When it rains the worms come out and for the political class the steady rain is promising to become a deluge. The latest bit of bad news in the forecast is the leaked opinion from the Supreme Court regarding Roe. There have been a lot of hot takes on the implications of the ruling but lost in the media churn is the fact that this is another sign that things are getting ugly in Washington. A civilized political class run by sober-minded adults would never have allowed this to happen.
The fact is, Washington is in chaos. The Biden administration is a balkanized mess with Joe Biden as an embarrassing figurehead. His handlers are running out of patience or ability to keep him from having “senior moments” in public. In announcing some new justification for seizing Russian property, Biden slipped into confusion and struggled to say words that may or may not have been in the script. He looked like a man who should be at an assisted living facility, not the White House.
These events are becoming common, which underscores the fact that he is not actually in charge of his administration. It is a balkanized cabal that lacks coordination with the other parts and is disconnected from the party. The old neocons are running the war in Ukraine, while packs of deranged social justice warriors push through nutty ideas like the ministry of disinformation. There is no one sheepherding economic policy, which has been abandoned in the face of record inflation.
This is why Biden’s popularity is about as low as it can go. Amazingly, there is always about 30% of respondents who will say they support the president. Bush bottomed out around this number and now Biden is doing the same. It means his party is in desperate shape for the midterms. The first midterm is never good for the party of the president, as buyer’s remorse sets in at this stage. Trump was a mess, but he presided over peace and prosperity, two things lost under Biden.
Then there is the brewing disaster in Europe. The happy talk coming from the foreign policy camp is just a way to keep the politicians from asking too many questions, but everyone senses a looming disaster. The hope was this would be a great distraction from the economic mess, but that has not worked. Now the economic cost of the war is starting to bite. America is looking at a summer of record fuel and food prices and you cannot hide five dollar gas with a Ukraine lapel pin.
The recent elections tell the story. J. D. Vance staked out a non-interventionist position on Ukraine, basically telling voters he does not care about it. No one wants to admit it, but this may be what pushed him over the top. Both parties have attacked this position, but it is looking like the winning hand with voters. For Democrats, who now own the war in Ukraine, this could turn out to be Vietnam all over again. They are the party championing a very unpopular war.
This is probably why Bernie Sanders is telling people he plans to run in 2024, despite Biden people saying Biden 2024 is not a punchline. A disaster in November and more Joe Biden senior moments in public means the lid blows off the whole thing. Everyone will be talking about what comes after Joe Biden. In politics, it pays to be the first at the scene of the disaster, so Sanders is making sure his name is going to be in stories discussing the demise of Joe Biden.
This also reflects the growing anger of the fringe crazies at their party. In the Trump years, the Democrats weaponized these people against the country. The riots, murders and mayhem were part of the color revolution. The crazies and the more legitimate fringe players in mainstream politics took this to mean that they would get a seat at the table, but that was never happening. Not even the hardest thumping Trump haters want these lunatics in their political camp.
That is why Elizabeth Warren was doing the angry chicken dance outside the Supreme Court when the draft opinion was leaked. Her choreographers did not have enough time to train her for the show, so she was left to wing it and the result was a comical reminder that the 19th amendment was a mistake. Warren is a craven simpleton, but she does reflect the growing frustration of the fringe-left in Washington. They are getting nothing and they are incredibly angry about it.
They think abortion can be their vehicle back to the main stage, but in reality, abortion does not matter all that much to people. Abortion was always a middle-class white woman issue. “The woman’s right to choose” was the cover for promoting eugenic policies in the black community. Now that middle-class white women are past childbearing age, it no longer has emotional appeal. Nonwhites, of course, have been hip to the reality of abortion for a long time.
Taken together, with the looming elections, it reflects a political class that no longer has a reason to exist. It is a collection of geezers trying to relive their salad days, along with hand-picked acolytes selected for their lack of intelligence. The old baby boomer politics, like the old baby boomers in charge, is breaking down. That is the crisis we are seeing in Washington. The old framework is no longer salient and no one has a clue as to what should replace it or even if it can be replaced.
This is also why politics has descended into information war. In business, when you do not have a new product or a new version of the existing product, you roll out a new marketing campaign instead. This is what has happened with politics. They have nothing to offer, so they rollout one media campaign after another. We are bombarded with an endless series of alleged crises so that we do not notice that the people in charge have no reason to be in charge.
