It’s unavoidable. You start with freedom which brings prosperity which brings comfort and plenty which brings complacency.  All it takes is a generation born into plenty.  They’ve never known what it takes to maintain freedom and produce the prosperity they take for granted. Naïveté and laziness ensues. Because food seems to magically appear in the grocery store and is endless they have no motivation to defend the system that produces it. They have no idea of the substructure underlying it: Free market economics and strong defense thereof. So they ignore the corruption rotting it all out from the inside.

That really describes us, the kids of the men who fought in World War 2. We were of course aware that our fathers fought for America and freedom, but it was history, not something we actually saw, and somehow was regarded by us unconsciously as something that “couldn’t happen again,” and we grew up not worrying about our next meal or feeling that our freedom, opportunity and prosperity were in any way threatened. All subsequent wars and skirmishes seemed distant to us and unable to penetrate our safe bubble, except for Vietnam, which was seen as a political disaster and not an actual threat to America except for the loss of blood and treasure it exacted.

Until 2001, we felt “safe.” It always was an illusion, and I can’t imagine really what all that has come down over the past few years and prior looks like to the younger generations, whose reference points to history and freedom are more distant than ours.

You just might be a Democrat if

If you are fine with showing your I.D. while entering a Costco warehouse but believe it’s beyond the pale to be asked to provide an I.D. when voting for the president of the United States, you just might be a Democrat.

If you like the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” but think chants of “USA, USA” are trite, offensive, and possibly violent, you just might be a Democrat.

If you strongly support continual increases in the minimum wage but are baffled and upset by increasing prices in goods and services, you just might be a Democrat.

If you dance a little jig of happiness when you hear that mask mandates may be coming back, you just might be a Democrat.

If you don’t want the border secured because you’re afraid you won’t be able to find a reasonably priced gardener or pool boy, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think the Obamas are beatific near-deities who tried their best to heal and unite the nation but that Trump is Hitler or the Antichrist, you just may be a Democrat.

If you get your news from “The View,” MSNBC, and Salon, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think NPR is utterly fair and balanced but Fox News is not, you just might be a Democrat.

If you look at Hunter Biden’s “paintings” and see a talented artist, you just might be a Democrat. (And if you purchase one, you just might be a Democrat donor.)

If you are glad that Oregon decriminalized possession of hard drugs and that federal, state, and local governments have greatly cracked down on cigarette smoking, you just might be a Democrat.

If you have always decried “Big Business” but recently find yourself liking Google, Facebook, Disney and Target, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think LeBron James is a perfect role model but Aaron Rodgers is a total and complete ass, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think wind power is vital to our “sustainable” future but don’t want wind turbines anywhere near where you live because they are a blight on the landscape, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think Jimmy Kimmel is funny but Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle are not, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think “The Squad” is mainstream but MAGA members are far-out extremists, you just might be a Democrat.

If you don’t believe prayer should be allowed in public schools—or at high school sports venues—but do believe that after-school Satan clubs have a Constitutional right to be held at school facilities, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe football should be banned because it’s too violent but support Antifa riots, transgender surgeries, medical-assisted dying, and abortion, you just might be a Democrat.

If you purport to believe that the best thing humans can do for the planet is to become extinct, you just might be a Democrat. (Put your money where your mouth is?)

If you think “Sanctuary Cities” should not have to deal with the massive influx of illegal aliens but the states that happen to abut the border should, you just might be a Democrat.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/you_just_might_be_a_democrat_if__part_ii.html

Yep.  They vote in higher percentages than men and they vote D more than men.

What could go wrong?

I think it was Michael Malice and Count Dankula I was listening to where they said a group of women can't get anything done (in the context of government) because they'll endlessly talk about it, and backbite each other, and can't get along.  Men can work as a team, more or less putting aside their differences for the sake of a job, at least are better at doing that than women.

The discussion was in the context of Scottish politics, where a party run by a woman is taking over by less than forthright means, a party that is far left, yet calls itself "nationalist" even though they're for open borders, because they want independence from the UK so they can go back and rejoin the EU.  Sound screwed up yet?

So they do stuff like this: Hold a public meeting to get input on proposed legislation, print the date and time for the meeting in the back page of some obscure publication, send out invites to a select group they know agrees with them, hold the meeting where of course most people favor the legislation, and then go before whatever Scotland has for a legislative body and tell them they got input from "the public" which overwhelmingly favors it.

