If I hear one more self-satisfied, establishment Democrat rail against Democratic Socialists... I'm gonna laugh. These people are so out of touch, they don't realize that they themselves are the problem. You see young people today don't believe in the system, and how can you, with today's news that the Democrats were responsible for the other Dan Sullivan running in Alaska: "Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot - Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/politics/alaska-dan-sullivan-conspiracy-peltola.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVE.iaMH.e-RVF8mArvXR&smid=url-share It's hard to believe Democrats occupy the moral high ground with shenanigans like this. Then again, this is just evidence of how detached the Dems are from the public. The same public that continues to be told to vote, as if it would make a difference. Milos is our driver in Vail. He's from Serbia. Over the years I've gotten a complete education on the power of that country's strongman leader and the impossibility of any change. The public had surrendered to its fate. And then... The youngsters organized and ousted Vucic. They were dancing in the streets over there and ex-pats were doing the same over here. Kind of like the ousting of Orbán in Hungary. What do both of these despots have in common? They were supported by Donald Trump and they both accepted the election results and relinquished power. Funny when that is a feature of eastern European governments, but in question over here. Then again, Vladimir Putin is now our ally, and Zelensky and Ukraine are the problem. If your head is not spinning yet... But Trump believes he operates with impunity. Then again, Trumpers are concerned with corruption, the story was even featured in the "Wall Street Journal": "Grift Becomes Bigger Issue for Voters in Final Days Before Midterms" https://apple.news/ACSckEZ1mTUq2UH0PRNH8vA So who led this revolution in Serbia. THE YOUTH! The same youth who kept Lula in power in Brazil. And how did they organize? ONLINE! "The Digital Army That Catapulted Lula to Victory in Brazil - President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won another term on Sunday, with the help of a seismic social media campaign that convinced Brazilians to reject his rival." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/world/americas/brazil-election-lula-social-media.html Oldsters decry and deride social media not understanding it will lead to their downfall. No wonder they want to ban it. Then again, most people against TikTok have never even used the service. So the youth have detached from the government in the U.S. And it's not only them, but great swaths of the public. The affordability crisis? I just open my wallet and let them take the money out, I've got no idea what things cost or are worth anymore with runaway inflation, never mind the tax I'm paying as a result of Trump's tariffs. They think we don't know. Oh yes we do. Now in Serbia, the complicit media is under attack: "Serbian Students, Victorious and Leaderless, Go After the Media - Supporters of the opposition movement that won Sunday’s election stormed the offices of a pro-government tabloid. Another news outlet apologized for years of 'one-sided' coverage." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/world/europe/serbia-student-list-news-media-vucic.html All those ass-kissers, from Bezos to Tim Apple, never mind Fox News... Did you see that Fox News's ratings have gone down? "Fox News Ratings Sink a Staggering 27% in October, but It Still Has Much a Larger Audience Than CNN or MS NOW" https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-news-ratings-plunge-october-2026-cnn-ms-now-1236933379/ The nitwits in Hollywood fearful of the Skydance/Warner Discovery merger and how it will affect the news... If you're getting your news from television...you're one of those baked-in believers, whether on the right or left, who believes this is still an organized game with clearly defined rules that everybody obeys. Call it a cultural revolution, happening in the hearts and minds of the digitally native who are connected to more people online than the oldsters telling them to disconnect. You only know what is happening if you're on the phone all day long. We live in a new world, and D.C. is living in a past era. So the Democrats look like they will have huge victories next week. But this does not mean that those who voted for left wing candidates have faith in either them or the party. It's just a protest vote. Primarily against Trump. The Democratic party is about as in touch with its constituents as the Republicans are, meaning they both think they know a lot about left wing voters, but really know almost nothing. So we're having an election. Protest has waned until the dust has settled. But don't think when the voting is done everybody’s going back into their hole. No, that's when the real games will