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Gun Group on Trump’s Response to Shootings: ‘He Doesn’t Know How Volatile This Issue Is’
A gun rights group has warned President Donald Trump not to underestimate the volatile effect proposing gun control legislation could have on his base.
Gun Owners of America, a gun rights organization with more than 2 million members, called on Trump and other lawmakers Monday to reject calls for gun control in the wake of the El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shootings.
“We think it’s important for Congress and the president to know that gun owners do not support the gun control measures Trump is advocating,” Erich Pratt, the group’s senior vice president, said in exclusive comments to The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Many presidents have failed to recognize how gun control motivates voters. He doesn’t know how volatile this issue is. It will be interesting to see how the grassroots react to his comments,” Pratt added.
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Pratt was referring to remarks Trump made Monday about his administration’s plans to work with lawmakers on several gun control measures, including “red flag” laws, which would facilitate confiscation of weapons if someone has been deemed dangerous.
“It is frustrating to see President Donald Trump’s continued support for so-called red flag laws. These red flag laws, properly known as gun confiscation orders, are incompatible with actual due process and allow for the confiscation of firearms from innocent Americans,” Pratt said.
Trump also suggested the need to incorporate mental health status into qualifications for gun possession to prevent unstable individuals from having access to firearms, something Gun Owners of America said it believes is ripe for abuse.
“The GOA opposes all background checks for gun purchases, since unfortunately it could used as a drag net to disqualify individuals who should be able to own a gun,” Pratt said.
“For instance, past proposals have included putting Social Security Disability recipients on the list,” he added.
Trump also mentioned the impact that social media may have on dissemination of unhealthy views, something that Gun Owners of America agrees with, so long as it doesn’t lead to censorship.
“Broadly, we recognize the ‘copycat’ phenomena out there. Some of these shooters just want to get noticed,” Pratt said.
“We have to be careful, however,” he said. “We don’t want to get Congress into the business of discriminating against online speech because then they can justify censorship, which we don’t want.”
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TRANSCRIPT
The other day, I saw a T-shirt worn by a supporter of the old, hypocritical socialist Bernie Sanders.
Across the chest of the shirt was a classically brain-dead slogan which read in part: “College for all. Jobs for all. Justice for all.”
And therein lies the problem with socialism and why the Catholic Church outright condemns it since it first reared its ugly head over a century ago.
Socialism pretends everyone is equal and somehow justice means everyone getting treated the same.
Nothing could be further from the truth. There is, of course, like all great lies, a little smidgeon of truth buried in the lie, which is what makes it have an appeal to the unthinking.
Everyone is the same as regards their human dignity being made in the image and likeness of God — and that’s where it ends. After that, the idea of sameness or equality goes out the window.
It doesn’t matter if you are talking about intellect, ambition, looks, creativity, physical strength — you name whatever category you want — there is virtually nothing you can point to where people are the same and therefore deserve the same treatment.
For example, take the politically and culturally suicidal notion that everyone has a right to a job. Really? Even the guy who comes in late? Even the guy who shows zero initiative? Even the incompetent worker? Jobs for all?
Of course, in an ideal and just society, everyone should have the opportunity for a job, to earn a living, to own private property and all that. But not everyone has a right to an actual job. That entirely depends on their ability and choices, which is ultimately what separates one man from another — the choices he makes.
But socialists don’t care about that. They just like ginning up support for their idiocy by appealing to the emotional — not intellectual, emotional mind — that everyone is the same and everyone should have what everyone else has because that’s fair.
Socialists mistakenly equate fairness with equality and then incorrectly label it all as justice. Fairness relates to opportunity, meaning providing an equal playing field for everyone to approach.
After that, it’s every man for himself based on his abilities and choices. This is true not only in the natural world, but most especially in the supernatural world. It would be the greatest travesty of justice imaginable if everyone was admitted to Heaven.
Justice is specifically the giving to each according to what is due to them, not just everyone getting the same outcome.
In the case of the courts, for example, imagine every criminal, regardless of the crime, being given the exact same sentence. That’s manifestly stupid, as well as gravely unjust. And if it’s true on earth, how much more true is it in the next world?
So no, not everyone deserves a job. All that can be said is everyone deserves a chance at a job; likewise, this asinine talking point of socialist Democrats that everyone has a right to college — no they don’t.
Again, everyone should have a right at the chance to go to college, but the decision on whether or not they actually are accepted should depend on their academic performance and choices.
Did they do their homework? Did they study hard and make good grades? Did they manifest a certain level of determination to excel academically?
If not, why should they be accepted to college? Because an old, hypocritical socialist says so? Because his decidedly leftward lurching party says so?
Baloney — but see, spiritually speaking, the intellectual rot behind this cheap appeal to emotions is a further attempt to dislodge Western culture from its grounding in Catholicism.
The Church instantly recognized that a false belief that all men should be treated the same regardless of their choices was a direct assault on Catholic theology.
Catholic theology is built on the hierarchical order of the world. Different souls mount to different heights — or plunge to deeper depths — depending on how well or not well they cooperate with grace.
To try and paint the world as though everyone deserves the same outcome because that’s somehow “fair” is to destroy the understanding that our choices matter and have consequences.
Know this: Every great political or cultural movement that dresses up a lie has as its author, Satan. Socialism is satanic because its aim is to disrupt the natural order so that the supernatural order will be obscured.
As an aside, if that was the case, why does Bernie think he’s more fit to be president than any other American, which he obviously does?
Because he’s a liar and hypocrite. He thinks he’s a better choice — more qualified, a better candidate than any of the other child murderers in his morally bankrupt party.
The perfect retort to these peddlers of socialism is lay the ax to the root of their lie. Everyone is not equal in terms of their choices, not their abilities, and equal outcomes contradict not only common sense but also divine law.
As St. Paul tells the early Catholics in Rome, “God will repay each one according to his deeds.”
Yep, we aren’t all the same. We have different abilities and make different choices. And in the very end, some will go to Heaven and others will be damned.
Why Don’t Democrats Take Responsibility for their Actions?
Merriam-Webster defines responsibility as:
1: the quality or state of being responsible: such as
a: moral, legal, or mental accountability
b: RELIABILITY, TRUSTWORTHINESS
Do Democrats lack moral, legal and mental accountability?
American writer, poet, and best-selling author James Whitcombe Riley wrote: “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
Meaning: “It is usually safe to identify somebody as a particular type of person when his or her appearance, behavior, and words all point to the same conclusion.”
