Bob Dole died January 5th, 2021 at the ripe old age of 98. What I remember of Bob Dole was that he was a man of integrity. Like Ted Cruz today, if Bob Dole said he’d do it, it would get done or he would scratch and claw until the last vote was counted. Bob Dole was a man of compromise in a time when that was a good thing.
Times have certainly changed since Bob Dole was in the senate and running for President. Back then, Democrats and Republicans basically seemed to want the same things, we just disagreed on how to reach the outcome that everyone wanted. We were arguing over budget priorities, and compromise was the key to success.
“It’s sickening and the Bob Dole’s of the world aren’t going to fix it. Bob Dole was great at maintaining a peace among the parties, but we’re past that now. Compromise can only be made with people of good faith…“
Today, the world is different. We are 27 trillion in debt now, not 5 trillion like in 1996. We throw around the world “trillion” like it’s a trivial matter. Back then, we argued about how much gas an SUV burned compared to a Yugo. Now we argue whether we are going to be allowed to use gas at all. Back in Bob Dole’s saner, better world, we bargained – you get some of what you want, I get some of what I want, and that was the American way. Now? If you don’t agree 100% with democrats you are the worst person in the world, and if they can do it, they will gladly cancel you as a lesson to any future dissenters.
If I could ask Bob Dole some things, I’d ask just how and where you compromise when the LGBTQ community and the ever suffering social justice warriors want to have horny hormonal, puberty reaching boys use the same group bathrooms and shower rooms as girls? How do you compromise with school boards that are sneaking sexually explicit gay porn in to your school’s libraries? How do you compromise with people that want to codify the delusion that gender is a psychological construct and not a physical one?
How do you compromise when your opponents refuse to enforce the immigration laws they swore to uphold while millions of illegal aliens pour across the border and into our wallets? They are welcoming any and all terrorists, crazy people, gang members, criminals, drug dealers and human traffickers. Anyone who can find a way, any way to get to the southern border will be immediately flown into the interior and give you a fresh teat to suckle as much money as you need off of the American taxpayer.
How do you compromise with a party that accuses you of being the most vile of human beings? If you are white, you are a racist. Nothing you can do about it, it’s in the system, you are a god damned racist and we need to burn the system down because of it. If you are a man, you are privileged. If you are a white male who has some knowledge or opinion on something, it is irrelevant because you are a nazi, a homophobe, transphobe, and every other freaking “phobe” word they can come up with. I mean God forbid you point out that the young “lady” who is destroying the NCAA college swimming records is a DUDE.
And Covid. How do you compromise with a party that honestly believes it should have the right to hold you down and inject you with experimental drugs because they are terrified of a disease with over a 99% survival rate, and wear a bandana over your face like it will stave off what they claim is the most pathogenic killer virus ever to plague mankind.
Bob Dole was a good and decent man, his political style was perfect when sane people were on the other side. When compromise was the way to get things done. Not anymore. McCarthy was right. There IS a commie behind every rock, only now they don’t hide it. It is in your face with violence, riots, community takeovers (Anyone remember CHAZ and CHOP?) with no repercussions. Smash and grab robberies are killing once vibrant communities. We should be telling store owners to arm up and shoot the bastards and pile their bodies in the streets, instead we wring our hands and whine about the police we “defunded”. It’s sickening and the Bob Dole’s of the world aren’t going to fix it. Bob Dole was great at maintaining a peace among the parties when we all had the same idea of what America was, but we’re past that now. Compromise can only be made with people of good faith, and the Democrats are the face of evil in the modern world. We need warriors and citizens to stand up against the destruction of the country. Let them wail, let them whine, but mostly, let them go back into the cracks and crevices from which they crawled and live their delusional, evil lives away from the rest of us.