Dear Democrats,
Four years ago, you took the keys to the family car. Did you drive it with care and respect?
No. You got high as a kite and took it for a crazy, reckless joyride, without any consideration for the damage you were causing.
From bumper to bumper – border security, immigration, foreign policy, military planning, economic strategy, energy independence, freedom of speech, crime, equal application of the law, social cohesion, respect for fundamental rights, and so much more – you turned that family car into into a smoking, battered wreck.
We spent generations building a wonderful home for you, and this is how you repay us? All you seem to care about is having sex, avoiding responsibility, and spending our money: the money we need for paying our bills, and for groceries, and clothes, and fuel. And you’ve even been taking our money and giving it away to all your friends, and to all sorts of strangers that you’ve been letting into our house. And when we’ve tried to talk to you about it, all you do is call us horrible names, and slam the door in our faces.
Also: you seem to think the world owes everyone a good living, just for existing. (Hint: it doesn’t.)
So: enough is enough. We’re terribly disappointed in you, and now we’re taking the keys away. And of course you’re having a tantrum, just like the spoiled children you are.
Well, too bad. We don’t want to hear it. There’s nobody to blame here but you. Right now you need to go to your room, and think about what you’ve done. You can come down and join us at the table when you’re ready to act your age.
– America
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Nothing for me to add. Malcolm, can you detect any kind of local mood where you are?
Excellent writing/ right-on analysis.
Well so much for the Taylor Swifts/ Liz and Dicks Cheney & et als endorsements.
A Dem pal (not “Lefty”) gotten into some discussion with as I was paying my water bill via *seemed keen on my opinions as to ‘how her *experts could’ve been so stupid’ [her wording] and so after some few very shallow questioning I offered her my 2¢.
Arkansas which we understand (well, long time readers here anyway) to be my residence state is home to some really big multinationals: Walmart, Tysons, (Bill Gates is Arkansas’ biggest private holder of this state’s privately held crops acreage – mostly rice type land) &c.
So my pal – paraphrasing – asks “What explains how come *our Hispanics and Blacks would [dare to?] vote the way they apparently did? And what of the 18 – 25 ages demographic?”
And I say “______, I have 2000+ people in my phone’s contact list at least a hundred or so of whom are black, a smaller number of [Hispanics] I admit, but, How many non-whites do you regularly speak with _______ ?”
Some ‘hem hawing’ [Arkianese expression meaning essentially ‘non-committal muttering’].
And so I lit onto my best [inadequately considered] shot:
THE PEOPLE most affected by the Covid measures/mandates simply didn’t have the luxury of being able ‘to Zoom into their workplaces’ and collect on the government dime to be remote.
INDEED, these were the very folks declared ‘essential workers’ – ie; healthcare floorwalkers, Walmart and Tyson’s non-execs, meat and generally foods production people. So right there we’ve got a big bunch of people, despite the risks the Anthony Fauci’s of the world keep dictating to that, they can’t even attend church to pray ‘God help us.’
AND THEN hamburger and gasoline suddenly goes up 300%.
THE GOVERNMENT’S solace? “This inflation is transitory!”
______ need I go on?”
Ahoy Malcolm!
Aware you’re out of the country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC1oso2CXnI
(Please don’t tell Nina who’s responsible for your misdirection.)
Via John Batchelor:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-endarkenment
JK, good find.
Thanks, JK – glad to see that Batchelor picked that up.
His podcast is in two parts, here and here (about 30 minutes in all).