CPAC
is back, and it is more deranged and dishonest than ever.
With
a golden idol of their messiah greeting them, CPAC has become nothing but a
Trump rally by another name.
American
conservatism has been subsumed by Trumpism. Conservatives who know Trump is a
liar and criminal are shunned as weak RINOs.
Conservatism,
like the Republican Party platform, is now whatever Trump says it is. The
Republican Party is the Party of Trump. Trumpism is conservatism
Conservatism
has always been the myth that the status quo is superior to social progress, racial
equality, equal justice under law. Conservative mythology has always been
antagonistic towards Constitutional taxes, Constitutional regulation of
commerce, and Constitutional provision for the general welfare. Conservative
mythology embraces voter suppression, capital punishment and harsh law enforcement.
Conservatives were the last people to resist ending slavery and segregation. Conservative
mythology opposed women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights Act and the Voting
Rights Act
Conservative
mythology has always required an authoritarian mentality, and is always ripe for being re-framed by an authoritarian leader.
Their
mythology provides a ready built foundation for a tyrant and one-party despotism.
It coddles the rich and punishes the poor. It demands conformity, as it reviles
and demonizes dissent and opposition. It’s values are not democracy love, compassion and
decency. Resentment, blame, and anger are their unifying emotions. Any lie that
serves those tools of social leverage and emotional manipulation is acceptable.
The means always justify the ends. Conservatism is supreme, and held above any
other ideology and philosophy. Even their religion will bow to conservatism
through tax cuts for the rich and stripping health care and food stamps from
the poor. You don’t have to look far to see those who picture Jesus as a
Republican, and he sent Trump to save America.
Conservatives
value unquestioning obedience and loyalty to their leaders, and mindless
acceptance of their propaganda.
Why?
Because conservatism is always right. Conservatism never fails. Conservatives
are the real patriots. Conservatives are moral and never lie. Conservatives are
indoctrinated to believe those who don’t agree with them will fail, are not
patriots, and are immoral liars.
The
same lofty delusions also envelop Trumpism.
They
accept and revere these delusions as they “hold these truths to be self-evident”.
They
believe that only conservatives truly know what the founders wanted for our
country and our government.
But
how “self-evident” are their truths?
The
Declaration of Independence says:
“We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed,”
Conservatism
holds that conservatives are more entitled to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness” than lesser Americans. When it comes to minorities and immigrants,
those values become quite flexible. The quaint notion of government “deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed” goes out the window when
they repeatedly exercise minority rule by winning the presidency with fewer
votes than the Democrat. This is what they call a “mandate” and the “will of
the people”.
The
Senate is rigged just for them as well. McConnell desecrated the Constitution
by denying the appointment of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. “Too close
to the election” that was eight months away. Ramming through Justice Barrett
DURING an election was just fine, though. This is conservatism.
The
50 Democratic senators represent millions more Americans than do the 50
Republican senators. It takes only 51Republican
votes to give huge tax cuts to the rich, but it takes 60 votes to raise the minimum
wage. Funny how that works. This is conservatism, and the government is held
hostage to it. This is why they need to reject democracy and suppress voter
rights
But
conservatives, especially white conservatives, don’t see it that way. They will
incessantly whine that they are the real victims of racism, prejudice, injustice,
and lost opportunity. Just ask one.
This
weekend CPAC has gathered in “Mordor in Orlando”. Their Supreme Leader will
speak Sunday, so his remarks will be addressed later.
The
resentment, anger, hatred and lies are amplified and reinforced by the CPAC
cult followers of Trump.
CNN
reported and fact checked the lies:
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The segment was titled "YOUR VOTES CANCELED." They were denying the
fact that Joe Biden gained ground late on election night in vote-counting in
swing states, saying this was "statistically impossible".
We
know all the mail in votes could not be counted on election day. In fact Republicans
obstructed Pennsylvania from counting them before election day.
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"The reason that people stormed the Capitol was because they felt hopeless
because of a rigged election."
