This is not the way I expected it to go down.

I expected revolution first, not the system working.

But I still don’t believe in the system, not anymore. But one thing’s for sure, it’s definitely a case of winners and losers, income inequality has burgeoned, the American Dream is just that…as George Carlin said, you’ve got to be dreaming to believe it!

Now what flummoxes me completely is how the Democratic establishment is so out of touch. How they’re exactly what the Republicans describe, elites who think they know better who are looking out for themselves despite giving occasional lip service to the little people.

What did they expect, that this would go on forever?

That’s like believing a band from the sixties will dominate the charts in the twenty first century. That’s not the way it works, things change, people’s attitudes change. The only enterprise that had this right was MTV, which refused to age with its audience. It scrubbed the deck clean every few years, out with the old veejays, in with the new.

And the oldsters complained. Not only that their heroes were gone, but that the new hosts and programming weren’t as good…

We were used to hearing this from the Greatest Generation, the belief in the Big Band era, the dismissal of those pesky kids. But the bottom line is we never turned back, we only go forward, which is why the MAGA construct is so specious. Kinda like that best seller “Yesteryear,” you can’t do it, despite the trad wife influencers.

So if you don’t meet people where they are, hopefully get ahead of them, you will lose them. Politics is not a business of facts, but of hearts and minds. Give Trump credit for realizing this, while the Democrats just promised us more of what we had before. That’s how Trump won twice. First Hillary and then Kamala. They were afraid of offending their enablers, their predecessors, they were playing the game when the general public had stopped believing in the game.

The right wing trope right now is how there are more members of the upper middle class than ever before. It’s voodoo. Trying to get us to deny our own experience. But they’ve been doing this for years. We watched January 6th on our screens, but they keep saying what we saw wasn’t what happened, and the offenders were patriots who deserved freedom. Not only was this untrue, it divorced the general public from the system even more.

The story of the last twenty four hours is about Trump’s $2 billion income last year. Do I think this will make any difference, do I think this will result in him losing power?

Not a lick. I can’t even believe he’s flying that Qatar 747. Free, my ass. Everybody knows if you get something you owe something, it’s Life 101. And we’re supposed to believe Qatar just wanted to get rid of it, wanted Trump to take it off their hands?

Yeah, right.

But the specifics now have no impact, it’s a tsunami of B.S. And the public knows it.

So what we’ve got is talking heads, media inured to the establishment, who are positively shocked that Democratic socialists are winning elections.

And the way they deal with this is to laugh hysterically, talk about how uninformed the voters are, how the policies of these newly anointed candidates are out of touch with reality.

I’m not endorsing so many of their views. The anti-Israel positions scare me in a country where antisemitism is rampant, but emotionally, I get it.

They’re harnessing the sick and tired populace. Who want to throw a stick in the spokes.

Graham Platner… A prep school kid who doesn’t know what a Nazi symbol is?

Yeah, right.

But it no longer matters. That’s how much people want to get rid of the wishy-washy ultimately voting with Trump Susan Collins.

As far as running a usual suspect… Only the Democratic machine could think that this would work. People want anger, they want edges, they don’t want more of the same.

So will Democrats take power?

Well, the real story going forward is voter interference, taking people off the roles, throwing out ballots. But the funny thing is this time around, Trump is doing it all in public, out front. He does everything this way now. And people feel they have no way to counter him.

As far as believing in the Supreme Court… Not only do people no longer believe in politicians, they don’t believe in judges either. All those wannabes who refused to say Trump lost the election in 2020? That’s bizarroland.

And all the excuses. Originalism?  Yup, that’s what the general public wants to hear, let’s make our decisions by trying to look into the minds of two hundred and fifty year old people. Hell, why don’t we go back further, to Caesar, Aristotle… Why don’t we just text them!

In an era where Millennials and Gen-Z think their parents are out of touch, you want them to believe in this Ouija board process?

Gimme a break.

Yes, the government has lost the youngsters.

David Hogg injects a dose of reality into the DNC and he has to resign. His crime was planning to fund primary challenges against incumbent Democrats. But lo and behold, these challengers are winning anyway!

We keep hearing the Democratic party is a big tent. But not the DNC! You’ve got to pay dues, kiss ass, work your way up the system…. That’s how we got into this mess!

As for the Dems in Congress, they keep saying their hands are tied. Well, Trump’s hands are tied but he keeps acting with impunity. The Democrats are akin to Neville Chamberlain, just appease the threat, as long as it’s not right on your doorstep. Yup, the elected Democratic officials believe as long as they have their jobs and are getting paid, what’s the problem? Where’s Churchill when we need him!

A sports teams goes on a losing streak and they fire the coach. The Democrats want to run Biden for another term. A faux pas that is still costing them. At least Hillary has gone on record it was a mistake. Until the rest of the Democrats go on record and say this don’t expect the electorate to believe them, to go along with them.

Now the worst thing about Democratic socialists is the name. They should hire Frank Luntz, who changed the moniker of the estate tax to the death tax, to come up with a new designation. The bottom line is we already have socialism in America, it’s right in the name of Social Security!  This is not the USSR’s communism… Then again, these are the same bubble-dwellers who came up with the phrase “Defund the police.” No one wants this! They may want change, but everybody is in favor of law and order, especially those who live in poorer, more dangerous neighborhoods.

So what we’ve got is cable networks debating the meaning of these recent elections. The same ones who didn’t foresee these results. They specialize in creating noise, they’re rooting for the home team all the time and…

Most people don’t watch them.

And most people don’t read the paper.

And the younger generations are criticized for being online… Where do you expect them to get their information? If you think they’re going back to legacy outlets, you probably don’t have a TikTok account. Can these ancient bozos at least meet people where they are?

No, all we get is criticism, they know better.

Like I said, how could you know better if you’ve never been on social media? It’s like our parents opining about the Beatles, never mind Jimi Hendrix.

It’s more about feelings than facts. People feel they’ve been screwed over, they’re sick and tired and they don’t want to take it anymore, and the only ones promising change are these Democratic socialists, the electorate is willing to overlook so much just to get someone in power who they can relate to, who they think knows them and will speak for them.

So what happens going forward? Do these new Democratic socialists all win their seats or does the public think they’re too woke and they get decimated.

Or even if they get elected, will there be any change?

This is the story of today’s America. Nobody believes anybody else is thinking about them, caring about them. So they need to take matters into their own hands. What form it takes…

This time it’s a slate of Democratic socialists.

But this is not the last chapter of the story.

This illustrates why we play the game. We think we know the result, but we don’t know for real until it’s over, when we’re oftentimes surprised. The Knicks NBA champions? And do you see how the underdogs marshaled the power of not only New York City but so many other citizens of our country? They didn’t win with superstars, they just did the hard work and got some breaks.

But the Democrats proffer nobody like this. Everybody just says you’ve got to believe in the system, and we’re behind the 8-ball and there’s nothing we can do.

Want to be in touch with what’s coming down the pike?

Be on your phone MORE!

Get deep into social media. How come these ancient wankers think they know what is going on when they’re not even on the playing field. Would you expect to do well on the SAT if you skipped algebra? You’ve got to do your homework.

So what we’ve got is an establishment, both politicians and old school media, who have contempt for the public and think they know better.

When are they going to realize they’re out of touch and wrong?

Probably only when the younger generations with more compassion take over.

That’s what’s going to happen. Whether through elections or revolution.

It’s just a matter of when.

Unless, of course, Trump and his cronies rig the system to stay in power.

Be scared of that.

But Trump is not the only enemy. If we want change the old people must go. My generation has had its run.

NEXT!