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The Ghost of America Yet to Come – Part 2

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Yesterday in the first part of this exercise I extrapolated where all the awful policies and consequences of Democrat rule would lead.  It was pretty much the train wreck scenario for our progressive trajectory.  Is there any other path forward?  I’m not sure.

It would be highly unrealistic to imagine a version of the future where traditional values are easily restored to the country.  That would be ignoring reality because the majority of young people living in this country are leftists.  They believe in the woke orthodoxies and align with the agenda that the Democrats espouse.

But it is true that the Biden administration has made a hash of the economy.  Many of the young resent the lack of opportunities in this economy.  And the horrific crime surging around the cities has even begun to frighten urban leftists.  Especially since several of them have become high profile victims of random violence.  So, let’s see if we can spin a version of the future that doesn’t make me want to emigrate.

Here are the circumstances that would have to align to permit us to avoid the future I outlined in Part 1 of this thought experiment:

  1. Joe Biden will have to get his wish and remain the 2024 candidate despite his extreme unpopularity and obvious incompetence.
  2. Donald Trump will have to defy all odds and not get thrown off the ballot by the two major parties.
  3. Joe Biden’s America has to descend three more turns down into the maelstrom its’s currently circling. Maybe the price of food, fuel and housing will continue to spike and interest rates will make home ownership impossible for most people.  Maybe the mass layoffs at the banks and other corporations will start to cut into the Democrat support.  And maybe Joe’s transparent lies will just finally aggravate even the stupidest voters.
  4. And finally, it will require that the Republicans will actually try to restrain voter fraud in the swing states like Georgia and Arizona.

If all these things happen it would be possible for a Republican Congress and President to be installed in 2025.  And if all the promises and plans were put into effect, we could start to get the country back.  The idea of replacing the bulk of the Justice Department sounds like a dream but I’ve heard scenarios that might be workable.  And other worthwhile changes could be made if we could manage to have decent congressional leaders while a Republican president was in the White House.  Putting an end to the “green agenda” would drastically lower the cost of gasoline and heating oil.  It would also lower the cost for almost everything else.  Urban crime wouldn’t disappear overnight but the feds could crack down on DA’s that weren’t prosecuting criminals.  Many things could be turned around once the Democrats were out of the White House.

And now the splash of cold water to wake us up after that pipe dream.  What do I think are the odds that all those things will happen and we escape the Part 1 fate?  One in five?  One in ten?  Hard to say.  But one thing’s for sure.  If it doesn’t happen in 2024 it’s hard to imagine it will ever happen.  Stagflation finished off Jimmy Carter in 1980.  What we have going on right now is worse on every level and includes so many kinds of dysfunction that if it could be ignored during an election year then we would have to be dealing with an entirely different America from the one I grew up in.

So, there’s the happy version.  Let me know what odds you’d give for this version in the comments.  Ho, ho, ho.

Will America Get Another Chance?

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The post-WWII boom made two generations of Americans remarkably prosperous.  The generation who fought the war and their children lived in a time when America ran the world politically and economically.  The captains of industry were in a position to expand their businesses on a scale never before seen.  American companies dominated the global market in just about every major category of manufacturing.  That expansion employed two generations of Americans in a way that hadn’t been seen before.  Americans came to believe that each generation would be richer and happier than the one before.  Everyone would have a nice home.  Everyone’s kids would go to college.  Everyone would prosper.

Now the 1970s was the first wake-up call.  With an energy crisis and a financial crisis and the first big recession in twenty-five years Americans were worried and confused.  But along came Ronald Reagan and the wonders of deregulation and before you know it “Greed is good” and the good times are rolling again.

But what nobody noticed, or at least no one in the big cities noticed was that corporate America had decided that employing Americans was too expensive and unnecessary.  So slowly but surely, they moved their manufacturing operations off-shore.  They went to Mexico and the Philippines.  They went to Japan, South Korea, China, then Thailand, Vietnam and finally Myanmar.  Anywhere except here.  So, thirty years later the rust belt now looks like a third world nation.  Towns and cities are filled with houses that haven’t been painted in decades.  Main streets are full of abandoned and dilapidated commercial and industrial properties.  In fact, the towns are now empty of young people.  Only the old people are hanging on, living off their social security and the dregs of their savings.

In the big coastal cities, there were still white-collar jobs to be had running these nominally American corporations.  And tech companies provided high paying jobs for IT professionals.  But in the last ten years even these jobs are more and more being off-shored.  The hollowing out of the American work force is almost complete.  There are still jobs at hospitals and government agencies that are tasked with servicing the needs of the human flotsam and jetsam that are still clinging to life in the battered US economy.  There have to be jobs for Democrat voters after all.

So, the second generation after the WWII generation, the Millennials were the first generation to discover that they would be worse off than their parents.  And the next generation after that is acutely aware how bad things are out there.  None of that post war optimism exists.  But what lingers is the sense that Americans have been double crossed.  They’ve been sold out by corporate America but more correctly, they been sold out by the federal government that allowed these corporations to abandon their countrymen to joblessness and poverty.  They allowed the states that they supposedly represented to be picked clean of factories and warehouses and retail businesses.  They were paid off to ignore the dismantling of the industrial base of the United States of America.

