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"Victory is not winning for our party.
Victory is winning for our country."
– President Donald Trump
George HW Bush once said, “There is no higher honor than
to serve free men and women beneath the American flag.” In 1991 following
Operation Desert Storm, U.S. and world opinion of President Bush was the
highest of any president in history. His approval rating of 89 percent is the
greatest ever recorded by Gallup.
Yet that wasn’t enough to get him re-elected.
Team Clinton knew that to defeat the popular Bush, they must turn victory into
failure. And they did that with one Alinsky-ism: “If you push a negative hard
enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
They engaged in a
deceptive political war to turn America’s attention to the slow economy rather
than Bush’s victory in Kuwait.
They sagaciously made a war hero a villain with
just four simple words: “It’s the economy stupid.”
At the time of the election, our economy was in a mild
recession.
Yet Clinton, who could make you believe anything was true that
wasn’t true, transformed an economic downturn into a calamity.
In a televised
debate, Clinton, staring reverently into the camera, said: "How has the
recession affected you personally?" He then answered: "I feel your
pain."
He took control of the message, convincing people they had problems
by turning a non-problem into a problem.
He used the same strategy as FDR when
he almost parlayed the Great Depression into a dictatorship. Both of them knew
there’s no issue more important to the average voter than the economy. If it is
not an issue, if you want to win, make it an issue.
“No politician can sit on a hot issue if you
make it hot enough.”
– Saul Alinsky
Barack Obama cake-walked to D.C. on the back of an over
publicized recession. Media portrayed him as the new age FDR. He didn’t let
them down.
He turned an economic downturn into a career.
Like Clinton, he
charmed the underclass by fabricating problems he’d claim to solve and didn’t.
He rode his stallion through the country like Robin Hood at Nottingham,
reciting the progressive gospel; he’d transform America into nirvana.
But
unlike Clinton, who relied on Gingrich, Obama relied on his ego. He convinced
his motley sycophants a bad economy was OK since government would take care of
them and was re-elected.
"People must understand, I have the best
deal.”
– Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton doubled down on Obama during her White
House bid, which was a misread on America.
Voters woke up and saw the
arithmetic on the wall and elected Trump, a capitalist.
While progressives
labeled Trump’s win a bearish event, that changed a few months after he was
elected as the economy mushroomed.
Their love affair with Trump made the
economy the best in decades.
Employment is up, the market is on fire, and 76
percent of all voters believe they are better off today than any time in years.
Then why did they kick out half the Congress last election?
Progressive
operatives controlled the message.
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize
it, and polarize it."
– Saul Alinsky
Just before the midterms, President Donald Trump received
a Commerce Department report that the gross domestic grew at an unprecedented 5
percent the final quarter of last year. Consumers spent more due to lower fuel
prices and improved wages.
President Trump evidenced this as proof that his
policies on trade, taxes and economics were working.
This robust growth was
good news for Republicans, who were counting on the economy to help them in the
midterm elections.
Yet times changed with the rise of the left’s entitlement
society.
This gaggle no longer cares about the economy; only what government
will give them.
So the left changed their message from economics to
entitlements and retook the House.
“Look for ways to increase insecurity,
anxiety and uncertainty.”
– Saul Alinsky
Ronald Reagan said, liberals think that “facts are stupid
things.” They cannot win on facts so they must control the message to burry the
truth from voters to win.
They redirect attention from a stellar accomplishment
with invented social catastrophes to win elections.
By continuing to replenish
their army with young recruits, they’re able to negate the success of
capitalist leaders promising to level the social and economic playing fields
for their proletariats.
With social media and a leftist press in their camp,
they can recant their well-rehearsed pollution and destroy the truth faster
than Clinton can lose his shorts.
"The price of a successful attack is a
constructive alternative."
– Saul Alinsky
Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address to
an eager America.
When he took the stage, he was electric. He recited his
accomplishments which few Americans were aware of due to negative leftist media
coverage. He passionately extended an olive branch to the warring progressives.
They were not impressed and ramped up their impish sulking.
Trump called for
their “cooperation and compromise for America’s good," and asked them to
stop "the politics of revenge" for the good of our nation.
The more
he pleaded for their help and support the more they taunted and jeered his
overtures.
"Tonight, I ask you to choose greatness
over gridlock.”
– President Trump
As Trump extolled the virtues of the best economy in
decades, the left was egg-faced.
When he reiterated his economic
accomplishments of 5.3 million new jobs, 600,000 in manufacturing; the lowest
unemployment in history for minority groups; wages rising the fastest for
blue-collar workers in history; business confidence at record highs; $8
trillion in stock market gains; massive American retirement gains, and much
more, only a few reluctant leftists applauded?
His benchmark success, tax cuts
for everyone, got only partisan applause. Corporate America isn't popular with
the left and this kind of success destroys their message of gloom for America
under Trump.
He rubbed salt in their wounds as he reminded them:
“We will never become a socialist country.”
– Donald Trump
The left has convinced their base government is the
answer not individual effort. They drove this message home with five scripted degenerative
responses to Trump’s State of the Union.
Joseph Kennedy claimed Trump deceived
America with phony economic news. Socialist Bernie Sanders ranted Trump had cut
healthcare benefits for seniors. Donna Edwards said his tax cuts were only for
the rich. Maxine Waters scolded him for favoring foreign interests over black
Americans?
But Politico has revealed these were negative contextual half-truths
or total non-truths.
“Policy, for the most part, has been made for
white people in America, not for people of color.”
– Maxine Waters
Donald Trump ended with another plea to the left: “This
is our future, our fate, and our choice. We must go forward together”. But this
fell on deaf ears.
The left has redefined the American Dream for their power
over principal.
Their base no longer has the moral values of our first
settlers, who came here seeking economic opportunity. They wanted a new life in
a nation that would reward them for investing in this country, not expecting
someone to give them an EBT card, a cell phone or a free lunch. They came to
America for liberty, freedom and a chance to be anything they desired to be.
There was a time when we were a nation of people that
cherished freedom, hard work, decency, and responsibility under the flag of
patriotism.
But due to progressivism, destructive values have seeped into our
culture like toxic waste. Liberals politicize everything from sports to our
bathrooms.
Everyone is a victim to benefit them. They have divided America to
conquer it.
Until we are willing to draw a line in the sand and stand our
ground, they will continue to bully us into submission. Who is going to stand
up and tell the progressives, “It is the economy stupid!”
"I will fight for you with every breath
in my body; and I will never, ever let you down.”
– President Trump
