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The Patriot Post Digest 5-8-2018
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The reasons for Clinton’s loss have been explained in rich detail, so there is no reason to go over all that again here. What is curious, though, is that a year and a half removed from her well-deserved defeat at the polls, people are still pushing the narrative that women voters are to blame for her loss.
Voters align themselves with political parties based on the belief that those parties will address their concerns and govern according to their wishes. If that party delivers, then its candidates are reelected. If those politicians don’t deliver, then they don’t deserve reelection. They must recalculate their connection to voters, change their ways, and try again.
Those are truisms — unless that political party is the Democrat Party, in which case certain voters (women, blacks, minorities, homosexuals, etc.) are expected to support their elected representatives whether they deliver or not, simply because the voters themselves have certain anatomical features or skin color.
Democrats have a mindset not unlike the Mafia. Once you’re in, you’re in for life. They don’t take kindly to individual thought. They don’t appreciate criticism from within their ranks. And they certainly don’t like it when their base turns against them.
Michelle Obama’s words echo Clinton’s own 18-month-long tantrum that has laid blame30 for her loss with just about everyone but herself and the Easter Bunny.
For years, the press and much of the public have viewed both Obama and Clinton as strong women. They were leaders and examples of what women can achieve. They spoke of the sisterhood and how women can and should support other women. The unspoken part was that women should only support Democrat women. And while female independence was espoused to be the end goal, that independence was only supposed to go as far as the Democrat Party itself. Anything beyond that meant being a traitor, not an independent woman.
The truth is Obama and Clinton are doing a disservice to the very cause they claim to support. You can’t be for female empowerment and then chastise women when they empower themselves to make a choice that you don’t like.
Obama hopes her rhetoric will shame women back into towing the party line. Short of that, she is probably counting on like-minded women to ostracize those who dare support Donald Trump, admittedly a man whose sexual transgressions are manifold.
It would be nice to think that the decades-long stranglehold Democrats have over their identity-based constituents may be starting to loosen. But that might be wishful thinking. After all, when television series like “The Handmaid’s Tale” receive industry awards and critical accolades, it’s easy to see that the Left’s indoctrination of the public continues apace.
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was just renewed for a third season, has become a rallying cry in the Left’s culture war. The show, based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel31, depicts an America that has become a Christian theocracy in which women hold no rights and are kept around for the sole purpose of having and raising children. Kind of like in Islamic fundamentalist countries in the real world.
Atwood spilled her anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-American views into a book in 1985, and she has had praise heaped upon her ever since. She claimed to be railing against the Reagan Revolution at the time, and the Left now sees the story as relevant again with Donald Trump. Or so the leftist narrative goes.
The bitter irony is that Atwood’s dreary, despotic world is more likely to become reality if the power of the Left remains unchecked. When people like Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton demand total allegiance from their gender, their acts of character assassination and their refusal to tolerate differing opinions are exactly what constitute tyranny.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55820-michelle-obama-puts-women-in-their-place
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Climate Change Hypocrisy36 — Study finds that skeptics’ behavior is more environmentally friendly than that of “true believers.”
The Return of ‘Last Man Standing’37 — After ABC dumped him, Fox is picking up Tim Allen’s hit sitcom for a seventh season.
Video: Things More Popular Than Nancy Pelosi38 — She promises to win and run for speaker, but that may only benefit Republicans.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Gary Bauer: Sessions in Contempt?39
Dennis Prager: The War on Wisdom40
Stephen Moore: The Internet Under Siege41
Cal Thomas: The Exhaustion Factor42
Tony Perkins: New York Times Bites Off More Than It Can Skew43
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion44.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Gary Bauer: “Former Secretary of State John Kerry appears to be violating the Logan Act. News broke late Friday that Kerry has been secretly meeting with top Iranian officials, advising them on how to fight President Trump’s efforts to renegotiate or cancel the 2015 nuclear deal. This is not the first time Kerry has been caught freelancing when it comes to foreign policy. Earlier this year, he told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to ‘hold on and be strong’ and ‘not yield to President Trump’s demands’ because Trump wouldn’t be president for very long. There never was any doubt about it before, but Abbas recently exposed himself as a blatant anti-Semite. Even the Palestinian apologists at The New York Times condemned Abbas and declared that it was time for him go. That is who Kerry is giving advice and counsel to. Of course, Kerry stayed at the table talking to the Iranians while the regime sponsored mass rallies calling for the death of America and a second Holocaust through the destruction of Israel. It is beyond the pale that John Kerry is giving advice to two governments hostile to the United States. Perhaps Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be investigating Kerry to make sure he is registered as a foreign agent.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “It’s clear that from the beginning … they’re investigating a person, not a crime. And in so doing, it is the most vile violation of the Constitution.” —Joe DiGenova, former Trump attorney, on the Mueller investigation
Observations: “Since [Stormy] Daniels never has claimed that she was forced into a supposed sexual relationship, the only basis for any claim … was her threat to make her claims about a supposed affair public to injure Trump’s reputation. Would that violate federal law? Good question. And somehow, I doubt that [Robert] Mueller is investigating that.” —Hans von Spakovsky
Upright: “I don’t agree with everything the NRA espouses, but I understand their position. You have to be extreme to counter the other extreme. … The Second Amendment, if you really studied it … makes perfect sense today. What’s happening is a total misuse of the Second Amendment.” —"Criminal Minds" actor Joe Mantegna
Braying Jackass: “It has not been Republicans. It is always Democrats. We’ve been there for you. We’re gonna stay there for you. And damn this president! We’re not going to let him destroy organized labor.” —Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Well, bye: “I want to thank some of you for sending good wishes a very long way during my campaign and the months that followed. I received a number of invitations from Kiwis to permanently relocate [to New Zealand], and I must say that I really did appreciate the offers, gave them some thought.” —Hillary Clinton on what she almost did after losing in 2016 (If only she’d followed through.)
And last… “The fact that one of our two major political parties is advocating lowering the voting age to 16 is a good example of the absence of wisdom among a large segment of the adult population. What adult deems 16-year-olds capable of making a wise voting decision? The answer is an adult with the wisdom of a 16-year-old.” —Dennis Prager
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55822-tuesday-short-cuts
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