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Don’t Underestimate Dumb Voters’ Appetite For Idiot Leftist Politicians
Townhall.com ^ | December 13, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 12/13/2018 5:53:25 AM PST by Kaslin

You should not for a moment fail to appreciate the risk posed to your freedom by left-wing It-Fascists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Beto O’Rourke. There’s an undeniable appeal of this kind of Potemkin Politician for the kind of morons that the Democrats count on at the ballot box. Sure, the Nitwit Naïf is ridiculously ignorant and dumb – she knows nothing and demonstrates no capacity to learn anything. Sure, Tex Kennedy is a meat puppet dancing on the strings held by his masters. But this is the same country where the voters elected Barack Obama, twice.

They can absolutely win power, which means the leftist elite that controls them could win power, and that means disaster for our country. Like an our-country-splitting-apart kind of disaster. So, we need to accurately assess the threat they pose and figure out how to fight it. We need to not fool ourselves into thinking that these two dorks are too goofy for the voters to ever elect, particularly if some Fredocon doofus whose dad used to be a mailman tries to play spoiler.

Remember that a plurality of the voters voted for Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit; the Electoral College is not going to save our freedom forever. We need to get woke to the threat and act accordingly.

Though mocking them is important, because they are clowns and clowns should be mocked, mocking them is not nearly enough. Mockery really only helps reinforce our own morale, assuring ourselves of what we already know – that they are terrible. Our mockery doesn’t affect the dummies. Most liberal voters are just as civics-illiterate as AOC is, so they just shrug when she botches the three branches of government.

It’s different with O’Rourke. It’s not that Beto does not know what the Constitution says. It’s that he is against what it says.

Remember how Donald Trump was mocked? They said he was a joke. They said his policies were ridiculous. They said he’s dumb. He’s so dumb he beat the Smartest Woman In The World and 16 other Republicans of various levels of establishment acceptability.

The point is not to draw some false equivalence between these two media darlings and the president, because they represent very different situations. The point is that voters will not necessarily respond to their favorites being portrayed as buffoons, whether it is true or not. In Trump’s case, it was the mainstream media doing the defining. The president was an outsider. He succeeded by defying the elite and by speaking for people – the militant Normals – who the ruling class had been oppressing for years.

AOC and Beto are something entirely different. They will be protected by the media, and actively covered for. That’s because they are elite catspaws disguised as radical disrupters. Though they attempt to speak the language of outsiders, every single thing they propose is exactly in line with the desires of the elite establishment. Gun control? Check – yeah, the same people hating on the cops are also the same ones demanding that only the cops under the control of the elite have guns. Climate change? Check – gee, how can a carbon tax go wrong? Bizarre theories about race and gender? Check – sure, let’s turn our country into a crucible of social justice witch hunts that would embarrass the town fathers of Salem, assuming they identify as male. I wouldn’t want to misgender anyone who hanged women for imaginary crimes.

Of course, Ocasio-Cortez blabs about “socialism,” but her rantings are straight out of Marxism for Dummies. Nothing she says threatens the rice bowl of the zillionaire donor base Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have cultivated. Free college, free medicine, free this, free that – it’s all just more graft for the Democrats to distribute, and it will all come from the pockets of people like you. Do you think the people who write the checks to the DNC are going to end up paying the bill for this nonsense? Really?

These two are rebels for the establishment, radicals demanding we keep on our present course toward corporatist socialism and progressive hegemony. They disrupt nothing. They are agents of the leftist status quo.

So, how do we fight Chavez Chick and Che-to?

Sure, we keep up the mockery to reinforce our own side, but we need to reach past our own people to the voters who are not yet woke but who are susceptible to reason. We do that by taking these two seriously. To the extent we can get around a liberal media that is an unapologetic arm of the Democrat Party, we get them to talk. We ask them who pays for their stuff. Free college? Okay, I paid for my college. Why should I pay for someone else’s college too? If their college is important enough for me to work to pay for, why isn’t it important enough for them to work and pay for?

“Why should I pay for your constituent’s goodies?” is a powerful message, and one we’ve not used enough lately. The useless Paul Ryan faction thinks it's unfair to bring up arguments like that, but now the House is going to be the site of debates and that needs to be a key issue.

Who pays? You pay!

