The American middle class is not there yet. Yes, these quarterly picnics are nice and all, but the American middle class is nowhere close to uncomfortable enough for that kind of change.
The only way out at the moment is to vote our way out. I know people are saying, "Oh, it's too late for that!"
Pfft. How do we know? We haven't really actually tried yet.
They're not uncomfortable enough yet. All kinds of people lean back on their privilege and their comfort and don't show up.
That'll change eventually unless a critical number of them decide things have gone on long enough. I'm optimistic we do well in 2026. 2028 could be a good year as well. But that is far away, and we are amazingly good at Green Bay Packering ourselves.
People will have to actually vote. Which means politicians will need to motivate them. The self-elected loyalty enforcers will need to zip it. And the Internet needs to take a hammer to their modems, because Left-leaning social media ecosystems are absolutely unbearable to the average voter. And they are in too deep to perceive it. They do not realize how unlikable they are to people who are not 100% like them.
It has been losing us elections for a solid decade now. Imagine how 2020 would've gone without the pandemic.
The self-described political junkies? Are really bad at politics. So this needs to be the year of chill on the zany and pretending the rest of the world thinks exactly like us. Because they don't, and their votes have too frequently reflected that in recent years.
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