Poor Democrats, learning the hard way (and very late in life) that actions have consequences and you can’t always get what you want…no matter how loudly you scream about it or demand it. The modern left has morphed into a never-ending drum circle of hatred and contempt for their fellow human beings who do not wish to be assimilated into the progressive collective of blind obedience. Democrats are learning a lesson they should have learned after losing the Civil War: people don’t want to be slaves.
But Democrats have never learned that lesson; they view people as groups they own the votes of and can manipulate in order to achieve their political goals.
It has worked for a very long time, but it’s working less and less now.
Part of the reason for their “coalition” fracture is that their policies are catching up to them. You can only promise to make things better for so long before people realize they’ve been getting steadily worse because of you, even Democrat voters.
A bigger reason, however, is just how insane the party has gotten. Even stupid people will eventually realize you’re spitting in their faces while lecturing them about the rain.
Many voters are reaching that point.
How can anyone take seriously a party with a pundit like Harry Sisson, who, after the Virginia Supreme Court beat the dreams of Democrats creating new House seats like it was their redheaded stepchild, tweeted, “If Virginia can’t have their maps, then other blue states need to step up. Eliminate all of the Republican seats like they’re doing to us.”
Yes, genius, burn tens of millions more dollars trying to redraw deeper blue districts in New England, as the place where your control is absolute had gerrymandered everything decades ago.
The only reason Republicans still have states they could gerrymander, and Democrats don’t, is because the GOP has been stupidly playing nice. No longer.
Democrats brought this on themselves. I know they like to pretend “Texas started this!” But you have to have been denied oxygen in the birth canal to be that stupid. New England exists. New York’s redistricting exists; what California has been doing exists. Honestly, it’s about damn time Republicans stopped taking punches to the face and asking if the Democrats’ knuckles are OK and started hitting back.
They can no longer segregate people into congressional districts, and they’re acting like it’s a return to Jim Crow. They know that’s not true; they were the creators of Jim Crow and know exactly what it was like then…and they want it back.
More Black Members of Congress represent majority-white districts than don’t, but Democrats still insist the country is racist and merit will lead to a “lack of representation.” Sorry, but you don’t need to be represented by someone who looks like you; it’s much more important that you be represented by someone who thinks as you do. Democrats have been working diligently for decades to make sure that doesn’t happen. And they’re losing.
But identity politics will not die easily; too much of the infrastructure of the left-wing industrial complex is built on it.
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed — who famously fretted that people in my old neighborhood in Dearborn were very upset that the Ayatollah had been killed (instead of killing people) — is playing the “I’m Muslim” and “Jews are bad” cards in his campaign against candidates running on the “I’m a woman!” platform. Weird how liberal women can’t tell you what a woman is in any other aspect of life except where it benefits them, isn’t it?
El-Sayed’s campaign is so desperate to mine that little bit of gold from the Democratic Party’s hatred of Jews and Israel that he put out a press release condemning alleged “dark money” for being spent through an ad-buying agency that apparently contracted with AIPAC – the American pro-Israel group – at some point. His press release read, in part, “The Center for Democratic Priorities bought the airtime via Waterfront Strategies, an agency that AIPAC-affiliated Super PACs, such as United Democracy Project, have worked with in the past.”
Are you now, or have you ever been, to a restaurant that served matzo ball soup?
While it’s important to remember just how broken these people are, you have to keep in mind that their leadership is not stupid; they’re evil. They know what they’re doing and why: it benefits them. The voters who go along with it, even after everything we’ve seen and Democrats themselves have shown, are the special kind of stupid who need to be grateful breathing is a reflex, as they would forget how to do it otherwise and suffocate on the streets.
Wise up already.
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.