Dennis Prager: The Left Will Make 2019 A Dark Year
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
I rarely make predictions — whether of election results or anything else. My policy has always been to say what I believe should be done, not what will be done.
I am making an exception with regard to America in 2019.
2019 will be a dark year in America.
Democratic Party and the Media
Thanks to the left's control of the House of Representatives and the news media, Americans will be kept in a fevered state throughout 2019 — with innumerable hearings, exposes, criminal investigations and possible indictments of those around the president and the president himself. Truth will not be the point. Defamation will. Anything that might muddy the president, no matter how spurious, no matter how thin the evidence, will be pursued with gusto. The media will drop "bombshell" after "bombshell."
If lives and careers are ruined, so much the better; no one should be associating with this president anyway, as far as the left is concerned. The Robert Mueller investigation into alleged "collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government — which has led to guilty pleas and imprisonment of people around President Trump for offenses having nothing to do with such collusion — is a preview of what lies ahead.
The goal of the left to weaken, disable and impeach the president is the heart of its mission to undo the 2016 presidential election. If the Republicans had done anything comparable during the Obama administration, the Democrats and the media would not only have charged Republicans with racism — as they labeled all criticism of Barack Obama — they would have howled "fascism." And, for once, they wouldn't have been far from the truth. The misuse of government institutions for political ends is indeed a fascist tactic. But because most media serve as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, there will be no protest from the media, only support.
Trump Scandals Pale In Comparison
There is nothing Trump or any member of his administration has done that is comparable to Hillary Clinton's use of her own email server while Secretary of State, or her destroying tens of thousands of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress, or foreign governments' and corporations' paying vast sums of money to Bill Clinton and The Clinton Foundation while Clinton was Secretary of State.
Nor is there anything Trump or anyone in his administration has done comparable to the Obama administration's use of the IRS to suppress conservative nonprofits; its selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, at least one of which was later found at the scene where a Border Patrol officer was killed; or the lies it told about the cause of the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Yet any suggestion by Republicans that these activities be investigated is effectively shouted down by the Democrats and the media. And let's not talk about the real collusion in 2016 — between the FBI, the State Department, the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House, using material sourced in part from the Russian government — to undermine the Republican candidate for president and his presidency. The mainstream media isn't interested in that.
In other words, the Democratic Party and the media will do to American political life what it has done to the arts; the universities; the high schools; the Boy Scouts; race relations; religion; the happiness of so many women (misled by feminism regarding marriage and career); the moral fabric of American life (morality reduced to feelings); late-night television; mainstream Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism; pro football; and the sexual innocence of the young: It will poison it.
The Left's Goal
From the French Revolution to this day, the two great aims of the left have been promising utopia to the malcontented and accumulating as much power as possible. All moral values are subservient to these goals. After all, what could be more important than "social justice" (the left's term for everything it advocates); "equality" (of result); women's liberation from the "sexist oppression" of the "patriarchy"; combatting "white privilege"; fighting the "rape culture" that pervades campuses; saving life on planet Earth from the "existential threat" to it; "resistance" to the "authoritarian," "fascist," "white supremacist," "racist" Trump administration; supplanting national identities and institutions with a "world citizen" identity and international institutions; and undoing the most fundamental built-in identity of the human race, that of male and female, in the name of transgender rights?
Compared with almost any country, America is freer; gives its people more opportunities to economically advance; is less racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic; has a friendlier population; has less corruption; and has far more medical innovation. Yet this coming year, the left, the Democratic Party and the media will continue purveying the lie that the Trump administration is fascist, racist and authoritarian and poses a mortal threat to American democracy. (Given all this Trumpian fascism, how exactly did the Republicans lose the House?)
Thanks to Democratic Party control of the House of Representatives, the left will use the levers of government to keep the American people in a constant state of agitation.
The only thing the left hates more than a happy population is losing elections. And it knows the two are linked — because happy and grateful Americans rarely vote Democrat. The road to Democrat victories lies in convincing women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews and young people to be as unhappy, ungrateful and angry as possible — in the greatest country ever made.
That is the left's agenda for 2019.
Nevertheless, in wishing a happy new year to my fellow Americans, I hope I'm wrong.
- Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is "The Rational Bible," a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder of Prager University.
