Dateline: Chicago, Illinois, August 2024.
As cable has fallen out of fashion and the busier or more budget-conscious among us have reduced our television viewing, the Democratic National Convention now occupying our TV screens is a particularly unusual experience.
The DNC doesn’t have the great acting of a big-budget movie, the dependable laughs of a sitcom, or the excitement of a sporting event. It doesn’t offer the fascinating and truthful information of a documentary, or the pop culture fun of a talk show.
The DNC just offers a parade of strangers, most of whom hope to approach the podium and gain their “fifteen minutes of fame” by reading a five minute speech – written by campaign consultants, tested before focus groups, delivered with undue urgency and peculiarly fake cheer – on one more brief talking point among the hundreds that the DNC wants to put out there this week.
These seemingly endless speakers are just cogs in a machine, as the DNC tries, one more time, to pull the wool over the eyes of an ever-more diverse electorate.
We watch them approach the podium, black and white, young and old, male and female. They identify themselves as county board members or state legislators, attorneys general or governors, who were elected from this or that unknown county, this or that faraway state. We have never been to most of the places they represent; we have never even heard of some of them.
So what are we supposed to do with this information they provide? If we don’t know the speakers – and we don’t subscribe to the identitarian politics that compel us to believe anything as long as it’s stated with authority by a diverse group of elected Democrats – then how are we to interpret their litany of urgent pronouncements?
Well, perhaps we could remember this:
When their governors take the microphone, we can remember that these are the very people who forced nursing homes to accept dying Covid-19 patients, early on, when this manufactured virus was at its most lethal, virtually condemning thousands of our frail elderly to a death sentence.
These governors are the ones who have thrown open the prison gates, time and time again, offering undeserved mass releases of prisoners, claiming compassion or overcrowding or budget issues or other extraneous conditions. These are the governors who would rather release rapists, muggers, gang bosses or killers into the community than keep the law-abiding citizenry safe from them.
When these mayors take the podium, we can remember that these are the autocratic city bosses who, illegally and unconstitutionally, shut down city services for a year, ordered their park districts to wrap caution tape around taxpayer-funded playgrounds, and ordered churches and synagogues to discontinue Sunday services and Friday Sabbath prayer, and ordered funeral homes to postpone wakes and funerals, and ordered restaurants to close down completely or reduce their service to one-half or one-third capacity, often while doubling the minimum wage they had to pay their staffs.
As these attorneys general and county state’s attorneys rise up to speak, we can remember that these are the people who have refused to prosecute criminals unless the property they stole or destroyed was valued over a thousand dollars – and that these are the people who ordered their state troopers and local police to disregard illegal aliens and even to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcers as our nation continues to be invaded – and that these are the lunatics who have disposed of the concept of cash bail, insisting on releasing criminals on their own recognizance – regardless of the risk to the community.
When these school board members and state education commissioners take their place at the podiums, we can remember that these are the people who have banned God and the Constitution from our classrooms while filling the curricula with the global warming hoax, the worship of recycling, the condemnation of our own great ancestors, and the hero worship of the third world’s worst ancestors.
Every time these teachers’ union sycophants stand up to speak, we must remember that these are the people whose generous salaries and pensions are bankrupting our state budgets, whose constant sermonizing in the classroom is turning our own children against us, whose counter-cultural judgment is forcing our girls to compete against boys twice their size in school sports.
When these state and federal legislators take the mic, we can remember that they take an oath to obey and defend the Constitution, but then as soon as they’re sworn in, they start illegally writing, cosponsoring, and voting for bills in complete violation of the founding principles of both our country and their respective states. These legislators create agencies and departments that promulgate illegal regulations; they establish unaffordable programs that will bankrupt generations to come, and they find ways to double dip and triple dip, with commissions and board memberships for themselves and their spouses and children and friends, making themselves rich year after year on the taxpayers’ dime.
And that’s just the unknown ones. That’s just the local tyrants, the ones you don’t know.
Some of them are more famous; some you do know.
Like J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, who kept on illegally mandating vaccinations and requiring church and business closures, despite court injunctions ordering him to stop.
Like Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who ordered the greenhouses and agricultural supply stores closed in 2020 so that farmers couldn’t buy seed and fertilizer for their own farms.
Like Gavin Newsom of California, who ordered a statewide ban on dining in restaurants, and was then caught forcing high-end restaurants to host his own private parties in violation of the orders he himself had signed that very week.
And then there are the ones we know well, the national figures. Joe Biden and Barack Obama take the stage. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris take the stage. Each night, they roll out a couple more of their Big Names, the former officeholders and the current tyrants, the people most responsible for the big issues crippling America and the world at present.
And no, that’s not an exaggeration. The United States is both the most singularly powerful military entity and the strongest economic engine on earth. If the USA is managed well, it comes close to enshrining world peace and prosperity. If it is managed poorly, its military missteps and economic errors can inspire wars across the globe and spread recession and depression across the continents.
It’s the modern Democrats’ war on petroleum, natural gas, nuclear and coal, and the outrageous overspending, overregulation, and crony capitalism of the Obama and Biden regimes that have caused this global malaise. It’s the Democrats’ mixed message on the middle east, the virtual fawning over the monstrous mullahs of Iran, the Marxists of Venezuela and the tyrants of Red China, that have put our world in such jeopardy.
These are the real truths at the heart of the matter, the underlying foundation of the world as it is today, that we must keep “top of mind” as we watch and listen to the DNC’s Chicago Convention.
No matter who takes the microphone, no matter how they word their carefully engineered public pitches, we know the reality of their governance.
We feel the results in our emptied wallets, we see the truth in the sad eyes of a lost generation.
And we know in our hearts that the message they’re selling is one that no living nation can afford to consider.
Copyright 2024 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), are available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
His newest nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” was just released on July 1, and is also available, in both paperback and Kindle eBook, exclusively on Amazon.
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“When these mayors take the podium, we can remember that these are the autocratic city bosses who, illegally and unconstitutionally, shut down city services for a year, ordered their park districts to wrap caution tape around taxpayer-funded playgrounds, and ordered churches and synagogues to discontinue Sunday services and Friday Sabbath prayer, and ordered funeral homes to postpone wakes and funerals, and ordered restaurants to close down completely or reduce their service to one-half or one-third capacity, often while doubling the minimum wage they had to pay their staffs.”
But there was no issue with the pandemic when thugs like George Floyd are buried. That POS’s funeral had thousands, but there was no issue withCOVID. Also see Barrack Obama’s 60th birthday party.