Intentionally provoking a civil war?

I honestly believe that’s what the extreme left wants. 

I also think they believe they’d win.  Maybe they think this because the media is making them believe they have a majority of the public on their side.  The media keep reporting ridiculously skewed polls that the left interprets as confirmation of their popularity. 

The left is making a grave mistake.  It’s akin to someone who starts to believe their own press clippings. Biden believes he and his ideas are wildly popular with Republicans.  He’s said as much. In fact, he’s not. He’s not that popular with independents either, despite what the media claims.  He gets relatively high marks for handling the Covid vaccinations, but that’s it.

Most of the rest of his agenda and his “executive orders” are a bust. It’s not entirely his fault; he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on.  He’s being told what to do and what to say by others. Those telling him what to do and say have clearly lost touch with what mainstream Americans want, or are willing to put up with.  Meanwhile, he’s hopelessly clueless. 

His handlers and the media are doing their best to prop him up and make it appear the public loves him and “his” policies, such as they are, but it’s wearing thin. They are all afraid to let him go off script, even to the point of requiring reporters to submit questions in advance so his handlers can put the approved response for him to read on his teleprompter. We all see this. 

We all see as well how big tech and social media platforms are censoring anything negative about Biden, his family, his supporters, BLM, Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and any criticism of the policies they are promoting. No one can criticize the tech companies and social media platforms doing this heavy-handed censoring, either, or they are shut down, too.  I’ve personally never seen this level of censorship before, nor have most other Americans. 

And they aren’t subtle about censoring, or even embarrassed. In fact, they brag about it.  

This pandering to the far-left progressives has severely damaged what very little credibility Democrats and the media retained. Yet they continue to manufacture and promote stories and narratives that are laughably false. No one believes them anymore. 

That’s obvious to everyone but perhaps themselves. Or maybe they think no one is noticing and they are getting away with it.  

Here's the reality the left and their allies in Congress and the media are hiding. Dig down deep enough on the same polls the media and the left like to promote and this is what you'll find.        

No matter how many times Democrats call the January 6 incident an “insurrection” and an “assault on our democracy,” and the media keeps spinning the same narrative, most in the public aren’t buying it.  It was far less destructive than what the media still refer to as the “peaceful protests” that actually wrecked and burned city after city month after month.

Look, we’re a kind, generous and compassionate nation but the American public -- regardless of their own race or ethnicity -- doesn't want open borders. It doesn’t want thousands of low-skilled migrants illegally breaching our borders.  It doesn’t want to give automatic citizenship and full benefits to them. It doesn’t want our leaders to encourage parents in Latin America to shove their kids across our borders, hoping we will take care of them. 

Our public thinks abortion should be legal, with reasonable restrictions, but doesn’t want Federal tax dollars to be used to fund abortions here or abroad. The public also doesn’t believe transgendered men who identify as women should be allowed to compete against biological women, nor should our tax dollars be spent on gender reassignment, much less for kids.    

The American public is overwhelmingly in favor of voter ID to cast ballots, too. It knows that practically everybody – except criminals and those here illegally – already has government issued photo IDs. Even polls of blacks and other minorities, supposedly harmed by voter ID laws according to the left and the media, show they broadly support voter ID laws.    

However, the propaganda machine run by our media hides this. Hiding the real data showing what the American public actually supports doesn’t make any of the above untrue.  However, it encourages the left to pursue irresponsible policies unpopular with the majority of Americans by pretending there’s widespread public support when there is in fact widespread opposition.   

Now the left is pushing to pack the Supreme Court, a proposal that, despite claims to the contrary by partisan pollsters and the media, is opposed to by most Americans.  If the left succeeds in this, it will have taken a dagger to one of the most respected institutions in this country. 

But, of course, the left doesn’t mind doing this; the left’s opposed to anything that allows citizens to have faith in the basic fairness of the United States as a nation of laws, not man, and what once were known as American values.

That’s why the left despises the Constitution – it tells us our rights come from God not government, for one, but it also limits what government can do to abridge those rights.       

The left especially detests the Second Amendment.  Not because, as the left and the media constantly proclaim, it empowers people to buy and use weapons of war on their fellow citizens. 

No, the real reason the left wants to dump the Second Amendment is because of why it was originally placed in the Bill of Rights. It’s there as a reminder to would-be dictators that they can’t assert total control over the citizenry by first disarming the public, leaving them defenseless.  The Brits tried that when we were their colonies. It didn’t turn out well for them. 

In reality, the left and Democrats aren’t actually opposed to guns, just who is allowed to have them.  And how they might use them.  Especially "right-wing extremists" and "white supremacists" who have already tried once to "overthrow our democracy." 

Doubt that? Think about the fencing and troops still surrounding the Capitol to “protect our democracy.” Really? That why they’re there?

