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Saturday, September 21, 2019

Ending Delusions

There are some rather common delusions that have affected our country with regard to the 2020 presidential campaign.  It's worth pointing those out.

1.  Old Joe Biden is the "front runner" for the Dem nomination.  This is delusional thinking.  Biden's position has been deteriorating as videos of him forgetting things like where he is or what he just said surface.  Then there's those rambling answers to easy questions where Old Joe doesn't even seem to try to respond to the question.  More and more, these events will stop seeming like stylistic issues and begin looking like really bad characteristics for someone to have if he has his finger on the nuclear button.  It may take time to develop completely, but Biden's campagin is going to implode.

2.  Elizabeth Warren will be stopped because of her past lies about being part native American.  By now, Warren is well known for her false assertions that she is part Cherokee.  That's the point; the issue is well known.  Other than perhaps a few thousand native Americans, there are unlikely to be many people who will base their votes on lies Warren told in the past.  Remember, Trump undoubtedly told lies in the past as well.

What will stop Warren are her extreme far left positions.  She wants to stop fracking and oil drilling on federal land and off shore.  This move would raise energy prices in dramatic fashion, make the USA dependent again on oil from the Middle East and kill literally millions of American jobs.  That's not going to win Warren any votes from anyone other than the environmental extremists who will already be voting 100% Democrat.  Warren's tax plans are also going to be killers for her candidacy.  For the last few months, Warren has refused to admit that to carry out her plans like medicare for all, free college, and the like, there will be a massive tax increase on middle class Americans.  The wealthy just don't have enough to fund these programs through increased taxation.  Then there's Warren's plans to break up all the banks and the tech companies and the like.  It's almost as if Warren is plotting a way to try to start a depression.  That won't be popular with voters once explained.

3.  Bernie Sanders is not going to win either.  There just aren't enough voters who want and angry old man as their leader.

4.  President Trump is not going to implode as the campaign progresses.  Trump has already withstood a three year onslaught of the most horrific nature.  He's not going to stumble now.  Those who believe to the contrary are delusional.


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