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“From the French Revolution to this day, the two great aims of the left have been promising utopia to the malcontented and accumulating as much power as possible. All moral values are subservient to these goals. After all, what could be more important than "social justice" (the left's term for everything it advocates); "equality" (of result); women's liberation from the "sexist oppression" of the "patriarchy"; combatting "white privilege"; fighting the "rape culture" that pervades campuses; saving life on planet Earth from the "existential threat" to it; "resistance" to the "authoritarian," "fascist," "white supremacist," "racist" Trump administration; supplanting national identities and institutions with a "world citizen" identity and international institutions; and undoing the most fundamental built-in identity of the human race, that of male and female, in the name of transgender rights?
Compared with almost any country, America is freer; gives its people more opportunities to economically advance; is less racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic; has a friendlier population; has less corruption; and has far more medical innovation. Yet this coming year, the left, the Democratic Party and the media will continue purveying the lie that the Trump administration is fascist, racist and authoritarian and poses a mortal threat to American democracy. (Given all this Trumpian fascism, how exactly did the Republicans lose the House?)
Thanks to Democratic Party control of the House of Representatives, the left will use the levers of government to keep the American people in a constant state of agitation.
The only thing the left hates more than a happy population is losing elections. And it knows the two are linked — because happy and grateful Americans rarely vote Democrat.”
Where did you dredge up this swill?
Dennis Prager University, which is nothing more than a series of You Tube videos, has probably made a lot of money for Prager, which has of course encouraged him to go further and further. Years ago he was considered a somewhat reasonable conservative media personality. Now he is going off the deep end more and more regularly.
Actually he is one of the regular conservatives in that section of Creators which has opinion writers across the political spectrum. As you can see by the tags this article was available from a great many possible seeding sources.
Why should anyone "dispute his statements" one by one "with credible evidence" when he uses no credible evidence to support his claims. He uses the same regurgitated bullshit claims the conservatives have been spitting out their human centipede orifice for the last five years which have all been debunked. But let's just humor them and see even if all his bullshit unfounded conspiracy theories about the "left" compare to the Trump administration.
" There is nothing Trump or any member of his administration has done that is comparable to Hillary Clinton's use of her own email server while Secretary of State, or her destroying tens of thousands of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress "
"At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday"
" or foreign governments' and corporations' paying vast sums of money to Bill Clinton and The Clinton Foundation while Clinton was Secretary of State ."
"The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign."
" Nor is there anything Trump or anyone in his administration has done comparable to the Obama administration's use of the IRS to suppress conservative nonprofits "
"referenced words such as "Tea Party", "Patriots", or "9/12 Project", " progressive ," " occupy ," "Israel," "open source software," " medical marijuana " and " occupied territory advocacy " in the case file".
" its selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, at least one of which was later found at the scene where a Border Patrol officer was killed "
" Gunwalking ", or " letting guns walk ", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ), which ran a series of sting operations between 2006 and 2011. Accounts of the operation insist that ATF agents were prevented from intervening not by ATF officials, but rather by federal prosecutors with the Attorney General's office, who were unsure of whether the agents had sufficient evidence to arrest suspected straw-buyers. According to some reports, many agents insisted they were prevented from making arrests because prosecutors were unwilling to engage in what could become a potentially contentious political battle over Second Amendment rights during an election year , particularly given the difficult nature of prosecuting straw buyers, and the weak penalties associated with it , even if successful. Instead, prosecutors instructed ATF agents not to make arrests, but rather continue collecting evidence in order to build a stronger case ."
"or the lies it told about the cause of the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi."
" No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for." President Obama day after the Benghazi attack
"Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead."
" Yet any suggestion by Republicans that these activities be investigated is effectively shouted down by the Democrats and the media ."
" Investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack. Ten investigations were conducted into the 2012 Benghazi attack, six of these by Republican-controlled House committees."
" And let's not talk about the real collusion in 2016 — between the FBI, the State Department, the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House, using material sourced in part from the Russian government — to undermine the Republican candidate for president and his presidency ."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/trump-on-russia/?utm_term=.4b303c94f2d9
Prager is a useless moron whose only skill is stirring the big shit stick to keep the conservative Republican diarrhea dialogue runny.
The next two years will be a time of political warfare with little legislation. Trump will face impeachment on minor charges and the US Senate will not convict him. The one bright side will be the conveyor belt of appointments going through the Senate.
Helsinki.
Hopefully one of them will be another US Supreme Court Justice replacing a retired liberal.
Stockholm.
Then they'll be calling for term limits on judges along with a popular vote etc. They are about to change the rules in the House. They want 72 hours to consider a bill, but not all bills.
