What is at stake in 2024 aside from our sanity? If you are like me, you are just about fed up with all of the meaningless and exaggerated rhetoric that is bandied about with no regard for accuracy.
Let’s consider a few phrases:
Real (Fill-in-the-Blank) for Real People
We often hear politicians declare with great vigor that we need “real” something for real people. Assuming by “real people” they mean people who are alive. What other kind of people could they mean? In general, the “real people” they are referring to are those they seek to ingratiate with our tax dollars. Often, they are people to whom politicians like to transfer wealth. You know, what you’ve earned by the sweat of your own brow that should be handed over to those who have not earned it. Indeed, charity—the kind you might ordinarily consider for the needy—is a dead concept for people who like to leverage political power to spend other people’s money. Nothing gives them greater pleasure, particularly when they are shielded from providing charity out of their own wallet. Moreover, they consider the work ethic as just another form of oppression that people who actually work project onto those who prefer to be on the public dole.
Sometimes they speak of “real jobs,” or “real tax relief,” or some other “real” thing used to divide people into classes. That way they can create a public enemy, like corporations who, by the way, create very real jobs and real wealth by which people of all classes benefit — really.
Good Paying Union Jobs
Another hollow term we often hear by a liberal is the need to create “good paying union jobs.” As if other jobs do not pay well. Consider top-tier workers at the “Big Three” automobile manufacturers. There a worker earns around $33.00 per hour, while lower-tier workers earn approximately $17.00 per hour. Compare that to non-unionized companies like Toyota or Honda which offer an introductory wage of $19.02, with a “top-out” wage of $28.01. So, the non-union manufacturers offer comparable wages to their union counterparts, often to discourage unionization and the troubling strikes that cripple the industry. The difference? No strikes, no work stoppage, and no union dues that union bosses use to curry favor with Washington politicians. Call the “good paying union jobs” what they are: a rip off that lines the pockets of union Grand Pooh-bahs and power-hungry politicians. What they have in common is a desire to spend other people’s money.
An Economy that Works for All of Us
I find this terminology both offensive and idiotic. First, setting aside communist or socialist systems that thrive on wealth confiscation and top-down management of the economy, a free enterprise economy like we have in the US is more than satisfactory, particularly if it isn’t trifled with or hampered by the tax-and-spend busybodies who think they can run your business better than you can. They can’t. But their hope springs eternal as they persist in declaring that only certain types of economies “work for all of us.” Mainly those that submit to their manipulation accompanied by their otherworldly false assumptions resulting in unemployment, inflation, high interest rates and misery. Sound familiar? I have an idea, let’s un-elect them and then have an economy that works for all of us. Whaddaya say?
Our Democracy
But the term I find most bothersome is one self-righteous liberals love. Frequently they warn we must protect “our democracy” from those they consider opponents to their very undemocratic desire to rule over us. No doubt the term was thoroughly poll-tested after the 6 January uprising on Capitol Hill. It has two benefits for those who toss it about. First, it’s supreme virtue signaling. Nothing lights a far-left fire better than signaling virtue they otherwise would ignore for whatever politically correct wokeism that’s currently in vogue. Second, the Democrat party loves the subject term “our democracy,” using it at least once in every other sentence as if they’re democracy’s sole protector.
It’s really too bad that they seem to have no idea that we are in fact not a democracy in America but rather a republic that elects our representatives to govern in accordance with our Constitution. We do not all go to the polls to vote on every law or appropriation that Congress proposes, which is why we elect representatives and senators to Congress to do that. That’s why we have a republican form of government. Nonetheless, we are frequently serenaded about how this coming election is all about saving “our democracy.” In truth we could do that by dumping the dolts who are destroying it.
I wonder if the “our democracy” choral society would consider it a sour note if some were to speak of protecting “our republic.”
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