American patriots must face the truth of the assault on “the American way.” The threats and active destruction of our world-leading culture and governmental theory, are premised on the warped analyses of Communist theory. We seem to enjoy arguing “Republicanism” and “Democracy” inasmuch as these ill-defined, rather amorphous distinctions are poly-philosophic in the worst, most dangerous ways. American political argumentation is largely hollow: platitudes are spouted by not just “both” sides, but by all the “sides” folded into our two parties, yet the translation of philosophy into public policy is nearly indistinguishable from a frontal assault. Other forces have more to do with policy than our overly platitudinous blatherings ever have or will.
Money has a lot to do with how we govern, as does corruption. The two are often, but not always, contiguous. For “fellow travelers” and other acolytes, philosophical corruption is its own reward. One may be easily drawn in to a corrupt philosophy by not recognizing that its premise is a lie… like communism, trans-genderism, oligarchy and “equity.” Or, alternatively, one may not care if the premise is real or not, only that joining with it is a source of social capital that is comforting. It is well to analyze the end-game of any philosophy. Many have an intent toward a goal that is utterly destructive, of individuals, of freedom or of whole societies and cultures. And here, sadly, is where we seem to be in 2023. Divide and conquer.
It serves an attacking force to have a number of fifth-columns who are willing to attack simultaneously, even for deeply held reasons of their own, whose targets and purposes have been laid out for them for completely other reasons than their own. These are they who the most cynical tyrants call “useful idiots.” For shame. They are not idiots… indeed, nearly all are strongly motivated by virtuous beliefs in the need for action on a host of issues, and motivated enough to take action to right a wrong, redress injustice, prevent global warming or stop the scourge of pandemic.
Unfortunately, most of these deeply-held beliefs are premised on falsehoods – falsehoods that serve the overriding purposes of those who spread them – falsehoods that contain a tiny kernel of truth. These can include the truth of slavery and slave ownership by white Americans 150 years ago and longer. From that truth springs the false premise of retroactive hatred: somehow doing the hating in the 21st century that was not accomplished in the 18th and 19th centuries, will make life better for … well, someone. It cannot, of course, but it’s sold on another false premise: injustice. Yes, there is injustice in the world, and it’s part of just about every culture, group, nation and tribe. But it is dead wrong – sometimes deadly wrong – to foment new injustice to somehow “balance” the old injustice of slavery. What isn’t clear to those who fall for “two wrongs will make something right,” is that the whole business of such fomenting has nothing to do with justice OR injustice: it has to do with dividing a nation against itself, segregating races and sexes and families, in order to weaken that nation, making it easier to eventually defeat it. God forbid.
True believers who are caught up in that (or some other) movement will, most of them, deny that their aim is to destroy America… they want to make it a better, fairer country. Their way of doing so is to steal money from those who earn it (unequal and punitive taxation) in order to pay some form of reparation to certain, select others whose main justification for receiving it is the depth of their anger at long-deceased slave owners. There is no “justice” involved, whatsoever. Yet warriors for justice believe that justice will increase if they support the false premise.
Those whose primary purpose is neither justice nor fairness (rarely synonymous), but destruction, are also strongly supportive of sexual deviance, especially that promulgated by the newly conjured race: trans-gender and its multiple subsets. Nothing has proven more effective for sundering the national identity that makes a nation strong.
We have a culture… supported by thousands of years of philosophical and economic evolution including, most emphatically, Judaism, Christianity and the heritage of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. What became “American” is a result of some of the greatest human advances in science, engineering and philosophy. It is nothing to be ashamed of, nor is all the history that led humankind here. There is no point, or stage, or precursor society or culture that may be adjudged perfect. There is no population, each a mixture of many others, by virtue of war or proximity, that was either pure or perfect in its own right, however it may have been judged by its successors. Each, in another sense, was perfect. Based upon its more or less rigid philosophies and shared beliefs, every stage of human existence and advancement was “perfectly” human. It was what it could be; each ended as it did in ways we can smugly judge to be “good” or “bad,” from our supercilious and lofty positions of hyper-technology and hyper-sexuality. Our own greatest limitation may be severely limited humility.
We are the wrong people to be judging ourselves unless it is to improve our honesty, philosophy, charity, economy and humility so that we might, as a culture edge closer to our more perfect ideals. It does not seem that this could possibly succeed without shared beliefs, shared morals, shared trust in honesty and truth, and shared respect for our individual worths. We know the forces that hurt and hobble our culture, and that interfere with the strengthening of family structure and with the raising and maturation of children. We know these things. Yet the number of our co-culturists who champion the weakening of these aspects of cultural success, is growing with only limited opposition. Even our legal and penal systems fail to slow the increase of weakening efforts. Those with eyes to see can observe what amounts to a suicide of our society and culture.
