The Plight of ‘Homeless’ Democrats

The cusp of a new year is a good time to gauge public satisfaction with the last twelve, or, in the case of President(ish) Joe Biden’s administration, 11.35 months. (Seems like longer, though, doesn’t it?)

Last January, how many Americans were yearning for the worst inflation in four decades?

Just speculating here, but let’s go with “few” or “none.”

Now, according to usually Democrat-friendly ABC/Ipsos pollsters, inflation is voters’ top concern, outpolling the virus that dominated public attention for nearly two years.

Unsurprisingly, 96 percent of Republicans disapprove of Bidenflation. But support among Democrats is weak, too. A slim majority (54 percent) of Democrats who, presumably, are too wealthy to notice or too stubborn to admit buyer’s remorse, said they approve. More than 70 percent of independents don’t.

A question for the Democrats who “approve”:

Fifty-four percenters, is yours among the millions of American families being forced to choose which essential products and/or services they can do with less of – or without? If yours is one, or even if it’s not, but you feel empathy for the families who must, will you vote your/their pocketbooks next November?

Inflation is an election issue, because inflation is a policy matter.

One year ago, energy costs were low. America was an energy-independent energy exporter.

Mr. Biden’s first-day executive orders included cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline and terminating oil and gas leases on federal land, both of which restricted supplies, and drove up energy costs.

Then, in March, Biden signed, a $1.9 trillion(!) COVID “relief” bill that, among other bad ideas, paid people more to remain idle than work. Fewer workers, but more cash chasing goods already limited by supply chain disruptions (caused in part by worker shortages) also drove inflation. Every congressional Democrat voted for the madness.

Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton warns, “Now, Biden wants to spend another $1.75 trillion that we don’t have. A huge portion of the Build Back Better plan is welfare without work requirements, which means more money chasing fewer goods.”

Washington Democrats apparently haven’t mastered Economics 101: when governments dispense lots of money, and there are fewer things to buy, prices rise, standards of living drop.

But most Democrats aren’t in Washington. Most Democrats are regular people living in communities all over America, many of whom have also been harmed by elected Democrats’ psychotic social and public safety policies.

Moderate Democrats can see that their party is now controlled by out-of-touch wealthy elites, Big Tech, higher education, corporate media, and bureaucrats, none of whom suffer the consequences of their policy preferences, by people who sow racial division, practice censorship, have turned “science” into politics, show contempt for the U.S. Constitution, and condescendingly tell ordinary citizens how to think, vote, and act.

However, most Democrats – of all races and ethnicities – don’t want to “defund the police,” and they don’t think soft-on-crime prosecutors releasing violent criminals into the general population, bail-free, is good policy. Moderates want secure borders and legal immigration based on merit.

Moderate Democrats agree that elections must be fair and honest. They support Voter ID. Most believe “free” speech includes speech with which they disagree.

Truly moderate Democrats reject most policies espoused by elected Democrats.

Ideologically, today’s moderate Democrats are fairly close to moderate Republicans. In fact, a review of President John F. Kennedy’s policies suggests that, if JFK were alive today, he’d be a Republican.

Facing the left’s divisive identity politics, open borders, their party’s indifference to the wide-spread lawlessness of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the explosion of violent crime in Democrat-run cities currently spilling into soccer mom suburbs, the economic, public health and social carnage of brutal, anti-constitutional COVID-19 mandates, Biden’s broken promise to stop the virus, his foreign policy blunders, and, finally, grasping that Jurassic Joe isn’t the “unifying moderate” his media allies peddled, many genuinely-moderate Democrats have, in effect, become politically homeless.

Seeking alternatives, some disaffected moderates have switched parties. Others will.

But, Americans still cast secret ballots – for now, at least – so smart moderates will just ignore party elites, tune out state-controlled media, do independent research, and vote for candidates – regardless of party affiliation – who most closely share their values.

Moderate Democrats could be attracted to someone like JFK again, but, politically, at least, there are no “John F. Kennedys” in the modern party – and no “‘Jane’ Kennedys,” either.

https://www.pottsmerc.com/2021/12/27/jerry-shenk-the-plight-of-homeless-democrats/