For a party that spent the last week celebrating bringing joy back to politics and the country, the Democrats sure have a weird way of showing their appreciation and admiration.
In case you were living in a dugout on a mountain, last week was the Democrat National Convention, where Kamala Harris was installed (anointed?) as the emergency backup candidate for president.
She didn’t have a single vote cast for her nomination in two primary elections, nor did she even bother to run this year, yet an entire segment of society went from hopelessness to adoration in a flash.
I’ve watched quite a bit of man-on-the-street interviews, and most of her supporters were of a mind that since she brings joy back to the country, that’s good enough for them. Yet, it seems that, to paraphrase the antagonist from “V for Vendetta,” it’s “joy for me but not for thee.”
Meaning that if you ain’t down with the Harris/Walz vibe, we’re gonna getcha.
In one of the latest examples, Brittany Mahomes, wife of Texas Tech Alum and world-champion quarterback Patrick, got lambasted over the coward’s corner (read social media) for appearing to like a post by President Trump.
Then there’s the “weird coinkidink” of Tulsi Gabbard, once a Democrat candidate for the presidential nomination, who was found to be working with Trump on Harris debate prep, magically appearing on a terrorist watch list of the TSA.
Last on the list, it took approximately 12 seconds for the joy police to descend on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he dropped his independent presidential bid and threw in with Trump. The decency-is-on-the-ballot crew is calling him a cocaine dealer, based on some author’s recounting of a drug-fueled purchase in the mid-70s at Harvard.
There’s so much more; I’m sure that even if there is some political divide in your family (like I have), you’ve been assaulted and excoriated for your anti-joy beliefs.
Aside from the hypocrisy of the joy battalion (which should be called joy division, but that band would be upset), why would anyone want to rely on an elected official for their happiness? Why would anyone believe that decency is more important than being able to feed a family or heat homes during the winter?
Why did joy and decency become more desirable than sound fiscal policy, national security and respect for individual rights?
When COVID was all the rage, the self-proclaimed cognoscenti said that I would be responsible for the deaths of millions if I didn’t mask up or take the blue vaccination. Now, if I don’t believe in the nonsense being spewed by these same people, like Palestine is being genocided, abortion is a right, rich people need to pay more taxes, etc., I’m guilty of harshing the collective mellow of the country and must be destroyed.
I don’t want my government to be responsible for how I feel, and whether every need I have is met just like everybody else’s. That’s not their job.
There are 18 jobs specifically lined out in the Constitution for the government to do. It’s the federal version of a job description.
I promise that if there was an executive evaluation of our leaders’ job performance, no amount of joy would be found there. My answer: do that evaluation at the ballot box and show the lot of them the door.
Tony Farkas is editor of the Trinity County News-Standard and the San Jacinto News-Times. He can be reached at [email protected].
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