by Jack
As the saying goes, they can’t see the forest through the trees. Democrats still don’t think that throwing Bernie under the bus in a top level conspiracy had a thing to do with their stunning defeat! That scandal, as revealed in WikiLeaks emails, caused the party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz to resign under pressure or be fired. The very next chairwoman to take over the helm is caught feeding Hillary the questions to the upcoming debate! But, the establishment Dems don’t think this lack of moral behavior was even remotely responsible for losing votes? lol
But, the fall from grace didn’t just start with Trump’s election. During the 2010 mid-term election the Dems lost 77 seats in the House. That should have been a clue the party was headed in the wrong direction. In 2012 Dems suffered major losses again, including huge hits in the governor races. In the Senate, the Democrats lost all the states where they were behind in the polls coming into election day: West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana, Arkansas, Iowa and Colorado; the Republicans winning all these by at least 5%. Democrats also lost North Carolina by 2%, a state where they were narrowly ahead in pre-election polls. By now, counting all major elections, they had given up about 700 seats. That is a devastating rout by anyone’s measure and still they didn’t want to admit anything was wrong within the party and they eagerly moved to the presidential race.
When Obama robbed Medicare of $500B to shore up his Obamacare, it rattled a lot of senior democrat voters, and GOP seniors were more resolved than ever to dump democrat candidates. The bailouts, the wasteful spending, the escalating debt…it all was building up towards monument disaster.
For at least several decades the democrat party has indulged in class warfare. The butt of their attacks were not the rich liberals or rich minorities, only the rich whites. Whitey was fair game. The mocking and insults were unrelenting; heck liberals couldn’t insult Whites, especially Christian Whites enough! And this was followed by wealth redistribution polices and scare tactics that just didn’t go over well with middle America.
However, union members suffered when their liberal policies started costing them jobs and big factories moved away from America. Wealth redistribution was going to Mexico and China.
Many of the so-called rich that were under siege were often just working class folks. Sure they may have owned a million dollar farm, but farming is a tough business and by the time the government got into their pockets they were far from rich, they were more like an oppressed class. But, for those democrats in the city, those folks were just bumkins, eh, who cares about them?
The more tax and spend liberals had their way, the more the middle class suffered and none of the party establishment types were paying any attention to the damage they were doing! They were too busy courting the big city votes, and rural Americans were being kicked to the curb. The Dems didn’t have time for them, they didn’t want to hear their complaints and instead they partied on with their sanctuary city voters, their illegals and leftist radicals. They didn’t hear middle class America with their more traditional morals and values, values that were far removed from those of the beltway and inner-city.
The democrats were just too wrapped up in the old issues that were no longer as relevant as they thought. Their arrogance and indifference to the middle class American cost them and they may never recover from that loss.
The Silent Majority of earlier years spoke very loudly this time around. TheDonald was created by the Demwits’ arrogance and ignorance of how folks thought outside the Beltway.
The Demwits will blame everyone and everything including the kitchen sink for their failures, as it’s always someone else’s fault with Liberals. Simply put – the Libs failed to see the handwriting on the wall. Looking forward to at least 4 years of restoring sanity.
Exactly Jack. The elites in DC and the NY media thought everyone wanted to live like they do in their little apartments stacked on top of one another in skyscrapers and over pizza joints. It never occurred to them millions of us like living in small towns and rural communities where if you need help your neighbor or church community is a phone call away. They honestly believe they live the good life and we all wanted it too. How wrong they were.
Here in Chico every other person just about is from the LA or Bay areas, who moved here to get away from the rat race and to enjoy life…. really enjoy life. We just have to ensure the new city council doesn’t try to herd us like cattle to live in apartments downtown on top of stores instead of new homes built on a half acre or more.
“The democrats were just too wrapped up in the old issues that were no longer as relevant as they thought.”
Like what, for instance?
Most likely it was these:
Barack Obama: “I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?”
John Kerry on the troops: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Howard Dean: “We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.”
Rosie O’Donnell: “Don’t fear the terrorists. They’re mothers and fathers.”
Al Gore: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
Congressman Hank Johnson on Guam: “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,”
Pick an issue, any issue, and most Democrats are convinced there is only one way to think about it and one approach, policy wise. They’ve convinced themselves that the opposition is filled with ignorant backward people and so therefore they are justified to take the lead (Even if they have to cheat). Decades of such arrogance has rendered them intolerant, biased, bigoted, lacking in creativity, and tone deaf. There is no room for dynamic problem solving, there is only being right.
A few have begun to notice that something isn’t working. We’ll see if any of them can set aside the arrogance and begin to change their ways. Right now it doesn’t look good.
“Pick an issue, ….”
That is an evasion. You failed to name one. Name one. Just one. I double-dog dare you.
You are all platitude and pablum. Racist, sexist, and homophobic platitude and pablum.
Apparently you don’t retain much of what you read.
