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.  

Providing the predicate for a reign of terror ...

We can all thank Donald Trump for this. 

He provided just what the left and wannabe tyrants needed.  He reinforced what the most extreme people in the media and the Democrat Party couldn’t prove for years.  At the same time, he managed, in a matter of days, to set up his loyal and overwhelmingly innocent supporters for derision and discrimination that may last for years. Whatever good he accomplished in his term – and he did much good – he pissed away because he refused to accept defeat and move on.
 
He also cost Republicans control of the Senate by suppressing the vote of many of his usual supporters in Georgia; he made them doubt whether their vote would count at all.  He did go to Georgia to rally for the Republican candidates, but only the night before the election, and even then spent much of his time alleging that Georgia Republican officials let him down. 
 
In essence, as always, it was all about him.  The Republican candidates lost as a result.
 
Now he is about to be impeached for the second time. Only this time, sad to say, he may be convicted in the Senate. This could happen partly because he tried to coerce his dwindling number of Republican allies into falling on their swords for him in a fruitless and ill-advised attempt to overturn the last election. When they hesitated, he called them spineless and worse. 
 
Then he called for his supporters to descend on DC on January 6 to show their support for his claims that the election was stolen from him.  They did that by the thousands.  Mixed in with the normal Trump supporters were extremists spoiling for a fight; some of them sporting tactical gear and helmets, backpacks, police-style zip-tie handcuffs, pepper spray, gas masks, knives, and firearms, and, apparently discovered later, some explosives.
 
Whether they were all Trump supporters is still an open question, yet with a little provocation from Trump and Giuliani to “fight like hell” to “stop the steal” of the election they stormed the Capitol. They overwhelmed the Capitol police and ran through the halls of Congress, taking trophies, posing for selfies in legislative offices, hunting key Congressional leaders and even Mike Pence, and generally sending any Representatives and Senators running for cover. 
 
Five people died from the riot, including a Trump supporter shot by Capitol Police. 
 
It was an unprecedented mob attack on our government.  It was a complete disgrace. There is no way to justify what happened. Spare me the “Trump never told them to riot,” or Trump told them to be “peaceful.” Trump brought thousands to DC for the express purpose of intimidating Congress. He provoked them by telling them Congress was in the process of validating a fraudulent election.  He blamed Congress for not stopping this travesty. 

What did he expect to happen? 
 
He claims he bears no responsibility for what happened. He recently said officials have reviewed what he said and found nothing that incited the rioting. In fact, he condemned the violence.  He said he would never tell his supporters to attack the Capitol.  He didn’t need to say it out loud; they were there, he fired them up, and provided just enough spark to set off the crazies. 
 
I’m done with Trump.  I am so furious about how he’s managed to embarrass us all – and set off a reign of terror against anyone who ever supported him – because he’s too small of a man, too self-centered, and too egotistical to step up and recognize that more people voted against him than for Joe Biden. Here’s the proof: while Biden won at the top of the ticket, Republicans won the down ballot races practically everywhere.  Trump lost in the same states Republicans picked up seats in the House.
 
Was the election stolen from him, as he claims? I don’t think so. Was there widespread voter fraud? There’s always voter fraud but I don’t believe it alone cost him the election.
 
So was it rigged against him? I believe it was. Net/net though, he still lost.  It’s over. 
 
Much worse things are about to happen to the country as a whole, and to Trump supporters in particular.  The political establishment – and especially the left – are using what happened in the last days of Trump’s term to settle old scores, real or imaginary.  

Democrats in Congress, their friends in the media and career bureaucrats are positively giddy over the gift Trump has delivered.  
 
Never-Trumpers in the Republican Party and big business want to use this moment to wipe out all vestiges of Trump’s populist movement and get back to business as usual. Siding with them are the social media platforms and tech giants who are using what happened as a pretext to censor anyone with whom they disagree. Multinational corporations and their lobbyists are thrilled to be back in control of Congress and the legislative agenda. 
 