We’re the ones the elite expects to write a check for all these benefits. We need to pound that home because that idea still has an appeal to moderates. To this end, enlightened self-interest is our friend.

“Why should we pay for other people’s degree in transsexual Marxist mime?”

“Why should we pay more for gas when China and India are increasing their carbon emissions while we are decreasing ours?”

“Why should we pay welfare to the uninvited foreigners who contribute so much to America’s rich tapestry of entitlement and sloth?”

“Why should we pay more for health care? And don’t tell me we won’t because your last bright idea Obamacare cost us plenty.”

We need to take these hacks head-on, both for ourselves and our kids. Don’t think for a moment that the millennial generation is not stupid enough to embrace the agents of their own servitude. The first generation to fail to surpass the success of the previous one is perfectly capable of eagerly voting to make their own lives worse in the name of…whatever it is that motivates these fools. Probably kale and feelings.

Both deserve laughter, but it’s a mistake to laugh them off. It’s a mistake our country might not recover from.

My third novel about America after it splits apart due to leftist stupidity is available now. Check out Wildfire and see what could very well happen if we let people like AOC and Beto take power on behalf of the leftist elite that controls them!


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KEYWORDS: alexocasiocortez; betoorourke; leftism
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1 posted on 12/13/2018 5:53:25 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
You should not for a moment fail to appreciate the risk posed to your freedom by left-wing It-Fascists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Beto O’Rourke. There’s an undeniable appeal of this kind of Potemkin Politician for the kind of morons that the Democrats count on at the ballot box.

This fits in with the saying that "Politics is Hollywood for ugly people."

A good deal of what the public sees, and apparently what sells in terms of eyeball-minutes, is the portrayal of politics as a sensationalist soap opera.

2 posted on 12/13/2018 6:03:07 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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“Remember that a plurality of the voters voted for Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit;”

Do we really think that a plurality of legal votes by living US citizens went to Hillary? We’ll do fine in 2020 if we have free and fair elections. If we permit blatant fraud such as was committed in Orange County CA Trump will lose.

Anyone who wants to laugh off Ocasio-Cortez and Beto should take a minute to watch one of the YouTube compilations of Mainstream Media/Celebrities laughing their asses off about Donald Trump’s candidacy. At attractive politician offering lots of “Free Government Sh*t” is nothing to laugh off.


3 posted on 12/13/2018 6:03:17 AM PST by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: Kaslin

Amen! The stuff Occasional Cortex says which sends us into belly laughing fits ACTUALLY RESONATES with low-info voters.


4 posted on 12/13/2018 6:03:26 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Jeez, don’t hold back or anything! That’s a 00-Buck round to the face.


5 posted on 12/13/2018 6:07:46 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Kaslin

I try to avoid repeating myself but I can’t help but return time and again to a kid who lived in my freshman dorm.

He was a follower. A coat-holder. A suckup. A shortish, yappy kid who sought the comfort of running with the crowd and being with the alpha male(s). He was inordinately fond of conspiracy theories, which in the pre-internet era consisted of the greatest hits of the JFK assassination, chemtrails, and mysterious substances in tap water put there by government or by industrial saboteurs. These, he believed, meant that he knew something we didn’t and that knowledge somehow elevated him among his peers.

Fast forward to the present day and he is an identikit lefty. He demands everyone ride the bus or train or bicycle (regardless of weather and/or proximity to mass transit). He decries suburban living while simultaneously decrying gentrification ie making urban neighborhoods habitable. He is a card-carrying member of the Mueller Cargo Cult - convinced that 2 years of nothing much at all will somehow make the president vanish someday. He dutifully refers to the president as ‘Drumpf’ - apparently this is a great source of amusement to the left and regarded as snappy wit.

Unsurprisingly, he is inordinately fond of empty-headed leftist candidates like AOC and Stacy Abrams and Bernie Sanders. Spend spend spend and ban ban ban and one day Utopia will arrive.


6 posted on 12/13/2018 6:11:36 AM PST by relictele
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To: Kaslin
"So, how do we fight Chavez Chick and Che-to? Sure, we keep up the mockery to reinforce our own side, but we need to reach past our own people to the voters who are not yet woke but who are susceptible to reason. We do that by taking these two seriously."

No, you beat them by winning their voters... and you win their voters by solving some of their issues.

