There seems to be a strong trend of candidates, overwhelmingly Democrats, refusing to debate the candidates they are running against. This shouldn't be permitted or tolerated.
Thanks for this hopeful essay and the reminder that the past is full of injustices. I sure hope people will toss out the bums responsible for this.
My concern is that it's not occurring in a vacuum. America is not acting alone in this aberrant behavior. Europe, NZ, Australia, and Canada have all taken carefully choreographed (it appears) steps towards totalitarianism. And there is a finishing school (WEF) that has been holding dance lessons for "promising" leaders, so many of whom are at the healm of the aforementioned nations.
I think they are afraid to face a debate with candidates who will force them to say what they believe (or demonstrate through debate what they believe). If the electorate knew what they stand for, they would lose decisively. By avoiding debate, they hope to avoid detection and get enough votes by blind party loyalty.
It's like they're afraid to hear what people have to say or something. Or heaven forbid, engage in actual discourse and reasoned arguments instead of reaching for the nearest soundbite.....
Thank you, I needed this reminder. Historical facts and perspective is a gift in turbulent times providing stamina and steely eyed resolve to those defending our founding principles.
Excellent stuff Chris! Americans need to know their history far better, then much of this would look vaguely reminiscent of the 'good old days!'
Not sure if there will even be a Democratic party in 5 years. Nancy, stupidly, let the squad do whatever they wanted and all they've done is piss off everybody in the middle who is just sick of politics.
On the debating question – campaign debates are no longer real debates anyway, just two people alternately delivering carefully constructed snippets of rhetoric. So maybe not so big of a loss there.
The historical perspective is valuable. Our Swamptoads are croaking up a storm, because they are in deep guano at home and abroad. They are lashing out at everybody. Unfortunately, their problems become our problems. In addition to the social engineering already taking place, events abroad that we don’t learn about from mainstream media here are going to come crashing down on us and every other Western “democracy”. The plainly evident desperation of our power class isn’t just based on the fact that some of us dumb untermenschen MAGA mouth breathers are waking up to their shenanigans. The Western powers have made a mess of the world. They’ve squandered the victories of the twentieth century, and the “leaders” we have now are just incompetent, venal puppets of a global elite who want a neo-feudal arrangement with lots of serfs to boss around featuring a variety of even more sadistic diktats I’m sure we’ll all be excited to experience. Meanwhile the West has the BRICS to contend with, who are becoming a formidable challenger to our economic and geopolitical model. Since they actually make things, develop, extract, and sell their natural resources, supply things people actually can use - like energy and food, and manufactured goods, versus woke bullshit, credit cards, Kardashians, and cannabis gummies, there’s a good likelihood that the dollar is doomed as the world’s reserve currency, and that will be curtains for our dominance. So the weasels in Washington started a war in Ukraine to destabilize Russia, and delay the inevitable. It’s not working. They are getting squeezed outside and inside the USA. And they are losing. We are winning. The behavior of these homunculi is prima facie evidence thereof. But there’s gonna be a big battle before the dust settles, and no guarantee that what’s left will look anything like what we have known for the last 70 years. Cleanup on aisle 7 is gonna be a bitch. Support good candidates. Do your due diligence. We need to pull together, to cohere with common sense, decency, and yes, sacrifice. The atomization and decadence are not accidental. Resist it. There’s a reason humans have evolved certain institutions over the last 250000 years. The accelerating idiotic societal distortion of the last few years will not endure.
The current Democrats strike me as the most joyless non-Marxist party in America in our lifetimes. The insistent masking really brings that forth. Do any of their prominent politicians seem at all happy?
Don’t plan on elections or courts being the solution. At best they clarify matters.
We’re back to 19th Century politics with The Democrats seeking to make us ALL SLAVE, the final answer to Lincoln.
If you read A House Divided speech and study the actual Republican Party it was fearful of the spread of slavery , which is where the courts and Parliamentary maneuver was taking the matter elections be damned. Then as now the Democratic Party- which never liked the Constitution- stops at nothing until it is stopped. This is mere analysis, not partisanship. I have no party , the GOP certainly isn’t.
“Welcome or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown.”- Lincoln
There seems to be a strong trend of candidates, overwhelmingly Democrats, refusing to debate the candidates they are running against. This shouldn't be permitted or tolerated.
Only low-IQ societies in a serious state of decline persecute their political opponents to preserve "democracy".
Merrick Garland consistently proves that he did not deserve to be seated on the Supreme Court.
