INVERSION OF TRUTH
"The political Left, particularly in its extreme forms, has always been skillful in the use of language to further its ends. Recognizing that perception matters more than reality, proponents of socialism and communism use words in a particularly Orwellian way, imparting meanings to words directly opposite to what their etymologies would lead us to suspect." - Logan Albright
One of the most important facts about the philosophy of the Left (this website endeavors to teach) is that it is based in Postmodernism. As a consequence, the Left rejects logic and reason and instead embraces situational relativism and subjectivism. That is, they believe reality is consciously rendered by structures of the 'mind' dependent primarily on group identity. Their 'subjective' reality is, therefore, fueled by will and emotion and any 'objective' reality is rejected. A prime example of this occurred during the 2018 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Just prior to the final vote, sexual misconduct allegations from an accuser about a purported event 40 years earlier were leveled. No evidence or proof was offered and Judge Kavanaugh vehemently denied the accusations. In the (Left) media this discordant narrative was highlighted by their phrase "his truth vs. her truth". This underscores how they believe reality is purely a construct of the mind. In fact, there is only one truth connected directly with one objective reality. Any deviation from this point of view destroys fair jurisprudence (assumption of innocence until proven guilty), but more broadly throws society into a chaotic, nihilistic decline.
Below we show that not only are most of the claims of the left false, but virtually everyone of them are cherry picked, out-of-context, exaggerated, and in many cases the truth is the exact opposite. Thus, a primary tactic of the left is to “invert the truth”. In particular, they use labels to "cloak" or hide their true beliefs or agenda by adopting terms that are opposite of the values/actions they support. This tactic is just one of many used in order to achieve power and control by any means necessary. Here are some examples of their 'inversion of truth':
Claim: Wealth is stolen & cannot be created.
Reality: To put it simply, the Left believe the economy is a "zero-sum game". They somehow believe that if someone has more wealth than another, then some injustice must have been perpetrated against a "victim" group. The Left does not understand basic economic facts or how the world works; alternatively, they choose to reject reality. Both explanations turn out to be true.
In fact, wealth is created through the “trader principle” in which two parties exchange goods or services that the other party desires. These trades are “value for value”. The key is that each person desires the object they are trading for more than the item they are trading. Once completed, the trade makes the life of each trader better and more enriched than before. Money was invented as a medium of exchange to make the trade simple and efficient. The money has a value associated with it, so it allows one of the traders to use it as the “trade item”. A trader can create wealth and become rich by creating a trade item that many people want. This item may be the invention of a product or service. Crucially, it is the profit motive that incentivizes individuals to create a product or service that someone else will want. Only in a system of free market capitalism do these conditions exist in their most efficient form. Next, the trader must sell the item for more than what it cost to make it. A customer only buys the item if the money they are spending is worth less to them than the item or service they are trading for. Thus, the customer has gained something that exceeds the value of the money they gave up in the trade. When summed up over thousands or millions of trades, the inventor (or provider of the product or service) becomes rich even if they made just a little money on each trade (for example, Steve Jobs selling millions of iPhones). However they have NOT stolen wealth from their customers because the trade was voluntary and most importantly what the customer received in return, has MORE value to them than the money they spent; thus, wealth has been created by the inventor/entrepreneur and the subsequent trades. When the Left complains about wealth inequality, they ignore this fact. Ultimately, the genesis of the wealth created in this example was from the innovation, time, material and other resources expended by the inventor of the device (or provider of the service) in the beginning. Such wealth generation exists only in capitalism with its incentive structure.
In fact, it is the system of economic organization the Left supports (Socialism) that most closely resembles a "zero sum game". Socialism, with it's suppression of free-market trade, relies on government coerced wealth redistribution, control and regulation of business, high taxes and prohibition of private property (in its form as communism) which discourages innovation, investment and risk-taking. Wealth can no longer be made. The wealth that was created by the pre-existing free-market system is gradually eroded and dissipated. Eventually, poverty overcomes the nation as has been demonstrated every time socialism has been tried. However, the government bureaucrats and central planners ensure there is plenty of money for themselves.
An excellent example of the Left's "zero-sum game" economic fallacy occurred when Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated "(N)o one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars." In fact, all of the transactions that produced the billionaire's wealth were voluntary. Those who worked for whatever wage they agreed upon did so voluntarily believing that wage was worth more than the labor they performed (otherwise, they would not have agreed to the terms). In addition, the millions of customers who voluntarily purchased the product believed the good they purchased to be more valuable than the money they paid. Otherwise, they would not have purchased the item. Many also ignore or discount the tremendous personal financial risk entrepreneur's take on when pursuing success. We never hear about the countless "would-be" billionaires who took a risk to create a successful product and failed.
In fact, the policies of forced, confiscatory taxation and wealth redistribution practiced by the Left to buy votes and expand government dependency are the real examples of theft from hard working people.
Links:
-AOC's screed against billionaires turns the definition of theft on it's head.
-The myth that billionaires hoard wealth.
Claim: We, on the Left, take the "high road" and are the civil ones.
Reality: Again, the truth is the opposite. The left by nature collectivizes into activist mobs that bludgeon and attack those who disagree with them. By nature those on the right are individualists not interested in forming mobs, and are, therefore, vulnerable to these attacks. The Left’s acts of violence and vandalism after the election of 2016 and threats made against the president-elect and his supporters demonstrate this fact poignantly. From bludgeoning individuals in the head with bike locks, to harassing and threatening lawmakers on the right and their families, the left has stayed true to their shameful history of the use of violence and intimidation tactics to further their agenda.
From former Attorney General, under Barack Obama, Eric Holder’s comment “kick them (the Republicans) when they go low” to former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s statement “we (the Democrats) can’t be civil now”, underscores their desperation and ignoble behavior. Furthermore, Barack Obama in 2008 urged his followers to get in the faces of Republicans and confront them. Maxine Waters urged democrats to harass Republicans in public. Leftist mobs regularly target and harass Republicans and conservatives. During a planed parade through Portland, the far-left group Antifa threatened to physically attack a Republican Float and those on it. City officials buckled to the terrorist threats and canceled the parade.
The Democrats implicit and often explicit support for rioting, looting and violence were on full display during 2020. One wrote an essay in defense of looting. Indeed, they have even used the threat of violence to gain power and control. Any notion of the left being civil is beyond absurd.
Links:
Portland Parade Shutdown
Riots after Republican Victory 2016
The Left Riots in streets after election loss in 2016
Democrats Are Trying To Threaten Their Way Into Power
There Is No Defense for Looting
Biden staff donate to group that pays bail in riot-torn Minneapolis
Here is a list of the Left’s shameful tactics during the 2018 election cycle. Obviously, these are outlier cases but the media pays little or no attention to them as it would hurt their narrative.
More "Unbecoming" Behavior from the Left:
Pelosi's Temper-
During an interview on January 2, 2019 with CNN Alexandra Pelosi stated that her mother Nancy Pelosi will “cut your head off and you won’t even know that you’re bleeding“ when commenting about her mothers second term as speaker of the house. Not exactly behavior that would be considered “taking the highroad”.
At the end of the 2019 State of the Union address, in front of a national audience, Pelosi got up and angrily ripped a copy of President Trump's speech in half. Not exactly the the calm, measured, and adult behavior you would expect from the third most powerful person in the United States.
Democrats wasting efforts and a bad language problem-
Democratic incoming Congressman Dan Sherman of California in January 2019 stated he planned to introduce articles of impeachment of Donald Trump on Thursday January 3, 2019. This after Democrats claimed they would take the “high road” and avoid such wasteful and divisive behavior during the mid term elections. Another incoming Democratic Congress woman, Rashida Tlaib,(from Michigan’s 13th district) stated “were going to go in there and impeach the mother f**cker!” to widespread applause from fellow democrats. It is fair to speculate that no Republican would ever be able to get away with making a similar statement about a Democrat president.
Democrats harassing people they disagree with, shutting down free speech, & other disturbing behavior-
From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul-
“(C)onsider Democrat Pennsylvania state representative Brian Sims, who aggressively yelled at and filmed three girls, ages thirteen and fifteen, who were quietly praying on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood. This forty-year-old man, a hulking former football player and elected official, tweeted video of the girls while saying, “I’ll give $ 100 to anyone who can identify these three.” He verbally attacked the girls for both their faith and their racial ethnicity in the video, while encouraging his followers to dox them. How was this not considered a threat to the safety of these young girls? Doxing individuals with whom you disagree on social media is threatening behavior, pure and simple. It is potentially a dangerous call to action for unstable and violent people. Sims’s attempt to dox was especially outrageous considering that it was against children. Twitter did nothing. The mainstream media was completely silent, despite hundreds of tweets at CNN to report on this elected official’s disturbing behavior. The next month the bearded brute was back, proudly tweeting video of himself stalking and intimidating an elderly lady praying the rosary outside of the same building. For over eight minutes Representative Sims bullied and castigated the diminutive woman, repeatedly insulting her as “an old white lady” while she tried to get away from him, shoulders hunched and head lowered against his assault. The video is truly painful to watch.”
Republican Senator Rand Paul on the harassment he received in 2018:
"my cell number and home address being doxed during the Kavanaugh hearings, and a California man threatening to kill me and my family with an ax, and I had a bad year."
While leaving the Republican National Convention in September, 2020 Senator Rand Paul and his wife were violently accosted by a mob of leftists. They angrily shouted at the couple and tried to grab them. Others leavening the RNC convention were also harassed.
-Are Democrats Trying to Spark a Violent Revolution—or Just Accidentally Doing It?
-Rand Paul Claims Mob That Harassed Him Outside White House Part of ‘An Organized Interstate Racket,’ Calls on FBI to Investigate
Democrats encouraged and defended the deadly riots of 2020 sparked by the tragic killing of a black man in police custody. Despite the officers arrest, riots (after ludicrously being blamed on the right initially) devolved into an orgy of destruction, looting and even murder. Many Democrats defended the lawless behavior, that had ruined lives, as justified. Democrat Mayor Bill DeBlasio even went as far as praising his daughter for being arrested during one of the lawless demonstrations.
Links:
-This Is Easy: Don’t Excuse, Defend, or Encourage Rioters.
-There Is No Defense for Looting
-The Democrats Are Whitewashing Leftist Violence
-Prominent Democrats openly call for violence, riots, and uprisings
-Don't Forget, Democrats Encouraged and Endorsed the Violent Mob
The Left's Campaign to smear those who disagree with them include "hate" hoaxes:
These include-
In January 2019 actor Jussie Smollett falsely claimed he was attack by two white men wearing MAGA hats. Despite being exposed as a hoax, “GQ quickly published an article condemning the Smollett “crime” that argued that “the racist, homophobic attack on Smollett is Far Right America’s endgame.” For comparison, consider that after I (Senator Rand Paul) was attacked (by a neighbor and democrat critical Sen. Paul's position on Universal Healthcare) and suffered six broken ribs and a pleural effusion of my lung that led to two serious cases of pneumonia, GQ gleefully headlined its story on my assault with this: “Rand Paul Sounds Like the Worst Person to Have as a Neighbor.” Their bias is breathtaking.”
