How do you wake up people who are oblivious to everything but their own propaganda? From Jonathan Turley at jonathanturley.org:
Below is my column in the New York Post on the withdrawal of Robert Kennedy, Jr. from the presidential race and his endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s speech resonated with many long-time Democrats who have found themselves estranged from the party. While Kennedy remains an independent, it is a cautionary tale that is being missed in the “joy” theme of the Democratic National Convention. The fact is that new Republicans are often not the product of ideology and association but anxiety and exclusion. Democrats make Republicans.
Here is the column:
The withdrawal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential race and his endorsement of former President Donald Trump was yet another extraordinary moment in an election that has been anything but predictable.
Only a year ago, it would have been unthinkable that a sitting president would be effectively forced off a ticket and replaced by a candidate who did not secure a single vote for president.
Now, the nephew of John F. Kennedy and son of the Robert F. Kennedy has not just withdrawn from the Democratic Party but endorsed the Republican nominee.
Amidst all of the claimed “joy” of the Democratic National Convention, there is a sobering reality that is being ignored by the ecstatic press and pundits: this is how Democrats make Republicans.
There is an old expression that “a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.”
Irving Kristol explained the neoconservative movement was built by Democrats “mugged by reality.”
Kennedy has not become a Republican but rather joined the roughly half of Americans now identifying as independents. While this country is solidly under the hold of a duopoly of power in the two main parties, only 25% of the country identify as Democrats, and 25% as Republicans.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson
This is an English missionary’s account of the JOY of the Chinese peasants in 1951:
“Joyful emotions dominated the villages after the redistribution of land. Peasants worked very long hours on their own land, and hated to go home at nightfall. One old man got up in the middle of the night to go and see that his land was still there, and gaze at it. Gratitude was centred on Chairman Mao, who was given the credit for having designed the principles and methods of land reform, and having led the people through suffering to the point where they had the power to dispossess the landlords.”
By 1958 all the land was taken back by the state through collectivism called the People’s Commune, followed by the Great Famine which killed up to 50 million Chinese!!!
So much for the JOY! (H/T-XVF)