Case biden optimism3/6/2023 ![]() Those same options also make travel away from home easier as well. After many, many false starts, electric cars appear to be a real and, in some cases, superior alternative. ![]() To figure out where you are going, GPS-enabled direction apps such as Waze or Google Maps let you drive without planning out every turn in advance or, worse, keeping a paper map in your lap while trying to navigate a complex and unfamiliar environment. Cars are better than before, they last longer and break down less, and new innovations such as rearview cameras make backing up, and teaching your teenager how to back up, far safer and simpler. If you want to leave the home, transportation is also easier than ever. Once you are cooking, new inventions such as the InstaPot, juicers, and air fryers make preparation easier, while innovations such as at-home sous vide make once pricey cooking styles available for the masses. Or you can have a service such as HelloFresh or Freshly send you the ingredients and instructions for preparing meals at home. Instead of grocery shopping, you can order home delivery electronically for a reasonable fee, and food trucks have brought new variety and convenience into most major American cities. Recipes for any kind of dish are available at the ready, and a plethora of videos allow you to learn the mechanics of making nearly any dish from top-flight chefs. If you prefer preparing your own food, options abound as well. If you are vegetarian, or vegan, or lactose intolerant, or gluten-free, or some combination of the above, there are now alternatives so those with food challenges can feel like they are not missing out. Existing forms of produce, such as Brussels sprouts, have been improved so that they are tastier and more popular than ever (with apologies to the millions who can’t stand even the new and improved versions). Recent years have brought tasty innovations such as cronuts (croissants and donuts) or duffins (donuts and muffins) and new food trends such as poke, a Hawaiian dish made popular in the mainland in the 2010s. ![]() Today, we don’t need a nation to turn communist for new types of food to reach our shores, or for the blending of two (or more) types of cuisine for new fusion restaurants, or even products. In the Jimmy Carter administration, the joke used to be, lose an election, gain an ethnic restaurant, as foreign policy losses would bring refugees with new cuisines to America. Similarly, in restaurants, you can now speed things up by ordering off tablets that have pictures of each dish, while apps such as Grubhub or Uber Eats allow quick and easy home delivery of restaurant food at a reasonable price.Īs for cuisine, there are so many more options available, and they are easier than ever to find. No more waiting for coffee the coffee now waits for us. If you want to go out for your morning coffee, you can order it on your app and have a customized drink ready for you when you arrive. An American today who had to revert to the food options of even the 1990s would find himself depressed at the lack of choices and capabilities now available. When it comes to food, the sustenance of our daily lives, we have more, cheaper, and safer options than ever before in history. In five of the most prominent elements of our daily lives, food, transportation, information, entertainment, and medicine, all of them have witnessed tremendous innovations that we may feel we cannot live without but, in truth, have not lived with for very long. While it is clear that conservatives have their work cut out for them, if you take a moment and look around, you can count multiple blessings that you rarely think about. The media, universities, and now woke corporations all seem dedicated to imposing their favored policies while shutting out the views of others.ĭespite all this, Kristol’s advice still pertains. Deficits continue to climb, and the national debt is close to unmanageable levels, with tax hikes and inflation likely to follow. (Narrowly, to be sure, but in charge.) A global pandemic has vastly expanded the power and ambition of government. Progressive Democrats are in charge of the presidency and both houses of Congress. These days, conservatives once again have good reasons to be down. Meanwhile, it’s still possible to live well.” Thirty years ago this summer, during the spectacle of the Clarence Thomas hearings, the late Judge Robert Bork said to the late Irving Kristol, “This is truly the end of Western civilization.” Kristol, upon hearing Bork’s assessment, agreed but put his own spin on things: “Of course it is.
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