Will we collapse for lack of understanding of what our defense must consist of? Have we talked ourselves into accepting evil as a partner in our culture? Because it’s fair? Or, just?
Has our system of justice earned a legal rightto protect evil in contravention of ten thousands years of advancement? We cannot seem to even agree on what is good or bad for ourselves and our “American” culture. Must we accept that what is tearing away at our culture is a valid part of it? Is freedom no more than a right to kill ourselves and our homeland?
Will those who follow us be guided by our best traditions and ideals… or will they spit on the grave of liberty?
Secretary-General António Guterres (left) speaks with Volkan Bozkir, (Russia) President of the UN General Assembly.
The position of the United States of America, once the beacon of hope, justice and honesty, relative to the rest of the world’s nations, has changed. It’s not a change most Americans have hoped for or, cruelly, even anticipated – certainly not one that our erstwhile “leaders” have anticipated. In a nutshell: our enemies have identified themselves. None of the bribes or blandishments by which we have executed “foreign policy” are sufficient any longer. The outright gifts to those who will be just as happy to watch our demise as grand influencers, have proven to be a waste… unappreciated largesse from our grandchildren’s grandchildren that bought, evidently, only tolerance.
Now that the Bidens have destroyed faith in our money, in our courts and in our foreign services, Americans have what might be perceived as an opportunity to stop lying to ourselves the way we’ve been lying to other nations. Honesty is not a commodity that is banked in any quantity by our federal administrative state or by the elected trolls it maintains for our imagined benefit. We vote and vote, hoping and praying that the latest lines spewed in campaigns are, at last, the true ones, but nothing changes very much. The only change agent in the past 9 administrations has been hounded and vilified, attacked and threatened by the administrative state’s agents, since before he won election in 2016.
The internal and external destruction of the United States of America, has been engineered by the Communist Party of China – CCP. The majesty and Christianity, tolerance and charity of America has been given away, diluted and stolen by even our trusted friends, neighbors and “public servants” as we’ve barely watched, so consumed are we by technology and hyper-sexuality and self-hate. “They” have divided us against ourselves – the only way America and Americanism could have ever been defeated. We’re still standing by the Grace of God, but our own determined effort will put an end to that. Still, while we yet stand, we have an opportunity to make some radical decisions.
A quick and painless one, an obvious one, is to get rid of the United Nations and renounce every connection or treaty that we’ve ever honored with that den of thieves. Kick them out of New York, out of our State Department and out of any influence in our curricula (aside from history) or our medical establishment. We are Americans – we own this country and we can clean out this fetid closet of worms if we wake up in time. Let China build a new set of club-houses for the International Liars’ Club to meet in.
Next, recognize who our enemies actually are and stop treating them like imminent friends whose undying friendship may be cemented by only a few billion more debt-dollars from our grandchildren’s grandchildren. If they wish to trade with us or even enter our country, they will have to be at least courteous towards our national sovereignty and honor. Let those who are proven friends to our nation, have advantage over other nations in terms of trade, commerce and intercourse. Let us make mutual defense agreements with those who will commit as much to those treaties as our nation does – who will risk their citizens’ lives in our defense as we have and will in theirs.
Our international agreements should be mutually beneficial while not draining our treasury. We’ll need some honest financial managers to replace the band of liars who operate the mis-named Federal Reserve, FDIC, Treasury Department and the IRS. They operate as controllers of or enemies of American citizens. Naturally, our federal budgets must be in surplus all-the-friggin’-time. Inflation of the money supply has only limited value to AMERICAN CITIZENS, and then only in times of war or national disaster. These do not include local hunger or personal failures or homelessness or drug addiction or unhappiness. We’re talking only the business of the federal government, personal matters notwithstanding.
It is not the business of the federal government to house people, feed or clothe them, educate them or wipe their bottoms. At least half of the federal departments and sub-agencies can be eliminated along with half of the work-force… to start.