Can you identify someone by type based upon their words, appearance and behaviors? Here are a few examples of words, appearance and behaviors (if anyone has other examples please add them to the comments below):
- When you identify somebody who constantly calls those who disagree with them and their policies a racist, they are likely a Democrat.
- If someone calls somebody a Fascist they are most likely a Democrat.
- If somebody calls others homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynistic or a white supremacist that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone quotes a Democrat who says that after 9/11/2001 they had a “calming feeling” and that person who said it calls that person a racist, they are a Democrat.
- If someone is caught on video saying “Impeach the mother f***er” that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone says that America must boycott, divest and sanction Israel, that somebody is a Democrat.
- If someone votes for legislation to give more rights to one group at the cost of another group then that group of legislators are Democrats.
- If someone votes for legislation to kill babies born after a botched abortion then they are Democrats.
- If someone raises their hand when asked during a presidential debate if illegal aliens should be given free healthcare then that person is a Democrat.
- If someone calls for violence against those who voted for a sitting president, including harassing members of that sitting president’s staff in public places, that person is a Democrat.
- If someone kills someone and then someone else uses that persons crime to fundraise for their political campaign, that person is a most likely a Democrat.
- If someone exploits a minority group in order to gain political favor, that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone wants to give someone else free stuff at the expense of others, that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone goes on national television and wants America to fall into a recession in order to prevent another person from getting reelected, that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone votes for legislation to take a law abiding citizens gun away that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone owns a social media company and implements policies that silence the free speech of one group over another, then that CEO is likely a Democrat.
- If someone by their actions hide the truth, that person is likely a Democrat.
- If a journalist publishes lies, innuendo and falsehoods, then that journalist is likely a Democrat.
- If one bank uses it’s lending policies to discriminate against a person for their political position or a company because they sell firearms then that bank is likely run by a Democrat.
- If someone wants to tax successful people at 70-90%, that person is likely a Democrat.
- If someone believes that the world is going to end in 10-12 years because of climate change, that person is likely a Democrat.
CONCLUSION
Democrats walk like socialists and quack like socialists. Therefore it is safe to call socialists, well socialists.
Today, Democrats take no moral, legal or mental accountability for their socialist actions and policies.
Based upon their behaviors, they are irresponsible and cannot be trusted.
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Rashida Tlaib, the Pro-Hezbollah, Pro-Hamas Jihadi Jane
“It is no accident that Radical Islamists in America are pushing very hard and very systematically to gain legal standing for Sharia, and to forbid any and all criticism of Islam; these are all steps toward creating an Islamic state right here at home.” ― Michael T. Flynn, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
“Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Arab terror groups are committed to the destruction of Israel, a position supported by millions in the Muslim world.” – Mike Gallagher
“Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.” – Dennis Prager
“The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.” – Tom Clancy
Totalitarian religionist Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). It is essentially a communist organization, one that is fully committed to a socialist revolution, including undoing the Constitution. The communistic DSA has influence at every level of the Democratic Party (federal and local), organized labor, academia, and religion. At a February 2018 DSA meeting in Detroit, Tlaib was asked if she planned to openly “run as a socialist.” She replied: “Yeah, um it’s, it’s — we got to win.”
Rashida Tlaib is a Palestinian Muslim; her parents hailed from a region in the West Bank City of Ramallah. She is the eldest of 14 children, born in Detroit, Michigan. White European Americans are barely reproducing themselves, but American Muslims have an average of 6.2 children per family. In not so many years, their socialist Islamic goals will be fulfilled purely by population. Jihadi Jane, Rashida Tlaib is in Congress to make sure those goals are met.
The jihadi squad and their toady lackeys in the Democrat Party aim to make America into another Venezuela where today the Maduro dictatorship is stepping up its use of death squads built to eliminate any resistance to the socialist regime. These death squads are part of a 2017 security unit called the Special Action Forces (FAES), which Maduro created to “join the fight against crime, against terrorism and against right-wing terrorist groups.”
Rashida Tlaib
In 2008 Tlaib was the Arab-American outreach coordinator for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in Michigan. Later that year, Tlaib herself was elected, as a Democrat, to the 12th District seat in the Michigan House of Representatives, where she would serve from 2009-15.
In 2010, Tlaib’s first re-election campaign received support from the People For the American Way (PFAW) Action Fund. PFAW was established in 1981 as a Tides Foundation project designed to counteract the allegedly growing influence of what its founder, television producer and political activist Norman Lear, denounced as the “religious right.”
Other supporters of Tlaib’s congressional bid included J Street which is supported by multi-billionaire financier George Soros, and Michael Moore who views America as a deeply racist nation with a violent, gun-crazed culture and believes capitalism is an “evil system.” Then there’s Noam Chomsky who believes America is worse than Nazi Germany, and Linda Sarsour, who spent a day campaigning door-to-door with Tlaib. Sarsour is a board member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY), and a member of the Justice League NYC. She proudly identifies herself as “a Socialist” and as a “card-carrying” member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
If all of the above wasn’t enough, Jihadi Jane Tlaib has written for a newspaper and website headed by Nation Of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan regarding illegal aliens being in fear of deportation.
By August 2018, Tlaib and her congressional campaign had raised, for that election cycle alone, more than $30,000 from Islamists affiliated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim American Society (MAS).
Upon winning the Democratic primary on August 7, Tlaib draped herself in a Palestinian flag while celebrating with her supporters. CAIR founder and CEO Nihad Awad congratulated her on her “historic victory of becoming the first Muslim and Palestinian woman in the U.S. Congress.”
Public Disgrace
Congresswoman Tlaib, who kicked off her early days in Congress with a profanity-laced tirade, “Impeach the mother f***er,” calling for President Trump’s impeachment, was once dragged out of a Trump event by Secret Service back in 2016.
The incident took place in August at the Detroit Economic Club, and a crazed Tlaib can be seen being dragged out by the Secret Service. Tlaib at one point jumps up and shouts at the audience “You guys are crazy!”
Like her jihadi Jane sisters, she promotes the Green New Deal, (which is nothing more than U.N. Agenda 2030 on steroids), Medicare for all, a federal minimum wage of $20 per hour, tuition-free colleges, limits to the Second Amendment, the dissolution of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) along with open borders, murder of unborn babies up to and after birth, high taxes on corporations, steep cuts in defense spending, and a 90% tax rate for the wealthy.
