Today was a day for work.\u00a0 And a good day for it.\u00a0 So, no time for writing for the site.\u00a0 But, after dinner I was thinking about what a very strange place the world has become.\u00a0 The things going on today are qualitatively and quantitatively different and worse than anything that I can remember in my lifetime.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not just the events.<\/p>\n
I believe it\u2019s demonstrably true that Joe Biden is much less than a mediocre or even a bad president.\u00a0 Gerald Ford was a mediocre president.\u00a0 Jimmy Carter was a bad president.\u00a0 But they were both fairly honest and observably sane men.\u00a0 Joe Biden is a documented pathological liar and all indications are that he is a crook who uses his relatives to sell influence.\u00a0 Beyond that he is currently incapable of speaking coherently without a teleprompter and Adderall.\u00a0 And even then, every tenth sentence is gibberish.\u00a0 He is not qualified to run this country.<\/p>\n
This could never have happened twenty years ago or even ten years ago.\u00a0 We\u2019ve reached some kind of inflection point, past which, the old ideas about normal and abnormal no longer apply.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But I keep thinking that somehow even the millennials will wake up and say, \u201cThis is crazy.\u00a0 We can\u2019t go on this way.\u201d\u00a0 And yet, week by week everything continues to get crazier.<\/p>\n
Just in the last few months the polls and some of the voting, like the recent recall elections, give a hint that maybe we\u2019ve hit bottom and are beginning to climb back up from the pit.\u00a0 The polls showing Biden\u2019s 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.\u00a0 But it just doesn\u2019t seem like the reaction I expect.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that when gasoline is selling for from five to eight dollars a gallon and newborns can\u2019t get baby formula and monkey pox is the pandemic threat of the week that Dementia Joe\u2019s approval rating should be in single digits.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if we\u2019ve given up on normal and now, we just accept any crazy thing as the new normal.\u00a0 And perhaps that\u2019s the most frightening thing of all.\u00a0 Because worse than all the crazy things happening is the idea that maybe everyone is crazy now.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 If I was writing a slogan for a presidential campaign, it would be, \u201cI promise to bring back 2019 just as it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
And I think that would get me elected by a landslide that even voter fraud couldn\u2019t beat.\u00a0 I think the great, great majority of people want things back the way they were.\u00a0 They want safe cities and $2\/gal gasoline and supermarket shelves stocked with reasonably priced food and consumer products.\u00a0 I think that would be an unbeatable slogan.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The voters would have to know that it was a package deal.\u00a0 If they provide the government that can get things done then they can have their old lives back.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t then the candidate would refuse to be sworn in.<\/p>\n
Pretty crazy idea.\u00a0 And I think things will have to get a whole lot worse before we could get the votes needed to provide such a mandate.\u00a0 But the way things are going it might not be such a long shot.\u00a0 After all, November 2024 is a long ways away.\u00a0 By then the country might be ready for a savior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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