First, let’s talk a bit about electric vehicles (EVs)…not the product, but the method. By shoving EVs down peoples’ throats, the Biden Administration has made the issue not about the potential of EVs, but rather about the real-time comparison between EVs and traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. It has become a binary choice. EVs will not win many of those arguments with most folks in America.
By
allowing their infantile and simplistic dreams and visions to guide their
policies, without any supporting research or deliberative forward thinking,
this President and his Green Weenies have set back the prospect of EVs by
decades. Had they simply encouraged the expanded and selective use of EVs through
various manners of modest government
support and promotion, they could have set the stage for the intelligent
application of this technology into situations where it holds great potential. The marketplace would have slowly,
deliberately, and reasonably introduced this technology to Americans and it
would have been allowed to grow at a natural rate. Supply and demand would have put EVs where
they function well and left them out of situations where they are simply not
suited for use.
By
irresponsibly and foolishly throwing billions of tax dollars at this
technology, rewarding their political allies in the process and alienating
common citizens with unreasonable demands, the Biden folks have established
expectations that cannot be reached, invested monstrous amounts of capital into
investments that will fail spectacularly, and quite simply put a bad taste in
the mouths of most people who ever entertained the slightest idea that EVs
might work.
We
can only hope that from the remnants of the coming EV industry collapse, there
will be a residual element that can survive financially and begin to market its
products in a rational manner: Selling EVs to people who can afford them, using
them in places where they are compatible and practical, and permitting the
natural process of product improvement
evolution to occur over time.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/baby-its-cold-outside.php
And EVs are just a part of the much
broader lunacy of the Green New Deal ideology of the Biden Administration and
the Democrat Party: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/wind-power-a-cold-breeze/
I
believe a strong case can be made that the
DEI mania (Diversity/Equity/Inclusion)
of Biden and his Democrats is a classic case of taking your eyes off the prize and
screwing everything up in the process.
Too many government departments, agencies, and supervisors (read: political appointees) have become
so obsessed with DEI and woke issues that they have allowed the actual missions
of their job descriptions to go off the rails.
Governmental incompetence has run amok and the primary functions of
government are not occurring. Many
federal departments are today incapable of actually showing up for work,
keeping the lights on, and serving the public.
Like
the EV issue previously discussed, many of these woke issues have some semblance of value and worth. But to mandate them in broad and
overly-expansive terms, force them upon people with no consideration for the
collateral damages and unfairness involved, and to allow their introduction to
be handled by rogue and incompetent idealists…well, it is simply ridiculous.
To do so at the expense of NOT performing
necessary and routine business is simply
stupid and it constitutes malfeasance of the highest level. This ill-advised power play has set back
whatever true value might be found in these efforts by guaranteeing failure,
creating resentment by mandate, and polluting the free market system through
government interference. Entitlement has never been, and will never
be, a wise substitute for meritocracy.
We can only hope:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/opinion-pop-goes-the-dei-bubble/ar-BB1h22Fp?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=4ef3e579819a402f896a14e5995d64d8&ei=41
And hope some more:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2821039/huge-loss-for-dei-in-federal-court/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/blatant-discrimination-to-achieve-diversity-continues/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2820678/diversity-hiring-has-gone-out-of-control/
Republicans and Democrats alike
have been expanding the reach, authority, and intrusiveness of government for
decades now; but no administration in history has
taken this effort, particularly through
the abuse of Executive Actions, to the level of Joe Biden and his idiotic
clown-car corps of idealists and flunkies.
Through
the irresponsible dysfunction of Congress…to the inexcusable handling of the federal
debt and budget issues…to the absolutely unforgiveable neglect of our southern
border policy…to the blatant disregard for the law and the courts in areas such
as student loan forgiveness…and up to the blatant arrogance and conceit
demonstrated by Administration officials through their contempt for Congress
and the Courts…the Biden Presidency will
go down in history as one of the largest and darkest stains on constitutional
government that we have ever witnessed.
Our
nation has lost its mooring and our ship of state is being commandeered by
fools. We are adrift. Our government must be seized by the throat and
choked down to where it will snap back to reality; come to terms with
fundamentally critical issues in a statesmanlike manner; and begin to focus on
its constitutional duties rather than its disparate and misguided partisan and
political agendas.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-end-of-policy-making/
https://reason.com/2024/01/13/we-told-you-so-2/
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/bidenomics-after-35-months-six-charts-media-dont-want-you-see
https://americanmind.org/salvo/democracy-without-politics/
https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/22/2024-americas-year-of-living-dangerously/
Is there a solution…political or
otherwise… to the burgeoning, insatiable appetite of our American government
for more power, more tax money, more influence, and more CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES?
We must elect better leaders, empower innovative thinkers, and SHRINK our government.
https://reason.com/2024/01/13/why-america-should-be-more-like-sweden-its-not-what-you-think/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/13/business/can-we-turn-empty-office-building-into-housing/index.html
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/01/17/214310/
We’ll close this piece out with one
from the category of “things that make
you go hmmmm…” https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/20/business/right-on-red-turn-bans/index.html
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