One Political Party is Uniquely Evil

I don't care much for democracy or partisan politics. But because they're in power, it's time to focus on the evil party.

I published another version of this, and many readers asked why I took it down. Let’s just say using the people you love as props in your articles is rarely a good idea.

The Republican Party is full of stupid people. They are not only strategically inept, to the extent that they are willing to unite around anything, it’s dumb things. In fact, no matter how stupid the American Left gets, Republicans will invariably say, “Hold my beer.”

One Congressman, interrogating the President of Columbia University about antisemitic protests, asks: “Do you want Columbia University to be Cursed by God?” Just think. This is the sort of dummy waiting to take power if the Democrats are defeated in November, which, of course, they richly deserve.

Believers should be wary of such theocratic tendencies if they value preserving a free and pluralistic order. But enough about the Rs for now.

The party of JFK has become uniquely evil. Indeed, members of that party have adopted positions almost completely at odds with what we might broadly refer to as JFK values. Still, a strange mass psychology holds half the country in groupthink’s grip. Such is not to argue that the other half of the country isn’t in a similar grip. It’s just that, right now, there’s dumb groupthink and evil groupthink.

We need a radical center to constitute itself and rise, especially if we’re meant to continue in such a terrible social operating system.

Ten Reasons the Democratic Party is Evil

1. The Democrats are now completely hostile to both the spirit and letter of free expression. They will go to any lengths to censor, suppress, and violate the rights of those who do not share their views. They do not care if the censors, suppressors, and violators are public or private. They created a Ministry of Truth forty years after 1984, then cut off the figurehead after a peasant revolt. They form eely networks among government agencies, NGOs, and private firms designed to control information, limit access to dissenting views, and hide the truth if said truth calls into question their power and how they wield it. All this seems to have started around the time of the US-orchestrated coup in Ukraine. With the unexpected rise of Trump's populism, the tactics came home.

   

   In extreme cases, Team Blue apparatchiks seek to imprison those who make anti-Democrat memes or jokes to make an example of them—despite 1A and despite any notion that punishments should fit crimes. They claim to fight “disinformation” and “protect democracy,” but they are willing to use the most illiberal and antidemocratic means to do so—including arresting innocents and using the disinformation they decry. Their not-so-secret formula? Always accuse your enemy of exactly what you are doing.

2. The Democrats are either confused or duplicitous about the nature of science that one need only replace the words “The Science™” with “my faith,” “my kickback,” or “my team” whenever the former spills from their mouths. Science is a process, not a program. It is a method, not a monolith. Throughout the pandemic, the record of those claiming to support “The Science™” became so checkered that trust in public health and science as institutions is now moribund. Why? Because “The Science™” turned out to be a series of lies, omissions, and political obfuscations by corrupt authorities and their supplicants rather than a method of understanding reality. They lied about funding gain of function research in Wuhan. They covered up a likely lab leak they were warned might occur. They lied about the risks of the mRNA vaccines and covered for Big Pharma. They lied when they said COVID was a “Pandemic of the unvaccinated.” They lied about the efficacy of lockdowns. They lied about the efficacy of masks. They called a safe, cheap, human therapy “horse dewormer” because it risked EUA for vaccines and for Paxlovid, which turned out to be ineffective. They lied about the virus’s risks to children and young people. (They censored my work, too, not to mention that of other eminent scientists, such as Kuldorf and Bhattacharya.) And they have refused to admit nearly all of these errors, lies, or coverups.