That’s bullshit.  The media know that. So do Democrats. They are afraid of the American public in general, not a handful of right-wing loonies.  That’s why the fencing and the troops remain. And also to send a message to the public that the left and Democrats are in charge and will use troops and fencing to maintain their power. It's a bad message to send, particularly now.    

Trying to destroy our protections in the Constitution, the checks and balances in the design of our government which the Democrats representing the left are trying to do, politicizing the military, and encouraging anarchy and assaults on law enforcement is a recipe for disaster.

The American public simply won’t stand for it, especially since the left and their allies in Congress and the media are trying to pull all this off all at once. It’s all too much, too quickly.   

The left and Democrats are getting dangerously bad information if they think they can do this.  The media and partisan pollsters are feeding them bad data. When the too-heavy hand of government starts dictating to citizens what they can do, where they can go, what they can say, who they can do business with, and where and what their children must be taught, a lot of folks will start to push back. 

You’d think they would have learned that from the pandemic shutdowns. Keep up the pressure and even the most passive among us will rebel. Then it snowballs.   

The left and their Democrat and media pals must be feeling that pushback. If they don’t, they’re blind and deaf.  That’s the only possible reason they’re jamming everything through they can at breakneck speed.  Their leaders realize time is running out on them. Now that vaccines are here, the public is not as willing to put up with the nonsense; the public is beginning to realize that all the shutdowns weren’t really about the virus, but about wielding power over them. And the public’s pissed.  

The left and their friends in Congress and the media are playing with fire.  Maybe this is intentional to provoke an all-out civil war.  Maybe that’s what they want so they can install an even more authoritarian government, crush all dissent, and rewrite the Constitution to suit their wishes.

They should really reconsider if that’s their goal.  Pushed too far and Americans will rise up to defend their freedoms, as they did against the British with the American Revolution.   

Legal gun owners in America already constitute the largest standing army in the world by far.  In case anyone has forgotten, the exact language of the Second Amendment is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Most gun control arguments focus on the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” phrase; often lost is what precedes that: “being necessary for the security of a free State.” 

That’s the “why” that should give the left and Democrats pause as they continue to try and unravel the freedoms, liberties, and core institutions that make America what it is.  

Everyone wants us to talk about race ...

So then, let’s talk. 

Let me start by saying I honestly don’t care what skin color anybody is.  Or what race they are, either. Seriously, I don’t. 

Skin color or race don’t define anything for me.  Character and ability do.

I’m not blind – I can clearly see what color someone is and could take a reasonable guess at their race if I tried.  But I don’t bother. Because I simply don’t care. 

That also means I don’t think anyone’s skin color or race makes them special in any way.  Nor should they be entitled to anything just because of either one. Or discriminated against, either.    

It may make a lot of folks angry that I don’t care.  That’s apparently intolerable to many who think I have some moral responsibility to care deeply about skin color or race.  Too bad.    

Protestors have spent several months tearing down statues, rioting, looting and assaulting the residents, businesses and police in city after city so that people like me pay attention to them solely because of their skin color or race.  I suppose their plan for me and others like me was to be so scared of them, or feel so guilty, that we’d decide they deserved super-special treatment. 

Speaking only for myself, it didn’t work. All I saw was violent mobs tearing down things that had absolutely nothing – in my mind – to do with the claimed source of their anger. Which, I’ve been told repeatedly, is “racial injustice,” whatever that is.  Nobody can define it. 

The whole Black Lives Matter stuff left me cold. And still does. Of course, black lives matter. But so do white lives, Hispanic lives, Asian lives, Native American lives, Pacific Islander lives, police lives, and all other lives matter. All human lives matter. Not just black lives.

But if you say that aloud you’re called a racist.  Go figure.

No one deserves special treatment or punishment because of their skin color or race. If you commit a serious crime and get caught, you’ll get arrested and maybe get punished.  It doesn’t matter what color or race you are.  Nor does the colors or races of the cops.  What does matter is how many other times you’ve been arrested and convicted before now, the severity of those priors, and the crime you're accused of now. 

That’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s equal justice under the law. For the most part, it works just that way day in and day out.  Objective data bear that out.    

The same goes for officer involved shootings. Draw a weapon on a cop and you are likely to get shot; the cops only see the weapon, not your skin color or race. In fact, these days in many urban areas it’s highly likely the cop who shoots you will be the same skin color and race as you.    

The fact that we’re all supposed to be treated equally under the law regardless of race, religion or ethnicity is one of the great appeals of our country to others around the world.

Another great appeal of our country is that, by law and by custom, you’re innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof always rests on the accuser, not the person being accused.  And what really infuriates the people who always yell racism about everything all the time is that they can almost never prove it.  Then again, they don’t care about proving anything.

They scream racism merely as a tactic to end discussion the same way a dog barks to get you to stop whatever you’re doing. They don’t want to listen to reason or facts any more than a dog does; they just want to get their way.    