There are, of course, long term trends that promise to make these short term problems look like a golden age. People do not live in the long term, so the next six months will be what occupies the minds of people. Given the condition of the political leaders and the mood of the country, they may want to think about putting those razor wire barriers back up and declaring martial law in the city. Just about every constituency has a reason to storm the city and demand a redress of grievances.
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Zman’s prologue to his coming book, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire with a forward by Pat Buchanan.
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“Now that middle-class white women are past childbearing age, it no longer has emotional appeal….”
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Hmmmmm. Ya think so, Z?
Now that you mention it… I am seeing the worst of the abortion hysteria coming from the old fat cat ladies, the howling ugly lesbians and the usual cast of pink haired morons that will probably never get laid in their lives.
The young normal people seem to be totally tuned out of it and completely indifferent. I suppose I could be wrong… I have kinda been pounded numb by all the ‘current things’. I have noticed too, that the quality of the ‘current things’ seems to be dropping exponentially. I don’t even get mad anymore. My response is now ‘Try to enforced that’ or ‘How do I subvert this and get around it?’ but usually it is now just derisive laughter.
We should have a pool. “What will it be next week?”
I will put my money on ‘Aliens’.
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I have talked about the trajectory of Boomer politics in the past. Probably should do something on it again. Think back to the main issues of the 1960’s for the Left. It was the war, college stuff and crotch issues. Things important to young people. In the 70’s this started to change as Boomers got into the work world, get married and buy homes. Reagan rode economic angst of the Boomers to the White House, while Democrats obsessed over education and daycare. In the 90’s the focus shifted to college affordability and health care. Boomers did not want to pay for their parent’s old age.
Today’s boomer feminist is late-60’s and her kids are middle-aged. The crotch is just not all that important to her or anyone she knows. The whore granddaughter has a trunk full of prophylactics in her dorm room. Sex among young whites is collapsing anyway, so unwanted pregnancy among young white women is at record lows. For the baby boomer, abortion resonates only as nostalgia, which is not good politics. Too many people thinking back to better days is bad news for the political class.
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This is a good point, the women most hysterical about overturning Roe are post menopausal. I dug into the abortion data on the CDC website yesterday. The total number of abortions has been dropping along with the birthrate. Almost 93% of abortions happen in the first trimester, meaning accepting the Mississippi 15 week ban would do almost nothing to reduce the number of abortions in the country. Bringing the restrictions in line with most of Europe would be a way to make the Democrats look like they made a reasonable compromise most of the voters would accept and would do almost nothing to reduce the number of abortions. As we have seen with other issues, they have lost control to insane zealots.
Given how easy it is to obtain birth control, there is really no excuse for the abortion level even being this high. We have a class of women in this country who are so undisciplined they are unable to remember to take a pill every morning.
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Yet continue to remember to get screwed every evening.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/j7njz2/the_betting_pool_monster_list_from_cabin_in_the/
The plot of the movie, “Cabin in the Woods,” is that the teens heading to the cabin are going to accidentally select one monster from a whole menu of possibilities – while the whole thing is managed by a shadowy government hell-squad. It’s a new group of teens every month, or whatever, so there is a betting pool and each division gets to place their bet on which monster will be selected.
Choices include werewolf, witches, sexy witches, angry molesting tree, and so on. Finance bet on werewolf, for example. Whole thing is genius and, near as I can tell, is exactly how our rulers are running things these days.
From Mars or Mexico?
“This is also why politics has descended into information war. In business, when you do not have a new product or a new version of the existing product, you roll out a new marketing campaign instead.”
Even if voting were to make a difference, assuming the Dems can’t rig the elections, what do the Dems have to fear if their opposition consists of the Pubs? And folks will say, “Who’s Bernie front running for this time?” Abortion could be an issue around which the millenials and post-millenials could rally. Hating on white men is still a good marketing strategy among this constitutency.
This sounds (and is) cynical but well-deserved cynicism. The thing to be said for cyniicsm is that it’s like a snowplow. The road will remain clear enough for a while so that normal traffic can thankfully go about its business.
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Do you really think abortion for boomer white ladies was getting rid of blacks? I have thought so, too, but my reasoning was purely anecdotal. When I was a little girl in the eighties my Reagan-loving, pro-life dad was having an argument with his high-school female friend who also happenes to be a.big volunteer at our city’s local Plannes Parenthood. When my dad asked her if she really thought it was acceptsble for our nice, beautiful (white) daughters to have abortions, she said that abortion is not for people “like us”, but for the blacks and Mexicans. I do wonder who is actually having abortions in the 70s versus today. I presume it was heavily white early on but now that it is POC, but I do not know.
