{"id":1020069,"date":"2021-11-16T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020069"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:14:12","slug":"the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Thing That Explains Everything Democrats Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Would-be pundits and political commentators occasionally think they have devastated their Democratic opponents by pointing out contradictory or \u201chypocritical\u201d aspects of their policies. \u201cHow can Democrats say they favor gay rights but <a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/04\/reagan-would-not-support-obama-on-libya\/\">back<\/a> the Arab Spring, which brought <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/09\/obamas-analysts-oops-we-put-muslim-radicals-in-charge-of-libya\/\">Islamic fundamentalists to power<\/a>? How can the liberals say they\u2019re fighting for the American worker when they advocate open borders policies that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/09\/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216\/\">lower wages<\/a>?\u201d they often ask.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no hypocrisy in the Democratic Party\u2019s policies, even when they seem to contradict. A simple key can explain how every liberal policy fits into place, even \u2014 and especially \u2014 when none of them seem to. One fact can allow American citizens to pierce through the political fig leaves and see the naked, partisan truth motivating every Democratic politician, pundit, and spokesperson. One simple reality lets voters look at liberal gaslighting like an optical illusion which, once someone exposes you the trick, is never again a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is the Democrats organize every single position, plank, and talking point around one unifying principle: Every policy Democrats pursue <em>expands their power<\/em>. Every position benefits the constituent groups they have identified as their core supporters, increases Democrats\u2019 share of the vote, and tightens the Left\u2019s grasp on power.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few examples:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increasing welfare dependency<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s top legislative priority is the $1.75 trillion \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d act, a \u201ctransformative\u201d expansion of government health care, taxpayer-funded daycare, and public housing, among other social welfare programs. Studies for decades have shown these programs harm the very people they\u2019re purportedly intended to help \u2026 or do they? What if the point is not to help people get out of poverty but to create a stable voting army for the Democratic Party?<\/p>\n<p>That is precisely what social welfare spending does. In a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6449023\/\">study<\/a> published in PLoS One, researchers from Indiana University found that increasing government health care coverage correlated with an increase in the Democrats\u2019 share of the vote in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections \u2014 even in states that did not participate in Obamacare\u2019s Medicaid expansion:<\/p>\n<p><em>We find that a one-percentage-point increase in county health insurance coverage was associated with a 0.25-percentage-point increase in the vote share for the Democratic presidential candidate. We further find that these gains on the part of the Democratic candidate came almost fully at the expense of the Republican (as opposed to third-party) presidential candidates.&nbsp;We also estimate models separately for<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would-be pundits and political commentators occasionally think they have devastated their Democratic opponents by pointing out contradictory or \u201chypocritical\u201d aspects of their policies. \u201cHow can Democrats say they favor gay rights but back the Arab Spring, which brought Islamic fundamentalists to power? How can the liberals say they\u2019re fighting for the American worker when they advocate open borders policies that would lower wages?\u201d they often ask.But there is no hypocrisy in the Democratic Party\u2019s policies, even when they seem to contradict. A simple key can explain how every liberal policy fits into place, even \u2014 and especially \u2014 when none of them seem to. One fact can allow American citizens to pierce through the political fig leaves and see the naked, partisan truth motivating every Democratic politician, pundit, and spokesperson. One simple reality lets voters look at liberal gaslighting like an optical illusion which, once someone exposes you the trick, is never again a mystery.The fact is the Democrats organize every single position, plank, and talking point around one unifying principle: Every policy Democrats pursue expands their power. Every position benefits the constituent groups they have identified as their core supporters, increases Democrats\u2019 share of the vote, and tightens the Left\u2019s grasp on power.Here are just a few examples:Increasing welfare dependencyPresident Joe Biden\u2019s top legislative priority is the $1.75 trillion \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d act, a \u201ctransformative\u201d expansion of government health care, taxpayer-funded daycare, and public housing, among other social welfare programs. Studies for decades have shown these programs harm the very people they\u2019re purportedly intended to help \u2026 or do they? What if the point is not to help people get out of poverty but to create a stable voting army for the Democratic Party?That is precisely what social welfare spending does. In a 2019 study published in PLoS One, researchers from Indiana University found that increasing government health care coverage correlated with an increase in the Democrats\u2019 share of the vote in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections \u2014 even in states that did not participate in Obamacare\u2019s Medicaid expansion:We find that a one-percentage-point increase in county health insurance coverage was associated with a 0.25-percentage-point increase in the vote share for the Democratic presidential candidate. We further find that these gains on the part of the Democratic candidate came almost fully at the expense of the Republican (as opposed to third-party) presidential candidates.