The Democratic Party isn’t winning the presidency lately. I’m going to put a language warning right here. Sometimes, a vulgar word or words is the clearest way to say something.
Donald Trump has been described as a carnival barker. I happen to think that is an insult to carnival barkers. He’s a self-involved amoral beast who was born leading off of third base. The only real difference between Bernie Madoff and Donald Trump is that Madoff went broke. If you have money—even if you borrowed it—you don’t have to be bound by anything, and this man isn’t.
That said, I don’t believe a whole bunch of left-wing garbage, and most people don’t.
Trump is a bullshitter, when he’s not doing something awful or illegal. But if you think about who votes in America, it’s probably a guy about 55, white, named Steve or Ron or Jim. That’s your median voter. I am not him; Tom Darrow and I are too throughly Christian to be the median voter. Most Americans identify as Christian, but Jim’s not a disciple, you see. His wife makes him go to Inoffensive White Community Church on occasion. Definitely Christmas and Easter.
Let’s take a pause.
What about the Democrats? Well, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the obvious discrediting of Marxist experiments still going on killed the economic aspects of the far Left here. So what does the far Left do? Focus on race and sexuality. If you can make a critical mass of people desperately unhappy, they won’t vote Republican, and they will convince themselves that the cosmetic changes to this capitalist project favored by mainstream Democrats are basically the same thing. The academy keeps the far Left going. The people on top of it promise the opportunity for others to get there through what’s left of the liberal arts. Say the right jargon, read the right books, presto, you’re Dr. Whoever, eventually insulated from any economic disasters that could happen if a True Believer screws something up. Then again, the Inner Party doesn’t believe their own bullshit; they just used it to get where they are. All these professors are usually monogamously married, unless they are vanilla gay. This will probably tick people off, but think about how fast academic jargon from liberal arts or social science (BTW, not science) gets into the mouth of the Democratic nominee. Why are they so social media savvy? Because young smart kids are the next generation of people to take those professor spots. And that’s why AOC and Mamdani and whoever else can say the word “socialist” without fear. If they weren’t ruling, they could run on the treadmill of academia if they had to. They’ll be rich and insulated even more than the academics.
Joe Biden has been legit elderly for some time now, but he’s always been a bullshitter. Legit blue collar at some point, but rich for decades as a politician. He was able to beat the Bullshitter-in-Chief by winning back just enough white men to offset the non-college white (and others) revolt of Trump. It probably was the worst four years in US presidential history from 2017 to 2021. Even Nixon and James Buchanan would be like, “Dude, get it together!” If we get really lucky, those men and women will be the “yuppies” of a new Republican Party. If we’re doomed, we’ll have violent social chaos between incels, racist bigots, and Marxist True Believers.
Women make up almost 60 percent of people graduating college. Of course they are getting in on the academic far Left game. Academic feminism serves that game. True flourishing of women worldwide has to be done elsewhere, by others. There might be some unwitting participants, like say, liberal ex-evangelicals. But that’s why they don’t know about the failures of Marxism-Leninism; they were being born when it collapsed at best. They grew up in a world where all that is in a book. And they spent a huge chunk of time at church camp. They might eventually listen to non-white moderates and conservatives, but right now they’re spouting Marxist jargon and bullshit, and generalizing it to all non-whites. How could they do otherwise? Not going to college was unfathomable.
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