Are Democrats are setting themselves up for a fall in 2020?

Friday, February 2, 2018

The big news lately is the number of GOP retirees from the House of Representatives.

Democrats are so desperate that we are selling ourselves hope for a massive change in the electorate when by most accounts, nothing is likely to change in the 2018 mid term elections from what we have today – except perhaps for the desperation level of Democrats, who have lost control of all levels of government and are in complete disarray.

The only thing most Democrats have in common is their hatred of Trump.

Democrats are good at hatred these days, but you cannot build hope on the back of hate.

The party of the people, however, appears to be repeating the mistakes of the past, taking a sharp turn to the left where Herbal Tea crowd – once known as the Granola (Fruits, nuts and fakes) seek to create a new center of American culture, main streaming social behaviors that were always in the past seen on the fringes of society.

This effort only divides the country more because it comes out of urban centers such as New York and San Francisco which historically have had a skewed view of America, a wish for reality that does not coincide with what most Americans really believe.

Many of the political hacks hired to spin the Democratic line defy logic and truth, often twisting facts in the mistaken belief they are going to convince those on the margin the validity of the Democratic cause – such as the recent claim by Democrats that Trump would not fund a children’s health program, when it was actually being held hostage for the Democrats who wanted it tied to a much more controversial immigrant program.

The most recent spin by the Democrats is to portray the FBI as some kind of holy priesthood free of corruption and political motives, when almost anyone who knows anything about the FBI’s sorted history knows this opposite is true – and how it has always been a political tool. In this case, as loyal to former President Obama as the Politburo is to Putin, doing Obama’s and the Democratic Party’s dirty work in order to stall for a time when the Democrats can retake one or more of the three branches of government.

Meanwhile the spin doctors continue to feed misinformation to their loyal masses in order to keep them stirred up and angry, sending them out to the streets when the hapless Democrats can do little within government.

Like the conservative Tea Party, the Herbal Tea Party is rapidly depleting the Democrats of reasonable people, creating a litmus test for those it will support and driving moderates out.

This is very similar to events that led up to the 1972 election when Democrats swung so far to the left the country abandoned them.

All politics is a pendulum; the further to one extreme you swing, the further to the other extreme it goes when it swings back.

Each public protest inspires the anti-Democratic vote as much as it does loyalists, stirring up fears and prejudice against the very people Democrats profess to protect.

While the mid-term elections may not display all the icons of the out of the control left, the 2020 election will likely have GOP ads showing after the last election riots in the streets, the tearing down of Confederal flags and statutes, and displays of the smear campaigns Democrats have waged to win in places like Alabama.

Leading Democratic candidates for president will such as Warren will represent the most extreme left. Worse for the Democrats will be the reemergence of Hillary Clinton, who may seek the seat she believes she deserved and was denied (despite growing proof that she cheated and lied to get the nomination.)

If the pattern holds, Democrats may well be setting themselves up for an even greater defeat than they had in 1972, and worse, will still cling to the illusion of a Watergate saving them as it did when Richard Nixon won, an illusion that blinds them to how extreme the party has become and how out of touch with mainstream America.