For the Left, Power Isn’t a Tool, It’s the Goal
When I was about nine years old, my Irish Setter loved to chase the UPS delivery truck. We could never figure out why he wanted to chase it. And we joked about what he would do if he caught it. Then it happened. He caught the truck. Or maybe the truck caught him. Either way, the result wasn’t pretty, and we were left with a major mess to clean up.
For years, that old question had me baffled as I watched the Democrat party lurch farther and farther left. “What are they trying to achieve?” “What do they want to do with this power?” Then I stumbled across a meme that swept all the mystery away. “Power isn’t the means to an end. Power IS the end.”
Let’s say that again. The Left worships power, and it never considers what it would do with the power it covets. Before you get all worked up in a lather over my lack of mental faculties, please consider what mental faculties the core Left demonstrates. Congressman Shri Thanedar announced articles of impeachment against President Trump, claiming that, “His unlawful actions have subverted the justice system, violated the separation of powers, and placed personal power and self-interest above public service.”
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I suppose this shouldn’t be a surprise in a state that has over 2 million phony names on the voting rolls. Is it any surprise that a Republican elected official in New York is an anomaly? What about Illinois, Arizona, and California? Alexander Pacquette has identified this same sort of fraud in every state. Since it universally favors Democrats (they’re the ones who “vote” the fraudulent ballots), if the rolls were truly cleaned up, we’d have Republican supermajorities everywhere.
Third, we must look at the border. I used to cringe when I heard conservative radio hosts talk about Democrats importing voters. Now that we see locales flaunting non-citizen voting, one aspect becomes clear: Dems were importing Dem voters.
But the bigger fraud is the census. Dems were able to prevent Trump from excluding non-citizens from the census. This clearly added Dem seats in the House from California, New York, and the like, stealing them from Texas and Florida.
Virtually every action I see from the Left is aimed at preserving power. But they seem to be utterly oblivious to the secondary effects of their actions. The flood of illegal aliens that arrived under Biden created massive costs for sanctuary polities. But that’s OK. Just print more money and shovel it out from the Treasury to pay for them.
When illegals commit new crimes while out of jail awaiting trial, it’s no big deal. “They aren’t doing it in my gated community.”
If we ban guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, defenseless citizens will die. But those bitter clingers wouldn’t vote Democrat anyway. And with the government the only armed party, control is ours.
As I considered the examples for this missive, I found them too numerous to count. It’s more than clear that the Left worships power but is utterly unconcerned with the effects of that power on us. As long as they are somewhere near the center of power, they will be protected, and we will pay the price. But, of course, we don’t accept their worldview, so we are evil and must be destroyed.
It’s time for us to clean up the mess.
Ted Noel is a retired physician who posts on social media as Doctor Ted. His Doctor Ted’s Prescription podcast is available on multiple podcast channels.