I don’t care if anyone calls me a racist. I know I’m not, no matter how hard the media and some people try to make me feel like one.  There’s no proof.  I can’t think of a single instance that I made even the most minor decision based on skin color or race, or gender or sexual orientation for that matter, for or against, in my entire personal or business life.  Not one.  

I seriously doubt anyone who has ever known or worked with me could either. 

That said, it’s nothing to be overly proud of.  These simply were never issues I considered that important.  I acted out of complete and total indifference, not bravery or compassion or some abstract dedication to diversity or political correctness.  I did nothing special.

That’s why I don’t feel compelled to wear my indifference to anyone’s skin color or race on my sleeve, nor bring it up in every conversation or argument.  It’s so irrelevant it’s boring.   

My guess is most Americans of any skin colors or races probably feel the same way by now. The only racists among us are those who think skin color and race are an individual’s single most important attribute, above all else, even more important than the content of their character.  

So are we done here? 

The assault on reality ...

There are many things that make me dislike the media and Democrats. 

Yet there’s one thing they do that rises above all the rest.  They are trying to reshape reality.  It’s getting worse all the time.  It’s also tearing the country apart. 

Worst of all, I believe it’s intentional. I believe they know full well that they are manipulating what the public sees or hears to present a false narrative. And I think they are doing so gleefully, celebrating among themselves, that they are so much smarter than the general public.

To them, we’re a pack of ignorant rubes. Putting stuff over on us is just too easy.  They honestly believe we’re all too stupid to see through what they are doing to us.

They told us George Floyd was a innocent black man murdered by the police. He wasn’t innocent and he wasn’t murdered by the police: he had a long rap sheet and died from a lethal dose of fentanyl. Did what the police do aggravate his condition? Yes, but the reason he kept saying he couldn’t breathe was because that’s one of the results from the lethal dose of fentanyl he had ingested beforehand.  George Floyd was no saint, no upright pillar of the community, and he was resisting arrest. 

All the riots that then happened – all the “protests” over “racial injustice,” and “police brutality” that allegedly killed Floyd – ignored all of the above.  The looting, burning, assaults on police, and murders of innocent people by the “peaceful protestors,” as they were called by the media, that lasted for months had absolutely no basis in fact.   

But you wouldn’t know it based on media coverage.  If you only watched the major networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN, or relied on MSNBC, CNN, Facebook, Huffington Post, the NYT, LA Times, or Washington Post, you knew little about the chaos and destruction.  And saw even less. 

If you watched Fox or various online news outlets, you witnessed night after night of cities on fire, police and emergency vehicles torched, businesses being looted and then burned to the ground, and bystanders assaulted and beaten.  All while “peaceful protestors” openly celebrated. You also noticed black-clad Antifa types smashing storefronts and throwing firebombs. 

Still, all you heard on the local and national news was about “mostly peaceful protests,” and the Black Lives Matter movement focused on ending racial injustice, especially by police. 

The reality is that BLM is a Marxist organization that has almost nothing to do with protecting or enhancing the lives of blacks.  It’s a money-making venture that’s convinced corporations to give it millions as blood tribute. It’s also based on a lie: that blacks in America are victims of systemic racism and black men, like Floyd, are targeted and killed by racist police all the time. 

That’s complete bullshit, and the BLM people know it. Yet the media keep repeating that nonsense, despite stats that definitively prove otherwise. It’s been very effective, nonetheless.  In a recent survey, people were asked how many unarmed black men were killed by police on average each year. Most responded either in the hundreds or thousands. 

From official FBI stats: the actual number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019 was 19, not hundreds, much less thousands. To put this in perspective, it’s less than the number of blacks killed by other blacks in a couple of weekends in Chicago alone, but blacks killing other blacks doesn’t interest Democrats or the media enough to cover.  It should, but it doesn’t.

In late May 2019, Washington, DC, experienced riots, again supposedly over the death by police of Floyd and other blacks, that included setting a historic Episcopal Church right across from the White House on fire. Why was the church set on fire? That question was never answered.

The media chose instead to focus on Trump’s ill-advised photo op in front of the church on June 1 while holding a Bible, and that Episcopal officials didn’t approve of Trump being there.  They made a big deal about how Secret Service agents moved bottle-throwing “peaceful” protestors away from the area to protect Trump and others with him; they erroneously reported, and of course never retracted, that those agents used tear gas on the protestors.     

On January 6 of this year, a bunch of different protestors streamed into the Capitol, a scene captured by the cellphones and video cameras of plants working for CNN, BLM and others in the crowd.  Ostensibly, it was a protest against the certification of the 2020 Presidential election. One Capitol police officer shot through a broken pane of glass for some unknown reason and killed an unarmed female protestor. A couple of people had heart attacks and died, including one of the police there. 

