Even More Bozos on this Bus

Well, here we are again, seems to me we are currently in an even worse place than the first Drumpf administration, there even are more Bozos on this Bus...  

The destruction of our democratic principles is faster, wider, and deeper this time around…  

I Blogged about economic inequality in February of 2020:  

https://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2022/02/economic-inequality.html

In there I referred to this Blog of August of 2020:  

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2020/08/black-lives-matter.html

I am repeating just a little of that latter Blog again here:  

“Fundamental 1

People are inherently fearful

They fear for their lives, their economics, families, friends…  in no specific order

The lower their evolutionary level, the smaller the circle of who is in their family

https://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/02/just-stranger-in-strange-land-part-2.html

They fear “the other”

Those who are not in their family

Those who are perceived to be “different””

Back then I outlined some possible “fixes.”  

I suspect we are still too primitive a society for what I proposed back then…  

Today I want to outline some failures of the Democratic Party.  

The failures that lead to the election of such a destructive current administration…

You may not agree with me, great, find your own methods to solving this problem…  

 Let us open with a quote:

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”

P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores

1-Failure to address economic disparity sufficiently.  

Rising costs of food, housing, insurance, health care, etc. 

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/

It is difficult to be compassionate when you feel you are drowning.  You cannot want to give your hard-earned dollars to anyone outside of “your family.”    

2-Failures of DEI initiatives.  

https://hbr.org/2022/12/the-failure-of-the-dei-industrial-complex

3-Firearm regulations, without providing adequate safety for individuals.  

I suspect many Democrats will disagree with me.  I recommend spending some time learning to shoot and hang out with “the other side,” perhaps at a local gun club.  

As the saying goes “When seconds count the police are only minutes away.”  

I am a great believer in adequate training and continued practice, if you are going to own a firearm, although the data is not great:  

https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/firearm-safety-training-requirements.html

If you are going to carry, I recommend carry insurance as well, but how many poor people can afford that?  

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/membership/

4-Failures to highlight where the Democrats have succeeded in boosting the economy and the Infrastructure Act.  

https://www.epi.org/press/new-report-finds-that-the-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidential-administrations/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/at-its-two-year-anniversary-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-continues-to-rebuild-all-of-america/

Of course, the above do not take into the consideration other failures where President Biden failed to step down in a timely manner, and the Democrats clearly hid his dementia, until this was revealed in real time on TV, and the Democrats choose a weak Vice President to begin with, and then promoted her as the successor in an untimely manner.   

https://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-2024-us-presidential-elections-democratic-party-donald-trump-kamala-harris/

Can our country recover?

I am usually an optimist…

Maybe I am just getting more pessimistic in my old age…  

Right now, I fear globally for the world, for our country’s democracy, and personally for my kids and grandkids futures…  

Namaste