{"id":1780624,"date":"2022-12-19T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780624"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:04:12","slug":"frank-miele-the-big-d-in-the-democratic-party-is-denialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frank-miele-the-big-d-in-the-democratic-party-is-denialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Miele: The &#8220;Big D&#8221; in the Democratic Party Is Denialism"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ffrank-miele-the-big-d-in-the-democratic-party-is-denialism%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=1780624&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.12.19-03.44-thepoliticalinsider-63a086d90b1e6.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><em>By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/12\/05\/for_crying_out_loud_the_incompetence_of_the_gop_148555.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my last column<\/a>\u00a0I lamented the inability of the Republican Party to win elections and to exercise power intelligently when they do.<\/p>\n<p>The flip side of that is the Democratic Party, which has an uncanny ability to win elections even when they are 4 points down in the polls (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/az\/arizona_governor_lake_vs_hobbs-7842.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see Kari Lake<\/a>) and to exercise power with the raw naked ambition of a third world dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Both those characteristics are only possible in a \u201csmall d\u201d democracy when the people have been trained to accept the unacceptable and to reject the obvious. Call it \u2018big D\u2019 Denialism. A perfect example is the Democrats\u2019 insistence that elections cannot be rigged, stolen, or tampered with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/why-does-election-denier-apply-only-to-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Does \u2018Election Denier\u2019 Apply Only to 2020?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who challenges an election by pointing out irregularities is called an \u201celection denier,\u201d as if our hope for fair elections is a 100% guarantee of fair elections. This is absurd. Considering the stakes, and human nature, it is almost 100% certain that people are constantly thinking up ways to cheat their way to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Democrats, and their media enablers, have turned reality on its head. They have convinced the majority of people that to question an election is a form of sedition. This obviously inhibits challenges and ultimately provides an impenetrable shield of safety for anyone who does attempt to pervert an election.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u201csmall d\u201d democracy, the problem isn\u2019t \u201celection deniers,\u201d but rather \u201celection fraud deniers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George Orwell said, \u201cIf liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.\u201d But establishment Republicans have learned that speaking uncomfortable truths is no guarantee of being heard. What if the liberty to speak is drowned out by the tyranny of propaganda?<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>What if one segment of the political spectrum controls virtually all the bandwidth of the commercial media? Then the still small voice of truth will disappear into the background and be replaced by the loud insistent clanging of denialism.<\/p>\n<p>To put it bluntly, Democrats have mastered the dark art of the big lie. They have self-righteously declared themselves to be the sole arbiters of truth, and they wield it as a weapon, even when they themselves are transparently lying. When President Biden and his Department of Homeland Security flunky assure the nation that the border is secure, for instance, there is not even a fig leaf covering their shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>They are nakedly, openly deceptive, yet somehow get away with it, perhaps because more than just elections are rigged in modern society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/election-denier-hillary-clinton-claims-gop-already-plotting-to-steal-2024-presidential-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Denier\u2122 Hillary Clinton Claims GOP Already Plotting to \u2018Steal\u2019 2024 Presidential Election<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recent proctological examination of the bowels of Twitter provides substantial evidence of just where Democrats\u2019 heads have been shoved in recent years. Up in your business, to put it cleanly. And Twitter is just one component of a multi-pronged attack on your ability to think straight.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Bernays, the famed impresario of modern spin, noted that \u201cWe are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.\u201d Men like Yoel Roth, Twitter\u2019s former \u201cdirector of trust and safety\u201d \u2013 an Orwellian title if ever there was one. As chief censor at Twitter, Roth was really the director of obedience and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>It was his job to deny or diminish the voices of those who dared to oppose liberal orthodoxy. Like thousands of other influential people in Big Media, Big Tech, Big Pharma and the Deep State, he was simply a proxy for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>And the Democrats, for their part, have become the party of denialism. They have so much control over the sources of information that they no longer even have to respond to complaints or accusations of impropriety. They just attribute the complaints to the partisan and conspiratorial thinking of their opponents and dismiss them as unworthy of discussion. Such denialism, along with the active support of a complicit media, has shielded Democrats from accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Fauci\u2019s credibility? Hunter Biden laptop? Election fraud? \u201cNothing to see here. Move along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/democrats-never-admit-defeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats Never Admit Defeat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Case in point? \u201cMorning Joe\u201d from last Monday. Joe, Mika and the panel all had a good belly laugh over the New York Post front page headline that declared that the Republican Party has \u201cEyes on the Spies.