The media and Democrats made up a story that the fallen police officer had been bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by one of the protestors. That wasn’t true – he was never hit and he died of a heart attack.  Several Democrat members of Congress claimed they feared for their lives because they thought protestors were out to kill them.  In fact, protestors were not armed, and they were more interested in finding Mike Pence than bothering Democrats.

AOC claimed she was terrified by protestors running down her hallway trying all the doors. Except protestors were never in the building AOC was in.  Other members of the Squad said they had to hide yet posted clips of themselves quaking in fear for their lives.  

Nancy Pelosi claimed that it was an armed insurrection incited by Trump supporters and white supremacists. All of which has since been proven false. There’s no evidence Trump incited the protesters to attack the Capitol, that white supremacists had anything to do with it, that protestors had any firearms, much less any intent to use them if they did, so everything she said is a lie.  Yet the media and Democrats keep repeating all this crap. Democrats in the House also used these fabrications to impeach Trump long after he was no longer President. 

Democrats and the media have used this one stupid event to justify ringing the White House with fence and razor wire, and thousands of National Guard troops, to prevent white supremacists from attacking the Capitol once again and possibly overthrowing the government.  The FBI has promised to crack down on white extremist groups and militias.

The reality is that what Democrats and the media continue to call an armed insurrection to overthrow the government didn’t really happen as they’ve described. There are no credible sources reporting that white supremacists or militias ever planned, or are now planning, to attack the Capitol. 

And instead of claims that protesters violently stormed the Senate and House chambers that day, there’s new footage that’s emerged showing Capitol police calmly welcoming some of the protestors in.  There’s also audio and video showing that some of the “protestors” that day urging others to break down doors were actually embedded by CNN and BLM. 

It's all bad theater. 

Recently, a nutjob in Georgia shot up several massage parlors because he was ashamed he had visited them for sex, and in his warped view by shooting them up it would end his desire for getting sex from them.  Now, just to review the facts:  nutjob shoots up various massage parlors he had visited for sex before; one non-Asian male and several Asian female workers are killed.

When captured, the nutjob confesses and insists to police it had nothing to do with race; he had nothing against Asians, just sex workers.  The police accept that. 

Almost immediately the media whip the story as proof that Asians are being persecuted and assaulted by whites in increasing numbers. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden fly to Georgia to comfort the families of the slain workers and go on record abhorring violence again Asians.

One of the sons of a slain female worker almost immediately gets interviewed by a network news crew to say how much his mother meant to him and how she always looked out for him. (A GoFundMe page started for him already has received over $3 million.)   

As if scripted in advance, Asians march to protest discrimination and violence against Asians.  Asians claim they are routinely assaulted, and their complaints are ignored.  The media imply it’s white supremacists at fault for the upswing in violence against Asians.

But, once again, what the media and leading Democrats are saying just isn’t true. 

There has been a surge in violence against Asians, especially in urban areas. But it’s not by whites; it’s by blacks. Remember that blacks make up less than 13% of the population. Whites make up about 62%. But about 28% of crimes against Asians are by blacks; about 24% are by whites. To make the math easier, Asians are almost 4.8 times more likely to be victims of crime perpetrated by blacks than by whites. 

Do we hear much about that? Why no. That’s because it makes the attacks on Asians more of a black issue, the same way blacks are victims of other blacks almost 71% of the time.

Yet if you watch the news, you’d think whites are doing all the crimes against Asians. Notice that when it’s a white guy assaulting an Asian the video of it makes the nightly news.  But when it’s a black guy who does it, well that’s not nearly as newsworthy; local news may run that video, but usually only to see if anyone can help identify the suspect.    

Finally, look at what’s happening at our southern border. 

Only recently have the media been forced to show what’s going on, mainly because a Democrat Rep. in Texas leaked photos.  If he hadn’t done that, the media would have still promoted the Biden administration’s claim that there’s no crisis there.

And if there were no photos, who would be any wiser? That’s their plan.  

The Democrats' addiction strategy ...

Free money is a powerful and addictive drug.
 
Once someone is hooked on free money, they want more and more. Eventually, they’ll do just about anything to keep getting it.  Including giving up some of their freedoms and basic values. The lure of free money can distract them from a lot of things they’d otherwise be outraged by. 
 
Democrats understand this.  That’s why they’re flooding the public with free money now so people won’t notice what they’re really doing. 
 
It’s also one reason why they won Georgia; the DNC sent out e-mails with a picture of a $2000 Treasury check and a note that if you vote for Warnock and Ossoff you’ll get this check.  Guess what? It worked.  If you don’t think so consider that when Biden had to scale back the checks to $1400 those who voted for Warnock and Ossoff were outraged: they’d been promised $2000.   
 
