USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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Lefts Corrupt Immolative Ideologies Always Fail Throughout History


The Nihilism Of The Left

https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/03/the-nihilism-of-the-left/
https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/25/lets-call-the-russian-collusion-hoax-what-it-really-is/
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Figures/Phaethon/phaethon.html

In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the
millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it...

The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent
American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of
federal government. The presidency, the House of Representatives, the
Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in progressive
hands. And the result is a disaster that is uniting Americans in their
revulsion of elitists whose crazy ideas are tearing apart the fabric
of the country.

For understandable reasons, socialists and leftists are usually kept
out of the inner circles of the Democratic Party, and especially kept
away from control of the country. A now resuscitated Bernie Sanders
for most of his political career was an inert outlier. The brief
flirtations with old-style hardcore liberals such as George McGovern
in 1972 and Mike Dukakis in 1988 imploded the Democratic Party. Their
crash-and-burn campaigns were followed by corrective nominees who
actually won the presidency: Southern governors Jimmy Carter and Bill
Clinton.

Such was the nation’s innate distrust of the Left, and in particular
the East Coast elite liberal. For nearly half a century between the
elections of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, it was assumed that no
Democratic presidential candidate could win the popular vote unless he
had a reassuring Southern accent.

How did the extreme Left manage its rare takeover of the country
between 2018 and 2020? Certainly, Obama’s election helped accelerate
the woke movement and energized identity politics. One could also
argue over the political opportunities in 2020 following the
devastation of COVID-19.

In the long term, the medicine of lockdowns and quarantines probably
proved more calamitous than the disease, and this crisis mode made
doable what had once been unimaginable.

State governors such as Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and Andrew
Cuomo did not let the pandemic crisis go to waste. It was a rare
occasion to leverage agendas that otherwise had no public support in
ordinary times.

In the chaos of 2020, both laws and customs were altered or
scrapped—changing the very way we vote.

Over 102 million ballots were either mailed in or cast during
so-called “early voting”—strangely resulting in far lower rejection
rates in most states than in past “normal” years of predominantly
in-person voting on Election Day. Indeed, in just one year, Election
Day went from an American institution to an afterthought.

The hatred of Donald Trump prompted an influx of hundreds of millions
of dark dollars from Silicon Valley to supplant the responsibilities
of registrars in key precincts with armies of paid activists.

A non compos mentis, basement-bound Joe Biden was cynically given an
“Ol’ Joe from Scranton” moderate veneer to pursue a calibrated
hard-Left agenda.

So Americans ended up with a neo-socialist government.

It is proving as disastrous as it is bitterly instructive—reminding
this generation of Americans what the Left does when it grasps power.
As all restraints came off, the hard and now unbridled Left went to
work to turn America into something like a looney, one-party
California. A wide-open border followed. We may see 3 million illegal
aliens cross at the southern border during the first 18 months of the
Biden Administration. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been
allotted to reward those illegally entering America, who can expect
free legal support from the U.S. government to ensure they are not
subject to the laws of the United States.

In a sane world, Biden would have been impeached for deliberately
destroying the very federal laws he swore to uphold. On the prompt of
his hard Left controllers, he was eager to alter the electoral
demography of the nation rather than ensure immigrants came in
reasonable numbers, legally, with audit and background checks, and
safely in a time of a pandemic. The former illegal arrivals were seen
as needed constituents, the latter legal immigrants too politically
unpredictable.

The Left in about a year has negated American gas and oil
independence. Biden, who promised to end America’s use of fossil fuels
on his watch, cast adrift millions of his fellow citizens to choose
between driving and eating. Much of what the Left had traditionally
demonized and wanted gone from American life—from gasoline to
beefsteak to new pickup trucks—became so inflated in price as to be
nearly unattainable.

The electrician now pays five times more for his wire, the carpenter
eight times more for his plywood, the plumber six times more for his
pipe—as all three have to pay off-the-books cash for rare workers who
prefer to get checks from the Biden Administration. The Biden printing
press has destroyed both the idea that all citizens will work if there
are just good-paying jobs, and that affordable necessities for
life—food, fuel, and shelter—form the basis for a middle-class life.

If the Left did all that in 14 months, imagine what it can still do
before losing the Congress in 2022.

The Biden Administration’s profligate multitrillion-dollar budget,
inflation of the currency, de facto zero interest rates, destructive
subsidies that undermined labor participation, and incompetence at
addressing the supply-chain and clogged port crises will all by
midyear likely achieve a 10 percent annualized inflation rate.
Carter-era stagflation is on the near horizon.

When an American president predicts a food shortage in what used to be
the breadbasket of the world, then we see the wages of socialism in
all their unapologetic cruelty. When the Left can scarcely hide its
glee that diesel fuel hit $7 a gallon in California, the public is
finally seeing that the Bidens, Newsoms, and AOCs of the world care
nothing for the real-life consequences of their elite utopian green
fantasies. How did America ever stoop to begging communist Venezuela,
theocratic Iran, and dictatorial Russia to pump oil for us that we
have in abundance but will not produce? Which insane person thought up
the idea of using Vladimir Putin’s Russia as our mediator to restart
the Iran Deal?

