As the dreaded 2024 election year approaches, we need to consider the key issues that will determine who wins at the ballot box. Is it the economy? Immigrant? Foreign policy? Political corruption?
Maybe it's none of those things.
Joe Biden has an abysmal record that will force him and his supporters in the corporate media to avoid this reality and keep Democratic voters in the dark. Moreover, they will manufacture problems to demoralize and further confuse the left and the right. Ideally, this two-pronged approach would pacify Democrats who vote for the same awful politicians into blissful ignorance, while driving Republican voters into endless battles.
A perfect example of how this works can be found in two recent editorials in Newsweek. In the first essay, “Why 2024 Will Completely Rule!'' University professor David Farris argues that several “fortunate events'' at home and abroad, along with the collapse of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, will lead to the collapse of Biden and I am optimistic that this will lead to a victory for the Democratic Party.
“2024 is the Year of Living Dangerously,” by former Associated Press Editor-in-Chief Dan Perry, which predicts doom from the same political angle, eliminates such good fortune and predicts a second Trump term and global escalation. There is.
What is remarkable about these two essays is not so much what they argue, but what they leave out.
If most Americans are misinformed and distracted, Biden and the Democrats will win the next election and hold more power.
Even though the economy is the biggest issue in every election, both Mr. Faris and Mr. Perry approach it in the most circuitous and disingenuous manner.
For no reason, Faris said, “With interest rates falling, inflation returning to pre-pandemic levels, and stock prices soaring past all-time highs, there is little left to blame President Biden and the Democrats. “I don't think so.”
oh? Given the federal government's continued spending, there is good reason to believe that inflation will continue to impoverish Americans. The only way to change this is to raise interest rates, but this could cause a recession and Democrats must postpone anything until after November. This is not to mention the mounting debt that will ultimately require significant tax increases and spending cuts. Rather than expecting a “soft landing” or sustained economic recovery, Americans can expect to be slowly but surely crushed by rising prices and stagnant wages.
Perry worries that artificial intelligence will “replace many of the white-collar jobs that have been open to people other than moderately educated geniuses.” Like most AI pessimists, Perry provides few details about how this will actually happen. Most tasks, even seemingly monotonous ones, require human judgment, which AI lacks. Someone always needs to set the parameters, review the product, and consider what further actions are needed.
Rather, AI should complement white-collar jobs and make them more productive, not replace them and make them redundant. In his own case against artificial intelligence, conservative columnist Kurt Schlichter concludes that “AI is a tool and a gimmick, but it may be useful for some functions.”
Biden-style predictions
Mr. Faris and Mr. Perry have also alluded to Mr. Biden's corruption, albeit dishonestly. Faris is using the typical left-wing tactic of calling Biden's widespread accusations of influence a “farce” without any “credible” evidence to support them. Perry employs another popular left-wing tactic: shameless projection.[Trump] Pampered, anti-democratic rulers tried to use the presidency to line their own pockets, rocking Ukraine for smearing Joe Biden, then inciting a violent mob on January 6th to attack the federal government. He was impeached for attacking the Capitol. ”
Contrary to these claims, evidence shows how the Biden family became wealthy through Joe's willingness to do business with the worst people in the world. Ironically, this has led him, not Trump, to coddle anti-democratic rulers, including Volodymyr Zelensky, Xi Jinping, and now Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.
Faris and Perry have little to say about illegal immigration and military failures in Afghanistan and Ukraine because there is no way to frame them positively.
The massive influx of illegal immigrants continues to burden governments at all levels with increased numbers of dependents in need of health care, housing, education, and protection, and floods the labor market with cheap, unskilled workers, effectively Americans. I'm going to let you do it. Slums and slums are expected to proliferate everywhere.
On the foreign policy front, even before Biden's disastrous withdrawal in the summer of 2021, the war in Afghanistan had proven to be a pointless effort that wasted thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Nevertheless, the Biden administration has plunged into a new futile conflict in Ukraine in less than a year. It looks like this war may finally end with a peace deal in the near future, but this outcome could have been reached long before all the death and destruction of the past two years.
Abort now, abort forever
But far from acknowledging any of this, Faris and Perry instead stoked unwarranted fears about Trump's “dictatorship” and possible abortion restrictions.
Mr. Faris expects “codification”; egg” and the end of Trump's “bizarre eccentricities and increasingly authoritarian rhetoric,” Perry calls for further “anti-abortion debate” and “steps Trump is taking to govern as an authoritarian to any degree.” As the system allows, it fears it could once again alienate America's allies and damage America's brand. ”
Unless reality asserts itself, Faris and Perry's arguments, and those of the left in general, will likely prevail. Sure enough, Biden announced that his re-election campaign would be predicated on attacking Trump and promoting abortion.
If most Americans are misinformed and distracted, and the Republicans choke on explaining how they're not fascists, Biden and the Democrats will win the next election, and more will seize power. So Americans are urged not to take the bait and to fight falsehoods.
Now more than ever, the American left's case is significantly weaker, and conservatives have a chance to take back the country in a big way. They just need to focus, keep it real and help others do the same.
