I've become addicted to Victor Davis Hanson's podcasts. Today I listened to "Scandalous" on The Traditionalist. As always, he covers many topics. Towards the end, he addresses the chaotic shambles that is the Biden administration.
Hanson contends that, during Biden's first ten months in office, every appointed government department head's job has been to undermine that particular aspect of American life. The Energy department destroys the domestic gas, oil, and nuclear power industries while the secretary laughs out loud at high gas prices. Transportation's secretary promises continuing supply chain disruptions "as long as the pandemic continues," claiming that child care issues (of all things) are a "root problem." Homeland Security has erased the southern border and allowed untested, Covid-infected illegal aliens to stream into the country and has settled them in various states far and wide. Justice has neutralized the rule of law and turned the FBI loose on concerned school parents fighting for their children against mask mandates and the teaching of CRT. As for Defense, Americans don't need to be reminded of what they did (nothing) for Afghanistan and by indoctrinating our troops with CRT.
Hanson offers three theories that he believes Americans are pondering to make sense of this wanton destructiveness. First, it could be caused by sheer incompetence. Second, it is a carefully crafted plan to create so much chaos that the Federal government will have to step in and assumed control over all aspects of daily life. Lastly, it could be similar to an alternate universe scenario; the Biden administration truly believes this is all good. Higher gas prices, supply chain crisis, inflation, crime, open borders--yes, it's all good for the country.
Sign me up for the second option. I think this is a deliberate effort by the Federal government to provoke a societal collapse. Events are moving quickly, and worsening steadily, because Democrats know they will lose across the nation at every level of the mid-term elections next November. They need the crisis of collapse now. Considering the pain and suffering of hard-working American citizens resulting from their intentionally induced chaos, Democrats won't get another opportunity for quite a long time.
