Sunday Thoughts October 16, 2022

If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday. 

I thought at this point I would be doing more election stuff, but the media seems to be much lighter on this stuff than I expected. I figured by now it would be wall-to-wall conspiracy theories about how the invisible army of fascists were plotting to steal our democracy! Those would be followed with waves of heroic tales of how brave drones from the uniparty are fighting to save our democracy. Instead, it is still fairly light, as if the narrative machine has broken down.

It could be the terrible polling that the uniparty has, but never releases. Since all of the polling companies compete for contracts from uniparty candidates, they have two sets of books, one for the rubes and one for the insiders. The polling we get to see says the uniparty is going to have a bad time of it next month. That probably means the secret polls are even worse. As a result, they are buckling up to explain the result in a way that works for the party.

There is also the economic stuff. That is not getting anywhere near the attention that it warrants, but in this case, I think it is due to narrative collapse. Back in the summer they were all running with the official story that inflation was transitory. It was a carry over from Covid and the insurrection. They always get high off their own supply, so they were sure by now the economy would be booming. Now they have no idea how to respond to the disconfirmation.

I think we are on the cusp of interesting times. It feels like a lot of things are coming to a head at the same time. There is the economy, which may be worse than is known. Then you have the political crisis looming over Biden’s mental condition. You have Europe teetering on the edge collapse. The Ukraine war is headed for a new, much more lethal phase. Throw in the pending arrest of Donald Trump and we could be in for some very hairy times. 

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