I recall a post I wrote years ago decrying that I prefer then president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over then president of the US, Barak Obama. Because Mahmoud was honest about his hatred for us. He made no secret about his desire to wipe Israel and the US off the map. Obama on the other hand tried to hide his hatred for Israel and America. He would from time to time say the right things, like: 'Don't worry Israel, we've got your back' but his actions were to constantly stab Israel & America in the back. At election time he declared that there is no black or white Americans, there are simply Americans yet today he is on a mission to divide Americans by colour (something he started when he became president).
Democrat leaders in the US and Liberal leaders in Canada and elsewhere seem to be consistent in their dishonesty. One can see thousands of videos and statements of these people saying one thing years ago and saying quite the opposite today. Here is a clip of Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer voicing his opposition to letting in illegal immigrants into the US from 11 years ago. His immigration policy then mirrors President Trump's immigration policy today. Today he stands for open borders because he takes his orders from the Squad with members like Ilhan Omar and AOC.
Here is a clip of Obama prior to becoming president on immigration reform. Although his policy then didn't mirror that of Schumer at the time or President Trump, it certainly didn't match his immigration policy when he became president.
Here is a clip of an interview of senator Gabbord in 2019 on her calling out senator Harris (when they were both running for the Democratic nominee) on her promise to reform prisoners. Here is another clip of Harris (chosen by Biden's handlers to be his VP and she of course accepted the nomination) calling him out as a racist and sexual predator. Watch at 3:50 minutes into the clip. Now it's a virtual love in between them. Biden has said that because 'he is an old guy' we can expect her to lead the country as early as 2021!
Here is the infamous clip in 2012 of then president Obama declaring to an AIPAC (mostly Jewish) audience that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that it must remain undivided. Here he walks back his previous statement that Jerusalem must remain undivided.
I think you get the point. Now I'm not saying that one can't change their minds on things. Sometimes events change causing the person to change their minds on policy issues. I'm also not saying that Conservative, Republican or otherwise Right leaning people haven't also behaved this way. I even admit to having confirmation bias. That is since I agree with most right wing policies I have obviously attempted to prove my case right here. But I'll leave it to you to decide if this insidious and dangerous behaviour is more common on the Republican/Conservative/Right or more common on the Democrat/Liberal/Left. To me it's blatantly obvious who is more guilty of this dishonesty.
To make a more general point, let's use the Iran deal as an example. There are many people out there (I won't even use labels like Left or Right) who claimed that they supported Obama's Iran deal because as he stated 'it would stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and in fact would protect Israel. '
Most Israelis of all parties and many of us outside of Israel knew better. We knew that Obama was trying to befriend Iran mainly so he could add to his legacy that he brokered the biggest and most important peace deal in history. At the time Iran could have (and did) ask for anything including all kinds of loop holes and money in order to get Obama to sign the deal which he did with a smile. He bent over backwards to appease them.
Most of those people who claimed to support the deal because they wanted peace in the Middle East were lying. Not all of them because some of them believed the main stream media who defended Obama at every corner and helped to paint the picture that he wanted them to paint. But as for the rest of them: They were DISHONEST. The truth was that they really didn't give a crap whether or not Israel ceased to exist. They were no fans of Jews so why worry about Israel. Why start a potential war with Iran just because Iran is threatening to wipe Israel off the map? (They did neglect Iran's same threat against the great satan, the USA). It was a similar mindset to most of the world who looked the other way when the Nazis were gassing Jews during the Holocaust.
I'd respect our opponents who are honest with their hatred or indifference towards us much more than those who are dishonest in their approach for attacking us or not defending us. It's so important to know the policies of our leaders and the reasons for their policies. If our leaders only policy is to get elected and therefore behave like a leaf in the wind and consult surveys of the public on every issue prior to deciding their own policy, we are in big trouble.
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