Dennis Prager is 100% right in what his Creators article says. America is a great and exceptional nation, the best one on earth, a shing city on a hill and a beacon of light to the rest of the world and yet progressives have seen fit to try to destroy it all from within. We are going to Keep America Great! over and above all objections to the contrary by the political and economic left.
This is an obvious sweeping generalization of the sort we see on NT dozens of times every day.
Yet only a selected few are deleted.
Only when they come from highly opinionated members such as myself and you....and it’s sadly more than you think.
Removing "sweeping generalizations" may have sounded good in theory. In practice it is a disaster. Only a fraction of "sweeping generalizations" are removed, and then it is only because someone vindictively flagged something. This really needs to be reconsidered.
So rational thinkers with advanced science degrees are "highly opinionated"?
Sick how far right wingers deny science.
Sick how Trump calls the reality of anthropogenic global warming a hoax.
The left is even going to help us. By 2020 the American public will be so fed up with the House democrats that even JFK couldn't win an election for them.
Actually far right wing fossils are dropping like flies. Far right wing Trump fascism is dying.
Watch live: New Congress sworn in on Capitol Hill
Oh it was gorgeous. Everything progressives believe in - the exact opposite of what MLK advocated:
Good point.
From the French Revolution to this day, the two great aims of the left have been promising utopia to the malcontented and accumulating as much power as possibl
The French Revolution spawned so many of the horrors of the last 2 centuries.
The left of the French Revolution overthrew a monarchy and created a republic.....in a round about way. It was bloody and torturous, but they got there
And their pursuit of Utopia and collective rights at the expense of the individual inspired the authoritarian regimes that slaughtered millions of people....
The American revolution was grounded in the reality of human nature, the French ignored it.
The French had to overcome a thousand years of a monarchy and religious attitudes that gave kings the divine right to rule. The American Revolution was dealing with an entirely new concept...the actual birth of a nation
And the UK even though they were too slow for us, from the Magna Carta onward, through becoming Protestant evolved in a much more orderly manner from absolute monarchy to Parliament being dominant.
They're still a monarchy with a state religion, tho, aren't they?
France doesn't have any of those things in 2019
That, of course, doesn't mean the French had to engage in a slaughter of innocents. You seem to believe the outcome was inevitable or predestined, which is silly to believe in the 21st Century. In fact, the monarchy was at bay and rational people were plotting a sane way forward before the left wing zealots seized control and turned France into a hell on earth.
Moreover, you seemed to have missed my point entirely. I was discussing the international left's embrace of the ideas of the French Revolution over the last 200 years and the disasters that has caused. It's one thing for Robespierre to terrorize the innocent French when it happened, it's another for left wingers to still embrace him knowing how it turned out. There's a left wing "intellectual" magazine called Jacobin, of all things, in America in 2019. Easier to pronounce than "Khmer Rouge" I guess.
It was over 200 years ago and people of the late 18th century didn't think like people of the 21st century especially when they are fighting against tyranny and oppression from both political and religious figures.
Just what ideas of Robespierre are the "international left" (whatever the hell that is) embracing in 2019?
And within a very short time, the republic became a totalitarian dictatorship and then a failed Empire. Read Dr. Toynbee. The patterns of history cannot be denied or ignored. Similar actions lead to similar results. The actions of today's Leftists are very similar to those of the French Revolutionaries. The French Republic was ruined and nothing like it was to be found in France until just before the Second Empire.
They're not embracing the ideas of Robespierre, they're embracing the ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
ut was over 200 years ago and people of the late 18th century didn't think like people of the 21st century especially when they are fighting against tyranny and oppression from both political and religious figures.
The Americans did it just fine. And the 17th century English overthrew the literal King/Head of the State Church without large scale slaughter.
And I'm not sure how instilling a tyrannical and oppressive government is fighting against tyranny and oppression. The dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety was more tyrannical than Louis 16th, that's for sure.
Besides the straightforward homages like Jacobin magazine, the contemporary left's Utopian and collectivist ideas are direct descendants from the radicalized portion of the Revolution, even if most left wingers don't understand that. Marx built upon the Jacobin French, Lenin built upon Marx etc,etc,,Intellectual history is not a strong suit of the contemporaneity left, who tend not to understand they are just reinventing the wheel.
The French Revolution spawned so many of the horrors of the last 2 centuries.
You do realize, of course, that The French Revolution actually happened in France-- not in the U.S.!