(V)andalization of an Indiana church painted with homophobic slurs and pro-Trump language—which turned out to be the work of the church’s gay organist, who hoped to “mobilize a movement.”
(E)xtensive coverage of the Muslim woman who falsely claimed that a group of Trump supporters attempted to tear off her hijab in an attack at a New York subway station?
(A) Michigan woman falsely claimed a white man “threatened to set her on fire if she did not remove her hijab”?
All of these stories were breathlessly reported in the media as evidence of Trump supporters’ violence and viciousness. All were false. We are in an age of new propaganda, where the media’s power rivals that of the state.
-From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul
The Left Suppressing Free Speech:
From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul-
“It’s not just Twitter; Facebook has also jumped on the bandwagon of censoring conservative speech. Michael Nunez at Gizmodo writes: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users. Facebook is not only blocking conservatives, it is also advancing stories that fit its management’s liberal bias. Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module. ”
“Twitter permanently banned Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy for asserting that “men are not women.”
“It is disturbing that, not two months into her official government position, Democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez was already muscularly engaging in the foremost behavior of historical socialist dictators: the intimidation of private citizens who express viewpoints that government officials do not agree with in order to silence speech.”
Covington High School Incident-
In January 2019 a group of Covington High School students were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln memorial. Some were wearing "Make America Great Again" hats. A Native American activist, banging his drum, confronted one student wearing a MAGA hat who was minding his own business. The student, Nick Sandmann, did not back down & instead smiled and held his composure but did nothing provocative, as the activist had. A short clip taken out of context was exploited by media & entertainment figures as evidence of repressive racism and hate from a "smirking" Trump supporter. Here is a sampling of the responses:
“Prominent actors, writers, and pundits of all stripes were screaming for the boys and their parents to be doxed, to be physically attacked, to be sexually molested. CNN legal analyst Bakari Sellers fantasized about the sixteen-year-old’s “punchable face,” as did the former CNN personality Reza Aslan. CNN pundit Ana Navarro called them “asswipes” and Saturday Night Live writer Sarah Beattie offered oral sex to anyone who “manages to punch the MAGA kid in the face.” These calls for violence were coming from highly privileged, highly paid, ostensibly well-educated adults in America’s media today. None were fired or even criticized by CNN or SNL for their embarrassingly lowbrow calls for violent attacks on teenagers.” -From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul
Nick Sandmann, was unfairly and purposely villified and his life forever negatively affected without regard by the Left media and their allies in order to gain political traction from their false narrative.
CNN settles defamation suit with Covington teen Nick Sandmann
Claim: implementation of net neutrality rules keep the Internet fair and free.
Reality: The strangling regulatory burden imposed by central planners on the Internet, treating it as a public utility, was a brutal blow to both Internet freedom and fairness. It stifled innovation and creativity and drastically reduced investment in the Internet-based technologies. It destroyed consumer choice and prevented companies from making decisions that benefited them and consumers.
Democrat lawmakers went to Twitter to deploy their alarmism and scare people into thinking that ending net neutrality would be a disaster for all. They sent message the following message on separate lines: "If".... "we"..."don't"..."save"..."net"..."neutrality"..."we"..."will"..."get"..."the"..."internet"..."one"..."word"..."at"..."a"..."time"
This ridiculous and puerile stunt underscores the vacuousness of their collectivistic ideology and desperation for power and control.
And what has been the result of repealing the net neutrality regulation? Because providers are now free to innovate and meet customers need (rather than bow to coercive egalitarian authoritarians), THE INTERNET HAS ACTUALLY BECOME MORE EFFICIENT AND FASTER. The exact opposite of what the alarmists were claiming.
Links:
Predictions and Reality of Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality Is about Government Control of the Internet
Net Neutrality Isn't Neutral At All
Claim: Those on the Right are prejudiced/racists/homophobes/xenophobes/mysogenists etc.
Reality: It is the exactly the opposite. The Left judges people based on their group identity (i.e. , race, gender, sexual preference, wealth status etc.) People who belong to groups that are perceived as being “oppressed” are automatically seen in positive light & any transgressions are forgiven as being understandable in light of what their group has suffered at the hands of oppressor groups (specifically white males). Any individual who happens to be a white male is accused of having “white privilege ”, perceived as being evil or not relevant and ignored. Since they can never win their arguments with facts, history or reason, the Left resort to hateful spews of epithets, pejoratives and name-calling.
Here is a partial list of racist behavior from the Left:
The bottom line is that there would be no "Democrat" party without "victims". In order to galvanize voters to support them, the Democrats must incite anger and feelings of revenge in various groups they claim are being held back by the "male-dominated white system of oppression". To do this, Democrats must put out massive propaganda (easy, as they dominate media, education & entertainment industries) and support policies that restrict freedom and prosperity while expanding government dependency, since people who are flourishing will tend to support the Republicans.
The Left's own Nick Canon likened white people to animals whose evil emanated from their "white" skin (see ink below).
Links:
Nick Cannon: White People Are Closer to Animal
Racially hostile student protesters at Evergreen State
Student protestors bully University administrators
Yale, Al Sharpton and the Attacks on New York’s Jews
Claim: Capitalists are stealing the labor of individuals in the working class.
Reality: Quite the opposite. Capitalism is built upon property rights. This means that you can own land and other goods and materials, but it also means you own your body, mind, AND the product of your labor. Therefore, you can sell your labor to the highest bidder in a purely voluntary exchange. In socialism/communism property rights do not exist; thus you have no right to sell your labor for what it is worth. The means of production are controlled or owned by the state and with property rights denied, you are effectively coerced by the state to work at a fixed salary and likely in a field not of your choosing. Clearly, Socialism steals the labor of the workers by denying them the price of labor they would otherwise get in a free market economy.
Claim: Universal Health Care is “single payer”.
Reality: Again, the term used to entice the population into embracing universal health care has a meaning that is exactly opposite. “Single payer” is really just “universal theft” from multitudes (of productive working people) to fund someone else’s health care. With a huge bureaucratic apparatus and endless regulations, medical innovations are stifled, long waiting lines for care develop as bungling government bureaucrats attempt to run the healthcare system and overall quality of care plummets; ultimately, illnesses and deaths increase over what would have occurred in a free-market based health care system. A free market-based health care system incentivizes innovation and healthy competition resulting much better care at lower prices. Positive health outcomes would sky-rocket compared to that of Universal Health Care. Insurance policies prices would plummet. Without the constraint of burdensome regulations, insurance companies would be able to offer a plethora of attractive products including some that could address pre-existing conditions. The vast majority of people would be able to afford insurance and even the poorest and those with pre-existing conditions would have options available to them that would satisfy their needs.
Claim: On November 4, 2017 Democrat Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of trying to ram through tax reform through the stealth of night with no bipartisan input.
Reality: In fact, Republicans were very open about the tax reform bill the Democrats hoped to shut down. On the contrary, "ramming through" a bill is precisely what Democrats had done with the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009. Republicans, in some situations, were locked out of discussions. Pelosi herself said : “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” Apologists try to argue that this statement is made out of context. Partisan observers can paint any picture they want about intent and context, but her words should be assessed objectively. You can read the transcript below and judge for yourself. At best, she may have not used the proper wording to convey her intent, but we must hold all politicians accountable to their words. The media applies this standard to politicians with an “R” by their name why not to those with “D” when they make a gaffe? Even in the scenario we assumer meaning was the bill must pass to see it's effects on the health care system and on patients, this is an extremely irresponsible and disingenuous position. She knew well that passing it (and other laws that expand government benefits, are nearly impossible to retract later. The responsible position would have to conducted an honest and open public debate on the details of the bill, its (realistic) cost, an forcing overall economic impact as well as its potential impact on the overall quality and cost of health care. We now know why she didn't want this open debate and exhorted the rapid passage of it: the Affordable-Care Act (ACA or Obama-Care) health reform bill of 2009 led by the Democrats has been an unmitigated disaster. Not only were the claims: the ACA would "lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year", and "you can keep your doctor", false but the exact opposite occurred: Premiums went up in many cases by more than $2500 , and many lost their doctors and were forced to go to lower-quality alternatives. MIT economist and Jonathan Gruber , an architect of Obama -care, famously told an audience in 2014 that “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.” Also, poorer quality of care has resulted, expansion of medicaid burdening states with ObamaCare exchanges has occurred, and the list goes on.
Links:
Obama's Inflated Health 'Savings'
Transcript of Pelosi's Remarks
Obama Care rollout disaster
ObamaCare’s Medicaid Deception
As an aside, it should be pointed out that the Republican Tax Reform of 2017 freed up the economy and encouraged individuals and business to invest & flourish; the result has been one of the most poignant and robust blossoming of the economy & prosperity since the Reagan era.
Claim: We, the Democrats, care about the middle class.
Reality: The results of the 8 years of weak growth (under Obama & his policies) butts up against this false claim.
“And here is the great paradox of the Barack Obama economy. The Federal Reserve’s bond purchases and near-zero interest rates for eight years drove up asset values and let corporations borrow cheaply while the Administration’s punishing regulations bred business uncertainty that depressed investment in human and physical capital. Those with financial assets prospered more than middle-class wage earners. The Obama Democrats talked constantly about inequality rather than growth, and the result was less growth and more inequality.”
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAj4-CimZT1KV7JhWZpu8ralY7MvzFuV2zg
It is, contrary to the Left’s narrative, the Republican-led economy starting in 2017 that has seen some of the strongest economic & job growth in years. The middle class has made a robust comeback and employment rates are at all-time highs; especially benefitting minorities. Without the stranglehold that the Democrats impose on the economy with their heavy regulations & taxes, a breath of freedom has helped the economy flourish.
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAj4-CimZT1KV7JhWZpu8ralY7MvzFuV2zg
Claim: The far-left terrorist group “Antifa” claims they are the anti-fascist.
