Death of Democracy.. .17 October 2021

The Death of Democracy is Overstated
Anonymous

If QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory, the Democrats'
allegations that Republicans are killing democracy is the left's
conspiracy. They have convinced themselves that the Jan. 6, 2021,
incursion into the Capitol was the worst event since the Civil War.
We've recently gone through a week that included discussions
about the Tulsa Race Massacre, which was arguably a far worse post-
Civil War attack on our democracy. Likewise, more people died on
United Airlines Flight 93 to keep terrorists from flying a plane
into the Capitol. Two planes brought down the World Trade Center
that same day, and another slammed into the Pentagon.
In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire inside the United
States House of Representatives. There were also various bombings by
the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground, and the assassina-
tion of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Those are all argue-
ably worse than what happened on Jan. 6.
But it has become dogma of the left and many members of the press
that the Jan. 6 incursion is the worst. I do think it was bad and in
the top 10, but I would put it lower than the Tulsa Race Massacre,
the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the gunfire in the House of Represen-
tatives, the Kennedy assassination and the Weather Underground
bombings. Congress very literally got back to work the afternoon of
Jan. 6.
    Coupled with the outrage over Jan. 6 is outrage over Sen. Joe
Manchin preserving the filibuster. Democrats have turned on the one
man keeping them in charge of the Senate. Now Machin has done some-
thing else. He has penned a new op-ed in which he declares his
opposition to H.R.1/S.1: the massive progressive voting reform
package. Various Democrats, members of the press, Hollywood stars
and progressive activists across the country have all declared our
democracy would die if the legislation is not passed.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, Manchin makes one really good
point that spectacularly discredits the Democrats' talking points.
He asked: "Are the very Republican senators who voted to impeach
Trump because of actions that led to an attack on our democracy
unwilling to support actions to strengthen our democracy? Are these
same senators, whom many in my party applauded for their courage,
now threats to the very democracy we seek to protect?"
Manchin just killed the Democrats' voting reform package. Unfort-
unately for Democrats who have believed the GOP is dying, their party
appears to have some serious problems beyond an inability to get any-
thing done in Washington.
White people don't see themselves as an identity group. Critical
theorists on the left say that is a form of privilege. But therein
lies a problem for Democrats: The more white people vote as an ident-
ity group, the less they will vote for the party that tells them they
are oppressors who must pay reparations.
Do you really think the rich, suburban, secular soccer mom is
going to go along with punishing her family and, in particular, her
kids because of the color of her skin or because someone she's re-
lated to did something 200 years ago? Really?
Likewise, Hispanic voters and Asian voters do not see themselves
as a racial group. To an extent, Hispanic voters do; they trend
toward viewing themselves as white. Add them to the voter pool of
white people, and Democrats lose even more.
Asian voters are from a plethora of countries. Korean voters tend
to be Christian. Indian subcontinent voters are trending Republican
because of people like Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley. Japanese and
Chinese descendants lean Democrat. Hispanic or Latino voters are
Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Columbian, Argentinian, etc. In Florida
they've all tended to vote with the GOP while Democrats double down
on identity politics, and Republicans treat them as voters who want
jobs and safety.
For years, Democrats and a great many political pundits in the
press have told us demography is destiny and we're going to wind up
with a Republican Party marginalized like it is in California. The
real world data suggests Texas and Florida are more likely the tra-
jectory of the country's politics than California, and that trend
hurts Democrats. Democrats' constant hysteria on democracy and
identity are undermining their ability to maintain a majority
coalition.
We may not be as bad off as we think because cooler heads seem
to be prevailing, for now but we must continue to push back.
We have God on our side and prayer for inner peace.

Conservatively,
John