I think it was roughly three years ago in this column I had said that the pendulum that had swung so far left would eventually come back to the center and probably drift right.
The policies of the progressive left are not working and probably will never work because it is really not the will of the people. Yes, there are important Progressives that have been mucking up the dialogue for years but those voices are finally being ignored and things may be on their way to a place that most people agree on.
Proof of this I believe is right on the front page of the New York Times almost everyday now. Today, there were two articles about what amounts to the failure of the liberal agenda.
The first one is about “Rethinking Drug Policies in an Ailing Portland”. Didn’t take a genius to figure out that the quality of life would deteriorate pretty quickly when you have an extremely liberal policy towards drug use. The city of Portland went from being one of the most overrated places in the United States to a literal Hell hole. The city ( and the state of Oregon as well) basically decriminalized most forms of drug use back in 2020. In the process, they also handcuffed the city and county police which helped pushed the slide downhill faster. The Liberals won and the results were horrific. Even the leftist NYTimes admits in the article that this social experiment failed badly.
Let us be totally honest here. Did anyone in America actually think that that was going to work. If I had any Democrat friends I would ask them if they thought that was a good idea.
The other interesting article on the front page of the Times was about the failures of the climate activists getting wind power up and running. While this article is not really admitting that maybe, just maybe, we might have been sold a false bill of goods regarding wind power.
Let’s look at the actual facts from a business standpoint. In the past three weeks, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum spent a combined 113 billion dollars in acquisitions. Orsted ( The largest wind power company in the World) has pulled the plug on two major projects on the East Coast of the US. Scuttling a roughly 2.9 billion dollar investment opportunity.
You tell me which is the more viable industry now. Do you think that these massive energy companies are stupid? Not for a second. They know that this agenda is a lot more talk than actual substance and they are prepping for the next 50 years and not the next ten.
Again, I am not against alternative energy sources, but the far left’s belief that we need to and must become fossil fuel free is completely and utterly stupid. It sounds great when some nobody from Sweden starts yapping at the UN and becomes this environmental hero, but the reality is we need the dependability of fossil fuels.
There will be technological breakthroughs somewhere in the future that may alleviate the impact and stress we put on the planet but solar panels and monster turbines aren’t the breakthroughs we need.
Going back to my first point, and this is where the pendulum is starting to go to the center, liberal agendas are not working in any of the major cities in this country. They aren’t. Argue it and I will point out 28 cities that the quality of life has drastically dropped in the last ten years. Not one of those cities is Republican run.
Because I live in the New York Metropolitan area, I see first hand what might possibly be the two worst mayors in American history have done to a once great city.
Bill DiBlasio is easily the worst mayor that has ever led a city larger than 100 people. He had basically a socialist city council and he followed their lead and made law and order a joke. Mayor Adams, who spends as much time at all the exclusive clubs that have opened up as he does at City Hall, welcomed 250,000 illegal immigrants to a city with out the resources or the open arms. These immigrants, thank God have not become some vast criminal network like the NYPost was predicting but they still need housing and food and New York City was not prepared for it. It will eventually work itself out once the City, State and Federal Government come up with viable plan but for now, it is putting a huge strain on City finances and that will eventually impact the quality of life in New York.
That problem was not created by any Republican I know of. It is all the work of Feckless Joe Biden and once again, the New York Times last week finally admitted that the Biden Administration got it wrong, big time.
Going against a sitting Democrat in the White House? Yes, it happened.
Times are changing and hopefully the Liberal media will start looking at things from a clear, unbiased perspective. If the New York Times can report on a story fairly where some liberal agenda has failed miserably, anything can happen.
I couldn't agree with you more but to put that aside, what is/was the long term goal of the progressives?? Where was their intellegence with this plan of social engineering? How could it ever be a success? Again, what was the goal? or is what we have, the goal.