JGalt
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Let's be realistic: The Democrats know they don't have a chance of winning in the midterm and next Presidential elections. This is obvious to everyone who isn't living in a van down by the river. From the day President Biden was sworn in, he and his administration went full-blown leftist, pushing through every Marxist pipe dream they could conceive.
Those things they gleefully did knowing full and well that the American people would suffer the pain from the massive government spending, the increased tax burden, the inflation, the shortages, the disruptions in the supply lines, and now a war in Europe, which could go nuclear at any minute. They also knew very well that the American people would eventually reject their destructive policies.
So why?
The answer is simple: The Democrats know that no matter how destructive their policies are, the whole enchilada would be handed off to the next administration. A primarily conservative and Republican administration. An administration that's going to be forced to reckon with the previous four years of wanton political gluttony, economic stupidity, and the pushing of societal abnormalities which could only be construed as "lunacy." But wait. You say "Well there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans"? There is a difference, you'd better believe that. Were we undergoing the same things four years ago, that we are now? Not really.
What the Democrats have done in effect is scorching the earth, poisoning the wells, and burning their bridges behind them, knowing full well that the next administration will have everything dumped squarely in their laps. In which case, they will sit in the background jeering at the next administration for the conditions they themselves created, even going so far as to blame the next administration for it.
You just watch. All one has to do is look back through history:
During the Second Punic War in 218–202 BCE, the Carthaginians used the method selectively while storming through Italy.[5] After the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BCE, the Roman Senate also elected to use this method to permanently destroy the Carthaginian capital city, Carthage (near modern-day Tunis). The buildings were torn down, their stones scattered so not even rubble remained, and the fields were burned. However, the story that they salted the earth is apocryphal.[6]
In the year CE 363, the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched-earth policy:
Scorched earth - Wikipedia
Those things they gleefully did knowing full and well that the American people would suffer the pain from the massive government spending, the increased tax burden, the inflation, the shortages, the disruptions in the supply lines, and now a war in Europe, which could go nuclear at any minute. They also knew very well that the American people would eventually reject their destructive policies.
So why?
The answer is simple: The Democrats know that no matter how destructive their policies are, the whole enchilada would be handed off to the next administration. A primarily conservative and Republican administration. An administration that's going to be forced to reckon with the previous four years of wanton political gluttony, economic stupidity, and the pushing of societal abnormalities which could only be construed as "lunacy." But wait. You say "Well there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans"? There is a difference, you'd better believe that. Were we undergoing the same things four years ago, that we are now? Not really.
What the Democrats have done in effect is scorching the earth, poisoning the wells, and burning their bridges behind them, knowing full well that the next administration will have everything dumped squarely in their laps. In which case, they will sit in the background jeering at the next administration for the conditions they themselves created, even going so far as to blame the next administration for it.
You just watch. All one has to do is look back through history:
Scythian
"The Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign. The Scythians, who were nomadic herders, evaded the Persian invaders and retreated into the depths of the steppes after they had destroyed food supplies and poisoned wells.Armenian
The Greek general Xenophon recorded in his Anabasis that the Armenians, as they withdrew, burned their crops and food supplies before the Ten Thousand could advance.[citation needed]Greek
The Greek mercenary general Memnon of Rhodes unsuccessfully suggested to the Persian satraps to use a scorched-earth policy against Alexander the Great, who was moving into Asia Minor.Roman
The system of punitive destruction of property and subjugation of people when accompanying a military campaign was known as vastatio. Two of the first uses of scorched earth recorded both happened in the Gallic Wars. The first was used when the Celtic Helvetii were forced to evacuate their homes in Southern Germany and Switzerland because of incursions of unfriendly Germanic tribes: to add incentive to the march, the Helvetii destroyed everything they could not bring.[4] After the Helvetii were defeated by combined Roman and Gallic forces, the Helvetii were forced to rebuild themselves on the plains they themselves had destroyed.During the Second Punic War in 218–202 BCE, the Carthaginians used the method selectively while storming through Italy.[5] After the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BCE, the Roman Senate also elected to use this method to permanently destroy the Carthaginian capital city, Carthage (near modern-day Tunis). The buildings were torn down, their stones scattered so not even rubble remained, and the fields were burned. However, the story that they salted the earth is apocryphal.[6]
In the year CE 363, the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched-earth policy:
Scorched earth - Wikipedia