Well, it’s already done.  No one will be going to jail for it.  George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton got their cut.  Obama did too.  And George W. Bush sent all those unemployed Midwesterners to Iraq to be blown up by maniacs with road-side IEDs.  That’s ancient history now.

But that sense of being double crossed still lingers among the dispossessed but still living victims.  I guess the only question is will there be any kind of attempt to save what’s left of America’s people?  Donald Trump did something.  He called out the outrageous trade deals that his predecessors inflicted on us.  He boosted energy production and even did something to try and get some jobs brought back here.  So of course, they unleashed COVID and the BLM riots to crash the economy.  Then Dementia Joe applied the coup de grâce.  He shut down the energy industries and unleashed hyperinflation.

Assume that Americans successfully pry the federal elective offices of President and Congress away from the Democrats in 2022 and 2024.  Will the Republicans follow the lead of Trump or his successor to try and force corporate America to reinvest in this country?  Sure, they’ll be busy trying to clean out the Deep State (if they’re interested in anything more than business as usual) but just as important is fixing the economy.  And the only way to do that is to return all those manufacturing jobs.  But will they do it?  If they don’t there won’t be a generation after the one growing up now.  That’s simple arithmetic.  No jobs, no families.

The Bigger Picture

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When things get as bad as they have now, you start to think that just tweaking the system won’t ever be enough to fix things.  After all, we went through this cycle in the seventies and eighties of the last century and here we are even worse off than then.  What it seems to say to me is that just fixing a few laws and getting rid of a few programs isn’t going to change the direction the country is going.

The rot is now spread to almost every facet and organization of American society.  The litany of organizations is too long and familiar to bother repeating again.  But the anti-American and specifically anti-white programs that the schools, media, colleges and corporations have adopted has to be opposed by state and federal law.  It will require drastic measures.  The playing field will have to be tilted drastically to frighten these people.

And worse still, the American people have become dysfunctional.  They want the government to run their lives and take care of them.  They want to study basket weaving at a college and then complain when they can’t find a basket-weaving job to let them pay off their student loan.

And the recent Supreme Court rulings has reinforced the feeling that drastic change is needed.  If a law is wrong then it can’t be tweaked.  It has to be thrown out.  If an agency is corrupted you can’t just fire the boss.  You have to purge it and start over.  If a program is harming the country it has to be ended and replaced with something that helps.  If a company is abusing Americans, then it needs to be put out of business.  What is needed is the right-wing equivalent of the New Deal.

The central idea needs to be restoring American civilization.  One thrust of it would be to strip away all the laws and regulations that have strangled the freedoms in the Bill of Rights.  That will require taking a chainsaw to whole agencies of the bureaucracy.  The IRS, FBI, Justice Department and the agencies that regulate banking will have to cease and desist torturing citizens and stealing their rights and money.  And innumerable other agencies and departments will need to be pruned.

Another change will be re-industrializing the country.  All the corporations that off-shored their factories will be informed that they are now considered foreign businesses and will be taxed and tariffed accordingly.  And alternatively, any company that expands its industrial and commercial operations to employ American citizens will be advantaged handsomely with respect to taxes.  And an important part of the business plan will be a long-term energy policy.  Everything possible needs to be done to stabilize prices for gasoline and heating fuels.  In addition, the government must spearhead a program to restore the use of nuclear power for electrical generation and other energy needs.  Currently only nuclear power has the hope of replacing petroleum at the point where reserves of gas, oil and coal are depleted.  Of course, questions of safety must be addressed so that the public will be confident in the program but the current fantasy of powering the electric grid with windmills and solar panels is just that, a fantasy.

But a final plank in any program to restore the country has to address the moral decline in the country.  And this will have to involve education and re-establishing a partnership between the government and the families of this country.  The schools have to stop poisoning children’s minds.  They need to prepare children to take their place in the world.  The children must be taught that one day they will have to have families of their own and assume responsibility for other lives.  They need to know that growing up is a part of American life not something to be avoided.  And the government needs to provide financial incentives and aid in raising a family.  Anyone who marries and works full time to support his wife and kids needs to have the government on his side.

I’m not saying we should pay for his life but we should make it possible to achieve a middle-class existence for being an honest working-class American.  These are just commonsense ideas that outline the bare bones of what is needed to restore this country to normalcy.

But they need to be adopted and preached by a leader smart enough and persuasive enough to galvanize the people in this country who want to save it.  He has to make it a crusade to save America.  He has to paint the moment for what it is.  This is a desperate situation we’re in.  Think of it as a ship with no one at the wheel that’s approaching an iceberg.  Either someone is going to make a drastic course correction or total catastrophe will occur.  That is how it is and how it needs to be sold.