Why 1/3 of Blacks are rejecting the pandering Democrats, whose policies HURT Blacks.

 Why 1/3 of Blacks are rejecting the pandering Democrats, whose policies HURT Blacks.

"As Black Voters Sour on Biden, Will They Abandon the Democrats?

Their decades-long loyalty to the party was already beginning to show signs of becoming weaker.

By Jason L. Riley WSJournal op-ed

Feb. 15, 2022 7:07 pm ET

“Why Joe Biden Is Bleeding Black Support” was the headline of a New York magazine article in late January. Not whether, but why. And if the polling since then is indicative, the hemorrhaging continues.

Blacks have been throwing some 80% of their support to Democrats since the late 1960s. Since President Obama left office, however, the party’s grip on this key voting bloc has loosened somewhat. Hillary Clinton’s underperformance among blacks in such swing states as Pennsylvania probably cost her the presidency in 2016, when people in heavily black neighborhoods voted more Republican than they did in 2012.

Democrats normally don’t worry about blacks voting Republican. They just worry about blacks not voting at all. That, too, may be changing. Black voter turnout in 2018 was the highest on record for a midterm election. Yet New York magazine reports that in the House races that year, “Democrats actually won a smaller share of the African American vote than they had in the 2016 presidential election—even as the party’s overall popular-vote edge in the midterm was five points higher than Hillary Clinton’s two years earlier.”

Joe Biden won 92% of black voters in 2020, no doubt benefiting from having been Mr. Obama’s vice president, but it’s been all downhill since then. The president’s job-approval rating among all voters has fallen, but among blacks it has been cratering. An NBC News poll last month found that black support for the president, which stood at 83% last April, had dropped to 64%. A Quinnipiac survey released around the same time showed a 22-point decline in black support for Mr. Biden during his first year in office. And a CNN poll from last week puts black approval of the president’s job performance at just 69%. Democrats know they can’t win elections without much higher levels of black support.

Mr. Biden has been doing what Democrats normally do to buck up black support. He’s resorting to identity politics. He’s promised to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. He supports legislation that would address imaginary voter suppression. He wants to expand the welfare state. If, as the recent polling suggests, this sort of racial pandering no longer works like it used to, America’s making some progress.

The country has witnessed a lot of political norm-breaking in the Donald Trump era. Less black fealty for the Democratic Party could be part of the trend. It’s easy to forget how bad things were for blacks economically during the Obama presidency. Black unemployment didn’t fall below double digits until the third year of Mr. Obama’s second term. Prior to the pandemic, black unemployment under Mr. Trump reached record lows, and black wages rose at a faster rate than white wages. Mr. Obama symbolized racial progress, but you can’t pay the rent with symbolism.

That black experience partly explains why minority support for Mr. Trump ticked up in 2020. It might also explain why blacks have soured on Mr. Biden. Inflation, which the current administration first denied and then played down, is at a 40-year high. Blacks are overrepresented among low-income workers, who are watching prices rise faster than their wages. In addition, the president wants to raise the taxes that Mr. Trump cut and reregulate sectors of the economy that Mr. Trump deregulated. If black voters aren’t eager to return to the pre-Trump economy, who can blame them?"

CRT wants to wipe away punctuality, urgency, niceness, worship of the written word, progress, objectivity, rigor, individualism, capitalism and liberalism

 What's a stake with Critical Race Theory? It is trying to wipe away Western Civilization.

"Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine

After watching 100 hours of leaked video, we now fully grasp the danger of this ideology in schools...Over the past month we have watched nearly 100 hours of leaked videos from 108 workshops held virtually last year for the National Association of Independent Schools’ People of Color Conference. The NAIS sets standards for more than 1,600 independent schools in the U.S., driving their missions and influencing many school policies. The conference is NAIS’s flagship annual event for disseminating DEI practices, (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) ...The goal is to remake society into a collective, stripped of individualism and rife with reparations.

