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Back in April of this year I said some pretty discouraging words about the future prospects of this country<\/a>.\u00a0 The conceit I pushed in that post involved some of the statements to be found in the Alice in Wonderland stories.\u00a0 All in all, I think the points I made and the insane statements by the inhabitants of Wonderland matched up pretty well.\u00a0 Bravo photog!<\/p>\n

Well, current events haven\u2019t overthrown my feelings of doom and gloom over the unprecedented outrages that the Left has unleashed while performing their hostile takeover of the United States.\u00a0 Their willingness to use the Department of Justice and kangaroo courts to imprison their adversaries is proceeding at full speed and now they\u2019ve even indicted a former president in their determination to eliminate their competition in the 2024 Presidential election.\u00a0 So, the madness continues unabated.<\/p>\n

But far from sanity returning, the madness is reaching new heights.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if the Wonderland characters have broken through to a new level where even they are shocked by what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

This week we were witness to the spectacle of the Washington Post declaring that their own new poll of over a thousand voters that showed Trump ahead of Biden by ten points (52 percent to 42 percent) couldn\u2019t possibly be true.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if the Mad Hatter asked his associates a question and then found the answer too crazy for even him to believe!<\/p>\n

Now don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean that those poll results mean anything about the Left losing control over the levers of power in Washington.\u00a0 Election fraud is now an exact science and the ballots for November 2024 are probably being printed up right now to save time.<\/p>\n

What I am saying is that the combination of banana republic political tactics and the incompetence that this administration has demonstrated with respect to energy policy, economic management, fiscal policy and foreign policy has shocked the American public.\u00a0 Combined with the obvious deterioration of Joe Biden\u2019s physical and mental abilities this has destroyed the country\u2019s confidence in his administration.\u00a0 I\u2019m not surprised by the poll\u2019s result.\u00a0 In fact, based on the panic that has set in, across the Democrat controlled media, I think this poll is being used to convince everyone on the Left that Biden must bow out of the 2024 race immediately.<\/p>\n

It has been opined by several people that I talk to, that the recent indictment of Senator Menendez of New Jersey for taking bribes is really a message to Biden that the FBI could easily turn on him if he doesn\u2019t drop out right away.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t sound impossible to me.\u00a0 Something drastic like this might be the only thing that could force Biden to drop out right away.\u00a0 And that would allow the Democrats the time needed to find primary candidates to replace him.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re still a year and more before the election.\u00a0 Based on what\u2019s going on with food and gas prices and the current state of the Ukraine War I don\u2019t think it\u2019s unreasonable to say that things may get much, much worse over the course of the next year.<\/p>\n

So, what will 2024 look like?<\/p>\n

The economy looks problematic.\u00a0 Inflation is stubbornly high and the only thing that could bring it down is an even worse prospect, recession.\u00a0 So, the administration will be blamed for the economic problems.\u00a0 And the Ukraine War looks to be headed into a slow grinding quagmire.\u00a0 And the runaway crime in the nation\u2019s major cities keeps getting more outrageous.\u00a0 Every week provides video of horrific violence or large-scale looting in the various downtowns.\u00a0 Add to this the investigations of Joe Biden on allegations of influence peddling associated with Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201cbusiness ventures\u201d and you have a perfect storm of voter discontent.<\/p>\n

Now none of this is news.\u00a0 And the people counting (and printing) the ballots don\u2019t have to worry about things like unpopularity of the candidate.\u00a0 They just have to make sure enough fake ballots are printed.\u00a0 But something new has been added to the mix.<\/p>\n

Cynicism has gotten the upper hand. \u00a0The majority of Independents and Republicans now say that 2020 was a fraud.\u00a0 That\u2019s a new thing.\u00a0 Most people now think they were misled by the government about COVID, the vaccines and the lockdowns.\u00a0 That\u2019s a new thing.\u00a0 A large majority of Americans think Joe Biden is a terrible president.\u00a0 That is new.\u00a0 A lot of people think the government is lying about the extent of inflation and the health of the economy.\u00a0 That\u2019s new.<\/p>\n

Pretty soon the majority of Americans will think that everything the government tells them is a lie.\u00a0 That\u2019s a disaster for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

This is all a new situation.\u00a0 For the most part, the American people have believed that the federal government was competent to carry out its duties.\u00a0 Social Security checks go out on time, the mail gets delivered and the armed forces protects us from foreign enemies.\u00a0 Well, the southern border is overflowing with narcotrafficantes, inflation is eating away at paychecks, the elections are fake and the FBI arrests grandmothers for protesting at school board meetings.<\/p>\n

The anger and frustration are growing.\u00a0 And if another presidential election gets stolen, I think we\u2019ll be into a different place where the old ways of doing things no longer pertain.\u00a0 Even the Mad Hatters in Washington will be afraid of what they see in that Looking Glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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