Let’s get started:
1) Liberals and Democrats like to imagine themselves as the protector of all and comforter of all population minority segments that they define anyway they want to suit the current outrage moment. A recent hero of such outrage was Senator Bernie Sanders who had a decent run at the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2016.
But according to a recent National Review article by Jack Crowe, Sanders’ campaign fell far short of protecting and respecting the rights, feelings, and respect of women:
- Women who worked on his staff and campaign have gone public with the accusations that they were subjected to sexual harassment and discrimination from their bosses on the job.
- The accusations were strong enough for Sanders to publicly apologize for this predator behavior: “I certainly apologize to any woman who felt that she was not treated appropriately, and of course if I run, we will do better next time,” Sanders said when asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about a Wednesday New York Times report that alleged systemic gender pay disparities and sexual harassment on his campaign.
- Furthermore: “I am not going to sit here and tell you that we did everything right in terms of human resources, in terms of addressing the needs that I’m hearing from now, that women felt disrespected, that there was sexual harassment which was not dealt with as effectively as possible.”
- A number of women on staff say there was sexual harassment which, when they reported it, they were mocked and had their accusations ignored.
- They are said they were paid less for comparable work, a standard rallying point of liberals and Democrats, a rallying point that Sanders failed to respect.
- Sanders tried to make the excuse that he was too busy running for President to know what was going on: “Yes, I was little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case.”
2) I am not looking to get into a discussion of abortion here, pro choice vs. pro life. I just want to point out one of the most callous, heartless, and despicable statements a politician has made at anytime on any subject. Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Presidential candidate, is the culprit.
This statement goes back a few months when Democrats were out of their minds during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Warren was besides herself with the panicked thought that if Kavanagh was confirmed then the right to an abortion would be destroyed and back alley abortions would become prevalent again.
But what was really repulsive was her statement that: “Today, thanks to Roe, getting an abortion is safer than getting your tonsils out. Before Roe v. Wade, many women turned to back-alley butchers to end their pregnancies.” So in essence, Warren is equating the killing of an unborn human soul to getting rid of an unneeded bodily organ. Again, this discussion is not about the validity of abortion but let’s have a little compassion for killing an unborn infant then comparing it to getting your tonsils out. Repugnant and insane.
3) And following up on Warren’s inhumane rant, she is basically wrong about thinking that the reversal of Roe vs.Wade would result in a return to untold millions of back alley abortions because….there never really was an epidemic of back alley abortions prior to Roe. Consider a history of abortion based on facts and reality, not Warren’s scare tactics and rhetoric:
- Back in In 1960, Dr. Mary Calderone, the medical director of Planned Parenthood, wrote in the American Journal of Public Health: “… about 90 percent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians…Whatever trouble arises usually arises from self-induced abortions, which comprise approximately 8 percent, or with the very small percentage that go to some kind of non-medical abortionist…So remember…abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous, because it is being done well by physicians.”
- Once upon a time Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist and abortion activist, claimed that between 5,000 and 10,000 women died every year from back alley abortions and that legalizing abortion was a way to ensure their safety.
- Except that those numbers were imaginary as he later admitted: “I confess that I knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted … The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.”
- And even the government admits that thousands and thousand of women did not die annually from back alley abortions since a Center For Disease Control study found that in the year prior to the Roe decision 39 people died from abortion procedures in the country, not 390, note 3,900, not 39,000 just 39, less than one per state.
- And the fact that Roe is the law of the land does not mean that abortion is as safe as getting one’s tonsils out since Roe became law, hundreds of women have died from legal abortion complications.
4) Speaking of lying politicians, let’s look at a recent article by the Heritage Foundation on lying politicians when it comes to the border wall that Trump wants to build to protect Americans from criminal and terrorist elements coming across our southern border:
- Cal Thomas, writing on January 10, 2019, found that politicians change their views and values based on the political winds of the times.
- Consider what Senator Barack Obama had to say about illegal immigration back in 2006: “Those who enter our country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of our immigration laws.”
- Hillary Clinton in 2015: “I voted, when I was a senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.”
- According to the Washington Post,back 2013 a bipartisan group of Senators “which included current Democratic leaders Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), declared that “not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall establish . . . the ‘Southern Border Fencing Strategy,’ to identify where 700 miles of fencing (including double-layer fencing) . . . should be deployed along the Southern border.””
- Nancy Pelosi at the time stated that the proposed Senate legislation had the characterization that “every piece of this legislation has had bipartisan support”
5) One last piece of insanity about the wall concept, a concept that was once a good idea among Democrats and now is a bad idea. One tack that they now take is to say that the wall is either not needed or is ineffective. But consider some realities that Cal Thomas included in his article cited above: “Since San Diego built its wall in 1992, the statement notes, apprehensions of illegal aliens have declined by 92 percent; El Paso, Texas, erected a wall in 1993 and illegal border crossings dropped 72 percent the first year and 95 percent over 22 years; Tucson, Arizona, built its wall in 2000 and apprehensions dropped 90 percent over 15 years; the Yuma, Arizona, wall went up in 2005, contributing to a decline in crossings of 95 percent over nine years.”
But as always with a lying American politician, never let reality get in the way of a good talking point.
That will do it for this month’s political class insanity, a sad state of affairs for every American. Today we covered how politicians lie about walls and abortion, how insensitive and repugnant a politician can be when it comes to killing a soul and equating it to having your tonsils out and how a politician was just another male sexist leader. More insanity next month.
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