Posted on 03/12/2019 9:34:24 AM PDT by MountainWalker
In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College.
Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it is today for California Republicans, and to convert the GOP into America's permanent minority party.
In the Golden State, Democrats control the governors' chair, every elective state office, both U.S. Senate seats, 46 of 53 U.S. House seats and three-fourths of each house of the state legislature in Sacramento.
How does the left expect to permanently dispossess Middle America?
Let us count the ways.
In 2018, over 60 percent of Floridians voted to expand the electorate by restoring voting rights to 1.5 million ex-cons, all of Florida's felons except those convicted of sex crimes and murder.
Florida gave Bush his razor-thin victory over Al Gore. Should Trump lose Florida in 2020, he is a one-term president. If the GOP loses Florida indefinitely, the presidency is probably out of reach indefinitely.
Florida's Amendment 4 is thus a great leap forward in the direction in which the republic is being taken. Gov. Terry McAuliffe of the swing state of Virginia restored voting rights to 156,000 felons by executive order in 2016, calling it his "proudest achievement."
In California and Oregon, moves are afoot to reduce the voting age to 17 or 16. Understandable, as high schoolers are more enthusiastic about socialism.
Last week, a bold attempt was made by House Democrats to lower the U.S. voting age to 16. It failed -- this time.
Some House Democrats apparently feel that with "Medicare-for-all" and the Green New Deal of Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez on the table, they have enough progressive legislation to satisfy the socialist base.
Thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown, every adult citizen in California who gets or renews a driver's license, gets a state ID card, or fills out a change of address form with the Department of Motor Vehicles is automatically registered to vote. Purpose: expand voter rolls to include those who have shown no interest in politics, so they can be located on Election Day and bused to the polls.
Ari Berman of Mother Jones writes that Nancy Pelosi's 700-page For the People Act that did pass the House contains "a slew of measures designed to expand voting rights, which ... include nationwide automatic voter registration, Election Day registration, two weeks of early voting in every state ... restoration of voting rights for ex-felons, and declaring Election Day a federal holiday."
House Republicans offered an amendment to the bill with language that said, "allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens."
All but six Democrats voted against the GOP proposal.
The Democratic Party does not want to close the door to voting on migrants who broke our laws to get here and do not belong here, as these illegals would likely vote for pro-amnesty Democrats.
If the new U.S. electorate of, say, 2024, includes tens of millions of new voters -- 16- and 17-year-olds; illegal migrants; ex-cons; new legal immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America who vote 70 to 90 percent Democratic, the political future of America has already been determined.
California, here we come.
As a Democratic insurance policy, Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen has introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College.
Some Republicans support statehood for Puerto Rico, which would add six electoral votes that would go Democratic in presidential elections about as often as Washington, D.C.'s three have, which is always.
Ben Franklin told the lady in Philadelphia, "We have a republic, if you can keep it." Our elites today, however, ceaselessly celebrate "our democracy."
Yet John Adams was not optimistic about such a political system: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide."
Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong believer in a "natural aristocracy" among men, was contemptuous: "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49."
Madison wrote in Federalist 10, "democracies ... have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
If one day not far off, as seems probable, tax consumers achieve a permanent hegemony over the nation's taxpayers, and begin to impose an equality of result that freedom rarely delivers, the question of who should choose the nation's rulers will be tabled anew.
We do not select NFL coaches or corporate executives or college professors or generals or admirals by plebiscite. What is the empirical evidence that this is the best way to choose a president or commander in chief?
Peoples are wondering that the world over, as our democracy does not appear to be an especially attractive stock.
“We must remember, Democrats are no longer a political party that solves societal problems.
Democraps are an invading army waging war on us....a peaceful people.”
They are, and they’ve planned the invasion well. The system is rigged in their favor. This won’t end well.
The bottom line is that America’s political,business, academic and media elites have short sold America’s future and have invested all in on America’s continued decline
That’s a fact
I don’t understand why a party would want to win through underhanded means like letting another continent’s people swarm through the border.
That’s like plagiarism or something. You didn’t really win. You just stole.
Socialists/Communists have more excuses for their failures than you’ll find grains of sand at the beach. In their deranged narcissism, they believe they know exactly why all of those who failed before them and how to correct their mistakes. They view their poor voters as those who’ve still been oppressed by us, even as their circumstances improve under Trump. Their cognitives shall never be dissonated.
They point to Sweden as their model state - a small, (formerly) homogeneous Nordic country with a common culture and work ethic. Does that sound like the United States in literally any way? A very tiny country can carry a handful of freeloaders, but I’d like to hear the explanation of how taking in millions upon millions of destitute Latin Americans will make us more like Sweden. I don’t expect to ever get an answer because there is no answer.
Lot of highway, on a lot of trucks, carrying a lot of food. Sure be tough if it didn't get to Blue State Supermart, if it even got harvested. Jus' sayin'.
Steve King got pulled from his commitees. Don't recall that happening to Congresswoman Oman, did it?
There them flaccid, GOP peckers while the donkeys laugh. Just tip of the iceberg people. Tip of the iceberg.
“I don’t see a Republican president beyond Trump.”
The immigration act of 1965 was specifically designed to end the country.
The window of opportunity to reverse it is quickly being shut. Looks like the wall will be completed just in time to keep all the immigrants in rather than out.
I understand my reply contained coarse/vulgar/locker room language. I felt it was necessary to bring the proper attention to the subject. Perhaps, I should have provided some sort of warning but I didn’t think it was excessive. Thanks
Yes. After Trump, the Republicans have no bench except for, well, more Republicans. One would suppose that one has six years, at the most, to get one’s affairs accordingly in order.
I was very bullish on Trump winning reelection until he turned our foreign policy over to John Bolton.
Partition is the only way we can save what is worth saving.
Not excessive, just the truth.
We complain about the RATs getting what they want through incrementalism. The Republicans attain what the RATs want by incrementalism also.
The Republicans incrementalism isn’t of substance though, it is of numbers. On almost every issue that the GOP should be 100% against (or for) there will ALWAYS be a few that will be contrarian. Seldom the same few, but always some. Then comes that marvelous “bi-partisan compromise” where there NEVER should have been one.
The RATs are the express train to the ruination of our once great nation. The Republicans are the local.
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