There is nothing the socialists can't do to the American people if they can get gas up to $8 a gallon. The sky is the limit for statism and fundamental transformation at that point. The final defeat of the American middle class would be at hand.
Think about the conversations you're having right now, about how you'd begin rearranging your life if gas became .50 or 1.00 more expensive. That's music to socialist ears. They quiver with anticipation at the thought of us losing all resistance to forcible life changes.
The problem has always been public resistance to rising gas prices. The Left has long daydreamed about making gas more expensive to cripple the middle class - Obama openly said he wanted $8 gas - but once the ratchet begins, the public squeals, and the Left loses elections.
But what if it's different this time? What if the pandemic-weakened, demoralized middle class can be held down while the Left pounds it with high gas prices and inflation? No matter what happens in the midterms, they can use the White House to block energy for 3 more years.
This is another Obamacare moment for the hard Left: a time when short-term political sacrifices can be made to effect long-term social engineering changes to the electorate. Obamacare was just a warm-up for what the Left can do to us this time around.
The hated middle class gone forever, subdued by crashing wages, diminished buying power, the death of small business? Everyone dependent on government benefits? Industry firmly under political control? Well worth losing more seats in a midterm that was going to be bad anyway.
Rising gas prices make everything more expensive. They reduce middle-class mobility and make people less resistant to central planning schemes. They create more room for massive government spending. "Socializing" the cost of living sounds better and better to more people.
The psychological effect I mentioned is not to be underestimated. People get used to the idea of changing their lives to accommodate "economic realities" they can no longer control. They value security far above liberty. Talk of "pursuing opportunity" becomes a bitter joke.
The middle class is the intersection of voting strength and economic independence. Destroy its sense of independence, entrepreneurship, and opportunity and its voting strength no longer matters. People arranging their lives around high gas prices have little sense of opportunity.
If you feel like every day is a nonstop battle to keep your head above water, that our national leadership needs your total obedience and unquestioning support to keep endless crises at bay, you won't vote like a true middle class. You'll want protection, not opportunity. /end
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