Thanks for this hopeful essay and the reminder that the past is full of injustices. I sure hope people will toss out the bums responsible for this.
My concern is that it's not occurring in a vacuum. America is not acting alone in this aberrant behavior. Europe, NZ, Australia, and Canada have all taken carefully choreographed (it appears) steps towards totalitarianism. And there is a finishing school (WEF) that has been holding dance lessons for "promising" leaders, so many of whom are at the healm of the aforementioned nations.
I thought politics was all about debate.
Hope you are right Chris, and I also hope you have stolen your NYT subscription from someone and aren’t paying them!
Why should they be afraid of a debate? Their answers are ready, regardless of the questions:
"Conspiracy theorist!"
"Anti-vaxxer!"
"Election denier!"
"Trump supporter!"
"Pro-lifer!"
"Maga republican!"
"Russian asset!"
Etc.
I think they are afraid to face a debate with candidates who will force them to say what they believe (or demonstrate through debate what they believe). If the electorate knew what they stand for, they would lose decisively. By avoiding debate, they hope to avoid detection and get enough votes by blind party loyalty.
It's like they're afraid to hear what people have to say or something. Or heaven forbid, engage in actual discourse and reasoned arguments instead of reaching for the nearest soundbite.....
Cowards, all of them. We saw this on display for nearly 3 yrs. No surprise.
Thank you, I needed this reminder. Historical facts and perspective is a gift in turbulent times providing stamina and steely eyed resolve to those defending our founding principles.
Excellent stuff Chris! Americans need to know their history far better, then much of this would look vaguely reminiscent of the 'good old days!'
Not sure if there will even be a Democratic party in 5 years. Nancy, stupidly, let the squad do whatever they wanted and all they've done is piss off everybody in the middle who is just sick of politics.
On the debating question – campaign debates are no longer real debates anyway, just two people alternately delivering carefully constructed snippets of rhetoric. So maybe not so big of a loss there.
The historical perspective is valuable. Our Swamptoads are croaking up a storm, because they are in deep guano at home and abroad. They are lashing out at everybody. Unfortunately, their problems become our problems. In addition to the social engineering already taking place, events abroad that we don’t learn about from mainstream media here are going to come crashing down on us and every other Western “democracy”. The plainly evident desperation of our power class isn’t just based on the fact that some of us dumb untermenschen MAGA mouth breathers are waking up to their shenanigans. The Western powers have made a mess of the world. They’ve squandered the victories of the twentieth century, and the “leaders” we have now are just incompetent, venal puppets of a global elite who want a neo-feudal arrangement with lots of serfs to boss around featuring a variety of even more sadistic diktats I’m sure we’ll all be excited to experience. Meanwhile the West has the BRICS to contend with, who are becoming a formidable challenger to our economic and geopolitical model. Since they actually make things, develop, extract, and sell their natural resources, supply things people actually can use - like energy and food, and manufactured goods, versus woke bullshit, credit cards, Kardashians, and cannabis gummies, there’s a good likelihood that the dollar is doomed as the world’s reserve currency, and that will be curtains for our dominance. So the weasels in Washington started a war in Ukraine to destabilize Russia, and delay the inevitable. It’s not working. They are getting squeezed outside and inside the USA. And they are losing. We are winning. The behavior of these homunculi is prima facie evidence thereof. But there’s gonna be a big battle before the dust settles, and no guarantee that what’s left will look anything like what we have known for the last 70 years. Cleanup on aisle 7 is gonna be a bitch. Support good candidates. Do your due diligence. We need to pull together, to cohere with common sense, decency, and yes, sacrifice. The atomization and decadence are not accidental. Resist it. There’s a reason humans have evolved certain institutions over the last 250000 years. The accelerating idiotic societal distortion of the last few years will not endure.
The current Democrats strike me as the most joyless non-Marxist party in America in our lifetimes. The insistent masking really brings that forth. Do any of their prominent politicians seem at all happy?
Well drive on.
Don’t plan on elections or courts being the solution. At best they clarify matters.
We’re back to 19th Century politics with The Democrats seeking to make us ALL SLAVE, the final answer to Lincoln.
If you read A House Divided speech and study the actual Republican Party it was fearful of the spread of slavery , which is where the courts and Parliamentary maneuver was taking the matter elections be damned. Then as now the Democratic Party- which never liked the Constitution- stops at nothing until it is stopped. This is mere analysis, not partisanship. I have no party , the GOP certainly isn’t.
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/june-16-1858-house-divided-speech
“Welcome or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown.”- Lincoln