{"id":37819,"date":"2019-12-23T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37819"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:54:02","slug":"wisdom-from-the-mayor-of-livermore-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37819","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom From The Mayor Of Livermore California"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article I am referring to is from June 2018, but it is still totally relevant. Linked in<\/a> posted an article on June 16, 2018, about the success and popularity of President Trump. Obviously that popularity does not extend to the media, but it does extend to the thousands of people who attend his rallies. The article is written by Marshall Kamena, a registered Democrat who is the Mayor of Livermore, California.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent\u00a0#NeverTrumpers<\/a>) constantly ask me if I\u2019m not bothered by Donald Trump\u2019s lack of decorum. They ask if I don\u2019t think his tweets are \u201cbeneath the dignity of the office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We tried statesmanship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized \u201ccollegiality\u201d as John McCain?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We tried propriety \u2013 has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t find anything \u201cdignified,\u201d \u201ccollegial\u201d or \u201cproper\u201d about Barack Obama\u2019s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see anything \u201cdignified\u201d in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see anything \u201cstatesman-like\u201d in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, Obama was \u201carticulate\u201d and \u201cpolished\u201d but in no way was he in the least bit \u201cdignified,\u201d \u201ccollegial\u201d or \u201cproper.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America \u2019s first wartime president in the Culture War.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Trump\u2019s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after \u201cthe fake media\u201d \u2014 and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri \u2014 Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as \u201cthe most powerful weapon of all.\u201d… Most importantly, Trump\u2019s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. … They need to respond.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This leaves them with only two choices. They can either \u201cgo high\u201d (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama\u2019s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright\u2019s church.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is extremely insightful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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