Kass: Democrats Genuflect to Old Gods They No Longer Believe In

Democrats Genuflect to Old Gods They No Longer Believe In

By John Kass

March 15, 2024

I got myself a big bowl of Chicago Mix popcorn to watch a grand Washington gladiatorial epic spectacle the other day—the Robert Hur hearing—in which the Democrats genuflected before the old gods of the republic they no longer believe in, while herding us all toward the chutes of their authoritarian rule.

Don’t you just love it when weasels like Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell and others profess love of the secular trinity of “Transparency” “Democracy” and “Equal Protection Under the Law” when nothing in their lives suggests they believe the magic holy words they repeat with feigned piety, beseeching us to support the republic they undermine every day in Washington?

I can’t think of anything better, except perhaps for Charles Laughton as the corrupt demagogue Roman Senator Gracchus genuflecting to the old gods of his old Roman Republic, which was doomed–as is ours–by wave after wave of thoroughly corrupt men.

To illustrate I offer you this brief glimpse from the 1960 Stanley Kubrick masterpiece “Spartacus.” Just click on the link of the name of the leader of the slave revolt against Rome, and think.

After making a speech all about virtue while using it to set a snare for an oblivious opponent, we see Gracchus (Laughton) in all his ponderous self-indulgent glory waddling from the Senate down to the marketplace.

He is accompanied by Julius Caesar, who studies his mentor carefully on the road to dictatorship. As they chat, Gracchus purchases a chicken with which to make sacrifice to gods that he doesn’t believe in.

The chicken clucks and flaps its wings.

Caesar: “I thought you had reservations about the gods.”

Gracchus: “Privately I believe in none of them, neither do you. Publicly I believe in them all…Greeting Marcus Claudius Flavius!!!”

Interestingly the movie was written by Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood black-listed Communist. The premiere was in October of 1960. Of course it was a big hit. It was intended to shed light on the abuse of power.

Even so, a few months later, January 17, 1961, marked President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in which he warned of authoritarian rule through the “military-industrial complex.”

Among today’s genuflectors were Rep. Adam Schiff, who lied repeatedly promoting the Russia Collusion Hoax and lied about the Trump impeachments; and Eric Swalwell, the flatulent imbecile trapped in a Communist Chinese honeypot by the sexy spy Fang Fang yet remains in Congress to this day. They both do. These are our lawgivers.

They and others genuflected before the gods they call “Transparency” and “Equal Justice Under the Law” and so forth.

They embraced and defended the Black Lives Matter rioters who destroyed cities because the rioters supported Democrat political aims, but they publicly despised Americans who dared peacefully protest the rigged 2020 elections.

Vice President Kamala Harris raised bail money for the BLM rioters. In New York more than $13 million was awarded to protesters, some of whom tried to firebomb cops. In Chicago for example, 3,000 BLM rioters were arrested, but few were imprisoned or tried for their crimes by George Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx.

They destroyed whole cities, they burned others to the ground, but they were excused because the Black Lives Matter rioters shared political goals with senior Democrat officials from governors like Illinois’ own J.B. Pritzker to Senate Leader Charles “Pagliacci” Schumer of New York to China Joe Biden now in the White House.

What was their common goal of the BLM rioters and Democrat Party officials?

They hated former President Donald J. Trump.

And so their sins were forgiven.

And by contrast, more than 1,200 Americans were charged in the so-called J6 Capitol riot, with 460 imprisoned, even though the protest was truly “mostly peaceful.” The federal hammer forced more than 700 Americans to plead guilty, unlike the soft-glove approach in the Soros blue cities.

Ashli Babbitt, a woman supporter of Trump and a 12 -year veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces was at the Capitol in protest on Jan. 6. She was shot to death by a black Capitol Police officer Lt. Michael Byrd. Babbitt was white. I don’t care about their races except to say this: if circumstances were reversed and a white officer shot and killed an unarmed black BLM protester what would have happened?

More riots, more demagoguery, and Biden and Schumer, Pritzker and Cook County Boss Toni Preckwinkle among others, demanding we uphold “the rule of law.”

In the arena a few days ago, in the place where politicians tear at the public reputations of their victims, was special counsel Robert Hur testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

He had angered Democrats with his report—signed off by Biden’s Department of Justice—that the president was not mentally fit to stand trial for illegally keeping decades worth of government secrets in torn boxes like junk in his garage. And what sparked their rage?

They publicly support the Biden Justice Department prosecution of former President Donald Trump even as Hur’s report pronounces Biden as unfit to stand trial for the same crime. Biden is President Non Compos Mentis.

Gracchus would have appreciated the modern Democrat theatrics in Washington as I appreciated the Chicago Mix popcorn. There wasn’t anything particularly nutritious about it.

But Gracchus understood completely about public obeisance to gods he no longer believed in. And of course his doomed Republic, much like ours, was left to men who believed in nothing except their own power.

About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.