Dire Warnings, Part II: Democrats invent crises to buck for bigger government, 2014-2020

American Thinker ^ | 03/10/2020 | Jack Hellner

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Democrats have been at 'crazy' for a long time, issuing dire warnings of doomsday in order to come up with a rationale for expanding government. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that's been their rationale since socialism doesn't exactly sell with the broader U.S. public, just ask Bernie Sanders. There's always a need to goose calls for bigger government with dire warnings premised other issues, which is one reason why Democrats keep making them. From the U.S. pullout of the Paris climate accord to the advent of the coronavirus, Democrats are never wanting for a crisis -- and never let a crisis go to waste. In my previous piece, I outlined some of their earliest dire warnings.

Here's what these dire warnings have come to now.

 2014-The babies are in danger.

The most brilliant, honest president we ever had, Barack Obama, recognized that unaccompanied illegal immigrant children smuggled across the border were "in danger" and caged them at the border. That's about as expanded as government gets. I am having trouble finding the media and other Democrats calling him a racist for wanting to enforce our laws based on his knowledge that his own polling numbers depended on it 

Obama vows urgent action as children make perilous illegal journey into U.S.

2016 -- The Great Russia Threat:

There was a major existential threat to Democrat power so we were told, without evidence, that a deep recession would come if Trump was elected and he was colluding with the Russians to get elected. That was just the first part of the dire warnings, there was plenty more... p>The situation was so dire that the Justice Department first had to clear the corrupt Hillary Clinton, whom they were supporting for president,

[SkyDancer]

Remember when the Hilldebeeste was running for pres?

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[Eleutheria5]

Power was taken away from her for the common good. Government can’t be trusted to make those choices. The people must make it for them.

[bigbob]

The Deep State has its roots in FDRs depression era programs and the WWII expansion of government.

[SunkenCiv]

• Putin's plan to divide Americans is working
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• John Hickenlooper hosts gun violence discussion, earns big endorsement in Gabby Giffords

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2020: Going crazy about coronavirus.

[livius]

True. I read a recent article in the NYT praising the Chinese response(!) to the virus and saying that now Americans needed the “iron hand” of the state. They’re not even subtle about it now.

They’re hoping they can use this as a way to triage out their enemies, prevent free movement from one part of the country (or abroad) to another, and take over “health care.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

And often Trump goes along.

Last night he was talking about making sure that hourly paid workers get paid if they have to stay home sick from work. He’s on paid family leave too.