So then, you’re a progressive young or old populist Turk. Got some questions for you.
How many times in the last year have you 1) washed your
hands; 2) kissed your wife or partner, unprotected by a Coronavirus mask; 3)
taken a bus or train to work; 4) given up a raise so that your employer might
have sufficient profits to train or hire a new, non-white, non-privileged
worker; 5) volunteered at a Planned Parenthood abortion factory that
specializes in selling to doctors baby parts harvested from late term abortions;
6) gotten a part time job to defray the
costs of your very expensive, ivy league, white privileged, education; 7) laid
a curse on a progressive politician for raising taxes on the working poor; 8)
protested tolling, which disproportionally impacts non-privileged, black and
Latina, underpaid “indentured servants” who work to make life tolerable for
white, rich, privileged women living in Fairfield’s Gold Coast and married to
obscenely wealthy hedge fund managers; 9) had lunch recently with a trucker
who, operating on a shrinking profit margin, is troubled by the prospect of additional
taxes; 10) volunteered your services at one of Connecticut’s nursing home
charnel houses neglected by Governor Ned Lamont.
Can you tell us in round numbers how many gun crimes have been
committed by underage gunslingers in Connecticut’s three major cities –
Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven – after enlightened politicians years ago
passed, in response to the murders of school children and staff at Sandy Hook
Elementary School, gun control laws that are among the most restrictive in the
nation but have had little impact on kids shooting kids in the state’s
increasingly unlivable urban centers?
Do you raise your eyebrows when you stumble over the
following locutions frequently found in Connecticut media news reports: The
Republican Party is “racist”; the closed-shop Democrat Party is “democratic”; the
ruling Democrat majority in the state’s General Assembly is “inclusive”; large city
governments, operated more or less exclusively by Democrats for the past
half-century, suffer from “institutional racism”; Coronavirus – and not a
Democrat governor who has driven a recession prone state into yet another ten
year, politically caused recession – is responsible for Connecticut’s wall to
wall business shutdown and consequent “budget deficit.”
Is former Vice President Joe Biden senile, or is he
cleverly, by maintaining a telling silence, trying to crawl out of his past
moderate Democrat skin to satisfy and quell objections made by aggressive,
progressive Young Turks in Connecticut like you who hope to snatch political
power from dry-as-dust center and center-right politicians such as Biden?
Oscar Wilde has one of his characters in The Importance of Being Ernest say, “I
hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being
really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” Is Biden only pretending to
be a far left of center Democrat so that he might harvest votes from the
activist wing of his party, or is he only pretending to support the destructive
notions of US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the indomitable Nancy
Pelosi?
Every political question has two faces: “What is to be done?”
the title of Lenin’s most famous pamphlet, and “Who is to decide what is to be
done?” Among communists, fascists and other European, socialist related political
tribes, the answer to the second question is plain and unambiguous: the state,
the ruling political power, is to decide what is to be done. Here in the United
States, the founders of the country all agreed that the state should be
invested with limited, constitutionally prescribed powers and that the answer
to the second question -- Who is to decide what is to be done? – should be: the
people are to decide through representative legislative bodies what should be
done. Do you agree with Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Mao or with Sam Adams?
Are you registered with a political party of your choice – Republican,
Conservative, Libertarian, Democrat, Anarchist, Socialist, Communist, the
Mobocrats of the Street, etc. – if not, why not?
Should Guatemalans be permitted to vote in US elections?
Would you favor some system of voter identification, however imperfect, that
would prevent Guatemalans from voting in US elections?
Descriptionbe permitted to vote in US elections? Would you favor some system of voter identification, however imperfect, that would prevent Guatemalans from voting in US elections?
Should President Trump be impeached – again?
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