My uncle was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in the 1990s. An Army veteran, he was a black belt in karate and was in good shape all of his life. When the diagnosis came, he was taken aback because pancreatic cancer is one of the worst cancers you can have. Typically, by the time a diagnosis is made, the end is quite close.
Against all odds, my uncle fought against it for almost twenty years. To put that in perspective, the average length of time one survives after diagnosis is counted in months, and 83% die within five years. My uncle was a very fortunate man, in more ways than one. Sixty-five was too young, but his life was materially different than it would have been had it ended at forty-five.
The reality is, cancer is something one can, both theoretically and actually, survive. That is in stark contrast to something one cannot survive...death.
That contrast matters, whether in life or politics...
And it matters now. Why? Because one of our parties is a cancer, and the other is death.
The Republicans are the cancer. They have refused to pass the SAVE America Act or rein in a rogue judiciary. They have indicted exactly zero people for the theft of the 2020 election, for the Russian Collusion hoax, for the COVID travesty, for ActBlue illegally funneling billions into Democrat coffers, or for the persecution of the J6ers, all the while spending like drunken sailors. And their greatest failure is not nuking the filibuster, something that will have a half-life of about one millisecond once the Democrats need it gone.
A party that puts that traitor John Thune in a leadership position deserves nothing but scorn. Congressional Republicans are basically a cancer that will kill the Republic slowly.
But they are infinitely better than the Democrats, who will kill it the first chance they get.
So, what do Democrats want to do that would end the Republic? Let us count the ways.
They want to abolish the Electoral College. They want to allow the 50 million illegal aliens here to stay, become citizens, vote, and send America down a leftist rathole. They want to pack the Supreme Court so that they can basically eviscerate the Bill of Rights, particularly the Second Amendment.
With five and a half women (Roberts and Kavanaugh) already on the Court, they may have lost Dobbs, but they win far more than they should… Birthright citizenship, mail-in voting, Texas v. Pennsylvania… Nonetheless, their goal is to make Supreme Court decisions about as objective and honest as Soviet elections were and California elections are. And they want to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., into states, giving them four permanent Democrat votes in the Senate.
They would once again partner with social media companies to censor Americans' speech. They would turn America into Germany by shutting down oil and gas and yoking the American economy to the anvils of solar and wind. They would chase billionaires out of the country, make DEI the national religion, and unleash the LGBTQXYZ mafia on kids in every school in America. They would give us the disaster of Medicare for All.
Plus, they would literally weaponize the government. Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? How about the Tea Party scandal?
That was child's play compared to the OCC report on debanking, which shows that nine of America's biggest banks debanked countless individuals and companies for political reasons. Like the Tea Party scandal, there was no smoking gun from Democrats cited, but almost all those debanked were MAGA or conservative entities.
Banking is kind of an important aspect of life for Americans, and getting debanked because of your political beliefs can be life-changing, and not in a good way.
And as if all of that were not enough, we have a sitting senator and former CIA spook, Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who suggested Democrats should pursue prosecutions of Trump administration officials specifically to create a "deterrence" effect to dissuade young people from working in future Republican administrations. That is the literal definition of a police state, and a sitting senator is calling for it.
Now imagine all of the above with Democrats at the wheel, empowered by AI, drones, and a million Flock cameras…
The reality is, the American Republic is hanging by a thread. Not that everything is bad, because it's not. The economy is pretty good, despite what the media will tell you.
Trump has done some very good things. He's closed the border and attempted to start deporting the millions of illegals who are plaguing the country and costing hundreds of billions of dollars a year. He has sought to eliminate DEI and focus the Pentagon on winning wars rather than being a social experiment.
There are those who rightfully suggest Republicans have been given too many chances and don't deserve another. They're right, and in a perfect world, we'd throw the cancerous, RINO-infested GOP into the woodchipper and elect actual patriots who care about American citizens, prosperity, and respect for the Constitution.
But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in the real world, and in this one, there are only two viable choices, one of which is a cancer on the Republic and the other a death sentence for it.
I get it. The GOP deserves nothing but scorn. That's true. They've sacrificed the American people for the Georgetown cocktail party circuit, the Sunday morning talk shows, and their insider trading advantages, all while pretending to care about the American people and the Constitution.
But the reality is, the party is slowly being cleaned up. That treacherous Mitch McConnell is finally going to exit stage left, followed by his mini-me, Thom Tillis, while down in Texas, despite the establishment's best efforts, that weasel Cornyn will not be returning.
That's way too slow, but it's at least a start in terms of moving in the right direction.
On the other side, they're moving, too, but as extraordinary as it sounds for a party that's been wrong about everything for the last century, they're moving even farther in the wrong direction.
Aside from having Communists AOC and Sanders already serving, a year ago, they elected an Islamist-supporting, anti-American Communist as mayor of New York, and in Michigan, they've nominated a guy who spends his life palling around with jihad supporters and socialists.
America can theoretically survive a few more years of the cancer of Republican clowns refusing to do what voters want until we can clean out the ranks. But the Republic can't survive Democrats who seek to use the power of government to fatally eviscerate free speech and eliminate an American's ability to support his family. America can't survive as a free nation if Democrats are allowed to bastardize the Supreme Court and the Senate so they never lose another election.
The GOP is largely a despicable, cancerous party full of vipers. But they won't finish off our Republic any time soon. Democrats will.
I think enough Americans have the fighting spirit my uncle showed to defeat the odds and pull the country back from the brink. Hopefully, they will show it two weeks from now and then again in two years.
Living with the GOP, like living with cancer, is a constant battle, but one well worth fighting.
Vote accordingly.
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