The Democrat Party we grew up with

 

Ben Garrison cartoon

The Democrat Party that many of us grew up with in the 50’s and 60’s is long gone.  Long gone.  The Progressive left has taken it over.  At PJ Media, Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) explains why so many of our family and friends can’t see it:

President Joe Biden is now 80 years old. He will be 82 when he campaigns for the 2024 presidency — and a clearly debilitated 86 should he be elected and fill out his second term. He has been in government for over a half-century.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current representative from California is 83.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the second-ranking Democratic House member behind Pelosi, was House majority leader until early this year. He is 83, and has been an elected official for nearly 60 years.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is 72, with 48 years in elected government.

Democratic luminary and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is 89, and ailing — after 53 years as an elected official.

James Clyburn, D-S.C., is House minority whip and 82.

These are the official faces of the Democratic Party.

They came into power and maturity three decades ago during the Clinton years of 1993-1999.

Decades ago, they sometimes supported strong national defense, secure borders, gas and oil development, fully funding the police, and a few restrictions on partial-birth abortions.

Not now.

Their role has changed from that of liberals of the Clinton era to serving as the thin power-holding veneer that masks the new real Democratic Party.

The party has been changed beyond recognition by Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the so-called Squad, the Congressional Black Caucus, newly elected senators like the Georgia duo of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock – and Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

Yet Biden and company are still familiar American faces.

Their final role is to acculturate the electorate to the new Democratic Party.

Its radicals are breathing down their necks to get out of the way. Yet for a while longer they still need such an ossified veneer of respectability to ease the transition to what is now essentially a socialist-European green party. . . .

A socialist-European green party”.  That’s putting it nicely.  Some might say the “Progressive left” is completing the “fundamental change” of America’s constitutional republic into the New World Order.  Global communism.    

VDH concludes:

The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop — exempt from counter-revolutionary criticism or inter-party primary challenges or demands to retire.

In return, the codgers reassure the nation that old faces like theirs cannot possibly be polyester revolutionary socialists — despite their role in airbrushing and photo-shopping the radical catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.

Read all about it here.

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Civilization in the Danger Zone

 

Darlene Casella's posting links to a documentary this blogger has not seen, but it looks like one that we expect to watch and review here.  Here’s Darlene Casella at American Thinker on Civilization in the Danger Zone:

Gloria Greenfield's potent documentary, Civilization in the Danger Zone, explores Western civilization and what happens when crucial components are targeted for destruction.  The film brings together scholars and guiding lights of conservatism who share razor-sharp insights about the critical interconnectedness of God, family, and nation, which are necessary to maintain Western civilization in the world.

When one's sex or skin color or political outlook is more important than competence, intelligence, or character, a slippery slope of value erosion is created.  This paradigm is a precursor to communism and anarchy, the evil opposites of Western civilization.

For 65 minutes, the individual narrations of 23 celebrated intellectuals flow together.  They tell a compelling story about the targeted destruction of the Western concept of civilized society and behavior.  The dangers to Western civilization are dismaying, yet the speakers bring finesse and charm to their delivery. . . .

Read the full column here. Among the “celebrated intellectuals” whose names you may recognize are Larry P. Arnn, Frank Gaffney, Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald, Christopher Rufo, and Carol Swain.

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Surveillance on unvaccinated citizens

 

Dr Joseph Mercola’s report at Epoch Times is behind a paywall, but you can access it for free via Liberty Daily:

Media Covers Up Tracking of Unvaccinated People

While the fact checkers are burning the midnight oil to hide these truths, here’s why you could be tracked and end up experiencing negative repercussions in other areas of your life due to your vaccination status. The red flag: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refused to answer these questions.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In mid-February 2023, I reported that the U.S. government has secretly been tracking those who didn’t get the COVID jab, or are only partially jabbed, through a previously unknown surveillance program.
• Within days, fact checkers tried to debunk the idea that individual people are being tracked, or that these data could be misused by government or third parties.
• COVID “vaccination” status was not considered a private medical matter at all during 2021 and 2022, yet mainstream media now want you to believe that your COVID jab status is protected by medical privacy laws.
• Your medical data are not nearly as private as you think. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is rife with exemptions when it comes to your privacy. Federal agencies such as the U. S. Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, are exempt from the privacy clauses and can access identifiable data—especially if there’s an outbreak of infectious disease, be it real or fictitious.
• Government agencies and a number of third parties or “covered entities” can also use a number of loopholes to re-identify previously de-identified patient data.

