When Democrats resort to mob rule

Sunday, February 25, 2018

The Founding Fathers set up American government the way they did partly because they feared mob rule – the kind of which a short time later reared its ugly head in the French Revolution.

In some way, a desperate Democrat Party is embracing mob-like populistic movements like MeToo and the current anti-gun sentiment in an effort regain political power.

The GOP went through a similar crisis of faith a few years ago with the rise of the appropriately named “Tea Party” – based on an event history books celebrate by founding fathers found alarming – since they were caught at the time in-between the evils of King George and the irresponsible and uncontrollable urges of mob rule.

While Democrats like to recast the events at Charlottesville into a good-bad scenario, it was the engagement of two mobs, out of control extreme left verses out of control extreme right.

Much of this has to do with the lead up and result of the 2016 presidential election, and the desperate need for Democrats to keep control of a party fractured by two historic trends: popular Democracy verses party control.

American politics has always fluxgated between these two extreme. When party bosses appear too powerful in choosing leadership, a back to the people movement emerges in an attempt to restore “real” democracy.

People, these reformers claim, know best and will root out corruption that infects the party through professional politicians.

We see a similar reform movement emerging today set loose by the Sanders-Clinton primary when it became clear to everyone, just how much control over choices these professional politicians had, as Clinton cheated her way to undermining the effort of the popular reform candidate, Sanders.

This lifted the curtain of the machine to show must how people like Clinton operate behind the scenes, not just in the primary, but later in the general election when she and her cohorts manipulated the FBI into spying on the Trump campaign (much like Watergate.)

With the Democratic political machine getting the candidate it wanted all along, it was poised to keep control of the White House – only to have their plans frustrated by another populist candidate, Donald Trump in an election seen my many as the biggest upset in American history.

This was so stunning an upset that Democrats fell to pieces.

The Democratic strategy since then has been a desperate attempt by the political machine to embrace its own popular movement. So, behind the scenes political bosses like Soros began funding movements such as Black Lives Matters, the Women’s March, MeToo, and more recently the anti-gun movement.

This is done with the hope that the party can harness their strength and restore to power the machine that so had its heart set on making Clinton the first women president.

The Democratic push for populism is more than a little dishonest since the Democratic Party has become the party of the effete and intellectual arrogant, using control of the media and harnessing middle and upper-class gentry to that its revision to mob rule is out of touch with what real America is thinking.

Historically, Democrats have always used populism uprisings such as these to renew itself in the name of reform, just as it did in the 1960s when it finally and reluctantly embraced the anti-war movement, hoping to use the movement to regain control.

The Democratic Party’s stand in support of immigrants is nothing new. Democrats gain power by expanding their voter base. While Democrats have compared Andrew Jackson to Donald Trump, Jackson’s moves as president helped save the party by removing the requirement that voters must be landowners. This allow immigrant men to vote for the first time.

Although Democrats tended to be on the wrong side of the slavery issue in the leadup to the Civil War, they took full advantage of black suffrage to increase their power in the north in the decades that followed, though racist Democrats in the south continued to suppress the black vote there through Jim Crow laws that might otherwise have been cast for Republicans.

Democratic President Woodrow Wilson sought to expand Democratic votes with Women’s suffrage after World War I. Still later, Democrats broke the back of Jim Crow in the south, generating even more voters. The lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18 at a time when many of the kids tended to support Democrats also helped.

The current Democratic fight to protect Dreamers is less about fair play than about generating a new generation of Democratic voters. Questions remain about the intensive registration drives that Democrats conducted going into the 2016 election and whether or not non-citizens were registered in key states such as New York and California.

While Democrats using media and a special prosecutor to discredit the vote that allowed Trump to become president, this seems something like projection of their own guilt since it becomes clearer with each new revelation that the Clinton was fully engaged in a campaign of dirty tricks, not much different from the one Richard Nixon waged in 1972.

Clinton and the Democrats fully believed going into the 2016 election that a victory would demolish the GOP and foresaw Democratic control of government for another decade.

Democrats embracing of radial movements now suggests just how desperate their party is, and how they hope they can use so-called reform movements to propel them back into power.

Democrats have very good reason for believing this is possible since they have coopted similar reform movements in the past.

In the 1920s, populist reformers helped change the process for selecting candidates from an unrepresentative caucus format where political elite chose candidates to a delegate convention style in which people had a more direct vote over the candidates. The Democratic elite, however, found new ways to control the process behind the scenes.

A similar process took place in the early 1970s, and this too became a fallacy – something clearly demonstrated in the 2016 Democratic primary when elected delegates were countered by party appointed super delegates, most of whom were pledged to Clinton.

But Clinton’s loss to Trump showed how deeply the populism went and forced the Democratic Party to rely on tradition dirty tricks as well as its own populism to counter Trump and the GOP.

The appointment of a special prosecutor to uncover a Clinton-Funded Russian conspiracy has largely backfired, although the prosecutor keeps pumping out indictments like the captain of the Titanic with a bucket trying to save his sinking ship.

MeToo, which appears to have been an offshoot of Clinton’s campaign to show Trump as a sexist, has brought down more Democrats than Republicans as well as a number popular celebrities – many of whom were also anti-Trump.

Black Lives Matters and its associated groups have proven just how easily they can fall into the same violent tactics as those they call evil.

Now, we see Democrats launching into the anti-gun movement, like political vultures feeding off dead children murdered in Florida.

As with the women’s movement, some corporations feel intimidated into withdrawing support for the NRA, part of that scarlet letter campaign Democrats are so good at mounting.

While liberal urban elitist Democrats believe this is a campaign that will eventually destroy the gun culture and make America “gun free,” most people know better.  The number of guns in America is far beyond a classic urban liberal’s perception, and many Democrats as well as Republicans own guns for their own protection.

The fact that after the Sandy Hook shooting, gun sales spiked, something that most likely is also happening now after the Florida shooting.

Deluded Democrats believe they can ride this campaign against the GOP, somehow managing to change the Second Amendment when many of these groups tried and failed to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed. Worse, still Democrats are trampling on a core Republican value and risk giving strength to the GOP.

The Democratic attack on gun rights, however, is partly a distraction.

The Florida shooting was largely a failing of those institutions Democrats rely on – a failing by cowardly police guards, a blind or uncaring school district as well as the FBI.

Part of the reason Democrats are attacking guns in this instance is because they cannot afford to criticize the FBI while at the same time defending the FBI in regard to the Russian conspiracy.

It is no accident that the Mueller indictments came out just after the GOP memo discredited the Russian probe as a bought and paid campaign by Clinton. You can just imagine Democrats twisting Mueller’s arm to make him release indictments that are largely a joke, and to keep him pressing this campaign of accusations to protect the Democratic Russian conspiracy myth.

So, Democrats have turned to populism to divert public attention away from the FBI and perhaps create an issue of guns that they can benefit from politically.

But Democrats are relying on very shaking and unpredictable mass movements to regain power, setting loose a raging bull the political machine desperately hopes it can control when – as the French Revolution clearly shows – you can’t contain rage, and one it is let loose, it goes where it wants, does what it wants, hurting innocent as well as guilty in its stampede.

Democrats foolishly believe they can restore civil discourse once they have regained power, when their current agent relies on the spreading of fear and hate.