Poll Shows What Makes Democrats Tick

The results of a national survey released last week covering Americans’ feelings about Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, revealed what may be the primary difference between Democrats and Republicans — although that was probably not the intent.

Americans have been glued to their TVs as they watch interviews of young mothers who accompany their children and the elderly to seek refuge while men of all ages remain behind to fight for their country as citizen-soldiers.

A Quinnipiac University national poll revealed that nearly 80% agreed that if Russia were to escalate the war by attacking a NATO ally, the U.S. military should respond according to the terms of the NATO agreement.

And Americans’ support for Ukrainian citizens taking up arms to defend their homeland deserve a more effective response from the United States, with 56% saying they are not tough enough, while only 30% say they are about right, also according to the survey.

But while the Americans polled admire the Ukrainians’ patriotic response, if the tables were turned — if Russia or some other country were to invade the United States — how Americans should react depended largely on which party they pull the handle for in the voting booth.

Of all the respondents polled regardless of party affiliation 55% said they would stand and defend their country. But the real difference lay in the party.

Only 40% of Democrats said they would “stay and fight,” as compared to 68% of Republicans and 57% of independents. On the other hand a slight majority of Democrats, 52%, would “leave the country” if attacked.

Only 25% of Republicans and 36% of Independents indicated that they would cut and run in response to an invasion.

The Republican position was probably best illustrated by UCF fighter Bryce Mitchell, when a reporter asked for his feelings about the Russian-Ukrainian war last week.

He replied in a video that’s since gone viral that while he wasn’t interested in going to Ukraine to “fight … these wars for these politicians,” he would however remain in the United States to defend his own homeland.

“If this country is invaded … I would dig my boots in the Arkansas soil and I would fight for the people I love, for the land that I love, for the way of life that I love,” he said.

As for Ukraine, “I don’t think anybody knows what’s going on fully, there’s been so much political corruption in that area. You got [President Joe] Biden and his son making a s**t-ton of money … and using our tax dollars to bribe their people. That’s treasonous in my opinion.”

And on that note, Biden may be the best example of the Democratic position to turn tail and skedaddle.

The president reluctantly agreed to ban the importation of Russian oil only after a bipartisan group of lawmakers forced the issue.

To make up the difference he’s been begging countries not totally friendly with the United States to sell us their oil. Those countries include Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

Instead of begging nations that don’t align with U.S. interests, he should be simply asking Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana as well as other gas and oil producing states, to ramp up their own production.

And he should take his boot — in the form of overregulation of the energy industry — off the necks of producers to make it possible for them to do so.

The Trump administration imposed sanctions that crippled the sale of Russian natural gas to Europe, an act that arguably kept the Russian bear at bay. Biden dropped the sanctions, and shortly afterward Russia invaded Ukraine.

And public opinion suggests he’s still dithering. More than half of Americans (52%) say the president’s actions toward Russia haven’t been nearly strong enough, according to a CBS News/You Gov poll released Sunday.

Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson once observed that “when ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.”

The monsters are now loose in Ukraine, arguably because of Biden’s ignorance over the purpose of the Russian sanctions. And they’re trying to gain a foothold in the United States.

If and when they come, we’ll need more UCF fighters willing to dig their boots in the soil to defend their homeland, and fewer Joe Bidens, who would rather watch from afar and wonder how it all began.