by Victor Davis Hanson
As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.
The result is that the housing market is tottering on the verge of collapse.
As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out everything else in the budget.
Inflation roars at a rate of 8-9 percent per annum, higher than at any time in 40 years.
Yet the prices of the stuff of life – food, fuel, shelter, energy – are far steeper still than the official rate.
No one is safe from thugs anymore – whether a commuter on a New York subway or the Pelosis in Pacific Heights.
The country reportedly has a 25-day supply of diesel fuel – the energy source that runs the nation. Meanwhile, we keep draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve of oil, a commodity we have in abundance but refuse to produce fully.
We never fixed the supply-chain crisis of last year, and so still face shortages of key consumer goods.
The labor participation rate is at a multi-decade low – given fat government COVID subsidies, the Siren-song appeal of staying home after the lockdowns, fear of COVID, and millions of workers with long COVID.
The post-Kabul Pentagon is quiet about the depletion of its critical stocks of weaponry.
We have sent billions of dollars’ worth in howitzer shells, javelin missiles, and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine without replenishing our own arsenals. The Army’s recruitment rate is off 50% this year.
Our broken Navy is ossifying as China expands its fleet in expectation of absorbing Taiwan.
When we look to the president for an accounting for these madcap experiments, we get nothing. In the last few weeks, President Joe Biden has lied that gas was $5 a gallon when he took office when it was half that.
He falsely swears that he passed his student-loan amnesty plan by one or two votes when he simply signed away a half-trillion dollars in debt by an executive order and bypassed Congress.
Vice President Kamala Harris is our border czar, but she avoids the nonexistent southern border like the plague.
As the country depletes its petroleum reserves, she gushes about “solutions” like transforming the nation’s school bus fleet to battery power.
On the rare occasion she is allowed abroad, Harris has no idea what North Korea’s official name is, only that it is supposedly one of America’s staunchest allies.
We are now headed for a decisive midterm election. Strangely the hard-left architects of the last two years neither offer a defense of their failing agendas, nor agree to change them.
No Democratic congressional candidates brag about the 3 million people who illegally crossed the border.
None boast that they helped cancel key pipelines, reduced federal leasing of gas and oil, and shut down the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. None take credit for hammering investments in fossil fuels.
None preen over the no-bail and defund-the-police policies of left-wing, big-city prosecutors and mayors who have spiked crime.
None insist that an annual 8-9% inflation rate is a desirable spreading of the wealth.
And yet odder still, no Democratic candidate, state or national – and most certainly not Biden – offers to alter these toxic policies.
If they won’t defend what they have done, they apparently will not undo what they have wrought either.
No Democratic gubernatorial candidate wants one foot built of a new border wall. No House candidate demands that the Keystone pipeline be finished. No senatorial candidate calls for fiscal discipline to lower inflation.
Instead, they stay mute.
Biden mutters lies about MAGA extremists under every bed while daily offering yet another made-up tidbit of his fantasy autobiography.
State and national candidates either avoid debates with their Republican opponents or delay them in hopes they will become irrelevant since millions of mail-in ballots are already cast.
Rarely have voters turned over their country to radicals, socialists, and nihilists.
We did in 2020.
And once the Left took the presidency, the House, and Senate, they tried a deadly experiment on us the American people, their veritable lab rats.
It failed – and has now nearly destroyed us along with the country.
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But he had all those part time jobs, truck driver, helping invent insulin, curing cancer, professor, Ukraine gas lobbist, the testing guy for the shampoo Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific and shower to shower.
He also invented “Shower With Your Daughter Day”.
So, the Bidens made more money when Joe wasn’t holding public office? What’s your problem with that? Want to see his tax forms? He made them publicly available.
Not Trump, though. No one is allowed to know. It’s all a dark box, protected by lawyers.
Yeah, idiot Biden made a killing on influence peddling. They even tried to cheat on their taxes. But, of course, you have no problem with Democrat corruption you can clearly see… you are far more obsessed with searching for Trump’s corruption that isn’t there.
And it’s protected by Law.
Biden is a parasite built by being a failure and sucking off the public teat for decades.
Trump is a self-made Billionaire mogul icon who is the FOREVER 45th President of the United States.
Joe is already being written out of history to that end. He’ll never be remembered as a president.
So, the Bidens made more money when Joe wasn’t holding public office? What’s your problem with that?
He made lots of money when unemployed how does that happen?
So you’re unfamiliar with the concept of “passive income.”
No one made that amt with investments due to passive income. Get a clue.
Total worth 9 million that includes his homes, June of 22 according to MSN.
There was a time when all college freshmen had to “volunteer” to be a human “lab rat” in one of many campus science dept’s grad students experiment.
(Mine was having to try to add columns of numbers while loud sounds were blasted.)
Point is, INFORMED CONSENT made this work.
What the sciency part of Deep State did to the American people happened without informed consent.
Almost every policy the Left forced on us improved the DEATH rates around covid.
*Nursing home residents were forced to live with covid positive patients who should have been isolated in hospital rooms/wards.
*When people came to hospitals with covid they were starved, dehydrated, put on ventilaters then fed opiods which depress the breathing so they die.
*Medical Leftists hid real treatments that worked while pushing (still, Paxlovid) medicines that do not help – except to kill off even more people.
*People, even children, were kept so isolated that suicide rates rose.
*People were prohibitied from going out to the FRESH AIR.
*Even after it was obvious that “the jab” (NOT a vaccine, but a DNA changer) didn’t prevent infection or severity, the Left contines (as of right now!) to push them on people, even on children who are at little-to-no risk from covid.
*The Left was aided and abetted by their media cronies who perpetrated lies and throttled the truth.
*The Left was aided and abetted by rabid individuals who attacked people who resisted.
*States, counties, and cities run by Leftists added extra burdens on the people under their power, even destroying businesses.
Now, these miscreants want “amnesty.”
No.
First comes real sorrow and then comes restitution.
Then punishment and removal from power.
Then, maybe forgiveness, but NEVER amnesty.