Behind the curtain of Democrat policy

1-28-26

As a former Democrat, I understand the policy Democrat politicians are selling. They would have us believe that they’re pushing back against injustice and helping those less fortunate, in order to make the world a better place. It’s a beautiful thought.
In order to do that, though, they must also tacitly sell the idea that half of our country is potentially motivated by hate and fear, or at the very least uninformed and manipulated.
I believe Democratic leaders carefully curate this deception so they can avoid their policies being held up to scrutiny. As long as supporters are distracted with the moral clarity of standing up for social justice, they are less likely to investigate why their policies and promises epically fail.
This is twofold, first I believe they have no intention of achieving any of their lofty promises; their real goal is to stay in power and as such are primarily beholden to their donors. And, secondly, their progressive policies simply do not work.
Regarding Democratic leaders intentions to follow-through on their promises, in 2021 the Democrats held the presidency and both sides of Congress, with Kamala being the +1 tiebreaker vote in the Senate. Yet, they, and the media, would have us believe that it is bureaucracy that prevents them from achieving their promised results. Not true.
In February 2021, Schumer allowed Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian aide, to kill key pieces of their legislation, including punishing drug makers for inflating medical costs and capping insulin costs at $35 on private insurance. Before this, Schumer also allowed the aide to kill raising the minimum wage and immigration reforms.
The job of the parliamentary aide is to advise Congress on procedural rules but their advice is not binding. Schumer could have fired, replaced, or simply ignored MacDonough, but that would have been contrary to his true goals – keeping his pharmaceutical donors happy. Although this scenario played out multiple times, key Democrats and the media remained silent. If Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden were outraged, they didn’t vocalize it. It did not pass, because they did not want it to pass.
I’m not implying that Congressional Republicans do not engage in the same awful behavior. On the contrary, however, Trump, and a good number of his Congressional loyalists, do not — they work to accomplish the policies they tell us they want to accomplish, whether you agree with them or not.
Now to the merit of their policies, themselves. Democrats are masters at convincing us that the first rule of economics—scarcity, doesn’t exist. There is never enough of what everyone wants. Immigration policy is vastly complex, but if we zoom in on just one microcosm of it, we can see how this maxim holds true.
Recently, New York State, along with other progressive Democratic states, decided to decouple from federal tax code to strip out deductions passed in Trump’s OBBBA bill, removing items such as no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, gig workers deductions, and the 6k deduction for the elderly, aged 65+. While, other, mostly Republican states, allow you to apply these deductions at both the federal and state level.
The New York State Comptroller said they cannot afford to lose the revenue, which they estimate to be $1 billion. Meanwhile, by conservative estimates, New York City alone spent around $3 billion on services and shelter for illegal immigrants last year. There is always a trade-off.
For many seniors living off of their retirement accounts this choice directly and significantly adds to their tax bill. Instead of allocating funds to take care of America’s most vulnerable and poor populations — waiters, factory and gig workers, and the elderly, we’re reallocating these funds to take care of noncitizens, which the Democrats claim are more deserving, more needy.
Well, let’s look at that.
Shockingly, in the last decade, New York State’s elderly population living at or below the poverty line has increased by 37%, according to the NYS Office for the Aging. The current poverty line is a terribly low income of $15,650 for a single person.
According to NYS’s numbers, elderly Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks, respectively, are most affected. New York’s “anti-racist” policies often directly hurt minorities the most.
If NYS decided to allocate funds differently, they could provide an 18k deduction to each of their seniors. And in one year alone, that would allow NYS to immediately and directly pull many of their elderly population directly out of poverty.
American economist Thomas Sowell, said, “You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”

Natalie Nice

New Milford