In front of Tlaib is Dr. Abdul El-Sayed born October 31, 1984 in Detroit to parents who immigrated from Egypt. He is an American politician, former professor, doctor, and civil servant. He was a candidate in Michigan’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary election. In September 2018 he founded the political action committee Southpaw Michigan to help elect other “regressive” candidates in Michigan. He is promoted on the Paul and Daisy Soros website. Paul was the older brother of George Soros.
Anti-Israel Sentiment
Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined a Holocaust denying Facebook group in February 2018, the “Palestinian American Congress,” which frequently demonizes Jews. Its Palestinian founder, Maher Abdel-qader, raised substantial funds for Tlaib for her congressional campaign as well as organizing some of her campaign events.
Tlaib, like the rest of the jihadi squad, supports the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. She also says she supports a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has called for cutting US aid to the country, but not to the Arab countries surrounding Israel.
Accompanying Tlaib during her swearing-in ceremony was activist and fellow Palestinian BDS backer Linda Sarsour. Sarsour is best known as one of the leaders of the Women’s March, which has been roiled with accusations of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hatred.
At a reception two weeks after her swearing in ceremony on Jefferson’s Qur’an, Hamas and Hezbollah activist Abbas Hamideh appeared at her reception.
Hamas is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, who has surreptitiously and gradually infiltrated our entire intelligence community. The Muslim Brotherhood is evil incarnate: This is their motto: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Rashida Tlaib stated that it gave her a “calming feeling” to think about the Holocaust, allegedly because her ancestors tried to help the Jews, but that is an untruth. The grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II was a Nazi collaborator and leader of Palestinian nationalism before and after the war.
Hamas is involved in the 2020 elections. Max Berger, IfNotNow’s radical co-founder, faced a backlash over a tweet declaring that he, “would totally be friends with Hamas.” Berger works for Elizabeth Warren’s campaign. IfNotNow members have been able to pose with Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders, and win their support for their hateful cause. IfNotNow actually helped to block the proper rebuke to Ilhan Omar’s flagrant anti-Jewish remarks. Warren’s failure to cut ties with Berger and his IfNotNow hate group raises questions of collusion.
Illegal Aliens
Like her jihadi squad sisters, Tlaib believes in open borders, that illegals should not be deported for “minor offenses.” She claims U.S. detention centers are like concentration camps, yet she belongs to an organization who denies the Holocaust. She reiterates the lies of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claiming aliens have to drink water out of toilets. We have all seen the pictures of AOC crying at a fence that overlooks a parking lot leading to a detention center, yet Tlaib and her squad vote against funding to help border agents and the DNA testing of parents who claim genetic offspring.
The jihadi squad is still claiming that President Trump put children in cages, when in fact, it was Obama who ordered the children to be kept in cages. But for those still trying to blame President Trump, Barack Obama’s former ICE chief, Thomas Homan, has a reality check for them. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, Homan explained that the “cages” Democrats are blaming on Trump were the product of the Obama administration.
Tlaib, the rest of the jihadi squad and Democratic Socialists want open borders not only for voters, but to change the cultural demographics of the United States forever. The number of “fake family units” crossing our southern border has escalated. From October 2017 to February 2018, there has been a staggering 315 percent increase in illegal aliens fraudulently using children to pose as family units to gain entry into this country.
Our southern border is an American crisis and Tlaib and the jihadi squad spew their lies against our President who is constitutionally trying to protect American citizens. Their deceptions are promulgated by the mainstream media, the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.
Conclusion
In the words of J. Gresham Machan, “The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism.’ (i.e. Communism) An examination of the teachings of liberalism in comparison with those of Christianity will show that at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.” If you’ve never read Marx and Satan, get yourself a copy and read it!
NYT Gives Democrats Marching Orders On El Paso Shooting
It is to be expected that Democrats will coldly attempt to score political points from the tragic shootings in Texas and Ohio. Integrity-free politicians will do anything to get elected or stay in office.
The combined shootings over the same weekend will predictably create a call for more gun laws that would do nothing to reduce violence or even gun violence in the United States, as is painfully clear in our ongoing lab testing between states and cities with strict gun laws and those with very few.
But the El Paso shooting will get most of the attention, because it combines the left’s loathing of guns with its reflexive use of the word-weapon “racism” all the time. El Paso is a springboard for blaming all Republicans for guns and blaming President Trump for creating a violent anti-immigrant atmosphere.
And inconveniently, the shooter in Ohio was a known supporter of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. His Twitter biography reads, “he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.” And he supported strict guns laws! All of which means this will be forgotten as quickly as the shooter who shot up the Republican softball team and was a rabid Bernie Sanders supporter.
Ever the opportunist, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke jumped on this immediately on Face the Nation Sunday. “I’m saying that President Trump has a lot to do with what happened in El Paso yesterday,” he said. Trump “sows the kind of fear, the kind of reaction that we saw in El Paso yesterday.”
But the New York Times, which all leftists and Democrat political leaders read and take cues from, essentially wrote the party talking points for them, right from the “news analysis” lead:
At campaign rallies before last year’s midterm elections, President Trump repeatedly warned that America was under attack by immigrants heading for the border. “You look at what is marching up, that is an invasion!” he declared at one rally. “That is an invasion!”
Nine months later, a 21-year-old white man is accused of opening fire in a Walmart in El Paso, killing 20 people and injuring dozens more after writing a manifesto railing against immigration and announcing that “this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
There you go, Democrats. It’s spelled out with citations for you by your allies at the New York Times.
Talking Point: Trump used the word “invasion” and the shooter used the word “invasion.”
President Trump said Sunday after the shootings: “Hate has no place in our country, and we’re going to take care of it.” On Monday, he tweeted:
“We cannot let those killed in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, die in vain. Likewise for those so seriously wounded. We can never forget them, and those many who came before them. Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying…this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform. We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!”
But here’s how the New York Times summed it up for readers:
“Hate has no place in our country, and we’re going to take care of it,” the president said, declining to elaborate but promising to speak more on Monday morning. He made no mention of white supremacy or the El Paso manifesto, but instead focused on what he called “a mental illness problem.”
This is a beautiful example of why Trump needs Twitter and every Republican needs communications outlets that bypass the Democrat media establishment. Does anyone even doubt that in 2019, with zero culture of white supremacy, that anyone who believes in such garbage has mental issues? And just because President Obama would dive in with very few facts doesn’t mean Trump should.
Talking Point: Trump refuses to acknowledge his role in whipping up hate.
What’s really interesting is that in the shooter’s manifesto, he states clearly that his views on immigration “predate Trump,” because even a deranged mass murderer knows what the media and Democrats are going to do with his evil act.
