The Left Will Make 2019 a Dark Year

Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2019 | Dennis Prager

[Kaslin]

I rarely make predictions -- whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what will be done.

I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019.

2019 will be a dark year in America.

Thanks to the left's control of the House of Representatives and the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 -- with innumerable hearings, exposes, criminal investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the point. Defamation will. Anything that might muddy the president, no matter how spurious, no matter how thin the evidence, will be pursued with gusto. The media will drop "bombshell" after "bombshell." If lives and careers are ruined, so much the better; no one should be associating with this president anyway, as far as the left is concerned. The Robert Mueller investigation into alleged "collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government -- which has led to guilty pleas and imprisonment of people around President Trump for offenses having nothing to do with such collusion -- is a preview of what lies ahead.

The goal of the left to weaken, disable and impeach the president is the heart of its mission to undo the 2016 presidential election. If the Republicans had done anything comparable during the Obama administration, the Democrats and the media would not only have charged Republicans with racism -- as they labeled all criticism of Barack Obama -- they would have howled "fascism." And, for once, they wouldn't have been far from the truth. The misuse of government institutions for political ends is indeed a fascist tactic. But because most media serve as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, there will be no protest from the media, only support.

There is nothing Trump or any member of his administration has done that is comparable to Hillary Clinton's use of her own email server while U.S. secretary of state, or her destroying tens of thousands of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress, or foreign governments' and corporations' paying vast sums of money to Bill Clinton and The Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Nor is there anything Trump or anyone in his administration has done comparable to the Obama administration's use of the IRS to suppress conservative nonprofits; its selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, at least one of which was later found at the scene where a Border Patrol officer was killed; or the lies it told about the cause of the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi. Yet any suggestion by Republicans that these activities be investigated is effectively shouted down by the Democrats and the media. And let's not talk about the real collusion in 2016 -- between the FBI, the State Department, the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House, using material sourced in part from the Russian government -- to undermine the Republican candidate for president and his presidency. The mainstream media isn't interested in that.

In other words, the Democratic Party and the media will do to American political life what it has done to the arts; the universities; the high schools; the Boy Scouts; race relations; religion; the happiness of so many women (misled by feminism regarding marriage and career); the moral fabric of American life (morality reduced to feelings); late-night television; mainstream Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism; pro football; and the sexual innocence of the young: It will poison it.

From the French Revolution to this day, the two great aims of the left have been promising utopia to the malcontented and accumulating as much power as possible. All moral values are subservient to these goals. After all, what could be more important than "social justice" (the left's term for everything it advocates); "equality" (of result); women's liberation from the "sexist oppression" of the "patriarchy"; combatting "white privilege"; fighting the "rape culture" that pervades campuses; saving life on planet Earth from the "existential threat" to it; "resistance" to the "authoritarian," "fascist," "white supremacist," "racist" Trump administration; supplanting national identities and institutions with a "world citizen" identity and international institutions; and undoing the most fundamental built-in identity of the human race, that of male and female, in the name of transgender rights?

Compared with almost any country, America is freer; gives its people more opportunities to economically advance; is less racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic; has a friendlier population; has less corruption; and has far more medical innovation. Yet this coming year, the left, the Democratic Party and the media will continue purveying the lie that the Trump administration is fascist, racist and authoritarian and poses a mortal threat to American democracy. (Given all this Trumpian fascism, how exactly did the Republicans lose the House?)

Thanks to Democratic control of the House of Representatives, the left will use the levers of government to keep the American people in a constant state of agitation. The only thing the left hates more than a happy population is losing elections. And it knows the two are linked -- because happy and grateful Americans rarely vote Democrat. The road to Democrat victories lies in convincing women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews and young people to be as unhappy, ungrateful and angry as possible -- in the greatest country ever made.

That is the left's agenda for 2019.

Nevertheless, in wishing a happy new year to my fellow Americans, I hope I'm wrong.

[servantboy777]

Mr. President....scorched earth policy. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

DECLASSIFY THE DOCUMENTS exposing these frauds up in D.C.. What’cha got to lose? Do it...pretty please.

Americans deserve the truth.

[ronnie raygun]

We have a guy we can depend on, he needs our help, we need to give it to him 100 percent. The cancer is waiting at our door step we must not allow it access and we must destroy it

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Resist and Obstruct”. Nothing else matters.

[stinkerpot65]

1935 Nazi Germany.

Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.

[meatloaf]

I think greed will blindside the Democrats. Gasoline prices are already below $2/gal in many states. Part of that is due to the cyclical market and production changes related to weather. You can’t ignore the fact that we once imported 25% of the world’s oil. We’re no longer a net importer. Pipelines are under construction to move more oil to market. No matter how low oil prices fall, oil secondary to natural gas production must be moved and sold to extract the higher value wet gases like ethane, propane and butane.

Other countries in the Middle East and Russia must continue a certain level of exports to maintain domestic programs and keep the populace happy. That means more oil and gas production and ultimately lower prices. The fed is going to be pressed to find inflation when lower energy prices work their way through the economy.

