Friends, it turns out that the great Commonwealth of Virginia may not be as far gone as the mainstream media has led us to believe in recent days. We've been told that Democrats won a crushing victory in the 2023 elections, capped by the retention of control over the State Senate in Virginia, and their capture of the majority in the state's House of Delegates. Well, what you perhaps haven't been told is that they won these victories by the thinnest of margins, and they did so in a fundamentally blue state. The bottom line is that, if Republicans and Democrats performed nationally in 2024 more or less as they did in Virginia on election night, 2023, then the national Democratic Party would lose control of the White House and the Senate, and the GOP majority in the House would grow apace. Another way of putting it is that the Dems in their current condition can barely win in blue states, and they look very likely to lose in purple ones.
https://amac.us/newsline/elections/not-so-fast-virginia-election-results-should-worry-democrats/
In other news, the U.S. may be on the verge of another credit rating downgrade, and, as usual, the Biden Administration takes no responsibility whatsoever. Our two-party system is largely dysfunctional, it's true, but the biggest fiscal problem we have is overspending, and ole Sleepy Joe is right at the heart of it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-credit-rating-outlook-changed-222359030.html
U.S. population growth is almost entirely the result of Third World migration. No surprise there, and there's little reason to think this might change in the years ahead. What does the future look like, therefore? It looks like Los Angeles, Houston, and Miami. Deal with it!
Finally, Elon Musk is once again pondering the future of humanity. Perceptively, he realizes that our collective future won't be characterized by grinding poverty and climate-induced misery, but instead by material abundance, and a declining need for humans to do meaningful, productive work to secure their share of that abundance. There's much talk of a "basic income" to support those who aren't needed as workers, or who aren't fit to work. Don't let the terminology fool you -- in many ways we already have such a "basic income". Theoretically, government programs insure a basic level of sustenance, i.e. access to food, shelter, and health care, regardless of one's circumstances. In that sense, they more or less guarantee a standard of living that, while it may not seem all that enviable, actually represents a better diet, better housing, and better health care than even wealthy and privileged people enjoyed not so long ago. Ergo, I conclude that the future looks bright, materially...but man does not live by bread alone.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Virginia a fundamentally blue state?! I know you can support what you say; the cited article does so. Its a dolorous reality to see that magnificent state degraded so by cynical and presumptuous interlopers fleeing the messes they have made of New England, NY, NJ, Md and our nation's very capital.The margins of electoral victory nationally and in some states are so very thin in this bitterly partisan country - made so by antiamerican leftist wrong headed "revolutionary" depradation - but the spoils can be so significant (eg. a now lawful Scotus in place of the Hillary rubber stamp tribunal we would have had). Lose by a little then lose by alot! Your commentary on the consequences of the Virginia election give me hope. We are going to need all the credible encouragement we can find in this critical and sure to be astounding year ahead.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack Material want coarsens and degrades a culture by providing fertile ground - but not the seed - for crime and perverted entertainment. Rousseau was dead wrong and did great historical evil by extolling a never existent time when humanity enjoyed a simple and innocent life which he, so tragically, urged mankind reprise. Those who think it possible ought to try to live as the most fortunate of us did even 150 years ago but on their own, thank you.I've tried some of it; its rough!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you take some solace from the analysis of what happened in Virginia, Jack. Yes, it's a shame what's become of the state, but when you consider how much of it is flooded with federal functionaries, it's a small miracle that we're competitive there even part of the time. And, as you point out, we can afford not to control every state. We can't afford to lose our grip on the federal courts. That would be the end of conservatism and of America as we know it.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: At least the common sense Virginians still have a Governor who has proven true and a legislature in which the margin of carpetbaggers is not overwhelming (yet?). They can of course fully expect the new dem rump to hasten to teach these unreconstructed Confederates some respect by enacting a tsunami of woke statutes, including no doubt continued suppression of the memory of the Confederate soldier's devotion to his homeland.Gov. Youngkin may have to let some of it survive in order to get some of what he wants. Virginians have not yet descended to abject subjecthood, like that which obtains in NY, but the presence in their midst ot foreigners who would blithely impose it on them must be hard to endure.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I think it quite possible that the antiamerican left's unrelenting imposition of "fundamental transformation" on America may in some states become as simply unbearable as to make further union impossible. I don't think they can keep arrogantly and presumptuously venturing to force change on especially southerners , mountain westerners or Texans without some day producing ultimata.Yes, the south was very much rebuilt once but not to the absolute thralldom promised by today's incipient totalitarians.Perhaps a mutually agreed upon separation could be worked, with both sides glad to be rid of the other. Of course, we of traditional outlook in NY would be stranded.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: All things considered, especially its fetid climate, if I were constrained to live in Houston, I should strongly consider emigration to uhh . . . yes, western Canada but not BC.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I like Texas very much and consider it the exemplar of unapologetic assertion of American values. But Houston would be too much.
ReplyDeleteJack, let's hope Youngkin is liberal with his use of the veto pen! One wonders what his next step will be, when his one term is up. A run for the Senate?
ReplyDeleteAn amicable divorce as the end of America as we know it? By no means would I rule it out! It would take a lot of Governors with a whole bunch of moxie.
The Texas climate doesn't appeal to me much either. Anyway, if we're to claim Texas as the heartland of Red America, we had better hurry up and split the country soon, lest we allow demographics to turn the Lone Star State blue.