Republicans Can Hijack "Hands Off"
And Use it to Bury Demcorats By the Mid-Terms - But Will They?
The political Left in America has once again bet its future on fear. They want you to believe that the current Administration will deprive you of benefits to which it insists you are entitled. Among these are Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and the like. The party of the welfare state is rallying anyone who will listen to stand with them to protect these programs and presumably the lives and futures of those who depend on them.
The mustache-twirling villain in this tale of horror is Elon Musk, or more generally, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump administration that has enabled it. And there is arguably some juice there to squeeze. Without providing details (full disclosure is not one of their strong suits), the Democrat Party base presumably includes enough people who would sell the argument that these programs, for the sake of those who rely on them, should be off-limits no matter how much waste, fraud, and abuse exists.
Hands off.
This is then applied to everything from libraries to women’s bodies to suspicious webs of non-profits - profiting at taxpayer expense. In other words, ignore your electoral mandate because we’ve put names and faces on the waste fraud and abuse you are trying to address.
And they are precious to us.
But the biggest leverageable fear the left has in play is the welfare state.
Unfortunately for taxpayers and advocates of this strategy, many people who “rely” on government assistance obtain benefits illegally or have taken advantage of the bureaucracy's historical incompetence to cheat or game the system. There is also growing evidence that millions of individuals have been handed billions (perhaps trillions) of dollars in benefits to which they are not legally entitled. Coupled with the long list of other funds disbursed with no controls or deliberately for partisan purposes, it is equally possible for those painted as mustache-twirling villains to turn the tables.
What if there is enough waste, fraud, and abuse that ending that could save programs we’ve been told for forty years are doomed for insolvency? In the shadow of 37 trillion in debt and an even more significant entitlement obligation in the tens or hundreds of trillions, does keeping our hands off in search of salvation make any sense?
Fact: If we do nothing to reverse the spiraling federal debt, these programs will fail. It won’t be the odd outlier who lost handouts until a problem is corrected; it will be everyone. That includes food stamps, social security, medical coverage, and every grant to every state or program promised and expected.
Ask the Hands-Off crowd about how they intend to prevent the imminent unavoidable failure. The patient is dying. Hands-off is a death sentence.
Turnabout is Fair Play
Let me clear. People should be afraid. If we don’t keep Democrats’ hands off the levers of power, you will lose more than the benefits to which you may believe you are entitled, and we know what the “more” is.
Democrats in power can’t keep their hands off your money or money not yet earned by your children or their children.
They can’t keep their hands off your right to free speech, religious liberty, assembly, or redress.
They’ve got their hands all over you when it comes to search and seizure, profiting willfully from your property, whether it is an ill-gotten gain or not.
The party that thinks the government should keep its hands off women’s bodies has long had an institutional rape problem exacerbated by public health policy that was about as hands-on as you could get.
The party of hands off was very much so when it came to enforcing existing immigration law, which prohibits flying or busing undocumented foreigners into your towns, giving them phones, or EBT cards, or housing at your expense.
A party that so overwhelmed its cities and counties that some of them asked you to house their new army of voters as a sign of your moral superiority to those who wanted the law followed.
The Democrats are also a party that is very hands-off when it comes to the matter of homeless veterans or mental health challenges, resulting in rising suicide rates well above those of hapless children transitioned by adults who could then claim moral superiority for being appropriately woke.
The Left has consistently been hands off when it comes to enforcing the law or doing anything to reduce or prevent crime.
They were notoriously hands-off off the illegal human drug trafficking as well as the infiltration of the nation by foreign nations that hate America.
Republicans don’t have to work hard to make this work for them.
How about you dems keep your hands off my paycheck? Hands off my health care decisions. Hands off our children. And hands off me.
And most importantly, keep Democrat’s hands off the government - that is why Americans elected Donald Trump, but if we don’t stand up and push back, the midterms could be the end of the change we need to make America great again. A change that will take more than the four years Donal Trump has, and a lot longer if Democrats take control of Congress in 2026.