Maggie's Farm

I don't like to make predictions, but I think the Progressives have not yet come to terms with their 2016 mistakes. For the past 4 years we have been saturated by their acting out with rage and incoherent spite, attacking anything and everything that is outside the party line.

I think at the bottom of it, they have failed to absorb the fundamental betrayal by the voters across the political spectrum in the run-up to the election. These voters had finally seen through the pressure & persuasion tactics and correctly identified poison. They instinctively understood that it was in their best interests to give the pollsters incorrect and unreliable information. The party had banked everything on the idea that the polling data was reliable, and they haven't yet overcome the outrage of discovering, in loss, that it might not be. Cheaters always howl that they've been cheated, when they lose.

In spite of this humiliation, maybe because of it, the Democratic Party has failed to change course. Instead, they have throttled up. Now they propose to appeal to these same voters by seeding their economies for demolition, at least in the solid Blue states. They have moved past demanding everyone's time and attention for the performance art of gender and identity. Now they are going all-in for the throat. Their grand creative idea to beat Trump is to stifle a person's ability to provide and prosper, maybe even to exist in a recognizable standard of living.

As the individuals understood they had to lie to the pollsters before, they now understand what will be required to recover their personal economy from the pandemic. It will have to be millions of individual efforts, independently judging for themselves the risk of infection versus the chances of prosperity. The Democrats are forcing people to think for themselves at the worst possible time for their party's strategic goals.