Politico: Massive Upheaval In American Society

Don Surber draws attention to this significant Politico article: It’s not just the pandemic, stupid. You know things are looking pretty dire for the Left when Politico starts noticing societal upheaval—rather than the usual narrative of Americans uniting to move Progressively onward and upward, leaving the dwindling Neanderthals behind, clinging to their guns and Bibles. The upheaval Politico has noticed is manifested in widespread and deepening distrust for societal institutions that are almost exclusively controlled by the Left. Populism, it seems, didn’t die with the coup against Trump, nor are Americans buying the phony J6 “insurrection” narrative—that only deepens popular distrust of a key institution: Congress.

Politico’s narrative is that this distrust is caused by Congress’ failure to pass Zhou’s “Build Back Better” hard Left agenda. Zhou will be blamed for something that isn’t his fault. The reality, of course, is quite different. Zhou’s problems—beyond his illegitimate occupation of the White House—are of his own and the Dems’ making. Their agenda is what’s wildly unpopular—as poll after poll shows—and that’s why Manchin and Sinema can buck their party.

Here’s the heart of the article:

The Biden White House may be plotting out a new phase of the pandemic, one in which Americans live with the virus, aided by better therapeutics and enhanced knowledge of preventative steps to take.

This is the exit strategy from the Covid Regime we’ve been talking about. There are two problems with this scheme right from the start:

1. This “pivot” is taking too long and is becoming inevitable because of massive popular dissatisfaction—those people won’t be thanking the Zhou regime for doing under pressure and grudgingly what should have been done long ago. Nor do they trust the regime to do the right thing in the future. That’s the thing about distrust.

2. The popular dissatisfaction is fueled by people finally getting wise to the Leftist scam that has driven the Covid Regime. People also understand that the dishonesty has been advanced via censorship. The problem here is that people no longer rely on the MSM for factual news—and have turned elsewhere. For example, the majority of Dems under 50 who watch cable watch Tucker. Joe Rogan’s audience dwarfs CNN.

But the notion that this will be a political elixir for JOE BIDEN heading into the midterms seems increasingly far-fetched.

That’s because the lingering impact of Covid-19 is measured not just in the level of physical and mental suffering inflicted but by the serious erosion of trust in and use of U.S. institutions.

Across the board, a massive upheaval is underway in American society. Some of it can be seen through a positive lens. The historic number of workers quitting or changing their jobs, for example, doesn’t just show a wild labor market but that the balance of the business-worker relationship is tilting back towards workers.

But there’s another side to what’s happened to the business-worker relationship. Not only are workers taking advantage of new opportunities, but they’re actively looking for new opportunities because so many businesses broke the implicit bonds of trust with their employees during the Covid panic. The raw treatment of valuable and previously loyal employees continues and won’t be soon forgotten—or forgiven.

But, by and large, the data shows people are no longer turning to the groups, entities, organizations and community structures that had been social pillars.

Children are leaving public schools to attend private ones. School enrollment is down. Teachers are looking to leave their profession. So too are nurses. Trust in the healthcare system is declining as is trust in our federal healthcare authorities. Data collected during the pandemic showed that one-in-three practicing Christians dropped out of church completely. People are canceling their news subscriptions, and not just as a cost-saving measure. In one Nieman lab survey, 30 percent of respondents said they did so “due to ideology or politics.” Data kept by Morning Consult shows that trust in Congress is at new tracking lows; that only 47 percent of the population has faith in the U.S. electoral system; and that confidence in the Supreme Court went from 62 percent at the start of Biden’s presidency to 52 percent now.

Duh!

The Left apparently thought Americans wouldn’t notice what’s going on in the schools. Parents are yanking their kids from schools that teach race hatred and hatred for normal people, schools that force their daughters to share bathrooms with disturbed guys. And the Left continues to push this assault on the young. The flip side, reflected in the data, is: Why would any normal human being want to be a teacher in that sort of environment? Of course they’re leaving.

Health care? Nurses are the ones who have been seeing the betrayal of patients’ trust on a daily basis for the past two years—up close and personal. They heard the lies about Covid and seen the reality. They’re also the ones who see how broken the system is, and know that the federal authorities are largely to blame. And so the nurses leave.

The political and legal establishment? The political established has accomplished their new tracking lows the hard way—they earned it through unremitting efforts to rule over the heads of the people they’re supposed to serve.

The rest of the article is largely Dem operatives whistling through the graveyard, inventing a world in which “combat[ting restrictive election laws” is popular—as opposed to enhancing the security and honesty of elections. Read that if you need a laugh. For the rest, maybe it’s time to embrace the upheaval. It won’t be pretty, but it will be preferable to the Great Reset on normal human nature the Left has planned.