The Left is creating historic, anti-democratic precedents that will someday boomerang should Republicans win the November election and follow the new Democrat model of extra-legal politics. – Victor Davis Hanson
The Left is creating historic, anti-democratic precedents that will someday boomerang should Republicans win the November election and follow the new Democrat model of extra-legal politics. – Victor Davis Hanson
Democracy destroys itself. A constitutional republic should be more difficult to destroy, but I guess when you now think it is a democracy you are on the road to destruction.
Are there any real constitutional republics?
Used to be one.
It’s debatable that the Regime will allow a Republican victory again.
2020 was a bit of a coming out party for the people who rule over us. “Our Democracy” need not play electoral games anymore.
True as far as Trump is concerned. They may be amenable to a token RINO in the Oval Office just to keep up the illusion of a viable 2-Party system so long as they control the Deep State.
When faced with the possible return of President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had to destroy democracy to save it.”
I don’t think 2024 will be the year, but we will have either a Glorious Socialist Revolution and a Leninist-Stalinist Police State (made easier by the all knowing GOOGLE-PLEX), or an all out Civil War and no one knows who or what comes out on top.
Either way? 30-40 million dead. If someone decides to use nukes in CW2, make that 150-200 million dead, and maybe the eventual winner is not even American?
And while that goes on? Pax Americana falls apart, and the accumulated scores of the last 80 years get settled. Iran tries to destroy Israel, but mortally wounded Israel destroys Iran and tells the Islamic world they can live in peace or all go to hell Masada Style. Islamic North Africa starves when the grain trade collapses, and their governments follow.
Pakistan-India and China-India, go nuclear, then after those nukes fly? China Japan & China Korea (old hates die hard). Islam makes its move in tired old demoralized Europe. Who knows who wins there? Maybe a new Royal Feudalism if we are lucky?
Africa? Africa devolves further and chaos ensues. Tribalism is very ugly, just ask Rwandans.
I am a pessimist, but have not seen anything to be optimistic about these last 20 years, except maybe Musk and Space-X.
An all out civil war won’t take as long or as many as you might think. One side has 5,000,000 recently retired military, and is armed to the teeth, the other side are city nancy boys who don’t know the business end of a gun from the persuasive end. The rank and file current military will not follow orders to shoot fellow Americans for the most part, so that’s that.
Who would you back in a Civil War?
Obama’s Biden Regime or President Trump that EVERYONE LOVES except politicians and the mainstream media.
Hmmm…
Hell, I’d back Trump too.
Leadership doesn’t hide behind committees and don’t listen to anyone but themselves.
Other than Cops protection of the criminals that they are getting a paycheck from.
It’ll probably be a lot uglier than you think. The US military is apparently not as heavily Republican as in the past. Probably because a lot of the young enlisted have been brainwashed in shitty public schools. Not to mention the pension seekers and lickspittles at the very top.
Some estimates have the Demonrat voting percentage as high as 30 percent.
https://www.thesoldiersproject.org/percentage-of-the-us-military-is-conservative/
One side has imported millions of military aged men. Your fresh water, electricity, and lots of other infrastructure is vulnerable.
I agree with your summation as I am a pessimist as well. Since Lyndon B. Johnson was President, the American government/way of life has been devolving. Occasionally there are signs of life/sensibility, but that is much rarer in the past 20 years.
I DO think there is going to be a HUGE reckoning.
With all the Nukes flying, one would think that the resulting radioactive fallout would spread around the globe and effectively enact the Globalists wet Dream of eliminating the “Carbon” they had dreamed of killing.
The shit is about to hit the fan…
I fear for my youngans for they have not been subjected to pure EVIL (Not that I have been), but am old enough to know and recall what my father survived: 4.3 yrs in Buchenwald as a slave labourer.
“Mortally wounded?”
No. Impossible. Israel will survive. She has her God.
And she will have the satisfaction of seeing the Empire of Mammon be consumed in flames before her eyes, cursing God with its last breath.
There is no need to be pessimistic unless you believe that anything of value will be lost when the idolaters finally commit mass suicide.
VDH pretends not to understand that “the Republicans” are only a faction of the Uniparty. If they win, it doesn’t mean any significant change will take place.
There’s what, 13 congressmen in the Republican Freedom caucus? They are despised by the rest of their cowardly, corrupt, brethren. Patriots can’t look to the party for leadership or to save them and the republic, it’ll have to come from the grassroots.
Precedents? I keep saying that the Democrats act like they will never lose another election. Either they’re totally stupid or they know something we don’t know. Could it have something to do with the border and no ballot integrity?
It’s the same reason for Trudeau’s governance – his policies are clearly destructive, antagonistic, and divisive. His poll numbers, like Biden’s, are tanking yet there’s no apparent change of course. They are acting as if there will be no consequence or disruption of their agenda and power. I’m thinking they know that elections will be completely rigged or suspended altogether.
Labeling oneself a Democrat while simultaneously trying to destroy the concept of Democracy sums up the Left rather well. And yes, while the US is a Constitutional Republic, each state exists and operates under the definition of an individual democracy (or should).
And, Hanson is 100% correct. As with much concerning the Left, they are ignorant to true meanings (because they choose to be). Democracy is not an actual concept to them. It is a catch phrase. It is a fall back argument so they don’t have to debate its substance. They slam their fascism through while in power, but when that power is depleted they immediately re-discover the “true” definition of democracy while simultaneously circumventing it’s application through the courts.
I get wearied by the left/right dichotomy. There is no left right. It is those who are pro tyranny and those who are pro individual rights and freedoms. We can see that in the Bible. The ancient Hebrews demanded a king to rule over them instead of each person relying on their God (Yahweh). It has continued apace ever since. Which side are you on? Personally I refuse to worship Caesar. I am very pro individual and very against the worship of the state regardless of its form and intent. While the individual is bent toward evil you have not seen evil until you look at the evils committed by a state especially a state that thinks it is on a mission from God.
Like a state that is serious about fulfilling God’s command to destroy Amalek?
The love of God for Israel endures forever. His patience with idolaters and apostates never lasts long. The Lord is always right, and His will will be done, whether you approve or not, Joe. I can guarantee you that.
What I can’t guarantee is that you’ll live to tell about it.
Get serious. If you even dream that the present “Israel”is even related to the people brought out if Egypt and led into the land by Joshua you are not even capable of debate. The Palestinians did not attack the “Israelis” as they left the promised land. In fact the “Israelites attacked the Palestinians and drove them out of their ancestral homes. Israel is little more than a thief and and a murderer. It needs to be removed from polite society.
I am not an American, so, maybe I have missed something.
Was it Ben Franklin who, when asked about the form of proposed government, replied:
“A Republic, if you can keep it”.
The operating procedures were supposed to be “democratic”, but the entire affair was NOT intended to be a “democracy”.
For an “live” example, consider the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”.
And, don’t forget that the “Democratic’ party was and appears to remain, the party of slavery; with the “deplorables” being the new “slave” class.
+++Bruce