12:33 PM
The hissy fits of the Democratic Party over the election victory of Donald Trump continue. If one
pays strict attention to their whining, it all seems to be a cloak for inherent
and clandestine fears based on emotion more so than pragmatism and reason. It reminds me of how one of my uncle friends
described being in Vietnam when I was between 11 and 12 years old (1973-74). He
told me about how what he would never forget outside of the sounds of war, were
the marshy fields he and his company would be dropped off in, feet tall above
the head of Elephant grass. He said
these fields were packed with booby traps but what scared him most was not
being able to see around him. The tall
grass in addition to the grown-man high ant mounds, concealed the unexpected,
seeing that the Elephant grass was tall enough to hide an entire military
detail ready for ambush.
I suspect that this is
how the democrats feel. As if they were
dropped off in a field of Elephant grass, not know what the future holds in
store for them. Could it be they expect
to be invalidated by Trump and the GOP? Could it be that they fear Trump will
make good on his campaign promises and lead to the destruction of the
Democratic Party for years to come? Or could it be it will show the US
citizenry how democratic policy has placed America in its current predicament?
All are
possibilities. Let’s face it, no matter
how democrats and the media try to paint Obama’s eight years as a success, math
shows the opposite. The math, as pure science reveals the truth that
politically the democrats are powerless and stuck in a destitute defensive
posture. Thus their primary weapon is crying and/or attacking the incoming
administration through mere emotional displacement. Jamil Smith attacks Trump
on his “intellectual laziness” suggesting that this “may be the most dangerous
thing about him,” and that “Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to be presidentof the United States, and the Russian government deliberately tried to help him win the election.” Jamile Bouie suggest that “Trump is defined by his shameless disregard, and even disdain, for the bonds that hold political life together.”
Or in the case of some, they simply stick to praise of Putin as being evidence of incompetence and dishonesty. All
unfounded and groundless allegations pure in rhetoric singularly.
All of these are just
emotional invective. These writers will never back up their words with tangible accomplishments of President Obama to
compare these statements of rhetorical grandiose to purport the accuracy of
their assertions. Never will they objectively examine real life measure of
American success and economic improvement like the Housing Affordability Index
for example. The Housing Affordability Index measures whether or not a typical
U.S. family makes enough money to just to qualify for a mortgage loan on a
typical home let alone buy one. But this will never be included in their
writings because data indicates that US housing affordability is at its lowest point since the fourth quarter of 2008. This most likely is a consequence of
stagnate wage growth that cannot keep up with increasing home prices.
They may cite job
creation as an indicator of Obama’s success but will go no further than the
Whitehouse press statement to examine the fine details of the data, for if they
did, as a new study by economists from Harvard and Princeton note, nearly 95%of the 10 million new jobs created during the Obama era were part-time or temporary positions. I won’t even include that additional analysis of liberal
media pundits will not note or question how many of these new jobs are being taken by people that already have a job or even two. In all accuracy, since
Obama took office, there remains 1 million fewer workers, overall, working than
before he took office (Another actor to consider when attempting to comprehend
why US housing affordability is so low and wage growth so paralyzed).
In simple terms,
although Obama did inherit an economic mess, his policies have led to
deteriorating affordability in home ownership, a segment of the U.S. economy
that traditionally has proffered parents with the best opportunity to safeguard
a better future for their children. Instead, his Keynesian economic approach
has added another obstacle for lower-income Americans regardless of race. I
mean, the housing market bubble burst almost 10 years ago, yet sales and construction in this sector are well below their peaks in the early 2000s
meaning the housing sector is stagnate along with wage growth.
Thus to abrogate the use
of data, anything is not only open to vapid complaints by democrats but is also
the fault of the man who has not even been sworn in as president yet. This is the ultimate profile of the traumatized individual. This can be made even worse for progressive peace-loving democrats
when we include Obama’s foreign policy record.
When Obama took office he vowed to end the war in Afghanistan.
This too has not happened and to use the same language pundits use to
describe the statements of Trump, was a lie.
Not only has he increased military operations in Afghanistan, he has
dropped more bombs, employed more drone killings than Bush, and has killed
inordinate more innocent civilian in the country when compared to his predecessor.
Then there is Libya and Yemen. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winning PresidentAdministration has sold more weapons than any other American president since
World War II, totaling plus $200 billion from 2008 to 2015. Sales to Saudi Arabia alone has swollen to $115 billion. Now he has sent US Special Forces to Lithuania to saber rattle on the Russian border.
Democrats and in
particular Obama, really do see
Donald Trump’s election victory as a personal repudiation of his pluralistic
and globalist agenda and legacy. Add to this that democrats need to not only
figure out how to have policy messages that include all instead of dividing the
nation in to mutually exclusive voting blocs based on labels and message of
race, gender and sexuality, they also have to figure out how to formulate new integrative
domestic policies with how to communicates
those policies with a single unified message for all (and this can’t be done by
just speaking at colleges, universities, unions and big cities).
The
democrats understand that what they have to stand on are Obama’s past eight
years and the political agenda of the democratic elite. While murder rates in traditionally
democratic cities like Chicago, Memphis, Baltimore and DC are out of the
atmosphere, they are doubling down. By some estimates, the Obama Administration
and sanctuary cities and their mayor including in NYC, San Francisco and Chicago spend around $113 billion on illegal aliens annually but they ignore
that there are U.S. citizens that can use these funds including but not limited
to homeless veterans, our inner cities, our youth and/or rural areas, all being
poor black and white folk alike.
Yes the
Democrats have their own battle of Ia Drang Valley and they cannot see for the Elephant grass and are taking fire
from all sides yet responding by shooting in all directions and at anything
that moves from a Simon & Schuster book deal for Milo Yiannopoulos, to theHBCU band from Talladega College performing at the inauguration to GM CEO Mary Barra being appointed to Trump’s business Advisory council (yet don't mention how Obama pimped US tax payers for GM), to
Putin, WikiLeaks and so-called ‘fake news’.
They have been dropped off in the middle of their own Landing Zone (LZ) X-ray
and do not know what to do. They never look at themselves to determine if their
battle plan was defective yet instead blame everything else. But now they have
run out of replacement parts for the Iroquois “Huey” helicopters that carried
them into battle and are running out of ammunition and have few if any
reinforcements arriving for some time. The Battle of the Ia Drang Valley was
one of the most noteworthy battles of the Vietnam war, likewise, the battle the
Democrats have on their hands after the 2016 presidential election loss, will
be just as significant.
