How About American Interests Over Political Games for Once?

Sometimes my critiques of Democrats leave readers guessing—am I rooting for them or scolding them from a place of support? Neither. My goal is to highlight where they are going wrong, why their ideas miss the mark with the masses, and just how far off the rails their positions have become. 

Let's face it. Liberal ideology has gone off the deep end, and it's only getting stranger. Just when you think it can't, they hit you with a "hold my beer" moment. And oh, there's always more.

For me, the growing political divide today is unsettling. While clashes and disagreements have always been part of the process, we've reached a point of absolute "no compromise," and that's deeply concerning. How can we ever hope to find common ground and make progress?

Consider the Democrats' dramatic shift on border security and protectionism when Trump ran for president—positions they once championed but abandoned as soon as Trump adopted them. You'd think they could have stayed consistent on these issues, but instead they flipped entirely. Sure, many Republicans have also shifted their stance on these things, being more open to cheaper labor and free trade and globalization, but let's not forget that many Democrat voters crossed over to support Trump, likely because of these very issues.

If you've been with me for a while—and many of you have—you know where I stand. I've always supported secure borders and protectionism, even when it meant challenging my own party. To me, these are just common sense. We need strong borders, we need to protect American jobs, and we must ensure we can produce what we need for our safety and national security. I've been crystal clear on that.

This brings me back to the troubling divide we face. On secure borders and protecting American jobs, you'd think we'd finally found common ground—even unions are backing Trump's push to make more things here in the U.S. Yet, here we are, stuck in disagreement. Democrats, who rallied for these causes for decades, suddenly want no part of these issues, and we're back to square one, bickering endlessly and stalling progress.

I'm not rooting for Democrats to win. Not hardly. I disagree with over 75% of their positions. They often seem irrational, failing to think through the consequences of their actions. When they blindly push through their agenda, bad outcomes follow—that's just reality. We've seen it firsthand and lived through the fallout of their poor decision making.

I simply want a more democratic approach. When we finally agree on something, it's a rare chance to come together, hash out the details, and even celebrate the moment.

I don't believe Republicans have all the right ideas, just as I don't think Democrats have all the wrong ones. What truly serves the American people is compromise—solutions that benefit us all, not just political outcomes.

My criticism of Democrats isn't about elections or wanting them to win at the polls. It's about urging them to listen to the American people—to the majority voice that truly matters. Being misaligned on every issue feels deliberate, and if that's the case, it undermines American interests and serves no real purpose.

I'm highlighting just how disconnected Democrats are now from The People—a disconnect that hurts us and shifts the focus away from what truly matters. Hopefully, I've managed to clear the air on that. We can never expect to agree on everything. But we should be able to at least sometimes agree on something.

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Unhinged Liberals: It's Because Their Day in the Park Was Denied, That's Why

I don't disagree with liberals because they are liberals. I disagree with liberals because what they say often doesn't make any sense. They simply rarely think things through. They speak off the cuff and from an angry and unhinged perspective.

I made the comparison in a recent political forum I was participating in that liberals are often much like a child who was told they could go to the park only to suddenly be denied their day in the park. To a child, this can't simply be moved on from. It's the worst thing that could possibly happen and without their day in the park, the world is effectively over.

Liberals are largely reactionary personalities. Rather than sit back and consider things thoughtfully and try to find any positives in what they perceive as negatives, they lash out. Their minds are wholly fettered by the infuriation of not getting their way.

And don't you dare disagree with them or try to dissect and disassemble their bumper sticker talking points. They may even seek to literally destroy you.

It sounds like an insult when I say liberals lack common sense. But it's true. You can see this clearly when someone on their side suddenly changes course and begins to think about things in a rational way. Take Bill Maher. A stalwart champion of the left. He's seen now as a bit of a traitor.

"He's lost his mind," some might say on the left. Why? Because he began to see through all of the craziness that has really gone off the deep end on the left, and he has been strongly outspoken about many aspects of the LGBTQ+ movement, particularly on gender identity issues.

