We have a lot of problems in this country, as we always have. But, just for a minute, imagine we had a political class interested in addressing those problems in a way that benefited as many Americans as chose to avail themselves of the opportunity to improve their lot in life? That's a wordy way of saying that the government should serve as a plow to clear the road ahead for everyone (of red tape, foreign and corporate interference, and anything else in the way) so everyone has a chance to make whatever they can, or would like, out of their lives.
Instead of that plow, we have half the political establishment staring at the ground, shuffling their feet and, like a bad stage actor, unsure what to do with their hands. The other half is actively throwing as many obstacles as possible in that road – trees, rocks, nails – and blaming "society" for all of it.
Republicans, at least, do try to get good things done, every once in a while. They also talk a good game, which isn't much but is slightly more than the nothing we've come to accept in politics.
Democrats, on the other hand, would be happy to bring the whole thing crashing down on anyone who refuses to bow to their will and whims. They are the ultimate parasite that kills its host – they're suicide bombers for the sake of the explosion.
But imagine if they weren't; imagine if Democrats loved the country as much as they love illegal aliens or violent criminals. What couldn't get done?
They don't, of course. They don't make flights to their home states to visit with families of victims murdered by illegal aliens, but they do launch pilgrimages to Latin America for a photo-op with an alleged wife-beater. In other words, their priorities are not American priorities.
Think of the effort it took to coordinate with six members of Congress to record a video with all of them advising members of the military to defy orders from the president of the United States. Aside from it being sedition by proxy and a wet kiss for treason, it was done for one purpose and one purpose only: to make the United States look bad on the world stage.
They did, just not in the way they'd hoped.
What if these people, and all the angry leftists hellbent on turning people against the country when they aren't in charge of it (and that's what they do), actually tried to encourage good things? Rather than turning Americans out into the streets to attack ICE agents, to block traffic or do damage to the economy, what if Democrats focused that energy to helping people?
I realize they don't want to help people; otherwise, they would. Their agenda is almost exclusively designed to make more people dependent on government to empower themselves, but what if they cared for real?
That's probably impossible – you can't rationalize someone's sociopathy away. But it's interesting to think about.
Expecting "good" or help from a Democrat is too much, but what the hell happened to them that we can't even hope for them to give trying to damage people a break?
Think of what they do, what they fight for. Is there anything – literally one thing – that is unambiguously good? Nothing comes to mind.
There are a lot of issues on which Republicans are on the side of the vast majority of the country – keeping boys out of girls' sports, stopping sex changes for kids, preventing criminals from entering the country – and Democrats are on the other side of every single one of them. It's not just that they're on the other side in a passive way; they are actively cheering the anti-American side – the one that gets people killed.
When Democratic Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin (she's single, fellas) cited the movie "A Few Good Men" in defense of their "defy the president" video, she showed just how far gone the Left is. That none of these people could come up with anything they could even lie about being an "illegal order" tells you all you need to know about their character. She did, by the way, manage to equate Vietnam veterans with Nazis at Nuremberg in the same defense, so you can see where she's coming from.
Maybe Democrats are not capable of doing things for the good of the country – I have no memory of them doing so in my lifetime, but it had to have happened at some point, right? Or maybe they simply do not care. There are a lot of people capable of a great deal of things that they simply do not do.
Personally, I don't care what the answer is; my problem is that there is the question. Well, a rhetorical question, really. We'll likely never know what could be done if Democrats were as interested in the good of the country as they are in their own glory and power, because it never occurs to them to try.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly "Week in F*cking Review" podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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