{"id":136455,"date":"2022-09-27T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=136455"},"modified":"2022-09-27T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:36:31","slug":"the-3-strategies-dems-will-use-to-win-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=136455","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>The 3 Strategies Dems Will Use to Win the Midterms<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Dan Wells<br \/>\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n<p>Were the American people watching while smug Democrats weathered the talk of a GOP takeover of Congress?\u00a0\u00a0It was certainly noticeable to those who were paying attention.\u00a0\u00a0A GOP landslide is still possible, maybe even likely, but Dems don&#8217;t seem overly concerned.\u00a0\u00a0Why not?\u00a0\u00a0What brilliant strategy have they been unveiling that would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/2022-generic-congressional-vote-7361.html\">turn the tide<\/a>\u00a0for them this cycle?<\/p>\n<p>Some are trying to claim that we have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theproudliberal.org\/a-reinvigorated-fiery-joe-biden-places-blame-on-republicans-for-inflation-and-explains-why\/\">reinvigorated<\/a>\u00a0president, with his cool &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/16\/style\/joe-biden-aviators.html\">Aviator Joe<\/a>&#8221; image.\u00a0\u00a0While average American citizens are not as astute as they once were, they are still not that easily dazzled.\u00a0\u00a0Vigor is not a word anyone would use to describe Joe Biden these days.\u00a0\u00a0And he is as vacuous as ever \u2014 everyone can see past his paper-thin fa\u00e7ade to the mush that fills his cranial cavity.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that presidential approval is the number-one determining factor for midterm outcomes.\u00a0\u00a0So why are Democrats smug?\u00a0\u00a0They are smug because they know that they know that they know that they are better than you.\u00a0\u00a0And they are smug because they control the channels through which information travels.<\/p>\n<p>What information is traveling down those channels to help elect Marxist, anti-American Democrats?\u00a0\u00a0Three things: Defamation, Debt, and Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>STRATEGY 1: Defamation.\u00a0\u00a0Smear all Republicans as racist and lawless Trumpists<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MESSAGING: &#8220;We&#8217;re all going to die if Republicans win!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first priority for Democrats is to characterize all Republicans as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack\">dangerous<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/republican-trans-sports-texas-idaho-lgbtq\/\">backward-looking<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2018\/11\/education-gap-explains-american-politics\/575113\/\">uneducated<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/saraharnold\/2022\/08\/26\/biden-trashes-republicans-claiming-maga-supporters-are-a-threat-to-democracy-n2612295\">hateful<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-12-13\/anti-science-gop-lethal\">science-denying<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens\/\">racist<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/10\/04\/gop-proud-of-its-own-stupidity\/\">morons<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Republicans will gravely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22274429\/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts\">endanger our democracy<\/a>,&#8221; they like to say.<\/p>\n<p>In this characterization, Democrats do a expert job of projecting, because these words describe the left, right down to the last detail.\u00a0\u00a0Even &#8220;uneducated&#8221; describes them.\u00a0\u00a0Education is only as good as the facts that are taught, and they haven&#8217;t been taught the truth.\u00a0\u00a0College-educated people are the new walking wounded.\u00a0\u00a0How else do you explain their push for transgenderism and disfiguring surgeries?\u00a0\u00a0Or COVID vaccines, for that matter?\u00a0\u00a0Science is just another word they&#8217;ve redefined.<\/p>\n<p>The left lacks the humility that recognizes that &#8220;the fear of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is the beginning of knowledge;\u00a0<em>fools\u00a0despise\u00a0wisdom<\/em>\u00a0and instruction.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0It is uncanny how many rebukes there are for Democrats in the first nine chapters of Proverbs.<\/p>\n<p>STRATEGY 2: Spend like drunken sailors.<\/p>\n<p>MESSAGING: &#8220;We&#8217;re getting things done for the American people!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second priority for Democrats is to buy your vote with outlandish amounts of your money.\u00a0\u00a0No one is ever allowed to ask about the consequences or demand accountability for how the money is actually spent.<\/p>\n<p>As to consequences, there is hardly ever a serious consideration of fiscal responsibility in legislative sessions of Congress.\u00a0\u00a0The only true consideration is political power.\u00a0\u00a0From the climate bill they passed on party lines to the breathtaking potential executive action of &#8220;student loan forgiveness,&#8221; there is no conceivable consideration other than cold, calculating politics.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the climate bill was deliberate \u2014 close enough to the election to boast about it without knowing its consequences.\u00a0\u00a0Democrat voters are gullible repeat sufferers at the hands of the people they vote for.\u00a0\u00a0They will digest the mischaracterizations of this law and will come to grips with increased inflation and higher taxes only after they have voted.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that student loan forgiveness never happens.\u00a0\u00a0But the carrot has been dangled, and young debtors know that only one side can deliver for them.<\/p>\n<p>As to accountability, it has been 10 months since the passage of the $1.2-trillion (!) Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.\u00a0\u00a0Far from providing accountability on how that money is being spent, Democrats count on you forgetting about it, up until election season, when they use it as an asset.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2021\/08\/us-infrastructure-bill-explained\/\">Look what we did!<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;re not a do-nothing party!&#8221; they say.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;We passed an infrastructure bill, which is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/27\/politics\/biden-infrastructure-law\/index.html\">doing great things<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Following that pronouncement, they make up a bunch of talking points about it.\u00a0\u00a0Routine.<\/p>\n<p>Accountability is not a value in Washington. Who knows what the real purpose is for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marketrealist.com\/p\/how-much-money-has-the-us-sent-to-ukrainie\/\">$52+ billion<\/a>\u00a0that has been sent to Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p>STRATEGY 3: Declaration (more specifically, dishonest declaration)<\/p>\n<p>MESSAGING: &#8220;We&#8217;re the experts; you can trust us.\u00a0\u00a0Don&#8217;t believe your lying eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The third Democrat priority is to make erroneous declarations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Declare they&#8217;re up in the polls.<\/li>\n<li>Declare a healthy economy.<\/li>\n<li>Declare new laws for voting.<\/li>\n<li>Declare the issues voters care about.<\/li>\n<li>Declare all Republicans racist bigots, regardless of their race or orientation.<\/li>\n<li>Declare victory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two problems this cycle are clear enough: a uniformly unhinged Democrat party and the voters (or fraudulent processes) that give them power.\u00a0\u00a0But a third is more devastating: the paucity of meaningful GOP opposition.\u00a0\u00a0Because that is what demotivates Republican voters more than anything.<\/p>\n<p>One of Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s last themes was that Democrats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/10\/01\/now-you-see-it-democrats-want-to-end-elections\/\">don&#8217;t want to have to be elected anymore<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0His words should haunt us.\u00a0\u00a0The evidence is compelling in support of the notion that we are most of the way there.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats still make a play for their voters, as they hand out goodies, render punishment on domestic political enemies, promise abortion on demand, and sell fear about the ridiculous notion that climate change threatens our existence.\u00a0\u00a0Of no concern to them are the things that always distinguished us from other countries and made us prosperous: liberty, decency, private property rights, free speech, freedom to keep and bear arms, fiscal responsibility, law enforcement, equal justice under the law, and a firm stance against foreign enemies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/images\/bucket\/2022-09\/240723_5_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxpixel.net\/Italy-Donkeys-Nature-Wedge-Campaign-Animals-896791\">Max Pixel<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2022\/09\/the_3_strategies_dems_will_use_to_win_the_midterms.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2022\/09\/the_3_strategies_dems_will_use_to_win_the_midterms.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}