Democrats' Flip Flops - Minneapolis

Democrats' Flip Flops - Minneapolis

Democrats hate the 2nd Amendment. Now they are embracing it. Many Democrats have denied the Holocaust. Now they are comparing their actions in Minneapolis to the ... wait for it ... THE HOLOCAUST.

They get away with the narratives because their base and electorate is basically dumbed down. In the meantime the people they vote for seem to 'FAILUP'.

[Have they stopped doing the CONNECT THE DOTS exercises in schools? What about 'The Neckbone connects to the CollarBone'?]

The Left's Calculated Contradictions: A Conservative Examination of a Pattern of Expediency

The social media post in question, while blunt in its phrasing, touches upon a nerve that many conservatives have observed with increasing alarm: a pattern of profound ideological fluidity and historical revisionism within the modern progressive left. It’s a pattern that speaks not to genuine evolution of thought, but to a cynical political calculus and a reliance on a base that is often encouraged to prioritize emotional resonance over factual consistency or philosophical rigor.

For decades, the Democratic Party’s official stance on the Second Amendment has been one of incremental restriction. The right to keep and bear arms was routinely framed as a dangerous anachronism. Yet, as the post notes, we now see a startling pivot in certain quarters. During the 2020 unrest, the rhetoric shifted dramatically. As cities like Minneapolis experienced a breakdown of public order, some voices on the left—including prominent figures—suddenly began to champion the citizen’s right to self-defense. The very principle they had spent years working to erede was, in a moment of crisis, discovered to be essential. For conservatives, this isn’t growth; it’s galling hypocrisy. It reveals that core constitutional rights are seen not as inalienable, but as transactional privileges, to be dismissed or embraced based on the political needs of the moment. The conservative commitment to the Second Amendment is rooted in a foundational belief in natural rights and individual sovereignty. The left’s fluctuating stance reduces it to a matter of convenience, undermining the very concept of a principled right.

Even more disturbing, however, is the post’s second point regarding the Holocaust. The comparison it references is not a conservative fabrication. In the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd, some activists and commentators explicitly drew parallels between the actions of the Minneapolis police and the systematic, state-engineered genocide of six million Jews. This represents a breathtaking inflation of rhetoric that serves to both cheapen historical memory and poison present discourse. Conservatives understand the Holocaust as a unique evil, a catastrophic failure of civilization that stands as a solemn warning against state-sanctioned dehumanization on an industrial scale. To deploy this comparison for domestic political point-scoring is to engage in a profound act of historical illiteracy and disrespect. It is a rhetorical nuclear option that leaves no room for reasoned debate, only accusations of moral equivalence with Nazis.

This brings us to the post’s central, albeit crudely stated, thesis: that these narratives succeed because of a "dumbed down" electorate. From a conservative perspective, the issue is less about intelligence and more about a failed education system and a media ecosystem that prizes narrative over truth. The post’s lament about “CONNECT THE DOTS” exercises strikes a deeper chord. A classical education was designed to teach logic, chronology, and consequence—to help students discern cause from effect and distinguish between analogy and equivalence. When these foundational skills atrophy, citizens become vulnerable to emotional manipulation. If one is never taught the precise, horrific details of the Holocaust, the word becomes just another synonym for "something bad," ripe for exploitation. If one is not taught the philosophical and historical foundations of the Bill of Rights, constitutional guarantees become mere policy preferences to be poll-tested.

The phenomenon of "FAILING UP," as the post puts it, is the natural outcome of this environment. When accountability is severed from consequences whether in education, corporate culture, or politics failure is not a corrective but merely a stepping stone. Leaders who preside over policy disasters, urban decay, or rhetorical excess are rarely rebuked by their base, because the connection between failed ideas and negative outcomes is obscured by a fog of partisan loyalty and victim-based rhetoric. The dots remain unconnected. The narrative that any criticism is rooted in bigotry, that any failure is the fault of systemic opponents always provides an escape hatch.

Ultimately, the conservative perspective views these flip-flops and historical comparisons not as isolated gaffes, but as symptoms of a postmodern approach to politics. In this view, principles, facts, and history are not fixed stars to navigate by, but malleable tools to achieve power. The Second Amendment is not a right; it is a talking point that can be shelved or weaponized. The Holocaust is not a sacred historical lesson; it is a metaphorical club to be swung in political combat. This is not merely frustrating for conservatives; it is existentially threatening to the pillars of a free, truthful, and historically-grounded society.

The answer, from this perspective, is not simply to point out hypocrisy, but to tirelessly reaffirm the constants that leftist expediency denies: the enduring truth of natural rights, the non-negotiable sanctity of innocent life and historical memory, and the indispensable importance of an education system that teaches children how to think, not what to think. It is to insist that the collar bone of individual liberty is indeed connected to the neck bone of personal responsibility, and both are connected to the backbone of a nation—a spine of consistent principle that the current left seems determined to abandon for the sake of short-term gain. The task is to reconnect the dots for a society that has been taught, for too long, to see only disjointed points of fleeting outrage.

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