Whither the Red Wave

 

Gary Varvel cartoon at Townhall

Gen Z = voters under 30.  Robert Spencer at PJ Media explains the mid-term election results:

If Della Volpe’s numbers are correct, and 64% of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 really voted for Democrats, then one thing is clear: the corruption and politicization of our educational system has worked.

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What he is crowing about is the apparent fact that the voting group with the least life experience and the most recent subjection to the Leftist indoctrination that dominates America’s educational system ended up voting as it was brainwashed to do. Gee, that’s terrific, if you like evidence of the success of the relentless propagandizing of a vulnerable and impressionable captive audience, but neither John Della Volpe nor anyone else should be proud of it. What it shows is not that the Leftist case is compelling or persuasive; it shows that patriotic Americans have been far too complacent in allowing public schools to become centers of Leftist indoctrination and hatred of our own nation and heritage.

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. . . In China, Communist leader Mao Zedong began the Long March in 1934 to evade nationalist forces; the term, however, came to be associated with his slow, steady, patient rise to power, culminating in the Communist takeover of mainland China in 1949. The Long March Through the Institutions was the same kind of slow, steady takeover, as Communists, leftists, and their allies gradually gained control of America’s colleges and universities, its primary and secondary educational systems, its popular culture, and above all its ever-growing federal bureaucracy.

Mr Spencer concludes:

Many, if not most, of the Gen Z-ers who voted overwhelmingly for the Left will, as they get older, come to realize how foolish and wrongheaded they were to support socialist internationalism and the managed decline of the United States. But others will never wake up, and will applaud that decline as retribution for centuries of alleged racism and colonialism. Even as their own cities and towns become ever more squalid, poor, dirty, and dangerous, they will continue to think of themselves as righteous for having chosen all that. That pride will be all they have left.

Full column is here. 

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Update: the corrupt and manipulative political justice system

 

It’s just 15 days before the mid-term elections, and the DOJ is switching its story. Sundance reports:

FBI and DOJ Switch Tactics,
Now Claim 2022 Election is Vulnerable to Manipulation

With the majority of American voters now positioned to rebuke the political efforts of Joe Biden and federal Democrats, the narrative from the DOJ and FBI does a 180° reverse course.  The transparency of a corrupt and manipulative political justice system is beyond obvious.

• Old Message to support the 2020 Democrat vote initiatives (ballot harvesting, mail-in voting, precinct manipulation): The 2020 election was the most secure election in American history.
• New Message to support the Democrat 2022 vote initiatives: The 2022 election is not secure, subject to manipulation by disinformation and misinformation, and likely to encounter interference by domestic and foreign adversaries.

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Read the full report at Conservative Treehouse here.

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Why Democrats can't cheat their way to victory in the mid-terms

 

Guest post by Pat:

We all saw Dinesh D'Souza's "2000 Mules" and how the Democrats stole the 2020 Presidential Election by stuffing ballot drop boxes with hundreds of thousands of stashed illegal ballots. One fact that exposes that that is what happened is that Biden had no coat-tails. Democrats lost seats in the house and barely held the senate. This is surprising since Biden "won" the greatest number of votes in history. Even more surprising is that the incumbent president surpassed his 2016 vote total by 6 million votes and still lost.

House seats are counted and decided at the district level. GOP districts have strong voter integrity rules, so the Democrats can't cheat there, as was shown in 2020. Former red districts still have the same controls.

Senate seats are counted at the state level. As we saw in the Georgia runoffs, the Democrats used the same game plan as they did in the previous November and unleashed their mules again, as "2000 Mules" proves. That enabled them to steal control of the Senate. Why didn't they do that in all the Senate races in 2020? I think they thought they didn't need to. The target was Trump, and the plan was to flood the system with Biden-only votes. It worked, and the Trump response to such blatant fraud was led by Rudy Giuliani, who was clearly not up to the task, as Patrick Byrne documents in his book, The Deep Rig.

So, how does the GOP and the MAGA people (not the same) prevent the Democrats stealing Senate seats in the mid-terms? One disinfectant is sunlight. "2000 Mules" exposed how they did it in 2020. Any GOP legislature with an ounce of common sense would enact legislation that bans drop boxes, enforces voter ID and signature verification, and cleans up voter rolls. But, we call the GOP the "stupid party" with good reason. So, the MAGA people must pressure the GOP to get smart and enact and enforce voter integrity laws. 

A comment:  I don't call the GOP the "stupid party" anymore ~ I call them the party of "bought."  And I hope contributor Pat is correct!

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Optics and the mid-tern election

art credit: foxandhoundsdaily.com

[and yes, that's Janet Leigh in Psycho]

Here’s the inimitable Victor Davis Hanson on “Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives”:

For progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market and unprecedented energy production. Instead, progressives hope that race and gender questions overshadow pocketbook issues.

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The new caravan appears strangely well organized. The marchers, many of them young men, do not appear destitute. They do not seem to fit the profile of desperate refugees whose lives were in immediate danger in their homeland.

For many Americans, the would-be refugees may seem presumptuous in assuming that they have the right to barge into someone else’s country. Most Americans realize that if an organized caravan of foreigners can simply announce in advance plans to crash into the U.S. illegally, then the concepts of a border, citizenship, sovereignty or even a country itself no longer exist.

Then he considers the feeding frenzy around the Senate hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh:

Many Americans finally concluded that there was no reason to deny Kavanaugh’s nomination to the court. To find Kavanaugh guilty of Ford’s charges, Americans were asked to suspend the very ideas of due process and Western jurisprudence.

The furious demonstrations that followed Kavanaugh’s confirmation only made the optics worse.

Hanson concludes:

Every country requires a border and the rule of law. Due process cannot so easily be thrown out in a moment. There can be no Senate without safety and calm inside its halls. Powerful, privileged Washington officials should be the last to game a system designed to help the underprivileged.

Many are speculating that yesterday’s pipe bomb scares were yet another stunt - even a false flag hoax -- to change the subject, stifle reasoned debate, blame President Trump, and prompt another round of media hysteria. DC Whispers asks:

Who would send out these fake bombs and why? Who might have anything political to gain two weeks out from the Midterm Elections by staging a fake bomb hoax against noted Democrat politicians that then generates Establishment Media hysteria? 

Already the bomb reports has shoved the caravan story to the sidelines, at least for now. At any rate, the Progressives have overplayed their hand. I just hope independent and liberal voters see that.

UPDATE Oct 26:  FBI Arrest made in “Package Bomb” Scare; Fox News Source – 56 Yr. Old Male with Prior Arrests - and a Trump supporter.

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