The now unfettered woke revolution seeks to Trotskyize American
history and its heroes. A disastrous foreign policy of appeasement has
ended U.S. deterrence. After the worst military humiliation in 50
years in Afghanistan, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all seek to
capitalize on a rare American Phaethon moment. The world’s superpower
has turned over the reins of its deterrence chariot to a ninny and his
gurus. And before crashing the country, they aimlessly rebound from
one self-created crisis to the next self-induced disaster.
The Clerks Come Out

Aside from the dismal left-wing political record, the public has also
witnessed an unapologetically leftwing federal bureaucracy now
completely unbound. Our top echelon of the administrative state is
defiant in its weaponized assumption of legislative, executive, and
judicial powers.

We are learning that the likes of Anthony Fauci have all but destroyed
the reputation of once time-honored federal health agencies. In their
contradictions, about-faces, and deceit, they focused mostly on
controlling their multibillion-dollar public fiefdoms, hounding
critics, rewarding sycophants, politicizing “science,” hiding
culpability about routing money to lunatic gain-of-function research
in China, and marginalizing outspoken voices of audit.

The military apparat after Afghanistan - defined as woke Pentagon
functionaries, revolving door and politically weaponized corporate
generals, and outspoken politicos - managed the impossible: a once
revered military now cannot even win a 50 percent vote of confidence
from the American public.

The intelligence agencies are worse. Former kingpins such as John
Brennan and James Clapper, both pundits for hire on leftwing cable
networks, lied under oath before Congress without consequences. When
50 retired intelligence officials during the Biden 2020 campaign
claimed publicly that Hunter’s laptop was likely a Russian plot, what
then is left of any semblance of nonpartisan professionalism and
integrity?

James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Christopher Wray have all eroded the
reputation of the FBI by fueling the Russian collusion hoax, the Alfa
Bank hoax, and the Hunter laptop disinformation hoax. Since when does
the FBI go after journalists in their underwear or moms and dads at
school board meetings, as if it is now an extension of the teacher
union or DNC?

Along with Robert Mueller—who claimed no knowledge of either the
Steele dossier or Fusion GPS—the Washington FBI hierarchy did to the
agency what Lois Lerner infamously did to the IRS. Just as Lerner
became an extension of the Obama 2012 reelection effort and corrupted
tax law, so the FBI descended into becoming the wayward Biden family’s
retrieval service—eager to keep quiet Hunter’s incriminating laptop
and to rescue Ashley Biden’s lurid diary.

When the evidence becomes overwhelming that the collusionary media
lied about the laptop or the origins of COVID-19, there is never a
retraction, only a Soviet-style silence about past untruth. And then
it is on to the next false narrative.

Add in the conduct of FBI luminaries such as the forger Kevin
Clinesmith, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok, who preferred to investigate
conservatives rather than enemies of the nation. What characterizes,
then, our once revered intelligence agencies is not just
institutionalized mediocracy. Rather it is a dangerous zeal to enact
by fiat politicized agendas that cannot otherwise be ratified by a
legislative vote—all with the expectation that these sanctified agents
of political change are above the law and will be rewarded
accordingly.
Our Ill Institutions

Americans had tuned out many of our major institutions that are now
openly hostile to American exceptionalism.

In their nihilism, leftists seek to destroy the very organizations
they absorbed.

Professional sports?

Multimillionaire basketball players are more likely to refuse to
salute their own flag than to say a word of dissent to their
autocratic and often ethnocentric Chinese paymasters.

Higher education?

A Yale law school dean contextualizes the loud disruption of free
speech by leftist law students at a conference. Only that way can she
ensure that rules about open expression remain theoretical, and not
real for the woke.

Entertainment?

Hiring, promotions, and awards are now based as much on race, gender,
and sexual identity as on merit.

Forty years ago, face slapper Will Smith would likely have been
removed from the Oscar ceremonies for rudely shouting and interrupting
the worldwide show. Twenty years ago, he might still have been rebuked
for profanity and yelling the F-word in a live televised event. Now he
is neither arrested nor even removed for physically assaulting
comedian Chris Rock. His belated contrition is belied by his refusal
to leave the ceremony and to go dancing and partying into the
post-assault wee hours. Will there be open brawling on stage next
year?

The Left got what it wanted and now controls academia, the media, the
internet, K-12 education, corporate boardrooms, the Pentagon, Wall
Street, and Hollywood. And they more or less have turned each of these
into versions of Pravda.

The sermons, arrogance, and narcissism of these woke cultural
imperialists now explain why they are disliked as much abroad as they
are at home.

In sum, we are watching a rare laboratory experiment in which the
traditional American fringe is now in control of the government. In
pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the
millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it. The
result is an unmitigated disaster that not only has tarred the
Democratic Party, corrupted once-revered agencies, and alienated half
the country from our cultural institutions, but now endangers the very
health and security of the United States.