Not So Calm Before The Storm

Everybody, including the Russians, seems to be in a waiting-for-the-Midterms mode lately. The elections promise to release a political storm in America, with far reaching effects. While the elections will be decided on domestic political issues, the latest polling—the effects of which are already being reflected in guarded GOP statements—shows that 48% of Americans believe that US involvement in the war on Russia is working against our interests. The polling doesn’t dig really deeply into the attitudes behind the results—does the public realize that this really is a war with Russia, not just aid to Ukraine? Is the thinking that the spending on the war is out of control? Is it that it detracts from addressing America’s many manifest problems? No doubt there’s a bit of all-of-the-above mixed in, and distrust of the ruling class’ willingness to level with the public is also bound to be an important factor. The Russia Hoax, the faux impeachments, the fraudulent 2020 election, the abuses of the Covid Regime in all its manifestations (dangerous meds to faked public health mandates to lockdowns)—all this is the background to the breakdown in public trust and is the backdrop to the election, even if there’s little direct polling on this being put out.

American Greatness features a fine article today that captures one aspect—but a supremely important one—of the public’s distrust for the ruling elite:

America’s New Great Awakening

A majority of Americans distrust the media and view the press a threat. And as usual, the media seems utterly clueless that they have created the darkness in which democracy dies.

Americans’ Great Awakening is now so well underway that even pollsters and left-of-center opinion writers are finally coming to understand the public’s hatred for a legacy, corporate media that has fully abandoned any pretense of being a common source for information. It has ripped off its mask to reveal itself as the partisan propaganda machine for the state narrative that it has long been undercover. It’s no exaggeration to say the media is the preeminent domestic threat to America.

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Take a gander at what Peter Savodnik, a left-of-center writer formerly of Vanity Fair and the London Guardian, wrote last week after the jaw-dropping Fetterman-Oz debate debacle:

From Russiagate to the lab leak theory to the riots in the summer of 2020 to the effect of school closures during the pandemic, reporters seem increasingly incapable of reporting honestly and comprehensively on the most important issues of the day. Last night, for anyone who was watching the debate with eyes wide open, that much was indisputable.

Savodnik is hardly alone as we see an increasing array of serious left-wing journalists being red-pilled about their industry and walking away, including former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss; Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald; Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi; Vox reporter Matt Yglesias and even former magazine columnists such as the far-left Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, to name a few. Again, not a right-winger among them, but all see what the corporate media has become and at least have the integrity to publicly acknowledge it.

As even the Bezos Post reported:

As it turns out, 84 percent of respondents said yes, the mainstream media posed a threat to democracy, including 6 in 10 who said it posed a major threat. That was the highest percentage of any of the 10 options the pollsters presented—in part because it was one of the few options for which there was bipartisan support.

One assumes—at least I do—that many voters are itching to use their ballots to express their hatred and distrust for the political establishment. That usually works heavily against the incumbent party.

As for what this portends, this tweet is a sure tell, considering the source, that the election will be stormy in its effects—this doesn’t happen in America without reflecting a deep upset in the public psyche:

Jake Tapper @jaketapper

Just asked a Democratic pollster what he’s seeing out there and this is what he sent back 👇

Landfall as a CAT 4? Whoa! And with all of this we’re seeing increasing backbiting and finger pointing among Dems—a sure sign that the internal polling story is probably worse than what we’re seeing. That’s the logical deduction from the Dem pollster’s response.

Just coming off another steep rise in interest rates, Tom Luongo points to the second—the domestic—front in the Fed’s war on Davos/globalists. Raising the rates at which the deficit is financed will put extreme pressure on the coming GOP majority to do something drastic to get spending under control:

Rachel Blevins @RachBlevins

“[Powell] is raising interest rates to force the incoming Congress after the Mid-Terms next week onto a more sustainable fiscal path…” @TFL1728 on why Powell is going to war with the Biden Admin and making Congress pay to continue to “spend money like drunken sailors.”

The US is certainly able to right the ship of state, in terms of political-economical fundamentals. The real question, of course, is whether the American body politic is up to the self examination and discipline that’s called for. It’s a situation that begs for real leadership. This 45 minute Ray Dalio video (recently recommended by a commenter) sketches out the position the American Empire finds itself in—the war on Russia is clearly an effort by the ruling class to maintain America’s world hegemony, but without making touch decisions:

If you watch this video, note the key role played in decline by the elite ruling classes. Americans sense that this is at play.

All of this accounts for the uncharacteristic lack of calm that we’re experiencing ahead of these elections. “Lack of calm” is definitely an understatement, so to capture that we turn to Jonathan Turley, who almost—but not quite—loses his usual professorial measured demeanor. One would like to get him to write an article with a few of his favorite adult beverages taken, to encourage him to say what he really thinks. What he’s describing is pretty much unprecedented, except that the Dems are using obviously mentally handicapped people to let lose their hatred and contempt for the American people:

Constitutional defamation: Democrats, not democracy, are in danger this election

Historian Michael Beschloss’s warning on MSNBC — speculating that “our children will be arrested and conceivably killed” if Republicans win control of Congress — summed up the final pitch by President Biden and fellow Democrats ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Apparently, it is not gas prices, the economy or crime that once again are the top polling issues for voters. Instead, it is democracy or death, gas or grandchildren — you choose.

Biden returned to this theme in what White House chief of staff Ron Klain called his “final warning” to voters. … “make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us.” In other words, be afraid, be very afraid.

Biden was widely criticized for an earlier Philadelphia speech that denounced political opponents as fascists plotting to overthrow democracy. Yet he and others have returned to that theme as Democrats appear to be losing ground even in traditional blue states. …

The president’s attacks do not appear to be gaining much traction, with polls showing that most people view him as inciting political unrest. …

Whereas the media once pushed a false Russia collusion claim in the 2016 election, this time it is pushing a claim that the GOP itself represents the threat to our liberties and very lives.

Nope. Americans aren’t that dumb. As noted above, and documented in polling, Americans do think that democracy is at risk—and they overwhelmingly blame the lying (even Turley says “dishonest”) MSM branch of the ruling class for that. The mild mannered Professor Turley agrees, concluding that the Dems are defaming our very constitutional order. One is left wondering why Turley doesn’t seem to get that contempt for that order is at the heart of the Prog mentality. Still, it’s a really good read.

Is there anything else behind this hysteria? Many commentators have noted that the Progs, thwarted by Trump and his SCOTUS, have pulled out virtually all stops in trying to shove their agenda down the nation’s throat. What has resulted has been most noticeable in traditionally Dem constituencies, who are rejecting the Cultural Marxist makeover that aims to tear down any order based in human nature—starting with our founding documents. I can do no better than recommend Don Surber’s recent post:

Dems chose LGBT over Muslims and Hispanics

Don covers a lot of ground. The bottom line is that Dems are freaking over the defection of what they regarded as their chattel constituencies. Their reaction? Well, start with NPR broadcasting a recording of an abortion. Please don’t anyone tell me that anything remotely near a majority of suburban women liked that.

King Canute was famously unable to stop the tide from rolling in. No record was kept of the color of that tide. Ultimately, my guess is that this wave is too big to stop. That’s when the real serious stuff will start.

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