Posted on 12/31/2020 7:33:13 AM PST by Kaslin
With progressive radicals Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff on the ballot in the January Georgia Senate run-off elections — it is imperative to revisit why the coming fight matters in the first place.
As is well-known, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Presley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) encompass “The Squad.” This identification came to be when AOC posted a picture on Instagram with the four lawmakers at Congressional Freshman Orientation Week — captioned on November 12, 2018.
Yes, it is all so very touching.
There is a reason “The Squad” have banded together, as should be transparent by now. Since being elected, these four young, naïve representatives have advocated for likewise socialist reform and asserted controversial things that have no doubt landed them in hot water with both Democrats and Republicans. They have displayed staunch anti-Semitism and a disavowal of Israel, a commitment to a $93 trillion “Green New Deal,” as well as anti-American sentiments that would have rendered the Founders speechless.
In a 2019 New York Times op-ed, for instance, Rep. Ilan Omar likened the election of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to an African civil war.
Let’s be clear. Progressives such as these four individuals remain in the minority not only in the United States Congress — but in the nation as a whole. According to a 2016 YouGov poll, socialism is an ideology that overwhelmingly influences the youth. The research found that 43 percent of those 18 – 29 had a “favorable” view toward socialism, compared to 27 percent aged 30 – 64, and then only 23 percent of those 65+. A 2020 Marist poll similarly found that only 28 percent of adults had a positive view of socialism. Only 38 percent of millennials and Gen Z were accounted as having a favorable view as well (5 percent fewer than the 2016 study).
This data is certainly telling about the actual sorts of policies people favor. But we cannot become complacent in the perpetual fight for freedom. While this election was a major success for conservatism in districts across the country — having gained 13 house and one Senate seat — there are certainly similar “Squad” like radicals who were elected to office in 2020, or who are close.
One is Missouri congresswoman-elect Cori Bush. Bush supports Medicare for All, the “Green New Deal,” and even recently derailed against the left’s darling President Obama in his call to disavow defunding the police.
“It’s not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping people alive,” Bush responded, “Defund the police.”
As we turn our attention toward the Georgia Senate races, it is abundantly clear that Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff support a similar radical agenda as “The Squad.” Warnock even openly flirts with the term Marxism, something the four congresswomen have not used verbatim.
In a debate on Dec. 6, Warnock failed to condemn Marxism or socialism when asked by Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Further, Warnock has claimed that both “the Marxist Critique has much to teach the black church,” and that the black middle class should concentrate on the “hard questions about the distribution of wealth.”
We cannot overlook the dictatorial platform of Jon Ossoff either. According to his website, he supports “a ban on the sale of semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines,” as well as, “four-year degrees at our public colleges 100% debt-free.” Osoff backs a loan forgiveness program intended to force the American citizen to subsidize students going to college by unilaterally raising taxes. For a party that is endlessly obsessed with income inequality, the left’s notion that working-class Americans should subsidize trust fund babies’ college is laughable.
It is thus crucial for the very prosperity of America that Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue win the Georgia elections to help retain a GOP majority. Not because these two Republican candidates are particularly appealing; but because we cannot allow “The Squad” to gain any additional footing in Congress, and nor can we allow Biden to have a Senate at his disposal to push forward radical reforms such as packing the court, eliminating the filibuster, conferring Puerto Rico and Washington, DC statehood — and so on.
This means showing out for the elections like our civil liberties depend on it. Because they do.
President-elect Joe Biden may in fact hide behind a shroud of moderation, but his policies are not too far off from the utopian extremists. Among other championed positions, Biden has recently expressed support for ending cash bail, repealing “right to work” laws — which allow people the right to reject union membership — and notably wants to “provide a roadmap to citizenship for the millions of undocumented workers.”
Besides winning Georgia, the GOP needs to refocus on the overarching cultural issue at helm. Many conservatives today reject the idea of working across the aisle, given doing so often means catering to the left’s desired outcomes. I get it. The left bullies us around constantly.
But it could not be more important at this given time to at least try to do so.
Republicans need to work with the moderate Democrats in congress, in some capacity, to act as a bulwark against “The Squad” — and the inevitable progressives like Bush, Ossoff, and Warnock who will join up.
If we do not take up the mantle of our predecessors in opposing collective mob rule, the U.S. will succumb to increasing levels of what Dennis Prager refers to as “Sovietization.” We will fall to tyranny as many other great nations have — and are at this very moment.
It is our job to take this mantle with dignity, knowing full well what hangs in the balance.
Our freedom.
If it takes handing the Senate to Democrats to DESTROY THE COUNTRY, then let’s do it! Right Lin Wood?
They have displayed staunch anti-Semitism and a disavowal of Israel,
You cant make this stuff up:
<><> Repub Gov Kemp as Sec. of State, did the shady deal to get Dominion Systems’ rigged voting hardware and software,
<><> current Repub SoS Raffensperger, also enabled the massive fraud that took place Nov 3.
