So who’s crazy?

The Democratic National Convention continues, but with a curious twist on Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. His best-known rule – familiar to anyone whom the “in crowd” ever singled out in school – is “pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.” Almost as well-known is to accuse your target of your own sins. The Democratic Party is guilty of both – and their sin is even more telling. Quite simply, they’re crazy – even as they call Republicans, and especially Donald Trump, crazy.

Other studies in contrast between Republicans and Democrats

The RealClear Foundation has lately delivered two interesting studies of the contrast between Republicans and Democrats. In “The Tale of Two Conventions,” Newt Gingrich observes that Republicans listened to their voters and displaced their old guard. The Democrats did not. To hear Gingrich tell it, the Democrats never got rid of their smoke-filled room. Or perhaps a cabal answering to the World Economic Forum took it over in 1972.

Likewise, in “Will Trump End Elections?” Frank D. Miele treats the Democrats’ favorite tactic of character assassination. Their use of the word weird recalls the traditional tyranny campaign of the “in crowd” in high – and middle – school. Accusing Trump of preparing to run the last election is a classic throw-off. They’ve been rigging elections for decades – and make it obvious in 2020. Then consider how they shepherded Joe Biden into the nomination in 2020, only to dump him this year.

But both commentators miss a valuable point. Gingrich, to start with, left out one thing. The old denizens of the smoke-filled room smoked tobacco. The Clintonites smoked marijuana. Beginning with Obama, they’ve been smoking phencyclidine or some such drug. Miele hinted at the problem but still missed the wider significance – which is that Democrats in leadership are crazy.

Crazy moments at the Democratic National Convention

In the past twenty-four hours, The Gateway Pundit has revealed several crazy moments at the Democratic National Convention. Lay aside the mobile abortion mill and wire-cutting clinic parked outside the Convention venue; Planned Parenthood furnished that. (“To get one’s wires cut” is slang for “to submit to vasectomy.” The vasa deferentia, part of the male reproductive system, look and feel like twelve-gauge or heavier wires.)

Oprah Winfrey accused Republicans of trying to scare voters away from Democrats. Never mind that Democrats propose many things that should scare voters.

Observe: “books are dangerous, and assault rifles are safe.” Thus she excuses the Democrats’ plan to expose children to pornography and confiscate weapons.

Likewise, Nancy Pelosi talks a good game about “democracy.” Lay aside, again, that democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. This same Nancy Pelosi engineered the removal of Joe Biden from the top of the ticket. (She also called Biden’s term “one of the most successful Presidencies in modern times.” Obviously she’s insincere, or Biden would still be preparing to accept renomination.)

But an unnamed Black Caucus member named what the Democrats have tried (unsuccessfully) to hide.

We got 70 days to act right… After 70 days, we can go back to acting crazy.

Greg Price called that the “Freudian slip of the century.”

That speaker might as well have said it on the Convention floor, and would not have shocked more people. Outside the Convention, that is.

What about the rank-and-file?

Those moments definitely show that the leadership of the Democratic Party is crazy. They can’t blame that on the kind of voters who show up at primaries. True enough, only the most partisan of voters of either Party vote in primaries. As an Officer of Election, your editor can attest that primaries have the second-lowest turnout of all elections. Only school elections have lower turnout – and that’s part of the reason many elected school boards have crazy members.

But if only the crazies vote in primaries, that could be because those in the smoke-filled room are smoking phencyclidine. Remember: Biden dropped out of the race after the primaries, and Harris got not a single primary vote.

The real measure of rank-and-file attitudes are crowd sizes at rallies. Trump packed them in for three election cycles running: 2016, 2020, and now 2024. Hillary didn’t even try to pack them in. Biden filled small high-school gymnasiums (and sometimes only half full) and living rooms. Harris has to drape mezzanines to make the venue capacity seem lower than it was.

Now consider crowd behavior. Trump draws a respectful and respectable crowd. That assessment comes from Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) – who challenged Biden for the nomination. “I should be a Republican!” he said after receiving a warm and friendly welcome at a Trump rally.

The welcome for outsiders at a Democratic rally would be anything but friendly – if it attracted a comparable crowd. Fortunately, they never do.

The platform is the crazy part

The Democratic platform is the really crazy part – though where it comes from is anyone’s guess. It does not come from the people, given the small rally sizes and low primary turnout. Nor does the official platform document from the Convention site offer any helpful insight. It spends half its time talking about what their displaced incumbent President is going to do in his second term. Then it spends the other half fabricating a breathless warning about what Donald Trump is going to do.

But if those phencyclidine-smoking Party leaders wanted to be honest, they would write something like this:

No person – except a law-enforcement officer, an active-duty military service member, a Very Important Person, or their (note the singular “they”) bodyguard, should own, carry, or so much as touch, much less discharge, a firearm. Get guns out of civilian hands, and our cities will be safe. Leave guns in civilian hands, and they never will be. Simple as.

Every child is born into the wrong kind of body, and must receive treatment to “affirm” their true selves. “Gender” is a mere social construct, anyway, with no basis in biology.

Mother Earth groans under the weight of every child born. Let no one be born ever again – except to a select few.

Government exists to provide food, water and shelter for all its subjects. Only governments should build great projects. Capitalists are the feudal lords of our society, and must die to preserve democracy.

And religion?

Religion is the opiate – no, the amphetamine – of the masses. Islam and Hinduism get special passes, because they are the belief systems of the downtrodden, the marginalized. Hinduism teaches harmony with nature; Hindus venerate cows, and do not slaughter them. But Christianity and even Judaism (with a pass for Reform Judaism) are the enemies of progress and blueprints for oppression. (Reform Jews want nothing to do with a “nation of Israel;” they said so in the Pittsburgh Declaration of 1885.)

The real belief system is Earth worship – the Cult of Mother Earth. Thus the goal of a just society must be to restore Earth to her pristine state – then stop eating and especially reproducing. (Of course the WEF board doesn’t tell them that they intend to reserve reproduction to themselves.)

As further evidence of the anti-procreative nature of the Democratic Party, consider this statement by CNN anchor Dana Bash. In a segment on the Party’s appeal to male voters, Bash said:

But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the testosterone-laden, gun-toting guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan. Or might want to listen to that, but also, in addition, understand that it’s okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman. That’s something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base.

Shades of Fred MacMurray as Thad McCloud in Kisses for My President (1964)! This influencer’s reaction was typical:

But that’s the idea – make men less attractive to women, to lower the birth rate further.

Reaction

Already the people begin to know how crazy the Democrats are, and have been for years. Robert F. Kennedy might now be planning to throw into their faces the biggest and most chilling bucket of cold water anyone has ever thrown. The country will find out for certain tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time when he addresses the nation.

Beyond that, Donald Trump could cause the greatest number of rank-and-file Democratic voter defections since Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump believes in the next generation; the phencyclidine smokers believe this is, and ought to be, the last. Nothing else can explain their attitude. Nor do they have the slightest insight into their behavior. J. Peder Zane said it best: “they truly see their corruption as heroism.” He was talking about the media lackey of the Democrats; he might as well have been talking about Party leaders.

The attempted assassination of Trump shows how crazy Democrats are – and how desperate are those pulling their strings. This illustrates the biggest danger of craziness: with that kind of desperation comes boundless, unscrupulous fanaticism. That’s something for which everyone must watch out.