There are two major political ideologies in America.
Left and Right. Liberal and Conservative.
In 2021 that appears likely to change to just one when it comes to control of the federal government. The Progressive-Democrat-Socialists have managed to gain total control of the Presidency, House, and Senate and they have wasted no time doing what they have wanted to do for decades: eliminate their opposition.
One method to accomplish this goal is having the ability make the rules. However, the when making those rules make them such that they only apply to one side, the opposing side. Double standards are manipulative and dishonest at their core. They are infuriating and damaging to anyone on the wrong side. They are the height of hypocrisy and have no place in political discourse or societal governance, yet by all indication that is exactly how the game is going to be played in 2021.
Consider these examples:
Stating condemnation for what occurred at the Nation’s Capitol Building last week is only accepted if you’re a Democrat. If you’re a Republican you are an insurrectionist or domestic terrorist by default. These sentiments have been parroted by Left Wing media and Democrats holding public office.
President Trump called for protests that would be ‘peaceful and patriotic’ and he got labeled a national security threat. Yet Representative Maxine Waters, from California, can call on her supporters to get ‘physical’ and ‘in the faces’ of Republicans and she gets the chairmanship of the financial services committee.
Republican members of congress, utilized a process described in the constitution to offer an objection due to the improper and unconstitutional changes made to the election rules in some states and we were labeled seditionists. Democrats in congress raised money for groups who attacked our police, burned our cities, destroyed our businesses, and established autonomous zones, but they were celebrated as justice warriors.
Last week Democrats called for unity, democracy, and healing. Days later, seeking power and political advantage the Democrats have gone back to their natural state. The party of impeachment, removal, and division.
Jim McGovern, the Democrat Chair of the House Rules Committee, said in his opening remarks during the 2021 impeachment proceedings, that “Republicans last week voted to overturn the results of an election!” Guess who was the first objector to Donald Trump’s election on January 6th 2017? The very first objector was none other than Jim McGovern. Guess which state he objected to? Alabama. The very first state called. Alabama. President Trump won Alabama by 30 points.
They can object to Alabama in 2017 with no grounds or evidence to support them, but they can turn around and tell Republicans they can’t object to Pennsylvania in 2021 when there are legal grounds and evidence to support it.
- Pennsylvania, where the state Supreme Court unilaterally extended the election from Tuesday to Friday.
- Pennsylvania, where the Secretary of State unilaterally changed the rules, ignoring the constitutional role of the state legislature to make changes to election laws.
- Pennsylvania, where county clerks in some counties and you can imagine which ones, let people “fix” their ballots. That’s against the law. They allowed them to take secured mail-in ballots and “fix” them in direct violation of the law.
But they accuse the Republicans of trying to overturn the election and the media nods its collective head in agreement.
Guess who the second objector was in 2017? Jamie Raskin, the Congressman managing the impeachment for the Democrats.
Democrats objected to more states in 2017 than Republicans did last week but somehow this time it’s wrong.
Democrats can raise bail for rioters and looters last summer, but when Republicans condemn all violence, including the violence last summer and the violence last week, they are wrong.
Democrats were willing to investigate the President of the United States for fours years, but will not even look at an election that 80 million Americans, half the electorate, both Republicans and Democrats, have doubts about.
Americans are tired of the double standards.
These examples are from just the past week.
When will ALL fair-minded people, regardless of political affiliation, stand up and demand the double standards end?
How long before you’re on the other side of a double standard? Or do you suppose that will never happen?
If you’re a Democrat, you may be right. Your political opposition may be silenced forever.
But don’t think that’s a good thing.