Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
The Democratic Party does not want to close the door to voting on migrants who broke our laws to get here and do not belong here, as these illegals would likely vote for pro-amnesty Democrats.
In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College.
Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it is today for California Republicans, and to convert the GOP into America’s permanent minority party.
In the Golden State, Democrats control the governors’ chair, every elective state office, both U.S. Senate seats, 46 of 53 U.S. House seats and three-fourths of each house of the state legislature in Sacramento.
How does the left expect to permanently dispossess Middle America?
Let us count the ways.
In 2018, over 60 percent of Floridians voted to expand the electorate by restoring voting rights to 1.5 million ex-cons, all of Florida’s felons except those convicted of sex crimes and murder.
Florida gave Bush his razor-thin victory over Al Gore. Should Trump lose Florida in 2020, he is a one-term president. If the GOP loses Florida indefinitely, the presidency is probably out of reach indefinitely.
Florida’s Amendment 4 is thus a great leap forward in the direction in which the republic is being taken. Gov. Terry McAuliffe of the swing state of Virginia restored voting rights to 156,000 felons by executive order in 2016, calling it his “proudest achievement.”
In California and Oregon, moves are afoot to reduce the voting age to 17 or 16. Understandable, as high schoolers are more enthusiastic about socialism.
Last week, a bold attempt was made by House Democrats to lower the U.S. voting age to 16. It failed — this time.
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Some House Democrats apparently feel that with “Medicare-for-all” and the Green New Deal of Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez on the table, they have enough progressive legislation to satisfy the socialist base.
Thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown, every adult citizen in California who gets or renews a driver’s license, gets a state ID card, or fills out a change of address form with the Department of Motor Vehicles is automatically registered to vote. Purpose: expand voter rolls to include those who have shown no interest in politics, so they can be located on Election Day and bused to the polls.
Ari Berman of Mother Jones writes that Nancy Pelosi’s 700-page For the People Act that did pass the House contains “a slew of measures designed to expand voting rights, which … include nationwide automatic voter registration, Election Day registration, two weeks of early voting in every state … restoration of voting rights for ex-felons, and declaring Election Day a federal holiday.”
House Republicans offered an amendment to the bill with language that said, “allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.”
All but six Democrats voted against the GOP proposal.
The Democratic Party does not want to close the door to voting on migrants who broke our laws to get here and do not belong here, as these illegals would likely vote for pro-amnesty Democrats.
If the new U.S. electorate of, say, 2024, includes tens of millions of new voters — 16- and 17-year-olds; illegal migrants; ex-cons; new legal immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America who vote 70 to 90 percent Democratic, the political future of America has already been determined.
California, here we come.
As a Democratic insurance policy, Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen has introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College.
Some Republicans support statehood for Puerto Rico, which would add six electoral votes that would go Democratic in presidential elections about as often as Washington, D.C.’s three have, which is always.
Ben Franklin told the lady in Philadelphia, “We have a republic, if you can keep it.” Our elites today, however, ceaselessly celebrate “our democracy.”
Yet John Adams was not optimistic about such a political system: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”
Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong believer in a “natural aristocracy” among men, was contemptuous: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”
Madison wrote in Federalist 10, “democracies … have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
If one day not far off, as seems probable, tax consumers achieve a permanent hegemony over the nation’s taxpayers, and begin to impose an equality of result that freedom rarely delivers, the question of who should choose the nation’s rulers will be tabled anew.
We do not select NFL coaches or corporate executives or college professors or generals or admirals by plebiscite. What is the empirical evidence that this is the best way to choose a president or commander in chief?
Peoples are wondering that the world over, as our democracy does not appear to be an especially attractive stock.
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Change is inevitable:
“The 2020 electorate will be the most diverse yet…One-third of all eligible voters will be nonwhite — a new high — driven by younger voters aging into the electorate for the first time and older voters aging out.”
“Immigration is also a factor, with 10 percent of potential voters expected to have been born abroad, up from 6 percent in 2000.”
