The fiction that the Democrat party is “the party of working class people” is being exposed by liberal advocates. In fact, they confirm that the Democrat party is actually acting against the interests of the working class voters. 

In his article, “The Coming Working Election,” Ruy Texeira, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-founder and politics editor of the Substack newsletter, The Liberal Patriot, discusses how out of touch the people he describes as the Brahmin Left are that have taken over the Democrat party. He posits that the Brahmin Left support issues that are opposed by working class voters. He lists and comments on the following issues: 

• It is not the working class that sees the police as an unnecessary evil and opposes rigorous enforcement of the law for public safety and public order.

• It is not the working class that believes public consumption of hard drugs should be tolerated, with intervention limited to reviving addicts when they overdose.

• It is not the working class that believes many crimes like shoplifting should be decriminalized because punishing the perpetrators would have “disparate impact”.

• It is not the working class that believes you should never refer to illegal immigrants as “illegal” and that border security is somehow a racist idea.

• It is not the working class that believes an overwhelming surge of migrants at the southern border should be accommodated with asylum claims, parole arrangements, and release into urban areas around the country.

• It is not the working class that believes competitive admissions and job placements should be allocated on the basis of race (“equity”) not merit.

• It is not the working class that views objective tests as fundamentally flawed if they show racial disparities in achievement.

• It is not the working class that believes America is a structurally racist, white supremacist society.

• It is not the working class that sees patriotism as a dirty word and the history of the United States as a bleak landscape of racism and oppression.

• It is not the working class that thinks sex is “assigned at birth” and can be changed by self-conception, rather than being an objective, biological reality.

• It is not the working class that thinks it’s a great idea to police the language people use for hidden “microaggressions” and bias against the “marginalized”.

• And it is definitely not the working class that believes in “decolonize everything” and manages to see murderous thugs like Hamas as righteous liberators of a subaltern people.”

The reason for the failure of Democrats to advance policies that are not in sync with the interests of working class voters is because the Brahmin Left currently controls the Democrat party. This group is highly-educated, progressive left thinking and controls the party.

According to Thomas Pikkety a French economist, the Democrat party has been a party that has shifted its base from the party of slavery and the party of poor whites, and has evolved through the party of the New Deal and to its current state of being the party of intellectual elites and minorities alike.

One group that has been excluded from the current state of this new Democrat party is the working class. They get up every day and go to work earn a pay check usually at a job that they cannot zoom into and watch their purchasing power shrink daily from rampant inflation.

The Green energy policies of the elitist ways of the party are also destructive to the working class that actually have to pay for their energy consumption. 

Take home heating oil (the untaxed version of diesel gas), which initially tripled under Biden; it is now only double what it was when President Trump left office, but this sharp increase  is forcing working class people and poor people, to suffer through our cold winters without adequate heat. 

Food price inflation is forcing working class and the poor to change their diets to less meat protein with lower costs cuts of meat in their diet. Credit card debt has soared and interest rates on this debt make it even more painful. The interest rates on car loans have gone way up making new cars less affordable. 

Middle class businesses, which have been a path for upward social mobility under our capitalistic system of economics, are under stress as many more are failing thanks to the crime, higher interest rates, higher labor costs and impossible regulation. Under the current administration, there is no end in sight.

Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are standing up for working class voters. We are against all of the policies listed by Ruy Teixeira.

We are the party that believes in equality for everyone regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sex and sexual orientation. Martin Luther King and his “I have a Dream Speech” would be a speech for a Republican today as the party has shifted to the leadership of the Brahmin Left. We are a country of opportunity to live out the American Dream and the only party that offers this today is the Republican party.

It is time for the working class voters to realize that the Democrats have abandoned them and they in turn should stop voting for Democrats and vote instead for Republicans. 

They should walk away like Brandon Straka and his walk away movement to educate democrats about the reality of their party that deserted them so long ago.

As a candidate for Congress I was born into a middle class family of small business owners and I stand for working class values.

Dr. Michael Goldstein

DemComs like Gavin Newsom say Republicans put “the rights of a fertilized egg above the rights of women.” And what exactly are the rights of women, according to these ruling tyrants? Certainly, in their universe, no woman has a right to eschew a vax; to deny her eight year old a sex change operation; to live in a country without invasions at the border; she has no right to keep more than 40 percent of her income; no right to own a weapon of self-protection; no right to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of those whining about the rights of women.

So on what basis are we supposed to take these people like Gavin Newsom seriously?

By the way: Don’t you love this meme with the quote attributed to William F. Buckley, Jr.?

It’s not that intelligence is a bad thing. But the toxic combination of hubris, intelligence and utterly wrong ideas can lead to … well, look around you.

As for the present optimism about a Trump victory in November, remember one very important thing: A Trump victory will be meaningless without full accountability, as traitors, for the Biden & Obama regimes, Fauci — all of them.

We cannot leave the perpetrators of violence against our Constitution and our rights in power. We cannot leave them free to do even more harm. The “election” is beside the point. We are in a civil war.

