Democrats and their elite handlers should take a lesson from the Cold War. Reagan bragged about “Star Wars” space weapons and created an ever increasing war of military spending build up that eventually crashed the old Soviet Union.
You can fund CNN, MSNBC to the tune of tens of millions spreading propaganda and lies, you can flood Twitter with paid operatives to Tweet negative content about the opposition, you can fund the “Politicos”, the “Atlantics”, and other far Left websites losing money for years creating an echo chamber of lies.
But at some point the message will become stale, the audience will grow tired and jaded, and a crash will occur.
The only thing propping up all the lies and outlets that echo and parrot the DNC talking points now is the revolving door of corruption in funding a Ukraine, with absolutely zero accountability on the cash, where some large percentage is funneled back to the dark money groups that fund all the lies.
If the American people would ever wake up to the fact the point of the funding of these foreign entanglements is to create a flow of cash back into Democrat coffers so they can continue their reign, the spigot will be turned off.
While the scam is exactly the same circle of corruption that runs Chicago, where Democrats in power vote tax dollars to the Teachers Unions, and other city employees in fat pensions and perks, and in turn all the Democrats in those unions and state and city government positions then both tithe cash to the coffers of Democrats and vote the straight Democrat ticket, eventually Illinois is going to run out of money. Their only hope to cover the pension bomb coming is if a Democrat administration is in power to bail them all out.
The difference is that in Chicago voters benefit from the corruption in larger pensions, pay, and vacation days. With the Ukraine scam the money flows to media, and Democrat campaigns. The “real people” don’t benefit. Unless they work for a defense contractor, a campaign, or the media.
The message is growing stale now because the lies have become too far from peoples lived reality. The things said by Democratic politicians aren’t just wrong, they are the polar opposite of what people are experiencing in their daily lives.
At this point the claim that crime is down as cities become unlivable, that inflation is under control when prices keep rising, and rising, and that the idea of experiencing four more years of a Trump Presidency would be an “existential threat to us all”, when we had four years of a Trump Presidency and didn’t suffer an apocalypse, the message is becoming too unbelievable to bear, even for some of the more moderate Democrats who would never, ever vote Republican.
Media can fire Don Lemon, they can fire Tucker Carlson, and try to keep the message on target, the message that allows them to maintain power and control, but at this point people are starting to see through the subterfuge. Slowly, but it is happening.
The Left is going to find it takes more, and more dollars to keep the flock in the fold.
Another problem is that after some twenty years of selling “intersectionality”, the connections and threads between the disparate groups fighting for a seat at the table are coming loose. Blacks who saw DEI as their ticket to jump to the front of the line are hopping mad as the new illegal immigrants who just arrived are showered with government benefits. They, Black America, are used to getting the gift cards, hand-outs, Obama-phones, free housing, and government hand-outs. It is a slap in the face when they go to their local rec center only to find migrants littering all spaces.
At the other end of the “intersectionality” spectrum Jewish voters, long the leading advocates of Liberalism, and Progresssivism, see a Democratic contingent giving full-throated support to Palestinians and their cause, and disrupting campus life across the country, threatening the comfort of Jewish college students everywhere, well, the very dependable, very reliable, Progressive Jewish vote is at play now, perhaps for the first time in history. In light of a shrinking pile of government hand-out cash, and more and more diverse groups vying for a front seat and large pay-out, it is going to be difficult for Democrats to “herd the cats” toward the ballot box as usual.
Some are waking up. A hard hat worker famously says “Fuck Joe Biden” in an interview in blue New York. Some Jews interviewed over the campus conflicts over the war in the mid-East express a concern about the party they’ve always supported. There are meetings in reliably blue Chicago where citizens question the alderman as to how there is no city money for them, but apparently plenty for the illegals.
This message of “Republicans are evil” is beginning to lose steam. Some on the Left recall lower gas prices under Trump, low inflation costs, and someone who at least gave lip service to closing the border. Today the border problem under Democrats goes unnoticed. As a flood of buses pull into Chicago, New York, St. Paul, Democrat strongholds all. And local Democratic voters notice.
There will come a point, there has to come a point, where all the graft and corruption of money flowing to the dark money groups, the Lincoln Projects on the right, the Soros tax free PAC’s on the left, that the money spent doesn’t fulfill the intended result. The ears will fall deaf to the message.
At some point even the ridiculously naive and frankly stupid stupid single women between twenty-on and forty Hell bent on being a single issue voter in abortion will come to realize the game being played on them by Democrats, not Republicans. They will realize that Democrats had fifty plus years to codify Roe V Wade, they had all three branches under Democratic control, the House, Senate, and White House, at various times and did nothing. Because having abortion as a cudgel to rouse single women is more important to Democrats than passing a law to give women “bodily autonomy” once and for all.
The abortion issue is like the “paint issue” in little Baltimore politics of my youth. Along one tributary down below Baltimore paint plants line the waterway. And mixing paint can be a toxic endeavor. Particularly mixing it along a waterway where run-off can be problematic. So one enterprising politician representing the area used to take a bill threatening the paint companies with legislation requiring them to “clean up” their act down to the executives in charge of the paint plants. And so the paint companies would pour money into his re-election campaign and the bill he was going to propose in Annapolis stayed inside his desk drawer. Until the next election cycle when he would pull out the written bill and blackmail the paint companies all over again. I’ll propose this bill into legislation, unless of course you’d like to write generous checks to see that I am re-elected.
Democrats are running the same exact scam on single women in America and they are too naive, or too stupid to see it.
Campaign on the truth you can run a race forever absent a backlash.
Campaign on lies and misinformation and at some point the message has to crash on deaf ears. Certainly a percentage of the American electorate are absolute fools, see the two previous paragraphs about single women voters in America. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
And our mainstream media, and the Democrats, are tying to do just that. Using both the elites cash as well as the siphoned dollars coming back from the corrupt Ukraine funding. Even funding Israel leads to AIPAC funds flowing back into Democratic coffers. All foreign aid is suspect.
At some point the Democrats will crater. They have to, a house of lies cannot stand.
Until then America will descend, and decline. That goes hand-in-hand with electing prevaricators.
Let’s hope the flow of money begins to lose it’s message impact. And the money is ill spent, thrown down a rat hole where no one listens to the echo anymore.
And we can all return to some semblance of sanity.
Do you think?