Reality: Nothing could be further from the truth and in fact the exact opposite is true. The statist, authoritarian fascists are all leftists and always have been (by definition). In the 1930s in Germany they shut down free-speech and vandalized businesses of Jewish owners. They called themselves the “national socialists”. In fascist states, the individual is beholden to the state. This is what the Left is all about: sacrificing individual rights and freedoms to the State through taxes, regulations, rules, dictates, fiats etc. Antifa, which ironically stands for anti-fascist, are the fascists. They go to campuses and even parades intimidating opponents, shutting down speech they disagree with, and threaten (and often carry out) violent assaults on individuals they perceive as their enemies. They hide their identity with masks (so they can blend back into society & not be caught), carry a variety of weapons and assault devices. In addition, they cause enormous cost & loss through vandalism to private & public property, just as their fascist forebears did nearly 100 years ago.
https://fee.org/articles/saying-you-re-against-fascists-doesn-t-excuse-acting-like-one/
On June 29, 2019 they brutally attacked and beat a conservative journalist causing him to be hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAhcCt-__JdBk4zg5xGrlGZg5xHreTzLcaw
Claim: The Obama Administration was “scandal free”.
Reality: The Obama Administration was perhaps the most corrupt of all time. Here are some of the top scandals & the list grows. See https://lists.grabien.com/list-complete-guide-scandals-obama-administration.
Here are several of the top scandals:
- Obama weaponized the IRS to attack grass-roots conservative groups to prevent them from jeopardizing his re-election in 2012.
-Obama weaponized the FBI by authorizing them to spy on the Trump campaign. The Democrat National Committee along with the Hillary campaign conspired to frame Trump with the Steele dossier and to also frame him with Russian collusion should he win the election. In May of 2020 evidence of Obama's deep involvement in spying on the Trump campaign and efforts to entrap Trump in an alleged Russia collusion were revealed. This level of corruption is perhaps unpecented in US history and the main stream media has scrambled to protect Obama from repercussions.
- "Newly released (May 2020) Congressional testimony shows that (Democrat) Adam Schiff spread falsehoods shamelessly about Russia and Donald Trump for three years even as his own committee gathered contrary evidence."
-Obama covered up the Benghazi tragedy by claiming it was nothing more than an angry reaction to a video depicting Muslims in an unfavorable light.
-Obama paid ransom (American tax payer’s money) to Iran for the release of some American hostages, putting other Americans at risk, and tried to cover it up (& deny it).
-Obama knowingly lied and misled Americans claiming Obamacare would save the average household $2500/year. In fact people lost money due to rising premiums and many lost their insurance as well (both direct consequence of the law).
-Obama stated "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." This false claim was rated by Politifact in 2013 as "The Lie of the Year".
-Obama paid off the Iranians with a plane load of cash in return for the release of four American detainees.
Links:
-Protecting Obama
-Obama Laments Flynn Dismissal . . . after Granting Clemency to FALN Terrorist
-"Newly released (May 2020) Congressional testimony shows that (Democrat) Adam Schiff spread falsehoods shamelessly about Russia and Donald Trump for three years even as his own committee gathered contrary evidence."
- "Obama’s policies are in tatters, and the worst scandals of his White House are coming to light."
Claim: Charter Schools in California are the cause of negative financial impact on other public schools.
Reality: In fact studies done by the Pacific Research Institute, have shown that charter schools have no negative financial impact on other public schools & it is the Union contracts (teacher salaries, pensions etc) that result in financial distress on the schools.
Links:
-Lance Izumi – Will So-Called Compromise Cripple Future Charter School Expansion in California?
Claim: The right dominates special interest groups that pour “dark money” into campaigns to unfairly influences voters.
Reality: The EXACT OPPOSITE of this claim is true. Studies have shown that in fact the left’s “public policy charities” poured over 7.4 billion dollars in 2014 into leftist causes compared to a mere 2.2 billion collected by groups supported right causes.
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAhdm9cLHYxGHrRfK0Vt7an-qaCr4g171rs
Other Leftist Dark Money scandals:
"Big Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Groups Fund Schumer’s Secretive Anti-Filibuster Ally"
Claim: We are “WOKE”!
Reality: The term “woke” is supposed to convey that the left are the arbiters of “virtue” as they claim to be "awoken" to inherent structures of racism that permeates all aspects of themselves and society. In other words “woke culture” is nothing more than virtue signaling en masse in order to gain acceptance as social justice warriors on a crusade to “right the wrongs” of an “unjust” society that results in so much “oppressive” inequality in a number of different areas (primarily economic). The "Woke" claim their aganda is for "social justice". The facts are clear: a free society will always have differences in outcomes because we are NOT identical, we are naturally different. Every person differs from others in degrees of cognitive ability, motivation, industriousness, and so on. If people are given economic freedom, all groups and classes do better due to wealth generation. Some will naturally do better than others because they work harder, work more, and create more valuable products (examples are Steve Jobs & Bill Gates). The only way to achieve “equality of outcome” is to use force and coercion (which is what defines the left) to knock down those who achieve or to prohibit them from achieving in the first place. This, indeed, results in equality of outcome; however an “equality’ in which all are equally poor and work to support a ruling elite (so it’s not really an equal society). As Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman stated “If you put equality before freedom, you will get neither, if you put freedom before equality you will get a great deal of both.”
On "Woke-ism":
-Why Social Justice is Dangerous - James Lindsay
There are many other areas in which “woke” culture claims “virtue”. One example is in their crusade to end “oppressive discrimination” against woman in the work place that results in a gender-based “pay gap”. The so-called “pay gap” is obtained by calculating the average total income women make versus men in a given year. No factors that might influence how much money women make are considered (such as hours worked, types of jobs etc.). Firstly, paying people different wages for the same job based on sex has been illegal since the early 1960’s. Secondly, detailed studies have shown that the so-called “pay gap” is a simple result of women’s work choices. For example, they may want more flexible hours for family considerations; thus, they may not go for a promotion that pays more but is more demanding on time and hours worked. Men, on the other hand, often choose to aggressively go for such promotions. The result of these life style choices is simply that men on average make more but it is NOT because of discrimination. Studies have shown that the “pay gap” vanishes when comparing equal amounts of work for the same job done.
Perhaps the “woke” are more appropriately termed the “beguiled” (fooled).
Link:
The Gender Pay Gap Says More about Preferences Than Sexism
Claim: Socialism lifts people out of poverty.
For example, “…Sean Penn and others had lauded (socialist leader, Hugo) Chavez for eliminating 80 percent of poverty (in Venezuela)…” -“The Case Against Socialism” by Rand Paul.
Reality: Throughout its long and dark history, socialism has produced bondage, poverty and death. Examples are everywhere. With regard to socialist Venezuela a “survey found that 87 percent of Venezuelan households had descended into poverty” from socialist policies - “The Case Against Socialism” by Rand Paul.
Links:
Forced Equality Has a History of Genocidal Results
The Case for Why Socialism Doesn't Work
About that Che t-Shirt
Claim: Republicans suppress minority voter turnout.
Reality: In fact, according to Pew Research: “All racial and ethnic groups saw historic jumps in voter turnout” in 2018.
It is, in fact, the Democrats who engage in election meddling with questionable and potentially shady and fraudulent activity such as “vote harvesting”. During the 2018 made-term elections in California, a number of Republican candidates who comfortably won on election night in Orange County, had their victories overturned weeks later by late ballots obtained through "vote harvesting" (a practice made legal in CA by Democrats and fraught with the potential for vote meddling). In addition, “errors” in 2018 at the CA DMV resulted in people having their party preference changed as well as registering undocumented workers to vote.
Links:
Minority voter turnout increases
Election integrity in California still under siege
Claim: Sweden and other Nordic counties are successful because of Socialism.
Reality: In fact, Sweden created its great wealth because it adopted free-market capitalism in the late 1800's. Once it became one of the richest counties in Europe, it began to adopt Socialist policies in the 1970's and destroyed much of its wealth. It elected a center-right government in the early 1990's that rolled back the oppressive socialist policies and adopted free market and other privatizing reforms. Since then, it has started to recover from the dark socialist era and begun to prosper again in the light of more liberty and capitalism.
"The Economist points out the irony: “Indeed, the ‘socialist’ part of those countries that Mr. (Bernie) Sanders’s fans like would be unaffordable without the dynamic capitalist part they dislike.”
Links:
How Sweden Overcame Socialism
Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies
What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Wrong about Europe
Claim: The "Great Society" initiatives implemented by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson will end or drastically reduce poverty in America.
Reality: The opposite happened. Prior to the massive spending outlays of government assistance programs, poverty was declining. The "Great Society" spending spree actually had a negative impact by reducing the incentives to work and misallocating capital resources by taking it out of the private economy where it could have been invested in new products and services, thereby creating new jobs.
As is often said: "we declared a war on poverty and poverty won". Sadly, had the government not intervened, the poverty rate would likely have continued it's downward spiral at a substantially higher rate.
Links:
Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It.
Claim: Republicans are authoritarians and seek to impose their will upon us forcibly.
Reality: The inconvenient fact is that all authoritarians are on the left. The left embraces Statism, the subordination of the individual to the state (they claim for the general “good”). The right believes in individual liberty and limited-government and, therefore, resists authoritarians.
The 2020 pandemic crisis chillingly revealed the hypocrisy of the left as Democrats exploited the situation to impose their power over people’s lives in multiple ways. Here are a few examples amongst many more: Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan banned people from visiting with friends, taking trips to vacation homes, barred businesses from selling certain items including gardening seeds as well as other draconian decrees. In California a lone paddle boarder was arrested. Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles warned businesses if they did not follow his lockdown orders strictly they could have their water and power turned off. But perhaps the most egregious was Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s urging of people to spy and snitch on others not following his orders. He also approved of the use of drones to spy on and warn people. These measures are right out of the playbook of the communist secret police of the former East Germany, the Stasi.
In countries such as China where the left are in total power, some people have been welded into their homes and in some cases chained to poles and threateningly lectured front wearing masks.
The left says “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste” (Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel), and their rational is clear: It affords them an opportunity to impose greater power over the lives of individuals and irreversibly expand the size of government.
Rahm Emanuel reprises 'never let a crisis go to waste' catchphrase amid coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rahm-emanuel-reprises-never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste-catchphrase-amid-coronavirus-pandemic
Michigan’s Draconian Lockdown Provokes a Backlash.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/michigans-draconian-lockdown-provokes-a-backlash-11587163325?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=18
Corona Virus overreach.
https://youtu.be/HuzPrhnaiYE
https://youtu.be/zDCVf0_FY3Q
DeBlasio Urges People to Snitch.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/de-blasio-snitch-social-distancing/
The Left as Ultimate Hypocrites - During the Covid-19 pandemic, Democrat Governors and Mayors imposed Draconian lockdowns threatening people with jail (and in some cases following through with it) for not adhering to social-distancing rules. However, the massive protests and subsequent looting and vandalism, following the George Floyd tragedy, which flagrantly broke the guidelines were deemed acceptable because of the social “importance” of the events. Thus, the Democrats demonize people for wanting to go back to work, visiting their vacation homes, engaging in friendly, safe socializing, but praise and defend those who break the rules protesting in the name of "Social Justice" despite it leading to looting, vandalizing, brutal attacks, murder and general mayhem. Where is the justice in that?