The full report is at Epoch Times via The Liberty Daily here.

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Censoring the humorists

 

The censorship is everywhere, and now it’s P G Wodehouse’s turn.  From Daniel Greenfield at FrontPageMag:

. . . now, it’s Wooster and Jeeves up in front of the woke firing squad, and that seems somehow appropriate. When censors come after humorists, it’s a kind of validation of the subject and a special kind of indictment of the censors.

Penguin Random House has altered what it termed the “unacceptable prose” of author P.G. Wodehouse in new editions of his classic Jeeves and Wooster series.

The publisher also warned readers of “outdated” terms in the revamped works, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

The Jeeves and Wooster books portray Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves, and consist of 35 short stories and 11 novels.

A disclaimer printed on the opening pages of the 2023 reissue of Wodehouse’s Thank you, Jeeves, notes, “Please be aware that this book was published in the 1930s and contains language, themes and characterizations which you may find outdated. In the present edition we have sought to edit, minimally, words that we regard as unacceptable to present-day readers.”

“That we regard as unacceptable.”

They could just give up the books and let someone else publish them, if they morally object to them, instead they’ve gone to censorship route. . . .

Read the rest here.  Censoring a classic, whether Wodehouse’s short stories or Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, on the basis that a reader “may find [the content] outdated” insults both the author and the reader. (BTW, this blog highly recommends The Code of the Woosters, pictured above.)

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“Organic” Fruits and Vegetables - with chemicals

Krysten at Krysten’s Kitchen (at Freedom First Network) exposes yet more contamination in the food supply chains:

Gates-Backed Company Coating “Organic” Fruits

and Vegetables With Dangerous Chemicals

You can’t even trust buying organic produce anymore, thanks to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Katy Perry, and Oprah. There’s a new label on your produce, and it’s anything but ap”peel”ing. Apeel is a “plant-based protection that helps the produce you love stay fresh for longer”… or, in other words, a chemical coating put on your produce which you can’t wash off so it doesn’t brown or decompose in a normal amount of time.

Exactly how old is that avocado?

Unfortunately, if you think by choosing organic you’re good to go… think again. On their website they state, “We have formulations that are OMRI Listed® for the growers and distributors of USDA Certified Organic produce.”

They say that it helps reduce plastic, which might be true, but what exactly is this coating made of? They state on their FAQs that there is only one ingredient, but then go on to say that it’s only composed of food-grade (multiple) ingredients made from “plant materials”. . . .

Read the rest at Freedom First Network here or at Discern Report here.

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Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?

 

At American Greatness, Victor Davis Hanson asks what we’re all thinking:

Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?

In the next five years, either cities will seek new governance to reduce taxes, break up municipal unions, mandate charter schools, restore police funding and manpower, recalibrate pensions, and prosecute criminals and corrupt officials—or Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, and a score of others will become Detroit.

One of the strangest phenomena amid our current debility are the millions of affluent leftists and liberals who have fled their unworkable, now unlivable blue-run, but naturally beautiful cities like San Francisco or Portland. They seem to lack an abstract recognition why they are leaving, or why and how their new chosen destinations are so different and therefore so inviting to them. Is their motto, “I am fleeing what I created, but I still hate those who created what I want”?

To have a “border problem,” one must have a border. The United States has no southern border. . . .

VDH concludes his essay on a sad note:

Election night is a mere construct. It is mostly meaningless. Local, state, and federal election results are stalled and descend into days, weeks, and sometimes even months of bickering, counter charges of ballot tampering and fraud, ballot harvesting and curing, and a loss of confidence in the integrity of the final result. Debates mean little anymore, once a large portion of the electorate has already voted. No wonder deceased candidates can win. Gaffes are now determined by whether they occur before or after the majority of voters has cast their ballots. 

There should be a national uniform standard that allows states to set their ballot procedures—as long as they result in 70 percent of the electorate voting in person on election day. 

America is in a similar position to where it was in 1861, 1929, 1941, and 1968—only perhaps worse, given in all those cases, there was at least a president and Congress that identified and reacted to the crisis, whereas today our elected government is what caused the crisis.

Read the full column here.

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The Adventures of Trump Man

 

T47: The Retribution

If you are on the Trump Train, you’ll enjoy this short video of Donald Trump a/k/a 'Trump Man' at Rumble (if embedded link below does not work for you, click on the link above to access):

If you are not on the Trump train, skip this one.

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