Monday, June 17, 2019
Poll-ish Sausage
What’s up with these polls? Really? Like many people who like to comment on the events of the day, I like to think that I’m fairly insightful but...Sometimes I just have to admit that I don’t have a conclusive answer to an issue.
All logic and appraisal of facts and variables would tell me that Donald Trump would easily win reelection, particularly in view of the caliber and style of his opponents.
Polls in the past have certainly been wrong. In the last presidential election they were spectacularly wrong. Everyone but Hillary and some diehard leftist fools knows that she actually lost that election. Reasonably intelligent people can also understand why.
Practically every current poll, including one done by FOX NEWS and supposedly a leaked internal poll from Trump’s campaign, show the president trailing Joe Biden (Joe Biden!) by ten points. Similar for Bernie - Soviet - Sanders and a few other random clowns from the Jacobin/Democrat party.
So, we are to believe that, by a wide margin, people prefer uncontrolled migration, higher taxes, the Obama economy over the current one, and favor the global abstraction over our own country’s citizens — Really?
The part that really puzzles me is that Trump’s negatives (unpredictability, course comments, excessive tweets, etc.) are the same as they were when he won the last election. Many independents took a chance and voted for his promises on the economy and immigration, etc. in spite of personality issues. This time there’s no need to “take a chance.” He’s produced — with the economy, spectacularly. So now, these same people want to go with a Hillary clone equally absent in Charisma and full of deep-state establishment ties?
I don’t expect the average voter to care about encroaching globalist creep or deep sate attempts to establish maximum statist authority. I do expect them to look at people like Joe Biden and wonder why he’s even running.
In addition to the actual Democrats currently running for president are the many mouthpieces of the party in the news; commissar Cortez, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler. In a humming economy, this is what the majority of voters want for their country?...Something isn’t right here.
Supposedly, a significant portion of the public wants to “fundamentally transform” America — to throw in the towel on a prosperous constitutional republic and establish a powerful authoritarian state for the cause of “equality.”
All logic tells me that the aforementioned trends are impossible. On the frightening flip side is the very real possibility that decades of establishment PR in schools, journalism, and “entertainment” have effectively tipped the scales in favor of imposed subservience to a punitive political elite.
If the left effectively gains power in the coming election, we can be sure they will be less complacent about establishing their “revolution.” The electoral college, the Supreme court, and the bureaucracy will all be set to overdrive and there will be no turning back. Guns will be confiscated, healthcare “standards” (rules) will be imposed. Every niche of a persons life will be regulated and dissenting voices will squashed and punished (they’ve been pretty effective in pulling that stunt off already). This is not hyperbole. One need only listen to the likes of commissar Cortez to realize that today’s Democrat party is on a mission and their goal is not a mere Scandinavian welfare state.
I would love to simply write the latest polls off as contrived aberrations or manipulation of the type we see in skewing search engine results or “fact checking.”
Those who love centralized power and a heavily constrained human spirit are archetypal. They have always been with us and will never leave us (or leave us alone).
Their time may have — again — come. Not good for civilization or human dignity.