The Times acknowledges the “predate Trump” statement but dismisses it. “But if Mr. Trump did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.”
Perhaps the Times has forgotten, but immigration has been one of the most polarizing debates we’ve had for many years. The Times stopped covering it much — and nothing on kids in cages at the border — during President Obama’s eight years, but it turns out that reality still happens even if the Times does not report it. Illegal immigration has been divisive for decades and tens of millions of Americans’ frustration had reached a boiling point long before Trump. It’s part of what got him elected.
But here’s the summary, which you can expect to hear coming out of Democrats’ mouths.
“While other leaders have expressed concern about border security and the costs of illegal immigration, Mr. Trump has filled his public speeches and Twitter feed with sometimes false, fear-stoking language even as he welcomed to the White House a corps of hard-liners, demonizers and conspiracy theorists shunned by past presidents of both parties. Because of this, Mr. Trump is ill equipped to provide the kind of unifying, healing force that other presidents projected in times of national tragedy.”
The Times conveniently forgets how President Obama stoked racial animus after Ferguson, after Baltimore and after Trayvon Martin. Trump may be ill-equipped, but Obama proved repeatedly he was. The Times is silent on that point, because the actual point of their coverage is to set the stage for Democrats to attack Trump and all Republicans.
But this: “he welcomed to the White House a corps of hard-liners, demonizers and conspiracy theorists shunned by past presidents of both parties.” The Times does not name these people, nor point out the haters previous presidents have invited because of political alliances.But it’s a politically useful salvo.
Talking Point: Trump has even invited racist anti-immigration hard-liners to the White House.
El Paso Mayor Dee Margo got it right when, after CNN’s Jake Tapper repeatedly tried to get him to link the shooting with Trump’s language: “I’m focusing on El Paso. There’s evil in this world and it’s unfortunate.”
Don’t expect to get that reality check from the Democrats or their media.
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How Republicans will take back the House, keep the Senate and re-elect Donald J. Trump
“When most people think about the Democratic party, they think of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). That may be a good thing for AOC, but it’s terrible news for the DNC. Heading into 2020, the worst scenario for Donald Trump’s opponents is to be defined by a 29-year-old socialist with half-baked, radical views, light years away from heartland America. But according to a pile of new surveys from Axios to Heritage Action, that’s a gamble too many liberals are willing to take.” – Family Research Council, 2020: It Don’t Mean a Thing If You Ain’t Got Those Swings.
While the 2020 presidential primaries are just getting started with a large field of Democrats vying for the nomination, there are key indicators that it’s the Republicans who are in control on policy issues.
Political advisor to former President Obama David Axelrod said on CNN after the first round of debates:
It does seem as if you’re running for president that you ought to take into consideration what the country wants.
What Does America Want?
Heritage Action for America released the results of three opinion polls conducted across the nation in 2019. Each poll built upon the results of the previous to provide a targeted look at what animates voters in strategic areas across the country.
Here are items that Americans want:
- Voters want the border crisis fixed. Heritage found 53% nationally and 63% in swing states, including 62% of independent voters, believe “The migration problem at the U.S. border is a national emergency.”
- Voters want to keep their private healthcare insurance. In Congressional Battleground states 76% reject a single-payer system, including 66% of Independent voters. This includes 65% of swing-state voters and 68% of Independents.
- Voters want to save babies who survive an abortion. When asked “Do you support or oppose requiring doctors to provide medical care to infants who survive an abortion?” 76% of voters and 76% of independents said yes.
NOTE: On the issue of immigration the following questions were asked,
“When it comes to illegal immigration, which of the following do you think is the biggest challenge illegal immigrants pose to America?” Voters answered: 37% Overuse Social Services, 7% Take Jobs Away, 7% Undermine Culture, 4% Commit Violent Crimes and 13% All of the Above.
“If more legal immigrants are admitted to the United States, should priority be given to immigrants based on their skills totals or should family members in our country?” Voters answered: 51% Skills and 29% Family.
What America Does Not Want.
- Socialism. Heritage found nationally 61% of voters and 57% of independents and 65% in swing states plus 68% of Independents believe that, “Socialism is a bad economic system that leads to bigger government, less freedom, worse economic conditions, and more welfare dependency.”
- Political Correctness. When asked, “Do you think that political correctness is a major problem, minor problem, or no problem at all?” 73% of voters nationally and 50% of Independents answered “yes” it is a problem.
- Outsourcing and automation. The survey statement was, “There are a significant number of jobs and careers that will not exist in America in 10 years due to automation and outsourcing.” In swing states 83% of voters and independents agreed with the statement. In Congressional Battleground states 82% of voters and independents agreed with the statement.
NOTE: On education the following question was asked:
” In general, do you think a four-year college degree is worth the price of college tuition today? Voters answered: 72% No and 20% Yes.
Read the full Heritage Action for America report by clicking here.
In the Wealth Management column 5 Reasons Trump Will Be Reelected (And What Wealth Managers Must Know) Scott Martin wrote:
Between the electoral map and a friendly Fed, Democratic contenders are going to have a hard time simply keeping out of each other’s way.
Bad polling numbers and a stagnant approval rating are one thing. When push comes to shove, voters have historically gone with the candidate they believe will boost their finances the best.
After all, “it’s the economy, stupid.” Right now, with GDP growth tracking above 2%, interest rates falling, tax cuts and full employment, the economy points to four more years.
Otherwise, the Democrats have got to make a compelling case for why a vote against Trump isn’t ultimately a quixotic gesture built more on sentiment than self interest.
Right now it looks like he’s going to win.
Martin lists 5 key factors:
- A relaxed Fed is the incumbent’s friend.
- The electoral map swings red.
- Too many Democrats, not enough messaging.
- Too many Democrats, not enough fund raising.
- Nobody cares about the future.
The only candidate for President of the United States who understands what America wants, and doesn’t want, is Donald J. Trump. His strength is in his policies and the visible outcomes of his policies. As former President Bill Clinton said, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
As Mr. Martin notes, “Too many votes in California and New York don’t matter if Florida swings and the Rust Belt votes like it did in 2016. Trump could lose the popular election by 5 million votes and still stay in the White House.”
Democrats are increasingly in la, la land with their socialist rhetoric. Watch as Bill Maher roots for recession to get Trump out of office:
While their fringe base is with them that will not keep their House majority, change the Senate majority or take the White House.
