Party leaders and pundits continue to wonder about the obvious anger on the part of the voters. They shouldn’t be so shocked.
The perception that the “Washington establishment” has failed the American people is accurate. The voters are taking out their justified anger at politicians whom they perceive to be representing more of the same.
The decline of the United States and the prospect that the millennials may be the first generation to inherit a diminished nation has, correctly, been laid at the foot of those currently in office.
Older Americans certainly have a right to be angry. From Obamacare’s Independent Patient Advisory Board, which decides whether saving a senior’s life is cost effective, to the repeated lack of cost of living increases under Social Security, there has never been a time when the over 65 crowd has been less respected.
The middle class has taken it on the chin repeatedly. Their net worth has declined, many of their jobs have moved overseas, and their 401k’s have not done well. They have become the “sandwich generation,” supporting their twenty-something kids who can’t find jobs and their older parents whose health care has been reduced and whose social security payments have not kept pace with inflation. Extremist attempts to slash energy sources and raise prices in return for negligible gains in questionable environmental statistics present a clear threat to homeowners’ ability to heat and light their homes.
Blacks within inner cities have been treated worse than at any time since segregation ended. Many of their youth can’t find starting-level employment because the positions have been taken by the vast numbers of illegals allowed into the nation. Race relations, which had been improving steadily and substantially for half a century, have been set back as a result of progressives false or exaggerated statements seeking to gin up the voting base and distract from the failures of their economic policies.
Youth, as a whole, have been ill-served. Upon reaching college, they have had their free speech rights abridged by leftist administrators and professors. They have been charged unjustifiably, outrageously high tuition rates, and upon graduation have had few job opportunities.
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Seven years ago, America was the “indispensable nation,” sometimes feared, sometimes respected, sometimes hated, but always the most important factor in any international matter of any consequence. Seven years of cuts to the military, demanded by President Obama and bartered away by establishment Republicans, ended that. Combined with diplomatic moves so inept that “amateurish” doesn’t begin to convey the foolishness of it, The U.S. is seen as a has-been on the world stage, incapable of defending its interests or those of its allies.
Examples are rampant. The premature withdrawal from Iraq—whatever one thought of the war there in the first place—created the vacuum that allowed ISIS to prosper. The “Reset” with Russia allowed Moscow to replace Washington as the major power in Europe. The failure to even diplomatically confront China’s aggression in the Philippines and elsewhere encouraged Beijing’s hardliners to adopt intimidation as a matter of course. The refusal to forcefully confront Islamic extremists—or even utter those words—after the murder of an American ambassador, the slayings in San Bernardino, the bombing of the Boston Marathon, and so much more, have portrayed the United States as rudderless, weak, and cowardly. The failure to confront the growing presence of Russian, Chinese, and terrorist military elements in our own hemisphere is negligence writ large.
Utterly counterproductive moves, including encouraging the attempted toppling of pro-Western regimes in the Middle East, and opening up discussions with the Taliban in Afghanistan, have left the American public openly wondering whether the White House is even paying attention.
Many Americans are furious that federal agencies have been misused for partisan political purposes. The Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Election Commission, and the Department of Justice are among the examples.
While all these very real crises go unaddressed, false or exaggerated problems get the spotlight. While isolated examples of law enforcement abuse may occur, there is no war on minorities by police forces. There is no wave of discrimination against Muslims (indeed, FBI statistics indicate that Jews are far more prone to be the target of hate crimes.) Wall Street is not seeking to rob the middle class. Asking unions to not force people to join, and demanding that union leaders be accountable for pension plans they administer, is not an attack on collective bargaining. There are no substantive reports of government agencies harassing LGBT individuals.
Listening to leftist politicians, pundits, and academicians, many Americans wonder whether any of the individuals employed in those rarified fields inhabit the same reality as the rest of the country. It’s no wonder the voters are angry.