Pat Buchanan’s most recent article, Are Biden Democrats Holding A Losing Hand? offers some pretty straightforward political analysis. Buchanan looks at the issues that are topping the list for voters and concludes that the Dems have a losing hand. Buchanan identifies four leading issues—each one of which is a festering sore that will almost certainly worsen over the coming months:
I wonder if stoking the culture wars isn’t going to turn off a wide swath of Karens (and Karens without kids), along with other “ liberal elites” - I’m thinking of family and friends on both coasts in all kinds of professions (from digital marketing, law, archivist, biotech, humanities professor and…journalist). These are all Biden voters, all went along with masks and vaxxes, but all are conservative culturally. I would think they’d not be at all in favor of the CRT indoctrination, and all the other aberrant sexual deviations…they all have families, albeit some have no children. So I just throw that out for speculation…how these real conservatives can possibly vote for the far, narcissistic, nihilistic Left?
Economy - border - crime - Ukraine. Yes. Yet I am surprised that so many people have fallen for the Ukraine "wagging the dog" operation. I spoke with a financial advisor yesterday who blamed Putin for throwing a curve ball into the prospects for the U.S. markets and economy. No mention of Biden's actions and their effects prior to the special operation whatsoever. No mention of the Billions of dollars of military equipment our government has provided to further the killing and the profit. How can we even challenge the talking points of the media and the societal institutions, much less replace them? That is very troubling to me and also a reason I am thankful for the few people such as Mark offering alternative (and true) narratives.
Jeff Childers has a good point in today's article. Since extended quotes seem to be the coin of the realm here, I'll just paste it in:
The actual gist of the decision is: usually, whenever the Court finds a new IMPLIED right in the Constitution, as opposed to an explicit right, it is very careful and cautious. Normally, decisions finding implied rights look back through history to prove that the particular right has always been recognized to exist under the common law. But in Roe v. Wade, the Court bypassed that traditional analysis and blithely overlooked the fact that a right to abortion has never been historically recognized; in fact, just the opposite, it’s generally been criminalized.
So, Roe v. Wade essentially did the OPPOSITE of what the Court always carefully does when finding an implied right. Instead of merely recognizing a long-observed right, the original Roe decision REVERSED an historic antipathy toward abortion. In other words, the draft decision explains that Roe v. Wade created a brand-new right, which is not the Court’s role, but should have been reserved to Congress.
Ultimately all the Roe Draft would do is defer the decision over abortion to the federal government and the states. Since Dems control the White House and the House of Representatives, and narrowly control the Senate, they could conceivably pass a new law anytime. The vaccine mandates prove the Biden Administration is not shy about issuing questionable executive orders, so Biden could possibly order an abortion mandate pre-empting state laws anytime he wants.
If you are strongly pro-choice, remember that Democrats COULD pass federal abortion protections anytime — they could’ve already done it — but, I predict they will NOT pass any such law, because they prefer to use the issue as a political catalyst. Instead, they’ll complain about Republican obstructionism and whine that voters need to give them even bigger majorities in Congress.
The dems will never pass federal abortion protections. If they did, they would no longer be able to manipulate the useful idiots who make up their base. The same holds true for student loans. It’s all so predictable.
I will add to this that republicans are no better and also love to trot out the issues that energize conservatives. I love the example that DeSantis is setting for what I hope becomes the standard for conservative leadership.
Yes indeed the culture war seems to be heating up, 30 years ago Buchanan spoke about it at the RNC. Somebody needs to whisper this in Greg Abbots ear: Stop taking advice from Dave Carney, watch and emulate Ron DeSantis instead.
I wonder if stoking the culture wars isn’t going to turn off a wide swath of Karens (and Karens without kids), along with other “ liberal elites” - I’m thinking of family and friends on both coasts in all kinds of professions (from digital marketing, law, archivist, biotech, humanities professor and…journalist). These are all Biden voters, all went along with masks and vaxxes, but all are conservative culturally. I would think they’d not be at all in favor of the CRT indoctrination, and all the other aberrant sexual deviations…they all have families, albeit some have no children. So I just throw that out for speculation…how these real conservatives can possibly vote for the far, narcissistic, nihilistic Left?
I'm willing to believe that that's the direction events are moving.
Economy - border - crime - Ukraine. Yes. Yet I am surprised that so many people have fallen for the Ukraine "wagging the dog" operation. I spoke with a financial advisor yesterday who blamed Putin for throwing a curve ball into the prospects for the U.S. markets and economy. No mention of Biden's actions and their effects prior to the special operation whatsoever. No mention of the Billions of dollars of military equipment our government has provided to further the killing and the profit. How can we even challenge the talking points of the media and the societal institutions, much less replace them? That is very troubling to me and also a reason I am thankful for the few people such as Mark offering alternative (and true) narratives.
Jeff Childers has a good point in today's article. Since extended quotes seem to be the coin of the realm here, I'll just paste it in:
The actual gist of the decision is: usually, whenever the Court finds a new IMPLIED right in the Constitution, as opposed to an explicit right, it is very careful and cautious. Normally, decisions finding implied rights look back through history to prove that the particular right has always been recognized to exist under the common law. But in Roe v. Wade, the Court bypassed that traditional analysis and blithely overlooked the fact that a right to abortion has never been historically recognized; in fact, just the opposite, it’s generally been criminalized.
So, Roe v. Wade essentially did the OPPOSITE of what the Court always carefully does when finding an implied right. Instead of merely recognizing a long-observed right, the original Roe decision REVERSED an historic antipathy toward abortion. In other words, the draft decision explains that Roe v. Wade created a brand-new right, which is not the Court’s role, but should have been reserved to Congress.
Ultimately all the Roe Draft would do is defer the decision over abortion to the federal government and the states. Since Dems control the White House and the House of Representatives, and narrowly control the Senate, they could conceivably pass a new law anytime. The vaccine mandates prove the Biden Administration is not shy about issuing questionable executive orders, so Biden could possibly order an abortion mandate pre-empting state laws anytime he wants.
If you are strongly pro-choice, remember that Democrats COULD pass federal abortion protections anytime — they could’ve already done it — but, I predict they will NOT pass any such law, because they prefer to use the issue as a political catalyst. Instead, they’ll complain about Republican obstructionism and whine that voters need to give them even bigger majorities in Congress.
(more at https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-wednesday-may-4 )
The dems will never pass federal abortion protections. If they did, they would no longer be able to manipulate the useful idiots who make up their base. The same holds true for student loans. It’s all so predictable.
I will add to this that republicans are no better and also love to trot out the issues that energize conservatives. I love the example that DeSantis is setting for what I hope becomes the standard for conservative leadership.
Yes indeed the culture war seems to be heating up, 30 years ago Buchanan spoke about it at the RNC. Somebody needs to whisper this in Greg Abbots ear: Stop taking advice from Dave Carney, watch and emulate Ron DeSantis instead.
From one Texan to another, I couldn’t agree more!
If, only....... he and many others.