{"id":1491377,"date":"2026-03-26T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youtellmetexas.com\/?p=10909"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:25:22","slug":"democrats-couldnt-care-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1491377","title":{"rendered":"Democrats couldn\u2019t care less."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Passengers wait in a security checkpoint line at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo\/David J. Phillip)<\/p><\/div>\n

Democrats to this day out-poll Republicans when voters are asked a question containing words to the effect of, \u201c\u2026cares about people like me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like me\u201d<\/em> is generally assumed to be, \u201cordinary people of moderate means.\u201d<\/em> To the extent that the Democratic Party could ever legitimately claim to care about \u201cordinary people,\u201d it\u2019s abundantly clear that they don\u2019t care now. Nor do they have any particular concern for the poor, to whom they never stop pandering, beyond that cohort\u2019s historic propensity for reliably voting Democratic.<\/p>\n

Democrats haven\u2019t cared about \u201cordinary Americans\u201d or \u201chard working Americans\u201d or \u201cless fortunate Americans\u201d in quite some time. At least not in any sense that benefits ordinary, hard working or less fortunate Americans in any tangible way. In fact, it is quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

The hard, cold truth is that Democrats care about only one thing. Expanding their power via the expansion of government.<\/p>\n

This singular fixation explains the impasse over the partial government shutdown that has cut the funding of the Department of Homeland Security. That impasse is what\u2019s causing massively long lines at airports as airline passengers wait for hours to clear TSA screening checkpoints.<\/p>\n

Democrats want to kneecap Immigration & Customs Enforcement. They want to make it close to impossible for ICE to deport illegal migrants. Never mind that when you have between 10 and 30 million people \u2013 most of them poor \u2013 living in the country illegally, it puts downward pressure on the wages of \u201chard working Americans\u201d and \u201cless fortunate Americans.\u201d It fills up the ER waiting rooms at local hospitals upon which our own \u201cless fortunate\u201d citizens rely. The children of illegal migrants crowd the classrooms of the children of those \u201cordinary Americans\u201d who can\u2019t afford to send their kids to private schools.<\/p>\n

None of these \u2013 and many other \u2013 negative impacts on \u201cordinary Americans\u201d matter to Democrats. That\u2019s because illegal migrants perform two increasingly essential functions for the Democratic Party. First, they expand the populations of blue states. Census numbers affect the allocation of the 435 seats in Congress. When a better off resident of a blue state like California who can\u2019t take it anymore decamps for Texas, illegal migrants help to offset that loss and thus the apportionment of Congressional seats. This is becoming a survival level issue for Democrat office holders.<\/p>\n

The second thing that illegal migrants do is expand the welfare rolls, through which Democrats distribute federal money. Beyond buying votes, much of that torrent of money helps fund the corrupt non-governmental organizations with noble sounding do-gooder names and mission statements. Most such NGOs accomplish essentially none of their mission statement goals. But they do lavishly compensate their top executives while donating generously to Democrats. Think \u2018taxpayer-funded money laundering.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, \u201cordinary Americans\u201d about whom Democrats constantly purport to care stuck languishing in airport security lines for hours is acceptable collateral damage.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: Democrats don\u2019t give a flying damn about \u201cordinary Americans.\u201d They care about retaining their perks, power, prestige and money. It\u2019s weapons-grade cynicism.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019re paying the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOrdinary Americans\u201d about whom Democrats constantly purport to care languishing in airport security lines for hours is acceptable collateral damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1491382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.youtellmetexas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tsa-security-APTOPIX_Travel_Delays_26084572577044-750.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ytmt-homepage"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:13:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.youtellmetexas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tsa-security-APTOPIX_Travel_Delays_26084572577044-750.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491377"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491383,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491377\/revisions\/1491383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}