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I'm old enough to remember panicked red-state Democrats denouncing Obama's crazy energy policies and running against them in the 2014 midterm election.
I'm old enough to remember Obama telling us sky-high gas prices were here to stay, and our only hope was to wait for the development of algae-powered cars in 20 years or so.
I'm old enough to remember Obama blaming high gas prices on evil speculators and his terrified aides whispering to reporters they had no idea what he was talking about.
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It would be nice if we could get past the notion that controversy equals merit. Sometimes you're not "living rent-free in their heads" or "taking fire because your'e over the target." You're suffering well-deserved criticism for saying something foolish or offensive.
It's gotten worse because of Internet culture, no doubt, where "hate clicks count the same." Cultivating controversy as a path to fame has never been easier. The quality of commentary is less important than its ability to provoke adversaries, rally allies, and go viral.
We've reached the absurd situation where people exaggerate outrage, or even conjure it out of thin air, so they can claim to be victims or pose as powerful champions whose enemies want to destroy them at all costs.
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Trump himself has a tendency to point to Wall Street for good news about his policies, but he really ought to be phrasing it this way: "Wall Street struggled mightily while Main didn't."
We don't need a little tinkering around the edges of a moribund centralized economy to make investors happy. We need wholesale transformation at the Main Street level - people falling in love with capitalism again and laughing socialist buffoons off the stage.
I was gloomy yesterday about the debt crisis, but if there's one thing that MIGHT turn it around, it would be a seismic movement toward free markets. The demand for small government must increase before a crucial mass of voters will seriously entertain calls for debt reduction.
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This is dangerous and a day of reckoning is fast approaching. Unfortunately the American electorate has demonstrated very little interest in doing anything about it. I'm not sure anything less than the leading edge of fiscal collapse will change their minds.
It's a bitter irony that people just don't see the national debt as a "pocketbook issue." For many it's just a partisan cudgel - the Left pretends to care about the debt when it wants to raise taxes, the Right to criticize left-wing spending programs.
But as far as their day-to-day lives go, the bulk of the electorate thinks of the debt as an abstract and distant problem, while any serious effort to control it would have direct and immediate negative effects on their lives, or the lives of dependent groups.
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