That' may be why its called "The French Revolution"-- and not The American Revolution (which of course is relevant to our history-- BTW, the American Revolution actually did happen in the U.S.-- and yes, unlike some of those other revolutions-- the American Revolution did happen here-- and yes-- the American Revolution actually did shape our history--something to think about, eh?)
In any event, I imagine some people here are anxiously awaiting your sage comments of the relevancy of the Boer War -- and perhaps even The Wars of the Roses!
22 May 1455: The War of the Roses began at St Albans
T he first battle of what became the War of the Roses took place when forces led by Richard, Duke of York (brother of Richard III), clashed with troops of the troubled king Henry VI at St Albans.
After a triumph for Richard's forces, the Yorkists found Henry hiding alone in a local tanner's shop. England's monarch had apparently been abandoned by his retinue following another bout of the mental illness which increasingly troubled him. He had also been slightly wounded in the neck by an arrow. Not a good day by any standards, royal or otherwise.
of course, that The French Revolution actually happened in France-- not in the U.S.
Prepare to amazed, but humans can now transcribe their ideas and thus extend their influence beyond their present time and location. It's true! There's this new invention called a book you should look into!
This is why I come to the site. It never occurred to me that someone would be surprised that the French revolution was an important event in world history that had ramifications beyond the 18th century. Yet here we are...
Thanks for proving my statement that intellectual history is not a strong suit of the contemporaneous left correct.d
when forces led by Richard, Duke of York (brother of Richard III), clashed with troops of the troubled king Henry VI at St Albans.
Can you not get even basic facts correct? The Yorkists at Saint Albans were were led by Richard III's father, not his brother.
Imagine not even getting that right....
May I recommend "A Tale of Two Cities".....At long last, even the French have come to understand the difference between their revolution and ours.
Required reading when I was in Junior High school....
History and Literature go hand in hand in teaching us the way it was. History teaches the facts, Literature teaches us the societal mores of the time.....
They define each other.....
Well said
And Thomas Jefferson was there as a direct witness to it's horrors.... (he was minister to France under the articles and then stayed three more years to study the outcomes from it at the request of Washington, it's why he wasn't at the constitutional convention)
Everyone should read Jefferson's papers, they are so important to understanding on what this nation was founded upon.
Yet another 'republicans good - democrats bad' hit piece.
The Left Will Make 2019 A Dark Year...
...for traitors, corporate criminals, money launderers, conspirators, bigots, white supremacists, Nazi's, the KKK, religious prejudice, political liars and the criminal mob family business Trump, INC. and it can not come soon enough.
America has never been as a dark a place as when Trump was rejected by the people but elected by the Electoral College. It can only get lighter.
America is already in dark years since the orange shit stain is in the white house
In the future the time in American history under Trump will likely be referred to as "The Orange Ages" or "The Clown Years".
The future will record the Trump years as those when we Made America Great Again!
Orange is not the color of the typical shit stain. That tends to be brown/black like the previous WH occupants.
Coincidence? I think not.
Did you ever see what strained carrots will do to a baby's diaper?
When your diet is McDonalds Cheeseburgers and diet coke, you'd be surprised at what colors likely stain the underpants of the idiot in office. As for your wildly bigoted and racist comment about the Obama's, it's obvious you have no shame so it's pointless to even bother mentioning how disgusting that comment was. While the orange shit stain currently in the oval office proves he's a shit stain by his actions, and is unnaturally orange because of all the tanning lotion the moron coats on his slimy fat skin making commenting on his color non-racist, your comments are the exact opposite simply sinking to the level of calling black people "shit colored" which isn't an uncommon sentiment for many Trump supporters to share as Trump readily welcomes white supremacists, Nazi's and the KKK into his fold.
Sure but so what? Adults shit green from time to time but that doesn't change the normal color of crap either.
Ah yes, starting out the new year with a discussion on the color of poo ....... good times!
Just sayin'
The color of the years of the Rump 'presidency' will be known as the Donald Rump mud butt shitstain brown
I have, am I ever glad those days are over.
Another opinion piece devoid of facts.
The republicans never treated Obama bad...What of load of fucking shit right there.
The rest of it is...Hillary !!
only for the left and some neo-con rino's... for rest of us, it will be a festivus.
have you not been entertained so far? hint: it gets even better in the 2nd half.
cheers
If I wanted a President to entertain me I would have voted for Dave Chappelle. I want a President who is actually competent at his job who doesn't do things that make the rest of the world point at us and laugh at the buffoonery on display in the white house.
