Delusional WA Progressive candidate insults veterans

There’s a level of sickness spreading amongst some politicians – on both sides – and a series of mind-numbingly dumb statements by a local Progressive congressional candidate highlights this issue perfectly.

Speaking to the far Left group Washington State Indivisible, Dr. Kim Schrier , who is running in the 8th Congressional district, compares her campaign to African Americans facing fire hoses and American troops storming the beaches of Normandy in World War 2:

“I think back to the questions we ask our own parents, like I ask my parents: What were you doing during the civil rights movement? … And I imagine things like what would I have done in World War II? … I would always like to think that I would be on the right side of history and that I would be bold enough to stand up and do the right thing, and brave enough.’ ‘So, I know my son Sam will ask me one day: ‘Hey Mom, what did you do after Trump got elected?’ And this is my answer to him.”

I know that Schrier thinks she’s some kind of hero or freedom fighter, but this is frightening next-level delusion of grandeur and Washington veterans are fighting back. Indeed, 19 veterans signed onto a statement calling Schrier out. The Washington State Republican party shared a statement by Dave Bryant, Captain, USN (Ret.):

“My mother’s only brother died in the last kamakazi attack on a US ship. My grandmother was so distraught after the receipt of the President’s condolence letter, that she did not allow his name to ever be mentioned. None of us learned of this until after her passing.”

“There are over 400,000 US families that received these letters in WWII. How anyone in good conscience can compare her campaign in her air conditioned home and offices to the sacrifices of WWII belittles the memory of the true sacrifice of these heroes and their families waiting at home.”

I’d argue her comments on veterans isn’t nearly as offensive – and historically ignorant – as her comments about the civil rights movement. They’re comments similar to the recent remarks by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

At a speech this week, the Democratic governor argued that America “was never that great.” In a follow-up tweet, responding to criticism from Trump, Cuomo told the President: “What you say would be ‘great again’ would not be great at all…We will not go back to discrimination, segregation, sexism, isolationism, racism or the KKK.”

Schrier and Cuomo want to pretend we’re living in an era where we’re one Trump tweet away from going back to the days of segregation. They need to  pretend that Trump believes, in order to “make America great again,”  that he’s referring to the KKK and sexism.

This is how they exist: they are moved by this greater sense of worth – that they’re all that’s standing in the way of our rights being taken away. Where would we be without these two to help us? Well, for starters, more informed and less annoyed by their out of control egos.

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