In the era of Covid and Trump, I predicted the restructuring of both political parties and the destruction of the Democrat party as we know it today; I missed something critically important, which is who our political parties serve.

Both parties claim to support the people, but one party is in lock-step with the Federal bureaucracy, our mainstream media, Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, the governments of most of our allies (those that have not shifted right), and others who claim to represent a ‘moral and intellectual elite.’ The party of our Federal bureaucracy claims to support the people because it spends money on them, but as we watch, people in North Carolina continue to suffer from the effects of a hurricane that occurred months ago. As we watch the LA fires burn into the city and suburbs for so long that it’s not even a major news story anymore, it occurs to me that much of our government is not even remotely doing its job.

I get it. The Democratic Party under Joe Biden created the single largest mass migration of illegal immigrants into the United States our country had ever seen. Those millions upon millions of unvetted people needed to be fed, clothed, and housed, which took money away from FEMA such that the people of Western North Carolina now have to wait to have their homes and lives put back together. Even had California not cared more about the Pacific Pocket Mouse and the Delta Smelt to fill all of its aquifers and reservoirs with the ‘rivers of rain’ California saw in early 2024 or to clear brush and create fire barriers the way it did the last time it was competently governed, all of the money that should go toward the actual governance of California was needed to take care of illegal aliens and to fund non-profits who perpetuate rather than solve the homeless crisis in California.

Governments cannot afford to take care of countless millions of people who do not work and do their actual jobs, so governments around the country and the Federal Government itself, for the past few years, have been ignoring all of the things the government is supposed to do and has been using our money on other things instead – things that we only have to spend money on because of the incompetence of those very same governments.

When I was a kid, the Democratic Party was the party of bigger government, and by ‘bigger,’ I mean that Democrats wanted the government to be bigger than it currently was at the time. That said, when you talked to Democrats, most of them had a pretty good idea of what the correct size was. Most Democrats back then wanted more government regulation, but they still wanted to live in a free society with free markets. Sometime in recent history, however (perhaps based on the rise in popularity of Bernie Sanders), the Democratic Party has increasingly become the party not just of bigger government but of totalitarian government.

The Republican Party has, conversely, become the party that promises to protect the people from their own government.

Listen to the rhetoric. Democrat after Democrat on issue after issue talks as if anyone against the government providing food is also against having food. If someone suggests that the government should not provide healthcare, Democrats act as if that person does not want healthcare to be provided at all.

When I was younger, everyone agreed that we needed a ‘social safety net’ to catch people who fell and help them get back on their feet. However, at some point in recent history, the notion that it was even possible to get back on one’s feet became controversial.

When the notion that someone who has a problem should fix that problem becomes dismissed as ‘blaming the victim,’ it becomes impossible to fix problems. A government that has to support millions and millions of victims in a nation running an Oppression Olympics to decide which victims most deserve to get the most stuff, the government can afford to do little else.

To make matters worse, when our media acts like it is the same organization as the failed Federal and state governments that spend all of their money on the wrong things, nobody is held accountable, and those causing all the problems fail up, which is how ‘Pot Hole Pete’ Buttegeig became the head of the Department of Transportation after failing miserably as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and is now widely expected to either become a Senator for Michigan or the Governor of Michigan. Should Buttegeig get one of those jobs and fail, he’ll run for President, just as Gavin Newsom hopes to do as soon as he is done destroying California.

You will hear me criticize such people’s failures, but you will not hear CNN do so. According to CNN, Biden was one of the best presidents we have ever had.

The media can hide a great many things. How many people, for example, know that the full average cost to provide medical insurance to a family before Obamacare was $7,000 to $12,000 per year, depending on the state, and that the cost of providing the same insurance today is over $30,000 in the cheapest state? The growth in insurance premiums has grown at several times the rate of inflation ever since Obamacare came out, forcing millions and millions of Americans into high-deductible plans they can afford to have but can’t afford to use. Yet, 54% of Americans approve of Obamacare, according to the most recent Gallup poll.

The media is collectively so powerful that it can bend opinion to the degree that the American people approve of an ‘Affordable Care Act’ that makes medical care unaffordable. Let that sink in.

But the tide has changed.

The rise of the Internet has made it possible for networks like America Out Loud to compete with the mainstream media such that today, the viewership of Joe Rogan (average of 11 million per episode) vastly exceeds that of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, combined (combined average of 2.7 million in prime time).

What does our government do as more and more Americans get their news online from sources that are not owned by Black Rock, State Street, or Vanguard? It works with big tech to censor and restrict our access to information. This is precisely why the First Amendment suddenly became controversial.

One can push for universal rights that apply to all people or for special rights that only apply to some people, but not both, as every special right that applies only to some people always comes at the expense of everyone else. Democrats are for LGBTQ++ rights, African American rights, women’s rights, immigrants rights, etc., etc., etc.. What’s missing from their platform are human rights: the left is suddenly about censorship, banning guns, weaponizing justice, and various other things that go against every aspect of the Bill of Rights.

Saying you want totalitarian control over every aspect of the human condition is hard to sell. Saying you are in favor of rights specific to individual groups that always come at the expense of everyone else sounds better while giving the same result.

And who benefits from totalitarianism?
The government.
Who suffers?
We the people.

Both parties claim to want to support the people, but one party does so in ways that create opportunity in a meritocracy without artificial barriers holding anyone back. The other seeks to create dependency on government, with DEI and barriers to advancement everywhere. Dependency isn’t about supporting people but about controlling them.

Those who are not in government but who still support the left include those who are dependent on the government, those who have been brainwashed to think they are oppressed by society (including the government) but who somehow still think they can be protected from oppression by the government, those who are dependent upon the government, those who view government as a means of acquiring wealth (such as how big pharma made a killing making the Covid vaccines mandatory), and those who view themselves as some new kind of royalty (the ‘moral and intellectual elite). It’s incredible how many of these groups believe that the world would be a better place if only they were in charge of it, and the fact that power corrupts is lost on them even when they are in power and participating in that corruption.

And that is where we are today – with two political parties, one that defends the government from the people and one that defends the people from the government.

Thank God we have a President who understands this and who is working AS President to repurpose the Federal Government away from controlling the people and back toward defending our liberty.