Biden and Democrats just pushed though a $1.9 trillion package – with $1400 checks for practically everyone, up to $21k extra each to Federal employees, another $3000 to parents plus $600 for every child under 6, and other refundable credits and subsidies. The amount of money blinded a lot of people, because, well, who doesn’t like free money?
 
That’s by design.  Because while people are salivating over the prospect of more money coming from Uncle Sam, they are ignoring what else is going on.  Even what else is in that bill. 
 
Like money for Planned Parenthood. Like money for states based on their levels of unemployment – effectively rewarding blue states who locked down businesses at the expense of states, like Florida, that kept businesses open. Like billions supposedly to get public schools reopened – on top of billions already committed to that and unspent already, and not likely to be spent in this year either. 
 
Like, once again, billions more for the arts, humanities, museums, Amtrak, PBS, and other pet special interests loved by Democrats.  Democrats in Congress are making it rain like Hunter Biden at a strip club.            
 
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is encouraging hundreds of thousands of illegals to cross our borders.  The administration is working hard to neuter ICE and stop all deportations of illegals already here. Biden’s also planning to give those here illegally the same stimulus checks, healthcare, food stamps, and benefits legal U.S. citizens get. Not getting as much attention, is it? 
 
Before I forget, in addition to the ridiculous bailouts of billions largely designed to help poorly run blue states, also included in that $1.9 trillion porkfest are increased subsidies for Obamacare. Now you’ll be able to get a subsidy even if you are an individual making about $80k a year.  Make up to 150% of the poverty level – or about $30k a year – and you get a 100% subsidy.
 
This is their backdoor way to get everyone on Obamacare and provides a powerful incentive for employers to abandon their own plans and opt for dumping their folks onto the government-run exchanges for coverage.  Severing health insurance from the need to work for an employer who provides it once and for all has always been a long-term goal of the progressives.     
 
There are extended unemployment benefits as well, now through September, which is truly bizarre since hiring is up and unemployment is down nationwide. I guess Democrats actually want to incent people to stay out of work by making it more profitable to collect UC than work.     
 
If that’s not enough, separately they’re now trying to pass a law to take away the states’ traditional rights to manage their elections for Federal offices and give those powers to Congress. Among the elements they’re attempting to get into law that would apply nationally are provisions to make voter ID laws illegal, eliminate signature verification on ballots, require the mass mailing of absentee ballots, provide voting rights to convicted felons and those still incarcerated, and allow third-party ballot harvesting. In short, all the things that have helped Democrats. 
 
State legislatures would no longer have sole authority to manage their own redistricting but would have to create “impartial” commissions to decide all redistricting decisions. In addition, every state would be required to allow same day registration and also automatic voter registration when someone gets their driver’s license or signs up for any government benefits. (Illegals would be on the honor system – it would be up to them to declare if they are a legal resident or not before they are automatically registered to vote.)       
 
Oh, I nearly forgot to add that states wouldn’t be allowed to purge voter rolls anymore to eliminate people who moved or died. Just because you don’t live some place anymore, or even still live, period, apparently shouldn’t disenfranchise you, I guess. 
 
Democrats have packaged this new bill as a way to stop voter suppression. Of course, the real purpose is to open the door to widespread voting fraud, which always seems to favor Democrats. That’s pretty clear.  But, as before, Democrats are counting on the idea that the public won’t notice because they are too consumed with the prospect of getting more free money.      
 
So, if anyone still wonders why Democrats are blowing money out the doors – money we really don’t have – there are two reasons, both incredibly calculating and cynical.
 
First, they are blinding the public with free stuff, or hope they are.  They don’t want people to realize exactly what they are up to – which is to push through a bunch of nonsense that pleases progressives but alienates most Americans.  Such as using tax dollars, a flood of new illegal voters, and one-party rule to keep Democrats in sole control of our government for decades.
 
If anyone were to read what’s in the $1.9 trillion bill they just passed most people would be appalled: first by how little is focused on Covid relief, but mostly by the sheer audacity to wrap so much wasteful crap in something sold as a way to help average working class American recover physically and financially from the pandemic. In truth, less than 10% of the spending in this bill has anything to do with Covid; the other 90% is a payoff to Democrat constituencies.   
 
However, I’m much more concerned about their second reason. They’ve designed most of the free money programs to expire in a couple of years.  They’ve already admitted this is intentional, and their strategy to win the 2022 midterms.  They’ll campaign on extending the payouts – or even increasing them – to everyone for a couple more years if elected.   
 
The promise of free money worked in Georgia. Why not do it again? 
 
Don’t be surprised when they do it. It’s the same strategy successfully used by drug pushers for years: go ahead, take it – first one’s free.  Because they know you’ll come back for more. 
 
Addicts always do. 

What they haven't been taught is killing us ...

We’ve allowed ourselves to get into such a mess it’s hard to see a way out any time soon. 
 
