Don's Tuesday Column

      THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   2/16/2021

Through the looking-glass of leftism

Also, “Weaving webs, practicing to deceive.” Observe and study the progressive left, and Democrat leaders and influencers; many woven webs of practiced deception, in effect, create the opposite of almost any asserted reality.

“Through the Looking-Glass (and What Alice Found There)” was Lewis Carroll’s follow-up novel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Alice found a fantastical reality by climbing through a mirror to a world beyond it. “There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (for example, running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it,” chessmen and nursery rhyme characters live, etc. It’s like trying to eliminate racism by obsessing on race.

The years-long “jihad” against (now ex-) President Trump—together with the unprecedented and fantasy-based impeachments—constitute the greatest (or worst) episodes in American history: of mass delusion, propaganda and deception foisted by one political side upon the populace in general, and conservative Republicans in particular.

The “keeping” of our Republic—Benjamin Franklin said the Framers of the Constitution had delivered, to the people, “a Republic, if you can keep it”—relies upon, and requires, an informed and discriminating (as in discriminating truth from falsehood) citizenry. It also eschews the persecution of any political, racial or ideological group by those holding the reins of power; Dems control legislative and executive branches in D.C.

Those wishing to escape the yoke of one-party rule, as exists in California, Illinois and New York, have the wherewithal to hire a moving van, relocate and reestablish their livelihoods and lives in states like Utah, Idaho, Texas or Oklahoma, that favor smaller, less intrusive government and more thriving economies. The options of other countries with similarly conservative societies and economies are few.

We are, in America, dangerously close to establishing a political, ideological, educational and cultural despotism wherein speech, even thoughts and values, can be proclaimed unacceptable, legally prosecuted or at least shunned and economically “cancelled” by other citizens. They’re self-styled enforcers of “political correctness,” or “social justice warriors.” You may recall that, after Prop 8 passed in 2008—making only marriage between a man and a woman constitutionally legal (overturned by CA Supreme Court)—there arose a vicious, retaliatory effort to punish contributors and supporters, even to the harassment of little, old Mormon women. Shameful.

On the despicable second effort to remove Trump from office—except that he’s out of office already with nothing but hideous legal blathering about how the Constitution permits Congress to punish a citizen (hint: that’s a “Bill of attainder” forbidden by Article I, Sections 9 and 10).

It was deliciously ironic to witness the dozens of Democrats calling for “fighting” (often “like hell”), the accosting of Trump supporters, even Joe Biden (and other Dems) boasting of punching Trump in the face, or taking him “behind the gym” to beat him up. Then to hear the repeated calls by President Trump for “law and order” and to “peaceably and patriotically” engage in the God-given right to “assemble to petition for redress of grievances” (First Amendment, U.S. Constitution).

We now know that 1) Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell knew of the threats of potential violence indicated by the Chief of Capitol Police’s request for beefed up security and Trump’s offer of National Guard troops—before Jan. 6; 2) both antifa (like the camera-wielding John Sullivan who also exhorted the breaking-and-entering) and rightwing extremists never listened to Trump’s speech before converging on the Capitol; 3) Pipe bombs were placed the night before; 4) Deceased officer Brian Sicknick—God rest his soul and comfort his family—had no signs of trauma, complained to his brother about pepper spray, and could not have been “beaten with a fire extinguisher”; 5) no one at the “Stop the Steal” rally was found with weapons; and 6) the only fatality, Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, had no weapon and wasn’t a threat to anyone while crawling through a broken window.

Look up: “What Happened to Officer Brian Sicknick? No one should discount the idea that Democrats and the news media would intentionally promote a totally fabricated story to destroy Donald Trump and vilify his supporters” by Julie Kelly (Amgreatness.com, Feb 8).

Final facts: 1) Out of 22 Republican lawsuits decided on the merits, 15 were judged in their favor, disproving the “60 losing lawsuits filed by Trump et al”—most were never heard on the merits. It was possible that courts would’ve given Trump wins in enough states to have won the Electoral vote.

2) 61% of Republican voters (34% of all voters) say Biden “did not win the election fairly”; 42% of voters say mail-in voting led to unprecedented voter fraud—including 11% of Democrats and 46% of Independents (Rasmussen Reports, Feb. 12).

3) While no proof of fraud was alleged or found, Time magazine’s Molly Ball’s “Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” does show beyond doubt that “a secret alliance of left-wing activists, union leaders and corporate CEOs worked together to help craft unprecedented changes in the rules governing the way America votes.” With the COVID threat as pretext, massive mail-in voting changes were implemented by governors, judges and election officials. They evaded state legislatures—the bodies given sole authority under U.S. and state constitutions to change election procedures—it was all illegal.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption…I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.” (anon.)