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I think the feminist mythology of abortion was a useful coping mechanism. It is a good example of the power of being for something versus against something. Abortion was always about eugenics. When sold as such, it did not do well, but when sold as female empowerment, it became a mass movement.
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Abortion was probably about eugenics for the elite. For white women an abortion was an opportunity to unburden themselves of the child of a man who had lower status than she feels she deserves.
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg almost came out and said once, although I think she used the term “undesirables.” Margaret Sanger was open about it, which is why Planned Parenthood has had to distance themselves from her. It isn’t just blacks, they don’t want working class whites reproducing either. According to 2019 data, blacks had 38% of abortions compared to 33% for whites and 21% for those true social conservatives the Hispanics. This data is interesting, it appears the typical woman to get an abortion is a childless woman in her 20s. That is a sign of an unhealthy society.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm
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Elizabeth Warren was terrible. She had that old lady, thin, voice with an old lady bent walk and old lady skinny, angry, flailing arms. The footage of an aide holding her arm while she walks over the curb also doesn’t help.
It’s also true that their lackeys are selected for their stupidity. Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, being one of the more obvious examples. My guess is that this is because, as in the tv game, Survivor, as you get close to the end of the game, you want to make sure only the weakest and stupidest players stick around. The very old people running things are trying to milk the last few billion before they shuffle off to Hell, and you can’t very well do that if you keep competent people around.
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I don’t think it is a money grab. I have seen this in the work world. Retirement is terrifying to the baby boomer generation because of how youth culture loomed over their development. I really think what we are seeing with these geezers is a refusal to accept the reality of age.
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I had a conversation with a Boomer who should retire about that earlier this year. He saw hanging onto work as what he had to live for, in his words if he retired, he would go home, get sloppy and die.
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What an absolute loser that Boomer must be. What sort of sad, pathetic person can’t find something to stay busy with after retiring. Just off the top of my head: fly fishing, gardening, wood work, travel…
Hell, my father retired and became a competitive body-builder.
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The gerontacracy is not just Boomers which, their being the elders, should be the norm at this stage. Biden, Pelosi, Sanders and some others leading this disaster are pre boomers which in turn shows how thin the Democratic bench is these days. the squad, mayor homosexual and other crazies and weirdos are what is waiting in line to take over. Only Newsom would be recognizable as a normal candidate 30 years ago.
Expanding on what Barnard said Z, how much of this is like the athlete, actor, or singer who holds on forever because “Outside of this, what’s left?”
You’re absolutely right that if these were normal people, they’d hit their 60s, and begin planning on downshifting, putting their feet up, and moving away from the cares of the world. Don’t get me wrong, I know and knew people who work because it’s part of their “life force”. My best friend’s late father worked daily, at a reduced number of hours a day, into his 80s. I once asked him why he kept working and with his heavily Greek accent answered “And what am I gonna do? Sit and wait to die?”
But even then his father went home after his four or five hour shift and tended to his garden, doted on his grandchildren, listened to some sports, and enjoyed a sip of Ouzo.
The folks in power LOVE the power (in the same way entertainers and athletes LOVE the adulation) and are afraid of giving it up. Because for them, they ARE afraid they will sit around and wait to die.
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Agreed. This isn’t about the money. These people fear retirement because, in their mind, it means death.
The past few months have been like a terrible reunion show. First a conflict with Russia and now Roe. But like all reunion shows, it’s sad to watch. Everyone just looks old and silly playing the same roles as they did when they were younger, and the jokes are lame and dated.
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Warren is a good example of how the world of politics is the reverse of the real world. In the real world, Warren is that tiresome busybody everyone avoids. In politics, she is a member of the elite.
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“Elizabeth Warren was terrible. She had that old lady, thin, voice with an old lady bent walk and old lady skinny, angry, flailing arms. The footage of an aide holding her arm while she walks over the curb also doesn’t help.”
Senator Auntie Karen from Taxachusettes.
“Warren is a craven simpleton.”
Commentary like this is why I visit Z’s site. I did laugh out loud reading this. Anybody who grifts on being an American Indian and is stupid enough to get pulled into a trap by Donald Trump that exposes her grift deserves ALL the derision we can send her way.
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And what was the consequence for her decades of fraud and lying?
Like she cares. She gets the invites to the Masters’ shin digs and the TV time where she gets to harangue normal people from the bitterness of her shriveled soul.