Michael J. Hurd

Progressives have convinced millions that limitless government spending translates into prosperity. They are either unaware or blind to the fact that the government can only take money from the producers and redistribute it to others after taking a hefty slice for themselves. No knowledgeable person would believe otherwise. Government spending is the reverse of a perpetual motion machine; it is more akin to a black hole where money and dreams go to die.

I’ll start with a riddle: What never dies, never sees layoffs, is constantly growing and is rarely held out to be a model of efficiency, inventiveness and thrift? You knew the answer already: our federal government. When I was growing up, my Father told me the government was the employer of last recourse. It is probably not 100% fair, but he was making a point I believe is just as true today as it was then: Working for the government pays better, demands less of your effort and time, and almost guarantees you a cushy job for life. A regimented system draws those who like to feel as if they are protected from the vagaries of life their non-government friends must contend with. You frequently gain a certain arrogance when you work for the government!  For instance:

• The government has grown during good times and bad, with a compound growth rate of 11% over the last 10 years, with continued growth increases projected by the Congressional Budget Office out to infinity and beyond!
• Working for the federal government puts you at the top of the heap financially, with the average employee, including benefits, making a staggering $146,643 a year.
• Those federal government benefits are the best anywhere, averaging over $44,000 yearly compared to the private sector at $13,486.
• Compare the number of days private-sector workers work per year to the federal government, which averages 50 days a year off compared to the private sector at 16 days!
• When federal employees perform services that the private sector can provide, the cost frequently doubles, triples, or more, and the time to complete is three times longer, according to accredited studies.
• The term patronage, political, presidential and within government agencies, was invented for government workers. Moving up the ladder and the kind of reviews you receive depend less on performance and more on your connections and acquiescence to the politics (almost exclusively Democrat) that drive the strategy, decisions and implementation of government policy. Statistics reveal that federal employees’ donations to political candidates and unions (as high as 99% sometimes) mostly go to Democrats!
• Try firing a federal employee. It is frequently difficult, if not impossible, with innumerable third-party reviews and appeals.
• Ineptitude on display promotes a narrative of incompetence. Harvard Business Review tries to make sense of the negative culture and insular views involved in federal government workplaces.
• DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is the newest wrinkle in government efficiency. Now, it threatens our national security. Harvard Business Review takes a dim view of “The Failure of the DEI Industrial Complex.” Is the government willing to back down and mend its ways? No way; who’s going to make them?
• Why does the government pay more for everything than the private sector? Read what the CATO Institute has to say on this subject.
• Why do inspectors general stay busy with backlogs stretching into the years, but few employees get fired or go to jail? I spoke with two individuals in both the SBA and State Department Inspector General’s Offices who acknowledged that it takes an average of five years or more for internal investigations and that every case has a political element, especially if the person is of from a protected class, one frustrated individual shared with me.
• Why do many government programs fail, get canceled, or can’t be accomplished within time and budget constraints? While the degree of failure varies by department and the relative size or duration of a particular acquisition program or purchase contract, the waste in terms of time, money, overhead and opportunity cost are monumental. The Defense Department stands out for special mention, with tens of billions of dollars of waste each year. There are many reasons for this, but overall, the tension between the Defense Department and Congress comes in for the lion’s share of the problems, with program oversight not too far behind. Again, accountability frequently means someone gets transferred or kicked up the ladder, almost never fired. At least, I’ve never heard of anyone getting fired for lack of success or effectiveness.

The answer to the above should give us all the willies and remind us that the government has gotten too big and intrusive. The sheer volume of government employees seeking to justify their existence leads them to intrude profoundly into our everyday lives. How many layers of management exist in government? That’s a tricky issue to nail down. But, read this article, and you will begin to understand that complexity and opaqueness may be a feature and not a defect. When no one knows what’s happening, no one is held accountable, either!

There’s at least one more elephant in the room. Congress knows that not everyone can be a federal employee and that the cost for federal employees is too great. Government efficiency is so poor that they need many more hands and minds than exist on the 2 million-strong federal payroll. So what do they do? They hire contractors by the hundreds of thousands. At least 500,000 people, maybe as many as another million, work for various government departments under contract.

Presidents Biden and Obama have encouraged the rise of government hiring to the nation’s detriment. Never believe that massive government growth is an accident, either. In no way should working for the government be compared to individuals actually delivering services or making things. The government is a drag on our economy and a threat to our safety and security, just as surely as Russia or China. Government diverts scarce resources that could be better used to invest in our economy and to make people less dependent on charity and the whims and vagaries of government policy. At the end of the day, the government only seeks to enrich itself; make no mistake about it.

Eventually, there won’t be enough money to go around. When that day comes, our choices will be stark and unappealing. Getting a handle on the cost of government is something we must do sooner than later.

God bless America.

Allan J. Feifer

All these people who say they will flee the country if Trump wins in November …

Seriously?

They fear dictatorship, they say.

They don’t fear dictatorship. They’re just fine with the dictatorship we already have, run by a cabal of billionaire leftists, RINOs plus Obama.

If it was truly dictatorship they feared, they would have run already. It’s not dictatorship they fear.

It’s the prospect of NOT being permanent dictators they find terrifying.

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