Well, if you can believe the newly re-elected House
Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Party neither wants, nor does it
need, to venture off in some new direction.
She said as much during an appearance on “Face the Nation” as recently
as this past Sunday. Despite the
Democrats underwhelming results on election night, Pelosi put forth the
argument that the party is not questioning its identity. And it was to host John Dickerson that Pelosi
said, “Well, I don’t think that people want a new direction. Our values unify
us.” And she went on to say, “And our
values are about supporting America’s working families. That’s one that
everyone is in agreement on.” I can only
assume that Pelosi must have been dropped on her head as a baby.
A number of Democrats blamed her for the party’s
poor performance November 8, with Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan even going so far as to
challenge her for her leadership position, arguing if they don’t change
directions they will soon become obsolete.
Pelosi said it is not the direction, but the messaging that’s the
problem. She said, “What we want is a
better connection of our message to working families in our country. And that
clearly in the election showed that message wasn’t coming through.” And added, “But we are united in terms of the
security of our country, which is our first responsibility, to be smart and
strong and not reckless in how we protect the American people, strong in how we
protect our economy.”
Republicans, of course, praised Pelosi’s leadership
win, saying that as long as she is in power they believe they will retain the
majority. Because the message we’ve
heard from Democrats over the course of the last six years, and the message we
are likely to continue to hear, equates to little more than screaming racism at
everyone who isn't a Democrat. And I’m
not sure how that helps "working families" in any way. And I’m confused about how it is that
"fighting" for transsexual bathroom usage assists those same working
families. And I doubt the passing of a
Rube Goldberg healthcare law "so we can see what is in it" only to
find that what's in it are huge increases in deductibles and premiums clearly
wasn’t done with working families in mind.
And if by helping the American worker she means
giving jobs and government aide to Illegals or having Americans getting shot by
Muslim terrorists while calling the victims racist bigots, then yeah she's
right. Pelosi is an old school hardliner
who may have been powerful when the presidency, House and Senate were all under
Democrat control, but as the leader of the minority she’s been far less than
impressive. The Democrat Party is based solely on the spending of other
people's money. They claim to be the
Robin Hood political party, taking from the rich and give to the poor. But I question their definition of ‘rich’, as
I view more of my tax dollars being provided to poor illegal aliens and
refugees in the hope of growing more Democrat voters.
When Pelosi says, “she doesn’t believe people in the
Democratic party want to take a new direction", I agree with her. Democrats don't want to go in a different
direction. That's obvious by the bought-and-paid-for-protests, the recount
effort, and the continuing Snowflake meltdown in the media. That's probably the
first thing she's said that isn't a lie.
And when she says, "Our values unify us. And our values are about
supporting America’s working families. That’s one that everyone is in agreement
on," I’m confused. Because while
the Democrats’ ‘values’ certainly do unify them, and they claim those values support
America's working families, it’s only so long as you're not white nor a Christian. And they certainly are all in agreement on
that.
Pelosi said it is not the direction of the party,
but its messaging that’s the problem.
The direction that she is talking about is sharply to the left, because
there’s no other direction in which the Democrat Party desires to head. As for the messaging, I agree. But in order to get Americans to agree with
your message, you must first have a cohesive, precise, and honest message. And none of these three ingredient are
apparent in the current Democrat message.
Before allowing America to understand your message, you must actually
tell them what you stand for and that has never been the objective with the
Democrats. Because if they were to be
intellectually honest with their message to the American people, it would be
rejected outright.
And now that the media has been pretty much outed
from their rather crowded ultra-Liberal closet, there is less of a chamber than
there once was which allowed the left to do little more than to regurgitate
their incessant talking points. This
message is definitely "off" as Pelosi so eloquently puts it. To most rational, freedom loving Americans,
the Democrat Party message is, to say the least, "off-putting". And that's far worse than merely having a
problem communicating something successfully.
Now I’m no genius when it comes to formulating a political message, but
it would seem to me that the message I’ve heard coming for those in the
Democrat Party for at least the last eight years isn’t one that would resonate
with me, were I a loyal Democrat.
Pelosi "wants" to better connect the
party’s message with working families, yet she won't tell them she wants to
raise their taxes, again, she won't tell them that she believes that the sale
of baby parts by Planned Parenthood should be funded by taxpayers and, worse
yet, that she wants the courts to be able to prevent investigative journalist
videos from exposing such atrocities.
Also she won't tell them she supports grown men sharing public bathrooms
with little girls, won't tell them that she believes that whites should be
subjected to greater scrutiny when entering college than people of color. So she's right about one thing: those
messages were not coming through in the election, because they were purposefully
omitted from the platform in order to obfuscate the truth.
Pelosi also says Democrats are united in regards to
the security of our country. Now if, by
"security", she means that we need to blindly accept without question
hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees into our country, or that we
need to continue to restrict the rights of legal gun owners, or that we must
continue to whittle away at the Second Amendment, or that we must early-release
convicted felons of "lesser crimes" in order to right past
inconsistencies in the court system, or that we must embrace globalization and
be a country without borders, or that we must continue to ignore the growing
threat of radical Islam, then I guess "security" means something
completely different to me and millions of other Americans than it does to
Nancy.
But united the Democrats remain, at least according
to Pelosi. Except for those, I guess,
who didn’t vote to re-elect her as their fearless leader. But, I suppose, even those folks will
eventually come around because, after all, independent thought isn’t something
that’s usually tolerated from within the ranks.
So, I guess all in all, yeah...she's probably right. So what we have here is the Democrats being
united and many of the American people being united, with there being a failure to communicate. And if things remain as
they are, never the twain shall meet.
And the longer that situation is allowed to continue the greater the
chance remains that the Republicans will remain in control of at least the
House and maybe even the Senate.
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