Could Pelosi have been speaking of herself?

Why do you suppose retiring Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.), would call any person the “worst thing on the face of the Earth”?

That’s what she called President Trump. So far I haven’t heard any comments that Pelosi will be missed.

Pelosi and her husband, Paul. have done extremely well while Nancy was a member of the U.S. Congress, accumulating a fortune – $281 million according to Open Secrets.

Of course that money isn’t worth as much as it was when Pelosi began her “service” to the nation in 1987, due in large part to left-wing policies she helped create and that have eaten up huge amounts of the value of money. Maybe that’s why she’s so-o-o mad.

We’ve heard Pelosi and other Democrats attempt to pin blame for the violence on Trump and other conservatives.

Such people have little regard for the truth, if any. A recent column by Ireland Owens, contributor to The Daily News Foundation, and reprinted in The Daily Signal, states that a recent NBC News poll found that a majority of Democrats agreed that “extreme political rhetoric” was a key catalyst in the Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

I don’t know if Pelosi’s remark about President Trump was rhetoric or stupidity but I’m inclined to think she had an intended target when she said it. It might be remembered that President Trump has already survived two known assassination attempts.

The NBC poll provided additinoal detail, saying that 54% of Democrats said “extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor” to Kirk’s slaying. Meanwhile, 73% of Republicans and 53% of independent voters—about the same percentage as Democrats’—said the same, according to the survey.

Of those polled, another 28% said they “feel more this [Kirk’s assassination] is an incident caused by a disturbed person.” By comparison, only 4% of respondents said that they thought both of the two previously mentioned options on the poll contributed to Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray’s office alleged in September that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with assassinating Kirk, had engraved phrases such as “hey fascist! CATCH!” on his bullet casings. Robinson reportedly also had a transgender boyfriend.

A Public First poll released on Nov. 3 showed that 24% of U.S. voters think there are circumstances in which political violence is justified.

How America has changed since the election of Democrat President Barack Obama, who established the divisive policies with frequent remsarks on racism, claiming that certain groups of people should feel left out due what he considered unfair laws and people’s actions.

Here is what the Obama Foundation posted about racism: “In the United States, we are still grappling – in ways large and small – with the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and the scourge of racism. And around the world, millions of people are treated differently, every day, because of their race, ethnicity, tribe, or background. In many places, discrimination and racism have deep roots, and have led to structural inequalities that continue to have far-reaching consequences in our societies.

“Bridging these divides will require more than concrete policies to address the impact of prejudice and racial discrimination. It will require each of us – in our workplaces, our community spaces, our politics, our places of worship, and in a million daily interactions – to understand each other’s realities, as well as our own unspoken attitudes.

“At the Obama Foundation, our goal is to build a powerful network of emerging leaders who can drive inclusive change in their communities – in the U.S. and around the world. As part of this, we are committed to addressing the roles that systemic racism and gender discrimination play in holding community problems in place and preventing marginalized people from becoming leaders.

“At the same time, we are also focused on the necessary work to improve our own understanding, attitudes, and practices of anti-racism and equity. Because if we want to help combat racism and inequity in the communities we serve, we need to lead by example.

“That’s why our goal is to make sure every member of the Foundation team is committed to anti-racism, sets expectations for how we will engage, and makes space for the work. We’re focused on making sure our actions match our intent – removing barriers for diverse vendors, building anti-racism and equity into our hiring practices, and recruiting diverse cohorts for our leadership programs. We also want to be strong partners, working with members of the predominantly Black community that is our home, and the future home of the OPC. Finally, we understand the importance of measuring our impact. As an organization, we will hold ourselves accountable with humility, acknowledging that we won’t get this right all at once, and that success will require sustained commitment, training, learning and adjustment.

“In all of this, we will celebrate progress and be honest about where we fall short. And we will continue to try to see more of ourselves in one another – sharing stories, welcoming diverse perspectives, and reaching out across lines of apparent difference. “

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Those are nice-sounding words but the undercurrent is that all problems are race related.

I don’t believe that. Slavery was awful and undoubtedly racial putdowns have occurred. But hasn’t every one of us experienced hurt feelings at some point.

Hurt feelings are part of life and sometimes cause us to change, hopefully uppimg our game.

It seems to me that successful people focus on three factors: faith, family and willingness to work.

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Former Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” plan was a detriment to the advancement of Black citizens due to taking fathers out of homes. Its welfare programs provided support to families without fathers, ending a period when Black citizens were moving up. I’m not alone in this idea.

Rep. Tim Scott R-S.C. (he’s Black) speaking at a GOP Presidential debate said something similar.

Scott began his remarks by criticizing fellow GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis of Florida for his state’s education policies, which require students to learn slavery did some good because slaves “developed skills.”

“There is not a redeeming quality in slavery,” Scott asserted.

Then he said: “But America ultimately stood against slavery and defeated it. You talk about crime and education and health care — we always think that those issues go back to slavery. Here’s the challenge, though. Black families survived slavery. We survived poll taxes and literacy tests. We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country.”

Scott opened by saying: “What was hard to sura vive was Johnson’s Great Society, where they decided to put money — where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail. And you can now measure that in unemployment and crime and devastation.”

The Great Society of the 1960s was the largest social reform plan in modern history, including Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, urban renewal and a series of environmental and crime fighting initiatives. The related expansion of federal government has been a target of conservative Republicans for decades, from Reagan-era debates about “welfare queens” to the anti-tax doctrines of the Tea Party.”

Scott’s perspective was not totally new.

An article in Baptist News on the subject said: “In 1982, then President Ronald Reagan said Blacks ”would be appreciably better off today” if the Great Society had never been inaugurated.

Reagan said the economic health of the 1950s — a time of racial segregation — was destroyed by the Great Society programs because “government began eating away at the underpinnings of the private enterprise system. … The big taxer and big spenders in the Congress had started a binge” that ”threatened the character of our people.”