East Palestine And Pete Buttigieg Show That The Democrat Party's Current Path Leads To Extinction.
As Democrats increasingly elevate incompetent politicians due to identity politics, the harder it is to sell government as the solution to problems.
East Palestine, Ohio has been in the news increasingly in recent weeks after a derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials sparked a dayslong fire. Nearly three weeks ago, the wreck spewed toxic fumes into the air, contaminated soil and drove townspeople out of their homes.
The “news” coverage has increasingly focused on the competing governing visions of the Democrat and Republican parties. Pete Buttigieg’s role as Secretary of Transportation also has come under heightened scrutiny. The convergence of these items has demonstrated that the current path of the Democrat party might well lead to its extinction.
We have written before about how the current information infrastructure of the United States might save the Democrat Party from its incompetence with its increasing ability to manufacture an alternative to reality wherein Democrats are improving citizens’ lives and the world. Indeed, we referred to it as American’s “greatest threat,” and it is. The Elite Media’s gaslighting to which we referred might well keep what I am about to write about from coming to fruition. Let us hope not.
For the Democrats to sell effectively their supposed version of government, that it be there to solve your problems and otherwise care for you, the state must be able to accomplish concrete tasks or projects. To accomplish these things, government need competent individuals. Accordingly, the more incompetent the Democrat Party’s politicians become, the less likely it is to sell its vision of government because the state increasingly will be unable to provide the promised goods and services.
The recent East Palestine controversy highlighted this current dilemma, but it has been increasingly apparent, especially over the past few years. For example, the Democrats promised to save American citizens (and those of the world) from COVID, but the Federal Government’s policies, for example, masking and the vaccine, failed despite promises to the contrary. Readers will recall Rachel Maddow telling us that the vaccinated no longer contracted COVID or spread it:
By way of another example, Democrats told us masking helped prevent the spread of COVID. Recent studies, however, demonstrate that this too was false. One might defend these political actors and bureaucrats as simply having been mistaken, but continuing to deny the truth would be the compounding incompetence, even for the true believer.
Increasingly, Democrats are unable to deliver on their promises of government as the solution to problems. While there could be many reasons why this is happening at a higher level, we must begin to accept that the two most likely are promising to the impossible (control a virus or the “environment” for example) and increasingly incompetent actors reaching the head positions of the Democrat Party.
Which brings us back to Pete Buttigieg. He cannot do the simple things correctly, such as managing the cushy Cabinet position of Secretary of Transportation. On the contrary, he has come under fire on many occasions since being confirmed. Detailing all of the examples is beyond the scope of this article, but you will recall him going on “maternity leave” for several months despite not having birthed a child. While the Left largely tried to defend him for abdicating the responsibilities of his position for an absurdly extended period of time, suffice to write that you are not succeeding as the Secretary of Transportation if the average American knows your name. It was a scandal that Buttigieg himself created by taking an absurd amount of time and doing so without sufficient avenues of communication with his team. So unskilled a person and politician was Buttigieg that he actually tried to overcome the criticism by claiming that caring for a newborn qualifies as “work” sufficient to satisfy the day to day obligations of your profession.
Were there any remaining doubt as to Buttigieg’s competence, it was eliminated with the East Palestine situation. First, he failed to travel to the town after reports emerged that the trail derailment had morphed into one of the greatest environmental disasters of the last decade. Compounding the problem, when he was criticized for not visiting, he deflected his failure by suggesting that the media was focusing too much attention on this disaster considering the fact that derailments are a frequent occurrence. What that has to do with a derailment that transforms into an ecological disaster only Buttigieg knows. When this failed to silence his critics, he tried to blame a Trump era decision not to implement an Obama era train regulation, despite the facts that Biden’s own National Transportation Safety Board had already determined that that this rule would not have been prevented this tragedy and, more importantly, the Biden Administration has had over two years to implement the rule:
We could continue to revisit Buttigieg’s missteps in this situation, but it is not necessary. At this point in his political career, he is not deft at politics or solving problems. This would be unexceptional if he had not been chosen to be Secretary of Transportation and elevated by the Biden Administration and the Elite Media as a Democrat spokesperson on just about every political issue. The fact that he has been requires that a person investigate why he was so elevated since it plainly is not competence. The answer is obvious.
Buttigieg has become a Democrat celebrity and “star” because he is gay and because he espouses Leftist, progressive talking points “effectively” to a sympathetic Media. There are many problems with this, but the two most obvious are: (i) identity does not qualify you for anything other than your identity, and (ii) progressive talking points now almost exclusively are nonsense, divorced, and often worse, in conflict with, reality.
Buttigieg is not alone, which compounds the problem. This type of “identity politician” has come to dominate Democrat circles both in terms of volume and positions of leadership in the last fifteen years. This phenomenon has in turn crowded out persons who achieved their position through merit. Over time, the Democrat Party will be unable to cause the government to effectively delivering anything to its supporters. When this day comes, and it will unless the Democrat Party alters its course, the Party will become extinct.
Of course, this time may never come if the Party and Media conspire successfully to convince a sufficient numbers of voters that their alternate reality is genuine. This explains why both the Party and the Media are so in favor of censorship, but we must leave that to another day.
Until then, let us hope the Democrat Party’s current collision course accelerates. The sooner America learns of it, the better off we all will be.