What happened to Bill Maher, dare I say it, is that he suddenly was making sense, and this is an absolute no-no when it comes to lefty thinking (if you can call it thinking). You're not supposed to think about anything, or God forbid, consider the consequences of things. You're just supposed to sink both feet firmly in the sand and stay the course no matter what. And sing the praises. And try to force others to see sense out of things that make no sense. And, of course, belittle and undermine anyone who tries to make sense out of senseless things that make no sense.

I even sound like a crazy man trying to make sense of liberal thinking. It's like being forever stuck on a carousel in the park. You're dizzy as hell and some deranged kid won't stop spinning it and the only way off the ride is to let go of the handle and allow yourself to be whizzed through the air and hope wherever you land, you don't land on your head.

Robert DeNiro has of course been making headlines saying absolutely crazy things about Donald Trump. He's all in on the idea of Trump being another Hitler or Mussolini. It's crazy talk. He says Trump is a sick narcissist who has no business anywhere near the White House.

But what makes him think so? What about Trump's four years in office lead him to logically conclude this?

Only that Robert DeNiro is being denied his day in the park. He wants what he wants, and he doesn't care what it means to anyone else if he gets it. It is, for lack of a better word, a tantrum. It's what all liberals are engaged in now. A tantrum.

They aren't thinking about the inflation or what may have caused it. They aren't considering the devastating and disastrous pullout of Afghanistan. They aren't thinking about the consequences of an open border. They aren't concerned about the impact of inflation on poor families. They aren't even remotely interested in knowing what really happened in 2020.

They just want their win. They just want their way. It's all that matters. Any judgement is completely banned from their minds. Any logical thought is barred.

As Bill Maher put it on his change of opinion, he has expressed his opinion didn't change. The opinion of his side changed. It is to suggest that there was a time, and even I would admit this, when the two sides of the aisle were different on a variety of issues, but also the same on many of them. We have always disagreed. But not to the extent that we disagree now.

Dare I say this as well? There was a time when the left actually had more common sense than they do now.

The thing that I don't understand is how we got here? How have we gone this far to the crazy side? Because it happened super-fast. I mean it's been a complete 180 degree turn in hyper-quick fashion. It's to the point where you really have to question, did someone just open all the doors to the asylums and let everyone out?

Even the deep hatred toward Trump that the left feels. Where is it coming from? Why is it so penetrating? Is it that Trump truly poses a grave threat to our Republic? Or is it something else? Something in the water? Was there something in that jab? 

Liberals have always been a little crazy. But never like now. It's never been nearly this crazy that it would make sense to even a liberal that men should be allowed to compete in women's sports, or that we should do away with natural, common sense pronouns to describe genders. Or that we could see a completely and utter failure of a presidency and decide, "I think I will vote for more of that."

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MyPillow's Fall is Leaving Us a Tell

It would seem, in an ironic sort of way, that what has happened to Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame and the reason behind it might be a bit of an odd turn of events if not also a very telling tale of how democrats and liberals think.

What do they (liberals) always say about businesspeople? They put profits before all else and leave the regular folks behind in the process.

Was it not so long ago that republicans and conservatives were bashed by the left for bringing pain to Anheuser-Busch for its stance on the Dylan Mulvaney issue and support of LGBTQ+ issues? After all, according to the left, the makers of Bud Light simply had an opinion, and they were entitled to it. 

Enter Mike Lindell who also has an opinion. But of course his opinion, albeit a controversial one (but so was the Dylan Mulvaney opinion from the right) did not and does not align with what the left thinks. His kind of opinion is not allowed and therefore he must be destroyed.

As a result, enduring ongoing legal battles that have wiped his bank accounts clean and destroyed his company as voting machine companies sue him for defamation and many retailers have opted to remove his products from their shelves, the left is rejoicing.

This is what you get, they say.

In a way I agree with the sentiment. I have said often that businesses can have an opinion, and surely their leaders can as well, but that mixing their opinions with their business presence is generally a bad idea. Granted, Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A proved to be exceptions to that rule.

