The Crisis of the Crisis Song

Daily the Left tells us in one way or another that we are in a political crisis.  The song has many titles:  The Constitutional Crisis; the Crisis of Leadership; The Crisis of Democracy; The Partisan Crisis; The Resistance; Impeachment, The 25th Amendment, The Abnormal Political Times; and many others.

Any “political crisis” has been manufactured by those who want you to believe there is a political crisis.    That is not really a crisis, or if it is, the crisis is that so few understand how our democracy works and so are willing to blindly accept the daily assertions of crisis.

A few short examples are in order.  First, the Kavanaugh hearings.  Many of the Democrats seem to believe that the people are uneducated about our democracy and they were willing to try to exploit that.  There was the grandstanding of releasing “confidential” documents that knowingly had already been cleared for release, claiming it was to avoid the “constitutional crisis” of lack of transparency.  There was the edited video used in an attempt to smear the nominee.  But, beyond that there was the use of sad stories, court opinions that followed the law but ended up with a ruling against the more sympathetic party.  Anyone who would believe that a judge should ignore the law to instead rule in favor of currently popular emotion and policy knows nothing about our judicial system and is at best unclear about the Constitution.  And then of course there were the assertions that despite all evidence to the contrary, the Judge would somehow take some outrageous action against one or another identity group.  Finally, the Democrats seemed to want to talk more about the President, perhaps in an effort to discern whether or not the nominee would assist them in their never ending quest to remove Donald Trump from office; when the judge would not buy into this game of theirs they again asserted the “constitutional crisis.”

Another example is the anonymous letter in the New York Times claiming a deep state resistance within the President’s inner circle.  Aside from supporting the until now often dismissed claims of the existence of an anti-Trump deep state, what this letter and much reaction to it reveals is a frightening lack of understanding about our government.  While many on the Left cheer this “resistance,” do they not understand that in this country regime change comes via democratic election, not via white house intrigue and attempted coups by those who did not see their candidate prevail?   If this inner circle “resistance” actually exists, it is treasonous and is more befitting of dictatorships than our Democratic Republic. Failure to understand that is the "Constitutional crisis" if any such crisis exists.

But more than specific examples such as the above, is the fact that there is a constant assertion in this country by the Left that things are bad and it is all the fault of the President and that therefore we are in a “Constitutional Crisis” calling for removal of the President by Impeachment or other means.  But, other than the fact that those asserting this are still bitter about the 2016 election, there is really nothing on which to base their crisis song.  Depending on one’s perspective,  some things are better than before the election, some things are the same, some things are worse.  Certainly, the economy is thriving, and that gives us another example.  When the crisis singers have good news to deal with, they then announce that it will not last, and therefore there is a crisis so dire that we must remove the President.

We now have the former President breaking all precedent to go on a sour grapes tour not unlike that which Hillary Clinton embarked upon following her loss.  He who once said the jobs are gone, deal with it, and that he did not know how to bring them back, now claims that their return is somehow his doing and we should thank him and remove the current President who is in fact bringing us jobs.  Barack Obama has now joined the crisis chorus, seemingly simply because the current President does not agree with or continue the former's policies.

There are songs about the partisan hatred.  Well, in my opinion this did not begin in 2016, but I do believe it has been and is being fueled by the identity politics practiced so well by the Left.  If one wants to see hatred behind every corner, every misplaced smile or thoughtless word, so be it.  Again, that is not reason to remove a president.

The only crisis, really, is in these crisis singers’ heads.  The crisis is that they cannot deal with the fact that someone they did not choose was elected president and that his policies are often different from theirs.  These overwhelming emotions over their failure to get what they wanted are no more a crisis than are the histrionics of the teen who sees the end of the world when he or she does not get the desired date for prom.   Not getting one’s own way is simply not a crisis!

The real crisis is that so many who benefit from the many blessings of our government do not understand how that government works.  What they don’t understand is that in this country we elect a president and the winner often has policy positions that differ from those of the loser.  We do not oust the sitting and duly elected president by making everything into some sort of crisis that requires his removal.  We do not oust him by some sort of back room resistance.  We do not attack and demean those who voted differently or hold different positions on issues important to us.  And we do not attack our very form of government just because it did not work in our favor this time.

There is no Constitutional crisis but there clearly is an educational crisis.   Making every action or policy or person one does not like into a Constitutional crisis is not a mature way to deal with loss, nor is it a rational campaign strategy.   Rather than hours spent plotting for the removal of the President based on some crisis that exists only in their head, many would better use those hours reading the Constitution and taking a civics class.   And, those who do understand how our government works need to start demanding that those who delight in singing the crisis songs explain how they are anything more than emotional outbursts from those who are not getting their way and who do not understand why that is not a crisis in a democracy.

In the end, the crisis is not a crisis.  The song is nothing more than an emotional wail.  We need to start listening to something else.