Leftist Nonsense––Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
By Joan Swirsky
CanadaFreePress.com
After the 2016 presidential election of President
Donald J. Trump, I stopped counting the numbers of
Republicans and Conservatives who told me how
unpleasantly life had changed for them.
Through eight years of President George W.
Bush––even through the Reagan years, they said––they
could still speak to their friends and relatives and
agree to disagree about political issues.
But the reaction to the Trump presidency, they told
me, was so extreme, the hysteria so sustained, the
venom so poisonous, the rationality so nonexistent,
that they couldn’t even go to a happy affair like a
birthday party or wedding or dinner at a restaurant
without World War III breaking out.
No surprise. While glamorous billionaire businessman
and TV star Donald Trump had been lionized for
decades before he became president by the very
people who are vilifying him today, while
office-seeking Democrats held out both hands for his
generous contributions to their campaigns, and while
leftists like Oprah and the fake-news media whores
considered it either a privilege or a scoop to
interview him, all that changed when he descended
the Trump Tower escalator with his dazzling wife
Melania in June of 2015 to announce his candidacy.
WHY THE CHANGE?
Indeed, why did the “tolerant” Progressives
display––and exhibit to this very day––such florid
and feverish intolerance?
Why did the thug groups of the Left––like Antifa,
Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall St.––step up
their violence and downright anarchy in their
anti-Trump protests?
Because of the existential threat candidate and now
President Trump posed to their hundred-year ambition
to destroy the America they loathe––the America that
embraces free markets and capitalism, the U.S.
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, free speech, the
right to bear arms, et al.
To the horror of all those
socialist/communist-admiring Progressives, the
empire-builder Donald Trump turned out to be a
rock-ribbed believer in everything they detest:
· American
Exceptionalism.
· The
urgent importance of a strong military.
· The
simple sanity of closed borders.
· Deep
respect for the working-class people who built and
run not only his buildings but America:
electricians, plumbers, masons, elevator operators,
on and on and on.
· The
destructive nature of high taxes.
· The
strangulating effect of strangulating regulations.
· The
clinical insanity of selling out to China, Iran and
other countries.
· The
consummate fakery of the media and most polling
companies.
Yes, the Progressives had just about succeeded in
actualizing their destroy-America goal––eight years
of Barack Obama and his socialized medicine
(Obamacare), socialized education (Common Core),
eviscerating our military, and funding terrorist
states like Iran. All they needed was eight more
years of Hillary.
SMELLING THE COFFEE
I happen to live about 18 minutes from New York
City, in one of the meccas of leftwing madness on
Long Island. In my suburban community, a Marxist
Forum actually exists, voters overwhelmingly cast
their ballots for Democrats, including a state
legislature that not long ago stood on their feet
and applauded a law to allow mothers in labor to end
the lives of their fully developed,
nine-months-in-utero babies literally one minute
before birth. You read that right––applauded!
It’s a community––much like those in far-left
California, Oregon, Michigan, et al––that
spoon-feeds socialist propaganda to preschoolers
straight through high school and college; mandates
that students watch Al Gore’s film on the hoax of
global-warming, “An Inconvenient Truth”; teaches the
Gospel of Victimization for everyone––except those
big bad white men and capitalists––and features
six-foot posters of the Cuban communist mass
murderer Che Guevara in their classrooms. Really.
As it happens, I was raised in a strict and religious home that voted Democrat. After high school, I married, had three children and moved to New York. Having been a truant in high school and then happily having skipped college, my mind was relatively uncontaminated by the leftist sewage that afflicts most people on the East and West coasts.
My education came from real life. For instance, one
day I read in our local newspaper that a vote was
being held to welcome 75 students from a
lower-income neighborhood in Queens to be bused into
our town in order to attend our “superior” schools.
My husband Steve and I voted for this proposal
because we had grown up in New Haven, CT, where race
relations were harmonious. Our high school’s
president was black. I was the co-captain of the
cheerleading squad with a beautiful black girl;
Steve was a New-England Championship winner on a
basketball team with four black guys (they
affectionately called him the “light bulb”).
These experiences were so ingrained in our hearts
and minds that when we moved into our first home, we
hosted the New York Times-sponsored Fresh Air
children for three consecutive summers.
But back to the referendum. To the absolute shock of
the leftwing powers-that-be, it was resoundingly
defeated. Although I was completely apolitical at
the time, a neighbor urged me to attend a gathering
to protest the vote.
That was when I went to my very first school board
meeting. I was about 25 at the time, and my kids
were about 7, 5, and 2. At the meeting, the
smooth-talking school board president––the wealthy
owner of several baby furniture stores––said the
following: “The community has spoken. But the
community is wrong. We are going ahead to extend the
invitation to those students in Jamaica, Queens, in
spite of the vote.”
RED FLAG!!!
Sitting there, I remember saying to myself: “I don’t
think that’s legal!” Silly me, I thought that when
you voted for a person or policy, that was the
decision of “We the People,” and if you didn’t like
the vote, you had to fight harder the next time to
get your opinion voted into law.
For me, it was a vivid picture of dictatorial,
fascistic, arrogant leftism in living color. And
although I didn’t know the language of politics, I
knew this species was not for me.
I knew it again when my sanctimonious neighbors told
me I should join them in supporting the boycott of
lettuce spearheaded by Cesar Chavez in 1970 because
he wanted lettuce pickers to have the right to form
their own union. Then I found out they sent their
children to the supermarket to buy the lettuce!
A few years later, when my youngest child went to
kindergarten, I decided to enter nursing school. The
same thing that attracted me to conservatism
attracted me to nursing: Facts!
I always tell people that if they were my patients,
and I was calibrating IVs or drawing medications
into a syringe to go into their veins, I would never
do these things based on my feelings or instincts or
emotions. Why? Because the correct dose could cure
you, and the incorrect dose could kill you.
And yet, feelings and instincts and emotions are the
three arch criteria on which Progressives base all
of their misguided policies––always to the detriment
of America!
By the way…the principal of the Jamaica high school
in Queens wrote to Mr. Smooth-Talking school board
president, saying that he would never let his
students attend schools in a community that didn’t
want them.
LIKE SHOOTING FISH….
Today, left-right debates have devolved into the
children known as leftists resorting to acting-out
temper tantrums and vicious name-calling, and the
grown-ups known as conservatives usually remain
slack-jawed at what they are seeing and hearing.
My own exchanges, however, are usually
hilarious––and certainly revealing of the
aberrational “thinking” of leftists in general. As
an aside, they are always scowling during these
exchanges, and I am always smiling…yet another thing
that drives them mad.
Progressive:
Trump is only lowering taxes for his rich friends.
Me: I understand….you like high taxes.
Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that….
Progressive:
Trump is only quashing regulations to get pro-union
votes.
Me: I understand…you like waiting three
years to get a new roof on your home.
Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that…
Progressive:
Trump is spending all our money on the military.
Me: I understand…you like a weak
military.
Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that…
Progressive:
Trump is a racist for closing our borders.
Me: I understand…you would never get a lock
or alarm system on your home.
Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that…
You get the picture. Whether it is Democrat
governors or senators or representatives or
candidates for office, the rationality factor, the
sane factor, the intelligent factor, the
pro-American factor is simply missing.
Happily, an overwhelming majority of Americans have
both eyes and ears. They are watching. They are
listening. They are keenly aware that Democrats are
not on America’s side.
Joan Swirsky is an award winning author and
journalist. Her work can be found at joanswirsky.com