In my neighborhood there’s an almost total one-to-one correspondence between Biden signs and the stereotypical members of the Democratic party circa 2020.
Once the Democratic party was the home of the blue collar worker, who toiled in private industry, for companies who were governed by the economic rules of a free economy.
If the workers did their jobs, if the company management did its job, there would be profit and the company would prosper. If either, or both failed, the companies were gone.
This shared incentive to be productive was healthy. Workers and management had skin in the game and so were motivated to do well. It wasn’t perfect, but it was preferable to what we have now.
Oh, how much this has changed.
The Democratic party now is founded on a base of public employees, people working for governments or other institutions such as schools and universities. These people function outside the real economy and so are free to make unrealistic compensation and pension demands and produce inferior products without penalty, witness our nation’s declining education ranking vs. the rest of the world.
Governmental agencies also are falling down on the job. Try dealing with the people at Social Security, the IRS, or Medicare. There are good people in these operations, but they seem to be the minority, overwhelmed by co-workers who show up and give half-baked effort secure in the knowledge there is no penalty.
Add in the Democratic party’s pandering to underclasses of every description, whose hands are out constantly for governmental largess the Democrats are only too willing to dispense – in exchange for their continued support at the polls.
This prospect was foreseen in a quote widely attributed to Founding Father Ben Franklin: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
Give the Democrats credit for recognizing the public sector would be ever-expanding, at the expense of the ever-shrinking private sector.
It’s a parallel to Gresham’s Law, wherein bad money drives out good. When the government went away from silver coinage, those coins rapidly disappeared from circulation, replaced by the silver-clad copper slugs of the present.
So it is that bad jobs, which survive even when they are overpaid and inefficient, drive out the good jobs that earn their keep, so to speak.
Republicans are on the right side of the economic equation, but they are losing the battle for the minds of the public due to the inescapable reality of human nature.
We are a modern-day Roman empire, distracting the masses with the bread and circuses of governmental handouts to distract them from the reality that this does not endure in the long run. As former Great Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher correctly observed, socialism only works until you run out of other people’s money to spend.
The people in my neighborhood with Biden signs in their yards virtually all work for the government, work for schools, are retired from working for schools, or just aren’t working, period. Meanwhile, those with Trump signs work for private businesses, or are retired from same.
If you like the direction the country is headed, if you want the false security offered by drone-like life in the governmental womb, vote Biden.
On the other hand, should you be inclined to try to stem this trend and return the country to its former reliance on private business and the individual, you vote Trump.
The choice is that clear and against that backdrop, it’s ragingly mindboggling how anyone would find themselves straddling the undecided fence at this late date.
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