“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The once-overheard quote uttered by one of Barack Obama’s advisors now represents the unjustifiable expansion and abuse of government powers of the Joe Biden era. With the pandemic arrived a litany of experiments that proved disastrous, from distance learning and expansion of the money supply to lockdowns. After all the damage and witnessing the lengths Biden and his fellows are willing to go to, anything seems to be permissible.
Whether the alternative leads us to a better or worse future is reserved for another day. Nonetheless, with real income declining because of reckless monetary policy, it’s no surprise that Biden is on the firing line. When totally reliable polls and fair, balanced outlets like NBC are suggesting that Donald Trump might be overtaking Biden, “democracy is in crisis, again.” At this stage, anything that doesn’t align with a Far Left domestic agenda and a hawkish foreign policy is “antidemocratic” and “xenophobic,” per the usual arguments.
But at a certain point, gaslighting simply stops working. It no longer sells as false dichotomies are no more than mere justifications for continuing more failed progressive experiments. At some point, they simply can’t tolerate counternarratives. “You must not go down the rabbit hole,” warned the New York Times (the same paper that didn’t return its Pulitzer Prize after lying about the Holodomor). They’re afraid that their narrative is losing traction. In 2016, it was told that social media and “disinformation” caused Hillary Clinton to lose. During the 2020 general election, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pressured Twitter and Facebook over the Hunter Biden story that many now acknowledge as authentic.