Social mood is clearly changing. For the past 30 years we have seen the growth of political correctness to the point that it became, in many cases, all that mattered. People with passion and substance and who dedicated to achievement were displaced or run off while bureaucrats, dripping with fake political correctness, thrived. If bureaucrats didn’t like the message from the achievers they would resort to passive aggressive ad hominem attacks. Since the masses were getting better than what they deserved from a credit engorged economy, they didn’t want change. They didn’t want to rock the boat so they stood by or even supported the rise of the bureaucrats.
But now the credit is ebbing and there is no more hiding the underlying insolvency. New Jersey is bankrupt just like Illinois and California and Florida and many other states. In California some months ago the people voted down all the tax increases put before them on the ballot. The people had had enough. The herd was turning. Then NJ elected Christie and he has been cleaning house in a way not seen for decades in that state. To get a feeling for the new mood, the new will of the people, the new direction of the herd, have a look at this short video where Governor Christie pushes back firmly on a reporter who suggests that Christie is offending people with his lack of fake political correctness:
Christie’s response is not mean or ill tempered. In fact, he mixes in a bit of well timed humor in there to really drive his point home. But he was not intimidated or in any way slowed by the accusation that he is too direct (not being politically correct) in his approach. If anything good is coming from this credit bust, you just got a taste of it in that video.
