I was having a conversation with one of the HVAC technicians that was fixing my home heating system the other night. He was about my age and was a soft-spoken guy and like most people in New England, he was a Democrat. And I think he brought up the election in the context of the challenges that Biden faces on account of things like the cost of oil and gasoline and food. And his challenge with voting against Biden was that he considered Trump a bad guy.
The fellow said, “But look how much he lies, how can that be acceptable?” So, I asked him what it meant that everyone on the Left lied about the Russian-Trump investigation. How could it be acceptable that the FBI knew it was a hoax but they used it to damage the Trump administration for a couple of years.
He had nothing to say about that. So here is this guy who I’d say is a decent man. He knows that a lot of the policies of the Left are crazy. He thinks the whole green energy thing is incoherent and doomed to failure. But he has the talking points about Trump and his followers being “dangerous” and uncouth. He wants the Republicans to come up with a more palatable candidate. In other words, they want to be able to say both Biden and Trump are both unacceptable. Which really means they don’t think they can win with Biden and so they want a way out of the status quo.
I think the Democrats have come to the conclusion they can’t win with Biden. He’s deteriorating and even if he maintained his current mental state, he can’t debate anyone and he has so many liabilities that general election commercials will shred him mercilessly. So, the party wants desperately to replace him with Newsome. Of course, they have to replace Biden and Harris. Neither of them is viable. They have to allow a primary challenge to Biden.
I’ve been hearing that the primary challenge has to happen before January. I don’t know that that’s true. The Democrats often switch around the rules to suit themselves and I don’t see how a late entry into the primaries would be disqualifying. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if in March or April Joe Biden decides not to run and a replacement candidate is selected by acclamation by the Democrat National Committee. After all that’s what they used to do in the real old days and I’m sure that the by-laws of the Committee have some sort of loophole that allows the backroom boys to use their emergency powers to make such a decision when an act of God, like Joe being blackmailed into bowing out, occurs.
Now, when all of this happens, that fellow I was talking to will think it was a stroke of good luck. Now he can stop worrying and thinking about the problems in front of him. Instead of senile, crooked Joe Biden he has young, honest Gavin Newsome. Sure, Newsome espouses the same failed policies that got Biden into the jam he’s in. California’s insane energy policies are the blueprint that Biden is using to destroy the rest of the country’s economy. Newsome is just as corrupt as Biden. All he has going for him is better hair and a few more brain cells. But the Democrat voters just want to be assured that the plan is back on track. The arc of history is back to bending toward Barack Obama’s promised land of social justice and climate healing.
What all that tells me is that before America can ever get around to facing reality, reality is going to have to hit Democrats in the face with a baseball bat’s worth of truth. It’s going to take economic ruin and lifestyle squalor to get these true believers to cry uncle.
Well, that’s what we’re here for. The Lord Humungous will have to set up shop in the wasteland and begin throwing the voters into the soup pot before they admit that “our democracy” may no longer be all that it was cracked up to be. The question is whether we will be at the leading or lagging edge of the curve. New Zealand has kicked out their blue team and installed the conservatives. But who knows how the tide is running in various places. I think we’ll be lagging the curve. I expect the suffering to increase significantly for quite a while. I wouldn’t even be too surprised by a Biden second term.
After all, the Left has invested enormous resources into election fraud. Why wouldn’t they pull out all the stops in 2024? Sure, it’s transparently fake. And the voting populace already says they believe 2020 was stolen. But no one has successfully done anything about it. So, what’s to stop the next bigger round of fraud?
Now what could change all this is if the international situation really deteriorates. A hot war for us with Iran or even Russia could launch the price of oil into the stratosphere and truly wreck the economy. That might be enough for the Dems to say uncle. Would that get my friend the technician to say uncle and vote for Trump. Yeah, I’ll bet it would. But he’d still claim that Trump is a bad guy and would wish that Nikki Haley was his choice. Well, you can’t blame him. She is a good Democrat.
So that’s what I heard from the other side this week.