China is thrilled to have an old ally like Joe as President.  The intelligence community and Justice Department are ecstatic to be charged with cracking down on “dangerous extremist” groups, such as the NRA and the Tea Party, and anyone who thinks the Bill of Rights supersedes the views of career bureaucrats and politicians – like many Trump supporters.  Democrats are happy they can now stop any further investigations into corruption by Biden and his family; instead, they can now use their new-found majorities to punish Trump, his family, and his donors for at least two years.
 
I mention two years because that’s really all the time they have. Once Trump is out, and his supporters get over the past two months of Trump-fostered craziness, they aren’t going to disappear and go away. They’ll remember how the Democrats and the media treated them before and even more so after Trump. If anything, the left’s promised purge of Trump supporters from social media platforms, employment, and elected office will backfire. 
 
And in two years there will be another Congressional election. 
 
People will remember.  There will be hell to pay, then. 

Who really won?

Trump didn’t win this time around. Maybe he actually did, but it doesn’t matter anymore.

He knows that. Honestly, everybody knows that. That’s not to say there wasn’t some world-class cheating involved. Everybody knows there was.

Still, he lost mostly because he couldn’t escape who he’s been all along. An outsider. This played well the first time he ran because he spoke to a feeling among many Americans that the political establishment and the media couldn’t care less about working men and women.

He was right about that then. It’s still true today.

He accomplished amazing things in his term. Especially when you consider how he was opposed and sandbagged by the career bureaucrats, our own intelligence agencies, Democrats and their pals in the media, and by establishment Republicans in his own party. Despite all that, he gave us the greatest economy, the greatest increase in household income, and the lowest unemployment numbers among all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity, in our history.

The China virus and his handling of the ensuing pandemic will be cited by many for his loss. He wasn’t done in by the virus, however, but how the media and Democrats portrayed him. Years from now it will be clear that he performed extraordinarily well in lighting a fire under government bureaucrats and engaging big pharma, other companies, and the military to to attack the virus.

What he accomplished is nothing short of astonishing.

But enough of the voting public just flat-out couldn’t deal with four more years of him. The bragging. The chaos. The nasty spats with his own appointees. And the unrelenting hammering back and forth between Trump and the media. It’s incredible after all the nonstop vilification of Trump by the media – including comparisons to Hitler – and his impeachment, that he still managed to get in the area of 74 million votes. Yet that wasn’t enough.

A lot of the public were simply exhausted by Trump.

So if Trump didn't win, does that mean Biden did? If not Biden, who did?

The super-rich, the political establishment, government bureaucrats, Wall Street and big corporations were the real winners. They all got what they wanted: the removal of Trump, who was the first US President in decades to refuse to do their bidding. For all of Trump’s faults – which were many – he was never beholden to anyone but the American people. In short, he set a dangerous precedent. He got elected the first time in spite of them. He owed them nothing.

That’s why it’s clear that while Trump was defeated, he wasn’t actually defeated by Biden. Yes, Biden will be declared the winner, but he won’t ever be running the country. Nor will Kamala Harris. Nor will the far left. Nor will Pelosi, Schumer, or The Squad.

All of the above are simply figureheads. Useful idiots, if you like. Puppets to be precise. Whether they realize it or not, and I suspect cynical Party leaders do know it, they are just fronts for nakedly commercial interests they ostensibly and quite publicly claim to abhor.

As always, it’s useful to follow the money.

Who benefits from open borders, giving citizenship to millions of illegals, and expanding H-1B programs? Who benefits from ending tariffs on foreign goods? Who benefits from easing up on China? Who benefits from subsidizing student loans and wiping out student debt? Who benefits from Medicare for all, and government-run healthcare? Who benefits from subsidizing housing, subsidizing rich taxpayers in high-tax states, and bailing out select industries?

Think about that for a moment.

The real beneficiaries are big business. And the uber-rich.

The supposed foes of Democrats and the working class.

