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‘Return America to a Dark Past’

Posted on | July 27, 2024 | 3 Comments

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One of the things every liberal must believe is Progress, a quasi-religious faith which G.K. Chesterton mocked as “people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.” The apostles of Progress would have us believe that 1959 — the year I was born — was a nightmare dystopia, despite those snazy new Chevy station wagons, and that if Donald Trump gets elected in November, we are all going back to 1959.

That was the message Kamala Harris shared in a speech to the American Federation of Teachers this past week:

THE VICE PRESIDENT: So, Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past. Donald Trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back to failed trickle-down economic policies —
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — back to union busting —
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — back to tax breaks for billionaires.
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Donald Trump and his allies want to cut Medicare and Social Security —
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — to stop student loan forgiveness for teachers and other public servants.
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And I say to AFT: They even want to eliminate the Department of Education —
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — and end Head Start —
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — which, of course, would take away preschool from hundreds of thousands of our children. He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families foot the bill. And he intends to end the Affordable Care Act. Now, think about that — to take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions. Remember what that was like?

Yes, ma’am, I remember those dark days before the “Affordable Care Act,” before — [ checks calendar ] — March 23, 2010.

“Grandpa, what was it like to live in ‘a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions’?”

Well, sonny, lemme tell you, it was plenty rough. Back in those days, people had to pay their own bills, so they worked what were called “full-time jobs,” instead of hustling as DoorDash drivers or peddling naked selfies on OnlyFans. Yes, I remember when gas was less than $3 a gallon and interest on the national debt was less than a trillion dollars a year . . .

Perhaps you see my point:

Eleven days ago (see “The Paranoid Temptation,” July 16), I pondered what we were being told about the then-recent assassination attempt against Trump:

So the son of two mental health professionals gets his hands on an AR-15, climbs onto a roof 130 yards from the Republican presidential nominee, and comes within a fraction of an inch of splattering Trump’s brains all over the place. Nothing suspicious at all about that.
Have you considered the possibility that you’re not paranoid enough?

Many more strange events have since transpired. On July 17, President Joe Biden canceled his schedule in Las Vegas and flew back to Delaware, after it was reported he had tested positive for COVID-19, a virus most Americans have forgotten about. So, the Republican challenger survives an assassination attempt on Sunday (July 13), and four days later, the incumbent Democrat has a sudden health crisis. Nothing suspicious at all. Random coincidence — a flock of black swans, as it were. . . .

That’s from my latest Substack column, and I hope everybody signs up for a free email subscription. You can also pay for a subscription ($5 a month, $30 a year) which might come in handy when I finally get around to creating content behind a paywall, which I haven’t done yet.

What’s the Substack policy on naked selfies? Never mind. I’m sure nobody would pay for that . . .



 

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