Holy Shit, We Were Right

It's all coming together fast now, like a puzzle we didn't want.

This week alone, we've lived through an assassination attempt and the first rattlings of a bird flu pandemic. Our president's health fails in real time, with powerful politicians publicly or privately urging him to drop out, and the richest man on earth has promised a vast fortune to install a dictator and his backup. The corporate news won't say it, so I will:

The Biden Administration and the Democratic Party are paying the price for ignoring Covid. It has wrecked the economy. It has made everyone sick, disoriented, and emotionally volatile. It has sidelined an incumbent president, throwing the entire course of the election in favor of Republicans. Liberals unwittingly colluded with their opponents to slaughter public health, allowing misinformation and mask bans to proliferate. Now we're vastly underprepared for a looming bird flu pandemic, and they've painted themselves into such a corner that anything they say now makes them look dishonest.

They thought continuing to talk about masks and clean air was a liability.

No, the liability was their denial.

The minute someone says something can never happen, it happens, as if denial itself were a spell to summon demons. Somehow, that only encourages more wishful thinking and headsanding.

Even now, the party that claims to believe in science and democracy doesn't understand why they're losing. It's not Biden's health.

It's his policies.

Replacing Biden won't change the fact that we've bankrolled a genocide while tearing down public health and allowing diseases to destroy our economy and our workforce. It won't undo climate collapse or the AI revolution that nobody asked for. Nobody I see talking about a new ticket acknowledges the real problems we face.

You can't lie your way to victory if that's what your opponents are doing. They already know how to distract the public from disasters and collapse. They have the best lies. You can't outlie the MAGA movement. You can't outspend them, either.

You need the truth.