It’s over. We lost. There is no next time. Thomas Jefferson said, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” We had one in 2016. They stole it in 2018.
President Donald Trump delivered on his promises like no other. Jobs, economy, foreign policy, his execution was flawless. Some may not like his bluster, but they don’t have to invite him over for dinner.
After decades-long stagnation, wages are on the rise and we have more jobs available than we have a number of unemployed. Trump policies are responsible for this striking turn-around from the Obama years, and Democrats in congress voted 100 percent against them 100 percent of the time. Why would anyone vote for a Democrat for congress?
Yet pre-election polls showed that by double digits, people thought we were “on the wrong track,” approved Democrats over Republicans, and generally disapproved of the job our president was doing. On which planet were those polls taken?
Obfuscation
Since the Democrat economic performance from 2009 through 2016 and their congressional posture through 2018 left very little for them with which to build an argument against Trump economic policies, they chose to change the subject:
• Tax cuts favored the upper one percent. There is no factual basis for this statement and, in fact, corporate tax cuts brought jobs back into the U.S. and fattened 401(k)s.
• Restricting immigration is morally wrong. Calling Trump a racist for building a wall obscures the real argument; Democrats want a flood of immigrants so they can register them to vote.
• Republicans are motivated by white racism. You need only look at the random collection of models in TV commercials to know that white racism in this country died decades ago.
While most people would cast these positions as frivolous, once they are echoed by the media, they take on a meaning far beyond their content.
With Only This To Offer, They Won the House
For those who put Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives, it makes one wonder how tuned in voters are. What part of success don’t they understand? More to the point, if after a strikingly successful two years of legislative and presidential performance (and their loss at the polls), what kind of governance can we expect in the future? Through sheer force of personality, Trump will likely win in 2020. But after that, then what? Are we destined to make a prophet out of George Orwell and his book “1984”?
“ADRIFT: A Journey to George Orwell’s 1984” evaluates that likelihood in light of events and trends over the last five decades. From the introduction: “Adrift will take you step-by-step through the systematic process that has disabled our political integrity, and which has promoted a society that resembles Orwell’s nightmare world.”
A small group of extremely wealthy individuals are poised to become 1984’s Inner Circle. They move with a stealth described in ADRIFT: “Icebergs calve off glaciers in the warming season. They drift and drift, moving with the caprice of ocean currents, finally into warmer water and they melt. They are gone – forever. No one noticed.”
One of these individuals provided financial backing in the last election to any candidate who supported the Global Warming lie. This is “political science” at its worst and is a two-pronged tool; it keeps people poor and is a method of population control. Another super-wealthy individual who is regarded as the richest man in the world bought an old- line, influential newspaper on the east coast.
Can you feel the drift yet?
