I\u2019ve read article after article by economists and lefty pundits screaming from the rooftops that the economy is phenomenally good.\u00a0 It\u2019s so good that only a partisan hack would deny that things are so great that we should skip the election and Joe Biden should be re-elected by acclamation right now.\u00a0 Chris Hayes had a video in which by turns he was pugnaciously certain that very soon all the gloom and doomers would come around, followed by angrily exasperated that so many people keep expressing dissatisfaction in Biden job satisfaction polls.\u00a0 \u201cWho are these Putin stooges?\u201d he seems to imply.\u00a0 \u201cHow dare they complain about this incredible \u201call boats floating\u201d Biden high tide?\u201d<\/p>\n
The last guy I read seemed to land on the idea that since the country is riven by dissent and partisan hatred that this is producing a climate of uncertainty that, in turn, leads to unhappiness with the economy and everything else.\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting that partisan hatred is the problem; not streets full of homeless squatters and rampant crime.\u00a0 That\u2019s just a rumor.<\/p>\n
Now, all of this is just the political theater that goes on in a presidential election year.\u00a0 When a Republican is the incumbent the media tells us the world is coming to an end.\u00a0 And when the incumbent is a Dem then all they can say is that this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, God is in his heaven and all\u2019s right with the world.\u00a0 Huzzah!<\/p>\n
And usually a goodly number of \u201cmoderates\u201d will read these things and say, \u201cHey, these are smart guys.\u00a0 This must be true.\u201d<\/p>\n
But not this time.<\/p>\n
There is a very perceptible change in the mood of the country.\u00a0 Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating has been flirting with 30%.\u00a0 That\u2019s disastrous.\u00a0 Now whenever that number is approached the Dems contract with one of the pliable polling companies to come up with a number closer to 40%.\u00a0 And no one believes it, but if they do this a few times, it nudges the Real Clear Politics average safely away from the low 30\u2019s.\u00a0 But as I say, no one believes it.\u00a0 The changes to the cost of living; food, shelter, fuel and general items has been disastrous for anyone not in the upper, upper middle class.\u00a0 And for young people hoping to buy a home and start a family it\u2019s apocalyptic.\u00a0 Everywhere you look you see videos of despairing young people saying they had to give up their apartments and sometimes jobs because they can\u2019t afford to live in the cities.\u00a0 And young people have been Biden\u2019s and the Democrats\u2019 most reliable voters.\u00a0 So, there\u2019s no doubt about why this wonderful economy hasn\u2019t been wowing the people being polled.<\/p>\n
Okay, so what?<\/p>\n
So, nothing maybe.\u00a0 We know the Democrats can fabricate an enormous number of additional votes by fortifying democracy in urban centers like Philadelphia, Madison, Atlanta and Detroit.\u00a0 Chances are that\u2019s what they\u2019ll do in November.\u00a0 After a week or two of discovering bags of votes in the most unlikely places, they\u2019ll wheel old Scranton Joe Biden out for his acceptance speech and Washington DC will get back to business as usual.\u00a0 So that 30% approval rating might seem to have no practical meaning for us.<\/p>\n
And in a sense, it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 No one is going to storm the Capitol or the White House.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen what happens to those people.\u00a0 They\u2019re sent to the gulag.\u00a0 Nope, things are locked down.<\/p>\n
And yet.<\/p>\n
This is a different country.\u00a0 Nobody believes the narrative any more.\u00a0 Even the kids are waking up.\u00a0 Everything is fake.\u00a0 And that knowledge and that way of looking at the world will change the way this country performs.\u00a0 We are becoming a low trust society (at least concerning the federal government and the blue states and cities).\u00a0 And that changes things like armed forces enlistment and what kind of charities get supported and what organizations people volunteer for.\u00a0 And it will have a huge impact on where people go to live.\u00a0 The exodus from California and New York is just the beginning.\u00a0 All of the states that have pushed the pediatric transgender \u201caffirming treatment\u201d will find that people with kids will think twice before moving there.\u00a0 And all of the cities that now suffer from endemic theft and violence won\u2019t be seeing much in the way of new residents (except of course for illegal immigrants looking for the expensive benefits of sanctuary).<\/p>\n
So, a lot is going to change.\u00a0 In fact, a lot has already changed because it had to.\u00a0 The less stupid or less greedy Republican lawmakers already realized that the forever war grift no longer commands the reflexive patriotic approval.\u00a0 Mike Johnson understands that even if Mitch McConnell is too ossified to see it.<\/p>\n
So, things are going to be bad for Dementia Joe.\u00a0 And that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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