Posted on 06/25/2021 6:31:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
H.R. 1, the For the People Act, was a messaging piece of legislation that was never meant to be passed. But Democrats are increasingly held hostage by the wing of the party that believes Twitter is real life. Now, the same forces seem intent on dismantling the Biden Administration.
First, the Twitter activists of the left bought into the For the People Act rhetoric. The progressive base fully believes the GOP is dismantling democracy. News anchors roared that the GOP couldn't even debate saving democracy or protecting the right to vote.
Most Americans do not care. They support needing a photo ID to vote, but the Democrats insisted that hurts Black people even though Black people support the use of photo ID. White Democrats in Washington and progressive enclaves do not.
The Democrats' hardcore base of Twitterati forgot or never knew that H.R. 1 was not supposed to get passed into law, but they made its passage a hill to die on. They died. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, two Democrats, refused to kill the filibuster, saving other Democrats from a vote they did not want.
The base, demoralized by that defeat, then saw Republicans take over the infrastructure plan and, in so doing, gut its Green New Deal framework, which deemed that anything and everything could be infrastructure.
So, what's the next step?
Apparently, it is gun control to solve the crime problem. Democrats have convinced themselves, again largely due to the Twitterati, that the solution to the crime wave is to call it "gun violence" and make it even harder to buy guns while they continue to defund the police.
A record number of Americans are buying guns. Non-white citizens and women are rushing to protect themselves because police are leaving their jobs. A crime wave is upon us, and Democrats keep gutting police budgets while saying they are not gutting those budgets.
Having President Biden declare gun violence the problem and propose a gun control solution that will die in the Senate like everything else may rally the progressive base, but it will demoralize that base, too, when it fails. Maybe it will get progressives enraged enough to overwhelm elections with sustained, angry momentum. But I doubt it. I doubt it because it signals a tone-deafness that will provoke a backlash from Americans who are not hyperpartisan.
In the last forty eight hours, news anchors have started talking about gun violence as the President rolls out his agenda to combat it. It is striking how quickly the press gravitated to the talking point. It is also striking they think anyone with half a brain will really believe guns are the problem right now instead of a crime wave that people like Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor of Atlanta, are blaming on Republican governors for reopening America too soon.
Only a party captured by Twitter could be so out of touch with reality. Americans are buying guns at record rates not to commit a crime, but to protect themselves from criminals. Saying there is a gun violence problem instead of a crime problem deflects from the sticky questions of which party's policies sparked it. But it also is disconnected from reality.
It is destined to go nowhere in the Senate and mobilize a slew of new gun owners against the Democrats. After all, it is hard to still claim people buy guns without background checks when literally millions of voters just bought their first guns and were required to have gun background checks.
Oh, did I mention the whole plan will die in the Senate while the Democrat base, like they did with the For the People Act, goes hysterical about it on and offline, alienating more Americans? This is not a smart move. It is a move best explained by a Democratic Party that is captured by an out of touch elite that thinks Twitter is reality.
It also probably explains why Joe Biden finally wants Kamala Harris to go to the border. It's better to have another Kamala Harris-fueled PR disaster than have people focus on the impotence of the Biden presidency.
All these things like Twitter are appearances, simulations. Everybody know that, or should. For that matter, the world is not reality.
It’s part of a huge fever swamp instigating crazy people.
Not only is Twitter not reality ; leftists live in an alternate universe
Here’s the problem for Democrats socialists and communists in General
They don’t really have any core beliefs
They’re pretty sure that they themselves are the center of the universe ; and there is no greater good ; God ; or anything higher to aspire to
Thus like a see from a pussy willow , they will be blown about with any kind of wind
This is known as group think
It can be extremely organized in seizing power !!! as Maoists leftist and communist have been known for over the century or so that communism is really been around
The problem for them is once they SEIZE power
Over and over in history we have seen the killing fields ; purges ,and the slaughter of tens of millions of people when this occurs
Of course they murder the opposition as soon as they can because they cannot compete in the arena of ideas , as Rush has famously said many times over the years
Looking at it now I think it is the best thing that has ever happened to this country that are great and wonderful president Donald J Trump allowed them to complete the STEAL
First of all there’s no way we would’ve ever had a chance to completely uncover all of their myriad ways of cheating and defrauding the American public and once they see his power to introduce themselves and never be able to be removed like in California and New York
Second ( and we’ve seen this before ) is now they are on full display caterwauling and lurching left and right and left and right from crazy I did a crazy idea and the American public can see just how rudderless they are
What we seen since the era of Bill Clinton who is a pretty smart politician actually is that the hard left the AOC Mark says is really taking over the center of the party and this has been happening since Bernie Sanders Easley should’ve won the nomination in 2016 but was cheated and denied by the Democrats
Even the Democrats knew that Bernie would’ve been poison
It must be rather strange being those octogenarians Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer and the old guard trying to keep these idiot children in line
They certainly don’t know what to do about the Arizona audit but know that it’s rolling along and at some point there’s going to be a devastating report presented
They’re not used to having to wait wait wait and not be able to just throw bombs innuendo accusations and smear peoples characters and sick the DOJ and FBI on them
Kudos to Arizona for that
Well we’re all looking forward to President trumps wonderful speech tomorrow in Ohio that should be a barn burner!
Call President Trump go!
Save America!
It's the democratic KKK that advertised that blacks are unfit to do anything, and it was the genius of their successors e.g. LBJ who understood that insisting on the welfare state created a massive pool of funds that the liberal establishment could skim off the top of - so much that they are now consuming the dregs at the bottom of the welfare barrel - like everything else that the DC swamp gets its hands on
But things those nutcases on Twitter want are actually making a lot of inroads.
BTTT
Twitter is not reality. BUT, Twitter is an excellent gauge of how the most powerful institutions of America - news media, academia, entertainment and corporations - are reacting to important issues of the day.
In that context, it’s an invaluable tool.
But Democrats are increasingly held hostage by the wing of the party that believes Twitter is real life …Democrats are not “held hostage” by anyone, as if there are loyal Americans in there instead of rabid Reds. Erickson acting as apologist again.
Yes they do have core beliefs and they act on them.
Those beliefs are that family, private property, religion and borders must be abolished.
Erick Erickson is a totally discredited turncoat and that’s being polite.
Doesn’t matter what he says, just ignore it. He could write an essay on water is wet and you’d be at risk of being sucked into his orbit by reading it.
Just like a broken analog timepiece, Irk Irksome can get things right...on occasion...
Wrong. They needed it to pass . The only way to guarantee no consequences for stealing the election was obtaining absolute power to crush their opposition. They are still only two flaky RAT Senator votes away killing the Filibuster.
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