Sunday Thoughts

“Reality is the thing that does not go away when you stop believing in it” is a useful way of thinking about much of what makes up our politics. The Democrats and the people we call the left are running into this exact same problem as they struggle to deal with Trump. They are desperately trying to organize a resistance, but they are finding few takers. The “leaders” are now people like Ocasio-Cortez.

It is one of the rare occasions where the people we call the right were ahead of the people we call the left. The collapse of conservatism started in 2015 when the fossils in charge of it were pushed aside by a new movement and a new leader. The people we call the left continued on with business as usual, assuming that their dancing partner would eventually return.

That is what Chuck Schumer told people last year. He just assumed everything would return to normal. The old arrangement had been in place for so long that party leadership came to think it was the natural order. The Democrats now face a future in which their remaining talent is too old to make it up the stairs and its young talent is too crazy and stupid to be allowed near the stairs.

There is also the fact that the left side no longer had a money source outside of government. The right side could still shake down private donors on the promise of low taxes and special deals for business, but the left side became a ward of the state over the last decades. Now that the Trump admin is attacking their money source, they cannot function.

That is why we see that fossil Bernie Sanders shuffling around the country with Sandy Cortez. There is some organic support for 19th century socialism. It is not a big audience, but enough to fill a high school gym to hear speeches from yesteryear. The irony, of course, is that they are now arguing against the policies that would help the people they claim to represent, the working class.

The Democrats are in the same spot they were after they evicted Nixon. They are a cause in search of a purpose, led by people with no vision of the future. The difference is that in the 1970’s the baby boomers were coming along, which meant a fresh infusion of smart white people. The next generation of the left is not white and implacably antiwhite.

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