After President Trump took office, the Washington Post announced its new motto, “Democracy dies in darkness.” But it was the Washington Post, not Trump, that was guilty of undermining democracy.

President Trump had been legitimately elected by a majority of states. The Washington Post was an establishment paper in a government city owned by a dot com robber baron. There’s nothing more undemocratic than a paper owned by the richest man in the world working to overturn an election.

There was just as little democracy to the midterm elections in which wealthy donors from blue states and districts poured money into local races in red and purple states and districts. San Francisco and New York billionaires buying elections in Pennsylvania and Nevada is not democracy. It’s oligarchy.

American elected officials were meant to be elected by local communities to serve their needs. Instead the Left has nationalized local races by exploiting its cultural power. And when that didn’t produce the immediate results that it wanted, began overwhelming local elections with huge piles of outside cash.

The midterm elections were the best elections that San Francisco donors could buy.

Senate Democrats picked up $220 million in out-of-state donations these midterms. That huge pile of cash also amounted to sixty percent of their haul. The majority of Dem Senate cash came from donors who weren’t living in the states they were running in, but who were trying to buy elections for them.

That’s the Washington Post brand of democracy.

It’s not just Senate races being bought up by out-of-state donors. 45% of House Dem money came from out-of-state donors. And when they didn’t succeed in buying a local election the first time, they just kept on pouring in more money into a district until they got their way.

Last year, Democrats poured in $22.5 million into a special election in Georgia’s 6th congressional district. 95% of the donations came from out-of-state donors. Democrat Jon Ossoff received more donations from California than Georgia. Ossoff still lost to Rep. Karen Handel, even though her donations amounted to only a fraction of his ActBlue bucks.

But the same donors just waited a year and bought the seat for Lucy McBath in the midterms.

In October, Lucy McBath was appearing at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles hosted by Hollywood royalty like Katzenberg, Tony Goldwyn and Cameron Crowe for a $500 a head fundraiser.

A large chunk of outside money behind McBath came from Michael Bloomberg. McBath touted his gun control positions and the New York billionaire’s front groups put $4.5 million behind his lackey.

That $4.5 million was a fraction of the $100 million that Bloomberg vowed to plow into the Dems.

There’s nothing democratic about Bloomberg buying the 6th the way he once bought Gracie Mansion.

In Illinois' 13th Congressional District, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan pulled in $1.7 million to Rep. Rodney Davis' $700K in a three month period. And then outside groups poured in nearly as much again in support of Londrigan. $300K of that money came from California.

In Nevada, out-of-state donors bought Jacky Rosen a senate seat. 85% of the radical lefty candidate’s donations came from outside the state. Of her 5 top donor zip codes, two were in New York, two in California, including Palo Alto, and the odd zip code out was in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

The media frequently airs complaints about how little political power New York and California have per capita compared to a handful of small states. These complaints are not only cynically specious, they ignore the fact that between the media’s messaging force multipliers and the bicoastal wealth being used to buy elections, political power has become as concentrated as economic and cultural power.

And that’s the opposite of democracy.

The midterms weren’t a populist wave. They were an angry tantrum by wealthy blue state donors who used their money to buy local elections as payback for having their views ignored in 2016. Instead of listening to the rest of the country, they set out to buy it, lock, stock and barrel. They found experts, consultants, strategists, programmers and organizers who would buy them other people’s elections.

Much of their money was wasted. Just ask Beto O’Rourke and his $70 million war chest. But their hysterical frenzy of spending made an undeniable impact. If you throw enough mud or money at an election, eventually it sticks. The Democrat raised nearly $1 billion to take the House.

And they took it.

$166.8 million was pumped into 30 House Democrat candidates. That’s compared to $90.7 million for the Republican candidates in those races.

The most expensive midterm elections in history paid off for Democrats. And there’s nothing democratic about that.

Democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in the glare of lefty media, lefty money and lefty power which strip away local issues and local agency in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Big blue state donors bought the midterm elections to send a message to President Trump. Many had been convinced by frenzied media hit pieces in papers like the Washington Post that action was desperately urgent.

Mortdooley wrote on Nov 16^th, 2018 at 1:10am:






That is some funny poo.

Here we go.

Quote:

the owners of facebook, google, amazon , you tube etc are all left leaning.

why is that?

they are not able to break free of the mainstream narrative.

and the mainstream is always mediocre and panders to peoples lower selves.

fat steve and fat janeen are mediocre, they are takers, they like big macs and pizza so they can take pleasure from the food, they like being pnadered to by governments so they can take from society, they like to take good emotions from netflix and facebook and they like to take little trinkets from ebay and amazon to give them a little hit of gratification.

thats the garbage life of most people stuck in the mainstream hell.

thats the leftie 'soup" of instant gratification, victimhood and mediocrity.

the guys at the top of facebook, google and amazon arent going to alienate 90 % of america.
90 % of people lead garbage lives and they need to be pandered to.


the big mac will always be more popular then the kale and avacado wrap.
always.

taking will always be more popular then contributing.
always.

those at the top of the pyramid will always suppress those at the bottom by letting them reside in a durr state and pandering to them.  thats the whole game plan of the democratic party.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Nov 16^th, 2018 at 6:48am:


Monopolies happen when people are allowed to enter and industry and compete. Do you really think that this overhaul was a so-called *liberal* act? It was not. It was another in a long line of corporate giveaways that had no problem sailing through the Republican majority Congress.

Makes sense democracy will die if it is successful.

You would have to wonder what comes after it.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Nov 16^th, 2018 at 6:48am:


Like this one, for example.




You are becoming more of a retard by the second.

Meanwhile...

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