Apparently what I would refer to as being the forces
of darkness, aka those who comprise ‘The Resistance’, are said to be gathering. And it is these forces that consist of hundreds
of progressive candidates, most running in state and municipal elections this
fall, who are all streaming into Washington this week. These folks make up the Democrat Party's hardcore
leftwing and are coming together in an effort to formulate a plan that they
hope will better enable them to ‘seize’ control of Congress, statehouses and
local governments all across the country.
They are excited and as is usually the case with
liberals, they are angry, very, very angry. And too, they are also literally consumed by a
rather scary level of HATE, the source of which seems to be little more than their
rather intense level of opposition to President Trump, one that borders on
being more than just a little psychotic. And we are told they are ready to fight any
calls to moderate their liberal ‘passions.’
And make no mistake they are ready to pull out all the stops and are desperate
in their attempt to make significant gains in this November’s midterm
elections.
Take, for instance, a fella by the name of Greg
Edwards, one of a half dozen or so Democrats running for Congress in
Pennsylvania's 7th district, who said, “We're at a moment when we need to be
unapologetic.” So here we have a guy who
was, apparently, an “ardent” supporter of old Bernie Sanders in the last
presidential election, and who claims to be unapologetic for now wanting a
single-payer health care system, universal preschool, “debt-free” college and a
$15-per-hour minimum wage. But then
isn’t this always how those on the left go trolling for votes?
And it was also this same guy who knocked those he
describes as “centrists” within his own party who may be willing to compromise
their progressive “values” just to get elected.
As if in today’s Democrat Party you could find anyone who might still be
anywhere near the center. And,
apparently, he’s not alone. There is
said to be roughly 450 like-minded Democrats will be gathering in Washington
today for a four-day conference that offers a new window into intraparty
tensions over how to capitalize on the surge in grassroots enthusiasm in this the
age of Trump.
So this odd assortment of angry leftists, described
as “resistance warriors” by organizers, is now convinced that their party will
lose this fall unless it chooses to embrace a broad slate of uncompromising
progressive candidates who deliver “an Elizabeth Warren-style economic populist
message.” At least that’s according to Adam
Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which coordinated
this bizarre little shindig. Green said,
“Not only can you run on your values and win, but it is necessary to do so in
some of these red districts.”
Sanders and Warren will be the headliners of this leftist
get together the purpose of which is to give lesser-known Democrat candidates
at all levels a crash course on winning in the Trump era. It's not enough to simply oppose Trump,
organizers say. Participants will learn
how to look good on television, find donors, design websites and, perhaps most
importantly, develop a message around progressive economic priorities. Several of the progressive movement's most
aggressive allies will also be on hand: groups such as Indivisible, Planned
Parenthood and the AFL-CIO.
Privately, some Democrats appear rather reluctant to
embrace a strategy that appeals most to the party's more ‘liberal’ side,
particularly when many of the most competitive races this fall will take place
in regions where President Trump won. Jesse
Ferguson, a Democrat strategist who worked for Hitlery’s campaign said, “Competitive
primaries help organize and help fuel the enthusiasm that'll help us take
control.” And added, “Candidates don't need to move all to the left or all to
the center. They need to come across as running for what they genuinely
believe.”
Republicans, albeit rather prematurely I think, are
cheering these latest Democrat efforts to move even further to the left,
certain that candidates who emulate Sanders and Warren will end up alienating
the moderate voters and disaffected Trump supporters who might otherwise back
Democrats this fall or sit out the midterm elections altogether. Doug Deason, a prominent Republican donor
said, “It'll be tough to fight that winning message that Elizabeth Warren sends
out to the world: socialism.” And he
went on to say, “That's great. That's what they should embrace.”
To be honest I am a little concerned about what
November’s midterms may bring. The
Republicans seem to have purposely shot themselves in both feet, and over what?
Because Trump was elected president? How
completely idiotic is that? And because
they just could not bring themselves to assist President Trump to do what the
American people elected him to do we now find ourselves in a mess of their making
because of what, the fact they think they know better than those of us who
voted for Trump? Hell, it’s because of
them that we voted for Trump in the first place!
And what I hope to see happen come November is not
some ‘blue wave’ that so many are now so confidently predicting, but with a red
tide. If we were serious about wanting
to drain ‘The Swamp’ when we elected President Trump, then what we must be
focused on is replacing every RINO we can, and not with leftwing kooks. Instead, they must be replaced with bona fide
conservatives, or at least with those who are far more concerned about being
able move forward with the Trump agenda than were their RINO predecessors. In a world of snowflakes, WE MUST be the
heat!
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