Democrats are fueling business-bashing in “red” Sussex County

By Sussex Watchdog

New Jersey lost a third of its small businesses during the pandemic. Institutionally, it’s the worst taxed state in America and one of the least friendly to small businesses. Now, instead of extending a helping hand, local Democrats are finding ways to place more pressure on family and other small businesses trying to make ends meet.

Frustrated by their inability to reverse democratic outcomes in local elections and force elected Republicans to enact their “Woke” agenda, the Democrats who gave us dark money/ murder-for-hire political consultant Sean Caddle are now involved with organizing a list of approved “progressive businesses” in Sussex County and labeling other businesses as worthy of having a brick tossed through their window.

No kidding…

“It is his millions of relationships that will give man his humanity… It is not our ideological rights that are important but the quality of our relationships with each other, with all men, with knowledge and art and God that count.

“Every group on earth that has put ideology before human relations has failed; always disaster and bitterness and bloodshed have come... it aroused in men more hate than love, more concern for their own group than for all people, more lust for power than compassion for human need.”

Lillian Smith
Civil Rights pioneer

Is this what happens when Democrats get together and put their “progressive” minds to work? Bricks through windows???

Democrats are fanning out all over Sussex County and then reporting about businesses as to whether they should belong on the “approved” list… as well as those they think deserve a brick or a boycott or both. Even a young attorney got involved in the effort (while assuring everyone that her business belongs on the “approved” list).

Fights are erupting online over businesses interpreted to have ideological gray areas. Like a bike shop that didn’t want to fly the right flag (Note: we’re not talking the American flag). When the lawyer suggested a bar be included on the approved list, another Democrat activist objected, writing:

“Are you sure about this? (That bar) was on my reject list due to posts last year.”

To which the young lawyer replies:

“They got rid of that owner (partly for that reason)”.

Aren’t we lucky to live at a time when its not your business acumen or professional competence or the service you provide or your product that matters… but rather your posts on social media and how these modern “Vestal Virgins” interpret them?

One Democrat county committeeman and former candidate for Freeholder (who is now using a female name after apparently installing what can only be described as impressive breast implants) targeted the business of someone who didn’t support his candidacy:

“What is his business so I can advise everyone I know to avoid the fascist pos”.

How civil.

The Democrats have got so out of hand that one usually quite radical Democrat begged her fellow “progressives” to be cool…

“I received direct communication alleging that group members are messaging business owners in what is being considered harassing fashion. Please for the love of God, don’t do that.”

Well, at least there is one non-cuckoo in the cuckoo nest. That’s something, anyway.

Is Woke Democrat candidate making a list of local businesses to boycott?

By Sussex Watchdog

Not content with stripping billions away from local school districts, Democrats are now making ideological lists of local businesses that survived the pandemic and the lockdown mandates of Democrat Governor Phil Murphy. These lists are based not on the products or services these businesses offer, not on their pricing and warranties, not even on customer service or retail ambience.

No, the Democrats want to discriminate for and against local businesses based on their active support of things like vaccine and mask mandates, abortion up to and including the day of birth, Critical Race Theory and support for defunding the police, transgendered agenda and LGBTQ+ curriculum, illegal immigration, and Goldman-Sachs/ Tammy Murphy’s plan to use farmland and lakes for solar panels. Take a look at the line-up of hashtags in the post below.

That’s the whackadoddledoo wokeness of corporate Democrats for you. Big “D” Democrats – not little “d” as in those who practice actual democracy. Big “D” as in authoritarian Dicks.

It isn’t enough to have a nice product, in a well-kept establishment, with friendly service… they want to know what you are thinking, and you better identify how you think… or else! And if you are not thinking what they’re thinking – exactly like they’re thinking it – then history shows they will call you names and cancel you, shun you, turn you and your business into a version of the undead. How many poor unfortunates have lost their jobs or income for expressing the “wrong” opinion? And what’s worse, while torturing and bullying people this way, the Democrats will claim “tolerance” and “anti-hate”. Real sweethearts.

And if you don't fly the approved flag, post the approved sentiments in your window, or support the approved candidates???

It's just more divisive woke bullshit.

The candidate is Damaris Lira. On Tuesday, she became the Democratic Party nominee for County Commissioner in Sussex County. So… one of her first acts as the Democrat nominee is to work on a list that categorizes local businesses as “them” or “us”??? Wasn’t this the method used by another political party, in central Europe, nearly a century ago?

