There are no atheists in foxholes.
My dad was in WWII and often used this phrase to describe a miraculous change of personal direction. I don’t hear it used as much now as I once did, but this aphorism is an apt description of how, in times of extreme stress or fear (such as during war or times of personal danger), people who claim not to believe in God or a higher power, exhibit a sudden conversion in hope of salvation or survival.
Most of the time, the promises made to God have an expiration date. They are revoked once the danger passes, and the person returns to their past behaviors. It is a conversion of convenience based on immediate need.
Seems the saying could be applied to Democrats who just discovered they are Republicans or those who have just found out that the Biden agenda is communistic and totalitarian.
The “I’m shocked there is gambling going on here” is pretty weak tea, given this is what the Democrat Party is and has always been. Sure, like a Christmas fruitcake that has been regifted for many years, the wrapping paper has worn thin and for the last few years, the recipient could see what was underneath, but the Biden gang has just ripped the remaining paper off and shoved it into America’s mouth.
The Biden administration, in less than a year, has done more to reveal the anti-Americanism of the Democrats than Obama could even hope to have done. Maybe it is because they are tired of hiding, maybe it is because they think this is their last shot – given they successfully installed a sacrificial president and vice president, I don’t know – but they have clearly decided to go all in.
That is why I refuse to praise (or trust) any Democrat who “jumps ship” or changes parties now.
At this point, these people have not had a conversion of the heart or spirit, this is a form of foxhole conversion. The bombs are falling on the battlefield and the Democrat war machine is beginning to bog down, supply lines are getting cut and their leadership is becoming more and more insulated, adopting a bunker mentality.
As it was in the prosecutions for atrocities after WWI, the defense of “I was just following orders” isn’t going to work.
My mind forms a mental image of a concentration camp commandant when I see or hear Anthony Fauci speak. He seems to me to be a dime store version of Dr. Josef Mengele.
But this is nothing new, the Democrats have been this way for decades.
They could give a tinker’s damn about American citizens or the Constitution and now they don’t care if you know it. Now they look at law abiding Americans straight in the face and just ask, “What are you going to do about it, chump? We have the power and we are going to use it to get what we want.”
In 2006, Dennis Green, the head coach of a hapless Arizona Cardinals team that just lost to an even more pathetic Detroit Lions team said, “They are who we thought they were.” The Democrats are who we always thought they were. They have always been the pro-illegal immigration, pro-criminal, pro-radicalism, anti-Constitution party - but now there is objective proof.
All one needs to do is to observe the actions of the Biden administration at our southern border, the actions (or inaction) of the George Soros funded DA’s in LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia and other cities as they refuse to prosecute crimes – and in many cases, just turn a blind eye to it. Kim Foxx refusing to arrest or charge anyone involved in a street shooting, calling it “mutual combat” is a prime example.
Even state Attorneys General are in on the plan, with New York’s Letitia James being on board with political prosecutions of their enemies.
Mayors of Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Kenosha and Baltimore (and for goodness sake, even milquetoast Salt Lake City) sat on their hands while their cities raged and burned, refusing to enforce the law due to ideological reasons and fear of political reprisal.
Radicalism is on display in the Halls of Congress with leftist ideologues like Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressey, Rashid Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and old-line “Summer of Love” commies like Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders in the Senate.
These radical leftists make AOC look like the sane one.
But again, the Democrats on display today are just examples of what they have always been, fellow travelers and useful idiots.
As Rudyard Kipling wrote in “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”:
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”