It’s mostly because our education system is a joke. For too many years kids have been fed a constant stream of misleading and ever-changing propaganda. They haven’t been taught anything that might make them a productive member of our society. 
 
Like the actual history of United States, and not the 1619 Project or critical race theory versions.  Learning more about world history would also help them understand why the American story was (and remains) so unique in the world.    
 
Instead of being taught how morally and ethically flawed we are, and how we’ve historically always perpetuated systemic racism against people of color, they’d probably be surprised to learn that hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives – the highest casualties in any war in our history – fighting to end the enslavement of blacks here more than 150 years ago. A practice, I might add, that was fiercely defended by Democrat politicians of the time.      
 
It was a Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.  In the aftermath of the Civil War, it was Democrats that enacted the Jim Crow laws, and then fought against desegregation for another hundred years. It was also Democrats – led by former KKK recruiter Senator Robert C. Byrd, who tried to stop passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
 
I’m sure they be shocked to learn Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. 
 
Their perspective might change if they were taught what this nation has done to improve the lives of millions here and billions around the world. Or if it had been revealed to them that no other nation in the world has been as consistently generous with aid to the people of other countries, even our adversaries, suffering from natural or manmade catastrophes. And that countless Americans in uniform have paid the ultimate price to rescue millions elsewhere from the tyranny of dictators and genocidal murderers. 
 
To this day, most countries would prefer the United States to be the world’s superpower over any other contenders, like China or Russia. They understand that we are basically a good and generous nation, if at times too idealistic for our own good. They may not always agree with us, or how we do things, but they realize our goal has never been world domination. 
 
Most of the world knows this. But our own kids and younger adults don’t. They’ve been taught something entirely different. Something essentially untrue about America. A lot of things, in fact, that are simply false.  Such as we are a racist nation, founded on racist principles, and are no better – probably worse, ethically and morally – than just about any other country on the planet. 

As a result, they know almost nothing about why people came here in the first place, and why this nation is still so attractive to millions in other countries who would do practically anything to be here, live here, work here, and raise their families here. 

 
They have no understanding of how and why our government was deliberately designed the way it is – with three coequal branches. Why we were set up as a republic and not a pure democracy – and why that distinction matters.  Why every state, big or small, gets two Senators.  Why there’s an Electoral College so the biggest states alone don’t pick every President. 
 
They don’t grasp that our Constitution is one of the most unique in the world for expressly limiting the power of the government. They don't understand the reasoning behind the Bill of Rights and why these amendments remain so essential to maintaining a free society in the face of a potentially authoritarian government.
 
This is heartbreaking because that’s where we are headed now. Out of ignorance. 
 
If they’d been taught the realities of what happens to those under authoritarian regimes as in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China, Russia, Iran and much of the rest of the world, maybe they’d understand why so many of their people want to leave.  Ask anyone who left one of those countries to come here and you’d gain an entirely different perspective on America.  
 
If more of our younger people knew the real history of what Marxism, Communism, and socialism delivered practically everywhere these were tried – the suppression of speech and basic human rights, and the imprisonment and execution of dissenters – these wouldn’t seem so attractive. Or that Marxism, Communism, and socialism many times led to widespread deprivation and starvation. If they did maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to embrace these failed ideologies.
 
I have no idea what today’s students are required to read in school, if anything.  Or even if most of them can read. That’s not exaggeration on my part: many colleges and universities are now forced to provide remedial reading classes to their incoming freshmen. That’s scary. 
 
A good starting reading list would include classics from my school years. And yes, these were assigned reading in public high school at one time. They are: Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, and 1984. These are all especially relevant right now.
 
Orwell’s fictional Ministry of Truth in 1984 mirrors precisely how our current government and media work together to actively edit, remove, and revise historical events and statements that actually happened to promote a new narrative. 

His Thought Police should be readily identifiable today as the online trolls, political correctness scolds and doxers.  Children in the Junior Spies train to monitor and report any suspicious anti-State behavior or statements by their parents or others. The organized Two Minutes Hate sessions could just as well focus on Donald Trump in today’s political environment. 
 
It’s almost as if Democrats and the media have used 1984 as a guidebook rather than the warning it was intended to be.  I don’t believe I’m the only one who sees the similarities.      
 
I doubt many of the younger members of our population will ever read any of these books. Probably because they either aren’t interested in reading, or simply can’t. Or maybe because the current ruling elite controlling curricula has deemed these books too dangerous.  
 
If they did, it might give them a shock on how closely and quickly our political environment is moving toward our own version of Big Brother, following their "progressive revolution.”  

Stop worshipping public-school teachers ...

If you have a paying job and you refuse to go to work, even though you are perfectly able to and it’s perfectly safe to do so, you’re going to get fired. 
 
Unless you’re a public-school teacher, apparently. 
 
