Why the Democrats will lose in 2020
By: Ayn Liberty
Tags: Democrats, Republicans, Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump, Election 2020

Why the Democrats will lose in 2020

Since Democrats took back the House in 2018, they have focused more on political theater rather than legislating. The average American does not follow bills, they follow headlines. They only see the side of their respective party. We have extremist minority wings speaking for the majority of most people on both sides of the aisle. This hyper partisanship has become hateful, toxic, and incredibly distracting. If the democrats mean to unseat the President they aren’t doing themselves any favors.

The democrats have forgotten about middle America. They’ve neglected the moderates in their party, they’ve overlooked the dissatisfied republicans, independents, and the centrists within the GOP. They continue to give platform to the socialists, progressives, impeachers, and those who scream the loudest while tolerating violence and hate towards people from the opposing party.

That’s not to say the republicans are not guilty of doing the same. I am a political activist and have given 10+ years to the republican party. But, I have to admit that sadly, my republican friends are in an echo chamber. They refuse to speak to democrats nor watch anything other than Fox news. They have abandoned their liberal friends and can’t even stomach watching the democratic debates. And if they do it’s only to criticize while failing to see the other problems people in this country experience. They write all Democrats off as communists and Russian operatives. Case in point — they have no decency nor respect for Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard is the epitome of service. As a veteran who served with people of all political affiliations and creed, I am willing to accept someone who thinks differently than I, because all I see is the uniform. Frankly, it disgusts me that my republican friends are now repeating the comments of Hillary Clinton, of all people, and are calling Tulsi a Russian operative and supporter of Assad. She is a Patriot who was the youngest female elected to Hawaii’s Congress, a woman who deployed with a combat medic unit to Afghanistan and Iraq on a volunteer basis, on several occasions. A woman who called out the DNC when they pushed Hillary in 2016 knowing their people wanted Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton is a warmongering, corrupt, corporate statist, and evil witch and Tulsi was right to call her out. I am tired of the disrespect. These are the same people who will take this article personal because they have forgotten that politics is a SCIENCE and will be displeased with me — forgetting my own service and sacrifice to this country — and they cannot dismiss that I love her with everything I am. And I will not be patronized because, “Oh, she’s just young and doesn’t know better.”

Don’t.

Facts matter, not your personal feelings. Facts are Trump’s approval rate keeps dropping and if you talk to the average conservative, not the ones involved in the campaigns, but the ones who just come out to vote, you would understand this. “But the economy is doing so well!” you say? Trump has done nothing to address spending or the national deficit. Cutting taxes has exacerbated the debt. We’re just bracing for impact now. And, I’m still waiting on him to bring the troops home from a war that I participated in 13 years ago. We have 18 year olds now deploying to Afghanistan that were not even born when we first arrived. All this and we continue to financially support terrorist organizations, tyrannical murderous dictators, and countries who have used our soldiers as fodder and our money to fund terrorism. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the like are not our allies and we need to stop kidding ourselves. We should be investing in our own country. Our children, seniors, women, veterans, and disabled deserve better than what they’re currently getting. And as an advocate for the LGBT+ community, supporting countries that persecute and execute members of that community is atrocious. But, at least our special interests in foreign nations, like oil, are being preserved.

I served my beloved country for 6 years in the military and I have been in the trenches with republicans since 2008. I have given blood, sweat, and tears for the Republican cause. I will not be stripped of my first amendment right because I have fought and sacrificed for it. I will not be lectured by couch generals who have never served their country. I will not toe the establishment party line. I am utterly exhausted by the hyper partisanship. When my congressman, Francis Rooney says, “These people would follow Trump off a cliff” he is NOT wrong. Too many of my friends have become cultists, forgetting the republican platform and participating in idol worship.

The same can be said about the Democratic party. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden will only bring them loss. If they had any sense and wanted to win they would nominate Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, or even Andrew Yang. But, they continue to listen to the extremist cultists within their own party, abandoning and completely disregarding the comfortable middle. They continue with their clown show of unseating the President and have failed to do their jobs. We the people are watching this do nothing congress and we are unfathomably disappointed. Most of us only see our tax payer’s dollars being wasted, grandstanding, and constant division. These people have been in congress for so long that they have no grasp of real life, real people. And this is why the Democrats will fail in 2020. This election is not Trump’s to win. This election is only the Democrats to lose.

So here we are again stuck between chewed gum or a used cotton swab because we the people do not demand better. We are all losers in a way. But, I am an idealist. We as a people will get through this with faith and morals and values. We have a year to get it together for the sake of this Republic. The true patriots of America will always shine through because we know that Presidents come and go, but America is forever and we have to live with each other, even though there are some who have forgotten.