… and lonely:
The Left is trying to normalize poverty. Rather than living in a home with a family, you are supposed to embrace the child-free life and live in a pod.
Instead of meat, you are going to eat bugs and enjoy them.
Electricity will be scarce, but “this is the price of reducing global warming”. Video games are offered as substitutes for the old fruits of a free market economy: a job, a home, and economic independence.
Culture makers and political leaders have moved away from talk about the American Dream and towards preparing us for privation. Biden’s speaks in very dark terms about the need for collective sacrifice and the country’s uncertain future.
The coronavirus episode deepened this pessimistic mood. While government workers and the Zoom-capable professional classes adapted, many in the private sector had to do without. They lost wages, jobs, family members, and their sanity. It has been, for most Americans, a terrible year.
In its wake, we are told that we live in an uncertain and dangerous world, beset by public health crises, global warming, and cyber-attacks on infrastructure and the financial system. The only solution is the Great Reset and to Build Back Better.
The Left uses race to divide the lower classes, and pillages the mostly white middle class. No one on the Left has suggested cutting government jobs or government pay 'to help the poor". The recipients of government welfare, in addition to being riled up by defamatory lies about America, are kept vulnerable and eager for assistance through the managed scarcity that is at the core of the Great Reset Agenda. The middle class is told explicitly and repeatedly that it is going to suffer. The Left is managing their expectations downward; and along with those declining expectations comes: a lax attitude towards crime, constant criticism and abuse, the destruction of historical memory, and economic warfare - all serving to weaken their dignity and sense of ownership in their society.
When the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the president talk about the threat of “white supremacy”, they’re talking about every white Trump voter. They’re talking about you. The Left aims to build its new edifice on top of the middle class, which will be cut down and plowed over in the process.