Links:
The Party of Science (When They Feel Like It)
George Floyd protests: NYC mayor Bill de Blasio ‘proud’ of daughter after she is arrested
‘Not the Same Question’: De Blasio Says Businesses, Churches to Remain Closed Even as Demonstrators Flout Lockdowns
Democrat Hypocrisy: Coronavirus Stay-at-Home Protests Bad; Antifa, Anti-cop, Anti-white Riots Okay
Democrats' Hypocrisy on Riots Reveals Political Nature of Coronavirus Lockdowns
Federal Judge Rules Cuomo, De Blasio Exceeded Authority by Restricting Religious Services While Condoning Protests
Claim: We are the environmentalists and our policies protect the environment!
Reality: The policies of the Democrat party have had a devastatingly negative impact on the environment as well as human flourishing.
In order to meet aggressive goals of becoming 100% reliant on “renewables”, California Democrats have funneled much needed funding for electrical grid maintenance into solar and wind. Yet solar and wind, being unreliable, dilute forms of energy require great swaths of land. Wind turbines kill enormous numbers of endangered birds of prey every year and wind solar fans destroy the local ecologies and endangered species they displace.
If the Democrats were serious about reducing CO2 emissions, they would allow construction of more Nuclear Power plants, yet they are instead closing down the last two nuclear plants in the state.
Nuclear power is energy dense, takes up a tiny fraction of land compared to Solar and Wind, has no harmful emissions, does not release CO2, and is the safest form of energy. The fact they do not consider Nuclear and the fact that elimination of all California CO2 emissions would have a negligible effect on overall global CO2 levels and climate, indicates they are not really serious about their stated goals and are simply bowing to the “environmental” special interest groups that fund their campaigns.
Democrats have also caved to “Environmentalist’s” demands to stop forest and brush land management in favor of letting “nature do her thing”. As a result, dead trees and brush are not removed and controled burns not allowed. On average, forests now have 10 times more trees. Therefore, they are drier because a larger number of trees are competing for the same amount of water. In addition, small fires are put out, thus, preventing low intesity fires from clearing out the smaller shrubs and trees near the forest floors allowing them to accumulate.
Because of the unbounded growth of trees and brush, the fuel load for fires in California has grown exponentially. And since the vegetation is drier, fires ignite more easily and burn more ferociously. These conditions have been made made possible by the “environmentalists”, like the Sierra Club.
The devastating California wildfires of 2020 were a direct consequence of these failing and inept “environmental” policies. Nearly 100 people were killed in November of 2018 and the town of Paradise, California was wiped off the map due to the failure of a transmission line that was 100 years old. Officials knew of the problem, but failed to act because of funding priorities dictated by the “renewables” mandates.
Links:
“Wired to Fail”
California’s Disastrous Forest Mismanagement
What California’s Forest Fires and Financial Crises Have in Common
California’s Power Problems Are Self-Inflicted
Book:
“Apocalypse Never” by Michael Shellenberger
Claim: Billionaires support Republicans. We rely on grass roots support from the people.
Reality: This is a grand myth that is so ludicrous, Democrats have become less vocal in making this claim. Virtually all well known Billionaires are firmly on the left. A short list contains all the well-known Billionaires: Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Tom Steyer and so on. Most are Democrats and actively support their campaigns. In September, 2020 Billionaire Michael Bloomberg dedicated $100,000,000 to the Democrats in the State of Florida.
The Koch Brothers (Charles and his late brother David) are the exception to the general rule of billionaires supporting the Democrats. They support Economic Freedom education and initiatives. For their efforts, leftist mobs, such as “Un-Koch My Campus” shut them down.
-The Trashing of George Mason University
Claim: Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 Presidential election.
Reality: In fact the Democratic National Committee & Hillary Clinton’s campaign were the ones to colluded to generate false and damaging reports about Trump in order to influence the election in her favor. Once Trump won the election the false allegations were used to bring down his presidency. The subsequent Democrat-driven Mueller Investigation which dragged on for two years spent and wasted tens of billions of tax-payer dollars.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/hillary-clinton-orchestrated-russia-collusion-farce/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-russians-and-the-fbi-1508971759
Another noteworthy example of ’inverted truth’ was revealed when key Democrat, Eric Swalwell, one of President Trump’s key accusers during the Russia Collusion investigation, was outed for having an affair with a Chinese spy.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor-joecks/victor-joecks-the-spy-sex-scandal-the-media-isnt-interested-in-2213122/
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/chinese-spy-worked-as-fundraiser-for-eric-swalwell/
Claim: In the Summer of 2021 Democrats launched a propaganda polemic against the recall effort of Gavin Newsom in California as an "undemocratic" power grab by Republicans, Trump supporters, and people supporting and instigating the Capitol riots. They claim the effort will reverse all the "progress" the democrats have made in recent years.
Reality: This propaganda is so laughable that if people actually believe it, we deserve the continued devastation wrought by corrupt, power-hungry, incompetent, leftist politicians.
Firstly, the recall process is a legal method of removing a sitting governor and is specified in the California Constitution.
Secondly California ascended to its greatness, economically under the auspices of Republican leadership and legislative influence during the 1960s-90s. It's decline has been rapid and alarming with the ascendence of the Democrat Super Majority in the late 2000s and negligible influence by Republican leadership.
Trying to smear Republicans with the Capitol riot is another typical leftist tactic. Investigation of the event showed it was spontaneous, unplanned and unorganized. It was conducted by a small fraction of the many thousands of peaceful, patriotic individuals showing support for American values and the sitting President that day. Instead the reality is that it was Democrats and their supporters that conducted violent riots the previous Summer that resulted in billions of dollars worth of damage, looting, vandalism, fires and dozens of deaths. Democrat politicians implicitly and sometimes explicitly supported the riots by bailing out those arrested, verbal support and threats of more rioting (for example those made by Kamala Harris in June of 2020).
Here is a short list of problems caused by Democrats in California, prompting the Recall effort:
-Failing schools
-crumbling infrastructure
-Highest taxes
-highest unemployment
-highest cost-of-living
-Hostile business climate
-Crippling punitive regulations and fees
-Widest gap between rich and poor
-Burning forests due to non-existent forest management that was shut down by the Green lobby
-lawless streets
-Record numbers of homeless (50% or more of US homeless)
-Unaffordable housing
-Water rationing
-electricity blackouts
-1/3 of US welfare recipients
-highest level of poverty in US
-$11 billion worth of unemployment fraud much of went to criminals In 2020
-Taxpayer payouts to undocumented non citizens who pay no taxes
-stonewalling publication of public union salaries and promoting Docksin in the uncovering of personal address as the names of people who donate to the Republican Party
-Refusal to build and bolster dam systems to meet demand levels. Allowing the rain to be lost to the ocean and implementing draconian water rationing and doxing people publicly who use water levels above that which is “fair”.
-Dismantling and closing the remaining Nuclear power plants which provide the cleanest, richest and safest form of energy, all carbon free.
-The conveyance of $19 B of tax payers dollars to convicted criminals in 2020.
-in 2021, 73,000 criminals were released early, 63,000 of them were violent offenders.
-California which is 12% of the US population has 25% of the government funded unions.
Assessing the truth should be as simple as seeing where people are fleeing from (Democrat-run states) and where they are fleeing to (Republican-run states).
(More to come!)
Below we show that not only are most of the claims of the left false, but virtually everyone of them are cherry picked, out-of-context, exaggerated, and in many cases the truth is the exact opposite. Thus, a primary tactic of the left is to “invert the truth”. In particular, they use labels to "cloak" or hide their true beliefs or agenda by adopting terms that are opposite of the values/actions they support. This tactic is just one of many used in order to achieve power and control by any means necessary. Here are some examples of their 'inversion of truth':
- The most blatant inversion of the truth concerning the Left is that they adopt titular labels that denote actions/values the opposite of what they actually are. For example, they call themselves the “Liberals”. This term is a direct reference to freedom or liberty and/or absence of force and coercion. Yet, their actions oppose this notion of "freedom" as they regularly pass excessive regulations, high taxes and support endless rules that coercively dictate to law-abiding individuals how they should behave. Their motivation is Power & Control so they can create their utopian society. Example are endless. Here are some: soda taxes, to reduce/eliminate soda consumption; gasoline taxes, to reduce/eliminate driving (with the hope it would significantly reduce the risk of global warming, which it would not); business licensing, purported to "protect" the consumer, but all it does is serve as a barrier to entry for people who are trying to make a living; minimum wage laws purportedly to force employers to pay "living wage" to their employees, but all this does is force the employers to lay off workers, raise consumer prices and prevent many teenagers and young adults from gaining experience in the workforce (since they will not be hired unless they are more productive than their hourly wage); housing regulations which serve only to expand the government payroll and make housing more expensive; the list goes on as this is the tip of a very large bureaucratic iceberg. As Nobel-Prize winner and Economist Milton Friedman once said, “the only thing the Liberals are liberal about is how they spend other peoples money.” In other words today’s so-called Liberals are “Illiberal”. In fact it is the Right (Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians/Constitutionalists/Objectivists) that support more classical liberal policies such as limited-government, free markets, lower taxes, respect for the individual (classic liberalism flourished in the US during the 1800’s; classic liberals fled to the Right when “progressive liberals” took over the Left in the late 1800’s/early 1900’). Thus, it is those on the Right that can more accurately called (classic) liberals.
- The other term they call themselves is “Progressive“. However, these “so-called” Progressives adopt identity politics and judge people based not on their individual character, but on what “group” they belong to. This is a blatant form of prejudice. They are catapulting us backwards into an era of bigotry and racism with victimhood culture. Therefore, they should properly be called the “Regressives”.
- Finally, the most egregious and offensive label the extreme left uses is “Antifa” Which is short for “antifascist”. This is breathtakingly false label designed purposely to confuse and obfuscate. Their signature tactics are to cover their faces with masks, so they cannot be identified, and commit looting, personal assaults, general violence and shut down free speech for anyone they disagree with. They are violent nihilists. They are the fascists.
Claim: Wealth is stolen & cannot be created.
Reality: To put it simply, the Left believe the economy is a "zero-sum game". They somehow believe that if someone has more wealth than another, then some injustice must have been perpetrated against a "victim" group. The Left does not understand basic economic facts or how the world works; alternatively, they choose to reject reality. Both explanations turn out to be true.