THAT's the sort of shit leftists do.  And women, reminds me of high school, women are real good at excluding people they don't like and manipulating everybody to get what they want. I hated them in high school and have never liked your standard pack of hens. I like the kind of woman who isn't like that. Kari Lake maybe, or Becky here.

So the woman that runs this party was the protege of some man before her who was kind of a socialist but not quite as nutty as her, so he had retired and let her take over but thought she was going a bit too far so he said he wanted to come back, and guess what happened next?  MeToo allegations.  Some woman claimed he touched her knee at a party back in the 1990s.  And so now he's canceled. Coincidental timing? I think not.

Anyway that's something like the gist of it and now you don't have to listen to the hour and a half podcast.

I have never in my life understood why American Jews support Democrats.

I once asked Steingar that question and to the best of my recollection he said something like because the Jewish people feel strongly about taking care of those in need and that fits with the Democrat policies around safety nets for the poor, or compassion for those less fortunate or something along those lines.

That makes complete sense when you’re talking about sincere Democrats that actually are altruistic. But I don’t believe the Democrats in power (the likes of Biden, Pelosi, AOC, etc.) give two shits about people less fortunate. 

This is also the basis of leftist economic ideology (socialism, communism) where the more productive and more fortunate share and take care of the unfortunate.  This necessitates a system without private property rights.  This kind of system works well on the family and tribal level, and the Jewish people have considered themselves a closed “commune” if you will (such as not marrying outside their circle).

The trouble is, this kind of system doesn’t work at all at the nation state level, or for purposes of allocating resources between small groups or tribes.  For that you need trade, and for that you need private ownership of property and goods and a profit motive. The Jewish people are actually quite good at that, rising in the ranks of wealth in capitalist systems but retaining their compassionate idealism in how they vote.  This sounds hypocritical but it may be less hypocrisy than simply generational habit, much like blacks got stuck in multi-generational loops of voting Democrat.  They may feel they’re doing their part to take care of the poor by voting for leftist policies.

People who vote for leftist wealth redistribution policies come in two basic types: those who use a cloak of fake compassion to gain power for themselves, and those who actually believe policies such as welfare help people but are too stupid and/or uneducated to understand that in reality it has the opposite effect, or, are smart and educated but have certain blind spots. 

Jews on average (particularly the Ashkenazi) have higher intelligence than the U.S. average and so like all people with higher IQs fall prey to thinking they actually are more enlightened, and then they go to universities and get brainwashed with leftist ideology that has been taking over our universities since the 1950s.  Having a high IQ allows you to structure complex mental models of how the world “should” work, but doesn’t actually mean you are right and that they would in fact work in the real world.  All you have to do is be wrong about one of your basic premises and your entire theory falls apart. 

Leftists have one or more blind spots with their basic premises.  One of them is that the size of the economic pie is fixed.  Another is that what works on the family level can work at the nation state level. 

Yet another, and possibly the most insidious, is thinking that one’s action on a problem has only the effect you intend, when in reality your action changes the behavior of the subject and so can backfire and have the opposite effect you wanted. Providing safety nets from starvation lowers motivation to work and be productive, and ends up perpetuating and growing the problem rather than solving it.

Foreseeing unintended consequences is a talent few people possess, even those with high intelligence. Lawmakers miss the boat on that one in nearly everything they do.

Rush I think the same at least once daily. It’s amazing and scary what’s going on. Fucking Obama, rich now beyond belief living amongst rich white people in a mansion while still pushing this Marxist bullshit. The open boarder is so dangerous, I think it’s only a matter of time before something bad happens.

The dismantling of our election system, the gaslighting about basic biology, the inversion of discrimination reality (highly paid black and female politicians, academics and media diversity hires lecturing us about systemic white racism and misogyny from their very position proving the exact opposite), we are going to completely eliminate fossil fuels when fossil fuels support our entire existence, the explosion of surveillance everywhere erasing any semblance of privacy, federal agencies making lists of political opponents from nothing more than “liking” a DJT tweet, the imprisoning for years without due process of non-violent protestors, the mandate to put kill switches in our cars, I could go on. It’s like a waking nightmare.  This is not my USA.

There's something happening in Ukraine?

Yeah, but what it is ain't exactly clear.

nikki haley represents the dying gasp of the romney-mcconnell-mccarthy loser coalition.

Imagine the communist democrat party bragging about how the third place candidate was consolidating the never-obama wing of the communist party.

That is how pathetic and dishonest this story line is.