A View From the Left

In a major electoral upset in the primary election in New York's 14th district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset 10 term Congressman Joe Crowley, a man who many expected might be the next Speaker of the House should the Dems take the House back. New York's 14th district, heavily Democratic, is made up of parts of the Bronx and Queens, with the primary winner being the likely winner in the general election. Ocasio-Cortez is an open socialist, and is allied with the Democratic Socialists of America, a group that supports the BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) movement against Israel.

Following the recent violent efforts by Gazans to breach Israel's border, resulting in the deaths of at least 60 people - 50 of whom were Hamas members - Ocasio-Cortez called it a massacre. "This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such...Democrats can't be silent about this anymore." Yes, the Democrats need to rise up against Israel. And I have no reason to believe that the liberal/leftist Jews won't follow right along.

Ocasio-Cortez's platform includes abolishing ICE, universal Medicare, a jobs guarantee for all, free college, housing (presumably free) as a human right, and, of course, the impeachment of President Trump. I wonder if anyone has to pay for all this "free" stuff. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Ilhan Omar is the likely successor to Rep. Keith Ellison (one of the two Muslim members of Congress), as Ellison is running for Attorney General of Minnesota. Omar has referred to Israel as an "apartheid" state. In case that does not make it sufficiently clear what he thinks of Israel, here is a now deleted Tweet of his: "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." Again, the outright hostility towards Israel will be no deterrent to left-wing Jews supporting these people and their party.

Proving that they will stop at nothing to defeat Trump, a group of states - blue states - have proposed legislation for their respective states that would bar anyone from being on the ballot for President unless they release their tax returns. Clearly, these measures are aimed at Trump, who has not released his tax returns. As the Constitution only requires that someone be a natural born citizen, be at least 35 years old, and been 14 years a resident within the United States, this underhanded effort to prevent Trump from being on the ballot will clearly fail on Constitutional grounds. Just another example of the Left's "the ends justify the means" approach to life.

With Justice Kennedy resigning from the Supreme Court, the Left has been apoplectic (a common emotion for the Left) over Trump having the opportunity to appoint another Justice. The Dems/Left (they are one and the same) say they are concerned about a shift in the ideological balance of the Court. Of course, that is a blatant lie. If President Trump were to appoint another Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Dems/Left would be in a state of jubilation. The LA Times basically said as much in their 6/28/18 editorial regarding Kennedy's replacement: "Since that person is unlikely to be a liberal - Trump's politics won't lead him to a new Ruth Bader Ginsburg or a Thurgood Marshall - let us make another suggestion." Clearly, there would be zero outcry were Trump to tilt the ideological direction of the Court to the left. The politicians and mainstream media are a group of hypocrites.

The New York Times was...well, the New York Times. Their 6/28/18 editorial, as might be expected, essentially told us that the sky is falling. "It is a dark moment in the history of the court and the nation, and it's about to get a lot darker." It does not get any clearer than that. Any conservative Republican President would appoint a conservative Justice. But the Dems/Left are now so extreme that any conservative appointment will be a "dark moment in the history of the...nation." Is it any wonder that they call us deplorables, haters, bigots and so on. They truly hate us. After all, conservatives make the country dark and getting darker.

Michelle Goldberg is a regular opinion writer for the New York Times. In her 6/26/18 Op-Ed in the Times, and after calling Trump a "racist," she said this: "I'm agnostic on the question of whether publicly rebuking Trump collaborators is tactically smart." Trump collaborators? That's what it is when you work in the White House now? You are a collaborator. As I said, they hate us. And they believe that we are evil. As for the way some Administration officials have been publicly mistreated, Ms. Goldberg tells us it was just "the sort of public opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization." That's how it works for the Left. There is no need to debate the issues when all they have to do (actually, all they have) is hatred and demagoguery.

The Los Angeles Times has the answer for dealing with those who cross our border illegally. Don't charge them with the crime of crossing illegally into the country. In fact, just don't detain them. Who says the Left does not want open borders?

So, there you have it. The Dems/Left are the party of open borders, hatred toward conservatives, "free" stuff for everybody, using whatever means necessary (harassment, unconstitutional laws, and so on) to accomplish their ends, and, of course, are virulently anti-Israel. My left-wing friends, even the Jewish ones, can hardly wait to vote for all that in November.