The State of the Democrat party.

Posted by Pointman on February 8, 2019 · 20 Comments 

In the ordinary way of things the annual State of the Union address given by the President is usually a fairly bland and predictable event in the congressional calendar. With the advent of Trump though, it’s become unmissable political theatre. Whatever your personal opinion of him, there’s no doubt he’s a very capable businessman who’s put the American economy back on its feet. Because of that, America is booming, which gives him a lot of good news to report.

Things like unemployment reaching unheard of lows and industries not only coming back to life, but booming after they’d been confidently assured by so-called experts for years that they and the jobs they provided were never coming back. In the pre-Trump era, if announcing that sort of good news for the nation, it would have been almost unpatriotic not to stand and applaud, no matter which side of the aisle you sat, but not nowadays.

It’s the most visible demonstration of the far-left takeover of the Democrat party, a sort of dog-in-manger huff at being voted out of power that been going on for over two years. It doesn’t matter if the news is good or bad for the nation, what really matters is point scoring and that’s to be done by remaining resolutely seated and not clapping, or behaving in various juvenile ways to show their disrespect for the occasion. The sight of the black Democrat caucus remaining resolutely seated while historically low black and Hispanic unemployment numbers are being announced says a lot for how out of touch they are with what that means to the people they’re supposed to be representing.

It is a tradition of the event that just before it, the President holds a strictly “off the record” dinner where he briefs the political opposition about the broad outlines of what’s going to be in his speech. It’s a traditional courtesy meant to give them time to formulate a considered response. Never before has the contents of the President’s confidential briefing been so thoroughly leaked before he addressed Congress.

In terms of respect for both the office and the occasion, it set the tone for the Dems behaviour for the rest of the day. If Trump can’t trust the most senior members of the opposition to honour the confidentiality of the meeting, it would be best to discontinue the practice in the light of such abuse.

There were two impressions to be taken away from watching the actual address, and they were both disturbingly creepy but in different ways. The first was an obviously imposed uniformity in the visuals. Since they couldn’t very well interrupt the address, they decided instead to stage some kind of quasi-military North Korean protest – stand or sit together, clap or don’t clap together or show approval or sulk together. It was obviously intended to show absolute party uniformity and obedience, but in a country that prides itself on self-reliance and independence of thought, it looked hideously out-of-place.

The women dressed in all white clothes – designer white outfits well out of the reach of the ordinary working woman they were supposed to be representing. Somebody, somewhere thought it was a really great idea but in the usual Democrat tradition, they had to be totally ignorant of their party’s history of founding the KKK to keep blacks, browns and anyone else they disliked down – ize looking at y’all Papists and Jews etc. The last time that number of democrats visiting Washington DC all dressed in white was back in 1925 for a Democrat convention.

 

 

I suppose they can be forgiven a little bit of nostalgia for the good old days when dem uppity niggas and others of their ilk knew their place, and only got work at the discretion of the massa of the plantation. The reason symbolism so often backfires is because the message intended to be conveyed is always at the mercy of the subjective meaning it has for the recipient of it. The other point about the wardrobe malfunction, which was equally negative, is of Socialist conformity – everybody must dress in the same clothes for party rallies and mass parades.

The problem was it all too often came off like looking like a badly drilled company of soldiers blundering into each other on the parade ground. Their heads were constantly turning from side to side and they were watching everybody around them closely for a clue about what to do next, they looked like those nodding dog ornaments people used to keep on the dash or parcel shelf of their cars. You could see it running through their heads; am I doing the right gesture at the right time. That’s fear the pack will turn on you if you don’t conform.

There is some hope though. One woman, not dressed in uniform, did have the moral courage to stand and applaud something Trump said when the rest sat and scowled. Another lady to her right whispered the words “Watch your ass”. It was commonly interpreted as a threat but to me it looked more like a warning to watch out for the Femnazis in white sitting behind her. To her credit, she continued clapping.

Some of the comments flooding in on Twitter expressed how bad the collective impression was. “They won’t applaud 5 million people lifted off of food stamps. They won’t applaud historically low black unemployment. They won’t applaud historically low Hispanic unemployment”. “The moment when Democrats refuse to applaud not murdering babies. Sums everything up”. That creepy picture of Chuck Schumer smiling as Trump announced measures to protect babies from late-term abortion was the clincher for a lot of people. What on God’s good green Earth was there to smile about?

As I said, there were two creepy impressions to be taken away, and the second one was they were acting like petulant children who didn’t actually know what they wanted but they damn well didn’t want it if Trump was for it. He of course played on that juvenile anger and angst so well by nimbly switching subjects. At times they didn’t know when they were coming or going, or what the hell they should be doing. They got so confused in the end they remained seated, refusing to clap an elderly Jewish woman who’d survived a Nazi concentration camp.

On reflection, perhaps that graceless gesture was deliberate. As with nearly all far-left parties worldwide, their hatred of Jews is by now systemic. It’s usually justified by the fig leaf of anti-Zionism but as Martin Luther King said of anti-Zionism – it’s always the term used by people who just hate Jews. To deliver that insult to an elderly and frail Jewess in front of a full meeting of Congress speaks volumes about how out of touch they are with that everyday generous heart of the average American.

It was to that heart and its most pressing concerns that Trump spoke to when he addressed the initiatives he would pursue in the coming year. The wall would be built despite the resistance of those rich people who lived behind secure walls the ordinary people didn’t have to protect them from MS13 animals. He would introduce legislation to stop late-term abortions and to outlaw what’s euphemistically called post-natal abortions, which actually means killing a living baby after it’s survived an attempted abortion.

Call it what it is – infanticide.

On these and other fundamental issues like getting 5 million people off food stamps and back into the work pool, they sat in protest with their arms crossed like a baby in a high chair who’s having a world-class sulk. That sort of infantile behaviour may go down extremely well with a fawning media and in the stylish tofu-nibbling circles they move in, but I can’t see it delivering a mass Democrat vote in 2020.

Even after the event, the self-harm impulse of the party continued with one of their congress women threatening a 16yo on Twitter. After their disaster over enthusiastically supporting infanticide, the feeding frenzy aimed at the Covington kids and complete disregard for the basic security concerns of the American people – which part of take your foot off the gas don’t they understand?

Unlike them, Trump played the occasion, and their truculence, beautifully. In terms of both optics and policy proposals, he was far and away the big winner. The polls after the address, even if broadcast between gritted teeth by a chronically liberal media, show a big win for Trump. The percentage of political affiliations of those who watched were 43% Republican, 24% Democrat and 30% Independent, and their respective approval percentages were 97%, 30% and a massive 82% for Independents. In simplistic terms, a CBS news poll came up with a 76% versus 24% approval rating of what they heard.

Unlike the Democrats who’re still shaping policies for the smaller and smaller niches of identity politics that itself looks increasingly out-dated, Trump’s message is playing to a bigger audience, and increasingly that audience is drawing in people from the demographics that used to form the power base of the Democrat party.

©Pointman

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