Times Are A Changing

No question that times have changed since the days of “it’s the economy, stupid.” The Democrat Party is overrun with single-issue voters…..not necessarily a bad thing when that issue is crucial to sustaining the republic ……but it’s the activist and social warrior arms of the party whose issues are all related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, supercharged to encompass abortion as an extension of women’s rights, unencumbered immigration posing as equity for people of color, defunding the police as some form of racial equity allowing lawlessness, the abolition of meritocracy in favor of racial quotas, and wealth redistribution. And now we can add a ceasefire in the Palestinian conflict into the mix. How can the economy and national security take a backseat to social issues?  One would have to suspect that for the 50% of the electorate that favors Democrat party policy, they are living comfortably enough on the government dole, be it jobs in the public sector or outright welfare, that the private sector economy has no importance in their lives. The government continues to grow, the unions are seeing a resurgence, particularly in the auto industry, and the welfare state continues to expand with hoards of illegal immigrants added to their ranks. The private sector is under siege by the left as they progressively move towards a Marxist brand of socialism. Distracting their voting base with social issues, the left is insidiously gaining more control over an increasingly dependent populace, simultaneously harnessing our economic engine to feed their growing welfare state and government expansion.  Is it sustainable?  Of course not.  Again, we must recall Thatcher’s prescient warning:  “The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s  money.”