In sessions such as “Traversing the Long and Thorny Road Toward Equity in Our Schools,” “Moving the Needle Toward Meaningful Institutional Change,” “Building an Equitable and Liberating Mindset” and “Breaking the White Centered Cycle,” we learned that the only way to achieve equity and justice is to eradicate all aspects of white-supremacy culture from “predominantly white institutions,” or PWIs, as NAIS calls its member schools, irrespective of the diversity of a school’s students. Perfectionism, punctuality, urgency, niceness, worship of the written word, progress, objectivity, rigor, individualism, capitalism and liberalism are some of the characteristics of white-supremacy culture in need of elimination."

Key Question: do you want this for America?

Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine - WSJ

18 examples of democrats' disastrous governance

 The complete failure of Democratic governance. 18 ways Democrats are weakening America piece by piece.

The Democratic Party has been

“I Just Don’t Care” Party !

As thousands of murdered bodies lie in the streets of our big cities, the homeless population increases, human waste and hypodermic needles lay open in the streets of San Francisco, boxcars are looted in LA, thousands of our friends are left behind in Afghanistan, the borders are wide open, taxpayers money is doled out to cities and states that were bankrupt etc.

The failure to “try” and fix the mess defines the Party.

1. Botched covid fight. Can't even produce tests. 1 million dead. Said Trump should resign when we hit 200k dead!

2. Record inflation. 2021 Is Expected to Rank as Biggest Year for Inflation in Four Decades - WSJ https://tiny.iavian.net/1jqp3 It’s Biden’s fault Inflation Haunts the Biden Economy - WSJ

Dems lie that it is global inflation. UK 2.10%. Japan 0.54% France 1.96%

3. Record crime surge. Favor criminals over the public. BECAUSE of democrats’ anti police and prosecutors-soft-on crime. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/liberal-prosecutors-anti-police-rhetoric-fueling-violent-crime-spikes-gamaldi/vi-AALjV0x

4. Calls parents " domestic terrorists "  A.G. Merrick Garland Tells FBI To Investigate Parents Who Yell at School Officials About Critical Race Theory (reason.com)

5. Turned Afghanistan over to Islamic terrorists  BIDEN BOTCHES AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL | OnlineColumnist.com – Dr. John M. Curtis  The chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal eroded U.S. security and credibility, but spare a thought for the Afghans now ruled by barbarians. They will suffer most.

6. no border control. Allowing in violent gangs, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, Muslim terrorists. 2 million illegals crossed in 2021.  Enforcement on the southern border is a total farce (nypost.com)

7. Votes to hurt Israel in UN  Biden Refuses to Vote Against UN Resolution Calling for Destruction of Israel | Frontpagemag

8. Russia, China, Iran all think he's a joke Keane: Russia, China, Iran view Biden's America as 'appeasement' nation that can be taken advantage of | Fox News

9. So clearly declining mentally his aides won't let him be interviewed. Fewest interviews in last 5 presidents. Dangerous gaffes Biden’s Gaffes Grate on Voters - WSJ

10. Nation more polarized than ever and he pours fire on it.

11. Families falling deeper into debt. Amid rising prices, American families fall deeper in debt https://tiny.iavian.net/1jpsv

12. Empty shelves.Shoppers 'astounded' by thinning grocery store supplies: 'It's just empty shelves' https://tiny.iavian.net/1jpw

13. Homeless skyrocketing

14. Rampant stealing

15. Back to importing oil from Russia. Under Trump we Exported energy. https://transtextreating.com/news/u-s-just-became-net-oil-exporter-first-time-75-years/

16. Worst ever trade deficit ever

17. National debt jumps at fastest pace. Now $30 trillion.

18. Biden ends sanctions vs Iran.

The list of his and Democratic failures is endless

Seriously, where are the adults in the Democratic Party?

 Seriously, where are the adults in the Democratic Party? We're over $30 trillion in debt. Social security and Medicare are running out of money as it is. Economy is slowing. Shortages everywhere. We face real threats from China's advancing militarization. The Fed is printing paper with dollar signs in massive quantities with little real backing. And they want massive expansion of government spending and taxes!

Bernie Sanders supporters can’t be THAT stupid. So why do they back nonsense, ruinous policies?

 Bernie Sanders supporters can’t be THAT stupid. So why do they back nonsense, ruinous policies?

 

9 possibilities

Nine Theories of Progressive Power

Leftists want to stay on top, but they also want to profit and seem intelligent.

