Imagine for a moment an alternate universe, where a Democrat governor and Democrat state legislature have their state capitol besieged by violent Tea Party protesters (Like I said, alternate universe). Imagine that those protesters agitating for a conservative agenda rushed police trying to secure the capitol; smashed windows; broke doors off hinges; locked other doors from the inside with handcuffs; threatened to disallow legislators into the capitol to do the people’s business; and even sent violent death threats to those Democrat lawmakers. Imagine it.

Imagine that in that alternate universe, the President of the United States openly stood in solidarity with those violent protesters, calling the efforts of that Democrat governor an “attack” on the Tea Party, and commanding his labor secretary to get involved. Imagine that Republican President’s campaign arm mobilizing to bus in those Tea Partiers from all across the country to join in their siege of the state capitol against those Democrats. Imagine it.

Does anyone doubt for a moment that in that alternate universe, a concerted, effective, and accurate effort would not be made by those Democrats to hang the debacle unfolding around the neck of the Republican President? Anyone?

At the very moment that the Wisconsin Democrat senators chose to flee to Illinois rather than do their duty as public servants, Governor Scott Walker had the initiative. It appeared at the outset that he was ready to do what was necessary to not only emerge from the situation with a righteous victory, but to maintain the initiative and public support throughout. But he miscalculated. Gravely.

He refused to play hardball, even though all indications were that the organized effort against him was mobilizing out of his control. He should have known that the Democrats fleeing was simply a stalling tactic to allow the Left to mobilize its demagoguery machine, and he should have known that a Leftist media would be working with the unions against him to shape public opinion.

Walker had choices to make the moment the Democrats fled, and he made many wrong choices. He should have seen what was happening, and immediately pushed the legislature to schedule votes on the entire laundry list of conservative items. Concealed Carry, Voter ID, and Right to Work should have all been advanced. Then he should have rightfully come to the conclusion that was reached yesterday – that the collective bargaining measures in the budget bill needed to be separated out and voted on.

And last but not least, the moment the unions mobilized to swarm the capitol, Scott Walker should have begun a strategy of imploring the President of the United States to call off his union thugs, and stand in solidarity with the democratic process.

But he did none of those things. To his credit, he held the line. But he continued to hope that Democrats and union members would behave like rational human beings. Wasted time. He could have spent that time advancing the peoples’ agenda, and hanging this debacle around the neck of Barack Hussein Obama, the Community Agitator-in-Chief. Now here we are a full three weeks later. The Wisconsin capitol is in disarray, and Republican legislators are being threatened with their very lives. Walker and the Wisconsin GOP will get their way, but at a very high price that never needed to be paid.

This Republican proclivity of always seeking to stand on genteel ground while they are dealing with the Devil has simply GOT to be overcome if this republic is to survive the malevolent intentions of the Left. The GOP can win elections, but it has no political killer instinct when it comes to governing. It has been demonstrated time, and time, and time again that when Republicans assume that Democrats are gentlemen (and ladies) who will respond rationally to Republican overtures and assumptions of best intentions, Republicans – and the American people – are overrun by a Left willing to do anything in service of their agenda.

One of the first things Scott Walker should have done was to understand that when Barack Hussein Obama inserted himself into the situation with commentary, his bureaucracy, and his campaign machine, the President became fair game. Obama provided himself as a perfect tool for Scott Walker, and Walker failed to see it.

Governor Walker, you’ve squandered the initiative for the people of Wisconsin, and I daresay, for the people of the United States. But it’s still not too late to drag the President of the United States into the situation for your benefit. It’s not too late to turn this situation against Obama. Hang the illegal and unethical actions of his union thug supporters around his neck, now. Your state capitol is in disarray, as I type – in lockdown. Call on the President to ask his union thug supporters to back off, go home, and behave like decent human beings in accordance with the will of the people as expressed through the democratic process last November. All it takes is a little imagination to see that if the show was on the other foot, the Democrats would be doing exactly as I propose, to their benefit.

And here’s the bonus governor: You know he won’t do it no matter how much you implore, so the GOP can hold him accountable to the standard you set by asking. (That’s an Alinsky tactic, by the way)

HT: Roy Rogers @ “It’s About Liberty”, a conservative forum, for the idea.

