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The Daily Dose of Reason ^ | June 30, 2018 | Dr. Michael J Hurd

Posted on 06/30/2018 7:32:36 PM PDT by huckfillary

Dear Democrats/Progressives:

I see the signs at your protests:

“What’s Next? Concentration Camps … Oh, wait”

“I Care. Do you?”

“Love, Not Trump”

And all the rest.

What are you really angry at, Democrats? It can’t be just Donald Trump. You were poised to hate any Republican who defeated Hillary Clinton. I remember how you hated Ronald Reagan (if you were alive then). And you likewise hated the hapless George Bushes and Mitt Romneys, who sided with you more than against you, including on immigration.

So what do you really hate, Democrats? And why do you hate it?

It can’t be President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws. These same laws were enforced by President Obama. The only difference is that it wasn’t headline news on the news networks you watch. Now it is, and now you’re suddenly enraged.

It can’t be President Trump’s refusal to immediately disband ICE and unconditionally open the borders. President Obama never did this, never proposed doing so and probably never would have done so. Hillary Clinton did not propose these steps in her campaign, although she did promise to let any and all Muslims unconditionally enter the country, just as they’re doing in Germany and elsewhere in Europe (and see how well it’s working out).

So what is it you hate so much, Democrats and progressives? What animates your desire to even shred the Constitution, if that’s what it takes, to get rid of Donald Trump?

And if Donald Trump disappeared tomorrow, what about the half or so of the country who supports him? Even if they support him reluctantly, they will never ever support your kind of leaders. So what do you plan to do with them? The Constitution was designed to make room for, and attempt to arbitrate, differences. From what you’re saying, there’s no room for difference. “Not my President”. This means more than your refusal to support him. It means your refusal to support the moral — and perhaps even legal — legitimacy of anyone you dislike who wins. What if the millions on the other side take the same position? What if they had done so when Obama was President? What would this mean for you?

Democrats and progressives, you are coming across as tyrants and totalitarians at heart. You seem to be all of the very things you accuse Donald Trump of being. How can you detest these qualities you claim are in him, while showing no remorse or concern for these same qualities in yourselves? Look in the mirror. Or better yet — simply look at Maxine Waters.

It’s time for self-reflection, Democrats and progressives. Don’t do it for people like me. You hate people like me, and that’s fine. But you should do it for yourselves. Because on your current course, you’re going to implode with rage, and you’re going to ensure victories for the very candidates you so disparage, because you have so fully and unabashedly given up any pretense at reason.

Show confidence and respect for your positions by selling them, instead of screaming, shaming and moralizing about them. Spend your time rationally defending your views. Explain why people should want and will benefit from higher taxes, more government regulations, and even government nationalization of entire industries to be run by an elite, connected group of politicians and bureaucrats. Demonstrate why we should want the federal government to do for the rest of our society what it has already done for education and health care — and why that’s a good thing. Justify, prove and persuade. Stop calling names and stop spewing hatred in the name of love.

It’s clear you do not love those who disagree with you on anything, progressives. And rest assured, we do not love you back.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; democrats; progressives; reason
There's really nothing I can add to this magnificent article. I can only urge all of you to read his "Daily Dose of Reason."
1 posted on 06/30/2018 7:32:36 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

Wish folks would realize we are seeing SOCIALISTS gaining visibility and acceptance in the Democratic Party, not Progressives. SOCIALISTS and Communists.


2 posted on 06/30/2018 7:38:27 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: huckfillary

Who says hatred has to be rational? It can be, but usually not.


3 posted on 06/30/2018 7:38:37 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: huckfillary

are you related to Buck O’Fama?


4 posted on 06/30/2018 7:39:09 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: huckfillary

Why would I invite these fools into an exercise where I’m proposing to exchange reason with them? It’s beyond their capability. They wish to run their lives on emotion even after the media that fires their emotions has been shown to be blatant Liars. It would be like electing your favorite heroin dealer to be the mayor of your town. They are just Goons and believe it’s righteous to be a goon, so they just want to become more goonish. I say let them. In their competition to see who can be more goony than the next person, I think that they are creating more and more people who support our side with their very efforts. I have no interest in stopping them from being as goofy as they can figure out how to be.


5 posted on 06/30/2018 7:55:32 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I have zero desire to work with Socialists/communists. They are to me a group to be defeated completely. You can’t reason with insanity. I’m pretty sure we ain’t seen nothing yet. The tide is going out on the left and they’re going to get crazier and much more dangerous. IMO


6 posted on 06/30/2018 8:46:37 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: huckfillary

When you are dealing with both the Marxist Left and the Stupid Left, there is NO SUCH THING AS “REASON”.

Their minds are made up (by choice or indoctrination), and nothing is going to change it short of a religious revelation, a good baseball bat to their head or balls, or the Apocalypse, whichever comes first.

I’ve been in amongst these fools since the 1960’s and nothing has changed, only some characters and organizational names. It’s “HATE: 24/7”.


7 posted on 06/30/2018 8:59:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: huckfillary

Why does Satan hate God?

Satan recognizes that Donald Trump is an instrument of the Lord - hence the blind gibbering hatred of his minions.


8 posted on 06/30/2018 9:10:51 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: huckfillary

Democrat Liberal Progressives simply need a “cause” to survive. They have to be able to protest something in order to feel good. They care little that past Democrat presidents did the same thing as Trump does, or would do the same thing as Trump does. They’re inner being makes them protest. Without a cause, they feel inferior and it’s their way to show their existence.


9 posted on 07/01/2018 4:18:08 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: huckfillary

You’re right, this is a n excellent article. But realize that they are now so filled with their sick Trump Derangement Syndrome that they don’t care. The best part is that the more they rant and rave, the more they screw themselves and the votes they will receive both in 2018 and 2020. So keep it up you fools. YOU ARE YOUR OWN WORSE ENEMIES!!!!!


10 posted on 07/01/2018 7:37:11 AM PDT by RollingThunder (i LEFTIST = Lying Egotistical Fool Trusting Idiotic Socialist Tyranny)
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To: huckfillary

-—So what is it you hate so much——

Mostly being losers.

The stigma of being a miserable, woebegone loser is an atom bomb hit on their fictious self esteem. That hit can only be salved by idiotic yelling and screaming.


11 posted on 07/01/2018 7:42:21 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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