It IS the business of the federal government to defend and control our borders, ports of entry and the presence of non-citizens. Illegally residing non-citizens should be humanely rounded up and deported to their home countries, from where they can apply for visas. Our country has allowed its past half-century of federal administrations to over-promise and over-spend to the amount of some $32 Trillion of current debt, and over $100 Trillion of future socialist obligations. This is the same as pointing out that we have exceeded our productive surplus* over the past 60 years in order to transform other countries, provide comforts to non-productive citizens/residents of our own country, act like we are the most wealthy nation in the world, and to add numerous socialist programs for political reasons (vote-buying). We cannot afford to live the way we have been. We must stop borrowing and pay our loans off. We must teach/force our citizenry to take responsibility for themselves and take that same off the back of the federal government. The future can be one of freedom or of socialism/Communism; it can’t be both.
We need more tax-PAYERS, not more tax-TAKERS. Currently, and since the outbreak of COVID-19 in particular, the long, slow creation of federal dependents has been operating at hyper-velocity – the dream of the Communists among us. Sadly, we have been electing Communists to positions of influence and power in our states and in the federal government. Part of how this could be is our hasty acceptance of people from widely diverse cultures, making them citizens and allowing them to create pockets of cultural distinction rather than assimilating them into our unique American culture. We can identify the Communists among us by observing their disdain for that American culture. We allow many of these weird people into our education establishment and then marvel at how differently our children treat American values. In too many cases, our children have never learned what those values are.
Recently, 700 professors on the staff of the University of North Carolina signed a letter opposing a new requirement to include instruction in America’s founding documents and Constitution. They feel that “academic freedom” is threatened by teaching American history. A great university is represented by faculty who, evidently, fear the inculcation of AMERICAN values. Perhaps their best efforts are perceived as the separation of their students from American values, should the primary and secondary schools not done an adequate job. Maybe this explains why teachers see parents as the enemies of “education:” they might be teaching their own children the American values that teachers are committed to destroying. America Awake!
*Productive surplus is what is available to be taxed out of payrolls and profits.
The laziness of Americans, as opposed to the laziness of humans in general, will prove the undoing of our culture and comforts, unless there is large-scale social change. The pieces – or parts – of the social engine that created a series of technological revolutions that placed men on the moon in 1969, are well-known, but widely disparaged. How can a successful society turn away from what worked for it for hundreds of years – even thousands – and turn in a generation or two towards multiple paths of destruction of those same social-civil engines that made America the most attractive, envied nation in the world? It requires intense purpose and planning.
Not long before the Eagle landed, the United States reached its highest level of living standards for the largest number of people, of all races. John Kennedy was president at the time and it’s been downhill for the United States since then. Social pollution had slipped into our “main” stream of progress towards the future. The generations of World War I and the Depression had proven their rightness and righteousness by raising up the “Greatest Generation” who sacrificed lives and property to remove large elements of evil in World War II, and then rebuilding former enemies so that they might join “America” in a future of freedom, democracy and prosperity. Unfortunately, the evils of Communism were not destroyed at the same time, instead literally encouraged through treaty and malfeasance to grow and entrench in two of the largest countries: the U.S.S.R. and China.
Communism is unalterably antithetical to the American idea and system; it is antithetical to religion, by definition, and it is contained and promoted within a mission of ridding the world of religion and individuality… two of the key engines of American success. How is it possible that Communism could ever gain a foothold against the beautiful system and ideals of America? Long-term, never ending planning and step-by-step erosion of values. “Well, I’m not a Communist,” you are saying to yourself, “and there’s no way other Americans could ever fall for that crap.” You’re only half right… on both parts of your statement.
First, how could anyone fall for Communism in the United States? We “know” it fails to increase freedom and inevitably descends into fascist authoritarianism, controlling every aspect of life and interaction in society. Communist nations are organized by classism and are examples of racialism of the worst sorts. Communists of varied virulence have followed two tracks, and one is education. Over the past 60 years, while our “representatives” have been consumed with clinging to their elected sinecures, leftists, convinced of their being so much smarter than those who “cling to their guns and Bibles” as Obama notably observed, have taken control of educational colleges and programs. This placed leftists (Communists) in charge of certifying teachers and controlling the curricula in education degree programs. Bit by bit our schools, mostly public, but the majority of private schools as well, have slanted curricula toward what “educators,” especially those Phd.’s who get hired as superintendents and commissioners of education, think is most “progressive.” No one wants to be “old fashioned” else we won’t be keeping up with competing countries.
