Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The Democrats are Terrified of the Midterms

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Nov. 5, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Democrats are Terrified of the Midterms

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	So despite polling aggregates predicting an 87.5% chance that the Democrats win control of the House come the midterms, they seem to be terribly, terribly afraid.
	Presumably because they remember the polling from 2016 on both Trump and Brexit and how wildly inaccurate those polls were.
	Because apparently people aren't always honest with pollsters.
	There's something about being part of the left wing that means you are morally superior, utterly righteous, and you should broadcast this in public and absolutely browbeat your opponents at every single opportunity across social media, in public, wherever you are.
	And in my opinion, this has made people who vote against them kind of reticent but still committed to their cause.
	So the Democrats aren't sure as to whether they actually are going to get their blue wave or whether there are lots of people who are just afraid of telling the pollsters and making it public that they're not really interested in what the Democrats are selling.
	I of course have no idea how this is going to go just like anyone else, so I don't have a prediction because I just don't know.
	But the Democrats certainly don't feel very confident when I look at their kind of media.
	And this of course comes across in their late night television skits.
	Personally, I didn't find this funny at all.
	And it's not because I have any particular hatred of the people involved, even though the other cast of the Ghostbusters remake.
	But this just screams desperations me.
	This just screams, last chance.
	It screams, we don't think we're going to do it.
	We don't think our message has been landing as intended.
	Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that Saturday Night Live will openly mock an American war hero who lost an eye in Afghanistan.
	I mean, if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got up on a stage and said, you know what, we need Soviet-style socialism right now.
	And I know because I served in Afghanistan where I lost an arm or something, I wouldn't mock her for having lost the arm.
	But apparently, the Democrats don't actually have rebuttals to Republican positions.
	And so little shits like this guy have to go, oh, well, you lost an eye.
	Well, ha ha ha ha.
	Isn't that funny?
	Isn't it hilarious that you are now permanently scarred defending my freedom?
	Like, I mean, I'm not saying he's not free to do it.
	I'm saying he's not a vote winner.
	And of course, late night TV comedians are in full campaign mode on the eve of the midterms.
	Because that's who the Democrats get their ideological marching orders from.
	People like Jimmy Fallon.
	I can't tell these people apart.
	I'm really fucking sorry.
	Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, like the last one I used to watch was Jon Stewart.
	And that was before he became a wacko partisan.
	I mean, just listen to these killer jokes.
	Naturally, in times like these, our nation looks to its president for comfort and guidance.
	Stephen Colbert told his audience on the late show last Monday night, that's our first mistake.
	My fucking sides.
	Trevor Noah said, President Trump was trying to scare people by saying a caravan full of Central Americans walking towards the border was full of criminals.
	It's sort of like Halloween, but racist Halloween.
	Really, Trevor?
	Execute function NPC laughter.
	James Corden, I don't even know who that is, said that a Halloween display at a North Dakota home was so terrifying that concerned neighbors actually called the police before revealing a picture of a Trump 2020 lawn sign.
	Ho ho ho!
	Hold my sides because they're about to split.
	I don't know what kind of person finds that funny, but this is like the ultimate enormy humor.
	Believe me, the generation that's coming after whoever's supposed to be laughing at this is looking at this and thinking, eh.
	But as Polisco points out, Democrats who have been traumatized by 2016 are having pre-midterms nightmares.
	Because it's looking like a repeat of the 2016 election, isn't it?
	all the polls are in your favour.
	87% certainty that we're going to win.
	Yes, it is certainly ringing a few bells, isn't it?
	So a poll done in September found that 61% of Democrats from 1534 reported feeling anxious over the midterms, which is 22% up from July.
	And another poll on Friday said that Democrats are 50% more likely than Republicans to be eating their feelings, which is a strange turn of phrase, ahead of the midterms.
	When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicted to the late show host Stephen Colbert the Democrats will win the House, he replied with, please don't say that.
	Do you want to say that on Hillary's fireworks barge that she cancelled?
