Daily Verse | Romans 5:6
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Friday’s Reading: Romans 6-8
Saturday’s Reading: Romans 9-11
Happy Friday my friends.
Still smarting from the mess that was the midterms, I’ve continued to process and look for answers. In my research and reading, I’ve come across two factors that likely played significant roles in Democrats performing above expectations last week.
These do not undercut some of the other factors at play, particularly Mitch McConnell’s intrapartisan choices to cut off financial support for certain Senate races.
McConnell worked throughout the 2022 midterms to sabotage several battleground-state GOP Senate candidates who had pledged not to support him for leadership if they were elected to the upper chamber. In Arizona, McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund cut $18 million in ad spending from Republican Blake Masters, while the group simultaneously slashed $5.6 million in New Hampshire that was intended for Don Bolduc.
McConnell’s money prioritized allies, not a majority. He wanted to retain his leadership position as Minority Leader rather than lose his perch with a majority in the Senate. That was a huge factor in where we are today.
Back to the major factors, the first being demographics.
One of the exit poll numbers that has been making the most rounds on social media since Tuesday is this staggering statistic from CNN, depicting the political preferences of the various age groups. This year, voters aged 65 and older voted GOP by 13 points, while voters between the ages of 45 and 64 went Republican by 11 points. By contrast, voters between the ages of 30 and 44—the oldest of Millennials—supported Democrats by just 2 percentage points.
But, saving the worst for last, the very bottom of the data reveals the number that is the most catastrophic for the Republican Party and for the country: Voters ages 18 to 29—the Millennials and Generation Z, also known as “Zoomers”—voted for Democrats by a landslide margin of 28 points.
Not only was the youth turnout this year the highest for a midterm election cycle in 30 years, but this particular generation turned out to vote exactly the way they had been told to do. Behold, the seeds of decades of indoctrination in education, pop culture, and social media have finally sprouted now that these kids are all of legal voting age. Sprinkle on the finishing touch that is Biden’s unconstitutional student loan forgiveness plan, and these loyal voters were ready to swarm the polls to reward Democrats.
The generation that believes global warming is real, embraces sexual degeneracy and mental illness as “pride,” and is willing to live and die before the altar of “multiculturalism” and “diversity,” is now prepared to express these delusional beliefs at the ballot box. Republicans may very well have been targeting the parents of these brainwashed kids, who are justifiably angry at what their children have been put through for years; but they did not count on those very same brainwashed kids turning out to vote themselves.
You reap what you sow, as the saying goes, and we allowed the educators to sow lies. The minds and hearts of children in the progressive playpen of public schools were molded after cultural Marxists, and now they are voting their beliefs. Barring some intervention or painful reality check, they have dozens of years ahead to vote their values while the opposition party loses their constituency.
The second factor is the rise of the “Democrat Vote Machine.”
In a nutshell, Democrats throughout the institutions work together to use their various spheres of influence, infrastructure, and financing to turn out urban — aka Democrat — votes. Under the guise of righting a wrong (historical systemic racism social justice gobbledygook), they bring all their power to bear to sow and reap victim-class votes while studiously omitting redder areas.
Remember “Zuckerbucks” in the 2020 election? Mark Zuckerberg and other wealthy progressives spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create the Center for Technology and Civic Life. PJ Media’s J. Christian Adams described what happened thusly: “The Center for Technology and Civic Life and allied groups are responsible for building an urban get-out-the-vote-machine of the sort that Democrats could only dream up on a bender fueled by jugs of Merlot and all the legalized pot they could smoke.”
What these grants did was build structural bias into the 2020 election where structural bias matters most – in densely populated urban cores. It converted election offices in key jurisdictions with deep reservoirs of Biden votes into Formula One turnout machines. The hundreds of millions of dollars built systems, hired employees from activist groups, bought equipment and radio advertisements. It did everything that street activists could ever dream up to turn out Biden votes if only they had unlimited funding.
This is also what Molly Ball reported in Time magazine in February 2021.
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.
The Democrats and their allies in all of our major institutions have developed a system of getting out the vote … not rigging but “fortifying” the election.
So not only do we have a demographic shift underway that will see conservative voters decline as a percentage of the population, but the Democrats have built a voting machine that favors them and to which Republicans have little or no access.
None of this bodes well for the future. In fact, Steve McCann at American Thinker writes:
There is a generational shift underway as the younger, woefully indoctrinated generations will evolve into increasingly dominant segments of the voting populace. Post 2024, blue America will grant citizenship to 30-40+ million illegal immigrants and millions more through unfettered chain migration. Further, they intend to permanently embed voter fraud and manipulation through federal legislation. If they are not soundly defeated in 2024, this demographic change and these legislative initiatives will assure that blue America never loses a national election.
This explains why we got the results we got last week. I’m not going to say the Dems won through cheating, although I wouldn’t put it past them and there’s plenty of evidence that they do. But the truth is that Republicans are woefully unprepared to fight fire with fire.
Have a good weekend.