 

They must know that massive wealth redistribution and public spending crush the economy if they have ever studied the failures of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society or Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Progressives often invoke Europe as an economic model knowing full well that the U.S. outstrips almost all European countries in economic output per capita—15% higher than Germany’s, 43% higher than France’s.

What is the end game? Here are nine answers.

1.    to gain and then stay in power—to buy votes.

2.      the shakedown theory. The goal of single-payer healthcare recalls the opening scene from “The Godfather” when Don Corleone meets with a favor-currying constituent. Bonasera wants justice for an assault on his daughter. Now imagine he’s asking his senator for permission to have gallbladder surgery.

3.      the “noblesse oblige” theory that the privileged should use government to improve the lives of the less privileged. Who better to boss us around than the “expert class”? But markets, with billions of price signals, always know better than 537 elected politicians.

4.      the “love mankind, hate people” theory. Those who complain about “deplorables” are as bad as those who complain about “elites.” Bad policy hurts everyone.

5.      the population-bomb theory, as epitomized by Bernie Sanders’s and economist Jeffrey Sachs’s desire to limit population growth and thus solve the world’s problems. As progressives wreck the economy, Americans might think twice about having that third child. Of course, most rich countries already have declining birthrates, while some poor countries are having population booms.

6.      the brainwash theory. Declaring lockdowns and pushing words like “equity” and “systemic” and “climate crisis” are all about training the minds of voters that we have big problems that can be addressed only by government. We must attack these problems as if we were at war. Remember LBJ’s “war on poverty” or Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs”? We lost both, and they weren’t wars anyway. Once progressives have brainwashed their constituents, they can convince them of anything, including giving up individual freedoms.

7.      Add the “Lord of the Rings” theory: Power is addictive. Imagine different congressmen as Gollum. It often fits.

8.      The personal-gain theory also plays a role. Mr. Sanders owns three homes, including a Vermont lake house. And that’s nothing. The foundation responsible for the Black Lives Matter movement raised some $90 million in 2020. Self-described Marxist and BLM founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, bought four homes, including two in Topanga Canyon, Calif., near Malibu.

AOC couldn’t afford rent before congress. Now wears designer clothes.

9.      the progressive cause was driven by resentment, especially toward hedge-fund guys or the T-shirt-wearing coder who recently IPOed.  Ms. Warren’s plan to resolve this resentment is simple: Confiscate the wealth of the successful and give it to progressives to spend. They know better, after all. “Tax the rich, feed the poor, ’til there are no rich no more,” sang Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After in 1971. Who cares if the economy tanks as long as the rich are taken out at the knees?

Write to kessler@wsj.com. Nine Theories of Progressive Power - WSJ

Democrats undermine Israel again

 Seemingly daily, Democrats show their hatred of Israel and most Jews ignore it.

Nothing can penetrate Israel's Iron Dome system except Democrat anti-Semites.

The Biden Administration put the squeeze on Israel by holding up $1 Billion funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.

As Michael Oren said, the small number of radical Democrats are showing their anti-Israel muscle.

Behind the scene in Washington they are saying the money will come through but the total will be reduced.

It needs to be stressed that the Iron Dome is not an offensive system. It protects Israeli citizens from Palestinian, Hezbollah and Iranian rockets.

It also shows that the anti-Semitic, Hate Israel, wing of the Democrat heirarchy will press anti-Israel moves no matter who is leading the Israeli Government, left or right.

This budget issue is not the only anti-Israel move taken by the Biden Administration.

It follows Biden's illegal renewal of payments to the PA despite the Taylor Force Bill that orders no further US taxpayers money until the PA stops giving it to their Palestinian terrorist murderers.

While Biden is pressuring Israel to allow the US to open a consular office in Jerusalem, Israel's capital, to serve the Palestinians, in a recent Palestinian poll 78% of Palestinians demanded the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas, and, in the same survey, 68% said they would vote for Hamas in a Palestinian election and only 34% would vote for Fatah.

The American tide is turning against Israel even as they are unaware ( except for Dems such as Omar, Tlaib, AOC and others) of the radical hatred of Jews by indoctrinated Palestinians.

As I predicted in January, the anti-Semites at the top of the Democrat Party are now setting policy.

