Posted on 11/28/2018 2:45:02 PM PST by Kaslin
The headlines about the incoming 116th Congress scream that our representation has never been so "young," so "blue," so "diverse."
If diversity is about how people look, this Congress is very diverse. It's a fact that there has never been so great a number of representatives who are women and people of color.
There are 124 women, 55 blacks, 43 Latinos and 15 Asians.
But if diversity means diversity of thought, it's practically nonexistent.
Of the 124 women, 105 are Democrats. Of the 55 blacks, all are Democrats. Of the 43 Latinos, 34 are Democrats. Of the 15 Asians, 14 are Democrats.
The celebration about alleged diversity is really a celebration of one, uniform voice on the left, dressed in different colors, calling in unison for moving America further toward socialism and secular humanism.
All the politics of today's Democratic Party, which is as far left as it has ever been, is about how people look and where they come from. Once we called this prejudice or stereotyping. Now we call it progressivism.
This is anything but Martin Luther King's famous dream that his children would one day be judged by "the content of their character and not the color of their skin."
It takes a certain blindness to miss the irony in these politicians of the left, who call for honoring and empowering individuals, and choose to do this by making them less free. They claim to enhance individual dignity by expanding government to dictate our health care, how we save and retire, our relationship with our employer, how and what we can say to others and what they can say to us, and just about every detail of our private lives and decisions.
How has it become so lost in our country that the way we dignify individuals is by believing in them, by granting them freedom to take responsibility for their own life?
In this election, Republicans won a national majority only from white voters. Hispanics voted 69 percent for Democrats; blacks, 90 percent; and Asians, 77 percent.
Minority Americans have bought the lie that personal freedom is not in their interest -- that government should run their lives. This is meaningful to us all because they represent the growth demographics of the nation.
According to recent analysis from the Brookings Institution, white America will be in the minority by 2045. However by 2027, just eight years from now, the majority of Americans 29 and under will be non-white.
The socialists, the secular humanists, know time is on their side. It's a waiting game for them.
The new Democrat House has only one thing in mind -- biding its time to inflict maximum damage on President Donald Trump in order to lay the groundwork for whomever they nominate for president in 2020. So expect a very noisy two years.
What can Republicans do? Get far more aggressive in reaching into these minority communities about what losing or gaining freedom will mean to them. Republicans have a very important story to tell that is not reaching these communities.
Countries that are not free don't grow, because all the activity is about transferring wealth -- not creating it.
The progressive politics of blame, dependence and envy make the well-connected rich and keep impoverished people poor. It's why over the last 50 years, many black politicians have gotten wealthy while the gap in average household income between whites and blacks is 50 percent greater today than it was in 1970.
Republicans and all Americans who care about bequeathing a free nation to their children and grandchildren need to think long and hard about how to communicate the importance of freedom to Americans of color. It's our only hope of not losing our country to the left forever.
One thing to say that the House Democrats can make a lot of noise. It another thing to say that they can do more to Trump than the Gingrich Congress could do to WJBC.When Congress voted to impeach Clinton, Clinton played the bongo drums. If Congress votes to impeach Trump, Trump will campaign for reelection the same way he campaigned for election in the first place. And with similar effect (which is not to predict that Trump will inevitably win, only that the campaign will look the same - and that his defeat is not foreordained.
Imagine using your vote to try and make sure you CAN’T vote some day.
When do Democrats every advocate freedom? They don’t. It’s always about social equality, economic justice, or some other gobbly guk that boils down to socialism or communism.
Not only that millennials are not getting laid.
True dat.
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They also have enemies in the system who are going to wage war against them. One enemy has come out in the open yesterday and thrown its hat in the ring.
China should attack us! Half the nation would not fight Trumps War! Some would fight for Communist China! Just take down internet and all young people would demand surrender to get it back. This isn’t the Nation that won WW II. Wait till rationing starts and the DRAFT! No, In a fight we would fold like a house of cards at our first defeat. One Video of a US Carrier sinking would have the Democrats blame the war on Trump, impeach the “War Criminal” for Tariffs and run to the UN.
Keep your defeatist opinions to yourself. You have no idea what’s going on. Go charge a Chinese tank battalion on a horse.
You will sometimes hear ambition expressed as, “I want more responsibility.” That is entirely unbelievable; nobody wants responsibility. Everyone wants authority (and freedom is authority over one’s own affairs), but no one actually wants responsibility (for themselves - they demand it of others).Here’s the lament of the person who perceives that he has responsibility but not authority:
It's not my place to run the trainWith authority must come responsibility, and some people have no taste for that at all.
The whistle I can't blow.It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.It's not my place to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.
Agreed. Freedom cannot exist without responsibility.
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