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2020: It Don’t Mean a Thing If You Ain’t Got Those Swings
When most people think about the Democratic party, they think of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). That may be a good thing for AOC, but it’s terrible news for the DNC. Heading into 2020, the worst scenario for Donald Trump’s opponents is to be defined by a 29-year-old socialist with half-baked, radical views, light years away from heartland America. But according to a pile of new surveys from Axios to Heritage Action, that’s a gamble too many liberals are willing to take.
In a country that can’t name a single Supreme Court justice, Ocasio-Cortez’s name recognition is impressive: 74 percent know her. But, according to polling, only 22 percent like her. That sums up the problem for Democrats, who’ve spent the last several months hitching their wagons — and their presidential dreams — to the most extreme branch on the party tree. On one hand, strategists like stoking the base. On the other, they know the general election will be won right of center — a place the Democrats’ agendas has rarely ventured.
With all eyes on the 15-20 percent of American pollsters say is “getable,” some high-profile liberals are worried the party’s lurch to the Left might be their 2020 undoing. Even Rahm Emanuel, former Obama White House Chief of Staff, pulled the fire alarm over their far-out policies, warning Democrats, “There’s a reason Trump gleefully tweeted ‘That’s the end of that race!’ during the first debate: Too often, you succumbed to chasing plaudits on Twitter, which closed the door on swing voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.” If “you win the nomination in a way that forecloses a path to victory in the general election, we will lose…” Emanuel insisted.
Health care for illegal immigrants? That’s “a position not even Ted Kennedy took,” Rahm argued. And “before we start worrying about whether the Boston Marathon bomber can vote,” he scolded, “let’s stop states that are actively trying to curtail voting rights of citizens.” The bottom line, he insisted, is “When you’re looking into the camera at the coming debate, imagine you’re speaking to a voter in Grand Rapids or Green Bay… Her vote is how you win the nomination and the White House. Everything else is secondary.”
There’s a reason Rahm and the rest of party headquarters are sweating it. Based on new survey data from Heritage Action, the general electorate is completely unnerved by the Left’s field of Green New Deal-infanticide-open borders-socialists. In the puzzle of purple states that one party will need to win, Democrats are making the job a whole lot harder for themselves by chasing wildly unpopular priorities like taxpayer-funded gender transitions.
In communities still reeling from the debates over killing newborn babies and hosting drag queens at public libraries, the culture is — not surprisingly — one of the top four strongest messaging points for voters, Heritage Action found. “There’s definitely a national sentiment that the Left is pushing way too far,” the group’s Nate Rogers explained. Liberals are “finding themselves in a difficult situation, where a majority of their bases are really supporting policies that are just out of step and out of touch with the American people at large, or at least the voters we surveyed.”
In a mayday stat for the DNC, 57 percent of the general electorate think national Democrats have become “culturally extreme,” a number almost certainly explained by the party’s race to the extremes on “hot-button social issues.” Case in point, Heritage Action’s Tim Chapman explains: “House and Senate Democrats recently blocked a proposal requiring doctors to provide medical care to infants who survive abortion — and every Democratic presidential candidate has toed the party line in opposing such care. Yet even while we found that more Americans identified as pro-choice instead of pro-life (48 percent, versus 45 percent), 76 percent of respondents– including huge majorities of Republicans, independents and even pro-choice Democrats — overwhelmingly support the policy Democrats blocked.”
And abortion isn’t the only area where conservatives can distinguish themselves. Immigration, privacy, gender, and religious liberty are no friend of the social zealots on the Left. The GOP has its best opportunity in ages to distinguish itself with common-sense values that the majority of Americans still care about.
“Republicans have defaulted to defense on culture over the past decade-plus,” Chapman told Politico, “often due to pressure from big business and the libertarian wing of the party. Yet the GOP now has an opportunity to play offense. By undertaking a concerted effort to contrast its positions with those of the Democrats, Republicans can unify their base and bring in those independents and moderates who are concerned by the Left’s growing cultural extremism.”
Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC Action senior writers.
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13 things that no one is saying about the Dem Debate 2.2
I haven’t seen so much delusional zealotry since, well, the first installment of the second Democratic debate the previous night.
The second installment began with the same conspicuous patriotism and anthem-singing. Only this time, instead of a choir of stray cats, the singer was a completely bald woman in monstrous sunglasses, which aptly foreshadowed the freak show about to unfold. Dee Dee Bridgewater was listed as a jazz singer, but her style was neither jazzy nor classy. It was rather an “I got drunk at a karaoke bar and totally forgot I can’t sing” kind of style.
It seemed that after 60 years of the Democratic one-party rule, the once booming city of Motown had lost not only half of its population and industries, but also all of its legendary performers. And the powerful people on that stage were itching to do the same to the rest of America, only faster.
In his opening statement, Bill de Blasio expressed everyone’s feelings when he directly addressed the unwashed workers and peasants of America and called for a socialist revolution. Like Lenin and Stalin before him, de Blasio goes by a made-up name. His real name is Warren Wilhelm Jr. It seems that his father, Warren Wilhelm, didn’t like his son very much and named him Warren Wilhelm as well. The resulting self-hatred and possibly the Oedipus complex must have brought forth an obsession with revolutionary changes, including the changing of his own name, which he has done not once but twice.
The compulsive-insurgent pro-establishment mayor was followed by two tedious and fully interchangeable contenders who looked like Tweedledum and Tweedledee. One of them was Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who seemed to be a foremost beneficiary of his state’s new marijuana law and at the time was probably thinking of Doritos. The other one was Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington State, who occasionally droned in a monotone voice, “the house is on fire,” which always put everyone else to sleep.
If the Bolshevik Bill de Blasio sounded like a time traveler from 1917, businessman Andrew Yang seemed to be a transplant from the year 3000, when humanity will have reached fabulous prosperity due to technological progress and total robotization. He offered to pay everyone a thousand dollars a month out of the money he would be regularly beaming from the future, and promised that if people voted for him now, they would never have to work again, and probably never vote again either.
Julian Castro, mixing English and Spanish words, condemned foreign interference in our elections and suggested that to eliminate voter fraud, all future U.S. elections should be held in Mexico and the federal government be moved from Washington to Tijuana.
Tulsi Gabbard, a military combat veteran, turned her opening statement into a battle against a contingent of straw men, whom she successfully defeated, put against the wall, and shot them in the back of the head execution-style.
Cory Booker’s opening statement was interrupted by unintelligible screaming. It was later widely reported that the hecklers shouted, “Fire Pantaleo,” demanding the head of a New York cop implicated in the death of Eric “I can’t breathe” Garner. It appears that some leftist agitators had come all the way from New York to heckle the leftist agitator de Blasio, but got him confused with the leftist agitator Cory Booker. That is a common problem with Non-Playing Characters (NCPs) who all look alike.