In business the only goal is to make a profit and sell your products, and because certain opinions alienate some customers and potentially threaten one's ability to do that, you probably should just keep quiet.

At the same time, one thing Mike Lindell has been very vocal about is his convictions regarding the matter he is fighting so hard for. He's held his position and held firm in his pursuit of it without regard to profits and even his own riches.

He has put what he believes in ahead of profits.

Shouldn't the left, so hateful of the rich, rejoice in that over the potential devastation of his business and wealth? You don't have to agree with what he says or what he is fighting for. But if you are going to make the statement that a business is entitled to say what it wants and shouldn't be punished when they say things the left agrees with, on the basis of "free speech" as it applies to them, and "doing the right thing" as it aligns with their position, shouldn't the same concept apply even if what is being said is opposite of their side's position?

This is where the double standard always comes in to rear its ugly head. This is where the tell comes from.

Beyond that, doesn't the business who decides to pull a product from shelves also engage themselves in politics when they decide to do that? And why are their "statements" not challenged as well at some level?

Let's think about what may have happened had retailers decided to pull Bud Light from the shelves after the controversy over Dylan Mulvaney took hold? How would the left have reacted to that decision? Would they have said of the businesses who refused to sell the AB product, "Their business, their decision, get over it," like they did when AB decided to double down on their position over the infamous beer can?

Not hardly. Because again, this way of thinking only applies if the reason behind the decision is in lockstep with what they think is right.

The question in a case like the MyPillow one is, why would anyone perhaps not question, just a little bit, what the real motivation is if you are willing to destroy your business and keep on with what you are fighting for?

Beyond that, how does what Mike Lindell is doing align with the left's unrelenting stance that rich people only care about the money and will exploit everything and everyone in order to simply make a profit?

Clearly, he's not doing that.

Regardless of whether or not I agree with Lindell, or even admire his stance, I still stand by my thought that mixing business and politics is a recipe for disaster and should be avoided. But I also think that when it comes to "the response," it should not always be a sort of one-sided one. Because particularly when it comes to product yanks, it tends to happen to conservative leaning opinions as opposed to liberal ones.

If it is good for the goose, it is good for the gander.

Some businesses have a different kind of reach, such as Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A, where they have standalone buildings in which to sell their products. MyPillow relied mostly on mail order or the retail stores that carried his wares. It's harder to get your products out if the stores won't carry them or TV stations won't even air your commercials.

The problem I have with all of this is that so often the left gets its way, and they are happy about that, but get fit to be tied if the tide turns against them for the very same reasons they win on their side.

Take the Washington Redskins or Aunt Jemimah pancake syrup. The indian figure on Land O' Lakes products or Uncle Ben's rice. Clearly all evidence of a cancel culture the right does not embrace that the left does. And yet, while the left will cry foul if anyone is against their cancellations, they are perfectly fine if something aligning with the right is cancelled.

I think as a people and as a society, we need to decide what we want. And more importantly, to decide why we want it? Is it to get our way and simply have our say? Or is it because we truly believe in the underlying fundamental basis for shutting down anything.

Because the same woes facing Elon Musk's X could also be an example. Does X experience issues because of the business itself and what it offers? Or is it affected only because the views of the guy who owns it leans conservative in his views?

Ultimately, we're not going to stop businesses or business leaders from having opinions. It's still a free country and these people and businesses are entitled to exercise their constitutional rights just as much as anyone. But when it comes to the products they sell? I think it should be left up to the buying public to also support or not support something. If the decision had been made to pull MyPillow from the shelves because the consumer decided to let the products collect dust on the shelves, that's one thing. But taking away the choice of the consumer to send their own message is wrong. Just like in the case of the Bud Light controversy, the opinion of the consumer was clear. Bud Light beer stayed on the shelves while competing brands flew off them.

Yet no one pulled Bud Light entirely to avoid any potential backlash for carrying the product despite the clear opinion of the buying public. And that's the very reason MyPillow was pulled. The retailers did not want to be associated with the opinion of the brand. But again, this decision sides with the left and once again leaves conservative opinion behind.

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