When Did Crazy Become a Political Position?

The Democrats’ festival of crazy is hard to deal with. Should we look for an explanation or look away in pity?

Snarly senior Maxine Waters threatening a security guard. Permanently-outraged Chuck Schumer brandishing an avocado. Sanctuary cities doubling down as broke sanctuary cities. DC bureaucrats rallying to keep the jobs they’ve been minimizing at home. A DC rally showing they should actually minimize singing in public.

If these Democrats had a sense of humor, they could laugh at themselves. If they had a hammer, they could injure a thumb.

Actually, American politics has a long tradition of Crazy.

In 1896 Democrat presidential candidate and “free silver” advocate William Jennings Bryan raged at “gold standard” Republicans: “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!” The crucifixion of mankind was avoided, but Bryan lost the election anyway.

That famous Cross of Gold speech was made in the Chicago Coliseum, which burned down a few months later. Chicago’s welcoming site for raging conventions and fires goes way back.

In the 1928 presidential campaign, the Republican Party confidently promised Americans “a chicken in every pot.” The Roaring Twenties giddiness of that slogan was short-lived. In 1929 the Great Depression struck and Republicans entered a depression of their own, five terms long.

In 2016 the Democrats trotted out the catchy message “Hillary For America.” They took the bold step of nominating a woman with a deep-seated resemblance to a movie character who once cackled, “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

Such political blunders seem puzzling in retrospect, but look reasonable compared to the Democrats’ craziness festival in the 2020s. This one’s been playing out like Woodstock with stronger drugs, Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on your door naked, a sequel to the movie Cats, tuna fish ice cream.

Here are five can’t-miss productions the Democrats tried — are still trying — to perform for us. This isn’t a comprehensive list.

Crazy #1 – Citizenship

Should we still have standards for United States citizenship? Democrats rethought this subject. Traditional U.S. citizenship, they decided, is deader than disco. In order to swell the Democrat voting base, influential lefties in government and media put out a welcome mat for the world’s needy billions.

Key features of delirium migration:

• An invitation for anyone living in a country outside the United States with less generous entitlements and free stuff than what’s readily available here (that’s 194 countries): “C’mon in!”
• In the bad old days, you earned a felony for entering the U.S illegally, but in this “progressive” era, you’re awarded a driver’s license.
• Hey, Mr. Border Hopper, do you have special interests in non-scheduled drugs, a network using young people, or other behavior not legal for U.S.-born citizens? No problem! Just promise you’ll show up for a hearing in 2032.
• Need a free home, a car, a bundle of cash to start a business? Just remember which party gifted it to you.

Crazy #2 – Sex

Democrats have always believed their Hollywood-Broadway axis is oh-so-sexy. Now 21st century Democrats have expanded their horizons on sex — not the basic subject but aggressive political neuroses about the subject. Such problems had traditionally been called sexual dysphoria. Now they’re a plank of Democrat politics. Pick your neurosis:

• With the appropriate attitude and certain medical adjustments, former men can get pregnant.
• Males who “identify” as females and want to defeat females in sports competition deserve the opportunity (and they’re not cowards or creeps).
• The identifiers must be allowed to dangle around and stare at traditional females – old and young — in bathrooms and locker rooms (and must not be beaten to a pulp by fathers of those females).
• A growing number of genders exists, but no way to define a woman exists.

Crazy #3 – Inflation

In 1978 economist Milton Friedman clearly and expertly described the central cause of inflation: excessive government spending. Without flagrantly excessive government spending, inflation was under control from 2009 – 2020, averaging about 1.6% annually. Could a presidential administration be unbalanced enough to drive annual inflation up to 8% in just two years, printing increased trillions of ever-less-valuable dollars and promising that this sudden inflation plague was “transitory”?

Should that administration be called “irresponsible” or “aggressively Keynesian”? A five-letter word that rhymes with “lazy” seems more accurate.

Crazy #4 – Justice

If you’re concerned with justice for criminals, Democrats have you covered. Their billionaire benefactor doesn’t care about institutional efficiency as Elon Musk does. He cares about setting criminals free.

The Democrats’ favorite billionaire is George Soros, a 1930 Hungarian native who moved to England. He made a fortune shorting the British pound, earning the nickname “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England.” Then he moved to the U.S. (lucky us). Having political doctrines to the left of the post-Stalin world, he provided tens of millions to elect at least 126 attorneys general, district attorneys and other officials who shared his great love: freedom for repeat criminals.

Leftist compassion for thugs? Sure! Thugs are usually especially underprivileged.

You might be wondering about the public effects of Soros prosecutors who are devoted to not prosecuting. (If you still live in Chicago, you’re not wondering.)

Let’s say you’re a Chicagoan who gets beat up by career criminal Bam Bam on Monday. Then Bam Bam is back on the street to beat you up again on Friday. You might detect a Chicago pattern.

Crazy #5 – Debt

Some Americans are aware that their federal government has a debt north of $36 trillion, moving second-by-second toward $37 trillion. Some seem to believe this debt can keep growing forever and never trigger a catastrophe. Many of that crowd, of course, are trudging along in heavy credit card debt themselves.

So a commonsensical initiative of the newly-elected president has been to appoint Elon Musk to investigate the morbid-obesity machine of U.S. spending. Musk had already made such an investigation when he bought Twitter, cut its bloated workforce by 80% and increased the business’ quality and profitability. Seems a strong credential.

You know the response of government employees who’d assumed the sweet jobs they’d been awarded were lifetime-guaranteed and performance-immune. It was the same response of all legacy media from NYT to NPR: Musk is a dictator, children will die, the world is ending.

That response effectively means that current government spending and debt, monumental as it is, is not enough. We need still more: more grants promoting the expansion of atheism in Nepal, transgender operas in Ecuador, unique and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albania, fertilizer use in Vietnam, plus a $12 million world-changing pickleball complex in Las Vegas, and so on. And on. . . .

The numerical figure might help represent what crazy Democrats somehow believe: No, $36,000,000,000,000 of U.S. debt is NOT enough.

Crazy Overview

Those five political positions (they have many more) sure sound crazy. Not that old saw “crazy like a fox.” More “crazy like a coalition of sociopaths.” Or “crazy like 2025 Democrats.”