Do you sometimes wonder how liberals and people who vote for Hillary Clinton can seem to be existing in a delusional alternative universe?
Well, here’s from the lead paragraph of a column by one of the “respected” liberal columnists who writes for the Wall Street Journal. Gerald Seib, the poor man, is genuinely puzzled as he writes:
“The campaign in Iowa performed its usual task of starting the long process of winnowing out the presidential field, but it failed to resolve THIS YEAR’S UNDERLYING MYSTERY: Why are voters toying with radical change at a time when , OBJECTIVELY speaking, THE COUNTRY ISN’T IN BAD SHAPE?
AND, WHO DO YOU THINK MR. SEIB TURNED TO RESOLVE HIS BEFUDDLEMENT?
None other than that wise old statesman and Iowa’s most favorite son, er, great grandfather, Tom “Let’s win for Paul”( of Wellstone funeral fame), Harkin.
As Seib introduced his column with the warm, assuring data including the dramatic cut in the jobless rate, all those jobs added for “a record 63 months”, “tame” inflation, low gas prices and the relative peace in Iraq and Afghanistan, he naturally wonders why voters don’t seem to be wild about Hillary and JEB.
Gerald is just at a loss. You gotta feel for him.
But the always helpful and sunny “dean of (Iowa’s) political establishment, Senator Harkin, was there to offer succor and wisdom.
“The cause”, Tom said, “lies in the last 30 years (all but 2 of which, Tom was the inspirational leader of everything good about liberal Democrat rule) where wages and benefits have not kept up with either the growth in productivity or our general overall economic growth in this country”.
Mr. Harkin is so distressed about the “dark side ” of today’s populism, the “scapegoating”. What really bothers the kindly elder statesman is all that “you’re to blame, you’re to blame, that’s to blame…” And according to Tom, “you see some strains of that bubbling up again”.
The column winds up reciting the WSJ’s current themes, attacking Cruz, Trump, the failure of ‘congress to ‘work together’, those social issues freaks, even “The Bern’s” socialist impulses, and so on.
If you’re looking for some genuine enlightenment from columnist Seib, better look somewhere else. With Gerald “life is good”, why would you want to change the country’s trajectory when peace and prosperity is ‘just around the corner’.