For some reason I’ve never understood, today’s public-school teachers are now considered the most important people in our country – practically saints, if you will.  They deserve ever more money, better working conditions, smaller class sizes, fewer demands on their time, better benefits, and early retirement, because of the stress of their job.
 
And also as a just reward for all their years of self-sacrifice teaching America’s children. 
 
Constantly drummed into us is that if you care about the children, if you want higher test scores, if you want today’s children to be better prepared to compete in tomorrow’s world, better public education is the key.  And as we’re constantly told, teachers hold the key to better public education. Dedicated teachers can make all the difference in a young person’s future success or failure.     
 
Where would we be without these public-school teachers?
 
This year we’re finding out. Most of the above is true; better education is still the key to success. But teachers aren't the key to better education if they don't show up. They've severely tarnished their saintly image this year by refusing to go back into the classrooms.       
 
Many public-school teachers, especially in Democrat-run places, showed us they are are no more than self-serving union hacks. They couldn’t care less about the kids they’re supposed to be educating. Even though the science says it’s safe, they don’t want to go back to work.  They’ve enjoyed what’s about a year off with pay and they see no reason to return any time soon. They haven’t lost one damn thing in the process, while gaining another year counted toward retirement.
 
Which, frankly for these teachers, is their ultimate goal. Not guiding and nurturing the minds of our children to become well-educated, well-rounded, responsible, and productive members of our society.  Nope. It’s to retire as early as possible, with the highest retirement pay and benefits.  
 
For them teaching has become just another public sector job where mediocrity is the norm, and self-interest is the rule. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the kids entrusted to them.  They don’t care if they can read, write, or do even basic math. They oppose any testing to demonstrate whether their students have learned anything. 
 
They oppose even more strongly any proposal to test them to verify they have sufficient knowledge on the subject matter they’re teaching. That’s because so many know they’d fail.   
 
It's almost impossible to fire them. Awful teachers are protected.  Incompetence is rewarded by promoting bad teachers into higher paying admin jobs.      
 
Maybe all public-school teachers deserved respect years ago. Not anymore.
 
Sure, there are still some people teaching in our public schools who are dedicated to truly educating the young in their classes. They didn’t pick teaching because Education was the easiest major in college, which it is.  Or just because it offered what amounts to lifetime job security, which it also does.  Or because they’d be able to retire in their 40s with a fat pension and generous benefits, which is the norm in many public-school districts today.  Or because they’d get every summer off.     
 
I imagine it’s difficult for these dedicated teachers to work side by side with the slackers only going through the motions to accumulate enough paid vacation and sick days to retire earlier. It must be even more disheartening for them to know how successfully those drones are at gaming the system at student and taxpayer expense, and making just as much as they are.    
 
It has to gall the good teachers that so many of their coworkers are in teaching for all the wrong reasons, are fundamentally inept at their job, intellectually dishonest, and demonstrably lazy.  They know that in any other field those people would be fired.  
 
But they also know that a great many of them have absolutely no fear of being terminated, and that makes them arrogant – the bad teachers know they can’t be touched, no matter what they do, short of committing rape or murder on video while in front of credible witnesses. 
 
So what should we do? 
 
First, we need to get over the canonization of all public-school teachers and administrators.
 
Working in public schools does not automatically convey sainthood, even as a teacher.  Once you belong to a union, you lose the halo.  As a member of a union you’re now just another working stiff on the public payroll like the workers on the cafeteria and janitorial staff in your school. Or the people who drive city buses or pick up the trash on your street. 
 
You get paid for showing up for your shift, putting in your hours, and following a routine. Just like them. If you want to do more than the basic requirements, that’s up to you, but you won’t get anything extra as a reward. Do too much and you’ll get called out for rocking the boat. That’s how unions everywhere work.  Teachers’ unions are no exception.        
 
If the good teachers think they should be rewarded more for performance and going the extra mile for their students than the lazy slackers among them, then they need to decertify their union.  Only then can the bad teachers be removed. And if you take out the bad and incompetent teachers now, you also shut off the pipeline for future incompetent administrators typically drawn from the ranks of incompetent teachers.
 
Until they are willing to do that, they’ll never escape the mediocrity that’s inherent in a union system where seniority counts more than skill. 
 
In the meantime, we, the taxpaying public, need to send a strong and clear message to the teacher union officials and members who are currently thumbing their collective noses at orders to return to the classrooms for in-person teaching.  We need to fire the teachers who refuse, even after the science says it’s safe for them, to return to their jobs full time.
 
Of course, if we try to do that, they’ll threaten to walk off the job. So what?
 
That ship has already sailed.   

Why Democrats are running scared ...

They have every reason to be.
 
