A Scathing Indictment of the "Progressive" Cause
American working class people have finally let the ruling elite know who signs their paycheques - to the chagrin of the latter.
Populist: a person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups. - Oxford English Dictionary
The Donald is back, the Orange Man riding his Red Wave. And once again the pollsters had it wrong.
In the aftermath, most media reports say that the pollsters underestimated Trump, but I think they really underestimated the people.
A classic example is the Iowa poll from the Des Moines Register which showed Harris leading Trump by three points. And the reason for this lead was supposedly because of widespread outrage among women voters over the restriction of abortion rights. Given that Trump ended up winning Iowa by 13 percentage points, it seems that if gender was an issue with the women in Iowa, it was more likely in regards to men being allowed to use a change room with their daughters. And possibly the issues of out of control DEI departments, “pro-Palestine” protests, and the cost of groceries.
The polls consistently overestimated Harris’s appeal (I mean, she's a Black/Asian Woman, for cryin’ out loud!) and underestimated Trump (the convicted felon). Like, do these pollsters even bother talking to actual Trump supporters?
More than anything, this election is a scathing indictment of so-called progressive policies (which are not really progressive at all). This was not all that surprising to me. The American people (and Canadians as well, by the way) are simply asking for someone who will stand up and say: Fuck that shit! I don't know that it even matters all that much who it is. True to form, the number of these people was grossly underestimated by the popular media and their spokespeople, hence the shock and horror that ensued. What seems exceedingly difficult for these progressives to grasp is that most of the people who think this way (and voted for Trump) are not the ones blowing up cases of beer with a shotgun or bouncing through the ditches in their 4x4s yelling HELL YA! They're just regular people who are trying to pay their bills and raise their families.
And now (also true to form) we have half the country sitting at home wondering: How on earth could anyone in their right mind disagree with MY beliefs?! And never would it ever occur to any of them that just maybe it's actually their beliefs that are the problem.
This is more than just the pendulum swinging, which it always has. What I'm specifically talking about here is what began in the 2010s (aka Wokeness). This explains why a convicted felon who is also apparently a seething, bigoted racist was able to siphon off a good portion of the Black and Hispanic vote, and in fact won a majority of the Hispanic male vote and the majority of the American Indian male vote as well. This, while the first woman of colour to run for president lost a significant portion of that reliable Democratic voting block. Evidently increasing numbers of minorities are much less concerned about the daily fear-mongering from the news media than the Left would like them to be. Even the women didn't show up for poor Kamala, and of course, the LA Times attributes this to racism, if you can believe that. And this may actually illustrate just how little faith the general public has in the news media, with their apocalyptic overtones filling the airwaves and pleading with Americans to save democracy and dismantle White Supremacy. Again, the people who are most surprised by this are surprised because they just don't believe that what I'm saying is a legitimate issue, so it can't possibly be true. And yet here we are.
And then there's the fact that while Trump got about the same number of votes as he did last time, there were evidently somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million Democratic voters who just stayed home on Tuesday night, even though they knew this was the most important election in history. At least according to their 2020 numbers. Make of that what you will.
It's happening here as well.
This exact situation is playing out in Canada as we speak. Parents’ rights rallies are being organized. There's continuous outrage over what our schools are pushing on our kids. Again, there are those who say this is a non-issue, and yet it is mobilizing thousands of concerned parents clear across the country.
There is serious pushback on so-called safe supply, where the government hands out free deadly, addictive drugs to addicts. This opposition is not only on an individual level, but from municipal and provincial governments as well.
Then there's the issue of trans rights where they collide with women's rights. People are legitimately upset that their concerns over this go largely unheeded by our federal government, who continues to chant their diversity, equity, and inclusion slogans ad nauseum.
There's the utterly ludicrous and irresponsible environmental policies - policies that do almost nothing for the environment but continue to make it that much harder for normal Canadians to make a living.
And of course there's the unrestrained mass immigration that our government has forced on us as part of the same DEI dogma that controls so much of what they do.
These are the issues people will be voting on in Canada next year, and to a large extent this is why people voted for Donald Trump as well. Obviously there are more tangible reasons as well, but many of those are merely a result of these other ones I mentioned, like the housing shortage and high taxation.
You think I'm making this up? The following chart reflects this reality very well:
In the above graphic by Abacus Data, the top five reasons Conservatives are planning to vote next year are:
Too much political correctness (67%)
A lack of freedom in Canada (63%)
The economy (55%)
Immigration (54%)
Crime and public safety (54%)
Climate change and the environment is at the very bottom of the list for Conservative voters, and at the very top for Liberal voters. Given that every reliable bit of polling shows that the Conservatives are poised to win a landslide victory if the election were held today, I think it's fair to say that it is the issues I outlined above that are going to power this election. I would be surprised if our election day doesn't make last Tuesday look like child's play. The Liberals main problem right from the time they took office is that they are completely out of touch with the average citizen, much like the Democratic Party.
Back to Trump
So, what does painting Trump as this supreme evil Nazi bigot say about that share of the country who voted for him? That number, by the way (75 million or so actual people) is dangerously close to twice the population of Canada. Are all these people really so repulsive and deceived? Are they all what we've been hearing almost non-stop for the last eight years - racists, misogynists, Nazis, transphobes, woman-haters, deniers, morons, and every other repulsive thing one could name - is this what they are? Or is it possible that these are rational, thinking people with perfectly legitimate reasons for voting the way they did?
I don't pretend to know what Donald Trump's intentions really are, but something tells me that all this apocalyptic doom and gloom we've been lambasted with for so long now (pretty much non-stop since before the 2016 election) is little more than desperate attempts at manipulation, and evidently most Americans feel that way as well.
I'm just so relieved we'll finally get a chance to find out for sure.