Crossposted at www.itsaboutliberty.com

As I write of double standards in regards to the differential between the establishment Left’s treatment of the Tea Party protests and the recent onslaught of pro-public sector union protests, everyone who I care to receive this message already knows what I’m talking about. Therefore I am not going to bother linking to the multitude of videos of peaceful Tea Party protests or violent union protests that we’ve all seen countless times. I won’t link to the multitude of Leftist lies against the Tea Party, or the multitude of examples of Leftist silence in the face of blatant violence and violent rhetoric coming from the Left. I’m not writing to chronicle this double standard, or convince anyone of its existence, because it’s already established among those to whom I write. And to those who disagree that it is established – move along. You’re disingenuous, and I’m not speaking to you.

Rather, I am writing to share what I believe is an extremely dangerous dynamic that is being created by this double standard, the result of which I believe people could end up getting hurt or killed.

Regardless of what one perceives as the success or failure of the Left’s attempts to portray the Tea Party as perpetually on the edge of violent action, the fact remains that a concerted effort is being made to create that narrative of violence. A legitimate peaceful political movement carrying out its constitutional mandate to redress grievances is being falsely demonized by the President and the Democrat party, major Leftist media, organized labor, Socialist organizations, academia, entertainment, and the Leftist “street”. Never mind at this point whether you believe they are succeeding or failing in that effort. My point is that they are trying, vehemently, desperately to create this narrative in the absence of any evidence whatsoever – truth be damned. The Left, from the President of the United States all the way down to his agitators on the street, are working hard to perpetuate a lie about the nature of resistance to this government’s agenda.

In the union protests of Wisconsin that have subsequently fanned outward to other places, we’ve seen actual violent rhetoric, hate-speech, racism, bullying, and violent actions, repeated over and over again. Exactly the kind of ugly behavior of which the Left falsely accuses the Tea Party has played out almost daily since the unions besieged the Wisconsin state capitol, and that behavior has been repeated in Ohio and elsewhere.

And yet in the face of actual violent rhetoric and actions, these same Leftists – from the President of the United States down to the agitators on the street – are supportive of these activities. Whether through outright rhetorical support, tacitly standing by, or omission, obfuscation, and justification by the media, the Left is engaging in none of the wailing and gnashing of teeth against violence that they’ve repeatedly used against the Tea Party.

It is a given that we have a population roughly split down the political and ideological middle. Now we have one side falsely accusing the other side of violence as it engages in violence itself for which it suffers no accountability, and for which it enjoys support of the establishment reaching as high as the President.

The overall dynamic created by the double standard this: Americans of all political and ideological persuasion are receiving a loud and clear message that the Left will go to great lengths to persecute opposition to its agenda, and will support violence and violent rhetoric in support of its agenda.

As the Leftist violence and hatred that we are seeing play out in Wisconsin and elsewhere is allowed to pass without accountability, while simultaneously non-violence against the government’s agenda is persecuted, Leftists who are currently committing violence are receiving the message – however directly or indirectly – that their actions are justified and acceptable.

I perceive that the Leftist “street” is receiving a “go ahead” signal from the Leftist establishment in this battle for the heart and soul of America. They are being told that they are all-in; that it’s crunch-time for Socialism, now or never. They are being told that whatever they need to do in service of their agenda is on the table, and they will not be held accountable. Thus I believe the dynamic created by this double-standard could end up getting someone injured or killed. I think the reality of the situation needs to be addressed, and the implications discussed.

Cross-posted @ http://www.itsaboutliberty.com

The Radicals ARE the Democrats ARE the Radicals

I have long contended that for a vast swath of Americans who consider themselves Democrats, the Democrat party is – to put it mildly – an illogical home. These people believe that Democrats are for “the little guy”, and that Republicans are not. Their socio-economic and racial background is diverse, and every bit as representative of middle-America as anyone’s. They raise their families, serve their communities, serve their country, attend their churches, and largely wish to be left to live their lives how they choose. Yet one election cycle after another, these people vote for a party that bears little to nothing in common with how they live their lives, and represents interests far outside their values.

