Hypocrisy is intrinsic in contemporary politics, there is usually a wide chasm between the utterances and actions of politicians.
Citizens no longer
expect the elimination but mitigation of these dual standards. They hope their
elected representatives are at least true believers and practitioners of the
policies they advocate and the laws they pass.
We recently had a few
instances of blatant hypocrisy.
Exhibit one is
California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Last week, California
Governor’s office released a statement that the governor was away from the
office to spend time with his family. This was a departure from
communication-related both personal and state trips. There was neither mention
of the destination nor the duration of the holiday.
It was impossible to
fathom the purpose of this obfuscation.
Finally, after
prodding from some sections of the press, the mystery unraveled. It was revealed
that Newsom was vacationing in Montana.
Why would he hide
traveling to Montana?
Newsom
previously banned
taxpayer-funded trips to Montana and 21 other states for their
'anti-LGBTQ' laws banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s
sports. Newsom’s office also slammed Montana for restricting abortion access.
Newsom was unwilling
to share particulars about his vacation because he knew it would make
his dual standards obvious which would be politically perilous. Especially
considering the rumors that he may be running for President in 2024.
Exhibit Two
is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC.
AOC is the first
female member of the Democratic Socialists of America elected
to serve in Congress.
During an interview
on 60 Minutes in 2019, AOC suggested that the top marginal
income tax rate should be as high as 70 percent which would facilitate the
funding of her “Green
New Deal” that aims to curb America’s carbon emissions.
So does socialist AOC
pay all her taxes and make generous donations to various charitable
organizations to redistribute her personal wealth?
The
Washington Examiner revealed the existence of a New York state tax warrant
filed against AOC’s defunct business.
On July 6, 2017, New
York state filed a tax warrant against Brook Avenue Press, a children-focused
publishing firm founded by AOC in 2012 to collect $1,618 in unpaid corporate
taxes.
AOC hasn’t paid any
overdue corporate taxes, causing the current balance of the tax warrant to
swell by 52% to $2,461.
AOC claimed that
she learned of the tax warrant against her former business after she was sworn
into Congress in January 2019.
AOC pledged to
repay her delinquent corporate tax bill, but her office later claimed the
warrant was issued "in error" and that she was contesting
the matter.
It's not clear
whether AOC is still contesting the tax bill or if she intends to pay what her
former business owes to the state.
AOC earns $522,000
before taxes from her congressional salary during
her first three years in the House of Representatives. Paying $2,461 wouldn’t
actually drain her savings. Yet she seems reluctant. Clearly, AOC doesn't
believe in paying her fair share in taxes.
But that wasn’t the
only display of hypocrisy on AOC’s part.
Socialists claim to
despise ostentatious displays and discrimination against the downtrodden.
Yet AOC had no qualms
posing at the MET
Gala where tickets are priced at $35,000 per head and the working
class staff is compelled to suffocate under masks. AOC wore a gown inscribed
with "Tax the Rich" in bold red text. It was a laughable attempt to
conceal her hypocrisy. The gala occurred mere yards from where the NYPD
arrested protestors for "defunding the police" — a cause that AOC
claims to support.
Back to the taxes.
The firm owned by
AOC’s MET Gala dress designer was hit with 15 state tax
warrants since 2015, three of which were due to its failure to
withhold income taxes totaling nearly $15,000 from its employees.
There are numerous
other instances of blatant hypocrisy from contemporary Democrats.
When the COVID-19
pandemic was at its peak, the Democrats ordered stringent lockdowns that hurt
small businesses and cause unemployment in working-class communities while they
themselves continued to receive their salaries while working from home.
Governor Newsom
was photographed dining maskless with friends at a fancy
Napa Valley restaurant flouting his own coronavirus safety protocols
The Democrats ordered
mask mandates for all including school children but were seen maskless in their
personal lives. House Speaker Pelosi attended the lavish wedding of billionaire
oil heiress Ivy Getty without a mask. AOC was spotted ‘maskless‘ at a restaurant in Miami Beach in Florida.
The Democrats
advocate defunding of the police when a protest in Washington DC goes
overboard, they have 24X7 police protection for themselves.
When BLM ‘activists’
or abortion ‘protestors’ engage in property destruction, arson, looting, and
rioting, the Democrats downplay the violence claiming this is how democracy
functions. However, when protests by Trump supporters for election integrity go
overboard, it is branded a violent insurrection, and the might of the state is
used to crush all involved.
They pledge to
confiscate all guns from regular people but have armed bodyguards protecting
them 24X7 both in their offices and their homes. Quite often tax-payer money
funds this security.
The Democrats are
against border walls but barricade Washington D.C after the January 6th protests
and their private homes.
The Democrats claim
to feel the pain of illegal migrants who enter the US illegally. But the
resettlement of these migrants occurs only in working-class neighborhoods.
The result is the citizen sees wage reduction, potential job loss,
infrastructural facilities overrun, a rise in crime, and erosion of culture.
The Democrats claim
to care for the environment. They pass environmental laws that make it
difficult to run a small business and impose fines for environmental
violations. But they travel in private jets to climate conferences,
despite it being known that Flights produce greenhouse gases private jets
generally produce
significantly more emissions per passenger than commercial flights.
Since its founding in
1829, the Democrats
opposed every civil rights initiative. They were proponents of slavery
and segregation. They founded the Ku Klux Klan. Yet the same Democrats
have the audacity to brand Republicans as racists.
The Democrats claim
to be feminists but support sexual predators such as Harvey Weinstein, and
Jeffery Epstein. They also engage in victim
shaming.
The Democrats claim
to despise capitalism but are eager to enjoy its fruits upon leaving office
via high
speaking fees and other lucrative deals to bolster their wealth.
When the Democrat
hypocrisy is exposed they resort to
irrationality knowing that their PR wing i.e. mainstream media will
never ever hold them accountable.
It is astounding that these charlatans with their dubious records have the audacity to cast
aspersions on their political opponents and their supporters.
The GOP isn’t immune
to hypocrisy, but the dual standards aren’t as blatant.
The Democrats spend
all waking hours pretending to be passionate about the liberal agenda. They
link it to virtuousness and morality and claim their advocacy emanates from
empathy.
When the political
opponents challenge the rationale the response is pejorative names ascribing
bigotry and ignorance.
In their personal
lives, their actions are always contrary to their words.
The Democrats clearly don’t believe even slightly in their own agenda, there is no reason the citizen should either.
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