Immigration
Gay marriage
Tax rates
Healthcare
How to grow an economy
The environment
We’ve discussed all of them and more many times. I say again:
Pick an issue, any issue, and most Democrats are convinced there is only one way to think about it and one approach, policy wise. They’ve convinced themselves that the opposition is filled with ignorant backward people and so therefore they are justified to take the lead (Even if they have to cheat). Decades of such arrogance has rendered them intolerant, biased, bigoted, lacking in creativity, and tone deaf. There is no room for dynamic problem solving, there is only being right.
Stuff it Libby…you are the one with empty retorts and accusations, in fact, yes! You did it again:
You just can;t help yourself. You’re all hate and attitude based on nothing more than your own prejudices and bigotry.
Re Tina to Lippy “You’re all hate and attitude based on nothing more than your own prejudices and bigotry.”
BINGO!
The next generation of Snowflake Zombies is being groomed —
Maryland Public School Offering Counseling Because Hillary Lost
Speaking of losers, did you hear this great news? You know what they say about paybacks?
Democrat Who Destroyed Christian Bakery Just Got CRUSHED In Election:
“Brad Avakian has served as commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries since 2008. In that role, he achieved national notoriety for investigating Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a bakery that refused to furnish a wedding cake for two lesbians on the grounds that doing so would violate the owners’ Christian beliefs. In 2015, Avakian levied a $135,000 fine on the store’s owners, Aaron and Melissa Klein, declaring that their refusal to produce the cake wasn’t protected by the First Amendment and instead was simply illegal discrimination. In October, the bakery shut down entirely.
While the Kleins’ business was going downhill, Avakian turned his sights to higher office. In last week’s general election, he ran for Oregon secretary of state. But in an upset, Dennis Richardson, a former state representative and gubernatorial candidate, trounced Avakian. Richardson will become the first Republican to win an Oregon statewide office in 14 years, and the first Republican secretary of state since 1985.
It’s pretty telling about Oregon that no Republican has held statewide office in 14 years, but it’s even more telling that they actually had the cajones to get rid of such a horrible little man like Avakian. Maybe some of those on the Left realized that the Bill of Rights is in place to protect ALL people, not just those who they see fit.
You don’t have to be a Christian to see that these people were targeted. Neither Avakian or the ‘Gaystapo’ targeted Muslim or Jewish bakeries who would have the same reaction as the Christian bakery. Religious Freedom is one of the fundamentals of this country, unless you’re a Democrat.
If you’re a Democrat, the only people who have protected Religious Freedom rights seem to be those who aren’t Christian.
Kudos to Oregon voters for ridding their state of at least one left wing bigot. Maybe voters realized that if the state is allowed to attack one religion, their religion could be next.”
A bit tongue-in-cheek, but some interesting observations in Indiana—
The Czar got three things wrong this election: he originally said in 2012 that the Republicans were certain to lose in 2016. He said that Hillary Clinton would not run because she was inherently unelectable. He also predicted Donald Trump would be destroyed on Tuesday. We admit that, and we got the salient points of that wrong.
The Czar does not like being wrong, but he assumed the media was controlling the message and that the hagiographies of Hillary Clinton would overpower the under-working Donald Trump. The Mandarin, on the other hand, took note of what the folks were saying. And although the election was over, the Czar decided to check up on that.
Let’s be honest—the right-wing echo chamber is just as roomy as the left-wing echo chamber, and the Czar needs to get out of its dim depths once in a while.
Yesterday, the Czar and his family drove down West 90 to Highway 31, deep into Indiana. This was a gorgeous drive, with red, bronze, and orange trees and shiny ponds reflecting the deep cornflower blue skies that happen this late in the year. Punctuating this sea of Autumn woods were century-old farmhouses with a mid-season mix of pumpkins and Christmas lights. Desultory smoking leaf piles in yards put a few patches of spicy fire into the air, teasing you for a second as the vehicle shot through them with the scent of homecomings, apple cider, football, and pickup trucks. And everywhere, work was being done: people with dirt up to their elbows digging, building, and maintaining. Horses seemed to be the only ones taking it easy, with their winter hair coming in as they fearlessly grazed in cool but comfortable temperatures.
By October, there were no Clinton/Kaine signs to be found around here. One could have traveled from Lowell to Madison, Indiana, and seen nothing but Trump/Pence signs everywhere. This was the state that nominated Trump; it was also a state that elected him. And the Czar talked about politics with them yesterday—for hours, more precisely, we let them talk to us. The Czar found a lot that was interesting in the Crossroads State.
Indiana wants to change the world. They feel that Mike Pence is the guy who will actually run the presidency, with Trump acting more of the spokesperson. Pence is the COO to Trump’s CEO, and Trump’s appointment of Mike Pence as head of the transition team confirmed this for a few of our pontificators: Trump effectively gave the keys to the country to Mike Pence, whom they view as the lever who will move the world back to some sanity.
Most critical to Hoosiers was the Republican Senate. With a Republican Senate and House, a President Hillary Clinton would have been kneecapped the second she pretended to take the oath. But with a President Trump, only good can move forward: any of Trump’s bad ideas—and we heard a bit about them, too—would be similarly stopped by Congress; but any of his good ideas would be blessed immediately.