Many of them are people who vote Democrat because, well, they’ve always voted Democrat – they think it’s just what you do when you’re in tune with the concerns of “the people”. For others, it’s a legacy that gets passed from parent to child, with little thought. Some are the products of union households, and the Democratic tradition therewith. For others still, why not vote Democrat? The Democrats, after all, are the guarantors of their generous pensions and stable employment.

If you asked them, most of these people truly love America. Most of them believe in America’s exceptionalism in the history of human governments and societies. Most believe in the traditional definitions of American liberty, honor, decency, and charity. Most believe in free market capitalism, the concept of supply and demand, good-use stewardship over resources, and reasonable taxation.

Many of them at least believe in a middle-of-the-road approach to issues like abortion, firearm rights, illegal immigration, homosexual rights, Islamofascim, and Christianity in the public square, and have little in common with the radical Left’s approach to these issues.

Most of these people would say that they believe the American tradition is a good one – that the American experiment is on balance, a success. They would not choose to see our nation radically transformed, or replaced with some other, “non-American” vision.

We can and should hold all these people accountable for their shortsightedness, lack of engagement, and self-interest, but the reality is, they simply do not understand who and what they are voting for, time after time.

The Democrat party has garnered the votes of these people by lying to them for decades about who and what the party represents. The party has at every turn – even up to and through the election of Barack Hussein Obama – presented itself as something less than hard-Left. On taxes, national security, domestic policy, foreign policy, entitlements, the role of federal government, social policy, and any other agenda one can think of, the Democrat party has retained its power by presenting and selling itself as center-Left.

For some reason, after the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the Democrat party led by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, believed it was time to remove the mask, and reveal itself for exactly what it is. The Democrat party is now completely and openly radicalized by the hard-Left, and its radical voter base is the antithesis of the common sense values of the aforementioned vast swath of Democrat voters.

In October 2^nd’s “One Nation” Rally at the Lincoln Memorial, we saw this play out in stark terms. Exemplifying the very definition of “astro-turfing”, the radical hard-Left base of the Democrat party was on full display. Cobbled together for a disjointed, angry, petulant expression of entitlement mentality and totalitarian dreams, we saw Marxists, Socialists, Communists, labor union thugs, racist Afro-centrics, Radical homosexuals, and other anti-American groups openly demonstrating their radicalism for all to see.

Sure, they were compelled by the need for cover to offer platitudinous recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner as a precursor to their endless demands of entitlements and their anti-American diatribes. But once those formalities were dispensed with, the mask came off and never went back on. This rally repeatedly called for “One Nation”, while making it perfectly clear that unity with their cause can NEVER happen on any basis remotely related to their terms, if one holds the American tradition and constitutional form of government to be of any value.

These people are not “of us”. They wish to remove and supplant what America is and has been, with something “other” than America. This is abundantly clear now, thanks to the “One Nation” rally on October 2^nd.

Here’s the thing we need to take away from this: the Leftist radicals at the “One Nation” rally made it clear that they are in solidarity with Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat party. These radicals repeatedly called for supporting of Obama and the Democrats, and their entire agenda. Marxists, Socialists, Communists, labor unions, racist Afro-centrics, Radical homosexuals, and other anti-American groups are in full support of what Obama and the Democrats are trying to accomplish. The party and its radical base stand shoulder to shoulder, and there is no space between them.

The mask is off, and for anyone who understands what they are watching, the Democrat party IS the radical Left. They removed the mask upon the election of Obama, and now the “One Nation” rally has confirmed the ugliness under the mask with a hubris and boldness that offers a stark revelation: the anti-American Leftists and the Democrat party are one and the same.

The choice has never been more clear, and it transcends this mid-term election on November 2^nd. At the risk of sounding cliché, America is at a crossroads. Either We the People “get it” now, en masse – either the kneejerk Democrats I described at the beginning of this piece see the Democrat party for what it is now, and never forget – or America is in grave, grave danger of devolving into Socialist totalitarianism. History tells us what we need to know about Leftism coming to power over free people.

