Democrats Perfect Banana Republic Style Politics
by Andy Caldwell
The Three Coups D’Etats Against Biden
The undeniable truth is that the Democrat Party establishment doesn’t bother to pretend anymore to represent the will – or the votes – of their party faithful. Instead, they simply present the will of the party bosses (the top boss is undoubtedly Barack Obama) by presenting only one candidate to represent the party as it pertains to presidential elections.
This is clearly evident because they’ve done it three times in a row!
As Victor Davis Hanson points out in a recent column, we have just witnessed the third political coup since 2020. The first coup? “In March 2020, all the major Democratic primary candidates abruptly, mysteriously, and in near unison withdrew from the presidential race, ceding the nomination to Joe Biden. Suddenly, on the eve of the Super Tuesday mega-primaries, the candidacies of front-runner Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and others, simply evaporated.” How come? Because the party bosses figured that none of these candidates could beat Trump even though they were the apparent favorites of Democrat voters. The bosses thought the best candidate to beat Trump was Joe Biden so they “cleared the field” even though Biden hadn’t been faring well in any of the primaries.
The Second Coup
Fast forward to 2024, the party made sure that no other candidate but Joe would be on the ballot in a slew of state primaries. For example, as the Washington Examiner reported six months ago, “The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 5-0 on Tuesday to honor the North Carolina Democratic Party's request to have Biden alone on the ballot in the primary.” What’s worse? Florida didn’t even bother to have a Democrat primary this year. As reported in the Miami Herald, “The Florida Democratic Party is standing by its decision to scrap its presidential primary after it submitted only President Joe Biden’s name for the 2024 ballot.” These states were not anomalies; they were part of a pattern.
Moreover, a few states even tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. And they are still trying to keep Robert F. Kennedy off the November ballot to this day. Banana Republics could learn a thing or two from these Democrats.
Coup Number Three
Democrats abandoned Biden once they could no longer lie about and hide his dementia after his debate debacle against Trump. Even then, Joe refused to go quietly into the night. It is widely believed that the party bosses had to threaten him with the “nuclear option,” which involved invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, to get him to quit the campaign.
Behind the scenes, they coerced him into leaving the race and then declared him a “hero” for, ahem, putting the interests of the nation ahead of his own self-interest.
Joe paid the bosses back, however, by announcing Kamala Harris as his choice to succeed him. The bosses did not want Kamala. Nevertheless, herein came the third coup. Kamala avoided an open convention when she received pledges from enough delegates to virtually win the nomination despite the fact the delegates were lawfully committed to Biden.
Biden wasn’t pushed out of the race solely because he was in the throes of dementia despite all the implications to national security from the same. No, he was also forced to quit the race because many other Democrats running for office believed their down-ticket races would be a disaster if he remained in the race. Hence, the voters in the Democrat Party have not participated in a meaningful way in a presidential election for four years.
But they don’t seem to mind, do they?
The only thing these people seem to care about is preserving political power, even at the expense of their party, our democracy, and our nation. Yet they have the nerve to declare Trump a threat to democracy?
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Three valid observations. The 2020 hijacking of Bernie Sanders, the non-primary debacle in North Carolina and Florida, and the public execution of Joe Biden. As a bonus, the refusal of RFK Jr. candidacy. All political 🙄 moves to preserve control within the government. Big question 🤔 is, Are these political moves justified? I suggest that the answer is yes. Regardless of morals and ethics, they play to win. What exactly is wrong with winning? "America loves a winner!", Gen. George Patton.
One can go further, in 2016 they created Super Delegates to the convention to ensure primaries were inconsequential to their dictates. In 2020, they use the pandemic to change the voting rules to allow mail in voting, harvesting, and 30 days before and after election day to "count the votes". Why can we acknowledge that they "got game"?
One even bigger, when the demographics didn't favor them because people were fleeing their failed policies of tax and spend, they opened the border to expand and increase demand for social programs with newly acquired people in need of Government services. Brilliant!
When Trump didn't get out of the Presidential race, they prosecute him to discourage him and when that failed, an attempt on his life was made. Damm! These people are serious about winning.
Now, what are the opposition political moves 🤔 other than defensive tactics to survive? Lets recognize that the opposition is on defense and in many cases on retreat. What happened to winning?
If it wasn't for Trump and Musk, where were the opposition be today? I would suggest at the hands of the elite monarchy in a feudalist society under 100s of presences. So I asked, what's the opposition plan to win? They have control of government agencies, Judicial system, education system, news media 🙄, and more. They have made voters votes 🗳 and will insignificant.
Although this article points out valid observations, it misses the macro perspective of winning losing game.
"The only thing these people seem to care about is preserving political power, even at the expense of their party, our democracy, and our nation. "
This will appear harsh to the uninformed but we will make the comment anyway.
Look at local politics. Look at the oppressive transportation policies of the Left. Have they been successful? No. Has the primary anti car advocate in the State Legislature stated '"public transportation in California is broken...." YES. Scott Weiner made this statement after decades of highway destruction and local street grid destruction costing the Taxpayer Billions of dollars. When did he make this statement? 26 April 2023.
Are this area's elected representatives (Limon and Hart) continuing to support irresponsible spending on continued street obstructions and narrowing resulting in destruction of retail businesses? Yes. Gregg Hart building of a bike path along Modoc road where there is no bike demand and has not been for over a decade.
Santa Ynez Valley is faced with a Disney Fanciful Bike Loop championed by 3rd Dist. Supervisor Hartmann. This after the plan was destroyed during public comment at SBCAG because the epidemiology of the Valley has completely changed making the projections of "success(?)" unattainable. What is common here? Supposed "local elites" for the Left have put their personal reputations on the line. Does that mean when it fails they will pony up the money to "fix" what they destroyed? Of course not.
These are just a few examples of local Santa Barbara County issues of political arrogance.
I'll end this with the two latest examples of "We'll do it regardless of what the people want" of failure. Old Town Hollister Narrowing and "Death Valley" aka Old Town Santa Barbara State St.