\u00a0We also estimate models separately for states that did and did not expand Medicaid and find no differential effect of insurance gains on Democratic vote share for states that expanded Medicaid compared to those that did not.That aligns with numerous studies tying social welfare to voting for the Democratic Party. The Pew Research Center found that Democrats are more than twice as likely as Republicans to have received food stamps. Curiously, the 2012 poll did not indicate which came first: if Democrats were more likely to sign up for social welfare programs or if people who receive federal benefits were more likely to vote for the party that promises to expand those benefits.Promoting labor unions, especially teachers unions. Even when it became clear that Democrat Terry McAuliffe was about to lose the Virginia governor\u2019s race because he sided with teachers unions over outraged parents, he couldn\u2019t stop himself: For his campaign finale, he brought in Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Why would he engage in such a clearly suicidal mission? For the same reason Joe Biden regularly promises to create \u201cunion jobs\u201d: Because labor unions are a key part of the Democratic Party\u2019s constituency.Biden won 56% of their vote in 2020. Although rank-and-file union voters has been trending more Republican for years, unions offer so much more than just votes. Labor unions spent an estimated\u00a0$1.8 billion\u00a0to benefit Democrats during the\u00a02020 election cycle. That doesn\u2019t include \u201cvolunteers\u201d in the Democrats\u2019 get-out-the-vote efforts. In exchange, Democrats create more public-sector jobs, where workers are more than five times as likely to be unionized as in the private sector.Amnesty for illegal aliens. While Joe Biden may be fixated on his social spending bill, the Democratic Party has been pushed to grant illegal aliens in the United States amnesty and \u201ca path to citizenship\u201d for more than a decade (with an assist from Beltway Republicans). Polls have consistently shown that two out of three Hispanics vote for Democrats; for instance, CNN\u2019s most recent exit poll found that 65% of Latinos voted for Joe Biden in 2020.What would it mean if two-thirds of the nation\u2019s 11 million illegal immigrants voted Democrat (especially if there are actually 22 million undocumented migrants in the U.S., as researchers at Yale and MIT believe)? A former labor leader and amnesty activist raised just that question.A man named Eliseo Medina let the cat out of the bag in 2009. At the time, he was\u00a0International Secretary-Treasurer\u00a0of the Obama administration\u2019s favorite labor union, the SEIU, as well as the\u00a0honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.\u00a0Medina told a far-Left conference:If we reform the immigration laws \u2013 it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if you had even the same ratio, two out of three [Hispanics voting for Democrats], if we get 8 million new voters that care about our issue and will be voting, we will create a governing coalition for the long-term, not just for an election cycle?[embedded content]Letting criminals vote (possibly from prison). The policy of barring convicted felons from voting dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. Yet, as The Daily Wire\u2019s Emily Zanotti reported, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Democratic primary voters that currently incarcerated felons should \u201cabsolutely\u201d be able to cast a ballot from their prison cells. Sanders knew the topic well: The socialist\u2019s home state of Vermont, as well as Maine and the deep-blue District of Columbia, allows felons to vote from prison.As it turns out, leftists have studied the issue of letting ex-convicts vote for years, finding it would benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans. A 2002 study, \u201csupported by grants\u201d from George Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute, found that 70% of convicted felons would vote for Democrats in presidential and Senate races, if they could vote. In fact, they would have strongly supported even fringe Democratic candidates who lost 49-state landslides:[O]ur hypothetical felon voters showed strong Democratic preferences in both presidential and senatorial elections. In recent presidential elections, even comparatively unpopular Democratic candidates, such as George McGovern in 1972, would have garnered almost 70 percent of the felon vote. These Democratic preferences are less pronounced and somewhat less stable in senatorial elections. Nevertheless, the survey data suggest that Democratic candidates would have received about 7 of every 10 votes cast by the felons and ex-felons in 14 of the last 15 U.S. Senate election years. Multiple studies have come to the same partisan conclusions. \u201cWe conclude that in close Florida presidential races, ex-felon re-enfranchisement can change election outcomes in favor of the Democratic candidate, especially when ex-felons are properly informed of their voting rights,\u201d wrote two researchers at California State University-Chico last September.LGBTQIA+ issues: The Democratic Party has consistently staked out the most extreme positions on transgender issues, particularly granting males access to female showers, restrooms, and intimate facilities, as well as the right to compete against women in sports. That support has not wavered, despite the fact that Americans of all political persuasions \u2014 Republican, independent, and Democrat \u2014 are less supportive of those policies than they were in 2016.How have Democrats needlessly arrived at the narrow end of this divisive wedge issue? It benefits a Democratic constituency.Exit polls show that between 64% (according to the National Exit Poll) and 73% (according to AP VoteCast) of people who identify as LGBT voted for Joe Biden in 2020. (For comparison\u2019s sake, 70% of gay, lesbian, and bisexual voters supported Barack Obama in 2008.) Given Biden\u2019s razor-thin margin in several states, The Washington Post reported, \u201cHad LGBT voters stayed home, Trump might well have won the 2020 presidential election.\u201d**Ironically, these facts are not in dispute; in fact, when leftists talk amongst themselves, they often don\u2019t bother to hide their base motivation. For instance, at the spring 2019 meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a group of left-wing megadonors openly discussed ways to \u201cchange the rules of our democracy,\u201d including the ability \u201cto control redistricting [and] ballot access.\u201dThese are a handful of the policies that Democratic politicians promote, which further their hold on power; there are many others. This article confines itself to raw electoral power. The Democrats\u2019 policies also concentrate the massive power of redistributing wealth in the hands of government. Their economic policies concentrate economic power in the hands of political decision-makers. And they support deep, structural changes to the political landscape that would cancel the voice and votes of American citizens.But that is another story for another time.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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