{"id":125274,"date":"2020-12-03T04:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-still-doesnt-realize-what-voters-that-dems-have-lost-actually-want\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T04:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:06:42","slug":"biden-still-doesnt-realize-what-voters-that-dems-have-lost-actually-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-still-doesnt-realize-what-voters-that-dems-have-lost-actually-want\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden still doesn’t realize what voters that Dems have lost actually want"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Biden still doesn’t realize what voters that Dems have lost actually want<\/strong>”
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The voters Dems lost don\u2019t want what you think.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden wants rural Americans to know he intends to treat them with \u201cdignity.\u201d And he delivered his message in the one forum that resonates most deeply with such people \u2014 Thomas Friedman\u2019s column in The New York Times, of course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was an exciting change of pace for Friedman\u2019s readers, who have come to expect turgid transcript<\/a>ions of his tiresome discussions with Mideast taxi drivers or slavish stenography of Mideast satraps proffering \u201cpeace plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they just feel forgotten,\u201d the president-elect said of the people who didn\u2019t vote for him. And to make them feel remembered, he\u2019s going to build \u201con ObamaCare, assuming it survives at all, with a public option [and] automatically enroll people eligible for Medicaid.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what Biden is saying is he is going to provide them with benefits they need and thereby respect their \u201cdignity.\u201d Another way of looking at it is that he is going to shower them and the rest of America with benefits it\u2019s far from clear they want and support.<\/p>\n

Only a decade ago, the threat of ObamaCare and the \u201cpublic option\u201d \u2014 code for introducing a top-down, government-run health system \u2014 was the accelerant in the Obama-Biden party\u2019s \u00adcalamitous 2010 midterm election loss that brought the activist phase of that presidency to an end.<\/p>\n

We are told that a lot has changed, that the public likes ObamaCare now. Does it, though?<\/p>\n

The astonishing unreliability of polling over the past decade \u2014 its manifest inability to measure the opinions of exactly those Americans Biden believes he can reach by expanding government in this fashion \u2014 may be providing the president-elect with a false understanding of the interests of the very people he acknowledges his party has failed to reach.<\/p>\n

Without question, Dems have moved left on every question over that time, including health care. From their vantage point, ObamaCare remains an admirable first step, if a bit quaint, on the road to a single-payer system.<\/p>\n

Biden says he is opposed to single-payer but largely as a matter of cost, it would seem: If his objections to single-payer were philosophical, then he would oppose a \u201cpublic option,\u201d as well.<\/p>\n

For those who opposed it, Obama\u00ad\u00adCare represented the greatest government intrusion in our time into the private economy \u2014 and something that was going to \u00adreduce an already messy health system into a horrible kludge.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it was laden with liberal social<\/a> engineering of a new sort \u2014 the sort that allowed Washington bureaucrats to order nuns to contravene the teachings of their own faith and mandate that they provide contraception to secular employees as part of their health-care plans.<\/p>\n

This was big government vs. smaller government. And liberal culture war against religion.<\/p>\n

Biden thinks they feel he\u2019s \u201cforgotten\u201d them. But people who believe in limited government and conservative social values don\u2019t think they were being forgotten. Quite the opposite. Their worldview was being openly challenged.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what many millions of them know: They know that Biden\u2019s party doesn\u2019t like them, that Dems believe the working classes \u201ccling to guns or religion\u201d (Obama) or are \u201cdeplorables\u201d (Hillary Clinton). Spending $20 billion on broadband so rural hospitals can do better telemedicine isn\u2019t going to fix that.<\/p>\n

Nor will Biden\u2019s classic list of top-down economic solutions \u2014 in Friedman\u2019s words, Biden cited \u201cenergy, biotech, advanced materials and artificial intelligence as areas ripe for large-scale government investment in research.\u201d<\/p>\n

What may make a real difference is if the Biden administration displays real competence and assurance in handling the coronavirus vaccinations in such a way that the crisis is ameliorated and then ended \u2014 at which point Team Biden may benefit from a surge in positive emotions and the release of animal spirits that lead to a post-COVID economic boom and a 21st-century \u201cera of good feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Biden wants to do right by rural Americans, he can only do so by resisting the temptation to try to force them to move left.<\/p>\n

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