What happened to the Democrats?

 Robert Curry - American Thinker  There’s only one way such a deeply arrogant and out-of-touch party can continue to win elections.

"The opposition by Democrats to this commonsense reform is all Americans need to know about what the Democrat party has become."

"Michael Goodwin, writing at the New York Post, made a claim remarkable for its simple clarity: “The Democratic Party We Once Knew Is Dead.”  You and I can readily agree with Goodwin, but the party is certainly not dead and gone. What has it become? 

"Victor Davis Hanson provides the answer:

There is no Democratic Party. There’s a Socialist Party. But it’s a very weird Socialist Party. It’s a ... [pyramid] with a lot of very wealthy, globalized elites that run things at the top. Nothing in the middle of the pyramid. And then an expansive big base of poor people, of immigrants.

"The Democrats, Hanson explains, no longer champion their traditional constituency, those whom he refers to as “the white middle working class.”  As a result of abandoning their traditional source of political power, “the Democrats can’t win elections with open, transparent balloting, one-day balloting, and they know it.”  Consequently, the Democrats are going all out in their opposition to any and all election integrity measures and all out in championing the new constituency they are banking on: immigrants and (especially) illegal aliens. 

"America now has the largest number of residents not born in America in all of American history.  Hanson puts the number at 53 million, which is likely correct, but the Democrats already no longer need to compete with Republicans for the votes of the American middle, the middle that once upon a time decided the outcome of elections in America.  Thanks to mail-in balloting and a voting system that is non-transparent to a truly astonishing degree, even the homeless are being used by the Democrats to determine election outcomes.  For example, fraudsters have been caught on camera paying “homeless people to forge names, forge addresses and forge signatures of registered voters.” 

"Our current voting system allows for mail-in voting in much of the country.  Only the perpetuation of this system will allow Democrats to remain a going concern politically.  If and when they take control of the White House and Congress, the Democrats will make illegal aliens into citizens by the tens of millions, and Democrats will have a lock on every future election in America." . . .More..

Robert Curry is the author of Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea and Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World.

Bruce Springsteen shrugs off ‘blowback’ over anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric

 Bruce Springsteen shrugs off ‘blowback’ over anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric: ‘I don’t worry about it’

"Following the January death of Renee Good, Springsteen has repeatedly taken aim at U.S. "Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even telling agents in Minneapolis to “get out” of the city during a concert earlier this year.

""If you believe in democracy, in liberty, if you believe that truth still matters, that it’s worth speaking out, that it is worth fighting for, if you believe in the power of the law and no one stands above it, if you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading American cities and using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens, if you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president,” Springsteen told a crowd.

“'And as the mayor of that city has said, ‘ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis,'” he added." . . .

Bruce should remember this: John Mellencamp Booed Off Stage For Praising Joe Biden

Paid to Rage: How Astroturf Protesters Hijack the First Amendment: Crowds on Demand

But first some context: Organize Protests & Rallies for Advocacy | Social Cause Protesting | CROWDS ON DEMAND  "Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR stunts, and corporate events. Services available nationwide." . . .

 Jay Rogers - American Thinker  

"America’s experiment in self-government requires citizens at the controls, not contractors.  Time to require they wear a name badge."

"The First Amendment was written for citizens, not contractors. It was designed to protect the Boston Tea Party — not a corporate logistics operation with pre-printed signs, walkie-talkies, gas masks, and a direct deposit agreement.  Yet that is precisely what American protest culture has become in the era of billionaire-funded nonprofit networks.  The gap between the constitutional ideal and the operational reality has grown wide enough to drive a bus of Crowds on Demand participants through.

"Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, confirmed to Fox News in August 2025 that his firm has seen a 400% surge in paid protester requests year over year.  Compensation runs from the low hundreds per gig — varying by location, duration, and, as Swart put it, the challenges of holding a progressive sign in rural Mississippi.  Swart insists that his roster consists of sincere advocates.  But when the marketplace for dissent has a clearing price and a staffing agency, what we are witnessing is not civic engagement. It is astroturfing — a term coined for tobacco-industry lobbyists in the 1980s and since perfected by a left-wing apparatus that has transformed manufactured outrage into a funded career path.

"The complaint here is on constitutional grounds.  When hidden money turns protests into paid performances and foreign-adjacent networks coordinate the logistics, the democratic signal that lawmakers and courts are supposed to interpret becomes noise.  As John Stuart Mill understood, the marketplace of ideas functions on honest exchange.  Conceal the subsidies, and you distort the debate.  People have a right to protest, but should billionaire-funded organizations operating like professional advocacy firms enjoy the same disclosure exemptions as private citizens gathering spontaneously at a town square?

"The fingerprints of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) are not subtle.  A September 2025 report by the Capital Research Center documented that since 2016, OSF has directed more than $80 million to organizations tied to terrorism or extremist violence.  More than $23 million went to seven U.S.-based groups the FBI classifies as engaged in domestic terrorism, including the Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction during the 2020 riots.  Another $18 million flowed to the Movement for Black Lives, which co-authored a guide glorifying Hamas’s October 7 massacre and instructing activists in infrastructure blockades and false identification.  OSF denied the characterizations.

Jay Rogers is President of Alpha Strategies and a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and wealth management. He has a B.S. from Northeastern University and has completed postgraduate studies at UCLA, UPENN, and Harvard. He writes about issues in finance, constitutional law, national security, human nature, and public policy.

All Quiet on the Leftist Front

 Guest Essay by Bree Lindquist  

"I find it deeply ironic that those who fling the word “Nazi” around the most freely in 2025 seem to have no problem with actual mass-killings of Jewish people."

. . . "Why was antisemitism ever fashionable, in the United States, no less?

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.  -Aldous Huxley

"Blind piety isn’t goodness. Standing up for your own rights is not hatred. And sacrificing society’s most vulnerable on the altars of ideology and agenda is hardly “progressive.” Most reasonable people living in a free society would agree with all of the above claims, but depending on who you ask, the devil is in the details. “Pious”, in what way? What exactly are the “rights” you’re standing up for? And who are society’s most vulnerable?

"Increasingly, the answers leftists give to the above questions fail to satisfy my sense of justice. I don’t believe that only fundamentalist conservative Christians can be blindly pious towards some ideal or cause. I reject the claim that “rights aren’t like pie”, because sometimes, the demands of one group will absolutely infringe on the rights of another. And I call bullshit, with my whole chest, on the claim that the most vulnerable people are comfortably first-world men in dresses who want access to women’s protected spaces, because the most vulnerable remain who they have always been: women and children, like Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir.

"A society that fails to prioritize the safety and welfare of women and children has achieved terminal velocity toward its fall. This can be illustrated in the culture of terror nurtured so lovingly by Hamas in Palestine, where their own women and children are used as human shields and chattel, and neighboring women and children are raped and slaughtered without remorse or shame.

"Hamas did not just kill these gentle innocents. They were brutally murdered, in fear and pain, a reality that their surviving husband and father must contend with for the rest of his life. He survived, but he may never live again, learning in increasingly lurid detail how the futures of his most precious loved ones were snuffed out." . . .

Children murdered by Hamas' bare hands