Tonight, obviously lacking anything useful to say, Paul decides to go after a former CoC (44), about remarks on how our vast and widening wealth gaps in America make our democracy less stable. No sensible person disputes this.
So, instead of making any real, measured argument, Paul goes all 19th Century — and says (in a time when many — perhaps 3/5ths of us… could not even read!) “the democracy” held together in the time of robber barons. Well — yes… mostly true, because tens of millions were functionally enslaved and twenties of millions were… indentured to the robber barons.
So, I guess his “argument” (such as it is) is that we should stop the information economy, all move out on to dirt roads with no phone lines, internet or newspapers. Sure — that’s a “more stable”… something — but it is NOT democracy. Democracy dies… in such darkness. A literate electorate is the best defense against the tyranny of Tangerine, in truth.
In fact, falling literacy… now, that is the recipe for a… revolution (or J6 mayhem more precisely) — it always has been. See, Marie Antoinette.
As if to prove he knows he’s making an insipid argument — he offers this up, himself — voluntarily, about Trump’s time (2016-2020):
…Polling in 2020 found that the higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to say the economy would improve more in a second term of Trump than under Joe Biden. In the 2020 election, Trump did better among voters making more than $50,000 per year than he did among voters making less than $50,000 per year….
So… his criticism of Mr. Obama in fact accepts the truth of what Barack said.
He just doesn’t like what it means for 2024, and Trump — who may well be running from a jail cell in the general in 2024.
Bub-bye, Paulie.
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