“Millennials will make up…27 percent, while Generation X will make up 25 percent, Baby Boomers 28 percent, and the Silent Generation (those born before 1946) and older 9 percent.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/2020-electorate-will-be-least-white-most-diverse-ever-n964776
The “emerging democratic majority” has been the Left’s working thesis for 15+ years. And yet, depending upon how you count Hispanics (and how some of them see themselves), whites are 72% of the electorate. And the older, whiter folks vote at a higher rate. Surprisingly, “you are being replaced, fucker” has not been a convincing slogan for the Left. Mississippi has a high minority population, but the conservatives win the elections because the whites – no Scandinavians there – are under no illusions about how the diversity views them.
The will of the people no linger has a place. It is now all about subverting the will of the people so as to grab power. Anything goes – illegal voters, disqualified voters, outright voter fraud, change the electoral college rules – anything goes.
I need a lamp so that I might seek an honest man in this political darkness. But I fear the lamp is too dim, the darkness too deep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWBTEngjktA
I don’t get it. It’s like really, really bad karaoke of songs you’ve never heard and will never hum along to after you’ve heard it. How did that wind up being a career?
About the only good Jewish musician is Judas Priest, man that guy can rock.
Because. Listen to this.
https://www.grammy.com/grammys/videos/leonard-cohen-lifetime-achievement-award-acceptance
Some people just seem very real and genuine. Like you. Like Stuckenheimer. Like Admin. Others. If you wonder if you are one, it isn’t you and just because you are one doesn’t mean you aren’t an asshole I don’t speak to anymore.
Some people are engaging, believable and tolerable due to valid opinions based on life experiences I’ve not had. I find their opinions to be valid and valuable to me. That does not mean I find them genuine.
Leonard and the others referenced above come across to some of us as both real and genuine. Leonard, though, speaks to us from a dark and guttural place down deep inside where bobbers of blinding joy are tossed around in a river of anguish.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but Leonard’s voice and his words make me tingle. Chill bumps and shivers because of the images he manages to paint in his tower of song. Well, those of us who was born this way back when we heard that voice, thought he must be the sexiest man alive, saw him and decided the one we were with could play that song on his stereo for us.
I think if I ended up sitting next to him somewhere, he’d be a neat guy to talk to. He might work me into a song if I could tell him enough rabbit and goat stories.
Folks like kd lang. I like this one. Obvious reason.
Too hip for the room.
Different drummers and all that jazz.
Hey Pat, it’s about time. Now take the next logical step and STOP FUCKING VOTING.
There’s a difference between not expecting voting to solve everything and thinking there’s no point at all in voting. If voting didn’t matter at all, there wouldn’t have been $2 billion spent in the last presidential election, and the Dems wouldn’t be importing replacement voters from South of the Border. You don’t think they actually LIKE those people, do you? I enjoy lining up to vote – secretly knowing I’m cancelling out at least one of the left-wing fuckers around me. Now, if you can convince Marsh Rabbit not to vote, I fully support that.
I didn’t ever say voting doesn’t matter. It matters a great deal to TPTB. They need your participation to keep the scam going. I’m sure they worry that we non-voters out number both repo and dummo voters. Further, each side of the 2 party duopoly fights hard to control the government because that’s who decides where the loot gets spread around. But never think you’ll get any of it. You voted for trump because he was going to build the (fucking) wall and Mexico was going to pay for it, prosecute Killery, end chain migration, end the wars to make israel safe, eliminate the national debt and tax wall street. Didn’t that work out well?
Your one man banzai charge to negate one dummo vote is adorable. Texas and Florida will be soon be blue states and then this democracy will crash and burn like all the others throughout history and become a dictatorship.
Vote, my ass.
Deblasio got 4% of eligible voters in the primary and won. Tell me how letting 4% of New Yuckers install ruinous communist filth in the Mayor’s office as a result of 90% failing to vote in the primary is noble, or bright, or anything but fucked up in extremis?
I’m not sure what’s the biggest waste of effort; voting repo in nyc or voting dummo. It just doesn’t fucking matter. You KNOW what the outcome is going to be.
Voting has nothing to do with practicality. It’s a matter of faith; you were told to do your civic duty (by those who profit thereby) since you were a child and you can’t get past it emotionally.
So go vote. It just doesn’t fucking matter.
Did you get any of that money? When was the last time you voted for or against anyone who won or lost by one vote?
