I’m going out to slay democracy later by voting for Republicans. At least that’s what the Democrats would have you believe.
The hysterical desperation of Democrats in the final days of this mid-term election campaign has become laughable on one hand, pathetic on another.
As one host of a cable news show asked a guest Monday night, “Will people actually buy this? Will it make a difference?”
The guest was confident it would not. I’m not so sure.
The killing democracy claims are a new low for Democrats, who also have trotted out other familiar tropes from past campaigns.
For decades, Republican candidates for national office, particularly presidents, were going to do away with Social Security and Medicare according to raving Democratic speeches and ads.
Republicans have coined a term for the ridiculous, repetitive claims – “Mediscare.”
I’m here to tell you that my wife and I both are on Medicare and both are collecting Social Security despite these wild Democratic claims. This, despite various Republican presidents, congressmen and governors throughout the years.
The Democrats are just as wrong about the death of democracy should Republicans prevail today.
My first memories of do-anything-to-win Democrats goes back to the 1964 election. I was 9 years old at the time and I recall vividly my mother coming back from a union rally for Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic candidate for president.
At the time, my mother and several other female members of the extended family were members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, working at local sewing factories that were only a few steps above sweatshops.
I distinctly recall her bringing home decals of black and yellow cowboy hats, with the message “LBJ All The Way!” Through the magic of the internet, I did a quick search and found images of these stickers to confirm my recollection.
But I can’t confirm my most vivid memory of that day. We children of the family were told that LBJ opponent, Barry Goldwater, was in favor of kids attending schools six days a week.
That’s an example of how Democrats groom young people to join the flock and, make no mistake, my family was loaded with Roosevelt Democrats.
Only many years later did I learn of the most insidious Democratic messaging in 1964, the infamous political TV ad of a girl county daisy petals in a field that morphs into a countdown and nuclear mushroom cloud.
The message was clear: Elect Goldwater and we’re all going to die, sort of like democracy will die today if Republicans prevail.
It was remarkably hypocritical considering the only American president ever to use nuclear weapons in combat was Democrat Harry S. Truman.
I’m neither second-guessing, nor criticizing Truman. He was right to do so. But it was wrong to use the threat of unleashing nuclear weapons to vilify Goldwater.
If you really want to understand Democratic hypocrisy, recall that Johnson ran as the anti-war candidate. Once he had won the election, in landslide fashion, he preceded to ramp up our presence in the Vietnam War to its record highs using misinformation regarding the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident as the rationalization for it.
Bottom line: Democracy is more likely to die if Democrats prevail today, based on their upside down view of facts.
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