Author: Crowhill Report

It’s probably a good idea.

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age. Even his staff doesn’t like the idea.

It was bought by Mark Zuckerberg.

In brief, Zuckerberg poured money into election offices in Democrat-leaning areas.

These two private non-profits [funded by Zuckerberg] were responsible for an 85 percent increase in total additional election funding — and that largess was concentrated in a relatively small number of heavily Democratic municipalities.

Bill Maher recently asked Elon Musk about the origin of the “woke mind virus.” I wasn’t impressed with the answers.

It’s fairly obvious to me that woke-ism came from the left, so Bill Maher should be asking himself what it is about modern leftism that planted the seeds for this mind virus.

Possibilities might include …

• An over-emphasis on the individual rights of minority groups.
• The emphasis on identity politics.
• A horror of possibly offending marginalized groups.
• The birth of “equity” out of the “social justice” concept.

But just today I listened to a “First Things” podcast on how same-sex marriage changed America, in which Matthew Schmitz seems to argue that this was the first time media and corporate American was weaponized against dissent.

If you disagreed with same-sex marriage, you were an awful person who should be excluded from polite society, and from making a living.

Looking back, it does seem likely that the same-sex marriage disputes were a tipping point. The left settled into the notion that if you didn’t agree with their policy prescriptions, you were a contagion that needed to be eliminated.

If his goal was to undermine the United States, I don’t know what Joe Biden would have done differently.

He’s weakened and demoralized our military. He’s sold off large portions of our strategic petroleum reserve. He practically invited a Russian incursion into Ukraine, then got us involved in the conflict. He’s intentionally destroying our energy industry. He’s actively trying to destroy what’s left of our culture — in many different ways. He’s done nothing to preserve the dollar’s status as the world reserve currency, which will have a dire economic impact on the country. I think it’s likely that he has accepted bribes against the interests of the United States.

The man is despicable, and I have sometimes said he’s a traitor.

But I think I’m wrong about that.

Webster’s defines treason in a relatively narrow way. It means an attempt to overthrow the government or to kill or injure the sovereign or his family.

The U.S. Constitution defines treason like this: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

By that definition, you might be able to make a case that Biden is a traitor. Allowing our border states to be overrun could (maybe) be considered an act of war, but if it turns out that he has taken bribes from China, that would definitely qualify.

Biden is treacherous. He’s a disaster of a president and will go down in history as the worst ever. But up to this point, I don’t think it’s fair to accuse him of treason.

After every mass shooting, liberals call for more restrictions on guns. Generally speaking, I’m in favor of allowing people to arm themselves, but there are legitimate questions about what that means. For example, we all seem comfortable with the idea that citizens can have shotguns but can’t have machine guns, so it’s really a question of where to draw the line.

I don’t pretend that I know exactly where that line should be drawn, although I know enough about guns to know that the “assault weapon” talk is usually a display of ignorance. It has more to do with what a gun looks like than its actual capabilities.

America definitely has a gun obsession, although most of the time, people think it’s only the right that’s obsessed with guns. That’s not true. The left is equally obsessed with guns.

You can see that obsession in at least three areas.

• The fantasy that more gun regulation will stop these mass murders. It won’t.
• The refusal to look at any other ways to address this problem, like re-evaluating our mental health system, or to look at deeper sociological problems, like fatherlessness.
• Resistance to the idea of allowing citizens to protect themselves — as if the police can do that.

In addition to the gun obsession, the left has a very weird view of the use of government power. They have no problem with armed-to-the-teeth police raids on peaceful people they don’t agree with politically, but they’re often against police use of force against actual criminals. It’s very weird.

I recently saw a spot on some news program where Trey Gowdy — seemingly fighting back tears after some horrific murder — said he’d be willing to give up all his gun rights if somebody proposed a solution that would actually stop these horrible crimes. I think that’s short-sighted, but it highlights a significant truth.

None of the “gun control” proposals would stop these horrible events.