By Dennis Prager
I rarely make predictions -- whether of election results
or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be
done, not what will be done.
I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019.
2019 will be a dark year in America.
Thanks to the left's control of the House of
Representatives and the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state
throughout 2019 -- with innumerable hearings, exposes, criminal investigations
and possible indictments of those around the president and the president
himself.
Truth will not be the point. Defamation will. Anything that might
muddy the president, no matter how spurious, no matter how thin the evidence,
will be pursued with gusto.
The media will drop "bombshell" after
"bombshell." If lives and careers are ruined, so much the better; no
one should be associating with this president anyway, as far as the left is
concerned.
The Robert Mueller investigation into alleged "collusion"
between the Trump campaign and the Russian government -- which has led to
guilty pleas and imprisonment of people around President Trump for offenses
having nothing to do with such collusion -- is a preview of what lies ahead.
The goal of the left to weaken, disable and impeach the
president is the heart of its mission to undo the 2016 presidential election.
If the Republicans had done anything comparable during the Obama
administration, the Democrats and the media would not only have charged
Republicans with racism -- as they labeled all criticism of Barack Obama --
they would have howled "fascism." And, for once, they wouldn't have
been far from the truth. The misuse of government institutions for political
ends is indeed a fascist tactic.
But because most media serve as the propaganda
arm of the Democratic Party, there will be no protest from the media, only
support.
There is nothing Trump or any member of his
administration has done that is comparable to Hillary Clinton's use of her own
email server while U.S. secretary of state, or her destroying tens of thousands
of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress, or foreign governments' and
corporations' paying vast sums of money to Bill Clinton and The Clinton
Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
Nor is there anything
Trump or anyone in his administration has done comparable to the Obama
administration's use of the IRS to suppress conservative nonprofits; its
selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, at least one of which was later found at
the scene where a Border Patrol officer was killed; or the lies it told about
the cause of the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in
Benghazi.
Yet any suggestion by Republicans that these activities be
investigated is effectively shouted down by the Democrats and the media.
And
let's not talk about the real collusion in 2016 -- between the FBI, the State
Department, the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House, using material
sourced in part from the Russian government -- to undermine the Republican
candidate for president and his presidency. The mainstream media isn't
interested in that.
In other words, the Democratic Party and the media will
do to American political life what it has done to the arts; the universities;
the high schools; the Boy Scouts; race relations; religion; the happiness of so
many women (misled by feminism regarding marriage and career); the moral fabric
of American life (morality reduced to feelings); late-night television;
mainstream Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism; pro football; and the sexual
innocence of the young: It will poison it.
From the French Revolution to this day, the two great
aims of the left have been promising utopia to the malcontented and
accumulating as much power as possible. All moral values are subservient to
these goals.
After all, what could be more important than "social
justice" (the left's term for everything it advocates);
"equality" (of result); women's liberation from the "sexist
oppression" of the "patriarchy"; combatting "white
privilege"; fighting the "rape culture" that pervades campuses;
saving life on planet Earth from the "existential threat" to it;
"resistance" to the "authoritarian," "fascist,"
"white supremacist," "racist" Trump administration;
supplanting national identities and institutions with a "world
citizen" identity and international institutions; and undoing the most
fundamental built-in identity of the human race, that of male and female, in
the name of transgender rights?
Compared with almost any country, America is freer; gives
its people more opportunities to economically advance; is less racist,
xenophobic and anti-Semitic; has a friendlier population; has less corruption;
and has far more medical innovation.
Yet this coming year, the left, the Democratic
Party and the media will continue purveying the lie that the Trump
administration is fascist, racist and authoritarian and poses a mortal threat
to American democracy.
Given all this Trumpian fascism, how exactly did the
Republicans lose the House?
Thanks to Democratic control of the House of
Representatives, the left will use the levers of government to keep the
American people in a constant state of agitation.
The only thing the left hates
more than a happy population is losing elections.
And it knows the two are
linked -- because happy and grateful Americans rarely vote Democrat.
The road
to Democrat victories lies in convincing women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews and
young people to be as unhappy, ungrateful and angry as possible -- in the
greatest country ever made.
That is the left's agenda for 2019.
Nevertheless, in wishing a happy new year to my fellow
Americans, I hope I'm wrong.