Pelosi holds the key to this by turning a blind eye to the insertion of Jew-haters onto important House Committees and rejecting the warnings.

Now they have left $80B for the Taliban Islamic terrorists but reject helping Israel protect its citizens from Iranian, Hamas and Hezbollah Islamic terrorists!

Barry Shaw, The View from Israel.

Democrats entitlement programs HURT those designed to help

 The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion proposal to expand the U.S. safety net is being described as a make-or-break moment for the Biden presidency. Regarding electoral politics in the short term, that may well be true. But some of us are more concerned about what it could mean for the country beyond the next election or two.

OPINION: POTOMAC WATCH

The Spending Bill's Democratic Fissures

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Liberals view a larger welfare state as an unalloyed good, but what’s the track record? Entitlement programs were dramatically expanded in the 1960s in the service of a war on poverty, yet poverty fell at a slower rate after the Great Society initiatives were implemented, and overall dependency on the government for food, shelter and other basic necessities increased. According to Howard Husock, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of a coming book on housing policy, “The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It,” the median time a family spends in New York City public housing today is 19 years. And 10% of public housing residents in the city have been there for more than 40 years. Housing intended to help families through a rough patch has become a multigenerational trap for some.

Democrats are now aiming to create new entitlements and expand the existing ones, not only for the poor but also for the professional class. Workers making $200,000 a year would be eligible for a new national paid family and medical leave program. Earlier this year the American Rescue Plan Act expanded the child tax credit for households earning as much as $150,000. Liberals pitch these social programs in the name of helping underprivileged minority groups and reducing inequality, but the lesson of the 1960s is that government relief can put in place incentives that have the opposite effect.

Between 1940 and 1960 the percentage of black families living in poverty declined by 40 points as blacks increased their years of education and migrated from poorer rural areas to more prosperous urban environs in the South and North. No welfare program has ever come close to replicating that rate of black advancement, which predates affirmative action programs that often receive credit for creating the black middle class. Moreover, what we experienced in the wake of the Great Society interventions was slower progress or outright retrogression. Black labor-force participation rates fell, black unemployment rates rose, and the black nuclear family disintegrated. In 1960 fewer than 25% of black children were being raised by a single mother; within four decades, it was more than half.

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Antisocial behavior is closely associated with family breakdown, so it’s no surprise that more fatherless homes led to higher violent crime rates. The criminologist Barry Latzer has noted that black male homicide rates had been falling in the 1940s (by 18%) and in the 1950s (by 22%), yet this trend would reverse itself beginning in the late 1960s and continue to worsen for nearly three decades. The political left likes to cite the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. But what about the legacy of the massive welfare-state interventions in the 1960s?

“The greatest twenty-five years of black progress after Emancipation itself came between the early postwar period and around 1973,” writes labor economist Richard Vedder in the current issue of the Independent Review. “The real median income of the black population more than doubled between 1948 and 1973, increasing an astonishing 3 percent per year. If average instead of medians are used to calculate real income, the increase was even larger.”

Another recent analysis of black upward mobility in the 20th century, by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and co-author Shaylyn Romney Garrett, reached a similar conclusion. “Overall, African American incomes rose relative to white incomes for the first two-thirds of the century,” they write, and “most scholars agree that income levels by race converged at the greatest rate between 1940 and 1970.”

The welfare state is often discussed in relation to its effect on racial and ethnic minorities, yet crime, single parenting and drug abuse also increased among poor whites in the aftermath of the Great Society. When the government indulges and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, we tend to get more of it. Aside from how all this indiscriminate government benevolence has affected individuals, there’s also the matter of its long-term effect on America’s standard of living. By undermining the development of human capital and allowing—even encouraging—larger and larger swaths of the less-productive population to live off their more-productive brethren, we risk exacerbating income inequality and nurturing class resentments.

Hard-left ideologues who want to turn the U.S. into Western Europe, and politicians eager to hand out goodies in exchange for votes, don’t much care about these trade-offs. But they’re relevant for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between social progress and government “help.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/entitlements-welfare-public-housing-great-society-black-family-father-crime-reconciliation-11632257747?mod=opinion_featst_pos1