Circular Reasoning in Word and Deed
Democrats will never accept that our nation was designed to operate without government intervention.
For the past several days, I’ve had the 1971 song “Signs” by the Five Man Electrical Band stuck in my head for some reason. This chorus of this particular earworm from the waning 60s’ protest ethos went like this:
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
In a way, that song is relevant today because there signs are everywhere.
The complete puzzlement of the Democrats as to why things are the way the are is them missing the signs. Their “confusion” is based in the arrogant ignorance of the role of government in switching the US economy from go to slow.
A large portion of their blindness is rooted in the circular reasoning that goes something like this: “We are Democrats because we are right, and we are right because we are Democrats.” The doubling down in the wake of the Virginia election results certainly indicates they have no capacity for self-reflection or self-correction. The reason they lost is the white supremacists convinced everybody that CRT exists - even though it doesn’t and you are a racist to oppose it anyway and the Virginians love them some white ignorance and supremacy - even though they voted for a Lt. Governor who is a black, Jamaican born, Marine veteran, mom of three.
To them, government is a necessary force that can only be a positive (as they define "positive"), and to be positive, it must act - promoting some things, prohibiting others - for the good of the people, of course. There is nothing the government cannot do and nothing forbidden to it. The answer is never to just do nothing and let things self-correct, they always call for more cowbell.
Biden's answer to a slowdown caused by Democrat led lockdowns is, of course, not to just stop the regulations inhibiting the economy, it is to keep the economy on ice while trying to fill the gap with trillions in government spending.
Goddess Gaia forbid people find out a capitalist economy can run without government guidance or intervention.
If our economy resembles that of Obama's final term, it is because that is what the Biden team understands, so they are doing everything within their power to return us all to the thrilling days of yesteryear - featuring $5 a gallon gas, stagnant economic growth, soaring public debt and emboldened foreign enemies.
Same unworkable economic, domestic and foreign policies, same attitudes - because it is mostly the same people who failed the last time.
In the mind of the Democrat planners, government never fails, failure only happens when people fail to follow the dictates of the government.
Let's go, Brandon.