In fact, wealth is created through the “trader principle” in which two parties exchange goods or services that the other party desires. These trades are “value for value”. The key is that each person desires the object they are trading for more than the item they are trading. Once completed, the trade makes the life of each trader better and more enriched than before. Money was invented as a medium of exchange to make the trade simple and efficient. The money has a value associated with it, so it allows one of the traders to use it as the “trade item”. A trader can create wealth and become rich by creating a trade item that many people want. This item may be the invention of a product or service. Crucially, it is the profit motive that incentivizes individuals to create a product or service that someone else will want. Only in a system of free market capitalism do these conditions exist in their most efficient form. Next, the trader must sell the item for more than what it cost to make it. A customer only buys the item if the money they are spending is worth less to them than the item or service they are trading for. Thus, the customer has gained something that exceeds the value of the money they gave up in the trade. When summed up over thousands or millions of trades, the inventor (or provider of the product or service) becomes rich even if they made just a little money on each trade (for example, Steve Jobs selling millions of iPhones). However they have NOT stolen wealth from their customers because the trade was voluntary and most importantly what the customer received in return, has MORE value to them than the money they spent; thus, wealth has been created by the inventor/entrepreneur and the subsequent trades. When the Left complains about wealth inequality, they ignore this fact. Ultimately, the genesis of the wealth created in this example was from the innovation, time, material and other resources expended by the inventor of the device (or provider of the service) in the beginning. Such wealth generation exists only in capitalism with its incentive structure.
In fact, it is the system of economic organization the Left supports (Socialism) that most closely resembles a "zero sum game". Socialism, with it's suppression of free-market trade, relies on government coerced wealth redistribution, control and regulation of business, high taxes and prohibition of private property (in its form as communism) which discourages innovation, investment and risk-taking. Wealth can no longer be made. The wealth that was created by the pre-existing free-market system is gradually eroded and dissipated. Eventually, poverty overcomes the nation as has been demonstrated every time socialism has been tried. However, the government bureaucrats and central planners ensure there is plenty of money for themselves.
An excellent example of the Left's "zero-sum game" economic fallacy occurred when Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated "(N)o one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars." In fact, all of the transactions that produced the billionaire's wealth were voluntary. Those who worked for whatever wage they agreed upon did so voluntarily believing that wage was worth more than the labor they performed (otherwise, they would not have agreed to the terms). In addition, the millions of customers who voluntarily purchased the product believed the good they purchased to be more valuable than the money they paid. Otherwise, they would not have purchased the item. Many also ignore or discount the tremendous personal financial risk entrepreneur's take on when pursuing success. We never hear about the countless "would-be" billionaires who took a risk to create a successful product and failed.
In fact, the policies of forced, confiscatory taxation and wealth redistribution practiced by the Left to buy votes and expand government dependency are the real examples of theft from hard working people.
Links:
-AOC's screed against billionaires turns the definition of theft on it's head.
-The myth that billionaires hoard wealth.
Claim: We, on the Left, take the "high road" and are the civil ones.
Reality: Again, the truth is the opposite. The left by nature collectivizes into activist mobs that bludgeon and attack those who disagree with them. By nature those on the right are individualists not interested in forming mobs, and are, therefore, vulnerable to these attacks. The Left’s acts of violence and vandalism after the election of 2016 and threats made against the president-elect and his supporters demonstrate this fact poignantly. From bludgeoning individuals in the head with bike locks, to harassing and threatening lawmakers on the right and their families, the left has stayed true to their shameful history of the use of violence and intimidation tactics to further their agenda.
From former Attorney General, under Barack Obama, Eric Holder’s comment “kick them (the Republicans) when they go low” to former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s statement “we (the Democrats) can’t be civil now”, underscores their desperation and ignoble behavior. Furthermore, Barack Obama in 2008 urged his followers to get in the faces of Republicans and confront them. Maxine Waters urged democrats to harass Republicans in public. Leftist mobs regularly target and harass Republicans and conservatives. During a planed parade through Portland, the far-left group Antifa threatened to physically attack a Republican Float and those on it. City officials buckled to the terrorist threats and canceled the parade.
The Democrats implicit and often explicit support for rioting, looting and violence were on full display during 2020. One wrote an essay in defense of looting. Indeed, they have even used the threat of violence to gain power and control. Any notion of the left being civil is beyond absurd.
Links:
Portland Parade Shutdown
Riots after Republican Victory 2016
The Left Riots in streets after election loss in 2016
Democrats Are Trying To Threaten Their Way Into Power
There Is No Defense for Looting
Biden staff donate to group that pays bail in riot-torn Minneapolis
Here is a list of the Left’s shameful tactics during the 2018 election cycle. Obviously, these are outlier cases but the media pays little or no attention to them as it would hurt their narrative.
- October 2018: Ricin envelopes were not just sent to James Mattis, but also to President Trump, along with Senator Ted Cruz and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson. The FBI arrested a suspect in Utah, William Clyde Allen, believed to have sent all the packages in a coordinated effort. Allen confessed to sending all four letters, but we also learned that—similar to the inoperable bombs allegedly sent by Cesar Sayoc, Jr.—none seemed to contain actual Ricin, but rather castor seed from which Ricin is made.
- October 2018: In Las Vegas, a Democratic activist working for American Bridge 21st Century named Wilfred Michael Stark assaulted Kristin Davidson, campaign manager for Nevada's Republican gubernatorial candidate, Adam Laxalt. Stark had previously been arrested for similar activity at a GOP rally in Virginia.
- October 2018: In Minnesota, Republican state-representative Sarah Anderson was chased and punched by a man ripping up GOP campaign signs, and two days earlier, Republican candidate Shane Mekeland suffered a concussion after being punched in the back of the head while having dinner at a local restaurant.
- October 2018: The Republican Party Headquarters in Manhattan, New York was vandalized with spray-paint, smashed windows, and a threatening note that read: "Our attack is merely a beginning. We are not passive, we are not civil, and we will not apologize."
- October 2018: Jackson Cosko, an intern working for Democratic Senator Sheila Jackson Lee was charged by the United States Capitol Police with "doxxing" Republican Senators Mike Lee, Orrin Hatch, and Lindsey Graham. While doxxing itself isn't violence, it has frequently led to serious harassment and violence as people have access to personal information such as the home addresses, phone numbers, and email address of the victims.
- October 2018: Florida man, Jame Royal Patrick, Jr., was arrested for making death threats to people who supported Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
- October 2018: Shots were fired at the Republican party campaign office in Daytona Florida, breaking the windows. Fortunately, no one was in the office.
- October 2018: A hairdresser Jordan Hunt starts an argument with a female pro-life demonstrator in Ontario, and after a few minutes of conversation roundhouse-kicks her in the face on camera.
- September 2018: GOP campaign offices in Laramie, Wyoming, were set on fire by arsonists. The same thing happened in Hillsborough, North Carolina, back in 2016, so this is nothing especially new.
- September 2018: In San Francisco, a man named Farzad Fazeli attempted to stab Republican campaign worker Rudy Peters with a switchblade while he was working at an election booth at a Castro Valley town festival.
- July 2018: Martin Astrof was arrested for threatening to kill GOP campaign staffers and President Trump.
- July 2018: Someone vandalized the Lincoln, Nebraska (my hometown) GOP headquarters by smashing its windows with a brick and spray-painting "ABOLISH ICE" on the sidewalk.
- August 2017: Missouri lawmaker, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, said on social media that she hoped President Trump would be assassinated. She later was formally censured by the Missouri State Senate.
- June 2017: In Alexandria, Virginia, James T. Hodgkinson (a Bernie Sanders fanatic angry with the results of the 2016) died with a list of Republican targets in his pocket in a shootout with police after he shot four people: lobbyist Matt Mika, legislative aid Zack Barth, Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, and Republican Congressman Steve Scalise who nearly died. The shooting took place at a baseball diamond where several Republican Senators and Congressmen were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity.
More "Unbecoming" Behavior from the Left:
Pelosi's Temper-
During an interview on January 2, 2019 with CNN Alexandra Pelosi stated that her mother Nancy Pelosi will “cut your head off and you won’t even know that you’re bleeding“ when commenting about her mothers second term as speaker of the house. Not exactly behavior that would be considered “taking the highroad”.
At the end of the 2019 State of the Union address, in front of a national audience, Pelosi got up and angrily ripped a copy of President Trump's speech in half. Not exactly the the calm, measured, and adult behavior you would expect from the third most powerful person in the United States.
Democrats wasting efforts and a bad language problem-
Democratic incoming Congressman Dan Sherman of California in January 2019 stated he planned to introduce articles of impeachment of Donald Trump on Thursday January 3, 2019. This after Democrats claimed they would take the “high road” and avoid such wasteful and divisive behavior during the mid term elections. Another incoming Democratic Congress woman, Rashida Tlaib,(from Michigan’s 13th district) stated “were going to go in there and impeach the mother f**cker!” to widespread applause from fellow democrats. It is fair to speculate that no Republican would ever be able to get away with making a similar statement about a Democrat president.
Democrats harassing people they disagree with, shutting down free speech, & other disturbing behavior-
From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul-
“(C)onsider Democrat Pennsylvania state representative Brian Sims, who aggressively yelled at and filmed three girls, ages thirteen and fifteen, who were quietly praying on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood. This forty-year-old man, a hulking former football player and elected official, tweeted video of the girls while saying, “I’ll give $ 100 to anyone who can identify these three.” He verbally attacked the girls for both their faith and their racial ethnicity in the video, while encouraging his followers to dox them. How was this not considered a threat to the safety of these young girls? Doxing individuals with whom you disagree on social media is threatening behavior, pure and simple. It is potentially a dangerous call to action for unstable and violent people. Sims’s attempt to dox was especially outrageous considering that it was against children. Twitter did nothing. The mainstream media was completely silent, despite hundreds of tweets at CNN to report on this elected official’s disturbing behavior. The next month the bearded brute was back, proudly tweeting video of himself stalking and intimidating an elderly lady praying the rosary outside of the same building. For over eight minutes Representative Sims bullied and castigated the diminutive woman, repeatedly insulting her as “an old white lady” while she tried to get away from him, shoulders hunched and head lowered against his assault. The video is truly painful to watch.”
Republican Senator Rand Paul on the harassment he received in 2018:
"my cell number and home address being doxed during the Kavanaugh hearings, and a California man threatening to kill me and my family with an ax, and I had a bad year."
While leaving the Republican National Convention in September, 2020 Senator Rand Paul and his wife were violently accosted by a mob of leftists. They angrily shouted at the couple and tried to grab them. Others leavening the RNC convention were also harassed.
-Are Democrats Trying to Spark a Violent Revolution—or Just Accidentally Doing It?
