The Democrats Selling Something Nobody Wants

Dr. Bastiat
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I downloaded this picture from whitehouse.gov. The file name is, I swear, hero-desktop.jpeg.

Michael Goodwin has a good article up in The New York Post in which he discusses the increasingly dangerous state of world affairs in response to weak American leadership.  He thinks the Democratic Party has real problems with its leadership — he views Biden and Harris as poor leaders, which is difficult to argue with. But he also discusses other problems of the Democratic Party concerning the upcoming midterm elections:

A crucial run-up to elections is the battle to set the terms of the debate. Poll after poll shows that inflation, the economy, crime and immigration are at the top of most voters’ lists.

This is bad news for Biden and his party because they have no answers for any of those problems, most of which they created or allowed to fester. And time is not on their side, with signs suggesting everything could get worse before Election Day.

In that case, their only hope is the shiny object theory of politics, which involves trying to distract voters’ attention from the core issues. And so at every level, Dems are campaigning on Donald Trump, Jan. 6, and abortion.

So polls show that American voters are concerned about inflation, the economy, crime, and immigration. All problems that were caused by Democrats. So Democrats intend to shift the focus of voters to Trump, Jan. 6, and abortion.

Since the problems that voters are concerned about are so obvious in everyday life, one would think that it would be difficult to shift the focus of 330 million people away from what is right in front of their faces.

That, of course, is where the news media comes in. And social media fact-checkers.  They’re good at this.

But golly — that would seem to be asking a lot. Somebody can’t afford electricity and groceries, and you’re going to talk to them about the evils of Donald Trump? Under whose leadership, of course, that person actually could afford his electricity and groceries.

Good luck, Democrats. You had better keep working on various techniques of voter fraud. Because you’re selling something that nobody wants. So nobody will buy it.

Unless there is a monopoly, of course…

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  1. RufusRJones Member
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    6:38 AM EDT ⋅ Oct 3, 2022

    Stad (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: Because you’re selling something that nobody wants. So nobody will buy it.

    Which is why they are ramming it down our throats and other orifices. When people refuse to see the “wisdom” of their policies, leftists have to resort to brute force . . .

    Explained here

    https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313170400112

     

     

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  2. Red Herring Coolidge
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    1:10 PM EDT ⋅ Oct 3, 2022

    Django (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Besides not caring, or knowing what to do, about the problems that bedevil the ordinary folk, they are also beholden to a super-awesome agenda of climate salvation, which requires that everything get worse so everything can be better. They are also beholden to a joyless, jargon-choked Rat King of intersectional grievance-mongering that believes itself to be the new institutional truth, and anyone who doesn’t buy it should be loaded on the tumbrel. For the cherry on the top, they’ve redefined gender, and you’d best nod along with that as well.

    I remember when the liberals had looser undergarments, and would wooooo! about sex drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, man, but now the “sex” part is drag queens twerking for toddlers, the “drugs” part is streets full of ketamine zombies, and the rock ‘n’ roll has been replaced by melody-free thump-and-bump monotone monologues about killing someone who slighted you. But they still see themselves as the noble idealistic vanguard who stopped the Wehrmacht at Stonewall, or something.

    You have a way with words, James. In this case, I agree completely.

    You should read his “Basket Case,” NR Sept 12,2022, p37:

    FDR once said we have nothing to fear but fear itself, one of the more inspirationally tautological utterances in the record books. As it turned out, Fear Itself is capable of consuming your entire mind until its Gollum-like mutterings take on the stentorian tones of authority and your limbs respond with automated movement to the donning of the Fear Shield as you enter a grocery store where the invisible miasma roils from the nostrils and mouths of the unclean. Long Fear Itself, if you wish.

    Brilliant

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  3. Red Herring Coolidge
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    1:15 PM EDT ⋅ Oct 3, 2022

    Morley Stevenson (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: So polls show that American voters are concerned about inflation, the economy, crime, and immigration. All problems which were caused by Democrats.

    I think of this when I hear people complain that conservatives don’t have a positive plan, don’t have big policy initiatives, aren’t solving our problems.

    The problem we have to solve is unchecked radical transformation. The solution to that is to check radical transformation: to stop it, or at least slow it dramatically so we have time to look critically at it.

    The great gulf in America today is between the cultural vision of the left and the lived experience of the right, and it’s a product of runaway progressivism: they’ve sprinted far ahead, and are frustrated now by the chasm they’ve opened between them and us, and by our unwillingness to catch up with them.

    I’m not sure I would attribute the distance between the two parties to progressive being far ahead. So much of what they believe and are pushing for has been tried in the recent past and failed disastrously. Sometimes being “ahead” really means being behind, or on a pointless side trip.

    It is between adults and children. The left are perpetual children who want a nanny, want adults to support them, and are paralyzed by imagined monsters. After years of little discipline, they have evolved into spoiled monsters.

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  4. RufusRJones Member
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    1:23 PM EDT ⋅ Oct 3, 2022

    Red Herring (View Comment):

    Morley Stevenson (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: So polls show that American voters are concerned about inflation, the economy, crime, and immigration. All problems which were caused by Democrats.

    I think of this when I hear people complain that conservatives don’t have a positive plan, don’t have big policy initiatives, aren’t solving our problems.

    The problem we have to solve is unchecked radical transformation. The solution to that is to check radical transformation: to stop it, or at least slow it dramatically so we have time to look critically at it.

    The great gulf in America today is between the cultural vision of the left and the lived experience of the right, and it’s a product of runaway progressivism: they’ve sprinted far ahead, and are frustrated now by the chasm they’ve opened between them and us, and by our unwillingness to catch up with them.

    I’m not sure I would attribute the distance between the two parties to progressive being far ahead. So much of what they believe and are pushing for has been tried in the recent past and failed disastrously. Sometimes being “ahead” really means being behind, or on a pointless side trip.

    It is between adults and children. The left are perpetual children who want a nanny, want adults to support them, and are paralyzed by imagined monsters. After years of little discipline, they have evolved into spoiled monsters.

    This is excellent analysis.

    The second the Soviet Union fell, we should have turned down the dials on government and made the economy more libertarian while we fixed the unfunded liabilities. Now it’s a political, structural, and spiritual mess that is either hard to understand, or is actually hard to undo. 

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