Because I’ve donated to Republican candidates in the past, I get so many fundraising letters from people on my “team”. I don’t get any letters from the other side. However someone recently gave me this letter from Nevada’s Democrat Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto. For me it was a rare chance to see what the other side is saying.
Right on the envelope it says “Well, we’re all going to die.” At first glance, I thought this letter was going to be about “climate change”, or “Trump’s a dictator”, or some other thing that scares the blue crowd enough to literally believe they’re all going to die… unless of course they donate money to those kind, caring, compassionate Democrats, who will surely save us all… just as soon as they’ve finished locking up all those deplorable MAGA people.
Actually, I was wrong. The line was a reference to an unfortunate quote from Republican Senator Joni Ernst at a town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, on May 30, 2025. The conversation was about not funding healthcare for people in this country illegally — a common sense proposal, if there ever was one. Some bleeding heart liberal in the audience objected — “but people are going to die!” To which Sen. Ernst, unfortunately, replied: “well, we’re all going to die.”
Now, if you listen to the entire exchange with all the context leading up to it, it’s obvious that what Ernst was trying to say was that the money we spend on illegal immigrants should actually be spent on our own citizens first. Americans are a generous people, but we simply cannot afford to provide free healthcare to the entire world. Not when we have so many of our own citizens who are suffering. We must take care of our own problems first before we try to help everyone else.
If you feel so passionately about paying for the healthcare of the third world, then donate out of your own pocket as a private person. Don’t expect the rest of us who’ve paid taxes for years to go without healthcare just so Juan who arrived 5 minutes ago can get whatever he wants for free.
Unfortunately the political Left (and The Lying Media, but I repeat myself) are very good at taking quotes from the other side, chopping them up into the tiniest soundbites, and using them out of context to devastating effect. Ernst handed them an easy one.
This is a perfect example of the politics of divisiveness. Keep “your” voters angry and afraid all the time so they will be motivated to vote — and donate — to your cause. Both sides do this, but the Left is particularly good at it. As recently as 30 years ago we could still have honest debates and disagreements about policy, without resorting to labeling the other side “Nazis”. No longer. Now, everything is an existential crisis, and anyone who doesn’t share your exact viewpoint is evil, or a fascist, or a dictator, or the reincarnation of Hitler himself.
Is it any wonder the Left is starting to become violent? After years of their side’s thought-leaders telling them that ordinary Americans with differing political beliefs are LITERAL FASCISTS, of course you’ll start to get some crazies picking up guns.
Sen. Masto’s letter is part and parcel of this trend. It’s filled with dumb, nonsensical accusations, as well as outright lies. For example, she talks about “voting to kick 17 million Americans off Medicaid” — conveniently mislabeling millions of illegals from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and countless other places, as “Americans”. If one believed her statement at face value, then sure I guess you’d think Republicans are bunch of heartless, evil people. Except it’s not true. Not that it matters. The letter’s sole purpose is to make people angry and donate. Who cares the consequences?
The Left in this country really need to stop the crazy talk and start bringing down the temperature of our national discourse. Unfortunately, all the incentives remain for them to not only continue but to become more extreme. How much more crazy can crazy get? I don’t know, but it’s not going to be pretty.
