Degringolade: noun, a rapid decline or deterioration (as in strength, position, or condition); downfall.
Opinion polls in October show the Democrats are on the cusp of one-party rule, as in California. Are Americans so hot for a recap of the 1970’s? I know that it’s a 50-year-old saga but it should reside in the memories of a sufficient number of people to have some influence on younger relations. Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be true.
The ingredients for a replay are present. A poorly informed public seems ready to reregulate the economy, retax the population (hypothetically, the rich), pursue disastrous social engineering crusades, adopt a near-totalitarian refashioning of life in the quest for a fantasy future that was drawn up by non-scientists who mangle science for ideological ends, and gargantuan fiscal and monetary policies that will financially grease the skids for the degringolade.
To vote Democrat is a vote for the degringolade. To ignore what a person says in the hope that they won’t do it is the height of folly. Their announced positions are frightening. Medicare for All is socialism for your healthcare. The Green New Deal is totalitarian central planning. Ending fracking is one part of the campaign to kill fossil fuels and destroy supply chains which will escalate the price of everything. Tax increases ostensibly on the rich will atrophy investment capital, the mother’s milk of an economy and your children’s future. “Reimagining” policing is playing with fire since it will result in more miscreants on your streets, fewer repercussions for misbehavior, fewer armed police officers and more poorly-educated social workers dabbling in the mystical arts of human psychology – bottom line: neither you nor your property will be safe. Free college is a budget-busting escapade to produce more ill-informed people with degrees. The codification of infanticide will become a legal fact, at taxpayer expense. Forget about a border meaning anything. Even “modified” doses of any or all of this is the feeding of poison at only a slightly slower drip rate.
To chisel all of the above in granite, your constitutional republic will be refashioned to make the entire program a permanent end-state. With the emasculation of the Electoral College, red states will be neutered and all of us will be governed by the ignorant follies emanating from the big cities and the coasts. Once in power, the Democrats will gerrymander the Senate’s rules while packing the body with four more sure-Democrat seats, in addition to packing the Supreme Court. The courts as neutral arbiters in the application of the laws will cease.
If you expect the midterm elections to provide a corrective, you’re going to be very disappointed. The above changes will reduce the impact of any negative blowback after the Democrats have already been in power for two years to implement the revolution. All that California has come to represent will be a national experience.
To see where we are heading, we need to go back to the 20th century and relearn the fact that history is a battle of ideas. Those ideas take us in different directions and have real world consequences. This fact is a central theme of the accompanying video, “Commanding Heights: The Battle of Ideas”. The program appeared on PBS in the early 2000’s, and while it begins with a focus on 9/11 and globalization, it centers on a century-long debate between free markets and government control of the economy. Two individuals take center stage: John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.
Keynes will become the only true prophet for all things economic to Democrats and British Labourites. Hayek won’t achieve his due till he wins the Nobel prize for economics in the late 1970’s and his ideas are adopted by insurgent Republicans and Tories who would be led by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. They would end the economic mess left by Keynes and his political handlers mostly in the Democratic and Labour Parties.
Grab a cup of coffee, take some time (a couple of hours), and educate yourself on the real stakes in this election. Don’t go to the polls with only Trump in mind. The candidates carry with them much more than personalities. They also bring a set of programs overlaying a contentious philosophy that will have serious effects on you and generations thereafter.
Please take a look before you mark your ballot.
RogerG
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