Facts
First: The election was not rigged. Joe Biden was the legitimate winner.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud or malfeasance.
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"Democrats, not Republicans, installed ballot drop boxes on sidewalks,
where nobody oversaw them. How many fraudulent ballots got deposited in these
boxes unchecked and then got counted? Who knows."
There
is no sign that these drop boxes were used fraudulently in the 2020
election. The boxes were secured in various ways: affixed to the ground,
designed with anti-tampering measures, and, in many cases, subjected to
24-hour video surveillance. Also, some states and counties run
by Republicans made use of ballot drop boxes.
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"...a lot of people there (Storming the Capitol.)-- Antifa was there, BLM
was there, MAGA people were there, everybody was there. And if Joe Biden wants
to talk unity, there was unity there on that day, because America is sick and
tired of being pushed down."
No
evidence supports this, of course.
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They (CNN)asked Joe Biden about it, (China’s Uygers) and he said it amounted to
a mere cultural difference. I don't think that more disgusting words have ever
left the lips of an American president."
“We
must speak up for human rights. It's who we are." Biden said to President
Xi Jinping on their February phone call that "no American
president can be sustained as a president if he doesn't reflect the values of
the United States. And so the idea I'm not going to speak out against what he's
doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in western mountains of
China ...
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"The rest of the world almost exclusively does voting in person because of
the opportunities for fraud in mail-in voting."
Approximately
1/4 of countries use mail-in voting. In the United States, evidence of mail
ballot fraud is exceedingly rare.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed, "We have a border wall, partly
along where El Paso is. Before that occurred, El Paso was one of the highest
crime cities in America. When they put that up it actually made them one of the
more safe cities. So we know they work."
According
to an analysis of FBI crimes data and city law enforcement data analyzed by
the El Paso Times, violent crime in El Paso peaked in 1993. Border fence
construction didn't begin until 2008, and was completed in 2009. Violent crime
in El Paso fell 34% between 1993 and 2006. And according to the El Paso Times,
from 2006 to 2011, violent crime in El Paso actually increased by 17 percent.
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Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar said that 99 percent of undocumented immigrants don't
attend court proceedings after they are released from US custody. "They're
releasing 50 undocumented aliens into the streets and hoping they'll come back
for their court appearances, but over 99% of them do not do that."
According to the latest statistics from
the Justice Department, 75% of the cases decided that year.
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California Rep. Devin Nunes complained, "When you go into the Department
of Motor Vehicles, you're gonna register to vote. Even if you don't want to
register to vote, they register you to vote.” (Gasp! The tyranny!)
California
citizens are automatically registered to vote when filling out certain forms at
the DMV, but are allowed to opt out if they so choose.
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"And wind and solar, as great as they may be, they are not reliable. You
need that constant reliable source of coal and natural gas that has to be
there. But that's not there if you have wind and solar, which is what we saw in
Texas."
While
all sources of power failed to some extent in Texas, the bulk of outages were
due to fossil fuel sources going offline, in large part due to the lack of
winterization in the state's energy infrastructure. According to the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the state's power grid,
most of the power outages were due to losses in coal, natural gas and nuclear
energy.
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Former North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker
-- who is a candidate to fill the state's US Senate seat after Sen. Richard
Burr retires in 2023 -- said that Democrats have recently started supporting
criminal justice reform. "The left, they're finally getting on board with
criminal justice reform." Walker said.
Obama
tried to get criminal justice reform passed during his second term in office,
but a bipartisan bill failed in the Senate during the 2016 presidential
election, when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided not to bring it
up for a vote. The Obama administration took reform steps that did not require
Republican approval, such as banning the use of solitary confinement for
juveniles in federal prisons, working with state and local governments to
reduce pre-trial incarceration and the incarceration of people with mental
illnesses, and instructing federal prosecutors to try to avoid triggering
mandatory minimum sentences for certain non-violent drug offenders.
This
is conservatism as portrayed at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Sunday their lies will be Trumped up to even greater depths of deceit. Stay tuned.