Kamala Harris agitated for finishing off our already injured healthcare system. The others agreed with her view that Barack Obama had taken the American healthcare hostage and tortured it to near death, and that it was a mistake to keep it breathing for so long, and now it had to be put out of its misery. The disagreements were largely about the methods of execution: lethal injection, beheading, or guillotine. The Democrats in the audience clapped approvingly, although many probably wondered, “Who do I have to sleep with in order to get Kamala’s health insurance plan?”
Another hot topic was NAFTA and other bad trade deals, with everyone blaming Trump for not reforming the international trade fast enough, even though they should have thanked Trump for exposing the problem and thus giving them something to talk about.
Cory Booker’s answer to every question was, “it doesn’t matter what you do, it matters how you do it.” When no one was looking, he took out his phone and tweeted: “To the folks who were standing up to Mayor de Blasio a few minutes ago – good for you. That’s how change is made. #DemDebate.”
All the participants described America as such a hellhole that if they were to hold this debate on the southern border, the arriving migrant caravans would have run back home in terror, putting an end to illegal border crossings.
The white woman Kirsten Gillibrand was at some point caught off guard by a moderator’s question. There was an awkward pause as her beautiful blue eyes pleaded to leave her alone, as if saying, “Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention, I was thinking about my gorgeous blonde hair and pink shoes to match my white woman’s coral dress.” She knows that no matter how much she condemns white privilege in principle, she can’t shed her pasty skin and must yield to the most intersectionally-endowed Kamala Harris, who is a woman, a person of color, and a cold-blooded scaled predator.
Donald Trump, once again, maintained his invisible presence and hovered over the stage, messing with everyone’s heads. Kamala Harris was talking about him when she screamed a familiar phrase, “He betrayed this country!!!” If she continues to channel Al Gore, I can predict that she will likely become the Democratic nominee, lose the 2020 election, grow a beard, and live the rest of her life as a sore loser.
Kamala’s other quote was, “Donald Trump has predatory nature and predatory instincts… And predators are cowards.” Without blinking, Tulsi Gabbard reminded everyone that Kamala Harris was herself a confirmed predatory prosecutor who withheld exculpatory evidence and sent innocents to prison for the sake of good-looking statistics.
This was Tulsi’s moment of glory as she proved to the world that her killer instinct was bigger than Kamala’s killer instinct. All the highbrow commentary aside, this attack was a calculated move by a woman who realized that in the current identity politics system, a woman must kill other women to win the jackpot. Thus, Tulsi’s immediate goal was to annihilate Kamala and occupy that intersectional niche from which she can rule over men. Kamala Harris, who in the past championed identity politics and benefited from it, shouldn’t complain: you’ve made your bed, now lie in it.
Harris was so stunned by this blitzkrieg that she missed a golden opportunity to accuse her foe of Islamophobia and to claim that Tulsi had enlisted after 9/11 because she was itching to kick some peaceful Muslims in the pants. Perhaps she will still bring it up in future debates or spread it around as rumors, the same way her surrogates have now begun to insinuate that Tulsi is a Russian agent who is angling to run as an independent in order to split the Democratic vote and ensure Trump’s second term.
I could go on, but I’ve already taken enough of your time from your assigned duties in the vast right-wing conspiracy. After all, my goal is not as much to restate what happened, as to share the deliciously gratifying experience of watching high-ranking Democrats engage in man-on-man catfights or bludgeon each other’s heads with the same manipulative propaganda they usually reserve for us.
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Gillette Comes within a Whisker of Disaster
“Your stupid boycotts will never make a dent in a company like P&G,” one liberal scoffed back in January. Turns out, they didn’t just make a dent. After a string of male-bashing, transgender shaving ads, the parent company of Gillette got nicked so badly, market experts wonder if the brand will survive. Gillette’s CEO insists the radical activism was “worth the price.” Let’s hope so — because so far, that price is a whopping $8 billion dollars.
To most customers, a razor company dabbling in gender politics never made sense in the first place. Gillette used to be “the best a man can get.” Now the company can’t even acknowledge what a man actually is! Things for the brand started to unravel earlier this year when P&G gave the green light to a controversial commercial about the culture’s “toxic masculinity.” The idea, CEO Gary Coombe said at the time, was to reach millennials. Weeks into the flop, even he admitted it backfired.
But instead of ditching its politically-charged messages, Gillette dug in deeper. On Father’s Day, the company finally went too far, launching an ad about a dad teaching his “son” — who happens to be a biological girl — how to shave. That did it. Conservative groups like One Million Moms activated, warning customers that unless they wanted their money to support an ideology Pediatricians call “child abuse,” they’d better find another razor.
Based on this quarter’s report, an astonishing number of Americans did. “P&G reported a net loss of about $5.24 billion, or $2.12 per share, for the quarter ended June 30, due to an $8 billion non-cash writedown of Gillette. For the same period last year,” Reuters explains, “P&G’s net income was $1.89 billion, or 72 cents per share.” At least for now, the company’s executives are refusing to blame their liberal politics. Instead, CFO Jon Moeller found another culprit: Beards. That’s right. P&G is actually writing off its monumental fail on the rise of facial hair. “Lower shaving frequency has reduced the size of the developed blades and razors market,” he tried to justify on a call with analysts.
Some shareholders might buy that, but most shoppers agree — it’s time for companies like Gillette to look in the mirror. Political activism never pays. Just look at the fanatics at Target and Nike, whose stocks took a nose-dive for offending Americans’ basic sense of decency and patriotism. Even so, some companies are pressing forward despite the fallout. Just last month, grocery giant Whole Foods surprised everyone by sponsoring drag queen story hour. Even Nabisco’s most famous cookies — Oreo and Chips Ahoy — have spent 2019 waving the transgender flag. But the reckoning isn’t just coming. It’s here.
So the next time someone tries to tell you that shopping your values doesn’t work, or one person can’t possibly make a difference, remember Gillette. It only takes a handful of committed shoppers to send a message. As former Walmart CEO Bill Simon explained on “Washington Watch,” the “very, very best way you can communicate your concern is with your wallet.” Companies are in the business to make money.
“When [a] company does something that you don’t agree with — or their product represents something that you don’t agree with — the simple answer is to not buy it or not participate. And that’s honestly the loudest voice that a customer can deliver to a company is, ‘I choose not to buy your product.'”