	2016 was a glorious year, let's be honest.
	Perhaps reflecting a once-bitten, twice-shy mentality, National Democratic leaders had not announced election night plans as of press time.
	It's amazing how publicly emotional the Democrats seem to be and how the not just like when I say the Democrats, I mean that group as a faction, as a political organization, as people who lead and support and follow.
	And I think it's down to the fact that the Democrats have learned absolutely fucking nothing.
	They have reformed nothing.
	They have changed nothing.
	They have improved nothing.
	Their message is still exactly the same.
	Donald Trump's a racist.
	Everyone who supports him is a Nazi.
	We represent the vision of the anointed and we can do absolutely nothing wrong.
	Apparently Democrats are also agonizing over exotic threats that they've never had to worry about before, including the prospect of undetected foreign interference.
	Oh, we're talking about election interference now, are we?
	How about the deplatforming of various right-wing Trump supporting and popular social media presences, such as Alex Jones, such as Gab.ai, and even some kind of small furry potato that was deplatformed from YouTube the other day?
	What about that?
	Is that election interference?
	Oh no, that's justified, because it's your team doing it and not the other team.
	It's okay when you do it, remember.
	For example, it's okay when someone in Georgia fails to attempt to hack a voting registration system.
	I mean, he's just doing it for the greater good.
	It doesn't matter about the integrity of the system.
	It doesn't matter about fairness.
	It doesn't matter whether the elections are actually fair or decent or not.
	What you need to do is get those votes on the Democratic register, no matter how it's done.
	I'm old enough to remember when George Bush and the neocons were the people who did this, but now it's the Democratic Party.
	Oh well, don't worry.
	Again, they have the vision of the anointed.
	They are the good guys.
	You are the bad guys.
	It doesn't matter what they do because the ends justify the means.
	But as political say, that anxiety does have a silver lining for the left.
	Motivation.
	So Ezra Levin, co-founder of a resistance organization, has been traveling the country and he says, there's this feeling that we're losing until we win.
	None of the activists he's talked to are confident on planning a win.
	Every one of them doesn't trust the polls and don't trust that this is in the bag.
	For Democrats like these, haunted by the ghosts of 2016, Tuesday will be an exorcism, unless it's not, right?
	That made me want to say, fuck you, but yes.
	Well, I guess I hope for the mental health of the Democrats that they win.
	Because who knows what will happen?
	Oh, actually, we know what's going to happen.
	We know there's going to be a night of vandalism and violence and rioting that Hillary Clinton predicted because apparently they can't be civil until they win some power.
	And you're probably thinking, well, that sounds concerning.
	And that's because that is concerning.
	That makes it sound like a bunch of ideological zealots who realize that the tide is turning against them and they have to fight tooth and claw using any dirty tactic that they can.
	Because nothing is off the table.
	Nothing is too low.
	They think that this is it.
	It's all or nothing and they have to win.
	And doesn't that just stink of desperation?
	Doesn't the Democratic Party just smell kind of bad right now?
	I mean, it's full of disgusting ideologues.
	People who have got absolutely no scruples whatsoever.
	For example, with Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
	Now, three out of the four accusers have admitted that they either lied outright using the accusation as a tactic, or they've altered their story to say that, well, it wasn't exactly as we said it was.
	Now, the only person left standing with the same allegation against Kavanaugh, and I noticed all of the protests have stopped, by the way.
	If you genuinely thought he was a rapist, why are you still not protesting?
	But anyway, the last one is Christine Blasey Ford, who recently just got a million-dollar book deal, but there was nothing in it for her to lie.
	This is beyond the pale.
	This is not acceptable.
	You can't operate like this and think that people should vote for you.
	Even if everything the Democrats were saying was completely legitimate, 100% sacred and holy, the methods by which you're trying to achieve your goals are unacceptable.
	And you have to understand that.
	Because honestly, I think that's been the problem the whole fucking time.
