The Sigh Heard ‘Round The World
Come November 3rd (or 4th or 5th or 10th), we will have election results. It looks like the only remaining question is whether Biden wins or wins big. The sigh of relief from the Great and Good (G&G) around the world will perhaps create its own Category 3 windstorm. The cancer in the body politic will have been removed!
Sorry to say, the relief will be misplaced. Trump will go back to being a sleazy promoter and spend the rest of his life in court fending off zealous prosecutors. Our problems will not have disappeared.
Hackers in Iran, North Korea, China and Russia will still be working 24/7 to create chaos, steal money and appropriate intellectual property.
Islamic militants will still be working to revive the Caliphate and kill the infidels (that would be you and me).
Most of the population of Central America (including members of the drug gangs that terrorize them) will come across the border if they get a chance.
Our productivity growth is stagnating due to an aging demographic. The victorious Progressives will almost certainly make the problem worse with a host of Nanny State regulations.
The recession won’t be over. Hundreds of thousands of businesses, maybe millions, have tanked, never to return. The tsunami of defaults, evictions, foreclosures and bankruptcies has just begun. The process will take many painful months to work itself out.
Our national debt is soaring at a staggering pace. G&G aren’t even discussing the problem. They’ve invented a smoke screed, Modern Monetary Theory, to rationalize it away.
The only two things — nuclear power and carbon sequestration — that would actually move the dial on the highly touted climate crisis aren’t even on the table for discussion.
The media has forgotten how to do critical analysis. They’ve become cheerleaders. The democratic process is threatened as a result.
If, as I expect, the Progressives take over the Biden administration and work their agenda, the culture war will intensify. The Deplorables may be a minority, but they are a large minority. I suspect they will be energized.
The cold, hard fact is that Trump is not the problem; he is a symptom. The political class has systematically failed to address the problems we face. Trump’s election was a response to that failure. His departure won’t cure the failure.
