Gallup: 8 percent of Americans are either vegetarian or vegan. Meanwhile, Democrat candidates are insisting that Americans - Kamala Harris and Andrew Yang said the whole world - have to stop eating meat.
So the winning 2020 campaign platform is to tell 92 percent of Americans that you will make them stop eating foods they love. Please, please, please keep saying this, Democrats, louder and more frequently.
The brutal childhood of New York elites, it's just horrible. Especially When the Culture War Comes for the Kids. So a man discovers that the political culture he voted for and supported his entire voting-age life is terrible for his children. But I missed where he said that he would vote differently from now on.
If you ain't got no abilities, you don't get no needs. In which a high school teacher in 1951 explained why "Socialism Eventually Results in a Living Death." Just read it. I will relate this directly to our day when I finish my essay on the Left's proposal everyone older than 75 should be given only hospice-level medical care.
Gun control depends on whose voting block is being controlled, not who is being gunned.
Democrats have been screaming for years that anyone who is named on the No-Fly List should have his/her Second Amendment rights immediately revoked. I wrote at some length about that stupidity. The NF List is nothing at all but a list of names. Absolutely no other information is on the list. So if your name is James Smith - the most common name in the United States - and one of the 40,000 men named James Smith skips a bail hearing, resulting in that name being placed on the NF List - then you do not get to fly, along with all 40,000 other men named James Smith.
So when a Republican Congressman proposed that known violent-gang members be red-flagged at the federal level to prohibit them from buying firearms, you would think that the Democrats would be ecstatic that at last Republicans have come around to red-flag laws and that they would enthusiastically agree with the amendment to the bill. To which I can only reply:
Because of course they didn't. Too many locked-down Democrats votes were at stake.
I wrote three years ago why the gun control debates were over, and that was long before Beto started cussing in a national debate about confiscating guns. From 2016:
My liberal colleagues don't know anything about guns. They do not know what the gun-crime rate is in America, what it's trendline is and they do not know that the most heavily gun-controlled cities in the country also have the highest murder rate. They do not know that one of those cities, Chicago, suffers an Orlando-equivalent every month. Every. Month. (And it's getting worse.)
They do not try to assess whether their same old ideas about banning "assault rifles" would be workable. They do not know what the effect of the 1994-2004 ban was. They cannot define what an "assault rifle" is except to parrot Obama's latest bumper-sticker-slogan, "military-style weapons." They do not know that Obama himself has said that the Second Amendment protects the right of individual Americans to own firearms. They do not know that the US Supreme Court has ruled the same in multiple cases (and the few who do know simply dismiss the rulings as wrong).
They do not know because they do not care. They just want firearms to be outlawed for everyone, everywhere. That being so, actual knowledge about the difference between automatic and semi-automatic, between clip and magazine, between the No Fly List and the Terrorist Watchlist and the crushing implications of Democrats' unConstitutional desire to dispense with due process to forbid people from buying guns -- all such information is irrelevant and unimportant. They just want everyone to be disarmed.
That's why the gun-control debate in the country is over.But now even Democrats agree that thanks to Beto, the debate is really over. And more and more voters are going to comprehend that,
Democrats regard the Constitution as an illegitimate product of white supremacy, written by a bunch of dead white males who were racists. Why should it command any respect? In their eyes, it doesn’t. Once they achieve power, it will be a dead letter.
Democrats have adopted the Erdogan philosophy: democracy is a streetcar. When you get to your stop, you get off. Let them win one more election, and the Constitution will protect no one. Bernie Sanders has made this explicit. Power is an opportunity to jail your opponents. For a crime? No. Who needs a crime?
How amazing is America's semi-socialized medical system? It's so good that even the dead get health care.
Reminds me of the old saw, "My grandfather voted Republican every election of his life right up until the day he died. And after that, he voted Democrat."
And that's a wrap.
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