In lieu of an article, I present pure politics. I’ve been stuck on writing some thoughts but in the meantime, a lot of important things are going on in the political scene. These short takes seem to have a consistent thread. Any one part could be considered as disposable as a used tissue given how insincere are most political positions, but taken together, something starts to add up.
The shutdown continues and no one wants to blink seemingly. The Republicans won’t and have no need to as they passed on a clean CR bill and they’re fortified by Donald Trump, so it’s now nothing but a Democrat test to see how much damage can be done to voters before they achieve their own feel good – or not – and then fold. Democrats cite polling that says they’re in a more favorable position with the shutdown and Republicans are blamed more. Concurrent polls also show that the favorables/unfavorables of the Republican Congress in general are in a far better place over the Democrats by double digits. Is that a contradiction over the continuing resolution? Yes, a big one. As for the shutdowns, the Dems get 90+ % ** of their position from Dems being Dems, a fully prejudicial status quo. I’d guestimate that well under 5% of the difference in shutdown approval are real people influenced by either party’s positions and that’s dependent on if the polling is even remotely correct to begin with. Democrats have much more of a history of juicing polling opinion using bogus data to wish-cast.
The real reason the shutdown goes on is because (and this is a paraphrase of their very own words), this is all they got. Until they lose, they can still claim they haven’t lost yet again or that they haven’t lost everything. It’ll be back to that drawing board once they’re forced to admit they gained functionally nothing over the whole exercise.
Another example of their desperation is the public handwringing over the destruction of the East wing of the Whitehouse, slated to become a new ballroom, aka hospitality space. They’re in denial that the building has ever been modified. Sad. When that’s what you must spend all your rage capital to cry over, that’s pretty pathetic. This is all they got.
Another example of desperation was the ‘No Kings’ demonstrations. It’s a stupid theme that forces participants to bypass the reality on the ground and venture into blue-anon territory, en masse. It was billed as organic uprising but here we and they really must take four huge discounts off the top of that assertion: 1) It was by and for their own deranged TDS base; they are their own audience 2) Billionaire money provided by Soros and others, how could any intelligent person dismiss that? 3) The clear tie-ins now being tracked by the FBI and DOJ of organizational effort leading to Antifa and a broad network of shell NGOs fueling ‘the resistance’. So yes, good, have your events because that just gives justice more to track and more tunnels to go down into, figurative an otherwise. 4) The other dynamic made clear was the % of old people, ‘boomers’ that made up so many of the crowds. This too is pathetic because if I was a Democrat, I’d be worried about all those old mindless boomer foot soldiers that will soon be crossing the veil. I’m sure they’ll still vote from the nursing home if they have nothing but a pulse and a lot of them won’t even need that except some of those loopholes are quickly closing.
Four very big loopholes are presently being (mostly publicly) ignored but I guarantee the Democrat party wonks in the back room are sweating hard. 1) Redistricting caused by competing states but 2) even more so, by a very possible Supreme court decision that will almost certainly render all the race-based gerrymandering illegal. This will disproportionately affect Dems, bigly. 3) Pending executive and court action that will require proof of USs citizenship to vote. 4) The deportation of literally millions of illegal aliens that were previously allowed to vote, particularly in blue districts.
I see a lot of desperation going around. When one looks at the electoral reckoning coming their way and all you can do is shut down the government over illegals and terminal Obamacare while your constituents go without a paycheck and possible starve; when you have to protest a building project initiated with loads of precedent, and when you must pretend that Trump is king, Is this all you got?
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** I’m not citing anyone’s numbers directly as they are available to any reader ready to delve into national and conservative media reports of the topic. All numerical analysis here is my speculation based on those reports.