D.C. Drive For Statehood
Reminds Us Of What’s Gone
Wrong With Our Country
Posted By: RockyTCB, 3/25/2021 5:26:09 AM
The campaign for Washington, D.C., statehood has come up yet again. If nothing else, this shows how far out of control the federal government has become. The drive to make D.C. America’s 51st state isn’t new. But, with a Democratic president and a Democratic majority in Congress, the ruling class is in a mood to consolidate its power, and with the Democrat-media industrial complex demanding that everything must be seen through the lens of race, it’s now an overheated topic. For decades the pro-statehood forces have complained about being subject to taxation without representation. (We’ll have more to say on
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The campaign for Washington, D.C., statehood has come up yet again. If nothing else, this shows how far out of control the federal government has become.
The drive to make D.C. America’s 51st state isn’t new. But, with a Democratic president and a Democratic majority in Congress, the ruling class is in a mood to consolidate its power, and with the Democrat-media industrial complex demanding that everything must be seen through the lens of race, it’s now an overheated topic.
For decades the pro-statehood forces have complained about being subject to taxation without representation. (We’ll have more to say on
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No Storm, No Reckoning, No Nothing
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The Commonalities Between
the Rise of the Nazis and the
Tactics of the American Left
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the Rise of the Nazis and the
Tactics of the American Left
Cannot be Ignored 20 replies
I recently wrote a column wherein I accused the American Left and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat party, of using Fascist or Nazi tactics in their determination to permanently transform the nation into a one-party hybrid socialist state by exploiting nonexistent “systemic racism” and baseless fears of “white supremacy.” This characterization did not set well with the gullible and self-righteous Democrat voters I know (snip) any thoughtful and unemotional examination of the tactics the Nazi Party used to gain and maintain power in the 1920’s and 30’s will reveal numerous stark similarities to those being used by the left and the Democrat Party today.