UPDATE: Wednesday night’s Democrat debate in Nevada allowed for a sharp focus on the candidates’ personalities. It wasn’t pretty.
Warren: The debate had barely started when she said that one candidate is a “billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians." With her hoarse voice and scolding manner, she was every mean old lady that children learn to fear.
Bloomberg was generally out of his league in the jostle and thrust of a debate. He’s used to the boardroom, a place in which everyone falls silent when he speaks. He came across as condescending and disconnected.
Bernie, as always, was the angry old man. He reiterated his usual points: socialized medicine, the horror of billionaires (he no longer mentions millionaires now that he’s one too), and the need for a command-and-control economy to fight climate change.
Poor Biden. Obama has practically disavowed him, but Biden is still clinging desperately to his coattails. He’s only marginally articulate most of the time and, as the evening wore on and fatigue caught up with the old guy, he stopped making sense.
Buttigieg is just a bundle of smug. He’s the smart-ass teacher’s pet no one likes. He delivered his canned, mostly meaningless homilies with knowing little grins. He picked too many silly arguments, such as trying to denigrate Klobuchar for forgetting Mexican President Obrador’s name.
Klobuchar is a non-entity who desperately wants to be an entity. There’s a vacuum where her personality should be and she tries to fill it by boasting about her Minnesota election successes and her having voted on multiple bills in Congress.
Not a single person on the stage is a leader or a statesman. There’s something almost tragic about the fact that the essence of the Democrat Party – the oldest continuously existing political party in the world – has been reduced to these six uninspiring, unqualified people.
"The Rise of Democratic Idiocracy"
The Pop Culture Dictionary defines idiocracy as “a society run or made up of idiots.”
In this new Democratic world, the absurd is now the accepted norm, totally illogical thought becomes completely rational, scientific fact is discarded for the purpose of political expediency and historical fact is a tiresome inconvenience that can be ignored as needed.
Bernie Sanders
When asked by Norah O’Donnell of CBS -- as friendly a liberal media TV interviewer as there could possibly be -- what his universal Government-run health plan would cost, Sanders replied, “I don’t know, no one knows.” He calls himself a “Democratic Socialist,” but is never asked to specifically explain exactly what that means, or what percentage “democratic” and “socialist” things are in his imaginary world
Michael Bloomberg
”Mike will get it done.” Get what done? To “Get it done,” Mike will have to create a new Bizarro world, a world where everything is different. In the real world -- the one where we all live -- President Trump has already gotten it done.
Joe Biden
Poor Joe. Is he even still in the race? He gives every indication of not knowing exactly what world he’s in from moment to moment. He’d have a better chance if he knew what state he was in.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Clearly the thought leader of the current Democratic Party. Her almost daily pronouncements are laughably detached from any semblance of reality. She spouts all the usual clichés: capitalism is bad, America is evil and deeply flawed, only the wealthy are doing well, etc., but the Democratic candidates parrot every single one of them.
Nancy Pelosi
She rips up her copy of President Trump’s SOTU speech and it’s okay. Nary a word of criticism from any Democratic politician or the liberal media. This from a person who says she is Catholic and there is no hate in her heart for the president. For Pelosi and the idiocrats, it’s fine to invoke religion when rationalizing their preferred behavior.
Despite constant media attacks and the manic, obsessive attempts by elected Democrats to somehow reverse and nullify his 2016 victory over the increasingly pathetic Hillary Clinton, President Trump continues to make huge progress on a wide front of issues. Minorities are doing better economically than at any time in our history, we’ve reduced carbon emissions more than any country on earth, wages for all are rising and we’re energy-independent. Every aspect of American life is getting better and better.
The Democrats have no real openings. So they’re reduced to fabricating an idiocracy where their candidates recite total nonsense and they think we’ll fall for it.
The Rise of Democratic Idiocracy
As the 2020 campaign season heats up, the candidates are staking out their respective positions along the political continuum, looking to occupy precisely the right slot, the one that will appeal to a winning swath of voters come November.
President Trump has chosen his position: He’s taking the “Make actual day-to-day life better for people by strengthening the job market, reducing taxes, making energy more plentiful and affordable, reducing the negative economic impact and civil disruption caused by rampant illegal immigration, improving our national security by rebuilding our military and enhancing the country’s balance-of-trade situation by renegotiating failed agreements such as NAFTA” position.
It’s a strong position for him to take. He’s been remarkably successful at accomplishing these goals, to the tangible benefit of working American citizens across every demographic group there is -- Men, women, old, young, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Euro/Caucasians, everyone. Despite constant media attacks and the manic, obsessive attempts by elected Democrats to somehow reverse and nullify his 2016 victory over the increasingly pathetic Hillary Clinton, President Trump continues to make huge progress on a wide front of issues. In the privacy of their own thoughts, far away from the shrill obligatory denunciations they shout with such utter predictability day after day, Democrats must realize that under President Trump’s leadership, things are going very well in the country.