The party that claims to fight for the working class against the greedy rich is in reality, without a doubt, the party of the greedy rich. The party of career politicians who somehow become millionaires in office. The party of tech billionaires. The party of Wall Street. The party of top executives at multinational corporations. The party of millionaire sports stars, celebrities, and media moguls.

That’s exactly who funds Democrats, who pushes them, and who they ultimately work for.

Doubt that? Consider this:

Do more immigrants and expanded H-1B programs help our working class? Nope, they drive down labor costs on the low end and freeze out American citizens from many tech jobs on the high end. The idea of ending tariffs and easing up on China positively thrills multinationals and Wall Street. Colleges and universities who refuse to control costs are the real beneficiaries of the government subsidizing student loans; wiping out student debt mainly benefits the offspring of the already affluent.

Medicare for all and government-run healthcare will actually enrich the health insurance industry – remember, it and the pharma industry drafted the original Affordable Care Act. Other Democrat promoted subsidies allow slumlords to charge more, encourage poorly run high-tax states to keep spending like drunken sailors, and provide financial assistance to “favored” industries to survive even when they shouldn’t, or have far more than enough cash on hand already.

Does anyone truly believe these things were actually dreamed up to help ordinary citizens? Of course they weren’t. They were designed to help the rich and politically connected stay that way. But they were all sold to the public as benefitting everybody and absolutely essential.

When the US Chamber of Commerce, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, media conglomerates, and the heads of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter are all on the same side as Bernie Sanders and AOC, you can’t possibly think this is sheer coincidence. When most of the big campaign contributions to Democrats came from Silicon Valley, trial lawyers, the teachers’ and public employee unions, and Wall Street, how does this comport with the Democrats “party of the working class” claim?

Democrats and Biden ran on a “return to normalcy” promise after all the years of chaos under Trump. But what does that really mean? I’ll let you in on a dirty little secret.

It means the real power will return to the same entities that held it before Trump; the same forces that fought Trump behind the scenes and worked diligently to delay and derail anything that didn’t fit their agenda at every turn.

Big business. Big money. Big unions. Big tech. The military-industrial complex. The poverty-industrial complex. The US Chamber of Commerce. Deep-pocketed lobbyists. Career government bureaucrats. Our intelligence community.

They’re all back.

Voting to overthrow the United States ...

Hard to believe, but this is actually what Democrats are promising if they win. 

 
Also, higher taxes, citizenship for over 11 million here illegally, full benefits for all illegals, taking away private insurance from more than 150 million Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and seizing guns from legal owners. Let’s not forget government paid abortions with no restrictions, the end of right-to-work laws, getting rid of fossil fuels, and an ever more intrusive government.   

I find this particularly stunning because in any other election supporting these policies would be the end of any campaign. The American public wouldn’t stand for it.  

But this isn’t any election.  That’s because Trump’s on the ballot.  

In reality, however, this election isn’t about Trump versus Biden, or Republicans versus Democrats. It’s about rage and vengeance because Trump was elected in 2016.  Still. 

 
Since then, Democrats and the media have completely lost any semblance of credibility. They openly lie.  They make up imaginary “sources.” They hide or refuse to report anything that doesn’t support their personal view.  They ignore the laws, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, common decency and anything else that stands in their way. 

They’ve also managed to make a significant segment of the population believe that it’s okay to destroy public and private property, physically attack law enforcement, burn and loot stores, put innocent lives in danger, and do whatever else they like – no matter how heinous or repulsive – because it’s all in the righteous cause of solving “racial injustice.”  When riots break out and cities burn, they call the rioters and looters “peaceful protestors.”

 
Reporters stand in front of whole city blocks in flames, police cruisers burning, rioters breaking store windows and carrying out flat screen TVs, and still describe this as “mostly peaceful” protests. Cable news contributors and Democrats have called the looting a form of “reparations.”