Like the repeal of Dodd-Frank. That law was a terrible blow to Indiana: many Indiana businesses depend on each other. If one business doesn’t get funded by a loan, it can’t pay its debts to a supplier. That supplier can’t pay its debts to distribution. The distributor can’t pay its debts to the manufacturer, and so on, until it comes full circle. While this is obvious across the country as an economics lesson, it’s the primary business model in the Hoosier state: every business owner in Indiana, it seems, can recite by name every other owner with whom he or she does business, and how much money each is owed. It’s why Obama wasted a trip to Elkhart in 2012 to sell a fantasy that he had turned things around. The news that the likely repeal of Dodd-Frank is a couple months of way is like hearing footsteps on the roof at Christmas Eve. Indianans think this is probably how the rest of the country should react. too.
And no, not so much the Second Amendment or immigration: those topics never really came up except in casual mention. But the rioting happening in weird, exotic places like Portland or New York or (shudder) Chicago gets a shrug and headshake of disbelief. We now see the Hillary supporters for who they really are, it is said, and the violence indicates how a Hillary Clinton would really govern. That the violence seems confined to a few local areas run by Democrats is just further indication that nearly all Americans once again agree with Indiana.
No, Governor Mike Pence is not the twin of Ronald Reagan; but to Indiana he is a fundamentally good, decent man who kept taxes low and helped save the state from ruin. Dealing with the whackjobs in Gary, Indianapolis, and Bloomington was easy because he put a lot of them back to work, lowered their gas prices, and even wiped out their estate taxes. His biggest public relations failure was the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which most Hoosiers think was the right decision to make. Yes, it made Pence look like he didn’t give a crap about snowflakes, which is how it looked during his debate against Kaine when Pence refused to apologize for or even acknowledge Trump’s ill manners. He’s not worried about annoying people who will never support him anyway.
And this guy, not Trump, is the guy they see running the country. But Indiana isn’t looking for anyone’s thanks or gratitude. They just quietly, and not so quietly, think you’re going to like the way things turn out. Indiana sure did, and they’d love to tell you about it.
Link–
http://www.gormogons.com/index.php/2016/11/america-from-the-crossroads/
Mike Pence is a fundamentally good, decent man to many more than Indianans, despite Trump’s failings.
Let’s have a “Convention of States” party. No better time than now.
Libs Worried About Trump Should Be MORE WORRIED By These 2 Maps:
“One of the so called “far-fetched” dreams of conservatives is a “Convention of the States,” which would enable a literal re-shaping of the Constitution.
But with a Trump election, it’s even more possible than you think, especially considering that Republicans now control the vast majority of legislatures and governor’s offices in the United States. Here’s how the map of GOP legislative control looks:”
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/libs-worried-about-trump-should-be-more-worried-by-these-2-maps?utm_source=COTR&utm_medium=COTR&utm_campaign=COTR
This Noam Chomsky meltdown is positively delicious.
The Republican Party Has Become the Most Dangerous Organization in World History
Well, at least one of the MSM big boys gets it. Report the new, don’t make it up. Will others learn too? Probably not.
Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/
A good follow-up to the above article.
There’s At Least ONE Member Of The Media Who’s Willing To Learn From This Election…:
http://www.chicksontheright.com/theres-at-least-one-member-of-the-media-whos-willing-to-learn-from-this-election/
Another great article by Thomas Sowell.
What Now?:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442178/trump-republicans-introspection-necessary-after-election?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=what-now&utm_medium=nr&utm_content=sowell
My neighbor is a white male, drives a 4×4, hunts deer, chops wood for winter, and a steel working UNION member. His union always tells him to vote democrat and he’s pretty loyal to them.
Not any more.
He’s sick of being told he’s a racist bigot.
He’s sick of the democrats sacrificing jobs at the altar of environmental extremism.
Don’t even bring up the spoiled college kids who would take one look at him and cry for their safe spaces.
Like so many others he is fed up. The democrats left him, and many like him behind.
BUT. If Republicans don’t start producing actual results, he won’t stay with us either. He doesn’t give a crap about the social issues if he can’t find work. We HAVE to get this economy on track. And you know darn well the democrats will do anything to stop us. A successful Trump economy will mean decades of democrat defeat.
Carville said it, and democrats forgot it: “It’s the economy stupid.”
“… and a steel working UNION member.”
Goodness. Do we still have any of those? I thought they were all dispersed long ago. You have to tell us, Steve, what does your neighbor say to the FACT that Trump builds with Chinese steel … and the FACT that the only way you could get Trump to buy American steel is if American steel workers were also making $0.50 an hour? Should your neighbor be making $0.50 an hour?
You talk about getting the economy back on track … this would be the track you capitalist Republicans would have us on. So?
Trump talks about protectionist legislation, but do you think he’s really going to do it? You don’t get rich building buildings with American steel, and that’s all he cares about … getting and staying rich.
Found this great cartoon!
http://www.nationalreview.com/slideshows/cartoon-day
Same should happen to a statue of the moron media presstitutes!