3. The Democrats have become bedfellows with the Military-Industrial Complex, having discovered the game of playing against yourself, which ensures you always win. Once a party that was more skeptical of military adventurism, the Democrats now support every war that comes along and find reasons to justify interventions or proxy wars. Why? Military contractors line their pockets. We’ve only recently seen a rift in the party as a great many Ds carry copies of The Wretched of the Earth around like bibles and have been trained as antisemites, to the horror of progressive New York Jews. Still, in today’s military, an absurd menagerie of social justice activists complete woke struggle sessions among the soldiers, embittering some, indoctrinating others—otherwise sowing division and engendering weakness within the forces. Corruption and wokeness have made the US military second-rate. President Biden’s exit from Afghanistan was as shameful and stupid as his continued proxy war in Ukraine, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives no one here gives a shit about because Putin bad! Despite instilling military unreadiness in our troops, the Democrats are now the War Party, having read Eisenhower’s last speech upside down.
   

4. The Democrats have become bedfellows with the National Security State, which acts illegally, unconstitutionally, and with impunity. At a certain point, the party calculated that if you can’t beat them, join them. Now, one can scarcely find a D voice dissenting against the idea that these agencies should never have the power to surveil, threaten, or control our citizens, much less imprison and control those courageous enough to share deep state corruption and secrets or speak out against them. Every partisan D will look the other way when the National Security State violates citizens’ rights, so long as those are the rights attached to someone with an R. (Yet these are the same spooks who killed Kennedy.) Most don’t even know about the latest troubling rights violations because they spend listening to NPR fundraising drives. From the entrapment of the Whitmer “kidnappers” to the likely entrapment of J6 protestors (including the curious case of Ray Epps) to create an “insurrection”—and from the continued imprisonment of Julian Assange to the four-year internal coup against President Trump laid bare with three years of Russiagate and the suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop.

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5. The Democrats have maintained a cynical and illegal open borders policy designed to gain them perpetual power. Despite the price of housing, the concentration of homeless migrants, their difficulty assimilating, the overwhelm of places such as Brownsville and Eagle Pass, and the focus on subsidizing these illegal migrations with transportation, housing, and entitlements once reserved for citizens—the Democrat party is actively recruiting all comers. Almost none are true asylum seekers; almost all are willing to lie or break the law to enter. They could be terrorists. They could be gang members. They could be enemy operatives. No one knows. One can be for reasonable immigration reform, but this ain’t it. Democrats permit this invasion for three primary reasons: 1) Their presence will change the census count and, thus, the number of congressional seats for Blue States, 2) Their presence ticks the intersectionality boxes designed to neuter the perceived power of ‘cis whites,’ and 3) Housing and taxpayer subsidy will ensure their fealty to the Democratic Party especially once they’re granted the vote—whether legally or illegally—especially as most Blue and Purple states don’t require ID to vote.

6. The Democrats are infected with social justice fundamentalism, e.g., DEI, which has created new divisions between the sexes and races. Women are more suspicious of men and ‘patriarchy’ than ever before, even though men and boys are falling behind on almost every conceivable measure. There are myriad stories of women using #believeallwomen tactics against men they loathe, even at the expense of truth and due process. Blacks and whites see new rifts due to the Grand Narratives of “antiracism”—that whites are oppressors, blacks are oppressed, and we must all engage in a collective struggle session against those who refuse to accept “systemic racism,” a ubiquitous egalitarian Egregore that can never be overcome. Leftwing antisemitism was always there, but now many Democrats are open about it. What was once an MLK dream has devolved into a BLM nightmare. Despite the protestations of Professor Roland Fryer, whose research tells a different story, pearl-clutching elites parroted the lie that white cops were hunting poor blacks. Ds overlook BLM protestors’ violence and destruction despite billions in damage, scores of deaths, and police injuries, while J6 protesters escorted into the Capitol by police have been handed prison sentences once reserved for rapists and killers. Most troublingly, a generation of kids is being trained to externalize their locus of control, i.e., it’s always someone else’s fault.

