There are psychological and political theories about the compulsion to confess. The basic argument is that there is a human need, either consciously or subconsciously, to confess to bad acts. Everyday there’s a reason to wonder about why Biden and the Democrats remain obsessively committed to policies and plans that ruin people’s lives, crush the future, and spectacularly fail. But what if they weren’t “failures,” and to them thrilling successes and open confessions of their cancerous agenda?
The Biden administration’s idiotic, contradictory, and dangerous policies make a lot more sense if the goal is to train Americans to accept absurd micromanagement of our lives while simultaneously creating chaos in every sector of society. After all, if you can get people to accept crazy, nonsensical policy in the name of one crisis or another, you can get them to be grateful for only moderately crazy policies. In the left’s worldview, the more chaos there is, the more government is needed.
In the last few weeks, there have been remarkable examples of Biden’s upside-down, wrong is right, backtracking confessionals about their real agenda, for all Americans to see. First up: Joe Biden’s retreat last week on his biggest pander yet to the climate cult: “tailpipe emission” regulations designed to force auto manufacturers to focus on producing EVs instead of gas-powered vehicles.
But despite this being their policy superstar proving their fealty to the climate gods, Biden backtracked on their timeline, pushing it to several years later than originally promised. What happened? Automakers and labor unions were warning of jobs lost, the lack of infrastructure, and the fact that Americans—so far—haven’t piled into the dealerships looking for their expensive battery-operated 10-hour scooter.
Climate is the existential threat to humanity! Until it’s not. Biden’s team likely noticed that Trump is leading the incumbent president in the swing states, including Michigan, and is leading Biden with registered voters under 35, along with almost every other voter subgroup. None of this is a good sign for President Angry Forgetful Guy.
And then there’s the newest (and maybe dumbest) idea brought to us by New York City, where the ubiquitous emergency-for-the-planet demands humans banish laundry detergent pods. Yes, that’s right. We are told by Those Who Care the MostTM that detergent pods and laundry sheets contain “micro plastics” and must be stopped.
The New York Post reports, “The ‘Pods are Plastic Bill,’ introduced by City Councilman James Gennaro last week, would make it illegal to sell any pods and laundry sheets if they’re made with polyvinyl alcohol. Fines for selling the pods would start at $400, double for a second violation and top off at $1,200 for flouting the rules more than twice, if the bill becomes law.”
Really? This concern about our “health” comes from a city where marijuana shops beckon one-and-all to come on in, and recently approved private, home-grown marijuana plants. Since New York State legalized marijuana, most will attest it impossible to walk around New York City, be you local, tourist, man, woman, or child, without becoming an unwilling inhaler of the drug. It’s not Pig Pen from the Peanuts you ran into—it’s pot clouds everywhere. But now they tell us it’s Tide Pods and laundry sheets that are the direct threat to your health and a menace to the planet itself. Got it.
In all fairness, I do suppose you’ll want to be high when you’re doing the laundry with a bar of soap on a washboard in the alley.
Speaking of drugs in the street, what else happens when there’s Democrat one-party rule, and the preferred constituent is a homeless unemployed drug addict? This next installment of What Were They Thinking comes to us from the beautiful state of Oregon. After being convinced by Democratic lawmakers that treating drug users as a health issue instead of a crime, Oregonians passed Measure 110 in 2021 doing just that. Many warned that the result would be a disaster. And it was.
US News and World Report tells us, “Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing strong headwinds in the progressive state after an explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation of fentanyl and a surge in deaths from opioids, including those of children… But estimates from the [CDC show] Oregon had the highest increase in synthetic opioid overdose fatalities when comparing 2019 and the 12-month period ending June 30, a 13-fold surge from 84 deaths to more than 1,100.”
In the face of this human carnage, one Democrat state senator argued, “It would be a mistake to overturn 110 right now because I think that would make us go backwards…”
Here’s a newsflash for that state senator: when you’re speeding toward a cliff, it’s best to stop and go back. The reticence to consider reversing bad policy is the confession that it was the idea itself that mattered—decriminalizing drugs in this case—without any consideration of the impact on individual human beings. Ironically, all done in the name of helping people.
This is the catastrophic problem with leftist ideological decision-making—the only thing that matters is pushing along the narrative. The leftist bureaucracy requires chaos and victims to excuse and explain their quest for bigger government and more power.
On one hand, a political party simultaneously lectures us about the dangerous emergency of climate change so we must banish gas-powered cars and gas stoves, (which by no coincidence would ensconce the government as the provider of all of our fuel for private movement), all in the name of health and safety.
When that same gang of politicians simultaneously scrambles to legalize drugs, while opening our southern border allowing mass casualty drugs like fentanyl, people of the terror watch list, and thugs from violent south and central American gangs to flow into this country, it is what they call in poker “a tell,” a behavior (a confession of sorts) revealing their goals and intentions. They don’t even attempt to hide the absurdity of their contradictions because that’s the point. That’s the training to which we are subjected.
There’s work to do in the meantime but thank goodness in November Americans can slam on the brakes, stop the maniacs driving us toward the cliff, and turn us around.
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