-Rand Paul Claims Mob That Harassed Him Outside White House Part of ‘An Organized Interstate Racket,’ Calls on FBI to Investigate
Democrats encouraged and defended the deadly riots of 2020 sparked by the tragic killing of a black man in police custody. Despite the officers arrest, riots (after ludicrously being blamed on the right initially) devolved into an orgy of destruction, looting and even murder. Many Democrats defended the lawless behavior, that had ruined lives, as justified. Democrat Mayor Bill DeBlasio even went as far as praising his daughter for being arrested during one of the lawless demonstrations.
Links:
-This Is Easy: Don’t Excuse, Defend, or Encourage Rioters.
-There Is No Defense for Looting
-The Democrats Are Whitewashing Leftist Violence
-Prominent Democrats openly call for violence, riots, and uprisings
-Don't Forget, Democrats Encouraged and Endorsed the Violent Mob
The Left's Campaign to smear those who disagree with them include "hate" hoaxes:
These include-
In January 2019 actor Jussie Smollett falsely claimed he was attack by two white men wearing MAGA hats. Despite being exposed as a hoax, “GQ quickly published an article condemning the Smollett “crime” that argued that “the racist, homophobic attack on Smollett is Far Right America’s endgame.” For comparison, consider that after I (Senator Rand Paul) was attacked (by a neighbor and democrat critical Sen. Paul's position on Universal Healthcare) and suffered six broken ribs and a pleural effusion of my lung that led to two serious cases of pneumonia, GQ gleefully headlined its story on my assault with this: “Rand Paul Sounds Like the Worst Person to Have as a Neighbor.” Their bias is breathtaking.”
(V)andalization of an Indiana church painted with homophobic slurs and pro-Trump language—which turned out to be the work of the church’s gay organist, who hoped to “mobilize a movement.”
(E)xtensive coverage of the Muslim woman who falsely claimed that a group of Trump supporters attempted to tear off her hijab in an attack at a New York subway station?
(A) Michigan woman falsely claimed a white man “threatened to set her on fire if she did not remove her hijab”?
All of these stories were breathlessly reported in the media as evidence of Trump supporters’ violence and viciousness. All were false. We are in an age of new propaganda, where the media’s power rivals that of the state.
-From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul
The Left Suppressing Free Speech:
From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul-
“It’s not just Twitter; Facebook has also jumped on the bandwagon of censoring conservative speech. Michael Nunez at Gizmodo writes: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users. Facebook is not only blocking conservatives, it is also advancing stories that fit its management’s liberal bias. Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module. ”
“Twitter permanently banned Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy for asserting that “men are not women.”
“It is disturbing that, not two months into her official government position, Democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez was already muscularly engaging in the foremost behavior of historical socialist dictators: the intimidation of private citizens who express viewpoints that government officials do not agree with in order to silence speech.”
Covington High School Incident-
In January 2019 a group of Covington High School students were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln memorial. Some were wearing "Make America Great Again" hats. A Native American activist, banging his drum, confronted one student wearing a MAGA hat who was minding his own business. The student, Nick Sandmann, did not back down & instead smiled and held his composure but did nothing provocative, as the activist had. A short clip taken out of context was exploited by media & entertainment figures as evidence of repressive racism and hate from a "smirking" Trump supporter. Here is a sampling of the responses:
“Prominent actors, writers, and pundits of all stripes were screaming for the boys and their parents to be doxed, to be physically attacked, to be sexually molested. CNN legal analyst Bakari Sellers fantasized about the sixteen-year-old’s “punchable face,” as did the former CNN personality Reza Aslan. CNN pundit Ana Navarro called them “asswipes” and Saturday Night Live writer Sarah Beattie offered oral sex to anyone who “manages to punch the MAGA kid in the face.” These calls for violence were coming from highly privileged, highly paid, ostensibly well-educated adults in America’s media today. None were fired or even criticized by CNN or SNL for their embarrassingly lowbrow calls for violent attacks on teenagers.” -From "The Case Against Socialism" by Rand Paul
Nick Sandmann, was unfairly and purposely villified and his life forever negatively affected without regard by the Left media and their allies in order to gain political traction from their false narrative.
CNN settles defamation suit with Covington teen Nick Sandmann
Claim: implementation of net neutrality rules keep the Internet fair and free.
Reality: The strangling regulatory burden imposed by central planners on the Internet, treating it as a public utility, was a brutal blow to both Internet freedom and fairness. It stifled innovation and creativity and drastically reduced investment in the Internet-based technologies. It destroyed consumer choice and prevented companies from making decisions that benefited them and consumers.
Democrat lawmakers went to Twitter to deploy their alarmism and scare people into thinking that ending net neutrality would be a disaster for all. They sent message the following message on separate lines: "If".... "we"..."don't"..."save"..."net"..."neutrality"..."we"..."will"..."get"..."the"..."internet"..."one"..."word"..."at"..."a"..."time"
This ridiculous and puerile stunt underscores the vacuousness of their collectivistic ideology and desperation for power and control.
And what has been the result of repealing the net neutrality regulation? Because providers are now free to innovate and meet customers need (rather than bow to coercive egalitarian authoritarians), THE INTERNET HAS ACTUALLY BECOME MORE EFFICIENT AND FASTER. The exact opposite of what the alarmists were claiming.
Links:
Predictions and Reality of Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality Is about Government Control of the Internet
Net Neutrality Isn't Neutral At All
Claim: Those on the Right are prejudiced/racists/homophobes/xenophobes/mysogenists etc.
Reality: It is the exactly the opposite. The Left judges people based on their group identity (i.e. , race, gender, sexual preference, wealth status etc.) People who belong to groups that are perceived as being “oppressed” are automatically seen in positive light & any transgressions are forgiven as being understandable in light of what their group has suffered at the hands of oppressor groups (specifically white males). Any individual who happens to be a white male is accused of having “white privilege ”, perceived as being evil or not relevant and ignored. Since they can never win their arguments with facts, history or reason, the Left resort to hateful spews of epithets, pejoratives and name-calling.
Here is a partial list of racist behavior from the Left:
- They support treating people differently based purely on their skin color and therefore support race-based quotas rather than merit-based qualifications for jobs, contracts, college admissions etc. (“Affirmative action“ quotas)
- They adopt a hierarchical scheme called “intersectionality” which assigns status to an individual based on the various “victimhood features” they possess (e.g., African American, Hispanic, Gay, Transexual, Female, immigrant etc.). The more “victim features” someone has, the higher they rank in importance and respect. At the bottom of their scheme are white males who they see as having “white priviledge” and are, therefore, to be shunned and repudiated.
- They believe in race-based retribution. For example, many on the Left support slavery reparations which would require White Americans to pay Black Americans retribution money for slavery that existed in America over 150 years ago even if their ancestors weren’t slave-owners.
- Black American conservatives are shunned and called “Uncle Toms” because they refuse to adopt the label of a “victim“ and see themselves as capable and independent individuals separate from any group identity. The problem for the Left is that they refused to buy in to the racial oppression narrative thus threatening their political support base. (more)
- Organizers of the Women’s March in Humboldt County, California canceled a local Jan. 19 2019 event because the marchers are "overwhelmingly white".
- CNN commentator and former "green advisor" to Barack Obama, Van Jones, proclaimed Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election because of a "white-lash".
- Democrat Nancy Pelosi exclaimed that President Trump wants to "make America white again".
- "After a car crash involving a Hasidic driver resulted in the death of Gavin Cato, the 7-year-old son of Guyanese immigrants, Mr. Al Sharpton (Democrat) led a three-day riot in Crown Heights. He blamed the accident on “diamond merchants,” and his followers chanted, “Kill the Jew.” They did. The Jew they killed was Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, a doctoral candidate from Australia. Nearly 200 more were injured in the melee." (source: Wall Street Journal)
- When asked what he liked about filming the movie "Django Unchained", actor Jamie Foxx retorted, "I get to kill white people."
- Black Republican Rayla Campbell from Massachuesetts was threatend over her inter-racial relationship with her white husband:
- Black Republican Senator Tim Scott received a sluury of hateful racist slurs from the left when he led efforts to enact Police Reform:
The bottom line is that there would be no "Democrat" party without "victims". In order to galvanize voters to support them, the Democrats must incite anger and feelings of revenge in various groups they claim are being held back by the "male-dominated white system of oppression". To do this, Democrats must put out massive propaganda (easy, as they dominate media, education & entertainment industries) and support policies that restrict freedom and prosperity while expanding government dependency, since people who are flourishing will tend to support the Republicans.
The Left's own Nick Canon likened white people to animals whose evil emanated from their "white" skin (see ink below).
Links:
Nick Cannon: White People Are Closer to Animal
Racially hostile student protesters at Evergreen State
Student protestors bully University administrators
Yale, Al Sharpton and the Attacks on New York’s Jews
Claim: Capitalists are stealing the labor of individuals in the working class.
Reality: Quite the opposite. Capitalism is built upon property rights. This means that you can own land and other goods and materials, but it also means you own your body, mind, AND the product of your labor. Therefore, you can sell your labor to the highest bidder in a purely voluntary exchange. In socialism/communism property rights do not exist; thus you have no right to sell your labor for what it is worth. The means of production are controlled or owned by the state and with property rights denied, you are effectively coerced by the state to work at a fixed salary and likely in a field not of your choosing. Clearly, Socialism steals the labor of the workers by denying them the price of labor they would otherwise get in a free market economy.
Claim: Universal Health Care is “single payer”.
Reality: Again, the term used to entice the population into embracing universal health care has a meaning that is exactly opposite. “Single payer” is really just “universal theft” from multitudes (of productive working people) to fund someone else’s health care. With a huge bureaucratic apparatus and endless regulations, medical innovations are stifled, long waiting lines for care develop as bungling government bureaucrats attempt to run the healthcare system and overall quality of care plummets; ultimately, illnesses and deaths increase over what would have occurred in a free-market based health care system. A free market-based health care system incentivizes innovation and healthy competition resulting much better care at lower prices. Positive health outcomes would sky-rocket compared to that of Universal Health Care. Insurance policies prices would plummet. Without the constraint of burdensome regulations, insurance companies would be able to offer a plethora of attractive products including some that could address pre-existing conditions. The vast majority of people would be able to afford insurance and even the poorest and those with pre-existing conditions would have options available to them that would satisfy their needs.
Claim: On November 4, 2017 Democrat Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of trying to ram through tax reform through the stealth of night with no bipartisan input.
