Without getting into the weeds, the differences between the Real Right and the True Left are simple. The Right wants maximized individual liberty with limited government oversight. The Left wants maximized oversight regardless of the cost to individual rights.
Groups like No Labels try to accumulate influence and power by playing the worst on both sides against the fantasy of a romantic utopian middle.
But anyone willing to sell some liberty for more government sold as security can be convinced or tricked into giving away too much.
No one on the real right can trust them, and everyone on the Left is content to use them. There is no middle. It’s a fantasy that leads further left.
No Labels was started by Democrats and RINOs on the premise that they could moderate the political divisions. In the 12 years since their founding lie, the left-right divide appears wider. So how might matters get worse?
Accusations of racial and sexual discrimination or harassment.
- There is lingering discord over the decision to hire and ally with individuals who left prior jobs under allegations they’d sexually harassed women.
- Two former staffers said they witnessed one of the organization’s few Black employees being singled out to discuss race issues at a staff meeting.
- At least three ex-aides have sought remuneration from the group over the nature of their termination in the last two years.
- Two female staffers recalled management telling female employees to dress more conservatively after a colleague was improperly touched by a male member of Congress at a No Labels event.
- Staffers are bombarded with emails and demands by Jacobson. They come at all hours of the day, sometimes with odd requests, such as changing the employer listed on their LinkedIn profiles to “America” to throw off a journalist trying to locate them.
In my mind, no Labels has always been a Liberal front group designed to use accusations of extremism on the right to pull Republicans to the Left. The Republicans it courts or who praise it are all sell swords content to give up (some or more of) your freedoms for a seat at the Washington elite’s table. A place setting owned by the inside-the-beltway progressive establishment.
Democrats who say kind words are using them as moderate covert for higher office from which they will advance the Left’s priorities.
And you can’t convince me otherwise because no one worries about their candidate going to DC and coming back too conservative.
No Labels is and always was a progressive creature, and as such, it makes the same mistakes as similar groups like the Lincoln Project, which exists to enrich the consultant class while advancing the Left’s hold on power. Their headspace is the same. Say one thing, do another.
And in their defense, they can’t help it. But candidates who cannot put individual liberty before government power are doomed to become progressives and excuse the abuses of the ruling class at the expense of everything else. And that’s where NoLabels is now. The only thing that matters is the movement, and that’s always a path to tyranny, no matter where you claim to stand.
HT | Politico