You ever notice that Democrats are constantly railing against imagined or non-existent problems that they label as “existential threats?”  On June 25th, Wall Street Journal editorial page writer Barton Swaim made an excellent review of this issue in his article, The American Left’s Fantastic Threats.  The Left is in the habit of championing straw men, who are the supposed victims of imagined problems, and of taking pride in solving problems that no longer exist.  Case in point, congratulating itself for an anti-lynching law in 2022, when no one has been lynched in 60 years.  You really can’t blame them.  Because the Left is morally bankrupt and has neither the will nor the know how to solve real problems, the creation of fantastical threats is really all they’ve got.  The things that spew from the mouth of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden are a perfect example.  Whatever handler has his or her hand up the back of our Ventriloquist’s Dummy in Chief, provides him with a steady stream of false claptrap, designed to rally the Left by warning voters of threats that either never existed or no longer exist.  Mr. Swaim’s review of a handful of Democrat talking points readily exposes their duplicity, and reinforces the truth that it is the Left that is doing many of the very things it denounces.  The examples he cites are present in every Biden speech.  In a world of ruinous inflation, impending recession, unchecked crime in the streets, the invasion of millions of illegal aliens, and an increasingly impotent military faced with Chinese Communists looking to take over the world, Biden tells us that the greatest threat we face is from white supremecists.  There are some twisted kooks out there, no doubt.  But the greatest threat?  If that was true, where are the raids,  arrests and prosecutions?  The white supremecist scare is an outgrowth of the equally false systemic racism meme.  There once was de jure (systemic) racism, but not anymore.  If this threat was real, wouldn’t Il Duce Barack Obama have ended it?  The Left has an answer which is equally ludicrous.  “There’s implicit bias, you see, so even though it’s against the law, universally rejected by society, and can’t be seen, it’s still there.”  Like much of the Democrat playbook, this is Orwellian.  George Orwell observed that, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them, because no ordinary man could be such a fool.” Likewise, the Democrat claim that Republicans “are banning books” is another Leftist fantasy.  Less then 1% of America’s thousands of libraries have received complaints about books.  And the complaints focus on the provision of sexually explicit books to children.  Banned books are available to no one.  Republicans aren’t banning books, they’re protecting children from perverts, and that’s precisely what the Left objects to.  Never forget, these are the same people who changed the term “pedophile” to “minor attracted person,” the same people who are subjecting children to Drag Queen story hours and shows, and the same people supporting gender changing surgeries for kids.  Yet another Leftist fallacy is “MAGA extremists want to tell people who they can love.”  The Supreme Court settled the same sex marriage question in 2015.  No Republican is trying to outlaw same sex marriages.  The notion of voter suppression is just one more Leftist hallucination, which is totally false, but stirs up the Woke base.  Remember Joe Biden’s denunciation of the Georgia election law amendments as “Jim Crow 2.0?”  After passage of the law, which Biden claimed would keep minorities from voting, more black voters voted in Georgia than before the amendment, and no black voter complained of a poor voting experience.  So it’s not Jim Crow 2.0, it’s Democrat Bullshit 2023.  Of course, Leftist fantasized threats balloon to extraordinary levels when applied to that “existential threat to our democracy” one Donald John Trump.  They told us Trump was a fascist, in league with Russia, and bent on installing an authoritarian government.  Democrats still believe this crap, despite the fact that the definition of fascism (everything inside the State, nothing outside the State, and nothing against the State) could be the Democrat Party motto.  They still believe it even though a recently declassified FBI memo from 2017 has proven that the FBI knew it was all a hoax, perpetrated by Hillary Clinton, before embarking on the 2 year Mueller Investigation.  And, of course, they still believe it although it is Democrats who seek to “fundamentally transform” America into a socialist autocracy.  Who’s banning books from the likes of J.K. Rowling?  Democrats.  Who’s hard at work stifling free speech on campus?  Democrats.  And who’s constantly trying to impose government censorship of free speech in public and on the internet?  Once again, Democrats.  Mr. Swaim is right.  The Left’s chief problem is that the things that formerly were liberal goals have all been met.  Despite this fact, however, Democrats continue to pretend that it’s still 1933, and that none of the social welfare programs exist.  Leftists now search in vain for some new cause.  The latest flavor of the month is transgender politics, along with the obligatory imagined threat to the safety of transgender people.  In truth, the trans community is very small, and no real threat to these people exists.  You’re male and want to pretend to be female?  Go for it.  You’re female, and want to pretend you’re male”  Who cares?  If you want to identify as a goat, I couldn’t care less, just don’t eat my wife’s flowers. The reality is that the Left ignores the real and very pressing problems that do exist, and concentrates on non-existent problems, because they have no solutions for real problems.  The Left won’t deal with the truth because, as Jack Nicholson once said, they “can’t handle the truth.”  The Leftist fixation on imaginary threats brought to mind a quote from RFK, “Some men see things as they are and say ‘why’?  I dream things that never were and say, ‘why not’?”  For today’s Democrat Party that would be, “Some Parties recognize problems that are real.  We focus on problems that no longer are or never were and say, ‘Who knows, maybe they’ll buy our bullshit one more time.'”