Mid-term elections take place Tuesday in the US. It's an exercise in democracy that Canada that does not share but could be a vital indicator of what lies in store for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. .U.S. President Joe Biden is not as chummy with Trudeau as former President Barack Obama, who declared our prime minister as the next great torchbearer for global liberalism. Biden is just too old for Trudeau and besides, Biden could be confusing him with Pierre Trudeau, who was in power when Biden first entered the Senate in 1972. But, Biden is amazingly similar to Trudeau in many respects and the two have basically been running parallel legislation since the American president was inaugurated in January 2021.Like Trudeau, Biden is obsessed with green-energy schemes that are mostly theoretical and are incapable of supplying the kind of energy the US economy needs to thrive. Biden also likes to punish Americans for using fossil fuels, as if this was an evil choice and not an absolutely essential one to heat homes and drive cars. .It is impossible to say whether Biden is really woke as he insists he is or if this is merely his latest political incarnation that he sees as necessary to maintain power over the Democratic Party. Actually it is impossible to know whether Biden is thinking about much at all. He relies almost exclusively on a teleprompter and when he is forced to candidly answer questions, his communications handlers begin to sweat bullets and worry that he could say something awkward — or even worse — truthful. .But the president is most like Trudeau in that he enjoys smearing his political opponents as racists and white supremacists and suggesting that anyone who voted for President Donald Trump in 2020 is a political extremist and a threat to democracy. .Trudeau of course, if you haven’t noticed, has been playing the same race card since he entered politics but has intensified its use ever since his shamefully hypocritical history of donning blackface was revealed. Biden has a checkered past as well when it comes to race, but it is not known whether he attempted to perform “Mammy” after having darkened his pores. .But while Biden has dithered at just about everything, the U.S. economy has tanked and is into a recession with attendant inflation. In the 1970s, where we often seem to be in an existential sort of way, that combination was called “stagflation” and it was deadly for consumers and equally lethal for politicians whom voters blamed for it. .Democrats are going into the midterm elections — where Americans voter for all House representatives and one-third of the Senate seats — with not just one albatross around their neck named Biden, but a host of other problems that include an open border, rampant crime in urban centers, a deadly fentanyl drug epidemic and the complete loss of energy independence that was one of Donald Trump's great achievements. .Even Democratic pundit are conceding that they will lose their majority in the House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate. Voters are furious over the economy and because Biden and the Democrats only seem interested and captivated by social issues like abortion — which they talk of like a sacred right — and transgender rights. .All of this of course does not bode well for Justin Trudeau. Canadians too, are tired of the energy taxes and regulations with which he has strangled the economy. They are done with his obsession with race and sexuality and are fed up with his assault upon freedom of speech and his fondness for censorship. Sometimes, what happens in the United States happens here in Canada first. .But sometimes it’s the other way around.