7. The Democrats are in full-throated support of chemically castrating and butchering children and teens without proper informed consent. Euphemistically called “gender-affirming care,” this unproven and corrupt practice got insurance coverage mandates into the Democrat’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). So, hospitals acquiesced, care providers benefitted, and new clinics sprang up for practices that will one day be viewed as on par with frontal lobotomies in terms of their therapeutic benefit. When transgender activists get in bed with medical lobbyists, it creates an unseemly set of practices that make children into models of the new Mengeles—children who may never experience an orgasm, much less have children, nurse children, or lead normal lives. The children are so ignorant, and the ideology has been so industrialized that the parents just sign off. If they don’t, the activists scream their children will commit suicide, blood no parents want on their hands. But this is not medicine. It is Democrat-sanctioned mass malpractice.

8. The Democrats are willing to use lawfare, illegal, and illiberal means to stop their main political adversary from taking office again. To point this out does not mean one supports Donald Trump. It means we cannot sacrifice impartial justice for political vendettas. Yet, vendettas are now the primary MO of the Democratic Party. All they have to do is use the zealous prosecution model—throw 100 charges at ‘em and see what sticks. This was once used only against ordinary people to pad prosecutors’ CVs. Now, Democrats pursue their political enemies, including Trump and his supporters, with all manner of tortured and dizzying legal contrivances. This is why we get the absurd result that illegal foreign nationals are released the day after beating up NYC police officers, that smash-and-grab criminals suffer no jail time at all in D states, and that Trump supporters get years-or-decades-long sentences for walking on the Capitol grounds after being egged on by the FBI and its proxies. This is why we hear crickets regarding all the Biden family corruption, not to mention the President’s cache of classified documents, for which he was determined by a “special counsel” to be too frail for jail, but though not too frail for a second term. Meanwhile, the spate of cases against Donald Trump is zealous lawfare. When the Supreme Court decides 9-0 that removing Trump from the ballot unilaterally in two states is an offense to due process and the Constitution, it speaks volumes about the lengths to which Democrats will go to “protect democracy.”

9. The Democrats have adopted economic policies that amount to the idea that unlimited debt spending doesn’t matter. (The execrable Stephanie Kelton is their patron saint.) Despite difficulties controlling inflation and sinking deeper into debt, the Democrats see an unlimited slush fund to buy more constituency groups and gain more power. See their willingness to pass unnecessary COVID stimulus, forgive student loan debts for rich kids, and create unlimited paid vacations for illegal immigrants to the US. Despite this being uncharted territory for federal debt (which stands at 121% of GDP)—with unfunded liabilities into the next twenty years being many times greater than the economic output of the entire planet—the Democrats pass bills such as the Inflation Reduction Act, which have nothing whatsoever to do with inflation and everything to do with buying favor seekers. But one day, the people—including our children—will be given the tab. If the more cynical socialist wing wanted to bring down the system, this would be the way: Hasten the collapse. Blame capitalism.

10. The Democrats have ideologically infested the mainstream media, academia, and public education to such a degree that independent media are our only hope if we are to have some measure of collective sensemaking. The Media are now so captured that they willfully ignore enormous stories that could work against their partisans, and they fabricate narratives and repeat falsehoods to score political points—making them power’s de facto propaganda arm. They employ a massive network of “fact-checkers” and “disinformation watchdogs” run by partisans hiding behind official-looking ratings graphics. These serve to make true-but-inconvenient stories look false. They will happily accept corporate and taxpayer funding to do so. It’s no wonder that trust in media has cratered and remains shamefully low. Journalists and academics who once spoke truth to power and questioned authority are now power’s mouthpieces and authorities’ proxies. Academia is no longer about the pursuit of truth and collective sensemaking (education); it is about creating a zombie army of Democrat faithful (indoctrination). They will happily accept donor and taxpayer funds to do so. The Public Schools will put pornography and trans activism in the schools and use teachers as vanguards in a new Cultural Revolution. Address the problem, and it’s the “Don’t say gay!” bill. These functionaries happily accept our tax dollars for their union dues, which go almost entirely to Democrats. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

I could do ten more of these, but President Kennedy would agree with me on all ten despite his having written A Nation of Immigrants.

