Connecticut’s congressmen are even nuttier than Trump

By Chris Powell

Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s personnel selections for his new administration are worrisome. But then some of Joe Biden’s personnel selections are worrisome too, like the defense secretary who entered a hospital for treatment of a longstanding medical condition without informing the White House of his whereabouts, and the Supreme Court nominee who, under Senate questioning, affected not to know what a woman is. (That nominee, now a justice, has just accepted a part in a Broadway play celebrating transgenderism.)

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Both major political parties have plenty of nuttiness. Having discarded impartiality, mainstream news organizations are just far better at reporting Republican nuttiness than Democratic nuttiness.

In any case it’s not necessary to leave Connecticut to find nuttiness in high office. The state’s seven members of Congress, all Democrats, are enthusiastic supporters of their party’s worst nuttiness, starting with the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. 

What could be nuttier than poking the Russian bear by expanding NATO right up to the Russian border in Ukraine, having already done that in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia? What could be nuttier than having U.S. military personnel launching and guiding rocket bombs from Ukraine into Russia, as President Biden recently authorized?

When, in 1962, Russia installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida, the United States invoked the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, by which the U.S. claims military authority over the entire Western Hemisphere. Then the U.S. imposed a naval blockade against Cuba and threatened war against Russia if the missiles were not removed. Russia capitulated.

Now Russia has claimed along its border a tiny bit of the authority the United States long has claimed along its border. Russia’s claim applies to territory that long had been and until recently was part of Russia itself, including territory where most residents speak Russian, not Ukrainian. In response to Russia’s claim, Connecticut’s members of Congress have affected to be outraged — even though Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, repeatedly warned the U.S. and its allies that their continued meddling in Ukraine would mean war.

What could be nuttier than admitting as many as 15 million foreigners in just a few years outside normal immigration procedures without making any provision for their housing, medical care, education, policing, and cultural and political assimilation, and, nuttiest of all, without evaluating their character and intentions?

Of course unleashing illegal immigration has made perfect sense for drastically changing the districting of the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of the Democrats. Dump most of the illegal immigrants in largely Democratic metropolitan areas, and even if they aren’t allowed to vote, after the next federal census they will cause the creation of two dozen or more solidly Democratic districts at the expense of Republican and competitive districts. 

To the Democrats the costs of massive illegal immigration — the great increase in housing prices and crime and the severe burdening of schools and hospitals — are small prices to pay for permanent control of the House.

Connecticut’s congressional delegation supports all this illegal immigration.

What could be nuttier than requiring schools to let males who imagine themselves to be females play on female sports teams, use female restrooms, and, when imprisoned, be placed in women’s prisons? Were society’s recent premises mistaken about establishing equal opportunity for girls and women in sports? Are males on average no longer bigger and stronger than females?

What could be nuttier than allowing sex-change drugs to be given to children and sex-change operations to be performed on them when, because of their age, they cannot give informed consent for such life-altering actions?  

But Connecticut’s congressional delegation supports all this transgenderism too.

What good would be done by all the programs and policies advocated by the Democrats if aggravating Russia over what it considers its vital security interest, as Russia aggravated the United States in 1962, escalates into nuclear war?

Nutty as Trump can be, the Democratic nuttiness is far worse and far more urgent, and Trump says he wants to end it. So Inauguration Day can’t come soon enough. 

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Chris Powell has written about Connecticut government and politics for many years. (CPowell@cox.net)

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