\u201d The sub-headline said \u201cGOP vows House roundup of 51 \u2018Hunter\u2019 hushers,\u201d and the graphic featured mugshots of Obama administration intelligence apparatchiks John Brennan and James Clapper.<\/p>\n<p>They were two of the 51 national security officers who \u2013 two weeks before the 2020 election \u2013\u00a0signed their names to a letter that suggested without evidence that the Hunter Biden laptop had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d This letter provided a smokescreen behind which candidate Joe Biden was able to shamelessly dissemble, claiming that the laptop\u2019s evidence of Biden-family influence peddling was somehow manufactured or lacked provenance, which is utterly absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t matter. Biden lied because he could get away with it. The friendly media would have his back, and he knew it. The media was integral to the cover-up: The 51 intelligence officers said they based their suspicions in part on \u201cmedia reports \u2026 that the FBI has now opened an investigation into Russian involvement in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to take a bet that the source for those media reports was one or more of the 51 signatories? Talk about the snake swallowing its own tail! And now \u201cMorning Joe\u201d is running interference for the Gang of 51, mocking the idea that these security-clearance grifters should be held accountable for their disruption of the fair election process.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC panelist Mike Barnicle mockingly said Americans who are worried about paying for their home heating bill, their food bill, or the \u201cstatus of their kids in school,\u201d should forget about that because \u201cwe have to get to the bottom of the Hunter Biden story. We\u2019ve gotta get Clapper and Brennan in and find out why they lied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/politico-warns-of-hacking-threats-to-voting-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico Warns of Hacking Threats to Voting Machines<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is gaslighting of the worst sort. Since when did liberals assert that Congress can do only one thing at a time? It also implies that Republicans don\u2019t care about inflation when the evidence of the past year suggests that it is Biden and the Democrats who don\u2019t care. Republicans are also the only political party that has shown any interest in protecting children in schools \u2013 first from COVID lockdowns and forced vaccinations, and then from drag queens, boys in girls\u2019 sports, and woke history lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, Barnicle implicitly admitted that Brennan and Clapper lied, but acts as though they had every right to do so. Mika Brzezinski then pulled out the pity card and lamented that the horrible Republicans are \u201cgoing after Joe Biden\u2019s remaining son,\u201d as though the sad death of Beau Biden somehow gives Hunter a free pass to commit whatever crimes he wants to.<\/p>\n<p>Even that is a red herring because the New York Post story isn\u2019t about going after Hunter Biden; it\u2019s about going after the 51 intelligence officials who falsely suggested that evidence of malfeasance in the Biden family was somehow invented by the Russians instead of turned over to a Mac computer repairman by Hunter Biden himself.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, we are two years into the Biden administration, and more than three years since the FBI got ahold of the incriminating laptop, and still nothing has happened to suggest that Democrats have anything to fear when their president is exposed as a liar and a corrupt politician. So maybe \u201cMorning Joe\u201d and the rest of the Democrat defenders are right. Accountability is for chumps! Remember, it\u2019s all the fault of those dirty Republicans, and when all else fails: Deny! Deny! Deny!<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His newest book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Matters-Most-Country-Heartland\/dp\/1732963355\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends<\/a>,\u201d is available<\/em><em>\u00a0from his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/kindle-dbs\/entity\/author\/B07L4FWTDY?_encoding=UTF8&#038;node=283155&#038;offset=0&#038;pageSize=12&#038;searchAlias=stripbooks&#038;sort=author-sidecar-rank&#038;page=1&#038;langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon author page<\/a>. Visit him at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heartlanddiaryusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HeartlandDiaryUSA.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on Twitter or Gettr @HeartlandDiary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">The opinions expressed by contributors and\/or content partners are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Political Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics In\u00a0my last column\u00a0I lamented the inability of the Republican Party to win elections and to exercise power intelligently when they do. 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