Democrat Dreams, American Nightmare

Recently I have been going through old blog posts in an attempt to organize them by primary topic.  The interesting thing is that when I read posts from 2017 their theme and argument are almost identical to those I write currently:  the destructive nature of identity politics; the rise of socialism; the lack of deep, independent, and objective thought and its companion lack of education; the Constitution and basic American principles; fact vs. narrative; the First Amendment; Freedom vs. entitlements; political hatred and attacks; the press and propaganda; etc.

The immediate context in which these appear may change, but the basic issues are the same.  It’s like when a couple keeps having the same arguments over and over and at some point someone suggests why don’t you just say Argument A, or B, or C and be done with it.  Really, I could just repost and repost by topic.

But what is so troubling about this is that I can’t help but wonder when will everyone wake up?  And when they do will it be too late?  That is, many people either did not see or chose not to see what I was writing about in 2017.  Their blindness continues today.  I have written about being blinded by hatred.  Is that it?  Is it disbelief?  Or is it just really good propaganda?

Once I have gone through the posts from the start of this blog, I will post an index by key topics (this takes time, so don’t expect it immediately).  Once that is posted, I encourage everyone to read an entire topic group.  It is indeed frightening that 3 ½ years ago I began pointing out the very same things that I write about today.

It’s interesting that a key tactic used by Democrats is the fomenting of hysteria.   By now we should understand that the Democrats and other Trump haters will suggest some fictional scenario, then begin to state the hypothetical as if it were a fact, and then foment hysteria about what was once just a fiction in someone’s head. 

The most obvious examples are the Russian Investigation begun with the hypothetical “what if Trump colluded with Russia to win the election?”  and the impeachment which began with the hypothetical “what if instead of the typical conversation between leaders about the possible wrongdoing by a former government official or his son, it was an abuse of power?”  The hysteria of these two suggestions led to years of investigation based upon often false and manufactured evidence and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. 

The Democrats and their symbiotic partner the media become hysterical about “what ifs” as they treat them as fact and then wail about the horrors of Trump having done the parade of horribles that they have created.  The intent, of course, is to turn the country against the President, thus furthering the agenda of the Democrats. 

One of the current fears that the Democrats are mongering is that we are in imminent danger of having storm troopers roaming our streets and the President enforcing law and order through martial law nationwide.  Where does this come from?  It seems to have begun when the President legitimately sent Federal troops to protect Federal buildings being vandalized and attacked by rioters in Portland.  This is not only his right to do, but also his duty to protect the People’s Federal property.  It is not the act of some authoritarian dictator.  Yet that is what the Democrats would have us believe.

In Albuquerque, NM, where crime statistics compete with Chicago (fewer murders but far more overall violent crimes including assault and rape as well as murder), the President is sending additional Federal investigators to help those already there as well as local law enforcement to participate in Operation Legend which investigates major crimes and gang violence.  These federal agents are not “storm troopers.”  While officers on the ground for the most part welcome the help, many Democrat politicians including the city’s mayor, have pronounced their skepticism that these are not really storm troopers along with their belief that the President actually intends to create another Portland (no matter that Portland’s current situation was created by violent agitators and their Democrat supporters). 

This is consistent with the typical rhetoric we regularly get from Democrats around the country.  They suggest that Trump will become a dictator, then turn that suggestion into the assertion that his intention is to do so.  This argument in one form or another has been with us since Trump’s election.  He was going to ruin every one of their identity groups’ lives.  The Blacks would be sent back to slavery or worse.  But, instead, Trump gave them the best economic outlook they have ever had in this country.  Women’s rights, Hispanic rights, LGBTQ rights, and all the others have not suffered the horrible consequences that the Democrats predicted; instead, at best things remain for them the same, but for most their lives and their future possibilities have improved, even if currently stalled by CoVid.

No matter.  Another election is coming, and hysteria must be fomented once again, this time not with the hope of removing Trump from office before the end of his first term, but from keeping him from being re-elected.  So, the fear mongers go into overdrive.  And, they are of course helped by the uncomfortable uncertainty that prevails due to CoVid, exacerbated by the media that spends at least half its time hyping the many statistics of CoVid, especially those  that are potentially frightening – deaths, rising positives, availability of a variety of equipment, the dangers of leaving your house.   People are already in fear of this unknown enemy and the Democrats would love to have people become as hysterical as possible and then blame their discomfort on Trump. 

Here are a few simplified examples of how a speculation or suggestion develops into a rhetorical assertion:

• What if Trump were to declare martial law → Trump intends to declare martial law → Do not vote for Trump, he will impose martial law. 
• What if Trump’s “law and order” is really a cover-up for the fact that he doesn’t care about people and only cares about himself and so wants to put all of the rest of us under martial law → Trump intends to impose martial law across the country → living under Trump’s martial law will be no different than living in Nazi Germany → Trump doesn’t care about the people or the Constitution, but just wants to be a dictator → Don’t vote for Trump or this most horrible of horribles will come to pass. (I can’t help but wonder sometimes if the Democrats are not seeing themselves in these hypotheticals they develop.)
• Trump says he wants to insure against voter fraud, but what if it is all a ploy to steal the election → we must ignore the statistics about mail in voter fraud so that Trump does not steal the election → No matter what happens in the election Trump will not accept the results unless he wins → We either have to steal the election back from him or violently remove him → No one vote for him so that it is clear to him that he has lost and we will not need to forcefully remove him.
• What if Trump is using CoVid for his own evil purposes and gain → He refuses to make a national mandate and plan that will protect us→ Trump is using CoVid against us and he is destroying us → Trump is a murderer → Do not vote for this murderer.  (Notably, it’s interesting that the fear of dictator Trump seems to conflict with the CoVid argument that Trump should have usurped the power of governors to run their own states and made some all-encompassing mandate for the entire country – but the Democrats are not interested in being consistent, just in creating enough hysteria to make you more receptive to their agenda.)

All of the above, and many more that you hear daily, begin with a “what if” dreamt up in the mind of some Democrat or one of their symbiotic partners   They begin with a hypothetical that incorporates some aspect of some facts of a current situation, then morph into assertions of supposed fact that too many people believe.   

The assertions may sound believable because they do incorporate some aspect of a current factual situation, but they are not representative of reality.  And, as noted above at the start of this post, too many people ignore reality for some reason.  That ignorance is the real dream come true for the Democrats, for those who would continue to divide us and mislead us until they have led us over the cliff and into the true and ugly reality of Socialism.  And that will be the real nightmare for America.