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.
A milquetoast establishment GOPer is no longer going to cut it for the presidency anymore.
As today, 30 years ago Pat was Trump, maybe more so.
Buchanan uses Middle America for White, and Dispossessed for replaced. And yes, he nails is and no, I don’t see a Republican president beyond Trump.
” I’m reasonably bullish on Trump’s chances in 2020, but I’m not at all optimistic about 2024 and beyond ... “
Let’s see, that will get me to 66. By then, I’ll just watch them burn it down, because that’s what’s coming.
One of the more amazing things I see in Democrat voters is that they are convinced and confident of their superiority. So much so, that Democrat voters can’t grasp that their votes, and elected Democrats are the cause of their poor circumstances.
We let them take the schools. We let them indoctrinate the masses. We are all going to pay the price for that.
I agree the party will be over in 2024. I can’t think of one decent GOP candidate. Likely a Dem will win.
Democrats will turn democracy into a combination of mob rule and an American Idol competition
Even if they do none of that, successful propagandizing of the young to embrace socialism will achieve those goals in about ten years.
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, maybe?
He just told opponents of Constitutional carry to find some other place to live.
A full on invasion/collapse of our southern border with millions coming in by 2020 and then tens of millions after that will assure the collapse of the existing structure of the US Then we will see a burn it down scenario and those with the most guns and the willingness to use them will be the new rulers of whatever comes from the anarchy.
Pat nailed a lot of it. But I was unaware that Trump’s electoral college win was narrow.
Matt Bevin or maybe Jim Jordan.
In days gone by a candidate of either stripe could customize each speech they made to each different group. Since we had to rely on video tape from a news room and hold our breath until they showed it to us on the evening news, we missed all the other speeches the candidate made. A lib could pretend to be one thing during the campaign and then turn around and say different things at the next stop.
Those days are long gone.
The left can't just cut their hair, put on a suit and pretend to be a conservative to get the votes and then do a left turn once in office.
AOC is the best example of what I mean. She has got the others in her party flustered, not because of what she says but because of the fact that she is supposed to hide at least some of it.
With our lightening fast communication there is no cover. A candidate and their motives are now on full display.
This is a good thing.
People in the cities vote Democrat because they believe it is in their best economic interest to do so.
There is a culture of corruption in the big cities.
The Democrat voters embrace that culture of corruption because they are used to it and they think they can profit from it.
They vote for Democrat politicians hoping that the Democrat politicians will hand out a little of the loot they steal.
Unions assure that government will be ran by workers that couldn’t hold a job anywhere else, and will be paid 2X what they are worth.
Without the useless slugs working in Government covering for the Demonrats, they couldn’t get elected dog-catcher.
Everybody knows Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City didn’t just “lose” $800,000,000.
It went into Democrat pockets.
He’s just part of the Democrat culture of corruption.
The GOP knows it's future and for me that explains their quisling behavior. When the music stops they'll simply change clothes from R to D making the Uniparty a formality.
Matt Bevin or maybe Jim Jordan.
Would that be the same Jim Jordan that voted FOR the recent pro-islam resolution in the House?
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll108.xml
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.
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