	If the Democrats were polite, careful, cautious, and sound, maybe they had wacky ideas, but at least they weren't shaming you constantly for not agreeing with them, calling you every slur under the sun that they can think of, maybe, just maybe, I would find them tolerable.
	Combine the unbelievable way that the left has been treating people with the noxiousness of their ideas and the fanatical way with which they put these across, and you get this kind of organism that nobody really wants to touch.
	Nobody wants to be associated with.
	I mean, like, I don't call myself a centre-leftist anymore.
	I call myself a centrist because I don't want people thinking that I'm part of the left, because the left is a disgusting monstrosity right now, and until it changes, which it hasn't and doesn't seem to be on the verge of doing, I will have nothing to do with it.
	Even if there are certain things that I agree with and I think should be pursued.
	But I can see why they're getting nervous because the lead that they had is shrinking.
	I think mainly because Trump's base is becoming energized because of the terrible things that the Democrats are trying to do.
	And so the Democrats are getting really desperate.
	For example, why would you think it's a good idea to get some 50-something-year-old woman to go nude in a grab-them-by-the-ballot hashtag?
	Who is this impressing other than your own base?
	Do you think that your base is large enough to win this election on its own?
	Do you think you don't need to swing moderates over to your side?
	And how many moderates do you think that persuaded?
	Here's a bunch of naked fat chicks.
	This is what you wanted, isn't it?
	It's body positive.
	How could you be against this?
	What are you, a fat phobe?
	When one of your campaigns is does patriarchy affect female relationships, you know you are speaking to a very small demographic, the sort of 14% or so who call themselves feminists.
	You are not speaking to the majority of people.
	And this is certainly not an issue that most Americans give a flying fuck about.
	But what if women went on a sex strike before the midterms?
	Well, I can tell you what'll happen.
	Whatever still counts as a left-wing man will have exceedingly blue balls before he goes and votes in an election he was inevitably going to vote in anyway.
	Centrist and right-wing men will still be getting laid with their wives and girlfriends, and they will be laughing at the ever more ineffectual struggles of the left.
	And I imagine more left-wing men will hashtag walk away like many of them have been doing already.
	If embracing anti-white, anti-male identity politics was not a stupid enough thing for the Democratic Party to do, denying the young men of that party sex from their wives and girlfriends in order to what punish the right wing is probably going to increase the number that decide, you know what, this just ain't worth it.
	It's about the system of incentives and the Democrats are using a very poor system of incentives.
	Sex strikes do not work along partisan lines.
	They work along class lines.
	When women have a shared class interest, then yes, you can do a sex strike.
	This happened in ancient Rome and Greece, for example, when it was genuinely something that the women of those civilizations had a problem with.
	But it's not.
	And as you know, 52% of white women voted Trump.
	So it's not like they're going to join you on the sex strike, is it?
	But it's okay, they're already breaking out the excuses.
	It was the weather.
	Because Democrats are adverse to bad weather, and they're less likely to go and vote if the weather's shitty.
	Democrats are more weather sensitive when compared to Republicans.
	And among the most weather sensitive were African Americans, those 65 and older, and 18 to 24 year olds.
	Right.
	So it's going to be young and old blacks and left-wingers who are going to let the left wing down.
	Just so you know, it's the weather that did it.
	It's not the fact that the left is genuinely an unpleasant organism right now.
	It's the fact that it was just bad weather.
	It was just bad weather.
	We don't have to change.
	Like last time it was Russian interference.
	This time it's the weather.
	Tomorrow it'll be something else.
	But it's certainly not going to be something about the Democratic platform itself, which at this point literally is Orange Man Bad.
	We are about to become the Handmaid's Tale IRL.
	Honestly, Democrats, even if you win this, remember the way you felt about this going into it.
	Remember that you have not changed.
	Your message is the same.
	And it didn't work the first time, and I don't think it's going to work the next time.
	And even if you gain this little victory, doesn't change anything, does it?
	Your primary candidate for the 2020 elections is still Hillary Clinton.
	Your platform is still as awful as it has always been.

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