This realization creates a conundrum for Democrats: They must somehow convince an electorate working at well-paying jobs and pretty happy with the way things are going with most aspects of their lives that somehow they’re not really happy after all, and things aren’t as good as the reality of their own lives tells them it is.
So the Democrats have done something inventive and unique: They’ve created a new reality. They’ve created an idiocracy. The Pop Culture Dictionary defines idiocracy as “a society run or made up of idiots.” In this new Democratic world, the absurd is now the accepted norm, totally illogical thought becomes completely rational, scientific fact is discarded for the purpose of political expediency and historical fact is a tiresome inconvenience that can be ignored as needed.
Some examples:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is clearly the thought leader of the current Democratic Party. Her almost daily pronouncements are laughably detached from any semblance of reality (“We only have 12 years left to correct Global Warming! This is our World War Two!”), yet her philosophies and utterances somehow serve as the guideposts for all the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates. She spouts all the usual clichés: capitalism is bad, America is evil and deeply flawed, only the wealthy are doing well, etc., but the Democratic candidates parrot every single one of them. They may put their own individual twists on them in order to distinguish themselves from one another, but the overriding “America is unfair, it’s racist, and a Republican-run America will ruin the world’s future with its greed unless we stop it” theme is common to all the contenders.
Bernie Sanders
When asked by Norah O’Donnell of CBS -- as friendly a liberal media TV interviewer as there could possibly be -- what his universal Government-run health plan would cost, Sanders replied, “I don’t know, no one knows.” She was incredulous (which is kind of incredible in and of itself). He calls himself a “Democratic Socialist,” but is never asked to specifically explain exactly what that means, or what percentage “democratic” and “socialist” things are in his imaginary world. Like the cost of his healthcare plan, Bernie doesn’t know. His plans and thought processes are idiotic.
Joe Biden
Poor Joe. Is he even still in the race? He gives every indication of not knowing exactly what world he’s in from moment to moment. He lurches from so-called “moderate” to “Freebie-Joe” as the exigencies of the moment change. However, there is no question that Joe is trying desperately to find that magical thinnest sliver of unfulfilled need -- which simply may not exist -- in the minds of those critical swing voters so that he can come to their rescue. He’d have a better chance if he knew what state he was in.
Michael Bloomberg
Conveniently disavowing the conservative governing principles he embraced to great advantage while serving as mayor of New York, Bloomberg has tried to fall right in line with current Democratic talking points. But an unexpected audio clip of him enthusiastically defending effective ‘stop-and frisk’ practice some years ago has given lie to his credibility as a minority-loving candidate in the Democratic mold. His advertising theme is emblematic of the difficulties the Democrats face: ”Mike will get it done.” Get what done? Reduce unemployment, especially in the minority community? Increase wages? Reduce minority poverty and their need for food stamps? Make us energy independent, immune from worldwide oil shocks? To “Get it done,” Mike will have to create a new Bizarro world, a world where everything is different. In the real world -- the one where we all live -- President Trump has already gotten it done. Sorry, Mike. See Joe Biden, above.
Nancy Pelosi
She rips up her copy of President Trump’s SOTU speech and it’s okay. Nary a word of criticism from any Democratic politician or the liberal media. (One can only imagine the horrified outcry had a Paul Ryan done the same to President Obama.) This from a person who says she is Catholic and there is no hate in her heart for the president. For Pelosi and the idiocrats, it’s fine to invoke religion when rationalizing their preferred behavior, but when pinned down about the conflict between their support for abortion and Catholic values, Pelosi and her ilk quickly retreat to that tired argument of supporting established law vs. holding their own private personal opinion. ”Established law” can easily be changed by a vote of conscience, if it mattered to you. Sort of like the way the Jim Crow laws were changed. Got that, Nancy? So in the Democrats’ new reality, their idiocracy of anti-Trump, all the time, since Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats are such disingenuous hypocrites, she is reduced to uttering such nonsense as, “Hip, hip hooray, unemployment is down. What does that mean to me in my life?” That was in 2018 and Pelosi was referring to lagging wage growth. Now, of course, we enjoy very strong wage growth, and the strongest increases are at the lowest end of the wage scale, where Democrats have traditionally mined votes with their giveaway programs. Another issue whisked away from the Democrats and pocketed by President Trump.
President Trump has cut off the political escape routes for any rational election opponent. Minorities are doing better economically than at any time in our history, we’ve reduced carbon emissions more than any country on earth, wages for all are rising and we’re energy-independent. Every aspect of American life is getting better and better. The Democrats have no real openings. So they’re reduced to fabricating an idiocracy where their candidates recite total nonsense and they think we’ll fall for it.
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