Yes, all any wrestling fans want is to be entertained by their politicians. They want their politicians to get up there and foam at the mouth in rage at everyone the wrestling fan hates, the "girly" liberals, the "weak" Democrats and anyone who isn't up there screaming in a roid rage about Clinton or Obama. It's all a show for those sad deluded poorly educated idiots, and the Mueller probe is to them is an annoying steroid investigator who's challenging the authenticity of their favorite pretender.
I voted for a president to trash the tpp and paris agreement, fix our shit trade deals, secure our border and put his boot up globalist butt every chance he gets.
on that count, he has already done more than anyone could have imagined. with much more to come.
and yes, I have been very entertained.
but hey, to each their own
He hasn't done dick
You are right about that but Obama was rumored to have done so.
So you agree Rump has done nothing. Progress.
trump does not do dick like obama does dick.
as for what trump has done?
just off the top of my head before I have had my coffee
before it is all over?
most every organization or entity the left used against us in the past will wind up crushed or marginalized into oblivion.
the last two yrs have been awesome, with so much more to come
Again, the dick in chief has done diddly squat.
I know the rump does putin's dick - he is on his knees on a regular basis - mouth wide open.
if that is the best reply you have? = ya got nothing at all
trump is crushing leftwing dreams while living rent-free in their heads
Exactly. Your last two posts have been right on.
No they haven't.
His posts are always somewhere in La la land
for rest of us, it will be a festivus.
They plan to get answers on the president’s onflicts of interest and corruption plaguing the administration.
Welcome to Donald Trump’s nightmare.
When the 116th Congress is sworn in on Thursday, the Democratic Party will control the House of Representatives ― and the new committee chairs are ready to finally conduct rigorous oversight of the president’s administration for the first time.
“For the last two years, the president has had no oversight, no accountability from Congress,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday. “We’re going to provide that oversight. We’re going to use the subpoena power if we have to.”
Democrats will almost immediately begin to investigate the many controversial policies and scandals of the Trump administration.
Democrats will almost immediately begin to investigate the many controversial policies and scandals of the Trump administration.
In case anyone is wondering-- the party that control Congress controls the committees. And the Democrats now control the House.
And most importantly-- yes, those committees do have subpoena power.
(Which means, among other things, that means that they can not only subpoena specific individuals, but they can subpoena Trump's tax returns, etc, etc).
A very Merrie Festivus indeed!
So is congressional subpoena power suddenly going to be strengthened?
OMG that sounds NOT NEW
regardless what the house does.
the senate will not convict and trump will not resign.
so... tell me something new?
Strengthened? No. Simply being used as The Constitution and the framers intended.
Ryan and Nunes ignored their Constitutional duties. They should be prosecuted.
You mean the some subpoenas are unconstitutional and need not be followed? Well that explains it.
You said that. I didn't.
Besides, your comment has nothing to do with how Nunes conducted the investigations.
We will see if the dems are more successful. So far HR 1 & HR 2 are dead
Of course. McConnell can not move. He has the Russian stench too.
Everything the house does is dead until the senate passes a bill and they go to reconciliation in regular order and a conference produces an identical bill that can pass both houses. Then they need a signature from the President. The house will have to compromise with the senate and the president to get anything accomplished.
It was only democrats that colluded with the Russians. For democrats to attribute all GOP opposition to their policies is as hypocritical as when they played the race card whenever anyone disagreed with Obama on any issue.
That's the sad truth for Pelosi. She can pass all the bills she wants, but unless the President supports them they won't even get a vote in the US Senate.
You can bet on it!
Im counting on it!
Attributing all our problems to "the Left" is more than a bit misleading-- dontcha think?
Hassett's remarks to reporters outside the White House Thursday, came as Apple shares were getting slammed after CEO Tim Cook acknowledged a slowdown in fiscal first-quarter sales, in an investor letter released late Wednesday. Cook said, in a subsequent CNBC interview, that "trade tensions between the United States and China put additional pressure on their economy."
The Dow is up about 100 points since Jan. 1, 2019. And then there is the jobs and wages report today. Awesome numbers and, well I’ve got another seed on that topic.
What ever. And the flotsam of the Ryan/Nunes Protectorate has faded away, leaving only McConnell and Giuliani to pick up the slack.
For the Trump to place his trust in McConnell is a poor bet. Giuliani? Bet on the horse with a broken leg.
A day in the life of the Trump is about to------------change. For the first time in his life the Trump will wake up without 'the buffers.'
The Trump administration will show the new house democrat majority exactly the same cooperation and respect that the Obama administration showed the GOP house majority in 2011 onward.