A plague on both the parties
Hugo Gurdon
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Today’s voters face a conundrum akin to Winston Churchill’s lament that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.
Look at the 2024 choices. The public says Donald Trump is the worst possible president except for Joe Biden or, vice versa, Biden is the worst except for Trump. Voters don’t want either and grimace that this may be the best their great nation can do. Equally, Democrats are the worst people to give power to except for the Republicans, or the Republicans are the worst except for the Democrats.
BIDEN HECKLED BY RABBI CALLING FOR GAZA CEASEFIRE DURING CAMPAIGN STOP
Republican antics on Capitol Hill are embarrassing and haven’t stopped with the election of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) following weeks of internecine GOP masochism. When 23 Republicans opposed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) censure of terrorist apologist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the erratic Georgian raged about her “feckless” colleagues. She mocked Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) as “Colonel Sanders” — a reference to his white goatee — told him to “shut up,” and sneered at vulgarian Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) as a “groper.” There was more, but you get the ugly picture.
Tlaib deserved censure for her repeated lies accusing Israel of bombing a Gaza hospital, which was actually hit by a missile misfired by her jihadi terrorist pals. But the motion was sloppy and flawed, more a spasm of pique than something that should be offered for serious consideration by the nation’s representatives. So voters can be forgiven for arching a skeptical eyebrow when House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) says, “House Republicans are unified and hitting the ground running under the new leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson.” Unity, huh?
But it is only possible to turn decisively away from one party until you look at the other. Democrats fight less among themselves than squabbling Republicans do, but they are many leagues worse in what they stand for and vociferously demand. The party of the Left, barely held in check by weakening resistance from Biden, advocates moral equivalence at best between antisemitic terrorists and their 1,400 victims and at worst suggests those nasty Jews had it coming.
The Democratic Party is the party of those who argue America is a uniquely and irretrievably evil country founded expressly to perpetuate slavery — an institution common around the world in every epoch — and can never expiate this original sin. Do you want such people to run the government?
It is the party of those who demand society undertake a cultural revolution and accept the tyrannical and psychologically disturbed fictions of men who want to be women and women who want to be men. Is such a party to be trusted with the future of the country?
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It is the party that beggars future generations to bribe today’s voters, that censors political opinion it doesn’t like using taxpayers’ money to fund this unconstitutional effort and bullies corporations into helping this malevolent and anti-democratic work, that demands leftist ideology be built into artificial intelligence shaping our society to create a system of social credit that punishes dissenting beliefs.
The vulgar, trivial, fractious Republican Party is the worst party in American politics — except for the only other one.