OPINION:
Suppose you saw someone you love in a car heading for the edge of a cliff, going 90 miles an hour. The driver ignores your repeated warnings to stop. He is so angry that he will not brake despite looming disaster.
There is a man tied up in the backseat who the driver blames for all of his problems, including the price of gas, the housing market and data centers. He is willing to wreck the car and possibly kill himself to punish the prisoner. Talk about road rage.
That is what this election is about.
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The America we love is in that car. The cliff is this year’s election. Middle class voters are behind the wheel. At the bottom are the politicians who would wreck us with open borders, soft-on-crime policies, new taxes and an anti-energy agenda.
The latest Rasmussen poll shows that 67% of Democrats favor amnesty for illegal aliens. State Rep. James Tallarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, said in a 2019 post that illegal aliens were his “constituents too.”
“Undocumented Americans are folks who work in our businesses, learn in our schools and contribute to our communities — but lack citizenship documentation,” the Lone Star Pollyanna laments. They are also the folks who soak up welfare, engage in fraud, join street gangs, murder our sons and rape our daughters.
Democrats have an incentive to bring in as many illegal immigrants as possible, assuming they will vote for the party that let them in. Under President Biden, the illegal immigrant population of the United States almost doubled.
Democrats want to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which apprehends the worst of the worst. The activist sheep are currently bleating about a Dominican gang member shot in New York earlier this month. He had been arrested multiple times for everything from armed robbery to drug dealing since he came here illegally in 2022.
Democrats pioneered cashless bail, which has put numerous predators back on the streets. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) congressional candidates favor abolishing police and prisons. law enforcement will presumably be handled by social workers and the Camp Fire Girls.
If you think the cost of gas is high now, just wait until enviro-freak Democrats, who want to outlaw the internal combustion engine, get ahold of the energy sector.
On his first day in office President Biden killed the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have brought 830,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Canada. Then he did everything he could to limit offshore drilling.
Even with the Iran War, the average adjusted price of gas under Mr. Biden ($3.89 a gallon) was higher on average than in President Trump’s second term ($3.43 a gallon).
Although they want to get us all in electric cars, average retail electric rates are significantly higher in blue states like California (33.6 cents a kilowatt hour) than in red states such as Florida (15 cents a kilowatt hour).
Democrats will send taxes soaring. Medicare for all, free childcare, preschool, college education and public transportation will require massive tax hikes. The CATO Institute estimates that nine of the proposals put forth by the DSA would cost between $71 trillion and $211 trillion over 10 years.
Forget the tax billionaires bushwa. If you confiscated 100% of billionaires’ wealth, it would only fund the federal government for eight to nine months.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says we are looking at an array of new taxes to finance Democratic profligacy, including a 32% payroll tax and 25% income tax surtax. You will be riding those free public buses naked.
If you like your health insurance, tough. Medicare for all means quality health care for none. Look at Britain and Canada. You will love long waiting periods to see a specialist and the rationing of services.
It will be back to diversity, equity and inclusion — “gender-affirming care” (aka, castration) guys who look like Yosemite Sam playing girls’ sports, pronoun police, public school indoctrination and the war on Christians and Jews.
You are doubtless familiar with the expression “cut off your nose to spite your face,” which the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as “to perform an irrationally self-destructive act out of anger, spite, or a desire for revenge that ultimately harms yourself far more than your intended target.”
By the time our driver goes over the cliff, he won’t have any face left.
Don’t worry about the man in the back. He is a billionaire. He will survive. Will the rest of us?
• Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.
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