[ProtectOurFreedom]

There's nothing wrong with their "messaging." It's very clear to those whose eyes are open and want to see...

[Steve_Seattle]

An excellent piece. He siezes on the left’s rhetorical use of the phrase “our democracy” as a way of hiding its real agenda and demonizing any resistance to it.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . those who object to being constantly called Confedero-Nazis and told that their role in our civic life is to get nothing and like it?"

And in recent months we are being told by the MSM how much we will prefer things when we have no house, no car, no beef, no pork, no options, no right to our own opinion, no right to information, no right to practice our religion, no right to influence our own children, and no say in how anything is done. And they say we are the enemies of "democracy."

[RatRipper]

It is NOT a messaging problem. They do what they damned well please because they have defeated all of our republic’s mechanisms of accountability to the people.

[Steely Tom]

[Democracy] == [doing what Democrats want]

[laconic]

Robert Kagan is a neocon warmonger and William Kristol associate who has no hands-on military experience but whom Bush listened to in entering useless long-term wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with the devastation that caused for American veterans and their families as well as the people of those countries. He is married to Victoria Nuland of the Biden State Department who was a leader in pushing the damaging lie known as the Steele Collusion Dossier. Kagan needs to go with the Dems, stay there, and take his plague of beliefs with him.

[Publius]

I rarely invoke the Federalist/Anti-Federalist ping list, but two articles today touch tangentially on the subject from opposite poles.

This is the second article, which is the view from the Right.

[Terry L Smith]

I have been against Communism from the day that I learned a bearded cigar chomping sumbitch in Cuba was threatening my very life with missiles.

I do not suffer well the less than dirt politicians that call themselves socialist or communist without impunity.
Not in a land that stands against all things they preach.

[43north]

This is a good read. The author nails it.

[sauropod]

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[Tench_Coxe]

This part caught my eye:

"Blue America offers to Red nothing but scorn, contempt, hatred, insult, humiliation, calumny, outsourcing, open borders, layoffs, lower wages, opioids, losing wars, censorship, trumped-up treason accusations, surveillance, anarcho-tyranny, pre-trial detention, mask mandates, lockdowns, Critical Race Theory, and cancellation. And then not only gets enraged when Red America objects, but demands Red reverence and gratitude in return."

If you read any site that talks about domestic abuse, its the same dynamic. And if this dynamic is not stopped, it will have the same results.

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, some of the people quoted in the article are either mentally ill, or cynically manipulative for whatever their own ends happen to be.

I think what they (as in the people the author is referring to) fear is either their victims just walk away (abandonment), or their victims decide the only way to make it stop (disclaimer-I am not advocating, just making an observation) is to kill their abusers.

My fear is we may be getting too far along in the dynamic without one of those two options, because it seems one side is incapable of stopping themselves.

[higgmeister]

Reds are not included—except as subjects.

Reds in this case means conservative Republicans.   Reds in the past meant Communists, like the Red Chinese and the Soviets under The Internationale Red Banner of the hammer and sickle ☭.

Words mean something so TPTB change the meaning of the word.   Like Liberal now means Leftist but Classic Liberal once meant what we now call Conservative.

Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market, civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on limited government, economic freedom, and political freedom.

I'm sick of being rebranded and marginalized while we just take it without a complaint.

[Still Thinking]

Longtime neoconservative fixture and now Blue enforcer Robert Kagan declared that the only legitimate posture for Republicans going forward is complete acquiescence to the Democratic agenda. From “government spending” to “defense” to “immigration” to “the persistent covid-19 pandemic” to ”election reform” to the filibuster, the message is the same: give us everything we want or you will be fomenting “mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves.”

Or.....they (the idiots) could just immediately acquiesce to everything we normals want and peace would be preserved. If they're unwilling to do that, dividing the country might be a necessary evil. And since when is unchallenged feral authority a good thing anyway??

[Pajamajan]

IMO there are three parties:

1. Criminal Party (also known as Democrats): Massively corrupt at every level-Operates solely to benefit the 1% of members at highest level of The Party (multi-billionaire elitists and corporations).

Rips off taxpayers. Promises free everything. Delivers nothing. Creates chaos and division among the public in order to hide its criminality.

2. Accomplice Party (also known as Republicans): Most members strive to assist , and cover up for, the Criminal Party (see above).

These are also corrupt, rip off taxpayers, and make promises to voters they never keep.

The differencence between the Accomplice Party and the Criminal Party, is that the Accomplice Party members will claim to be Patriots, (see below), claim to be for freedom, and for Representative government to be run according the U.S Constitution, but, they are lying. (They assist the Criminal party as previously stated.)

3. Patriot Party (also can be known as the Republican, Libertarian, and Independent parties): Certain individual members of the possible branches of the Patriot Party (Republican, Libertarian, Independent), actually read, and have basic understanding of, the U.S Constitution, and strive to return the United States to the principals stated in its founding documents.

They make promises they intend to keep, and try to help the people be freed from the corruption, and tyranny put on them by the Criminal and Accomplice parties, but, they are often thwarted by these two, and sadly, also outnumbered by them.

Still, they continue to make heroic efforts to free the country (see President Donald Trump).

[TBP]

“For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.”

Proof that the left wants us dead. ALL of us.