You happy with what you got now? If so, you’re pretty clueless.
Voting is a waste of time. It has been ever since the Fabian Socialists infiltrated all of our institutions while we sat with our thumbs up our collective ass and LET IT HAPPEN.
Rivers of blood is the only thing that has a prayer of fixing this.
HA HA HA! LOL!
That’s the spirit!
Show me the fat lady. Just one for goodness sakes.
When the Demon-crats put forth bills that have been stopped in the past, they attempt (and often achieve) victory by cheating, “tallying” newly found ballots, or placing the Black Panthers outside voting sites. I’m not sure there is a way of stopping the cheating, lying, lawlessness of that corrupt party. 2020 will be the tell-tale sign of when, not if, this country will collapse
Just listen to 30 seconds of this clip. I mean it’s like, like whatever, unbelievable, you know what I mean….
https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-sxsw-you-know-whatever-you-know-montage
Greed.
Buchanan makes good points, and of course, in the long run, demographics is destiny, but there is another view: having controlled the House for 40+ years, the Dems lost it in 1994. It took them 12 years to regain it, and they lost control only four years later. After eight more years in the minority, and with a wave of GOP retirements, Pelosi retook her gavel in 2018. If the youthful crazies refuse to listen to Pelosi’s considerable political wisdom, Dems could be out on their asses again after only two years. Banning cars and hamburgers and pissing off the Jews may not be the best approach, no matter how many likes you get on Twitter.
Look at those lifeless eyes. The only light is reflected.
Isaiah 3:12;
‘As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.’
What’s not to like, you know?
(Setting a new standard for political rhetoric and oratory)
I hope you got to see the video “ordo ab chao” put up on the Schlichter column comments yesterday. I believe it to be true. She and two other Justice Democrats are actresses who auditioned to run for Congress. This group backed 26 candidates and seven won, but Cortez and two others are figureheads who are doing a performance as congress critters. Cortez’ “chief of staff” is an Indian tech millionaire who is a devotee of some Indian revolutionary from the WW2 era and believed India needed to adopt a blend of National Socialism (NAZI) and Communism.
Definitely in the realm of truth is stranger than fiction. There was a lot of corroborating evidence based on what the puppet masters had been saying before she took office and how she is repeating it rote now. These are REALLY FUQUEING BAD PEOPLE! I hope admin will take a look at it and perhaps post it in stand alone fashion as I am sure it got little exposure before the article slipped to page two.
Next guy called into a Congressional hearing, where this millennial retard gets to grill him and ask stern questions with those speech patterns…
He ought to toss respect away, bust out laughing, and just shake his head from side to side.
Then, just issue the standard: “I don’t understand. Can you repeat the question?”
…then laugh a 2nd time, turn to counsel at his side, and ask him or her if they have any idea what the representative is questioning or stating…audibly, so the cameras capture it all, and expose this ditz for the hapless fraud she is. Moron.
Like, fetch us another round, Alexa. We’re parched over here. Thirsty.
Bring us some peanuts, too.
And bring a bar towel, & wipe down our table, will ya?
Without the MSM and voter fraud, Democrats would never win another election.
We’re mostly being dispossessed by extortionate taxation, and it’s being used to fund socialism for the Left’s beloved stupid brown people and the major corporations.
We should be demanding ~$1000 a month in UBI for all American citizens born to American citizen parents, a 1:1 tax credit for all health care expenses, maybe some other free shit we think up later – and the Left’s base can pay for it in some manner.
The GOPe used to demand that government be run like a business. Fine. We should demand our dividend checks.
He’s a Freemason.
So who is to say the Dems won the popular vote? I find it very hard to believe that Hillary won the popular vote when she could not fill a high school gym at one of her rallies. But I do find it believable that the Dems cheated their a***s off by stuffing the ballot boxes. That is a proven fact. So I believe Trump won the popular vote as well. you know I heard initially coming from several Alt media sources, especially after the vote challenge by Jill Steinthat Tump won the pop vote as well. It came out that many votes swung to Trump once the recounts were done. It was also revealed that DeBlasio of NYC, for example, was busing all these illegals to different precincts to vote a multitude of times. But after awhile the general thought repeated was Hillary won the popular vote. I call BS