1/2/2019

Let the Games Begin

The first formal challenger has entered the ring. Senator Elizabeth Warren has initiated her effort to become President of the United States. In her video announcing the formation of an exploratory committee, she cites the failings of our country. To this I say, let’s have the debate.

While progressives like to spout emotional platitudes about this and that, I find their underlying facts to be few and not very compelling. Rather than look at actual data, they will fall back to individual examples of a situation few would not find sad. When that fails, they trot out disparate impact that uses some outcome and bases it on some spurious reason in some cases, totally unrelated to the outcome. Unfortunately for our country, these emotional appeals work.

Voters who are less knowledgeable about the issue(s) or pay little or no attention to the underlying facts, fall prey to these messages and worse, act on them in the voting booth. Most voters are now getting their information through social media. Mainstream media, a source for what gets spread around on the internet, is unabashedly progressive. Coupled with and educational system dominated by liberal turned progressive educators and you have an electorate primed for reacting to the trotting out of children for just about any issue for which Senator Warren and her fellow socialists want to influence opinion.

The harm of not having a reasoned debate is monumental. It’s not enough for the left to fool Americans like Gruber suggested was one with Obamacare. They want to inculcate the populace so that there is no turning back. Now that the doors are opened to the treasury, the old adage that socialism works until you run out of other people’s money is in full display. She is already spouting the failings of capitalism and how it must be reined in. Corporations must be run by the employees and not for profit but for social purposes. The “guns or butter” argument she makes is there are far more important things we can do with your money than provide security, the one thing the Constitution specifically demands the central government provide. But then, the Constitution is just a piece of paper to her and her like.

It would be nice to have these and the other policies and philosophies actually discussed in a calm and well thought out, lucid manner but alas, I fear that most voters want the five minute sound bite and the party label on which to make their decision. Unfortunately, it is to their own peril.