That means changing the GOP because the GOP isnt even talking about urban issues such as traffic congestion, unaffordable housing, police brutality, fresh drinking water, wildfire prevention, homelessness, public drug usage, etc.

If you want to win some urban votes, you'd better be offering to solve some those urban problems.

7 posted on 12/13/2018 6:13:13 AM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Kaslin

Good article and I’ll add one more thing, Democrat voters are immoral. These politicians actually do represent them.

It’s like a sports fan who doesn’t care if players or a whole team cheats, he only cares about winning. Democrats know that their guys lie, cheat and steal, they don’t care as long as they get their cut.


8 posted on 12/13/2018 6:14:03 AM PST by Varda
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To: Kaslin

Tex Kennedy. That’s some funny sh*t, there.


9 posted on 12/13/2018 6:14:13 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: relictele

Just spread the rumor that all EBT cards will be cut off with cortex at the helm. She is going to teach them how to support themselves in this hostile environment. They can raise their won chickens to eat like they do in Venezuela.


10 posted on 12/13/2018 6:14:29 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: relictele

Just spread the rumor that all EBT cards will be cut off with cortex at the helm. She is going to teach them how to support themselves in this hostile environment. They can raise their won chickens to eat like they do in Venezuela.

There will be free lobotomies for anyone who wants one. It comes with a free computer.


11 posted on 12/13/2018 6:16:10 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: oldasrocks
The GOPhad there chance and there just a conn...vote for us and we will do ABC..they did nothing..

When Trump is gone...it is Venezuela here we come...

12 posted on 12/13/2018 6:19:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Kaslin
It’s not that Beto does not know what the Constitution says. It’s that he is against what it says.

Which applies to 100% of the Dems and about 90% of the Republicans.

I enjoyed his other two books on the split, looking forward to reading "Wildfire".

13 posted on 12/13/2018 6:26:51 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Junk Silver

if we have free and fair elections.

You got to be dreaming You’ll never see a free fair election again the left his blayton and openly stealing everything openly..not even hiding it


14 posted on 12/13/2018 6:37:52 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Kaslin

It’s called ‘populism’ and it’s the direct, high-speed route to poverty, continued ignorance, violence, social instability, etc.

You’ll get people like Che, Papa Doc, Robespierre, Obama, Peron, etc.

When shallow, selfish, uneducated people do and say what they want… they WILL imitate one another.

These people are laughably easy to lead and impress.

They’re suckers for the cult of personality and have a near-pathological need for subservience. With an unconditional, wholesale affirmation and blind, mindless idolatry of their so called ‘leader’, they are truly scary people.

The Liberals like it that way. It’s why they have dummied down the schools.


15 posted on 12/13/2018 6:39:49 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Kaslin

There are two lines,

One lines says FREE STUFF (as long as it last)

the other line says STUFF YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR (but there is as much as you want)

Which line is longer?


16 posted on 12/13/2018 6:43:51 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Southack

Change the GOP to address the urban issues? That is rather idiotic considering there isn’t a Metro area in the US with any GOP politicians in office!

Chage the GOP?A political party that provides its own form of gridlock because it doesnt stand for anything?

Russia and China has the solution to the urban problems, its called the atomic bomb!


17 posted on 12/13/2018 6:48:27 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Kaslin

Not dumb voters “Societal Parasites”.


18 posted on 12/13/2018 6:56:11 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Kaslin
Leading up to the midterms many people were predicting there would be a 'Red Wave' because of the booming economy.

I told them, don't count on the economy. Liberal Democrats vote FOR poverty programs all the time.

Just look at California and New York.

The same thing is true in European countries.

Despite all the problems caused by immigration, Europeans still elect liberal candidates.

Why?

Because they're afraid if they elect a conservative the conservatrive will cut back on government benefits.

19 posted on 12/13/2018 7:11:38 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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“You’ll never see a free fair election again...”

Based on what happened in the 2018 midterm elections I have to agree. The Democrat House majority was carefully engineered through an unprecedented number of Republican incumbents retiring all at once and massive fraud that no one seemed to care about.

I had hoped Trump would be able to use the Republican House and Senate majorities in 2017 to at least push back against the Democrat fraud machine. Unfortunately the so-called “Republican majority” was just another scam.

The Uni-Party is working overtime to protect itself.


20 posted on 12/13/2018 7:29:41 AM PST by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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