Granite Grok:
Other than making sure women can kill their unborn babies, and even that has gone a bit by the wayside, nothing Democrats promise ever comes to pass. The more they speak of equality and justice, the less there is of both. Prosperity, Democracy, and civility are bait on a hook that once taken finds you lacking all of the above. Crime and poverty are the only things that grow from the rhetorical seeds they plant, fueled by promises to tax the rich (who get richer) while everyone else pays for daring to trust them.
It’s everywhere and a lot of people know it, but the left is still better at organizing and messaging and pulling even broken heartstrings. Human nature is a better growth medium for frustration, fear, and anger than it is for the patience and hard work needed to secure liberty. But the proof is in the pudding.
Dems create wastelands, create dependents, and then string them along to stay in power. Anyone who isn’t in that trap should expect to be haunted, harassed, and eventually indicted if you are a big enough threat. There is the Bana Republic with infrastructure, at least for a little while. Heck, they couldn’t even be bothered to keep their promises about George Floyd Square. more
The shutdown proves it. Break all of the old promises because they can’t fulfill the new promises.
Look at any Blue city and see freaks, bums, filth and destruction.
Hell even the Illegal Alien truckers are hauling 80,000 lbs of Hypocrisy across the nation!
There is no money in fixing things. “Activists” (insert the term “grifters” if you want) really don’t want racism to end because they would be out of a job. (I’m looking at you Southern Law Poverty Center). There is no profit potential if the homelessness problem were solved. “Solutions” to crime frequently result in more crime, thereby requiring additional government agencies and more government employees. We have proved you can’t fix poverty by giving people money, and the number of obese people using food assistance programs is much larger than the number of emaciated waifs I’ve noticed dying on street corners due to starvation. (I’ve never actually seen an emaciated waif dying on a street corner due to starvation. If I had, I would have bought them food).
Government programs are forever because people proft from them. For example, mohair subsidies, created during WW I to make sure there was a sufficient supply of mohair for uniforms, lasted decades after everyone quit using mohair.
There are people who truly need help, and our nation is wealthy enough to provide this assistance. But overall, life is good in the United States, and Democrats in particular are in a position of searching for problems that may need government solutions.
It’s simple everyone working in government positions gets paid or no one gets paid.