  
One Democrat activist has said the looting meant that some poor black family would have food tonight. I guess that would be while they’d be watching their new flat-screen TV.  Although I didn’t see any looters breaking into grocery stores to feed their families.  Liquor stores? Sure.  Target? Yep.  Walmart? Of course.  Footlocker? You bet.

 
Maybe they sold what they looted to buy food?

  
I don’t think so.  What about you?

      
One result of this selective reporting has been the death of any remaining trace of objective and honest journalism – not that journalism has ever been a pillar of integrity – but the media have stopped even pretending to be fair; in fact they actively promote and market their bias.

  
The tech giants – Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the other outlets they control – openly censor or impede access to information from people they don’t like, to views they don’t support, and to any criticism of views or people they do support. It’s blatant, it’s pervasive, it’s one-sided, and they really don’t give a damn if the public knows it.

  
They openly admit they alone make the decisions on who sees what. And what their audience is allowed to see.  They choose the priorities of which story leads, and what is never covered.  They also decide entirely on their own what’s true and what isn’t, and what’s to be trusted.

  
In short, they are censors.  They have also become Big Brother.  There’s no other way to describe what they are doing. 

They are completely controlling what the public is allowed to see. They have the ability to construct an alternate reality of their choosing, mainly because the majority of the mainstream media agree with what they’re doing. Especially since other media can use the tech giants’ “fact checkers” to justify their own censorship of views and stories they don’t like.

      
The tech giants’ “fact checkers” – like those at most other mainstream media outlets – are hardly independent and unbiased. Most only seem to “check” and nit-pick statements from sources and people they don’t approve of anyway. They never seem to be as diligent about politicians they prefer, or causes they support; they let even the most outrageously false claims from those slide as “mostly true.” Or they don’t see the need to fact check them at all.

  
Democrats are all-in on this censorship. 

One prominent Democrat has called for a “reconciliation” commission if Democrats win.  This commission would have the power to charge and punish Trump officials, members of his administration, and anyone else who carried out or supported his policies. 

 
Another, just as creepy, has proposed a bipartisan commission to regulate what is deemed factual and as such allowed to be broadcast on TV, cable, or the Internet. I suspect most Democrats and their allies in the media are okay with this for now. 

 
Like a lot of what Democrats and the media are proposing, George Orwell beat them to it.  He already came up with a great name for this commission: The Ministry of Truth.

Orwell also foreshadowed leaders’ attacks on critics as “enemies of the state.” Remember, that’s what Pelosi called Republicans. 

  
I’ll be completely candid. Today’s Democrats and the media scare the crap out of me. 

 
I’ve often said that of all the things that terrify me – and there really aren’t that many – censorship is at the top of that list. What we don’t know is always far more dangerous to our democracy and our way of life than what we do know.

Right behind censorship on my list is its political bedfellow – authoritarian government that controls every aspect of our personal lives, ends personal freedom, and alone decides who succeeds and who fails.  

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the powerful, the ultra rich like Bloomberg and Hollywood celebs, bankers and Wall Street types are spending their millions to help elect a proposed authoritarian regime under the Democrats. An authoritarian government would help them prosper even more; just ask Russian oligarchs. The rich and politically connected always get richer and even more powerful under authoritarian governments.   

Censorship and authoritarianism go hand in hand. One inevitably leads to another; it’s simply a matter of which comes first.

  
Sadly, censorship is helping the authoritarians in this election.  But if Democrats win everything, you can count on aggressive censorship to keep them in power.

        
That, and their Ministry of Truth.  They win; we all lose.  

Absolutely nothing to lose ...

Despite the threats from the Democrats about what they’ll do if Republicans try to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court before the election, Republicans should just go ahead and do it.  

Republicans really have nothing to lose. Even if they leave that seat open until after the election – a stupid and pointless move – it won’t change one damn thing.  Except to prove once again that Republicans don’t have the guts to stand up to bullies when they absolutely need to.  

Let me explain all the likely scenarios.  

