{"id":26338,"date":"2023-11-18T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26338"},"modified":"2023-11-17T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T02:24:09","slug":"the-ghost-of-america-yet-to-come-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/the-ghost-of-america-yet-to-come-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of America Yet to Come \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday in the first part of this exercise I extrapolated where all the awful policies and consequences of Democrat rule would lead.\u00a0 It was pretty much the train wreck scenario for our progressive trajectory.\u00a0 Is there any other path forward?\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

It would be highly unrealistic to imagine a version of the future where traditional values are easily restored to the country.\u00a0 That would be ignoring reality because the majority of young people living in this country are leftists.\u00a0 They believe in the woke orthodoxies and align with the agenda that the Democrats espouse.<\/p>\n

But it is true that the Biden administration has made a hash of the economy.\u00a0 Many of the young resent the lack of opportunities in this economy.\u00a0 And the horrific crime surging around the cities has even begun to frighten urban leftists.\u00a0 Especially since several of them have become high profile victims of random violence.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s see if we can spin a version of the future that doesn\u2019t make me want to emigrate.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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  1. Joe Biden will have to get his wish and remain the 2024 candidate despite his extreme unpopularity and obvious incompetence.<\/li>\n
  2. Donald Trump will have to defy all odds and not get thrown off the ballot by the two major parties.<\/li>\n
  3. Joe Biden\u2019s America has to descend three more turns down into the maelstrom its\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Maybe the mass layoffs at the banks and other corporations will start to cut into the Democrat support.\u00a0 And maybe Joe\u2019s transparent lies will just finally aggravate even the stupidest voters.<\/li>\n
  4. And finally, it will require that the Republicans will actually try to restrain voter fraud in the swing states like Georgia and Arizona.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If all these things happen it would be possible for a Republican Congress and President to be installed in 2025.\u00a0 And if all the promises and plans were put into effect, we could start to get the country back.\u00a0 The idea of replacing the bulk of the Justice Department sounds like a dream but I\u2019ve heard scenarios that might be workable.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Putting an end to the \u201cgreen agenda\u201d would drastically lower the cost of gasoline and heating oil.\u00a0 It would also lower the cost for almost everything else.\u00a0 Urban crime wouldn\u2019t disappear overnight but the feds could crack down on DA\u2019s that weren\u2019t prosecuting criminals.\u00a0 Many things could be turned around once the Democrats were out of the White House.<\/p>\n

    And now the splash of cold water to wake us up after that pipe dream.\u00a0 What do I think are the odds that all those things will happen and we escape the Part 1 fate?\u00a0 One in five?\u00a0 One in ten?\u00a0 Hard to say.\u00a0 But one thing\u2019s for sure.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t happen in 2024 it\u2019s hard to imagine it will ever happen.\u00a0 Stagflation finished off Jimmy Carter in 1980.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

    So, there\u2019s the happy version.\u00a0 Let me know what odds you\u2019d give for this version in the comments.\u00a0 Ho, ho, ho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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