At the same time she gets to line her and her family’s pockets.
as an aside, did anyone else notice the Biden ringer used at the journalism dinner and roast? The moment I saw “Biden” on screen, I said to myself, that’s not Biden, his lower jaw is too narrow, he has different teeth, the earlobe patterns are different, and his head is a different shape, also he was waaayy too alert.
on another note, since the abortion debacle is merely the same old red rag dusted off and waved, at this point, I simply don’t care any longer. I received and immediately shredded my local ballot, because even if I did vote, I have no control over the decisions any elected official would make. They will either help or harm according to their lights.
and finally, we had our first example of Hispanic gang tagging, 8 miles outside of a small town. Happy Cinco de Mayo..
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Elizabeth Warren and Jeb! are the same person. Have you ever seen the two of them in the same place at the same time, just look at that face, it’s the same person
Yes, yes, to all of this. And it’s a good thing!
Muddle-through has been killing us in slow motion for several decades now and the slow descent to the bottom means that it will take longer and be deeper as a result. And the longer it takes, the higher the probability that a serious amount of destruction and death will be left in its wake. For example, when the smoke clears in Ukraine, the casualty toll will likely number in the hundreds of thousands dead or seriously wounded, the economy will have fully collapsed, and recovery will take decades or more. And if the shit stain is not wiped away, it will all happen again.
And so, the collapse is the cure. This does two important things. First, real hardship returns and people are forced to wake up, roll up their sleeves, and both work and fight for their existence. In the main, the strong will survive and the weak probably not. Piss & moan if you must, but it can be no other way.
Second, and most importantly, the collapse will necessarily create a fog of chaos and confusion that is essential to releasing the antibodies and implementing the cure. We don’t need to follow the blueprint of Ukraine and pit white guys against each other in mutual slaughter that only benefits the Cloud People. We can, and should, focus on the disease cells and defecate them from the host organism. You cannot lead a healthy life without defecation. It’s natural, it’s essential, and it’s way overdue.
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If America has any sacred principles left, it’s that the only solution to losing a war is to start another one as soon as possible.
The Boomers are Sampson Option-ing the country. The Covid thing was the first stage of this. Social Security becoming insolvent and Medicare becoming Medicaid will be the last. They will not go quietly into this good night.
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Tucker has an interesting economist on his streaming channel for an interview, basically what I hear him saying is that we are trying the same game plan as shortly after WW2 when we had a huge defect, run it down by using inflation. The stealing of Russian assets and the Ukraine war are complicates things.
The other thing that complicates things but not mentioned is that the people running the ship on the political side are no longer the people of 1946 to1952 but instead look more and more like a Jim Jones cult.
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Yep, it’s called Financial Repression. Let inflation run hot while holding interest rates well below inflation. Because of inflation, nominal GDP increases quickly, bringing down debt to GDP, assuming you keep deficits well below nominal GDP growth.
It worked in the 40s and early 50s, but the US had several things going for it then that it doesn’t now, such as:
1. Very strong real economic growth. (Real, i.e., above inflation, GDP growth has only been ~2% annual for the past decade or so.)
2. Capital controls
3. Very low consumer and business debt
4. Politicians that kept the budget reasonably balanced
5. Strong demographics
6. Very low entitlement obligations
Today, you have low growth, capital that can flow anywhere, structurally high deficits due to entitlements and terrible demographics. The govt will not be able to impose financial repression. Indeed, they tried and it’s already failed.
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That is exactly what was discussed minus why it probably will not work. This works into the essay today, the childishness and chaos in our leadership class is going to compound our problems.
Outstanding commentary. I’ve had some interesting conversations in the last couple weeks with lefties (Gen X) who are starting to break out of the cognitive dissonance fog. Things are just too chaotic and weird for above average intelligence people with little free time to research and question the dominant narrative to effectively defend it. Hopefully the worm is starting to turn. Although my tax accountant of all people just added pronouns to her emails so it could just be the inevitable schism coming into focus.
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My most tinfoil hat belief is that it really is Obama and his wrecking crew running a third term behind the scenes, and much of the confusion and crossed wires on just about everything is not being able to do it openly.
Looks like it’s going to be Cloward-Piven after all, and maybe by sheer accident.
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Roe is the latest hysteria to gin up the freaks and lunatics, but I doubt it’ll have any sticking power. Covid is fading, though not entirely – the cdc is trying to keep the f-ing mask mandate in place in perpetuity and some clown in Rhode Island has introduced mandatory vax legislation for the state. I figure most normal people are pretty much sick of it now.