“A three percent change in sales of a company or a five percent change in the sales company will make a huge statement. It doesn’t take a lot of people to stop buying product or to stop going to a retailer or a restaurant — or whatever it is — for them to notice, because a couple of percentage points is win or lose for a company.”
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PODCAST: Christian Nationalism? The Left’s Latest Attempt to Silence Believers
By FRC’s David Closson, Director of Christian Ethics and Biblical Worldview
A coalition of left-leaning church leaders recently launched a project “Against Christian Nationalism.” In their statement they cite “Christian nationalism” as a “persistent threat to both our religious communities and our democracy.” At best, the project is a solution in search of a problem — at worst, it’s an attempt to drive conservative Christians out of the public square.
According to the statement, “Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy. Christian nationalism demands Christianity be privileged by the State and implies that to be a good American, one must be Christian.”
As David Barton, president of Wall Builders, pointed out on “Washington Watch” Tuesday, the problem with this statement lies in how “Christian nationalism” is defined. Clearly, these left-leaning church leaders (which includes Jim Wallis who advised President Obama and Tony Campolo who advised President Clinton) are seeking to redefine nationalism in a way that implies something sinister about conservative Christians who love their country.
No one is seriously arguing that “to be a good American, one must be a Christian.” This points to the insincere motives of this movement; simply put, theologically liberal Christians are fearful of the gains social conservatives have made in the last few years, and they are attempting to sideline faithful Christians by creating what Barton describes a “radioactive term” to sully their reputation.
But Christians who love their nation have nothing to apologize for; in fact, they should be emboldened to enter the political arena with the courage of their convictions. As David Barton points out, the vast majority of Americans do love their country and identify as Christian. In short, patriotism is a virtue, not a vice. As Barton notes, quoting one of the Declaration of Independence signers, “The Declaration says that patriotism is a religious and moral duty because if you love your country, you will want what’s best for it. And if you want what’s best for it, that’s going to bless everyone who lives in the nation… loving your country and seeking what’s best for it is a blessing.”
However, a broader point about “Christian Nationalism” and the idea of America as a Christian nation is raised by this story which deserves further comment. Is belief that America is a “Christian nation” equivalent to Christian Nationalism? To answer this question, it is important to carefully define terms.
First, if by “Christian nation” we mean America was influenced by Christian principles at the founding, it is difficult to argue the reverse. Clearly, Christianity provided the principles of equal rights and human dignity that motivated the founders. Moreover, the majority of the Founding Fathers were Christians who generally believed in the truth of the Bible. Christianity remains the largest religion in the United States. Finally, Christian beliefs still provide the intellectual background for many of our cultural values such as respect for human dignity, the need to care for the disadvantaged, and respect for the rule of law. In all of these senses, America could be called a “Christian nation.”
However, in another sense — surveying the cultural landscape today — we are not. Are the majority of Americans Bible-believing, born-again Christians? No. Do Christian values dominate the perspective promoted by the government, media, and universities in America? No. Does the government compel people to follow a Christian church? No, because this would violate the first amendment of the Constitution. Do people have to profess Christian faith to be citizens or have equal rights under the law in this country? No. Are Christian ideas welcomed and accepted by many in “elite” circles of public opinion? No. In these senses, America is not a “Christian nation.”
The irony is that many of the activists behind this attempt to demonize conservative Christians participating in politics see an “evangelical bogeyman” under every rock, and still proceed to argue that Christians somehow overwhelmingly dominate the culture. The reality is far different.
Thus, in conversations about “Christian nationalism,” it is important to define the terms. When someone alleges that America is or is not a “Christian nation” it is important to determine what they mean by the phrase. Clearly, America is indebted to Christian morality in significant ways.
All Bible-believing Christians reject “white supremacy” and “racial subjugation” which backers of the “Against Christian nationalism” campaign claim is inherent to Christian nationalism. However, this is a redefinition of terms and an attempt to drive patriotic Christians from the public square at a time when social conservatives are making tremendous gains on life and religious liberty at the state and federal level.
Christians ought to affirm God’s providential working in history. The material blessings of the United States are not unconnected from the Christian morality that has under girded our country, and Christians should continue to exert their influence at all levels of government, while allowing a free marketplace of ideas that allows for open debate and religious freedom.
Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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PODCAST: Tulsi’s Last Stand? Dem Candidates Call For More Than $200 Trillion in Spending!
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W. James Antle III, editor of The American Conservative. A former Senior Writer at TAC, Antle also previously served as managing editor of the Daily Caller, editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation, and associate editor of the American Spectator. He is the author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? Antle has appeared on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR, among other outlets, and has written for a wide variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Politico, the Week, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, Reason, the Spectator of London, The National Interest, and National Review Online. He is also senior advisor to Defense Priorities.
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Lawsuit Filed Challenging Constitutionality of California Law Requiring Trump’s Tax Returns
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, a California native and candidate for the 2020 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court in the Southern District of California challenging California Senate Bill 27, or the so called “Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act” signed into law on July 30 by Governor Gavin Newsom.
De La Fuente, who is challenging President Trump for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination, said,
“all Republicans must stand united in demanding that state officials be held to account when they threaten fundamental rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.”
California’s law would require presidential candidates to file their 5 most recent tax returns in order to appear on California’s presidential primary election ballot. In his pleadings, De La Fuente argues that this violates the Qualifications Clause of Article II, section 1, clause 5 of the United States Constitution and federal statutory law which guarantees that federal income tax returns remain confidential. He also argues that this violates the First Amendment guarantee that state governments cannot force speech, even of political candidates.
De La Fuente, who prevailed in lawsuits against other states relating to unconstitutional ballot access laws and regulations during his independent bid for President in 2016 says,
“If voters want a candidate to release their tax returns, voters are free to withhold their vote from candidates who do not. Personally, as a candidate seeking the Republican nomination for President, I will be releasing my last 5 years of tax returns voluntarily. However, California’s requirement to make federal income tax returns public as a condition of ballot access is unconstitutional. It is not a valid ‘ballot access’ restriction, because it has nothing whatsoever to do with the proper regulation of the ballot, such as preventing frivolous candidates from appearing, or to ensure that elections are conducted in an orderly manner.”
In the Politico column Trump lawyer to California: See you in court Jeremy B. White reports:
President Donald Trump’s lawyers immediately signaled today they will challenge a California law requiring Trump to disclose his tax returns if he wants to appear on primary ballots in the state.
“The State of California’s attempt to circumvent the Constitution will be answered in court,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in an emailed statement shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law.