That’s why they’re in such a rush to cut every corner, break every rule if necessary, to get as much of their looney agenda passed or at least in place before their time’s up.  It’s why Joe’s staff is trying to accomplish everything they can via Executive Orders now.  He’s not even sure what he’s signing much of the time, but his handlers keep egging him on. 
 
They know that at best they have two years before they probably lose control of the House and most likely the Senate, too.  By then they hope to have displaced Joe and have Kamala in the Oval Office.  Their hope is that she can hold on until 2024 when she’ll get the boot. 
 
In the meantime, Democrats have to contend with the almost half the voting population that feels cheated in the last election. They also have to deal with all the moderates and independents who voted for Joe because he promised he would be bipartisan and certainly not radical if elected. 
 
He wasn’t going to ban drilling, or fracking.  He wasn’t going to shut down projects that employed thousands of union folks.  He wasn’t going to push the Green New Deal.  He wasn’t going to push the socialist agenda of the progressives. 
 
C’mon man … Joe would say while campaigning, you know me – I’m not some radical.
 
Now they feel cheated too because Joe isn’t keeping his word. It appears he never intended to. In short, Joe’s the same old spineless weasel who would say anything, blatantly lie, and do whatever his donors required to get elected, as he did for almost 40 years already. 
 
Way down deep, Joe’s shallow. There no there, there with Joe. Never has been.  There’s even less there now, as Joe clearly has trouble talking coherently without a script in front of him.  Take away Joe’s teleprompter and he’s lost. Honestly, even with the teleprompter he screws up. 
 
He has no idea what he’s doing or what he’s signing.  Recently, he was caught on a hot mic confessing he had no idea what he was signing at that moment – another of his Executive Orders/Actions; one of his handlers off camera told him to just sign it. 
 
Which of course he did. He does what he’s told. 
 
Which made him the perfect Trojan Horse to get a shameless political prostitute like Kamala Harris – someone who literally slept her way to the top of California state politics – into the Presidency. Make no mistake, that’s the plan: a couple of months of Joe and then he’s replaced. Democrats have been telegraphing that move ever since Joe got the nomination.
 
Plus, Kamala’s ascent would be Democrats’ dream come true: the first female President and the first female President of color.  And Democrats treasure “the first” token whatever. The first Latino/Latina whatever. The first transgender whatever.  The first openly gay whatever.  The first Native American whatever.  The first double amputee lesbian whatever.  Whatever ... 
 
Forget that Kamala’s a conniving weasel who accused Biden of being a racist during the primaries. Forget that she had to drop out of the primaries because she was polling at less than 1%. Forget that another reason was because she was facing a near-certain primary defeat in her home state of California, where she was Attorney General before winning her Senate seat.   
 
Forget that she’s exaggerated about her heritage and her struggles as a black child dealing with racism in America.  And that when asked as a toddler what she wanted most, she said “fweedom.” Which would be cute if not stolen from Martin Luther King, Jr. 
 
She’s not African American, either. Nor did she come from working-class, blue collar parents.  She has a Jamaican-born father with a Ph.D. who later became Professor Emeritus of Economics at Stanford, and an Indian mother, renowned for her work in breast cancer research, who earned her doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology at age 25 from Berkeley. That’s not hardscrabble by any measure.  Kamala was in no way a disadvantaged child.  
 
Everything about her is contrived and faked.  She once said in an interview pot smoking came naturally to her because of her Jamaican roots. “Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” she said. Her own Jamaican-born father was insulted by that – in effect, stereotyping all Jamaicans as pot smoking joy seekers.  He publicly called her out and said her reliance on “identity politics” to get ahead politically was a “travesty.”   
 
Joe knows – or perhaps he doesn’t – that he doesn’t have a lot of time remaining in the Oval Office. In any case, he’s rushing to sign as much as he can before he’s asked, or pushed, to move out.  There’s a feeling by pretty much everyone in DC that he’s part of a clear bait-and-switch strategy.  He may be so befuddled he can’t see it, but it will happen. 
 
Democrat Senate and House leaders know there’s no way the public wants Congress to enact the progressive agenda of AOC and the Squad. The public doesn’t want taxpayer funded abortions, packing the Supreme Court, the Green New Deal, socialism, or putting Federal bureaucrats in charge of deciding what’s acceptable speech.  

Pelosi and Schumer also know Puerto Ricans repeatedly have voted against becoming a state, the Constitution prevents Congress from making DC a state, and prevents Congress from allowing the Feds to take total control over our elections from the states.
 
It's like their unconstitutional attempt to try a former President in the Senate on a sham impeachment passed without any witnesses in a kangaroo court-like affair in the House. Quite simply, you can’t remove a President from an office he no longer has.     
 
The truth is, they know they don’t have the public on their side on any of these issues. So all of this is for show – to appease their more radical elements.
 
We just have to wait out two years. We can only hope they don't get us into any stupid, wasteful wars in that time.