So talk to a Democrat. You have them in your family, your workplace, your church, your circle of friends. Risk the discomfort of challenging their worldview and voting habits. “We” are already convinced and motivated. Independents are awakening. But in order to place the Leftist Democrat party upon the ash-heap – in order to relegate it to the fringe of society where no decent person would care to be seen – we need rank-and-file Democrat voters who have no logical connection with the Marxist agenda to awaken, arise, and never go back to sleep.

Then we can focus on the Republican party…

Cross-posted at It’s About Freedom

Through all the years and countless arguments I’ve had with Leftist supporters of the radical homosexual agenda, a consistent argument I’ve used against homosexual marriage has been that the very definition of marriage is the familial unification between one man and one woman, and that deviating from that concrete definition undermines societal structure. We proponents of traditional marriage assert that the lengths a society must go to to justify homosexual marriage will eventually open the door for justifying and “normalizing” any sexual behavior and any union between people, further undermining the bedrock foundation of Western societies – the nuclear family and its moral underpinnings.

It’s the classic “slippery slope” argument, scoffed at by Leftists who must utterly suspend disbelief to maintain their scoffing. They look at individual issues and claim that causation cannot be proved, while ignoring the reality that the very nature of the term “progressive” indicates that their entire worldview is predicated upon tearing down societal barriers, replacing them with their own standards, and then “progressing” on to the next societal taboo to be eliminated and replaced. Progressivism IS the slippery slope, and the advancement, normalization, and mainstreaming of heretofore societal taboos is nothing without it.

I can’t count how many times I’ve argued against homosexual marriage with online Leftists, or even with my own family members, when I would say, “OK, where does it stop then? What about polygamy?” Invariably, I would be ridiculed, and told that believing in a slippery slope is foolish – that homosexuals marrying is a completely different issue from polygamy. Homosexuals after all, they would say, are only looking to enter into a monogamous relationship, just like heterosexuals. Polygamists are after something entirely “different”, and there is no reason to think that conferring the right to marry upon homosexuals would translate into demands by polygamists for the same rights. So they say.

But that’s not how “progressives” work.

Now comes the new television reality show on The Learning Channel – “Sister Wives”. I’ve seen the previews for the debut of this show that explores the lives of a “family” including a man, four women, and their children. If there is any negative light to be shown, it is not in the previews. From the music, to the video clips, to the stylizing, it appears to be nothing less than a pro-polygamy propaganda television show.

This show is sure to be a hit, as these types of shows generally are. From a little-people family, to drug addiction intervention stories, to mentally ill hoarders, to a family with 19 children, to the train-wreck of Kate Gosselin – people are drawn into viewing lives different from their own. Viewers will tune in. Tabloids will turn their attention to it. Men will elbow each other at the water cooler over the prospect of multiple wives. Women will be drawn into the interpersonal dynamics between the “Sister Wives”. And in the process, another societal barrier will move a step closer to erosion. From the looks of it, this show is meant to soften people’s view of polygamy.

Any bets on how long before polygamist activist groups begin ramping up their demands for their right to the full benefit of societal destigmatization and condoning of their “lifestyle choice”? Any bets that such ideas are floated in this show?

Some will say I’m commenting on a program that hasn’t even yet aired its first episode. Yup – because the issue is larger than whether I’m right or wrong about “Sister Wives” being a propaganda tool for the destruction of the next Leftist target societal barrier. I could be completely wrong about the show. It may end its first season with the inglorious meltdown and destruction of this polygamous experiment. But the slippery slope is real, regardless of the protestations of the Left to the contrary. Polygamy will move further into the public consciousness and discussion, and the Left will at some point begin to openly ask why these people cannot be treated equally, offering up all the same tired pretzel-logic arguments they use to justify homosexual marriage. When we ask, “Where does it end?”, they will scoff at the slippery slope, while the next “oppressed” deviant minority waits in the wings for their shot at legitimization by the Left.

Here’s an introduction to the show at ThirdAge.com…
Sister Wives, TLC Take America on Tour of Polygamy

Cross-posted at It’s About Freedom…