I see hardly anything on Ukraine lately – again most people don’t give a s***, unfortunately we will have to live with the economic backlash from DC’s dips*** Russian sanctions.
Speaking of the economy, it’s never been seemingly more fake and gay, totally controlled by the fed and infinite money printing – everything just seems like a scam and a sham. Corporations appear to care more about virtue signaling and woke social issues than productivity and profit – joggers in virtually every damn commercial for example.
Finally, the idea that 30% or so of the population believes that a dementia addled geezer is effectively running the show just puts a stamp on how far this (former) country has fallen.
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Abortion for the left is passe in the face of racial justice and gender ideology. It will not affect most of the young and stinks a the battle of a previous generation.
For the right, this could get more interesting, and just depends on whether they rest on their laurels at the victory, or start to play offense. Though gay marriage is now supported by a clear majority, it’s shocking how fast this can change with an aggressive and fanatical base. Especially now that right-wing media beginning to lose their grasp on gatekeeping.
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Just about every constituency has a reason to storm the city and demand a redress of grievances.
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Had that thought with the Pussy Hat Brigade raging about how the establishment should be put to the sword. “Let me open the door for you” was what came to mind..
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> . In business, when you do not have a new product or a new version of the existing product, you roll out a new marketing campaign instead. This is what has happened with politics.
They can’t even do Marketing right. Imagine how out of touch you have to be to brand your enemies “Ultra-Maga” like Biden did in that press conference. It’s even better than the Dark-Maga meme running around in dissident circles.
The last thing you want to do is galvanize and make your enemies feel powerful, and that’s what the elites are doing with their hilarious rhetoric.
What does the popular theory say? Every 80 years or so there’s a crisis that wipes out the old arrangement and brings in the new. Here we are, safe to say.
Not sure it must be so, but letting things fester and pop seems to be the American Way.
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“Everyone will be talking about what comes after Joe Biden. In politics, it pays to be the first at the scene of the disaster, so Sanders is making sure his name is going to be in stories discussing the demise of Joe Biden.”
If you need someone to be first at the scene of a disaster, Bernie’s your man! ™
So Z (or anybody else), what’s your take on Bernie “Yes, I’m STILL here” Sanders? I originally thought he was running the Upton Sinclair strategy from the 1934 California Gubernatorial election (Dyed-in-the-wool Socialist joins Democratic party and wins party nomination) and didn’t see the warning signs of what happened to poor old Upton (Spoiler alert: He lost the general election because even a Leftie like FDR wouldn’t touch him and offer endorsements). But now I wonder:
– Is he too stupid to see he’s “controlled opposition” and the Dems will cheat him out of the nomination every time he goes for it, a la Charlie Brown winding up to kick the football Lucy is holding?
– Is he craven enough he needs another house and will allow himself to be bought off?
I don’t get this guy. Deep down, he’s gotta know nobody is going to let him win. Or maybe he doesn’t care and as long as he gets some cash, he’s good. Hey, playing the patsy to take a dive can be a good source of income.
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I vote #2. Bernie is just the type to be bought off by a “dacha on the Black Sea”
I saw the ad twice where they tried to hit Vance for his Ukraine comments. I never it saw it again. It must have polled horribly.
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Abortion is an interesting topic. I’ve never been super pro life which I take alot of heat for from the right. In a sane society I don’t really see an early trimester abortion as a problem (ie. Stable married couple with 3 kids, has an accidental pregnancy, and gets an abortion at 8 weeks).
Of course in our society, it’s become a disaster among everything else. But I’d argue that our sexually liberal culture, the collapse of the family, and collapse of religion is far worse than legal abortion. Also the promotion of abortion as a “good thing” and even empowering, rather than a “sort of shameful thing that is sometimes for the greater good” is sickening. The Amish have an abortion rate of ~0, despite living in the same country as everyone else. Their culture > laws.
The triggering of insane feminists will be funny and there might be more riots this summer. It’s another disaster for the ruling class. But I don’t expect abortion laws to affect the overall trajectory of society very much. The culture is still rotten, smarter/wealthier people will just travel to places where it’s legal.
In a way this is more proof on demographics. Like it or not, every other “civilized” first world country has full access to abortions. The USA, now demographically a 2nd world country, has 2nd world style abortion laws – not fully legal, not really hard to get one if you want one. Except more changes in this direction as the ruling elite loses their ability to govern, especially against motivated higher iq groups like evangelical Christian pro lifers.
