The moment the Democrats won the midterms, you could tell they began scratching the authoritarian itch immediately.
One story, in particular, that I thought shows us exactly how much they love pushing their agenda over the whims of the people happened in Washington. It's a deep blue state filled with deep blue voters, but even they made it clear that transgenderism had gone too far, and they wanted to make sure boys and men stayed out of female sports.
Do you think the Democrats in office listened to their base? Not even a little bit. They immediately hired lawyers to challenge the new law, responding with "These laws reflect values our communities have fought for and overwhelmingly support," and adding "we don't see a way to implement Initiative 638 without violating those vital protections."
Don't let the cognitive dissonance slip past you there. The people voted to make an initiative a law, and the elected officials pretended that what they voted for was the exact opposite. Don't bother scratching your head about it. This simple truth is that these elected officials have radical ideas and agendas, and they're going to see them through no matter what nuances from the voting public come their way. They know they won't be voted out anyway, with Washington being so deep blue, so they'll suffer no real backlash.
They are rulers. Not governors.
But you can see this on a macro scale, too. My colleague Nick Arama reported in her own article on Saturday that migrant caravans began making their way to the United States after the blue wave hit Texas so hard it flipped it. As Nick noted, the migrants are pretty confident they'll get back in, and what's more, they're not coming here because they're trying to escape anything but an economy that isn't that great.
As one man in the caravan said, "We were waiting for it," with "it" being a Democrat victory. They knew once the country looked a lot more blue, the path into the U.S. would once again open up, and they could live and work in the U.S. once again, illegally and at the U.S. citizens' expense. They know that because the Democrats tell them things like that directly, as Nick noted, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) said:
“Certainly. Anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they are DACA recipients who's been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration, we need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law-abiding immigrant families and to the American people over this last 20 months or so.”
The thing is, despite the Democrats getting a huge pile of wins, the one thing they didn't get is support for their immigration ideas. Americans still want tighter immigration controls and restrictions. Just like in Washington, the Democrats are effectively telling the peasantry — because that's what we are to them — that the borders will be thrown open because it's the right thing to do, your opinion be damned.
They are treating being voted in by the people as a king would treat his ascendancy. They were put there by God — or whatever god a Democrat worships that's not YHWH — and, as such, their decree is the will of Heaven, and it must be obeyed.
That means they're going to strip your country of its sovereignty and you of your voice. If you and everyone else were to come out of their homes right now and vote to make it clear that there will be no illegal border crossings and all illegals will be deported, the Democrats would pretend you didn't say a thing. CNN would talk about something else completely, and the New York Times would write some puff piece about a migrant with a wife and child in the caravan coming here for a better life, then sprinkle in how migrants benefit the economy in some way.
To Democrats, you spend time either being a roadblock they need to tear down or a speed bump they can simply step over.
The next decade is going to be a lot of this.
