The strategy of the Biden-Harris—er, make that the “Harris-Walz” campaign depends on people being dazzled by their theater of the absurd. Both candidates claim now to believe things they have spent the last decades attacking. But their supposed conversion is not the result of any heavenly illumination. It’s not like Saul falling to the ground on the road to Damascus. Rather, it is an abracadabra sort of conversion, i.e., no conversion at all, merely subterfuge. It’s an elaborate show we are being treated to, replete with fake polls showing Harris-Walz ahead in some swing states. . .
. . . Already, the façade is cracking as more and more devastating videos come to light about both candidates. The ridicule machine of Trump and his allies is only getting cranked up. More, much more, will be coming to an internet search near you.
As I say, this show is scheduled to run at least until November 5, maybe longer, depending on how much election fraud the Democrats are allowed to indulge in. But there will be occasional intermissions during which the deciding question will be pressed upon all of us theatergoers. Is this campaign about mood and emotion—is it, I mean, essentially a female campaign? Or is it a matter of competing policies, of things like peace, prosperity, individual liberty, and economic competitiveness?
I am betting that, when the Chardonnay is gone and paper masks no longer fit, every robust voter will decide that he wants to live in the real world of common sense, not the hot-house world of woke theatrics and socialist nostrums. In other words, I predict that Mencken’s diminishing wager about the American public will, at least in this one instance, turn out to be dead wrong.
I like and respect Roger Kimball, but I fear he may be wrong. Regardless of polling and the seeming displeasure of the Democrat base with they way Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants was ousted as well as the seeming revulsion at the overt anti-Semitism of the party not just vis a vis it's anti-israel rhetoric but the looking the other way at assaults on Jews across the country.
I had a rather sobering conversation with a dear friend of mine who asked what I thought Trump's chances were this time around. I really couldn't say. And here is a man who put two of his kids through Columbia university over 15 years ago now. Sadly, while they aren't insane radical lefties, they are liberal and even back then had to endure the brainwashing in order to graduate. Despite being revolted by their alma mater's descent into Nuremberg on the Upper West Side, their overall worldview remains tainted by their time on campus, despite their parents' being on our side of things.
At the end of our chat, as we looked at our world going up in flames, he just sighed and stated "it's their world now." It's deeply depressing to consider what we and future generations are going to have to endure before any kind of change can happen, if it can happen.
The best I can say is have faith and do what you can to maintain your sanity and perhaps make those around you at least start to see the light. Especially the children.
On those cheerful thoughts, have a good day.
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