For decades, conservatives have called Democrats the "evil party" because of their use of underhanded tactics to seek power and wealth for themselves. Republicans, in contract, are called the "stupid party" for letting them get away with this.
No matter how hard they may protest at first, Republicans always end up going along with Democrat wishes over time. They've let Democrats change our schools to teach anti-American ideologies, use the courts to enact judicial coups against longstanding American ideals, and increase government regulation and spending over the course of decades.
Democrats and other swamp dwellers have gotten away with this for so long that they never thought anyone would call them on it. Mr. Trump is not one of those rollover Republicans, however. He didn't resign when they ginned up the fake "Russia, Russia, Russia" charade or back down when Democrats attacked Justice Kavanaugh, he fought back. They still haven't figured out what to do about him.
We've written several articles describing the Democrats' methods of creating chaos to further their pursuit of power by any means, an approach explained decades ago by 60s liberals Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
More recently, and less academically, the basic tactic is summed up by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's oft-cited meme "Never let a crisis go to waste." He didn't add the Cloward-Piven corollary, "If there's no crisis, create one, or make one up."
In keeping with these principles, whenever a crisis is perceived, Democrats attach provisions to hastily-crafted emergency laws, unrelated to the "crisis du jour", to advance their long-term agenda instead.
President Reagan had a simple criterion for evaluating a proposed law: Did it increase freedom or decrease freedom? Any law that decreased freedom overall didn't get his support.
Democrats' criteria are precisely the opposite - anything that reduces freedom or, better yet, hands money to their allies such as unions or trial lawyers gets their support.
For example, the housing crisis in California is primarily due to Democrats' passing all kinds of restrictions on the use of private property - and, naturally, the only "solutions" they propose to the crisis they created involve taking even more money from taxpayers and giving themselves even more power to mess things up. Only when the voters wake up to this cycle of intentional failure and strip them of power will any actual solutions have any hope of being found.
We'll give them a hint: just about all of the viable solutions involve stripping power away from the government entirely and returning it to the people. This will be difficulty, because embedded bureaucracy - otherwise known as "The Swamp" - helps Democrats oppose any reduction in government power, in the United States as can be seen in Japan.
Democrats also deliberately create chaos to make citizens want to give up freedom in return for the politicians' protecting them from the chaos the politicians themselves created. Both Hillary and Mr. Obama were disciples of Saul Alinsky, who advocated creating chaos to to get power. California passing laws favoring thieves over property owners and Democrats' letting convicted criminals out of jail "to protect them from the virus" are examples of chaos-creation. Keeping people from protecting themselves by closing gun stores as part of the bat-soup lockdown accentuates the crisis.
Some Democrat state governors have issued executive orders forbidding doctors to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to people suffering from Wuhan flu. It's been approved in France. The data which suggest that this readily-available drug helps are scant, but there's no reason a doctor shouldn't be able to give it to a suffering patient who was made fully aware of the uncertain nature of this particular treatment. Democrats seem to be "pro choice" only when peasants choose in ways the politicians like.
We've observed that the Democrats were unable or unwilling to accurately count the votes in their own primary election. They couldn't set up a health insurance web site that worked, instead funneling millions of taxpayer dollars to an incompetent crony. They can't operate New York subways, Boston's MBTA, the DC Metro, or the San Francisco BART. There's poop all over the streets of Scat Francisco. New York City public housing has more kids with lead poisoning than Flint, MI - but there's no Republican to blame, so there's media silence.
Why anyone would believe that the government could operate our medical system is beyond us. Why would anyone vote Democrat at all except to get free stuff as Hunter Biden, John Kerry's advisers, and Nancy Pelosi's son did?
Democrats can be counted on to try to shove through a 1,500 page "emergency" bill containing measures to deal with the crisis but having a lot more provisions to re-make society to give Democrats more wealth and power. We saw them engage in a shakedown by holding up the bill which was designed to help our economy survive the virus lock-down.
"This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision." [House of Representatives] Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.)
The Daily Caller tells us that the New York Times, which sets the pattern for how the mainstream media covers for Democrats when they abuse the system in that manner, repeatedly changed its headline about the Democrats' scummy maneuvers. Their "emergency" bill was a 1,500 page monster which they just happened to already have lying around on a word processor.
The New York Times quietly edited a headline on the coronavirus relief package that stalled in Congress Sunday, twice making adjustments that were more favorable to Democrats.
The original headline read "Democrats Block Action on $1.8 Trillion Stimulus."
The second version still pointed to Democrats as the reason for the stall, but added their justification. "Democrats Block Action on Stimulus Plan, Seeking Worker Protections."
The third headline removed Democrats entirely, saying instead, "Partisan Divide Threatens Deal on Rescue Bill."
Townhall listed some of the ways Democrats tried to "restructure things to fit our vision". Take note: each and every one of the items listed here was demanded by the Democrats for inclusion, not in regular legislation, or even in our national budget, but in the emergency coronavirus economic rescue package!
There were too many such items for one article, so a second Townhall list continued:
As long and tedious as this list was, it's important. It is a partial, incomplete list of all the Democrat proposals which they tried to cram into a single emergency bill that was originally begun with one single dire purpose: to keep our economy from collapsing under the overwhelming burden of the Chinese coronavirus plague.
Despite their hand-wringing on TV, we can only conclude that Democrats do not actually believe that coronavirus is any particular danger to anyone they care about, since they felt that government action was of no real urgency worth setting aside the agenda items they've held for years.
So we see that, even in a supposedly dire crisis worth casting aside at least half, if not more, of the Bill of Rights, Democrats still consider pushing their agenda to be Job One.
At least, for once, Republicans didn't just roll over; much of the poison was excised from the final bill. Even so, some Democrat wishes made it into law, so once again, the ball moves a few more inches toward their end of the field.
Why does this tactic only work in one direction? Why do only Democrats ever spot the opportunities in a crisis to make things go their way? Do we have no intelligent conservatives who've read Machiavelli and Saul Alinsky and are able to apply the same techniques for the cause of truth, justice, and the American Way?
Well, we don't seem to know of any, except possibly Donald Trump himself. So, as the saying goes, if you want something done - do it yourself.
In the next article in this series, we'll take a crack at proposing some ways the our side, for once, can attempt to use this crisis to our advantage. After all, if we can't come up with some way to use the Chinese flu to do things we could not do before, we shouldn't expect ever to win.
What does Chinese history have to teach America that Joe Biden doesn't know?