begin. Having made headway, young, digitally native voters are going to go for the jugular. And it's all so obvious. The billionaires funding an anti-tax campaign in California... Talk about a bad look. Furthermore, even the hoi polloi now know these people never pay any taxes: "The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5 Trillion Market - Deloitte study finds booming market in stock-based loans to billionaires—and the lesser rich" https://apple.news/ANt-mSgk_REyuZqk5QqyGlQ You truly think that this growing income inequality would go on unchecked? And your money won't keep you safe. Collaborators? Trump may act with impunity, but it's gonna be open season on his enablers. Morality is gonna make a comeback, that's one card that the outsiders hold, and there are many more outsiders than insiders. They're rioting in the streets in France. And people think it can't happen here. They're wrong. It's just a matter of a spark, then there's a conflagration. Kinda like George Floyd in 2001, if Floyd had been white and the cop was Trump, with Schumer and Jeffries standing by saying nothing. America is much more broken than you think. On the INSIDE! As far as the outside goes, we've severed relationships with all our allies and are cozying up to dictators. When will it all break? It is not business as usual. And there's something in the air, which both Thunderclap Newman and Tom Petty knew. And the leaders are not elected officials, and they're not musicians, even techies. They're all thinking about their wallet first, meanwhile the rank and file find their coffers empty. America is ready for a rewrite. Now the Arab Spring taught us that after uproar you might end up with even more oppression, but you can only ignore the will of the people for so long. Are there left wing crackpots? OF COURSE! But if you equate them with those on the right, you're inside the right wing bubble. No, most Americans are dissatisfied with the state of our nation. And hating and owning the Dems won't put gas in your car and food on your table. Are the problems daunting? ABSOLUTELY! But the wankers who are enriching themselves in both D.C. and Silicon Valley... They're making them worse, not better. We're going in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, we're told to shut up because we've got flat screen TVs. So you walked five miles to school in the snow...THAT WAS HALF A CENTURY AGO! Sure, the standard of living has risen, but that does not mean it's risen high enough. But all we've got is newspeople so up their own rear ends, talking about the horse race, that they can't see what's really going on. There is rampant disenchantment, the public is fed up. They'd rather vote for a Democratic Socialist who aligns with their values more than the usual suspects. This does not mean they want a handout, they just want to be noticed, have a seat at the table, which they do not have now. Do they truly expect change? No, because the system is rotten. And if you start defending it you're the problem. We can't even come up with an AI policy when the technology has a 10% chance of ending civilization. And if we got rid of tariffs, Chinese cars would decimate Detroit overnight. "I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy - Mexico is a showroom for electric cars, with a growing fleet of sleek new vehicles from Chinese brands unavailable to Americans." https://apple.news/ADQ8wQTGgQqWGz13h3P5Eug The younger generation cares about pollution, they're concerned with global warming, after all, it's their planet to inherit. Assuming we're all not wiped out by some rogue AI software. All of this is self-evident. But people can't question their beliefs, can't accept that their cheese has been moved. Hollywood worries about how many movies Skydance is going to make when YouTube is eating up market share on the television screen. Turns out the public knows what it wants more than the studio chiefs. They want authenticity, credibility, they abhor edges being shorn off by committee, they want a zillion options... Does this sound like Hollywood to you? The spark is unforeseen. Everything is calm today, then there's turmoil tomorrow. America is ready to blow. Will it? Even if it doesn't right away, if those in power don't change their ways and deliver reasons to have faith in the system, it's just a matter of when. -- Visit the archive: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ -- Listen to the podcast: -iHeart: https://ihr.fm/2Gi5PFj -Apple: https://apple.co/2ndmpvp -- http://www.twitter.com/lefsetz -- If you would like to subscribe to the LefsetzLetter, http://www.lefsetz.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1 If you do not want to receive any more LefsetzLetters, http://lefsetz.com/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=0eecea7b60b461717065cbde887c8e25 To change your email address http://lefsetz.com/lists/?p=preferences&uid=0eecea7b60b461717065cbde887c8e25
