Dems Project Own Bias On Trump Win

It's becoming more and more clear that Democrats and Progressives (but I repeat myself) don't understand the reasons behind the recent shellacking they took in the election. Further, their influence nationwide has collapsed during the Obama presidency. They have lost the White House, the House, the Senate and they are outnumbered 31 to 18 in state governorships. Additionally, they are 69 to 31 minorities in state legislatures. Even in the face of these results, they doubled down on their losing formula and re-elected Nancy Pelosi as minority leader. When talking heads and analysts on the left try to explain the reasons for Trump's win, we often hear that Trump effectively targeted white, blue collar, voters. I would argue this is completely wrong. Democrats see America as a collection of various voting blocks to target and then try to craft a message that somehow plots a least squares fit between all of them. However, there is an old saying that if you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. It is my opinion that Trump didn't target anyone. He said what he thinks and his message resonated with a very diverse cross section of America including white, working class voters especially in the key rust belt states.

Hopefully Progressives will continue to project their biases on their Republican rivals because in doing so, they will continue to misunderstand them and fail to understand why they lose to them. The end result will be years of opposition, minority party status for the Democrats and a bright future for America.

Progressive Language Engineers Hard at Work

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are some 171,476 words currently in use in the English language Apparently, that just isn't enough for progressives to sufficiently disparage conservatives and conservatism so they have to turn to language engineers. What is a language engineer you may ask? A language engineer is a liberal who creates new words or terms which they get to define and then use against conservatives, individual liberty, market economics and traditional American values in order to push their socialist agenda. Language engineering is a branch of social engineering. It often borrows and combines real terms from law, science, technology and other disciplines in order to lend credibility to their made up terms. Some examples of terms created by language engineering are social justice, environmental justice, anthropomorphic climate change, white privilege, micro-aggression and most recently alt-right. Technically, progressives didn't coin the term alt-right but they quickly co-opted it and have started using it to unfairly associate those with whom they disagree with racism, anti-Semitism, and white nationalism.

Language engineering is dangerous because, like political correctness, it deflects from the real issues and inhibits free speech. It is incumbent upon all thinking Americans to reject engineered terms and not further perpetuate them by using them. By doing so, we can force progressives to argue their ideas based on the merits; something they hate to do because they lose.

The Day After: Return of the Prodigal Sons (and Daughters)

Now that the 2016 election is over and Donald Trump is the president-elect, the long parade of "Never Trumpers", Republican establishment types, and RINOs are slinking back home like the "Prodigal Son." Hopefully for them, Mr. Trump will be as magnanimous as the father in Christ's parable.