Tomorrow is election day and I’m going to miss all the ads. Just kidding.
Election advertising is almost always, in a word, ridiculous. Outright falsehoods and distortions rule.
Neither side is totally innocent in this matter, but it is the Democrats who tend to produce propaganda messages with the tiniest link to reality.
Maybe you’ve heard Donald Trump is going to take away Social Security and Medicare? It’s been a Democratic attack ad on Republican candidates since I was a kid.
You might wonder how this can be effective when it never happens. In this case, Trump actually had the job of president for four years and didn’t harm either retirement program. Yet, this time, he’s going to do it. And some blue-haired women and doddering old men will vote for Kamala Chameleon out of fear their benefits are at stake.
This is along the line of the constant drumbeat by speakers and in ads that Trump is Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin all rolled into one, and therefore a threat to democracy.
Again, he has had the job, people, and we still have a democracy or more correctly, a representative republic.
There is a difference. In a democracy, everything is simply a decision by the majority. And, if the majority decides all left-handed people like me should be shot, well, we’re all goners.
In a representative republic, the people elect politicians to represent them, but there is a constitution that acts as a check on absurd over-reaches simply because a philosophy or position has majority support.
You don’t want to live in a pure democracy.
Those democracy ads and talking points are exposed in their absurdity by elections. When you take the time to look at it, the Democrats are anti-democracy.
It is Democrats who weaponized the legal and justice systems to try to jail Trump and keep him from running. They tried to subvert the will of the people the last time he was president with never-ending impeachment and other procedural ploys.
They wanted his name kept off ballots in many states and even now, on the eve of the elections, radicals such as Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin are making noises about refusing to certify a potential Trump victory.
Doesn’t sound like preserving democracy to me.
Also on the topic of chipping away at democracy, it is Democrats who go to court to lobby for non-citizens to vote.
It is Democrats who want rules modified at the last minute to include votes from people too moronic to follow simple instructions such as deadlines to submit mail-in votes, signing these ballots or enclosing the ballots in a separate envelope.
No less a far-left source than National Public Radio, which uses taxpayer funding to pump out liberal pap, admits there are, as claimed, more voters on rolls than the eligible population would indicate there should be.
In a story posted Nov. 3, 2024, on npr.org, this reality is explained away by blaming Americans’ freedom to move from one state to another and so the same person can appear on voter lists of multiple states.
This could be part of the problem, but it doesn’t explain documented cases of dead people voting (mostly for Democrats), non-citizens voting (notably this year a Chinese student in Michigan) or the same name being used on multiple ballots (apparently one of the many problems cropping up yet again in Pennsylvania, among other places.)
This NPR propaganda piece critiques Elon Musk for posting recently that Michigan has more voters than eligible citizens.
This is true, the story concedes, but more than a million of those illegal voters are “on their way to being deleted.”
What does that mean? Do they stop off to be deleted after voting? Will they be deleted next year? Next decade?
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, had people who self-identified as non-citizens struck from the voter rolls in his state. And he had to go to the Supreme Court to beat back Democrat challenges to this no-brainer policy.
But the Democrats are protecting democracy? Right.
We have ads featuring aging women and their adult daughters clamoring for unfettered abortion rights. Maybe the daughters should contemplate their fate had mommy gone the abortion route, say, six months into the pregnancy.
The repeal of Roe. vs. Wade did not end abortions, but merely put the decision in the hands of the states, in keeping with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Try reading it sometimes, all you purported defenders of democracy.
Also, don’t let facts get in the way of a good attack ad designed to appeal, as Mark Cuban might say, to weak and dumb women.
In a story that was posted in August of 2023 on NBCnews.com, seven states had ballot measures regarding abortion between when Roe vs. Wade was overturned in June 2022 and that story’s timing. All seven were won by pro-abortionists.
Equally disturbing are recent ads in which Kamala Chameleon’s people note Trump is a rich guy, supported by ultimate rich guy Elon Musk. The people (actors?) in these ads all seem to wear plaid shirts or jackets and some manner of working man ballcap, and they don’t like rich people.
This means they must not like Kamala Chameleon or most of her financial backers, guys like Bill Gates and the Soros clan, who are willing to donate millions, but don’t want to come out in the open about it.
Again, Trump has a track record and it’s not for punishing the middle class with higher taxes and inflation. That’s the Kamala Chameleon plan, the inescapable outcome of flushing away trillions of tax dollars trying to convince people that intermittent electrical power from solar and wind is acceptable, that electric vehicles are mandatory, gas cooking stoves are a climate threat and we just have to shut down the domestic energy industry for the good of the planet.
Clueless Joe Biden and Kamala Chameleon have a record on this, if you’re willing to look past the vapid ads.
Open borders, rampant crime, they also are the Biden-Harris legacy, regardless of what their ads might assert.
It is traditional around elections to encourage everyone to vote, particularly the hapless undecideds, who somehow have gotten to this point unable to discern a clear choice.
I go opposite this. If you haven’t made up your mind yet, stay home and spare us your inanity.
If you can’t take the time to research the positions and policies of candidates, but rely instead on paid propaganda and sound bites, don’t vote.
If you are crazed by hatred of Trump, the American standards he represents, and his “garbage” supporters, by all means, stay home.
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