We’re now just a couple of weeks from the mid-term elections, and all reports, even those from Fake-news media outlets, are not promising for Democrats.  Try as they might to make the upcoming elections all about abortion, the voters have other issues in mind.  Every poll shows that inflation and crime are the leading issues on the minds of voters this year.  To be sure, even on abortion policy, the Democrat official position – any abortion, any time, for any reason – is not in line with the majority of the public.  Legally flawed though it was, the Roe v. Wade decision was a reasonable compromise on an issue on which there will never be unanimity.  Simply put, most Americans favor some restrictions.  But I digress.  Getting back to the upcoming election, if voters go to the polls thinking about crime and inflation, the Democrats are in trouble.  Democrats seem to be their own worst enemies.  Threats to personal and family safety motivate voters like no other issue.  The judge I clerked for used to say, “The first duty of government is to keep people safe on the streets and in their homes.”  Democrat-ruled governments have failed to perform the first duty.  This makes no sense politically, but Democrats seem content to ignore the voters’ safety concerns.  They do so at their peril.  The Democrat response to inflation is similarly tone-deaf.  Prices on everything are soaring.  People are struggling to feed their families.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, obviously with the blessing of his handlers, has elected to try to convince voters all is well.  Don’t believe your lying eyes or your bank balance, things have never been better.  It won’t work.  At every turn, Joe Biden and reality are at odds.  Joe says the economy is “strong as Hell.”  Voters know they are in Hell.  The stock market is down 25%, interest rates have tripled, and we’re entering a recession.  Joe says there really is no inflation, or else it’s just 2%.  He’s either remembering when Trump was president, or else he’s just lying.  Democrat spending bills, which have resulted in the printing of trillions of dollars of borrowed money, have fueled inflation.  Democrats want to spend even more.  But by far, the most damaging aspect of inflation is focused on oil prices.  Oil was $60 a barrel under Trump.  It peaked at $127 in March, remained in the $120 range entering the Summer, and now is over $91, and is rising.  Biden has blamed Putin and the oil companies for the increase, but he and his Party are to blame.  Once again, Joe Biden and reality are perfect strangers.  Biden ran for president on a promise to close down the oil and gas industry.  Once elected, he cancelled oil leases, restricted fracking, banned exploration on federal lands, and pressured banks to stop lending money to the industry.  The first three actions were economically and politically stupid, the last is outright illegal.  Gas and other fuel prices exploded.  Gasoline in New Jersey topped $5 a gallon.  Heating fuel for this winter will be $5 or more.   People in the liberal Northeast will be forced to choose between food and heat, not a pretty picture for a Party which is promising only more of the same.  As if this all wasn’t bad enough, Joe Biden has been spanning the globe to beg tyrants in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to produce more of the oil we could easily produce ourselves to ease prices.  He’s also been drastically depleting our strategic petroleum reserve in a vain attempt to hold prices down until November 8, when Democrats can yell, “Surprise!  You’re screwed!”  The reserve is supposed to protect us from the actions of foreign countries, not from not from our own stupidity.  Biden’s strategy is political, and incredibly stupid, since all the oil we’ll ever need is under our feet.  The lap dog media keeps trying to help Biden, criticizing the Saudis for not helping out, but they’re just as delusional as Joe.  Why should the Saudis help us?  Oil is a global market.  Why should the Saudis increase their production to help a country that has reduced its own production, when they can profit from the rising prices Biden caused?  Plus, Biden is the guy who promised to destroy the oil industry, right?  And the Saudi economy is almost entirely based on the industry Biden promised to put out of business, right?  Plus, plus, Biden is again trying to make an agreement with the Iranians, who are sworn enemies of the Saudis, and he’s badmouthed the Saudis to the rest of the world.  Only a senile, crazy old bastard would expect the Saudis to forget everything and bail us out.  The truth is Democrats don’t care about you, your budget, your savings, how you’re going to get to work, or how you’re going to feed your family.  They care about only one thing – getting reelected.  They want to stay in power, but they’re caught between a rock and a crazy place.  Democrats are losing Hispanic voters, suburban women, and even support among black voters because they won’t lift a finger to stop crime, or improve the inflation or energy problems.  They must know that their positions on these issues are political poison, but if they crack down on crime, stop the profligate spending that’s fueling inflation, and encourage U.S. oil production, they risk losing their base – the Woke crazies, who actually are in favor of closing industries, rationing electricity, and curtailing all freedoms – “because if we don’t, we’ll all be dead in seven years.”  These are religious zealots, and zealot is the right word.  A zealot is a fanatical partisan, taking their name from a First Century Jewish sect in Judea.  The original Zealots all died by suicide.  Today’s Democrat positions are equally suicidal.  Joe Biden can’t appease both his nutty climate change obsessed base and the mass of voters who have been hurt by their policies.  Come November 8, he may be boiled in the oil he’s taken from Americans.