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People are noticing the drop in U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal’s approval rating. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, Blumenthal’s approval has dipped into a danger-red area.
“The job approval of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who is
seeking a third term this fall, CTMirror reports, “was his worst in
Quinnipiac polling since the Democrat took office in 2011. He was barely above
water: 45% approve while 43% disapprove.”
Coincidentally, the approval rating of President Joe Biden, which ranges from 36% to
43%, is underwater.
The New York Post, every postmodern
progressive’s bete noir, suggests
that Biden’s reactionary economic policies may lie at the root of his disfavor,
but these roots may go deeper than anyone supposes.
“President Biden,” a Post commentator writes, has dismissed
inflation worries, “saying that Milton Friedman — the famed inflation-fighting
economist — no longer runs the show. Well, the late economist certainly didn’t
run Biden’s show, but his observation that inflation is always and everywhere a
monetary phenomenon was borne out in spades as prices took off.
“And it was a double whammy. Inflation comes when you have
too much money chasing too few goods. The spending part provided the
excess money, but the Biden team was right there helping to ensure fewer goods,
too.”
From the very moment Biden, a reanimated postmodern
progressive, set foot in the White House, he has been detaching prudent
economic policy from his Cloud-Cuckoo vision of the way things ought to
be. To put it bluntly, Biden wants to turn back the clock to 1955, when noted
conservative polemicist Bill Buckley vowed in the first issue of National Review to position
conservatives athwart history, largely progressive at the time, yelling “Stop!”
Biden began his political career at the age of 27. He was, then and now, a derivative rather than
a creative politician, noted for plundering and sometimes plagiarizing other
people’s thoughts.
Americans quickly tire of unimaginative, reactionary
politicians who do not know when to leave the political stage, always the
better part of valor.
These days, every time Americans visit gas pumps, they know
from their shrinking salaries and the diminishing purchase value of the dollar
that something is amiss. And this knowledge is reaffirmed whenever mothers,
deeply opposed to theories that aim to remake history and the family, set off
in search of baby formula, now scarce because transcendent regulators
imprudently shut down a plant that provided about 40 percent of baby formula
consumed in the United States -- when they most certainly knew the shutdown
would empty shelves.
Not to worry, Bidenites have assured panicky mothers – we’re
on it! Reactionary politicians are always adept at providing politically insufficient
solutions to economic problems they have caused, safe behind the barricades of
an increasingly postmodern progressive media that would not know Friedman
economics from the proverbial “hole in the ground.”
Is there a gas shortage caused in large part by a Biden
policy that has reduced the supply of fossil fuel? Not to worry, the postmodern
progressive reactionaries say, we will tap into reserve supplies set aside for
emergencies, and we may temporarily reduce the federal tax on a product we wish
to eliminate in the near future to save the planet from environmental
degradation. In the meantime, we will flood the states with reserve cash, the
result of excessive taxation, borrowing, and the printing of money that, Milton
Freedman tells us, produce debt, inflation and pretty political speeches that
seem to repeal economic laws.
Blumenthal is Biden’s political godchild. Both are buoys on
the rising postmodern progressive tide that, most unwoke journalists will be
surprised to learn, is fed by dark tributaries such as Gramscian Marxism.
“Socialism,” Antonio Gramsci wrote
in one of three prison notebooks, “… is precisely the religion that must
overwhelm Christianity … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first
capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and
the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
Cultural tribalism, the attempt to make of one many,
economic egalitarianism, historical revisionism, the centralization of
political power, a remorseless attack on American political experiment, the
disparagement of institutions central to the culture such as the family, the
neighborhood, municipal government, all have fallen out of the cultural Marxism
of Gramsci’s prison notebooks.
Hegemonic bourgeois politics, always downstream from culture,
can only be changed by the construction of a rival cultural hegemony, Gramsci
theorized. Foundational institutions must first be held up to contempt, then
eliminated. Gramsci’s prison diaries have been, in the postmodern world, much more
fruitful than Marx’s now outworn economic class theory.
The Republican Party in Connecticut has been unwilling over
the years to focus on cultural issues. Both Biden and Blumenthal have benefited
greatly from such indifference. Here and there in Connecticut politics, one
sees signs among voters of a blowback, a reaffirmation of Isaac Newton’s third
law of motion: “Whenever one object
exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and
opposite on the first.”
Recent poll ratings
are an indication that cultural revolutionists among us have yet to repeal
scientific laws, and Blumenthal seems unaware that political history, even in
deep blue Connecticut, may steamroll the absurd efforts of postmodern utopians
to make the world over anew.
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