[originalbuckeye]

When High Crimes and Misdemeanors are ignored because the Criminals are members of a favored Political Party, we are moving closer and closer to Communism.

[originalbuckeye]

And when Democrats are not prosecuted simply because they are Democrats, We the People, lose faith that our Government is acting in a ‘Justice is Blind’ mode. The Democrats have won the most recent battle, by cheating with ballot harvesting. We cannot let them win the War, as with that win, we will see the total destruction of our beloved and free country.

[sparklite2]

When our Congress nationalizes fifteen percent of the economy without bothering to read the enacting legislation, i.e. Obamacare, we’ve embraced a decadence almost a crippling as communism.

[2banana]

This has been the left’s agenda since 2016...

[Kaslin]

They will get what they deserve and they won’t like it.

[grey_whiskers]

Prager is such a defeatist, worthless Cuck.

[Psalm 73]

I expect every year to be the one that explodes into civil war.
If it doesn't, then I'm that much more prepared for when it will happen.
And it will happen.

[Liz]

Thanks to the criminal left's stolen majority in the House, aided and abetted by the fakery of the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 -- with innumerable hearings, exposes, criminal investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the point. Defamation will. Democrats are engaged in a massive criminal conspiracy, aiding and abetting human trafficking, violating
immigration law, acquiring power with voter fraud, election fixing, vote harvesting, brendasnipesing elections, etc.....

Democrats are a clear and present danger to us all, not an authentic political party,
but an invading force waging war on a peaceful people. So just what is a Democrat?

<><> the party of weaponized political activity,

<><> who hate and denigrate America.

<><> who put killer illegals before innocents like Cpl Singh, Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbets,

<><> who elevate the lives of savage gangs like MS-13 above the lives of Americans.

<><> who foisted on our Nation a Muslim foreigner who hated America.

<><> who hang on to flawed leaders Bill, Hillary, Nancy.

<><> who believe transsexual cakes are more important than a thriving U.S. economy.

<><> who believe plastic straws are the enemy.

<><> who believe what’s wrong with America can best be solved with more convicts voting.

<><> who “celebrate” abortion for convenience.

<><> who smile on PP weinsteining K-12 school children into fodder for pedophiles.

<><> who cheer the destruction of American heritage and its monuments.

<><> who deplore Christian values.

<><> who openly support the legalization of sexual perversions.

<><> who openly sow the culture with confusion.

<><> who worship abortion and all of its butchery.

[iontheball]

They will ‘try,’ but they will fail. Lots of surprises await the traitors.

[Liz]

Another vindictive Demorat scheme, pinning their hopes on the Mueller findings, that the report will be so damning,
Republicans will rise up and vote the president out office (Demos dont have the votes to impeach--smirk).

First they stole power----getting Congressional seats by the reprehensible practice of "vote harvesting,"

Now the sap-happy Dems are "crime harvesting" looking for crimes they hope will get them back into the WH.

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POINTS TO PONDER-—According to Prof Jonathan Turley, hating Trump has the Democrats remaking themselves.
In order to “Get-Trump,” Dems are making dizzying u-turns on their most revered positions (picture The Exorcist's revolving head----gives you an idea of he Dems' frantic side-switching).

<><>Turley observed that the sap-happy soft-on-crime Democrats have even embraced expanding definitions of crimes
like obstruction, conspiracy, and the like. Democrats have resisted efforts to criminalize broader and broader
areas of conduct, and now sound like legal hawks in demanding criminal charges for conduct long treated as civil
matters, such as campaign finance violations and foreign agent registration violations.

<><> Demos have heretofore looked askance at America’s endless wars but are now triggered by Trump’s exit from
Syria and once rejected the premise that we should engage in continual wars in other countries or face
terrorism on our streets at home.

<><> Still in the sick throes of her Russian obsession, Pelosi said the exit was a “Christmas gift to Putin.” Sen.Tim Kaine (Hillary's VP), Rep. David Cicilline and others called it “irresponsible” or “hasty.” Forgetting that the “hasty” move is after seven years of intervention in the civil war, including personnel on the ground since 2012.
Democrats now espouse the same lines they once denounced during the Bush administration

<><> Trump-hater Morning Joe Scarborough sounding like the Republicanism he recently denounced says Trump failed to
understand we must fight “enemies like ISIS abroad, so we do not have to fight them in our own schools, churches and airports.”

FOREGONE CONCLUSION Trump is in the catbird seat——he can easily trigger the hate-filled Dems on the border issue-—
take a position that forces Demos to support border security that goes against everything they say thy stand for.

[HighSierra5]

Communism is alive and well in America.

[null and void]

Just musing here, Kennedy tried to change America for the better. He didn’t survive his third year.

[excalibur21]

They will ‘try,’ but they will fail. Lots of surprises await the traitors.

I hope that you’re correct but so far, even though there has been plenty of time and evidence to take action, nothing has been done. Given the circumstances and since no justice has taken place in the past, I see no justice taking place in the future. It’s probably only going to get worse.

[unread]

Thanks Liz... Right on the button, as always..