Reality: In fact, Republicans were very open about the tax reform bill the Democrats hoped to shut down. On the contrary, "ramming through" a bill is precisely what Democrats had done with the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009. Republicans, in some situations, were locked out of discussions. Pelosi herself said : “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” Apologists try to argue that this statement is made out of context. Partisan observers can paint any picture they want about intent and context, but her words should be assessed objectively. You can read the transcript below and judge for yourself. At best, she may have not used the proper wording to convey her intent, but we must hold all politicians accountable to their words. The media applies this standard to politicians with an “R” by their name why not to those with “D” when they make a gaffe? Even in the scenario we assumer meaning was the bill must pass to see it's effects on the health care system and on patients, this is an extremely irresponsible and disingenuous position. She knew well that passing it (and other laws that expand government benefits, are nearly impossible to retract later. The responsible position would have to conducted an honest and open public debate on the details of the bill, its (realistic) cost, an forcing overall economic impact as well as its potential impact on the overall quality and cost of health care. We now know why she didn't want this open debate and exhorted the rapid passage of it: the Affordable-Care Act (ACA or Obama-Care) health reform bill of 2009 led by the Democrats has been an unmitigated disaster. Not only were the claims: the ACA would "lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year", and "you can keep your doctor", false but the exact opposite occurred: Premiums went up in many cases by more than $2500 , and many lost their doctors and were forced to go to lower-quality alternatives. MIT economist and Jonathan Gruber , an architect of Obama -care, famously told an audience in 2014 that “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.” Also, poorer quality of care has resulted, expansion of medicaid burdening states with ObamaCare exchanges has occurred, and the list goes on.
Links:
Obama's Inflated Health 'Savings'
Transcript of Pelosi's Remarks
Obama Care rollout disaster
ObamaCare’s Medicaid Deception
As an aside, it should be pointed out that the Republican Tax Reform of 2017 freed up the economy and encouraged individuals and business to invest & flourish; the result has been one of the most poignant and robust blossoming of the economy & prosperity since the Reagan era.
Claim: We, the Democrats, care about the middle class.
Reality: The results of the 8 years of weak growth (under Obama & his policies) butts up against this false claim.
“And here is the great paradox of the Barack Obama economy. The Federal Reserve’s bond purchases and near-zero interest rates for eight years drove up asset values and let corporations borrow cheaply while the Administration’s punishing regulations bred business uncertainty that depressed investment in human and physical capital. Those with financial assets prospered more than middle-class wage earners. The Obama Democrats talked constantly about inequality rather than growth, and the result was less growth and more inequality.”
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAj4-CimZT1KV7JhWZpu8ralY7MvzFuV2zg
It is, contrary to the Left’s narrative, the Republican-led economy starting in 2017 that has seen some of the strongest economic & job growth in years. The middle class has made a robust comeback and employment rates are at all-time highs; especially benefitting minorities. Without the stranglehold that the Democrats impose on the economy with their heavy regulations & taxes, a breath of freedom has helped the economy flourish.
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAj4-CimZT1KV7JhWZpu8ralY7MvzFuV2zg
Claim: The far-left terrorist group “Antifa” claims they are the anti-fascist.
Reality: Nothing could be further from the truth and in fact the exact opposite is true. The statist, authoritarian fascists are all leftists and always have been (by definition). In the 1930s in Germany they shut down free-speech and vandalized businesses of Jewish owners. They called themselves the “national socialists”. In fascist states, the individual is beholden to the state. This is what the Left is all about: sacrificing individual rights and freedoms to the State through taxes, regulations, rules, dictates, fiats etc. Antifa, which ironically stands for anti-fascist, are the fascists. They go to campuses and even parades intimidating opponents, shutting down speech they disagree with, and threaten (and often carry out) violent assaults on individuals they perceive as their enemies. They hide their identity with masks (so they can blend back into society & not be caught), carry a variety of weapons and assault devices. In addition, they cause enormous cost & loss through vandalism to private & public property, just as their fascist forebears did nearly 100 years ago.
https://fee.org/articles/saying-you-re-against-fascists-doesn-t-excuse-acting-like-one/
On June 29, 2019 they brutally attacked and beat a conservative journalist causing him to be hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAhcCt-__JdBk4zg5xGrlGZg5xHreTzLcaw
Claim: The Obama Administration was “scandal free”.
Reality: The Obama Administration was perhaps the most corrupt of all time. Here are some of the top scandals & the list grows. See https://lists.grabien.com/list-complete-guide-scandals-obama-administration.
Here are several of the top scandals:
- Obama weaponized the IRS to attack grass-roots conservative groups to prevent them from jeopardizing his re-election in 2012.
-Obama weaponized the FBI by authorizing them to spy on the Trump campaign. The Democrat National Committee along with the Hillary campaign conspired to frame Trump with the Steele dossier and to also frame him with Russian collusion should he win the election. In May of 2020 evidence of Obama's deep involvement in spying on the Trump campaign and efforts to entrap Trump in an alleged Russia collusion were revealed. This level of corruption is perhaps unpecented in US history and the main stream media has scrambled to protect Obama from repercussions.
- "Newly released (May 2020) Congressional testimony shows that (Democrat) Adam Schiff spread falsehoods shamelessly about Russia and Donald Trump for three years even as his own committee gathered contrary evidence."
-Obama covered up the Benghazi tragedy by claiming it was nothing more than an angry reaction to a video depicting Muslims in an unfavorable light.
-Obama paid ransom (American tax payer’s money) to Iran for the release of some American hostages, putting other Americans at risk, and tried to cover it up (& deny it).
-Obama knowingly lied and misled Americans claiming Obamacare would save the average household $2500/year. In fact people lost money due to rising premiums and many lost their insurance as well (both direct consequence of the law).
-Obama stated "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." This false claim was rated by Politifact in 2013 as "The Lie of the Year".
-Obama paid off the Iranians with a plane load of cash in return for the release of four American detainees.
Links:
-Protecting Obama
-Obama Laments Flynn Dismissal . . . after Granting Clemency to FALN Terrorist
-"Newly released (May 2020) Congressional testimony shows that (Democrat) Adam Schiff spread falsehoods shamelessly about Russia and Donald Trump for three years even as his own committee gathered contrary evidence."
- "Obama’s policies are in tatters, and the worst scandals of his White House are coming to light."
Claim: Charter Schools in California are the cause of negative financial impact on other public schools.
Reality: In fact studies done by the Pacific Research Institute, have shown that charter schools have no negative financial impact on other public schools & it is the Union contracts (teacher salaries, pensions etc) that result in financial distress on the schools.
Links:
-Lance Izumi – Will So-Called Compromise Cripple Future Charter School Expansion in California?
Claim: The right dominates special interest groups that pour “dark money” into campaigns to unfairly influences voters.
Reality: The EXACT OPPOSITE of this claim is true. Studies have shown that in fact the left’s “public policy charities” poured over 7.4 billion dollars in 2014 into leftist causes compared to a mere 2.2 billion collected by groups supported right causes.
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAhdm9cLHYxGHrRfK0Vt7an-qaCr4g171rs
Other Leftist Dark Money scandals:
"Big Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Groups Fund Schumer’s Secretive Anti-Filibuster Ally"
Claim: We are “WOKE”!
Reality: The term “woke” is supposed to convey that the left are the arbiters of “virtue” as they claim to be "awoken" to inherent structures of racism that permeates all aspects of themselves and society. In other words “woke culture” is nothing more than virtue signaling en masse in order to gain acceptance as social justice warriors on a crusade to “right the wrongs” of an “unjust” society that results in so much “oppressive” inequality in a number of different areas (primarily economic). The "Woke" claim their aganda is for "social justice". The facts are clear: a free society will always have differences in outcomes because we are NOT identical, we are naturally different. Every person differs from others in degrees of cognitive ability, motivation, industriousness, and so on. If people are given economic freedom, all groups and classes do better due to wealth generation. Some will naturally do better than others because they work harder, work more, and create more valuable products (examples are Steve Jobs & Bill Gates). The only way to achieve “equality of outcome” is to use force and coercion (which is what defines the left) to knock down those who achieve or to prohibit them from achieving in the first place. This, indeed, results in equality of outcome; however an “equality’ in which all are equally poor and work to support a ruling elite (so it’s not really an equal society). As Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman stated “If you put equality before freedom, you will get neither, if you put freedom before equality you will get a great deal of both.”
On "Woke-ism":
-Why Social Justice is Dangerous - James Lindsay
There are many other areas in which “woke” culture claims “virtue”. One example is in their crusade to end “oppressive discrimination” against woman in the work place that results in a gender-based “pay gap”. The so-called “pay gap” is obtained by calculating the average total income women make versus men in a given year. No factors that might influence how much money women make are considered (such as hours worked, types of jobs etc.). Firstly, paying people different wages for the same job based on sex has been illegal since the early 1960’s. Secondly, detailed studies have shown that the so-called “pay gap” is a simple result of women’s work choices. For example, they may want more flexible hours for family considerations; thus, they may not go for a promotion that pays more but is more demanding on time and hours worked. Men, on the other hand, often choose to aggressively go for such promotions. The result of these life style choices is simply that men on average make more but it is NOT because of discrimination. Studies have shown that the “pay gap” vanishes when comparing equal amounts of work for the same job done.
Perhaps the “woke” are more appropriately termed the “beguiled” (fooled).
Link:
The Gender Pay Gap Says More about Preferences Than Sexism
Claim: Socialism lifts people out of poverty.
For example, “…Sean Penn and others had lauded (socialist leader, Hugo) Chavez for eliminating 80 percent of poverty (in Venezuela)…” -“The Case Against Socialism” by Rand Paul.
Reality: Throughout its long and dark history, socialism has produced bondage, poverty and death. Examples are everywhere. With regard to socialist Venezuela a “survey found that 87 percent of Venezuelan households had descended into poverty” from socialist policies - “The Case Against Socialism” by Rand Paul.
Links:
Forced Equality Has a History of Genocidal Results
The Case for Why Socialism Doesn't Work
About that Che t-Shirt
Claim: Republicans suppress minority voter turnout.
Reality: In fact, according to Pew Research: “All racial and ethnic groups saw historic jumps in voter turnout” in 2018.
It is, in fact, the Democrats who engage in election meddling with questionable and potentially shady and fraudulent activity such as “vote harvesting”. During the 2018 made-term elections in California, a number of Republican candidates who comfortably won on election night in Orange County, had their victories overturned weeks later by late ballots obtained through "vote harvesting" (a practice made legal in CA by Democrats and fraught with the potential for vote meddling). In addition, “errors” in 2018 at the CA DMV resulted in people having their party preference changed as well as registering undocumented workers to vote.
Links:
Minority voter turnout increases
Election integrity in California still under siege
Claim: Sweden and other Nordic counties are successful because of Socialism.
