In most elections, voters worry about candidates lying to them. In the 2020 presidential campaign, they should worry about what would happen if some of the Democrat candidates win, and actually fulfill their promises. Some of those candidates are astute enough to realize that the last Democrat administration made a mess of things, and seek to distance themselves from Obama’s record.
A number of those candidates rather openly tout their socialist inclinations. It’s an odd choice, considering the history of economic disaster, mass murder, and human rights violations that characterizes socialist regimes. Despite that, some of twenty or so candidates seeking the Democratic nomination can hardly hide their enthusiasm for the extreme left.
Bernie Sanders is the godfather of the acceptance of socialism in mainstream politics. Many feel sympathetic because he was, to a significant extent, robbed of the 2016 nomination thanks to what can accurately be called the usual dirty tricks of the Clinton machine. A taste of the end result of his policies can be seen in his own campaign: he couldn’t afford to give his workers the minimum wage he wants the nation to adopt, without cutting their hours.
Some flamboyantly endorse extremism. NYC mayor Bill De Blasio has quoted the Cuban Communist revolutionary, Che Guevara. Nigel Jones, writing in The Telegraph notes:
“Guevara was jailer and executioner-in-chief of Castro’s dictatorship. As boss of the notorious La Cabaña prison in Havana, he supervised the detention, interrogation, summary trials and execution of hundreds of “class enemies”…There have been some 16,000 such executions since the Castro brothers, Guevara and their merry men swept into Havana in January 1959. About 100,000 Cubans who have fallen foul of the regime have been jailed. Two million others have succeeded in escaping Castro’s socialist paradise, while an estimated 30,000 have died in the attempt.”
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The Middle East is still paying the price for the foreign policies of the last Democrat Administration. President Obama prematurely pulled all U.S. troops out of Iraq, creating the power vacuum that allowed ISIS to become a significant power. He followed that up with, for reasons that have yet to be explained, a policy of appeasement and open tilting towards Iran, a mistake of epic proportions for which the world continues to pay. Added to the disastrous weakening of U.S. armed forces, and a failure to adequately respond to Russian and Chinese aggression, his foreign policies, largely supported by the current crop of Democrat candidates, made the planet far more perilous.
One doesn’t have to look to world politics to understand how detrimental an impact some of those candidates could have.
The Competitive Enterprise institute analyzed the cost of the environmental policies Democrat candidates espouse on American households: “American households can expect tens of thousands of dollars in higher costs for energy, housing, transportation, and shipping if the Green New Deal is implemented…each household in five model states – Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania – will be on the hook for more than $70,000 in increased costs for electricity, upgrading vehicles and housing, and shipping in just the first year under the Green New Deal.”
A sample of what to expect if the Democrat candidates win can be seen in Democrat-run cities. Baltimore, the focal point of a rather heated and ongoing exchange between President Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings. was recently described by Tammy Bruce in the Washington Times / as a city that has been “kneecapped by 20th- and 21st century liberal policies reducing it to a hopeless, poverty-stricken, rat-infested, murderous town. But this is not a unique story; this is the trajectory we’ve seen in every liberal-run city in this country. The people of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and New York, among others, all know what the people of Baltimore are going through.”
An Investors Business Daily review notes that “America is awash with troubled, dysfunctional cities that have been electing Democratic mayors for decades… When Democrats are in control, cities tend to go soft on crime, reward… establish hostile business environments, heavily tax the most productive citizens and set up fat pensions for their union friends. Simply put, theirs is a Blue State blueprint for disaster.”
It’s a scenario that would be writ large for the nation as a whole if the Democrats recapture the White House in 2020.
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