But, Max, you might be wondering, what about the Republicans? We’ll save the Republicans for another day. The Republicans are not in power, and whataboutism is for suckers and single-issue voters.

I don’t think most Democrats are so strident as to believe in the ten things I pointed out above, which are now D-party orthodoxy. Some issues are more important to them: protecting abortion, concerns about “the climate,” or just being symbolically or viscerally anti-Trump. On the whole, most are just elitists, as am I. I guess I just derive my elitism through different means.

For example, I am not enchanted by what Rob Henderson calls “luxury beliefs.” Nor am I completely horrified by the notion that someone would lump me in with the Lumpenproletariat—the Christian Zionist simpleton, the greedy Chamber of Commerce type, or the ignorant Trumpkin in a tractor hat. I have never cared much about what the average voter thinks of me. That’s the true nature of my elitism.

But for many, Blue tribal affiliation is the only way to signal status. Most Democratic faithful want to remain in good standing with friend groups, which is far more important to them than 1-10 above. I don’t think those items occur to them. If they do, they still worry far more they might be associated with those “MAGA,” “Grab her by the pussy,” or “WWJD” people. Lovingly, I say, such is intellectual dishonesty of the highest order. For people who believe in “democracy,” such superficial concerns simply don’t outweigh the ten evils above that Democratic Party apparatchiks are undertaking to have and keep power.

Most people don’t want to consume any content outside of their bubbles. That’s the political equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going lalalalala, because “Go Team!” I understand the impulse. But this doesn’t help one sharpen her critical thinking or allow her to accept the supposed responsibilities of citizenship. It is outsourcing your brain to people who want everyone to outsource their common sense and communitarian responsibilities to them. That is the nature of power. The thing I hate most about centralized authority, which is Democrat Orthodoxy, is its tendency to destroy the invisible filaments of community. Otherwise, Ds routinely scare their herds, so they’ll trade freedom for security and empty amusements. I want to feel safe, they’ll say—making us all insecure. Because once you turn the coercive apparatus of state authority onto your rivals, it will be turned against you as night follows day. (Unless, that is, one thinks her party can achieve perpetual power, which makes her evil, too.)

That threatens what’s left of the liberal order.

To be fair, most Underthrow readers don’t live in a binary world like everyone else. That’s why I am unwilling to join the Dumb Daddy party to fight the Malevolent Mommy party. Both have made unholy unions with Monied Interests. What slinks from the coital bed of power and money? Something grotesque. So, neither of these mafias gets my allegiance. I see no wisdom in owning a smartphone that runs two apps, Red and Blue. Nor do I see the wisdom in crying my teardrop into the ocean every four years and expecting the tide to turn.

That’s why I don’t vote or join parties. I do my best to mint new Jeffersonians even though the author of the Declaration was a Democrat, albeit a whiggish one. Where are the Modern Whigs?

Most people hate Donald Trump so much that they think he is an “existential threat” and that he is not just a narcissist but a bad, bad man. But when one compares the track record of Trump’s authoritarian actions with that of Trump’s predecessor and successor—it ain’t even close. Trump is full of bluster and bombast. Yet two different forms of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) afflict the partisans. Trump is not a contemporary Caesar. He’s a big mouth, and the presidency is his extended reality show.

Then again, in a Presidential Election, you don’t have to vote for Team Red or Team Blue. Independent and third-party candidates abound. I can hear that lalalala returning, as if I were asking someone to root against the home team. That might work to Trump’s advantage, they’ll say. Or, My friends will think I’m crazy. So they’ll line up to vote for a corpse puppet run by a Politburo that doesn’t resemble the values of JFK in the least. But since the election of Barack Obama—though especially since Hilary Clinton’s embarrassing loss—the Democratic Party has replaced Libertas perfundet omnia luce with exitus ācta probat.

In the interest of “protecting democracy,” I would not put it past members of the Democratic Party to commit systematic fraud (again) this election cycle.