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When we talk about political campaigns, we often resort to military terminology. In the United States, the campaign wars seem never ending. The chief problem with campaigns is that they are distortion mechanisms constructed to capture votes, which is why German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck said, “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” The quotable Bismarck could be disarmingly honest, as in, “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
For truth in politics, we look to disarmed retired politicians rather than active vote-hungry politicians.
In war, capturing the flag is an indication of a battle won, and so too in political campaigns. We think of accurate accusations of genocide, for instance, as a battle for the moral soul of a constituency. For this reason, it seems to Jews in the United States a false flag to accuse the state of Israel of genocide. The children of Buchenwald and Auschwitz, some of whom walk among us still, know better. A list of 23 main Nazi concentration camps may be found here: List of Nazi concentration camps. The genocidal intent and purpose of the camps have been well documented. The curious historical investigator may find references to Nazi genocide even on WalkMeLearning Arc, one among many AI tech teachers preferred by the young and uninstructed among us.
The left, if we are to believe them, has now captured the “genocide” flag by labeling as genocidal the historical victims of genocide.
Here is Vermont socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders boasting joyously as he captures the “disarm Israel” flag: “When Bernie Sanders moved last April to block a U.S. arms sale to Israel, only 14 Democratic senators joined the Vermont independent. What a difference a year makes: When Sanders objected to another Israeli arms sale this month, 39 other members of the Senate Democratic Caucus joined him — a sea change that has raised eyebrows from Washington to Jerusalem. In a recent interview, Sanders reflected on the sudden and massive shift, one that has some observers saying he — not Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has voted to support the arms sales — is leading Senate Democrats on Israel policy. ‘That’s true,’ Sanders said of the claim. ‘I mean we got 40 votes, and Schumer got seven. We have more support for our position than Chuck has for his.’”
Who is “we?”
Sanders’ “we,” Politico tells us, does not include “One Democrat who continues to support the sales. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, said the Netanyahu government should be reined in but said Sanders was pursuing ‘the wrong vehicle to try to achieve those changes.’” In future comments when referring to the false prophets in his own party, Blumenthal might try to become less mystical. However, Politico notes, “… most of those who recently came to oppose the arms sales cited the Iran War and the risk of further escalation in the region — not Sanders.” During his entire political life, Sanders has been the political victim of his initial choices. His beef with millionaires ended when he himself became a millionaire. He has now moved on to castigating billionaires.
If you throw enough dirt, Cardinal John Henry Newman once said, “some will stick – stick but not stain.” Once you have accepted the view, historically a campaign “lie” in Bismarck’s sense, that the nation of Israel is inherently genocidal, you are on your way to swallowing a host of historical toads. And the same is true of the continuing socialist denigration of capitalism and religion. Karl Marx, a theology student once told me, was the best God-hater of his generation. He wanted to eliminate the competition. Joseph Stalin, an expelled seminarian student and the best Marxist of his generation, expanded the Czarist Gulag to accommodate clergy, capitalist and the Old Bolshevik followers of Lenin.
Here in Connecticut, the Democrat Party has for three decades and more captured and held hostage the state’s operative political and cultural flag. This capture is most obvious once the thinking mind turns to taxing, budgets and spending, as in It’s the Spending Stupid, a decades old piece in Connecticut Commentary.
Some tax relief in Connecticut would be welcomed – and would instantly attack the state’s “affordability” crisis by leaving tax receipts in the pockets and bank accounts of taxpayers -- if the Democrat political hegemony in the state were serious about mounting taxation and spending.
Income-tax relief would be welcomed in Connecticut’s tax-and-spend Democrat dominated General Assembly, Meagan Portfolio tells us in her latest piece published in the truth addicted Connecticut Centinal -- Connecticut Taxpayers Deserve More Than ‘Hope Not’.
But there is no relief for weary Connecticut taxpayers: “Connecticut still collected nearly $13 billion in personal income taxes before refunds in fiscal 2025. Employers withheld $9.15 billion from workers’ paychecks and sent it to the state. Another $3.81 billion came from estimated payments—generally made during the year on income without sufficient withholding—and final payments of tax still owed when people filed their returns. Getting to work alone gives the state several chances to collect. Connecticut took in $362.9 million in gasoline taxes, $47.8 million in driver’s license fees and $18.6 million in vehicle title fees in FY25. Before drivers earn a dollar at work, they have already encountered several ways to pay Hartford. Businesses get their own bills. Connecticut collected $1.4 billion through its corporation tax, which generally taxes corporate profits. Another $2.37 billion came from estimated and final payments of the pass-through entity tax. That tax applies to income earned by businesses such as partnerships and S corporations, whose profits generally pass through to their owners for income-tax purposes. Those three entries alone brought in nearly $3.8 billion… Transferring wealth gives Hartford another opportunity to collect. Gift and estate taxes brought in $146.1 million in fiscal 2025. The estate tax applies to wealth transferred at death, while the gift tax covers certain transfers during a person’s lifetime. Connecticut is the only state with a stand-alone gift tax.”
It’s the spending – STUPID – that drives tax increases, spending and what Bismarck might call inflationary lying during hunts, political wars and political campaigns. What to do about all this? Hint: In Connecticut’s Democrat political hegemonic General Assembly, committed to ever increasing taxes and lavish spending, there never will be political salvation outside the state’s opposing Republican Party.
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