<><> Raffensperger helped Stacey Abrams and her fellow Dems pull off the scam,
<><> R’sperger refused to allow double-verification for signatures on absentee and mail-in ballots; Georgia state law requires two,”
<><> R’sperger refused to invalidate ballots that were not signed on the outside outer envelope,
<><> R’sperger refused to invalidate ballots where the outer envelopes were destroyed (w/ no idea who voted).
<><> R’sperger refused to give Repubs, as law requires, list of voters to see who died and who moved away, so as to challenge the results.
<><> R’sperger OK’ed election inspectors and watchers to throw out Repubs during the balloting process,
<><> he disallowed Repubs to even be in the room’s perimeter where paper ballots or verifications could be seen.
<><> R’sperger Sent Armed Secy of State Agents with Handcuffs to County That Complained about Inaccurate Dominion Machines.
AND THIS
<><>Stacey Abrams is running around GA w/ millions of phony absentee ballots stuffed in used pizza boxes for delivery runoff day;
<><> Stacey has a sister who’s a judge;
<><> Stacey’s sister rigged the runoff; she stopped the purging out-of-state voters from the voter rolls.
With Romney, Collins, Murkowski and other traitors in the GOP Senate caucus, at this point what difference does it make?
Aren’t all Rats commies?
Can also add Graham to that list.
I’m glad I’m not a GA resident, I’m really on the fence on which way I’d go. Theoretically, if we hold the Senate it would mean pushing back on much of the Dems plans for us.
But the GOPe is likely to cave on much of it anyway. I’m very tired of supporting a party that will not back Conservative ideals. I’m likely to stop participating in the election charade or vote Libertarian in future elections.
The democrat party and other progressive radicals has caused so much moral decay that it has put the republic at great risk if Biden is allowed to be in the WH it will be the end if of as we know it.
I happened to catch Blabbity’s radio show for the first time in years and was lucky enough that it was a guest host who interviewed a couple of Georgia based pub wonks. They didn’t sound too rosy at all.
Freegards
They’ll need a LOT MORE traitors to pass crap if either of the Republicans win (and thus hold the Senate, and thus keep the filibuster). Also, if either of the Republicans win, the courts DO NOT get stacked.
HUGE DIFFERENCE.
“We Cannot Allow the Radicals to Overtake Majority Dems”
THAT train pulled out already!!!
BTW-The so-called ‘radicals’ couldn’t get to square one, if the MSM didn’t idolize them and fail in their professional obligation to tell the ‘WHOLE story’ about radicalism and the basic intellectual and practical shallowness of these radicals’ views!!!!
You can’t win an election when one side openly cheats to win and nothing is done about it. When that happens, the system you have is not a free republic but something else...
“You can’t win an election when one side openly cheats to win and nothing is done about it. When that happens, the system you have is not a free republic but something else...”
Right now we don’t know how much cheating will occur in the Senate elections, nor how much the Republicans and the courts will push back. We can GUESS and same as it was with Trump, but I’m not so sure, as, like it or not, 90% of Republicans (judges included) wanted Trump out...so there are difference here.
The ONLY thing to be sure of is that if we ‘boycott’ the Georgia elections, the Democrats win, and they will do it WITHOUT CHEATING...so the country is done deal at that point (but I guess Lin Wood has enough money to not be concerned with that detail).
You’ll forgive some of us for not having much faith in the system as it currently exists. I don’t feel like playing for the Washington Generals anymore.
You can’t win an election when one side openly cheats to win and nothing is done about it.
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Maybe the military should hack into the GA voter machines to flip votes to Loeffler and Perdue so that the Dems can just suck on it when they can’t call fraud when we do it.
“You’ll forgive some of us for not having much faith in the system as it currently exists. I don’t feel like playing for the Washington Generals anymore.”
I hear you, and they sucked, always lost. We didn’t ALWAYS lose...but if people are cool with helping the Dems win without needing to cheat again, then so be it...and we’ll all deserve the punishment that awaits us.
GOP is irrevocably dead to me.
Hopefully I survive long enough to take part in rebuilding the country after its inevitable collapse, but if not, it has been a good run.
I’ve enjoyed sharing it with my fellow FReeper patriots!
I’m just about at the point where I don’t care anymore. The writing is on the wall. If not now, it’s only a matter of time before the radicals get it all.
“ the black middle class should concentrate on the “hard questions about the distribution of wealth.”
News flash: wealth isn’t distributed. It is earned. That is a concept that seems to elude some.
“I’m just about at the point where I don’t care anymore. The writing is on the wall. If not now, it’s only a matter of time before the radicals get it all.”
I agree if we lose the Senate, not quite as sure if hold the Senate. In any case, I’d rather fight to the end, than give Democrats what they salivate over without a fight.
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