From teens and college students who got away with drugs and free sex rebellion in the 60’s and 70’s, have sprung generations of children who have been raised in “socialist” homes by parents who perceive winning as more valuable than learning, training and personal advancement. If that means “beating” the system and protecting their offspring from the consequences of failure, then there are no limits. College courses, themselves, have more and more quickly responded to social change and trends, first from feminism and then anti-Christianity and sexual deviance. Today students can “major” in relatively useless study areas that have grown out of non-individuality, non-individual responsibility, communalism. We can hear this diversion from what made us strong and resilient when “advocates” and activists describe their deep feelings and concerns for this or that “community.”
The “gay community” or the “trans community” or the “African-American community” are terms that display an inherent rejection of Americanism. Our fundament is individual responsibility, individual success and individual failure, if that is what it takes to learn how to improve and succeed. The quality and character of each of us Americans, is what matters… not the false groupings proto-Communists would try to have us believe exist. Everything, good or bad, is “class-actionable” to communists.
The most destructive laziness is to allow the present circumstances to continue.
The other part of your – our – belief that we’re not Communists also is, sadly, in question. Leftists – Democrats – love to accuse Republicans of planning to cut Social Security and Medicare. Republicans automatically trumpet their promise to “protect Social Security and Medicare!” What they are really saying is: “We believe in these parts of the Communist Manifesto even MORE than those Democrats who claim to care about you!”
Federal money has purchased most Americans’ philosophies. The line between good solid American values and corrupt socialist nanny-statism is moving with almost every “omnibus” bill in Congress and every election cycle. We are, by and large, afraid to give up Communism, now. How can we make the case for freedom? And, what is that case? If most Americans are committed socialists, who is going to rally behind rolling socialism back?
Perhaps you were an obedient mask-wearing soldier in the battle against COVID-19. Some of your compatriots are still wearing their masks, convinced, by government wisdom, of something or other. You have thought you were protecting others and saving lives (despite all science to the contrary) and need only for our benign governors to alert you to something else that only your sacrifice can save us from… imminent destruction of the environment and our planet, for example. “Whatever it takes,” you think to yourself, “just tell us so that we know what to do.” Needless to say, YOU will never be called an “anti-vaxxer” like those deplorables that are constantly skeptical of what is necessary to save us, all. Many of them probably attended Trump’s speech on January 6th, 2021. You don’t need to convert to Communism, the Communists are perfectly happy with you as you are: malleable and far removed from individuality. No trouble.
Now, to save the planet, we are instructed, American success must be stifled. Americans use too much energy, eat too much food, consume too much health care, drive too many miles, invent too much. Maybe if we legalized extra-strong marijuana, dumbed down our education, shifted our university education towards social confusion and division, spent time and money on transgenderism in the military… perhaps then we can make progress towards snuffing out that damned American energy and genius. Individualists will never kneel down for global government so let’s force Americans to divide against one another. Students must be encouraged to foreswear their responsibilities by pretending to be the opposite sex – it’s a good way to divorce them from their meddlesome parents, as well. We can’t have parents inculcating their offspring with religious beliefs and hard-work ethics. All that pro-American stuff must be watered down.
So who are the “we” making all these plans? Why they’re our elected and appointed federal and state officials! We, the people, put these communist-socialists into power over us! We, the people, largely ignorant of our responsibilities as U. S. citizens, have agreed with the hateful divisions that have popped up everywhere with the appearance of COVID. Leftists have been rubbing raw the feelings of many blacks, mainly those who have failed to excel after generations of welfare dependency, failed education and inner-city criminality. Institutionalized failure under federal “programs” have rewarded “community activists” for agitating a restive sub-group. Leftists have worked for years to forgive the somehow-justified hatred for “white” culture, even when it expressed in riots, murders, looting and arson. All that has been needed is an “unjustified” death at the hands of white police personnel – and not always “white” – any police. A few communists, a few hired-to-be-incompetent district attorneys, and almost any tragedy can be turned into a society-ripping weapon against America. If you think the anger and destruction is justified: the “Saint George Floyd” effect, then the committed communists and globalists (same people) are perfectly happy with you. Their plans to remove the U. S. of A. as a stumbling block to globalism, are working better than well.
There’s always the next election, of course, when we can vote in some true patriots who will correct the problems the federal government creates for us. That might be a plan if we hadn’t acquiesced to wholesale weakening of election laws and voting regulations slowly for decades, then in a rushing flood under COVID. Every one of us must be vigilant in our states and question every regulation for voting that has been promulgated since March of 2020.