And why would any small businessperson vote for a candidate who, as a County Commissioner, would look to favor one business over another? Maybe they would if they knew they were on the approved list – but what if they weren’t?

Woke Democrats (and their go-along-to-get-along, wannabe cousins, Woke Republicans) appear to have one answer to everything – divide and bully. They claim to be representing “marginalized” or “oppressed” groups when it is clear to everyone that those they represent are either directly in power or favored by those in power. But then remember, the worst crimes against humanity have been by people in power who claimed to be acting out their aggression in self-defense.

Memo to Kevin Drennan: If you want to make laws… run and get elected.

By Rubashov

Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker was born in 1898, served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War, and afterwards studied medicine, specializing in psychiatry. He practiced in Berlin and was an early, vocal critic of National Socialism. He got out, just in time, and made it to the United States in 1938, where he practiced internal medicine and psychiatry.

Dr. Hutschnecker advised both Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon became his patient. Dr. Hutschnecker was an advocate of modern daycare for preschool children, advising President Nixon of its importance especially to children in lower socio-economic communities.

Dr. Hutschnecker wrote numerous professional articles and several books, many on the subject of power and the attractions of power. In 1974, he wrote The Drive for Power and became, for a time, a national figure for suggesting that politicians be required to take a psychiatric examination before running for office.

Dr. Hutschnecker warned against giving political power to those who are gratified through exercising power over others. He wrote of the almost sexual interplay between power and control on the one hand and fear and submission on the other. The act of breaking someone’s will, forcing someone to do something that runs counter to conscience, has some of the elements of rape in it.

Of course, the democratic process depends on consent. Instead of fear, agreement is reached. Submission is done willingly. More human but perhaps less gratifying for some.

Which brings us to Speaker Craig Coughlin’s behavior at the State House on Thursday. Would you want to turn him down for a date?

Late Friday afternoon, Kevin Drennan published a column in the New Jersey Globe that chastised the objects of Speaker Coughlin's demands. In his column, Drennan argues that he should get to make laws that elected legislators – the elected representatives of the people – must obey. Oh, and we mean obey… at the point of a gun.

Kevin Drennan is one of the eight unelected patronage jobholders on the State Capitol Joint Management Commission. In fact, he’s the Commission’s chairman.

Drennan isn’t a doctor – although he did lobby in Trenton for the health care industry – and neither are any of the other Commission members. Nevertheless, a few weeks back, they decided to restrict who could enter the State House – the nexus of the Legislative branch of what is still, on paper, a representative democracy.

Those restricted included the elected representatives of the people sent there by a vote of the people. Yep, no kidding, a direct challenge to democracy itself.

They claimed they did so in response to a pandemic that most people have come to accept and to live with. How many masks do you see at the supermarket – aside from the employees who are paid to wear them? People shake hands, they hug, they kiss. Perhaps they don’t where Kevin Drennan comes from, but we know that place and we’re pretty sure they do.

Those of us who can remember when the concept of nuclear war seemed real enough to send school children scurrying under their desks on regular exercises know that you cannot use fear to hold power over people forever. People get bored. Hey Kevin, there are more nukes around today than back then. More countries have them. Bigger ones and less secure, but people gave up being afraid, because being afraid is a shit way to go through life. Kevin, it’s time to crawl out from under that desk.

But is this all really a response to a pandemic? Is that the actual reason – or simply the given one.

There’s another, more logical reason, and it’s about power. The power to break the wills of all those suburban women – from Kennedy liberals to Trumpy populists – who showed up and invaded the State House in response to bill S-2173 during the 2018-19 legislative session. This was legislation to end religious exemptions for mandatory immunization. Yes Kevin, we remember. You called them “uncivil” too. Funny, you using that word so much in your column.

We remember the corruption done on behalf of the health care and pharmaceutical industries that want to make their products mandatory and their profits permanent. The attempts to fix the vote to get the bill passed. Playing musical chairs with elected legislators on key committees. Punishing those who refused to submit. And the threat to “go to war” with all those suburban women. It resulted in dozens of formal ethics complaints.

Well, on Thursday Speaker Coughlin took it a step further. He used men with guns. Was this what was meant by “go to war”?

It does seem like some could use the counsel of a Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker. Unfortunately, he’s been gone twenty years, but you can borrow his book if you like…

"It is safer for a politician to go to a whore house than to see a psychiatrist."
Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell