Raw, stinky, progressive B.S. needs a reckoning
By
Rick Swenson
Reasonable citizens of our republic are frustrated. They tire of progressive politics invading every simple moment, ruining things that used to be fun, injecting anger and politically correct nonsense where it should not go. Sports, movies, school, award ceremonies, funerals, everywhere one looks, P.C. nonsense attempts to spoil it.
Reasonable citizens are also discovering their once trusted print or televised media has been lying
big time. Yes, Trump had something to do with this.
He called out the Fake News! But what about academia, social media, Hollywood, tech CEOs and progressive mayors and governors of sanctuary/decaying cities/states? Trump was merely the
outlier candidate who
dared call the emperor naked
. Like it or not, his
audacious method won him the presidency.
A snowballing litany of events are pushing citizens too far: Operation Fast and Furious, 'Hands Up Don’t Shoot,' the Smollett race hoax, Lois Lerner’s IRS attacks against Tea Party groups, the Benghazi debacle, Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 insecure emails “disappearing,” Hillary Clinton's exoneration following a kindergarten-style FBI investigation, and certainly most foul, a Deep State bureaucracy attempting to oust a duly elected president. The list goes on.
We who read and watch new media know
many more grievous lies and travesties of justice, the list above being just a fraction of them. Thus, some of us grow numb, depressed, and cynical.
We are sad when any of our former circle
leave the debate, usually after virtue-signaling some
fake event. Lefties are notorious for
unfriending when a debate gets close to facts. We can’t resurrect a civil, liberal, healthy politic if they won’t talk with us.
But we need to remember that these former friends and colleagues
literally have no clue what has been going on. Their media diet lacks contrary opinion and is sometimes pure fiction. We force ourselves to read the New York Times and the Washington Post and we watch MSNBC occasionally. We can’t avoid CNN if we fly anywhere. But progressives
wouldn’t dare watch Fox News or read the American Thinker or other conservative media when we invite them to. Do they ever read
Power Line? How
illiberal of them.
Ironically, once upon a time Trump was an adored celebrity of the Left (while he shared money and fame with them). You can Google countless photos of him chumming it up with sundry entertainment and media celebs, and other hypocrites. Back
then they loved him. Here's a
wedding picture.
But now, President Trump is not
playing along to get along, as media-favorite politicians do. That’s a huge part of Trump’s appeal. Yet it's totally authentic, and it will win him a second term.
Ask your (remaining) lefty friends to describe a few blessings they enjoy by living in America. You and I might go on for minutes -- we know why the U.S.A. is that Shining City on the Hill. But your Lefty friends probably will not. You should gently ask, why then do so many people from all corners of the world still want to emigrate here?
We know many reasons why progressives hate Trump.
The Paris Castration Accord? Gone. Attempts to nation-build in failed states of the Middle East, squandering precious American lives and capital? Gone. Handing billions of dollars to terrorist state Iran and thereby sponsoring terrorism against the unique democratic state of the region (Israel)? Gone. Preventing free-enterprise capitalists from exploiting energy reserves in our backyard (fracking) or in desolate areas such as ANWAR? Gone. Kow-towing to China or its clients (North Korea) and tolerating unfair trade deals that decimate American industries while globalist bosses (many Republican) skim gravy? Gone. Allowing low-skilled illegals to enter U.S. sanctuary cities, steal taxpayer benefits, disrupt culture, and depress wages of legal citizens?
Going. Building a wall that previous administrations and Congresses legislated?
Coming --if Trump wants to be re-elected.
How telling of our opportunity when recently when 59 Senators voted no to the goofy Green Deal while
every progressive Democrat dared only vote “p
resent,” borrowing a coward’s trick from Obama’s Illinois State Senate days. Here's that
Green Deal.