, but if these seats are lost, it's a guarantee that people will be asking lots of questions to get to the bottom of that question. Some people prominently encouraging Georgia Republicans not to vote are also former Democrats. Is it beyond the realm of possibility that they are trying to sow discord among Republicans to help their former party? In today's politics, you can't rule anything out, as horrible as that would be.
Luckily, the president went down to Georgia to put to bed any debate over where he stands. He endorsed the Republican candidates and encouraged all Georgians to get out and vote for them.
The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., has been even more aggressive in calling out those purporting to act for his father: "If you sit back and allow apathy to take over ... you are literally giving the Democrats everything that they have hoped for ... My father's legacy ... everything that he's accomplished is on the table ... in this election. So, if you're a Trump guy ... you'd be foolish to listen to a few individuals who say, 'Ah, sit at home.' It's as though they're working for the Democrats."
These Georgia seats are still winnable, but Republicans urgently need to get their act together and explain to any Georgian right of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez what is really on the line. It's sort of amazing that hasn't happened yet. There's a good chance the people of Georgia don't want what the radical left is selling, but that case is not being made clearly enough today. The result could be a tragic loss leading to a new, more left-wing America.
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Neil Patel co-founded The Daily Caller, one of America's fastest-growing online news outlets, which regularly breaks news and distributes it to over 15 million monthly readers. Patel also co-founded The Daily Caller News Foundation, a nonprofit news company that trains journalists, produces fact-checks and conducts longer-term investigative reporting.
It doesn’t help matters with Lin Wood and Sidney Powell running around telling people “don’t vote in their rigged election.”
They cheated in GA and they expect us to use the same machines to vote again in January for all the marbles. If the steal succeeds, life gets ugly. We don’t want that, but we won’t allow leftists to rule us either.
Too many people believe that socialism is just like Christianity, but done through the government. Those people will not learn until they are dragged to never be seen again.
Freeze the Dominion machines— national security and go to DHS supplies paper ballots and the demonrat steal goes away.
Sydney Powell is saying that? That’s news to me.
“Democrats are livid about the Trump era. They feel wronged by President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks — even though the process that led to them was started by their own former leader Harry Reid. They feel wronged by Trump’s muscular use of executive authority”
This is total bullshit. Democrats want full control over the lives of everyone. Their outrage is only due to the lack of control they can exert over us.
The Senate races in GA won’t matter much once Republicans give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.
Perhaps Neil Patel should have a talk with the Bush League Republicans about that.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, Thommy Tillis and Johnny Cornball have already signed on and there are more that will vote to give away our country.
“If we get enough people to the polls, they can’t cheat enough to win”. /s
Meh, sooner or later it’s going to happen. Americans are stupid, they don’t think they feel, and the school system is churning out more and more Americans in that mold.
This article is ‘too complicated’ for many here to understand. It’s MUCH EASIER to simply let the Democrats destroy the country.
Bush League Republicans are livid about the Trump era, he messed up their plans to subsume US to the UN.
I get at least one mailing on this race everyday. Most days it is more than one.
Enabling election fraud for the opposition and then doing nothing about it is not a good strategy.
The REAL or continued crises is when we need to investigate the election fraud of Jan 5.
And Christ is the only one who could make socialism work.
Of course. The idea that the future of this country hinges on a couple Senate seats is GOTV nonsense. Doubly so as long as we have Quislings running the GOP.
C’mon folks.
Just sit back, quiet down and take it.
Again.
Remember when you held your nose and voted Romney?
Same thing.
Nothing will change if you just follow along.
if the R’s give away the GA elections to the DNC Election Theft Operation, this country will go into a hard core dictatorship the likes of which haven’t been seen since Europe in the 40’s or Iran today
Meh, sooner or later it’s going to happen. Americans are stupid, they don’t think they feel, and the school system is churning out more and more Americans in that mold.
And critically blue state Democrats are moving to places like GA, NC, TX and FL. Dems will be able to win these states legitimately in a few election cycles at most.
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