Democrats threaten if they don’t get their way, if they take control of the Senate they’ll immediately move to expand the number of Justices on the Court to add more liberal Justices.  

If they take back the Senate they’ll move to do this anyway, regardless of whether that seat remains vacant until after the election, or Trump fills it now. They’ve been talking about this for years. It’s nothing new. They’ve wanted to do this since FDR.  

Next, they also say they’ll work to eliminate the Electoral College. 

Again, they’ve wanted to do this for a long time.  It’s also nothing new. They want to have the popular vote nationwide determine who becomes President.  That’s only because they’ve lost in the Electoral College while still winning the popular vote – mainly because of California and New York running up the numbers for Democrats.  However, to get rid of the Electoral College would require an amendment to the Constitution, which would take 10 years, minimum.  

Closely related, Democrats want to change the makeup of the Senate.  

They want to add Puerto Rico as a state, even though a lot of Puerto Ricans don’t want that. They also want to make DC a state, which goes against the original idea of government being in a neutral District of Columbia, not a state.  It’s not that they care about the people in either of these places, they simply want to pack the Senate with four more likely Democrat Senators. 

At the same time, they want to change how Senators are allocated.  Right now, per the Constitution, it’s two per state. Democrats (mainly those in more populous states like California and New York) say that isn’t fair. Why should sparsely populated states like Montana and Wyoming have the same number of Senators of, say, California? Shouldn’t Senators be allocated solely based on population? 

Of course not. That’s because, as much as Democrats hate it, we are a constitutional republic made up of states that each have equal representation in the Senate.  

All the threats from Democrats are a smokescreen. If they do – God forbid – keep the House and get control of the Senate and the White House, they plan to do all of the above anyway. 

Now, they won’t succeed because the American public doesn’t want any of this, any more than the public wants open borders and giving illegal immigrants full benefits including free healthcare.  Nor is the public in favor of public-funded abortion on demand with no restrictions. 

Democrats have devolved into the party of shitweasels willing to do and say anything to get and keep power. And to hide anything that might expose their duplicity.  

Their pals in the media help them every day with a hoax du jour, blatant lies, gross misrepresentations of facts, and omission of news that exposes Democrats as shameless amoral liars. Meanwhile, the media refuses to acknowledge anything positive from Trump or Republicans. Good news is all about Democrats; bad news, or barely covered news, is all about Trump and Republicans. 

So if a sitting Democrat decides to support Trump it’s a non-story.  

But if a deceased Republican’s spouse supports Biden it’s front-page news.        

Yet because the Democrats and media are so transparently dishonest, the public isn’t buying everything they’re being told which would probably surprise a lot in the media who live in their own world.  According to a recent public opinion poll 84% of those polled simply don’t trust the media, anymore.  You won’t see that covered in the mainstream media, however.  

Trump and Republicans need to do what they must, fill the open seat, and ignore the Democrat threats. If Republicans lose seats in the Senate because of this, as is possible, so what – most of those at risk were probably going to lose anyway. In some cases, the fight over the SCOTUS seat might help them more than they imagine especially if Democrats repeat their same antics during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.  

Plus, even if Trump and Republicans lose everything this time around it’s really only a short-term set back for a longer-term gain.  

Democrats won’t be able to do what they want: the public simply won’t stand for it. Packing the Court won’t happen. Puerto Rico and DC won’t become states.  They won’t be able to amend the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College, or how Senators are apportioned. They won’t be able to execute the Green New Deal.  Nor will they be able to pull off a myriad of other progressive wish-list items. They may try, but the harder they try the worse it will get for them.

  
What they will do, however, is show their true stripes to the voting public.  Because of that, they will probably take a beating in the midterms two years later.  So at best, if Democrats win the House, Senate, and White House this time, they won’t hold all three for long.

  
Meanwhile, if Republicans hold the line and confirm a new Justice to Ginsburg’s seat, there should be another Trump-appointed Justice on SCOTUS. Someone conservative and young enough to serve for decades.