Democrats are the evil party, but that doesn’t mean they’re stupid. In fact, I often have to remind people that they are evil, not stupid, to explain why they do the things they do. They know what they’re doing, and you should too. It explains why, after more than 6 weeks, they suddenly decided to vote to reopen the government. It wasn’t because they felt people were suffering – you don’t subscribe to a political philosophy responsible for 100 million deaths in the last century if you have concern over suffering – but because it was electoral politics, plain and simple.
What changed the “principled stance” Democrats had been taking? The election happened. That’s it, that’s really all it was. If this had happened before the vote, there was a chance some Democrats, the more radical ones, would have stayed home. Disgusted people don’t generally go out and vote for the people with whom they are disgusted.
But they did vote, and Democrats won the elections they should have won, so the threat is gone. They waited a week because they couldn’t do it immediately, lest they expose themselves as the frauds they are. But a week later has people have already forgotten how short a period of time ago the election was – “was it last week or the week before?” It really is that simple.
Also worthy of note is the fact that none of the 8 Democrats who voted for the “deal” are up next year; they’re either retiring or have 15 political lifetimes between now and when they could next face voters. In other words, they were strategically chosen to cast just enough votes to end the shutdown while giving as many of their fellow travelers as possible the cover they need to pretend to be outraged over an end to the shutdown with nothing to show for it.
Of course, there never really was anything they wanted to show for it – if they really gave a damn about those Obamacare subsidies, they would have done something about them when they controlled government, and throwing more money at their failed health care takeover is not a sympathetic argument to run on. But they need SOMETHING.
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The one thing all the polling and the MSNBCs of the world tell Democrats they want is that they “FIGHT.” They don’t really ever say about or for what, just fight. You see it in the reactions to the election – “They want us to fight,” Democrats universally say. And that’s about as deep as the argument gets – just fight.
Fighting for the sake of fighting may feel good, but that doesn’t change it from a tactic to a strategy. Because of that, Republicans always had Democrats over a barrel.
No one was ever going to starve, no one was ever really going to be hurt. The media found people they’d managed to panic to highlight, but nothing bad ever came to pass, or you would have seen that the whole time.
We’re still days away from SNAP benefits being paid. What happened to all the “people are going hungry” stories?
The Democrats who changed their votes (except Fetterman, who was solid the whole time) will be forgotten because no one in the progressive establishment will remind anyone about them. Like I said, these people are evil, not stupid.
Remember the push from the left to get rid of the filibuster when Democrats controlled everything? Only 2 Senators – Manchin and Sinema – were “all that stood between Democrats and getting their way legislatively.”
That was a lie then – plenty of Democrats opposed getting rid of the filibuster but were afraid to say anything lest they face the wrath of the left and get a primary challenge. Manchin and Sinema gave all those others cover, took all the fire from the left and spared others from having to show the world how they really would have voted if the chips were down. The same thing happened here: political cover.
Democrats are evil, not stupid. Their voters, on the other hand…well, they keep falling for the game; keep sending all their banking information to that Nigerian prince waiting for the money to come rolling in.
Yeah, it really is that sad.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.
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