Defining Normalcy Down
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Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) held a silly little placard (above) at the President’s address to Congress last week. It said, “This is not normal.” She has a point. Normalcy has changed.
On the Republican side, they talked a good game on the abortion issue for decades, but nothing would change at the federal level. Suddenly, it all changed thanks to the efforts of the 45th president of the United States, a Republican. He appointed good judges to the Supreme Court who overturned the ridiculous Roe v Wade decision that imposed human abortion on this country.
Republicans following through on their promises isn’t very normal. But it’s a good thing.
Republicans wailed and gnashed their teeth over our broken border and bloated bureaucracy for decades. Suddenly, the 47th President (the same guy as the 45th President!), a Republican, has actually fixed it. In six weeks! And at the same time, he’s whittling away at the bureaucratic behemoth through an innovative tool he invented called DOGE.
Again, Republicans following through on their promises isn’t very normal. But it’s a good thing.
Stranger yet, this 47th President doesn’t cower in the face of Hitler, Nazi, racist, homophobic, and transphobic slurs hurled at him on an hourly basis for a solid decade by his political enemies. Typical Republicans collapse at even a whiff of disapproval from legacy media types. Not this guy.
Is this the new normal for Republicans?
The other side of the aisle
The Democratic side presents a different picture. Their brand was built on ‘looking out for the little guy’ (if you don’t count the slaves). But they really began to define normalcy down in the 1970s.
In the 80s, Jimmy Carter said,
“When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v Wade.”
In the 90s, Bill Clinton said,
“Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.”
Then in the 00s and 10s, Barack Obama said,
“No one is pro-abortion.”
And in the 20s, Joe Biden said he’s …
“not big on abortion … but Roe got it right.”
The reality of Roe v Wade
And what did Roe actually get right? It stripped away pro-life laws on the books in all 50 states, essentially (along with the companion Doe v Bolton decision) allowing unfettered abortion.
In other words, the reality of these decisions, praised by the former Democratic presidents quoted above, had nothing to do with making abortion rare, it made it common. It unleashed a hellish cycle of carnage that has killed fifty-four times as many unborn American babies as all of our wars combined, 65 million aborted babies vs 1.2 million soldiers killed in our wars.
Killing off our posterity isn’t normal. At least it didn’t use to be. In fact, the Constitution calls on us to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves AND our Posterity” (emphasis added). Abortion kills liberty.
Abortion has ‘defined normalcy down’, to play off of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1993 Time Magazine essay, “Defining Deviancy Down.”
In the essay, he wrote:
“By defining what is deviant, we are enabled to know what is not, and hence to live by shared standards.”
Simply substitute “abnormal” for “deviant.” It’s the same thing.
Abortion shredded shared standards
Whereas the Democratic Party once said “no one likes abortion,” now they proclaim you should “shout your abortion.”
That’s not normal.
Elected Democrats are adamant that abortion be allowed even in the second or third trimester, even though six out ten rank and file Democratic voters disagree. These leaders don’t even have shared standards with their own constituency.
That’s not normal.
They insist taxpayers should fund abortion at home and abroad. They insist Catholic doctors and nurses and other people of faith perform abortions in violation of their religious convictions at the risk of being sued or fired.
That’s not normal.
They even insist, and have changed state laws when they have large enough majorities, to allow babies to die that survived their abortions.
That’s not only not normal, it is the epitome of evil and cruelty.
Weirdness
The party’s weirdness was on full display last week when President Trump addressed Congress. Democrats didn’t even have the heart to clap for a thirteen year old boy to whom the president bestowed an honorary membership in the Secret Service. The boy is a cancer survivor. He’s had his brain operated on not once, not twice, but thirteen times.
The only people in America who weren’t wiping away the tears at that moment were the leaders of the Democratic Party sitting stone-faced as their despised President made the lad’s dreams come true.
Normalcy has been defined down since the Roe v Wade decision corrupted the ‘party of the little guy.’
Apparently, it is now the Republicans who are the party of the little guy.
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