California has become a theatre of the absurd.
UPDATE: (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of four California voters to prevent the California secretary of state from implementing a new state law requiring all presidential candidates who wish to appear on California’s primary ballot to publicly disclose their personal tax returns from the past five years (Jerry Griffin et al. v. Alex Padilla (No. 2:19-cv-01477). The suit alleges that the law unconstitutionally adds a new qualification for candidates for president. Judicial Watch’s clients include a registered Independent, Republican, and Democrat California voter. Read more.
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VIDEO: Maria Elvira Salazar running for Congress in Florida District 27
Maria Elvira Salazar has announced that she is running for Congress in Florida District 27. Ms. Salazar is running against incumbent Donna Shalala.
In an email Ms. Salazar states:
We are now seeing politicians in Washington behave like corrupt banana republic dictators.
Not only are they peddling a disturbing, socialist agenda that threatens our freedoms, they’re openly spewing hateful, anti-Semetic rhetoric against Israel, our great American ally.
And South Florida’s own Donna Shalala remains silent.
Ms. Salazar goes on to say:
Florida knows what socialism does to a country. Many of us saw first hand how it ruined the countries from which many of us escaped.
Many exiles, like my own parents who came to this great country from Cuba, know the pain of leaving behind your life’s work and starting anew with only five dollars in your pocket. And we know how important it is to preserve the freedoms that we came to America to pursue.
I grew up hearing about the horrors and injustices of the socialist Castro regime which instilled in me a deep faith in and a desire to pursue the American Dream.
My career as a journalist has taken me all over the world – including to Latin America where socialism has run rampant for decades. There, I confronted dictators with questions they did not want to hear – and much less wanted to answer.
Despite the dangers to my own life I covered the wars in Central America because I am committed to the truth and bringing a voice to those who cannot be heard. This is a principle I stuck by when I returned to South Florida. I dedicated my tv career to providing an outlet for the voices of my community, Miami. I wanted us to be heard.
But politicians like Donna Shalala callously continue to ignore people like us.
For that reason, I am more committed than ever to bringing our fight to Washington. I will not be invisible. I will not remain on the sidelines. I will not be silent.
Born in Miami’s Little Havana to Cuban parents, who emigrated to the United States, fleeing Cuba due to the arrival of Fidel Castro to power. With only five dollars in their pockets, the pursuit for freedom and the American dream was instilled in María Elvira Salazar at an early age by her parents. While being raised in Miami and Puerto Rico, Salazar listened as her parents told stories of the oppressive communist regime from which they escaped. Becoming American citizens at the Freedom Tower, Salazar’s parents wanted a better life for their family; they wanted freedom.
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The Real Existential Threat: Race And Class Warfare. Ask History.
“There is no essential moral difference between class-warfare and race-warfare, between destroying a class and destroying a race.”
That’s from Paul Johnson, maybe the preeminent historian of the 20th Century and as non-political as you can get, from his history book, “Modern Times: The World From The Twenties To The Nineties.”
After another two-night marathon of Democratic debates, it has come back to me as I am reading Johnson’s excellent, if dense, history tome.
A large part of the country has just accepted that we hammer each other on race and income. It’s just politics. No, it’s not. It’s both personal and eventually fatal. It is exactly — and I mean exactly — what Lenin did in creating and sustaining the Soviet Union during and after the Russian Revolution. In fact, that is who Johnson is describing in the above sentence, the killing machine of Lenin in 1919 who set the stage for one of the world’s greatest killing machines, Stalin.
That is not where we are, of course. But we can see what is coming up ahead around the bend by knowing what has happened when we’ve gone around this bend before. Violent eruptions don’t materialize for no reason. There are always preceding causes, usually growing over time.
Here’s the key takeaway: Irresponsible American politicians aided by an irresponsible media continue to create hyper-divisions in our country. Far from all the inane platitudes of “unity in diversity,” they actively seek to divide us from one another, then pit those divisions against one another for personal or philosophic gain.
I know some will be sputtering, but, but, but Trump!!! This just really needs to be understood. Trump is a reactionary figure, meaning he is reacting to what preceded him. I never predicted Trump, but I’ve been predicting something like Trump and certainly the clash at Charlottesville for decades. After Charlottesville, I reminded my wife that I had said this was coming, and there will be more if we don’t back off the race warfare. It’s as assured as gravity.
You cannot tell an entire race of people (whites now) that they are the root of our problems (CNN anchor Don Lemon literally did a few months ago stating, “We have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men” — I know, the irony) and not expect at some point there will be a reaction and it won’t be pretty. The reaction may be wrong, but it is predictable.
President Obama certainly played a role in fanning racial flames when he could have calmed them. Instead, he jumped to racial conclusions in Cambridge, Ferguson, New York, Baltimore and Trayvon Martin in Florida (claiming white racism in every one.) But let’s be honest, this long preceded him, too. He just made it worse.
Affirmative action and minority quotas in the 1970s really started this inevitable resentment ball rolling. It’s become much, much worse though as every single election cycle, Republicans and their supporters are labeled as racists and hating poor people. White Republicans want to put black people back in chains (Biden in 2012) and push grandma off a cliff (multiple Democrat ads.) Pretty astonishing but just commonplace — like the black plague was commonplace.
The class warfare of many Democrats, most notably New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (“I’ll tax the hell out of the wealthy”) but essentially all of them on stage the past two nights talking about “fair share” for the wealthy paying more, a misnomer if there ever was one. This whipped up division creates animosity to gather votes and power, using the American people as discardable pawns.
Karl Marx understood this formula. Lenin and Trotsky understood it. Stalin understood it. Mao understood it. Castro understood it. For that matter, and I hate to use the name, but Hitler understood it. They all played to the most base and ugly parts of human nature — the other guy is causing my problems!
This is a dangerous and deadly road, already well-traveled in history.
So let’s be clear. No one man is an existential threat to the nation, as the hyperbolic Democrat/media establishment is fond of saying today of Trump. That’s just nonsense. Our framers, who are also out of favor with the left, set up too great a foundational system of checks and balances for that.
But fanning race and class warfare is an existential threat, because it has the ability to destroy the foundations. We were headed in the right direction for a brief moment in the 1950s and 1960s (Martin Luther King’s dream that his children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character) but for a much longer time we have been going backwards, and it’s really speeding up. Class warfare is running in tandem.
This can end in no good place for our country if the foot is not removed from the accelerator of race and class divisions. History makes very, very clear that we are heading for a cliff. The thing is, we’re all in the vehicle together.
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