Scaring up the vote
If you can’t inspire them, scare the living hell out of them. That seems to be the guiding principle of the professional political class this year. Instead of talking about the issues that really matter to people — the economy, education, et al. — we get to hear about how Nazis and Putin are coming in to strip away your civil rights and spy on you during your OB/GYN appointment.
One of the worst examples I’ve seen has been has been running non-stop on YouTube recently. This dark money PAC starts off its ad with a pleasant looking black woman with footage from the Civil Rights protests of the 1960s in the background. She smiles, looks at the camera and says:
“My grandparents told me stories about how hard they had to fight to secure civil rights in this country. Now, here comes Project 2025 which seeks to take away all we have gained and legalize discrimination.” […]
*Seriously* ???
The ad continues on about how “they” want to implement “their” plan to make America less free.
What the ad doesn’t tell you is that “they” are The Heritage Foundation – a Washington, DC-based think-tank that’s been around ever since Ronald Reagan arrived in town. (It’s NOT the Trump campaign.)
Here’s Heritage president Kevin Roberts defending Project 2025 from the howler monkeys on the political left and in the horrible drive-by media:
[…] Our policy work isn’t about any single presidential candidate, and it never has been. We started our work in the spring of 2022, before Trump announced he was running for a second term and well before any primary.
Our work also is not unique. Many other think tanks on both sides of the aisle, including the far-left Center for American Progress, do similar work advancing their priorities.
Finally, our work isn’t new. The Heritage Foundation has produced conservative policy playbooks every election cycle since Ronald Reagan’s victories in 1980 and 1984.
Now as then, those policies are focused on empowering American citizens to achieve the American dream, a dream that more and more Americans feel is slipping out of reach.
That means our policies are focused on protecting the freedom of Americans to work hard in a steady job. The freedom for Americans to put dinner on the table for their family. And the freedom for Americans to live in a house that they own in a neighborhood where they are safe.
Unfortunately, almost every objective measure indicates that it is much more difficult for Americans to do that now than it was when the Biden-Harris administration entered the White House.[…]
So, why would the leftists find it necessary to run these over-the-top ads evoking the Civil Rights struggle? All the reports we’ve seen indicate that black voter turnout is down nationwide while GOP turnout is exploding at a record level. Leftists have depended on black voters for so long to march like zombies to the polls every four years and mindlessly vote for all of the Ds. Things aren’t working like they normally do, and panic is setting in.
In North Carolina, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have been dispatched to try and whip up black voter enthusiasm. Kamala apparently just isn’t getting the job done.
We’ve all experienced four years of President Donald Trump. Do the folks on the left think we’re not smart enough to remember how well things went from 2017-2021? Apparently, they do.
In addition to evoking the imagery of Bull Connor and his dogs, leftists are throwing around the name of Adolf Hitler. I’ve yet to understand how Trump is a valid comparison to Hitler. He hasn’t set up any camps or attempted to use troops to round up Jews. If he’s supposed to be the second-coming of Hitler, then why didn’t he do that Hitler stuff during his actual four years in office?
Instead, we’re getting all of these horrible, violent, anti-Semitic protests on and around college campuses. All of the people partaking in them — and cheering them on — are Democrat voters. It’s pretty safe to say that Jews will have a rougher time with Kamala & co. in office for four more years than they will with Team Trump.
In North Carolina, Democrats have nominated an actual rioter, and an actual funder of mayhem and rioting, for statewide office. And those of us on the right are the *violent ones.*
And let’s not forget the “Protect Democracy” and “Defend Democracy” signs the leftists are sporting all over the place. These are the same people who have allowed Trump supporters to rot in jail for four years with no hearings or trial for four years because they were near the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. These are the same people indicting and convicting grandmas for praying outside of abortion clinics. These are the same people who – in the name of *fighting disinformation* – advocate for censoring or outright shutting-down any communications that run afoul of government or party diktats. These are the same people who are foaming at the mouth to indict and prosecute anyone and everyone who dared to work for Donald Trump. *Who cares if an actual crime occurred? Make one up.*
The real way to protect *democracy* is to get these clowns out of power and replace them with new people who have respect for average Americans and the principles this country was founded on.
Return the country to a time where people could honestly reap the fruits of their labors, without being hassled or threatened by government regulators or tax collectors. Return the country to a time where America is once again respected for the great place it is, as well as the power it holds and projects.
