As IF Times

It’s hard to believe that we’re embarking upon yet another bruising election season soon…although you’d be forgiven if you thought the last one was still going on.  The whining and bleating about the results of the last Presidential election held almost 3 years ago still echoes like the screech of vultures circling above picked over carrion.

As shown in the attached graphic,  venerable news outlet CNN just displayed the results of theoretical matchups between the declared Democratic candidates and the presumed opponent Donald Trump. Even hardcore leftists would take this graphic with a barrel of salt…I mean come on, it’s CNN.  In the meantime, many more presidential aspirants are popping up like mushrooms after a rainfall in a swampy forest including the biggest loon bag of all, Bill De Blasio.  At present, there are over 20 declared candidates who genuinely think that there are enough non institutionalized people out there that would subscribe to their version of reality.

The vast majority of the declared candidates are from the states that normally lean heavily Democratic and that’s not really a surprise.  California, New York, Massachusetts are known to be the fonts of unhinged logic and hence the preponderance of spiral eyed politicos emanate from those states. The majority of them are lawyers who have done nothing in their lives but pander to their constituencies with increasingly extreme rhetoric.  None have built a business or endured the hardships of running one.  The one contender that has, Howard Shultz, is shunned by the mainstream Democrats as being a spoiler since he chooses to run as an Independant.

You would think that mass delusion has taken hold of these candidates because there is not the remotest of chances that they would be embraced by any outside of their protected enclaves. To the degree that they’ve even articulated a view for America, those views are as appealing to the values of Americans as a skunk at a picnic.  Unfortunately, that is the source of their genius.  They don’t have to appeal to the majority of Americans.  They need only to corral the votes of those in their populous constituencies, since there may be enough seats there to tip the balance of the houses.  So it’s a about strategy and tactics not about ideology.

Some like De Blasio and Eric Swalwell don’t even try to hide their mental condition since their constituents are like minded as proven by their being voted into office.  Some like Biden have a long history of being useless, but apparently also not a disqualifier. Fortunately as time goes on, the various faults of the candidates will become glaringly obvious under the harsh light of policy revelations…especially since, like the infamous John Kerry,  many of them were for policy ‘X’ before they were against it. As noted, many (and most) aspirants to political office are lawyers.   By definition, lawyers are not beholden to principles since their education and vocation are to argue for their version of truth.  Clearly their value system is not rooted in absolutes but in relativity.

In the dawning years of America, such a notion had been considered when drawing up the basic structure of public governance.  David Dodge, an archival research expert,  discusses this in his research on the missing 13th amendment.  Essentially, the gist of it was that lawyers were to be prohibited from holding public office.  This may have been prescient on the part of the founders way back when, but it seems especially apt today when it appears that a law degree is common as cold sores at a frat party…and as easy to get.

Source: Joe Biden’s affectionate, physical style with women comes under scrutiny – The Washington Post

There’s not a chance that I would be defending a man like Joe Biden.  This person has spent his entire lifetime in the political arena, doing essentially nothing of any import and who has a value system that is as slippery as eels in a oil can. Biden has been and still is the Poohbah of pandering; he’ll bend to any demographic and interest group that he may be able to wring some votes from. However, the unspoken truth  is that he’s a relatively harmless character; sort of an Elmer Fudd without the hat and gun. Thus, his gaffe filled career, which could be comedy gold in a Netflix series, flourished despite demonstrable ineptitude.

But suddenly, he seems to have outlived his usefulness.  The warm confines of the Democratic Party have become decidedly less friendly as the recent allegations of improper behavior from his past are being levelled at him from women appearing  out of nowhere.  Take that Brett Kavanaugh! In Joe’s case, there are no explicit accusations of any actual sexual misconduct; rather they all fall into the realm of creepiness, as in, they were made to feel ‘uncomfortable’.  Oddly, after a lifetime of being a Democratic pillar, suddenly women are rushing to tell their tales of hair sniffing, shoulder touching and nose rubbing.  Women and hurt feelings.  Well that’s kryptonite.

It’s amusing to see Uncle Joe being hoisted on his own petard since he was at the forefront of the ‘women must be believed’ narrative when the flames were under the feet of his Republican opponents.  But whatever schadenfreude satisfaction we may derive is eclipsed by the dark reality of the evil of the default tactic being used today to discredit and neutralize political opponents.  That heinous crime of course,  is hurting someone’s feelings.  To make matters worse, there’s no statute of limitations on the transgression.  If someone feels like venting after 20 years and even with fuzzy recollections, it’s as good as yesterday’s crime….if you can get the right media attention.

Women, but also gays, lesbians, transgenders, cis-genders and of course minorities and certain religious sects are apparently particularly vulnerable to hurt-y feelings and consequently, those not in the aforementioned groups, which leaves mostly men, are expected to yield to their demands for all and sundry manner of reparations and concessions.

In direct contrast to the just and equal society that everyone bleats about, we have instead balkanized the population into discrete subclasses of the oppressed, the aggrieved and the slightly inconvenienced. The idiocy has extended past actual transgressions, to include even things that merely make someone feel unsafe.  The not yet fully formed minds of college kids are convinced that such a thing as a safe place can actually exist. If you’re not a male, especially a white male, then the chances are good that you are being oppressed or somehow violated even if you don’t know it.  Some may recognize this as the famous communist dictum that all are equal, but some are more equal than others.

This pervasive spread of delusion is not isolated.  It has brought forth political aspirants who espouse the most unhinged views which only years ago would have gotten them fitted in suits with the fancy arms that tie at the back. Now, these nutters have their hands on the levers of power, of the military and the future of the nation’s children. Vague and squishy notions borne of irrational emotions and weepy sentiments are eclipsing the logic and sobriety required of  public policy.

Joe Biden may be a marginal character but if they are willing to throw that old Democratic warhorse under the bus in pursuit of an even nuttier agenda, you know that the zombies have taken over that party.