“The old framework is no longer salient and no one has a clue as to what should replace it or even if it can be replaced.”
This.
Part of the reason why our elite keep recycling old issues is because they’re Boomers who don’t want to let go, but the other reason is that no one wants to face the realities and problems of what America is becoming and will be soon.
The US is a divided, broke fading empire. The country is comprised of various peoples who not connected by culture, politics nor blood. Our elite adhere to an ideology that is centered on hatred the largest and most productive race. Whites will increasingly find themselves not just the target of annoying harpies but govt power as non-whites gain political office.
No one wants to face what’s coming because it was cause massive conflict. Even liberal whites will not be happy with President Abrams demands to put black people in white neighborhoods. The usual suspects will not be happy with Secretary of State AOC championing the Palestinians. Older whites will not be happy with entitlement reform comprised on cutting the Social Security of “privileged” groups in half. Etc., etc., etc.
Future political battles will reflect a racially, culturally divided country that will be unable to paper over those difference with borrowed money.
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“Future political battles will reflect a racially, culturally divided country … .”
The country will break apart. Its present form will not last. A “union” (so called) that is held together at gunpoint (since 1865) is no union at all. It is an abusive relationship that the abused partner will leave at the first real opportunity.
In fact, the country has already broken apart. It remains now only to draw new maps.
There was never a time when Massachusetts and South Carolina were going to be subject to the same government as a *permanent* arrangement.
” … while packs of deranged social justice warriors push through nutty ideas like the ministry of disinformation.”
Speaking of which, this:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/oregon-schools-menstrual-products-for-boys
Also, all forms of animal protein are being withdrawn. Last week it was chicken. Now this:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/japanese-encephalitis-detected-in-30-nsw-piggeries-pork-supply-set-to-plunge/ar-AAWowb1?ocid=st
Yeah. “Piggeries.” Who knew? Will we now see doggeries and catteries? Will nurseries mean a place where nurses are slaughtered?
We are SO doomed.
There is a certain “decline of Rome” quality to all this over which I cannot help but worry. Even desiccated and corrupt institutions can be useful as the crumbling mortar loosely binding a society in decline, or at least arresting the pace of decay.
Most bemusing is the Alanis-like irony involved: one day the Court are heroes for giving the loonies gay marriage; the next day the Court should be torched for messing with the holy vajajay. And on top of it all, “our Democracy” produced the abortion laws in the first place!
The problem is that “our Institutions” in “our Democracy” cannot contain the feral cat of the libDem/Globo project. Ultimately, the Warrens of the world will just have to operate outside the boundaries of institutions to achieve their goals because they cannot be trashed fast enough. Then things get interesting.
The cognitive dissonance involved bewilders everyone. Your holy “Institutions” produced Joe Biden; Roe/Obergfell and a litany of bizarre, undemocratic outcomes, now a reversal!!; Iraq/Afghanistan/Ukraine, $6/gas etc. The last griller standing will be the only person paying attention to our Institutions. The action will have moved on to more interesting spheres.
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They have plenty on offer: Expanding the SC; federalizing elections on a “y’all come” basis; universal basic income; banning the use of fossil fuels. But the money boys don’t want to hear it, at least at the present time. It might be interesting to give the electorate an up-or-down vote on these things. In an un-rigged election (which is something we’ll never again see at the federal level).
The boomers I know are increasingly bewildered. They are also nearing exhaustion, physically and psychologically.
I don’t know how you reach these people, but I am certain that it is a bad idea to stop trying.
But I have stopped telling them that this is only the beginning. They tend not to respond well to that.
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I barely see old people out in public anymore. When I do, they are scurrying around masked up, looking thin, frail, terrified, angry, and depressed.
Live by the TV, die by the TV, I guess. The people unable to unplug from the TV/MSM/ruling class brainwaves will be the worst off. They might even be worse off than reality – just go for a walk and life is still good, if you don’t think about everything around us – you still need to enjoy life.
Looks like the collapse came before the Boomers passed, which is sooner than we expected.
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For those of a certain age – E Warren is Gladys Kravitz
“This is probably why Bernie Sanders is telling people he plans to run in 2024, despite Biden people saying Biden 2024 is not a punchline.”
No, its not a punchline. Its a punch bowl. With a really big turd floating in it.
Anyway, Bernie is no problem for anyone. Everyone already knows his price is another vacation home, preferably ocean front property.