Biden's Dems: Evil Geniuses or Stupid Idiots?

The question that has to occur to an average racist-sexist-homophobe like me is whether our Democratic and progressive friends are executing on a strategic plan for the ages, or merely stumbling from one stupidity to another?

For instance, Scott McKay shows us a Soviet defector that was part of the four-step Soviet plan to destroy America, with

Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis, Normalization.

Yuri Bezmenov defected to Canada in 1984. And the Soviet Union "normalized" in 1989.

And of course there are other lefty plans to abolish America, from the Frankfurt School's critical theory that replaced the workers at the point of the revolutionary spear with women and minorities. And "the long march through the institutions" from Gramsci. And there is the Cloward-Piven strategy. And Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. 

Sometimes I wonder if these are brilliant strategies or Baldrick's Cunning Plans.

On the other hand you have to wonder whether there is anyone at home in the White House as the Biden administration seems to be on automatic with all the various activist groups pursuing their sacred narratives at full-speed ahead without anyone in charge telling the crazier ones to cool their jets.

And, is there nobody in charge saying that, look, we needed to have taken action on inflation on the first day of the new administration to make sure that everything would be coming up roses in May 2024?

I suppose the most obvious middle ground is to assume that the ranks of the Democrats are full of people that are good at getting re-elected, but not much more. That would concur with Joseph Schumpeter's line that it is amazing that politicians can govern at all, since their profession is getting elected.

Of course, there is the bigger question that hovers over the entire progressive project of the last two centuries. After you geniuses have created the perfect state that integrates religion, politics, and economics into one perfectly oiled and lubricated totality, then what?

Epecially, geniuses, when you consider that every lefty state since the French Revolution has been an economic disaster. Oh, and the butcher's bill.

Oh, I know. But this time!

Then there is Donald Trump. He got elected by appealing directly to the ordinary middle-class Commoner, with tax cuts, a frank appeal to nationalism -- the polite word is "patriotism" -- and policies to raise wages with import tariffs and immigration restrictions.

Now comes Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, and my liberal neighbors already hate him. He gave a speech on October 23 at the Claremont Institute. Said he:

Over the last year and a half, we’ve stood up to entrenched bureaucrats and the partisan corporate press to keep Florida open and to protect individual Floridians’ right to work to own and operate their own businesses and to make sure that every single child had the right to be in school in person. We don’t lock people down in the state of Florida, we lift people up.

And he's just getting started. He mentions:

• Eisenhower's farewell address, where he warns not just about the military-industrial complex but the science research complex.
• Florida has more people than New York State, but New York's state budget is twice Florida's.
• In September, the US added 194,000 jobs, of which Florida added 84,500. 
• He's banned sanctuary cities, protected women's sports and whacked Big Tech censorship.
• He called out the National Guard to discourage BLM and AntiFa.
• He's banned Critical Race Theory in Florida's schools.

And so on.

I'd say that someone at DeSantis HQ has been doing a little strategic thinking, about what the ordinary Commoners of America want and deserve.

You know, I'm really a pretty snooty guy, with educated ideas and thoughts that I think are up in the stratosphere. But I think that politicians should be thinking much more about the ordinary Commoners and their ordinary lives. And ease up on bribing their pet victims and spreading loot and plunder to their financial supporters.

Because when gubmint spending is north of 40 percent of GDP, that means that about half of the economy is decided not by negotiation and market transaction but by government force.

So, if you are OK with that, and even want a trillion or two more in additional gubmint spending, I am right here to say: really? So you are down with government forcing ordinary people to spend half of their income on government projects? Or even more? I can't believe you think that.

I don't think that government as half the economy is a good idea. Not in the short term, not in the medium term, and certainly not in the long term.

But what do I know.