There is a reason I believe we are winning and will win - and it has little to do with the strength of the Republican message, because almost 60 days out, I'll be damned if I can tell you what it is.
Especially frustrating when liberty and less government should be such an easy sell. Just telling the truth about evidence already before the American public seems such an easy thing to do. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.
Con jobs exploit typical human characteristics such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, honesty, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, desperation, naïveté, a thirst for power or position or in many cases, embarrassment after being conned.
Exposing the Democrat lies as a perfect example of wrecking a con game, a scam being run on the American public for profit, should be easy, but it is true that the history of con schemes seems to indicate the more brazen, the more likely they are to succeed.
Take the case of con man Victor Lustig.
Vic’s career began and ended in the early 1900’s.
Ole Vic became infamous as “the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice.”
His main scam was to repeatedly sell a tiny, useless box for tens of thousands of dollars. Working the ocean liners traveling between Europe and America, he sold a small mechanical box which supposedly copied $100 bills using radium. The box contained a few real bills which it slowly dished out before becoming worthless.
See the parallel between Vic’s magic box and Democrat policies?
But the magic money box was just the beginning of Lustig’s giant gonads of steel.
In Paris, Lustig posed as a government official looking to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap. Hosting a secretive meeting to which he invited several metal dealers, Lustig put on such a convincing show that the winning bidder gave him the money for the tower as well as a bribe. Later, Lustig pulled off the scam again.
But the second mark went to the police, so Lustig fled back to America where he formed a counterfeiting ring. His fake $100 bills were so good that they even fooled bank tellers and the US government was worried that they would shake confidence in the US dollar.
Lustig was finally arrested in 1935, although he did escape once for a month. He was sentenced to 20 years at Alcatraz.
He was so smooth, he once conned Al Capone and got away with it. During his trial, a Secret Service agent aptly called Lustig “the smoothest con man that ever lived.”
Well, get a load of the team of Biden and Obama. Lustig ain't got nothing on these two.
While I can't discern a solid Republican message, I can tell you what the Democrats are selling, and it is the anti-Bastiat message that everybody CAN live at the expense of everybody else.
Their Eiffel Tower is "climate change", something they have sold far more than Lustig's selling the Eiffel twice.
All cons do fall apart - eventually.
For a con to work, a con man needs people willing to be conned.
Often, even after they are recognized, they keep running for a while due to two things: 1) many scams are prolonged by the embarrassment of the mark and their inability to acknowledge that they have been conned or 2) after they realize that they have been taken, the marks want to keep the con going long enough to pass it on to someone else and hopefully get their money and pride back in the transfer.
Neither ever works because the game is rigged before it starts.
Admitting that you have been a fool is a very tough thing for many to do, especially if they hold positions of authority, are of advanced academic standing or are of high social status – coincidentally, many of Biden's most influential supporters fit in one or more of these categories.
All the Republicans need to do is to expose to people how bad they are getting conned and in Bernie Madoff fashion, they are never getting their money or liberty back.
In saner times, that would be enough.
In the absurd times in which we live, it remains to be seen if people are ready for the truth or they want to keep the con going until it finally crashes on its own.
Because it will.