Make Orwell fiction again

“Make Orwell fiction again.”

One of my leftist friends has custom made baseball caps. The latest ones are anti-MAGA. I am going to have one made that says “Make Orwell fiction again.” Both of us can wear that one. He would wear it if Trump wins since he think that Trump will try to make himself dictator and will rule by edict and use the federal government to harass and intimidate his enemies. I would wear it because that is what the democrats are doing and what they will continue to do if they stay in power.

I think that in their typical overreach the democrats have brought back Big Brother. Their terrorizing Trump and his supporters, the harassing of anti-abortion activists, the unleashing the FBI and the Department of “Justice” to do the bidding of the left and relentless assault on the foundations of our republic have created considerable angst amongst the rest of us. Who among us is not just plain tired and fed up of the relentless barrage of whining about abortion and their obsession with equity, climate and gender? Trump has said he does not favor a national bill banning abortion and will leave it to the states where it belongs. He will terminate all the DEI within the federal government and restore the military to being a lethal force rather than its mission of promoting racial, gender and LGBTQ equity. He will terminate the Green New Deal that spends trillions and has no measurable impact on global temperatures. Trump believes that China rather than the climate is the existential threat facing the country.

If Trump wins next week, he should first thank the democrats for keeping him relevant. If the democrats had ignored him after the 2020 defeat, Trump would be an afterthought. He would be like Hillary Clinton, a pitiful whining harpy that makes hateful sounds that everyone ignores. Instead, the attacks on Trump and his supporters following the election have kept him in the public’s eye and made him a sympathetic figure. When Trump won, even though he could have insisted that his Justice Department go after Hillary, she escaped investigation for her roles in Benghazi, the Steele Dossier and all the emails. By not prosecuting her, she became Mrs. Irrelevant. On the other hand, the democrats went after Trump for no reason other than they hated him and wanted to bankrupt him, lock him up and force him out of the political scene. It didn’t work.

If Harris wins, it will only be because Trump was the republican nominee. A Harris victory would not be an endorsement of the Biden years but a testament to the fear and loathing of Donald Trump. A Harris victory would continue to unleash the left’s agenda on the country. I keep reading that the Biden policies have pushed the country to being center-right. Yet the democrats remain solidly left and definitely not center left. Where are the Scoop Jacksons, JFKs and Joe Liebermans in today’s democrat party? There is only one pro life democrat in the congress (Henry Cuellar) and the left ran a candidate against him in the primaries. The left used Biden to further their agenda and stuff their policies down the throats of the public. A Harris victory would double down on their triumvirate of climate, gender and equity. So if you liked the last four years, if Harris wins you should love the next four.

Its probably a coincidence that the week before the election, the government released that the US economy grew by 2.8 percent last quarter. Some are patting themselves on the back but most of the growth is in defense spending. The crucial area of business investment spending was anemic. Just like the jobs growth overstated new jobs by 800,000 I would not be surprised if the growth figures were adjusted downward after the election. A friend of mine pointed to the growth numbers and the stock market and asked me what did I think about the economy. I told him that the strength of the economy showed how resilient it was. I said that the economy is an eight cylinder turbo charged engine running on 5 cylinders. With a dead weight of $1 trillion in government regulations, an ever changing tax code, growing federal debt and political uncertainty, the economy keeps chugging along. Any other economy would be stagnating. Yet 2.8 percent is no cause for congratulations. Our normal real rate of growth should be twice that.