Joe Sullivan, Layers of Truth, Gab
I believe that the first thing I want to say in this commentary is that I’m mindful about the dangers of generalization. It’s fair to say that any time we try to define a problem by generalizing about who and how it functions - the danger comes because there will always be “exceptions”…
WITH THAT SAID, I TRULY BELIEVE that TOO MANY DEMOCRATS deserve harsh criticism for ONE basic SPECIFIC ISSUE…. THEY HAVE FAILED TO PREVENT THEIR MOST EXTREME LEFTIST MEMBERS FROM TAKING OVER THEIR PARTY. They also fail miserably in STEPPING-FORWARD to criticize those who demonstrate by their WORDS and DEEDS that they VIOLATE GOD’S LAWS and the “LAWS OF THE LAND”.
Over time, I’ve observed that there are DEMOCRATS who speak reasonably - some of them are politicians and some are media personalities - but their “reasonable” statements do not seem to attract strong support from the so-called “Democrat base”. Consequently, “reasonable” and “moderate” spokespersons never rise to LEADERSHIP roles. Instead, “radical” and “socialist” politicians and media personalities DO RISE to TOP LEADERSHIP roles in the party.
It’s also TOTALLY FAIR to point out that whenever a DEMOCRAT public figure is caught committing a crime or in some form of “moral turpitude”, the party rallies around them and they are not forced out. They simply have to insist that they are “guiltless” and their political lives continue…. Democrats never “put out the trash”.
Another general criticism comes from the failure of “DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERS” to speak-out against violence or criminal behavior targeting innocent citizens by obvious extremists. The most recent example involves the targeting of TESLA MOTORS DEALERSHIPS and private owners of Tesla vehicles. The only Democrats to speak-out treated the matter as “funny” when the appropriate public statements should have criticized and discouraged it.
DEMOCRATS have a double standard when it comes to established laws - OBVIOUSLY, there are laws that they embrace and there are laws that they REFUSE TO ACCEPT. This “schizophrenia” seems to run deep in Democrats…. Their base SEEMS to wrongly distinguish between laws depending upon their perceptions about WHO proposed the laws, WHO pushed them through Congress and WHICH POLITICAL PARTY supports that law upon passage. There is a common belief that some laws are “LIBERAL” and some are “CONSERVATIVE” - and that makes the distinctions about whether these laws are observed, ignored or disobeyed.
It is also QUITE COMMON for DEMOCRAT ACTIVISTS to protest, demonstrate and even riot in order to force “social change”. This is a UNIQUELY “DEMOCRAT” PHENOMENON - because “REPUBLICAN - CONSERVATIVES” simply DO NOT RESORT TO THESE TACTICS. Republicans embrace the RULE OF LAW - while Democrats prefer to pick-and-choose which laws are respected - and which are not.
I ALSO BELIEVE that DEMOCRATS can simultaneously claim to be “moral” in their religious beliefs on Sunday morning while supporting (or even opposing) social conduct that is subject to THE RULE OF LAW. This hypocrisy is frequently on display - with the best example being the federal and state laws regarding ABORTION. Too many Christians are “conflicted” about that…
FINALLY, I BELIEVE that MANY DEMOCRATS are raised in a “culture” of ENVY… In other words, they come to believe that anyone who has become wealthy has done so by taking advantage of others. This CULTURE OF ENVY seems to be unique to DEMOCRATS and it RUNS DEEP IN THEIR “COLLECTIVE PSYCHES”. This creates a deep distrust within the society that becomes GENERALIZED toward ANYONE whose “station in life” is perceived as “unjustly earned”. BOSSES, BUSINESS OWNERS, LANDLORDS, etc. are all generally distrusted and held in disdain.
WHENEVER a society is divided along PERCEIVED IMBALANCES and the interaction between the “HAVES” and “HAVE NOTS” is driven by a CULTURE OF ENVY, then “VICTIMHOOD” becomes a “rationalized moral justification” for theft, vandalism and destruction of the property owned by to “well-to-do” by those believing it’s appropriate and defensible.
IN CLOSING, I want to point out that I was raised in a “DEMOCRAT HOUSEHOLD” where I was never encouraged to do anything damaging to the property and interests of “the wealthy”. However, I did observe that there was “envy” and “distrust” of the “wealthy and powerful” which was deeply rooted in my parent’s culture and experience. It was not until I became a young police officer when I began to observe that SOME Democrats acted-out of their ideologies in committing property and other violent crimes against others in ways that THEY believed to be based in “social justice”…
CURRENTLY, there is intense “media focus” upon who and where the next “leaders of the Democrat Party” will come from. Implicit in this media attention is the rationale that none of the current DEMOCRAT LEADERS will return to “top party leadership” in the future…. LOGIC and reason concludes that the current “stable” of “party leadership” have become dysfunctional in consideration for top party leadership - and that the DEMOCRATS are devoid of leadership capable of rising to the “national stage” in the foreseeable future…
IN OTHER WORDS, the DEMOCRAT PARTY is currently “sucking wind”…. And it’s a lot of fun to watch…
GOD BLESS YOU
