We may have found the force that will slow a power-drunk and dismissive Democratic Party that has revealed a callous disregard for the Constitution. Surprise, it’s Democrats. As the race to the bottom to turn the country into a permanent one-party state became clearer every day to those not willfully blind, Democrats’ only weapon in their quiver – panic and fear – began to come for them.
Democrats have always been our most disciplined party, achieved through consensus building before turning to a lust for power before a fondness for liberty. After the turn, party discipline increasingly relied on fear and threats. Obama let the mask slip a few times, threatening Democrats in congress with loss of party support if they didn’t toe the line. With the election of Donald Trump, a new arsenal was opened. Anyone deviating at all from the party line was privately threatened with being outed as a monstrous Trump supporter, and those outside the party were welcomed only if they signed up to an agenda with a single sentence: We hate Trump.
The party of government had the full support of government union employees, which I view as a confluence of interests rather than a Deep State conspiracy. The largest government employee unions, hence the richest and best able to deliver volunteers and rent-a-crowds, acted in self-interest to oppose the populist outsider. In honesty, I might have done the same to protect my job, my income, my lifestyle, my sense of self-worth. Others are free to claim, “Well, I would never (fill-in-the-blank)” and the few cases not easily disproved might be true. I don’t know.
Indoctrination relies on a large number of techniques, but rarely succeeds absolutely without some element of fear. Solomon Asch’s famous experiments on conformity (https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996 Is one of the better references) give glimpses into how fear operates, even sub-consciously without any overt threat. In my opinion, this is part of the explanation of the Left’s domination of academia. Before unionizing, teachers mostly taught because they were idealists, liberals who drew enjoyment from helping young minds develop. With unions came two distinct interest sets, teachers and union leadership, with the latter quickly gaining ascendancy. Those who wanted to teach did so; those with other objectives ran the unions. Yes, it’s a simplistic view and far from universal. I’m not writing my dissertation for a Doctorate in Education here.
The human capacity for self-delusion is, in my view, unlimited. Idealists believed themselves liberals, and the Democratic Party was, outside the South, primarily liberal and described itself that way. Therefore, the unions of government employees, including teachers, convinced their members that Democrats were the answer to every political question. The immortal Q&A (How do you boil a frog? Slowly.) guided the evolution. Public school teachers were first unionized in 1969, a move that FDR had strenuously opposed. Conformance, self-interest, and leaving the details to those whose primary motivation wasn’t teaching, ensured that the public-school teachers, calling themselves liberal, never noticed when the Democrats stopped being the liberal party beginning in the 1980s or earlier. Still, self-delusion convinced them they were liberals supporting liberals. And they, in turn, indoctrinated another group of liberals, journalism students.
I don’t know a single journalist who ever went into the profession believing he/she would get rich, cure cancer and be elected Pope, President and the Queen of Belgium simultaneously. They were all idealists, hence liberals, who already were deluded that Democrat=Liberal no longer held true. The result is a partisan press. I wouldn’t mind a liberal press, or a conservative press, because both are founded on principles and ideals. A partisan press is a completely different animal.
Thus, evolved and gathered the forces of authoritarianism. The fraudulent election of Trump, when everybody knew was stolen by the Russians from the inevitable victor, Mrs. Clinton, provided the excuse to put authoritarianism into action. A prophylactic coup, also known as the Resistance, was unable to prevent Trump’s election, but it succeeded beyond imagination in achieving its publicly-stated goal of making it impossible for Trump to govern the country. The Russia hoax was sure to get rid of him, but too many law enforcement and intelligence officials took their oaths of office seriously to allow that to happen. That won’t be allowed to repeat itself. The permanent coup took place.
Literally hundreds of lawsuits against Trump, his family, his businesses, sprang up overnight. Lives were ruined callously because no price was too great for someone else to pay to get rid of Trump. There was an actual impeachment at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, furthering the objective of making it impossible for Trump to govern. The pandemic gave the authoritarian left cover to punish opponents, kill off constituencies that wouldn’t go along, reward supporters and impose unconstitutional restrictions on liberty. All because of a cold virus that more than 99.7% of its victims survived.
Anything that didn’t support the authoritarian’s positions was censored. Cancel culture reigned, and in the name of eradicating systemic racism marginalized populations were targeted for shooting, looting, burning and murder. And another impeachment, inexplicably not tried until the constitutionally-prescribed punishment, removal from office, was moot, followed an “armed insurrection” by unarmed people who sang songs, waved to capitol police officers, all white supremacist constituting an existential threat to the country, led to military occupation of our capitol, nationwide bans on misinformation (meaning anything that offered a different viewpoint from the Democrats’ party leaders) and opening the southern border to an influx of non-citizens in hopes they’ll be grateful and vote for Democrats.
The fear of losing power led to over-reach, and it was impossible to hide all of it from everyone all the time. Sort of like the Lincoln Theorem about some of the people some of the time and all of the people all the time. A couple of key people in New York grew a spine and outed Governor Kervorkian. If that narrative was allowed to stand, it would implicate a number of like-minded state governors, so the Party and the Press found a #METOO distraction. That is a reaction to fear.
Information from Orlando breached the press blockade and reached California, which will allow Disneyland to re-open shortly. The unforgiveable unscientific assault on our children known as school closures was exposed over phone conversations and private meetings when parents of the country’s 1.6 million parochial school students related that their kids were in classrooms, learning, all through the pandemic. Efforts by secularists to suppress religious expression contributed to a massive decline in parochial school enrollment, because the tuition-paying parents had to way to meet, share information, worship as they wished or not. The schools in Oregon will open shortly, despite repeated tantrums by teachers’ unions and hundreds of billions in ransom payments to union leadership. That is a response to fear.
Fear is driving the need to protect congress from its electorate. People have senses, the ability to use them, and brains. The only people now supporting the white-supremacist-homophobic-anti-law-enforcement-pro-censorship narrative are the core 30% of the country that is academia, the press/Big Tech (indistinguishable), government employee union members and effete white coastal liberals obsessed with virtue signaling and oppressing their inferiors.
Piece by piece it is falling apart. We need to invite the deluded to validate their assumptions that everyone not in their tribe is their enemy. The first part of that, in my experience, is going to the primary victims of the authoritarians, the marginalized, and enlist their support. That transformation had already been occurring prior to the 2020 election, when black and Hispanic voters turned out in record numbers to vote for Republicans. These two groups are the most socially conservative in the country, and were sold out by the race-war-profiteer, self-appointed leaders in the 1960s to be a permanent Democrat voting bloc in exchange for a place at the table where they had no input but accepted massive bribes to help create a permanent minority-group underclass valued only for their ability to vote.
I’m declaring today “Take a Democrat out for a Beer Day,” and if I weren’t immobile and housebound, not to mentioning not drinking any alcohol, I would do myself.