It’s Never Joever

Things just morph and change.

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” – Michael Corleone

President Joseph Biden shuffled onto a stage in a debate customized to play to his strengths and his opponent’s weaknesses. He had a week of rest and preparation. The entire media complex was downplaying recent concerns about his cognitive capabilities. He laid an egg on national television that will be remembered forever. The Democrats have a problem, and it is not just President Biden’s current mental state.

This event was incredible to witness not as an elderly man fumbling his way through scripted answers. That is elder abuse. It was incredible to watch the entire media and political operator class flick a switch in under two hours. This is what is called a preference cascade. This can only happen when a preference falsification suffers a shock. Biden was no one’s first choice in the 2019-2020 cycle. The DNC problem was Bernie was not going away, Kamala flamed out by January, and Bloomberg stumbled. The DNC moved quick after the South Carolina primary and consolidated behind Biden. The pitch was always a return to normalcy and Biden would serve one term as a caretaker. Everyone went along with the lie that they loved him. Everyone covered for the line that 2020 Biden was just as sharp as Obama era Biden. A carefully managed presidency with him hidden away from public exposure let the lie grow.

In less than two hours, that lie died. It did not take more than thirty minutes for the excuses to come out online. By the end of the debate, the pundit class was shocked and crestfallen. The calls for removing him were already aired. These were the same people who promoted Biden as sharp and competent the same day. The panic was delicious if you are not a Democrat. It is also frightening. In one day, the New York Times (the progressive Gospel) called for Biden to step aside while former President Obama said Joe should stay!

Our president sits atop a system. That system makes decisions and very few get to the president’s desk. Despite that, you still want someone who can think or just draw a clock to sit atop the system. The frightening thing for normal citizens is that yes, a dementia patient has the nuclear codes. They swim in propaganda and can buy the line he was okay. Seeing something on the tv screen makes it real for them, so this was a shock. If he cannot run for president, he should not be president. The greater problem is that it reveals that yes, Virginia, we do live under a managerial system. No one knows who is in charge, but a system is in charge. This lays it bare for them if they want to see it.

It also lays bare the problem the Democrats have had for a while with very few state-wide office holders with experience managing a bureaucracy. Consider that 2019-2020 cycle. They had thirty candidates. The boring, two term governors with accomplishments were white men and quickly discarded, having poll numbers of 0 or 1%. The stars were Senators with no accomplishments but who checked the right identity boxes. The Democrats were wiped out in gubernatorial elections from 2010 onwards and it showed. It still shows today. They knifed Gov. Cuomo in the back and left themselves with (right now) Whitmer and Newsom as potential governors to use. Whitmer herself reveals a problem. She comes from a swing state, yet governs as if she is in New York or California. The old training ground that produced moderate Democrat governors is gone. There is no Carter or Clinton type to aw shucks their way to portraying themselves as a moderate.

There is also a major problem that the Democrats have never dealt with and that is the failure of Obama to deliver. In 2008, he was a standard issues Democrat of the mid-‘00s. The moment of financial apocalypse elevated people’s hopes that maybe a banker wipeout was due. It did not happen. All of the economic inequality issues of the ‘00s remained under Obama, but there were social changes. Not quite, as that was culturally driven by other institutions and Obama went along for the ride. The salve of social issues and focus on woke things did nothing to alleviate the underlying feeling (yes, even on the left) that pauperization is the name of the game and immigration does mean all will be replaced.

Biden has delivered within his administration on more of these woke social issues, but people still feel poorer. The 1% are even further removed from the rest of society. The left does not want to admit they keep racking up wins because they are still miserable. Who cares if some tiny slice of society gets access to something when you now call fast food a luxury purchase? No one wants to admit they were conned. Biden has become a scapegoat for these failures despite pushing for every left-wing cause his young aides can put before him. They wanted someone else, someone younger, someone female or someone not white. Thursday and Friday were an outpouring of frustration with an old guard that will not get out of the way for the young to build fully automated luxury communism.

Per most rules and norms, Biden should be locked into the nomination. These are the Democrats, so rules do not apply. They are guidelines. This is their golem. They lied nonstop for him. They painted a picture of a sharp, good and honest man after decades of snarking at him for being a jerk and a blowhard buffoon. They manage our system and they manage him. They just need to manage him for four more months.

Win or lose, the Democrats face many issues. They are the proverbial bosses who run our show. No one believes it is a republic or a democracy now. The President Biden lie destroys that. The selected candidates doing nothing in office further prove that it is an unaccountable system. The Democrats are creeping towards a point where Biden’s decay forces them to finally admit that we live in a managed democracy and shut up, you get what we serve. This tip toes closer to an openly commie authoritarian regime. Those last when you don’t know who makes decisions and there is no class of individuals to target for removal. It becomes more precarious and requires much more force to maintain when everyone knows who is making their life miserable for no other reason than a suicidal ideology.