Virtually everything the Democratic Party does these days is grounded in some sort of deceit. That's true of a lot of politics generally, and Republicans have their own cowardly versions of it, but the Democrats have made it their modus operandi.
First, the use of mobs.
The violent protests taking place in Minnesota right now purport to be about opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the timing is convenient.
Citizen journalist Nick Shirley shocked the country a few weeks ago when he revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer monies have been given to fraudulent "businesses" owned by Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
In my column of two weeks ago, I wrote that these transfers are part of a modern-day Marxist scheme of wealth redistribution from Americans to the world's poor.
These highly organized "protest" events have been ginned up by those who want to distract the public's attention away from the money laundering that is taking place under the guise of government "grants" to nonexistent day care centers, adult care facilities and health care transportation companies.
And investigative journalist Cam Higby has produced substantial evidence that government officials may be helping to organize and coordinate the violence!
This Is Something of a Pattern
The peaceful protests in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, were infiltrated by activists whose role it was to foment chaos and violence.
This would temporarily shut down the electoral college vote count that was going on at the Capitol, where several state delegations intended to lodge objections to the presidential election results in their states.
More saliently, the Jan. 6, 2021 violence turned the public's attention away from claims of election irregularities in multiple states and enabled the Biden administration to dismiss those claims and characterize the protest as an "insurrection," and the protesters as "insurrectionists."
The existence of illegal immigrants is, in fact, a vital part of election fraud.
In 14 states (almost all reliably blue) and the District of Columbia, there is no requirement of identification or proof of citizenship to vote.
Rules allowing ballot drop boxes, mailed-in ballots being counted for days after election day, ballot harvesting and "vouching" for the eligibility of other voters (as Minnesota law permits) are vehicles for cheating.
The riots of summer 2020 — purportedly spontaneously erupting in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody (again, in Minneapolis) — are another example of creating civil unrest to obscure important facts the public should be focusing on.
Despite public health lockdowns ordered in cities across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, protests that subsequently turned into riots were permitted to take place.
The violence, arson, destruction of property, widespread injuries and dozens of deaths conveniently moved the national conversation away from the issue of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, whether it had emerged from the International Virology Lab in Wuhan, China (as it is now almost universally acknowledged to have done), and whether the United States had been funding so-called "gain of function" research — the process of trying to modify animal-borne viruses to see if they can be made to jump species to humans — which government documentation definitely shows we were!
In other words, if the left's machinations are threatened with widespread exposure, it's time for the latest edition of Rent-A-Mob. (Comes complete with premade signs, irate white people and lyrics for recommended chants. Molotov cocktails and vehicles for ramming law enforcement sold separately.)
But mobs and mayhem aren't the only devices Democrats use to get their way.
There's also the increasingly popular use of candidates who run as "moderates," only to serve as willing patsies after being elected for the most extreme leftists in the party -- as Virginians are now finding out to their chagrin.
Newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., ran as a "moderate." But with Democrats in control of the Virginia House and Senate, she is expected to rubberstamp the extreme left-wing bills they've already introduced.
These would (among other things):
—Raise the top state income tax rate from 5.75% to 13.8%, which would then be the highest in the country;
—Impose new taxes on home repairs and dry cleaning, and a new 4.3% tax on all deliveries of online purchases, including Amazon, UberEATS and DoorDash;
—Remove mandatory minimum sentences for most felonies, including rape, manslaughter, possession of child pornography and repeat violent felonies, and eliminate victim statements in criminal trials;
—Make hand-counting ballots illegal, extend the time mailed-in ballots that arrive after election day can be counted, and permit voting over the internet;
—Ban gas-powered lawn equipment, and impose a new tax on electric equipment;
—Make it illegal for a government dispensing grant monies to nongovernmental organizations to ensure that the charitable organizations actually qualify for those grants (also known as the "Make Virginia Minnesota" bill);
—And legalize abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
Virginians who voted for Spanberger's opponent, former Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, certainly did not vote for this.
But there are those who say Spanberger never professed support for any of these policies during the campaign, and so no one truly voted for them.
With respect, Spanberger's vapidity was on display for all to see in the debate with Earle-Sears. When asked perfectly logical questions, Spanberger stood silently, staring straight ahead, unmoving, unresponsive.
Was no one (in Virginia, of all places) paying attention to the four years of the "Biden administration"?
Spanberger is like former President Joe Biden was and like so many Democratic Party politicians are today: a plant; a puppet; an empty vessel who will do what he or she is told.
The campaign claim of "moderate" is just one more deception.
Professor Laura Hollis is an attorney and university professor who has taught courses in law and business for more than 30 years. Her legal publications have appeared in the Temple Law Review, Cardozo Law Review and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. As a nationally syndicated columnist her work has been featured in dozens of print and online publications. Read reports from Professor Hollis — More Here.