Today was a day for work. And a good day for it. So, no time for writing for the site. But, after dinner I was thinking about what a very strange place the world has become. The things going on today are qualitatively and quantitatively different and worse than anything that I can remember in my lifetime. And it’s not just the events.
I believe it’s demonstrably true that Joe Biden is much less than a mediocre or even a bad president. Gerald Ford was a mediocre president. Jimmy Carter was a bad president. But they were both fairly honest and observably sane men. Joe Biden is a documented pathological liar and all indications are that he is a crook who uses his relatives to sell influence. Beyond that he is currently incapable of speaking coherently without a teleprompter and Adderall. And even then, every tenth sentence is gibberish. He is not qualified to run this country.
This could never have happened twenty years ago or even ten years ago. We’ve reached some kind of inflection point, past which, the old ideas about normal and abnormal no longer apply. I guess that should be apparent in a world where men put on dresses and pretend to be women and idiots like the Kardashians are the leading advocates for the culture. But I keep thinking that somehow even the millennials will wake up and say, “This is crazy. We can’t go on this way.” And yet, week by week everything continues to get crazier.
Just in the last few months the polls and some of the voting, like the recent recall elections, give a hint that maybe we’ve hit bottom and are beginning to climb back up from the pit. The polls showing Biden’s approval rating dropping into the thirties and the projections of massive Democrat losses in the mid-terms provide a little evidence that people are coming to their senses. But it just doesn’t seem like the reaction I expect.
It seems to me that when gasoline is selling for from five to eight dollars a gallon and newborns can’t get baby formula and monkey pox is the pandemic threat of the week that Dementia Joe’s approval rating should be in single digits. It’s as if we’ve given up on normal and now, we just accept any crazy thing as the new normal. And perhaps that’s the most frightening thing of all. Because worse than all the crazy things happening is the idea that maybe everyone is crazy now.
I keep hoping that the awfulness of all the bad things happening will finally shock most Americans into demanding someone make things go back to the way they were in 2019. If I was writing a slogan for a presidential campaign, it would be, “I promise to bring back 2019 just as it was.”
And I think that would get me elected by a landslide that even voter fraud couldn’t beat. I think the great, great majority of people want things back the way they were. They want safe cities and $2/gal gasoline and supermarket shelves stocked with reasonably priced food and consumer products. I think that would be an unbeatable slogan.
But in order to make those things happen, I would tell the voters that the president will need a 63 seat-senate majority to pass a bill allowing him to fix the executive branch. The people would have to agree to electing a Congress that would give the president the laws he would need to defang the Deep State and eliminate all of the bureaucrats that stymied President Trump when he was in office. The voters would have to know that it was a package deal. If they provide the government that can get things done then they can have their old lives back. If they don’t then the candidate would refuse to be sworn in.
Pretty crazy idea. And I think things will have to get a whole lot worse before we could get the votes needed to provide such a mandate. But the way things are going it might not be such a long shot. After all, November 2024 is a long ways away. By then the country might be ready for a savior.