Reality: In fact, Sweden created its great wealth because it adopted free-market capitalism in the late 1800's. Once it became one of the richest counties in Europe, it began to adopt Socialist policies in the 1970's and destroyed much of its wealth. It elected a center-right government in the early 1990's that rolled back the oppressive socialist policies and adopted free market and other privatizing reforms. Since then, it has started to recover from the dark socialist era and begun to prosper again in the light of more liberty and capitalism.
"The Economist points out the irony: “Indeed, the ‘socialist’ part of those countries that Mr. (Bernie) Sanders’s fans like would be unaffordable without the dynamic capitalist part they dislike.”
Links:
How Sweden Overcame Socialism
Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies
What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Wrong about Europe
Claim: The "Great Society" initiatives implemented by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson will end or drastically reduce poverty in America.
Reality: The opposite happened. Prior to the massive spending outlays of government assistance programs, poverty was declining. The "Great Society" spending spree actually had a negative impact by reducing the incentives to work and misallocating capital resources by taking it out of the private economy where it could have been invested in new products and services, thereby creating new jobs.
As is often said: "we declared a war on poverty and poverty won". Sadly, had the government not intervened, the poverty rate would likely have continued it's downward spiral at a substantially higher rate.
Links:
Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It.
Claim: Republicans are authoritarians and seek to impose their will upon us forcibly.
Reality: The inconvenient fact is that all authoritarians are on the left. The left embraces Statism, the subordination of the individual to the state (they claim for the general “good”). The right believes in individual liberty and limited-government and, therefore, resists authoritarians.
The 2020 pandemic crisis chillingly revealed the hypocrisy of the left as Democrats exploited the situation to impose their power over people’s lives in multiple ways. Here are a few examples amongst many more: Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan banned people from visiting with friends, taking trips to vacation homes, barred businesses from selling certain items including gardening seeds as well as other draconian decrees. In California a lone paddle boarder was arrested. Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles warned businesses if they did not follow his lockdown orders strictly they could have their water and power turned off. But perhaps the most egregious was Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s urging of people to spy and snitch on others not following his orders. He also approved of the use of drones to spy on and warn people. These measures are right out of the playbook of the communist secret police of the former East Germany, the Stasi.
In countries such as China where the left are in total power, some people have been welded into their homes and in some cases chained to poles and threateningly lectured front wearing masks.
The left says “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste” (Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel), and their rational is clear: It affords them an opportunity to impose greater power over the lives of individuals and irreversibly expand the size of government.
Rahm Emanuel reprises 'never let a crisis go to waste' catchphrase amid coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rahm-emanuel-reprises-never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste-catchphrase-amid-coronavirus-pandemic
Michigan’s Draconian Lockdown Provokes a Backlash.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/michigans-draconian-lockdown-provokes-a-backlash-11587163325?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=18
Corona Virus overreach.
https://youtu.be/HuzPrhnaiYE
https://youtu.be/zDCVf0_FY3Q
DeBlasio Urges People to Snitch.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/de-blasio-snitch-social-distancing/
The Left as Ultimate Hypocrites - During the Covid-19 pandemic, Democrat Governors and Mayors imposed Draconian lockdowns threatening people with jail (and in some cases following through with it) for not adhering to social-distancing rules. However, the massive protests and subsequent looting and vandalism, following the George Floyd tragedy, which flagrantly broke the guidelines were deemed acceptable because of the social “importance” of the events. Thus, the Democrats demonize people for wanting to go back to work, visiting their vacation homes, engaging in friendly, safe socializing, but praise and defend those who break the rules protesting in the name of "Social Justice" despite it leading to looting, vandalizing, brutal attacks, murder and general mayhem. Where is the justice in that?
Links:
The Party of Science (When They Feel Like It)
George Floyd protests: NYC mayor Bill de Blasio ‘proud’ of daughter after she is arrested
‘Not the Same Question’: De Blasio Says Businesses, Churches to Remain Closed Even as Demonstrators Flout Lockdowns
Democrat Hypocrisy: Coronavirus Stay-at-Home Protests Bad; Antifa, Anti-cop, Anti-white Riots Okay
Democrats' Hypocrisy on Riots Reveals Political Nature of Coronavirus Lockdowns
Federal Judge Rules Cuomo, De Blasio Exceeded Authority by Restricting Religious Services While Condoning Protests
Claim: We are the environmentalists and our policies protect the environment!
Reality: The policies of the Democrat party have had a devastatingly negative impact on the environment as well as human flourishing.
In order to meet aggressive goals of becoming 100% reliant on “renewables”, California Democrats have funneled much needed funding for electrical grid maintenance into solar and wind. Yet solar and wind, being unreliable, dilute forms of energy require great swaths of land. Wind turbines kill enormous numbers of endangered birds of prey every year and wind solar fans destroy the local ecologies and endangered species they displace.
If the Democrats were serious about reducing CO2 emissions, they would allow construction of more Nuclear Power plants, yet they are instead closing down the last two nuclear plants in the state.
Nuclear power is energy dense, takes up a tiny fraction of land compared to Solar and Wind, has no harmful emissions, does not release CO2, and is the safest form of energy. The fact they do not consider Nuclear and the fact that elimination of all California CO2 emissions would have a negligible effect on overall global CO2 levels and climate, indicates they are not really serious about their stated goals and are simply bowing to the “environmental” special interest groups that fund their campaigns.
Democrats have also caved to “Environmentalist’s” demands to stop forest and brush land management in favor of letting “nature do her thing”. As a result, dead trees and brush are not removed and controled burns not allowed. On average, forests now have 10 times more trees. Therefore, they are drier because a larger number of trees are competing for the same amount of water. In addition, small fires are put out, thus, preventing low intesity fires from clearing out the smaller shrubs and trees near the forest floors allowing them to accumulate.
Because of the unbounded growth of trees and brush, the fuel load for fires in California has grown exponentially. And since the vegetation is drier, fires ignite more easily and burn more ferociously. These conditions have been made made possible by the “environmentalists”, like the Sierra Club.
The devastating California wildfires of 2020 were a direct consequence of these failing and inept “environmental” policies. Nearly 100 people were killed in November of 2018 and the town of Paradise, California was wiped off the map due to the failure of a transmission line that was 100 years old. Officials knew of the problem, but failed to act because of funding priorities dictated by the “renewables” mandates.
Links:
“Wired to Fail”
California’s Disastrous Forest Mismanagement
What California’s Forest Fires and Financial Crises Have in Common
California’s Power Problems Are Self-Inflicted
Book:
“Apocalypse Never” by Michael Shellenberger
Claim: Billionaires support Republicans. We rely on grass roots support from the people.
Reality: This is a grand myth that is so ludicrous, Democrats have become less vocal in making this claim. Virtually all well known Billionaires are firmly on the left. A short list contains all the well-known Billionaires: Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Tom Steyer and so on. Most are Democrats and actively support their campaigns. In September, 2020 Billionaire Michael Bloomberg dedicated $100,000,000 to the Democrats in the State of Florida.
The Koch Brothers (Charles and his late brother David) are the exception to the general rule of billionaires supporting the Democrats. They support Economic Freedom education and initiatives. For their efforts, leftist mobs, such as “Un-Koch My Campus” shut them down.
-The Trashing of George Mason University
Claim: Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 Presidential election.
Reality: In fact the Democratic National Committee & Hillary Clinton’s campaign were the ones to colluded to generate false and damaging reports about Trump in order to influence the election in her favor. Once Trump won the election the false allegations were used to bring down his presidency. The subsequent Democrat-driven Mueller Investigation which dragged on for two years spent and wasted tens of billions of tax-payer dollars.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/hillary-clinton-orchestrated-russia-collusion-farce/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-russians-and-the-fbi-1508971759
Another noteworthy example of ’inverted truth’ was revealed when key Democrat, Eric Swalwell, one of President Trump’s key accusers during the Russia Collusion investigation, was outed for having an affair with a Chinese spy.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor-joecks/victor-joecks-the-spy-sex-scandal-the-media-isnt-interested-in-2213122/
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/chinese-spy-worked-as-fundraiser-for-eric-swalwell/
Claim: In the Summer of 2021 Democrats launched a propaganda polemic against the recall effort of Gavin Newsom in California as an "undemocratic" power grab by Republicans, Trump supporters, and people supporting and instigating the Capitol riots. They claim the effort will reverse all the "progress" the democrats have made in recent years.
Reality: This propaganda is so laughable that if people actually believe it, we deserve the continued devastation wrought by corrupt, power-hungry, incompetent, leftist politicians.
Firstly, the recall process is a legal method of removing a sitting governor and is specified in the California Constitution.
Secondly California ascended to its greatness, economically under the auspices of Republican leadership and legislative influence during the 1960s-90s. It's decline has been rapid and alarming with the ascendence of the Democrat Super Majority in the late 2000s and negligible influence by Republican leadership.
Trying to smear Republicans with the Capitol riot is another typical leftist tactic. Investigation of the event showed it was spontaneous, unplanned and unorganized. It was conducted by a small fraction of the many thousands of peaceful, patriotic individuals showing support for American values and the sitting President that day. Instead the reality is that it was Democrats and their supporters that conducted violent riots the previous Summer that resulted in billions of dollars worth of damage, looting, vandalism, fires and dozens of deaths. Democrat politicians implicitly and sometimes explicitly supported the riots by bailing out those arrested, verbal support and threats of more rioting (for example those made by Kamala Harris in June of 2020).
Here is a short list of problems caused by Democrats in California, prompting the Recall effort:
-Failing schools
-crumbling infrastructure
-Highest taxes
-highest unemployment
-highest cost-of-living
-Hostile business climate
-Crippling punitive regulations and fees
-Widest gap between rich and poor
-Burning forests due to non-existent forest management that was shut down by the Green lobby
-lawless streets
-Record numbers of homeless (50% or more of US homeless)
-Unaffordable housing
-Water rationing
-electricity blackouts
-1/3 of US welfare recipients
-highest level of poverty in US
-$11 billion worth of unemployment fraud much of went to criminals In 2020
-Taxpayer payouts to undocumented non citizens who pay no taxes
-stonewalling publication of public union salaries and promoting Docksin in the uncovering of personal address as the names of people who donate to the Republican Party
-Refusal to build and bolster dam systems to meet demand levels. Allowing the rain to be lost to the ocean and implementing draconian water rationing and doxing people publicly who use water levels above that which is “fair”.
-Dismantling and closing the remaining Nuclear power plants which provide the cleanest, richest and safest form of energy, all carbon free.
-The conveyance of $19 B of tax payers dollars to convicted criminals in 2020.
-in 2021, 73,000 criminals were released early, 63,000 of them were violent offenders.
-California which is 12% of the US population has 25% of the government funded unions.
Assessing the truth should be as simple as seeing where people are fleeing from (Democrat-run states) and where they are fleeing to (Republican-run states).
(More to come!)