Communists and other leftists LOVE democracy. All that voting… all those ballots… people can be persuaded to believe they are in control and making real choices. One can observe that the largest “democracies” have nearly universal voter participation and, interestingly, nearly universal approval of one candidate. How wonderful. Even not-so-large “democracies” where some hapless opponent(s) of the approved candidate(s) find that the approved candidate still manages to eke out a win after ALL votes are counted. This means ALL ballots are counted, not actual votes, but ballots. As the great democrat, Josef Stalin opined, the people who count the votes are more important. Clearly that has become the byword for leftists and capital-D Democrats in the United States: the purpose of an election is power – not democracy, not strengthening our republic, not expanding citizen participation… power. And, since that is the true purpose, whatever it takes to realize that goal is justifiable.
After all, whenever leftists slip up and a Republican gains power, he or she is merely an interloper to be tolerated until power is restored to its rightful owners. It is time, fellow citizens, to restore honesty in government – all three branches and the elections that create them. Maybe a candidate will run on a platform of honesty and truth-telling to his or her constituents… ummm, naah.
We could ask, though. If you’d like to make a candidate squirm, ask if he or she will adopt honesty and truth-telling as his or her platform, promising to tell the truth about government to constituents… to people like, well, you? You won’t be able to keep up with the semi-true and misleading replies that question elicits. Should that person take office, Prudence predicts that the answers he or she might offer, should you ask, will become less and more tenuously connected to truth. Finally, “our” representative become a representative of the government TO us. That is when we ought to know that it’s time to replace him or her with someone new. Otherwise that sickly-sweet candy shell with the intensely bitter center, known as Communism, will win.
There is a certain fascinating aspect and predictability to the ways leftists, Democrats and Communists create solutions to difficult social problems that they often have also created. To resolve the growing, activist-multiplied problem the various shades of leftists inevitably proffer a “solution” that strengthens the government and the leftists, themselves… and on and on it goes. Freedom gets traded for a new level of “safety.” Only the rarest of elections changes this course.
We see this playing out in the sudden pandemic of trans-sexuality that has infected our schools, our governments, our colleges, even our medical establishments – including pediatrics, a form of medicine most of us have always trusted – and even some churches. It’s a worse pandemic than COVID was intended to be, bad as it was. It’s worse because there is no injection that will immunize the hearts and minds of the susceptible, nor is any pharmaceutical company working on one. No President has cleared the decks for a “Warp Speed” development of a cure for this new disease; various groups cannot agree on its origin: animals or a laboratory. It is grotesquely infectious, however, affecting many organs, starting with the brain.
Just like COVID, trans-genderism has attracted new streams of commerce, catering to the needs of the infected as well as the threatened. Some of these are drugs, so helpful to transitioners as they leave reality, and surgical procedures, even in pediatric departments at formerly trusted hospitals, but, not to be out-done, beer, sneakers and other products are making sure that “trannies” know where to buy whatever makes life worth living, including rapid delivery from Amazon Prime vans. We are no slouches when it comes to scraping a buck off of the mentally ill.
The psychiatry and psychology industries are getting the short straw, though. Lots of jurisdictions had long-ago made it illegal to treat sexual matters, no matter how confused, psychologically. Affirmation and the aforementioned drugs and surgeries, not to overlook deception of parents and grandparents, are the only accepted maltreatments. If parents and grandparents react badly to teachers and school policies that lie and mislead them about the children they raise and love AND ARE RELATED TO BY BIRTH, the leftists will send police and the FBI and others to harass and arrest them.
The widespread reactions to opposition to the trans-gender pandemic, are the basis of the new problem that cries out for a governmental solution… from the same leftist gaggle that created the original problem/pandemic. Pretty soon, state by state, legislation will be offered to “protect” the LGBTQ+ “community” from “Christian fascists” who wish to take away the “civil rights” of the deviant. Grotesquely, that “community” has attached itself to real civil rights problems that are based on inherent distinctions of race and birth – unchangeable things. Always seeking support, militant “civil rights” activists are happy to add sexual deviance to their reasons to protest and, now, to tear down. In their anti-historical foolishness, true civil rights activists are abetting the complete tear-down of society and culture that global communists have always wanted: the “solution.”
Most “trans” and other abnormal sexual claims are based on – wait for it – self-declarations. They are not based on empirical evidence of gay-ness or of needs to convert one’s body to one that has the appearance of the opposite sex. It’s all mental-emotional. This in no way belittles the intensity or “reality” of emotional worries, fears and other feelings that cause the sufferer to believe his or her body is the “wrong” one. The suffering person is suffering. How though, could enforceable laws be based on the utter lack of empirical evidence: nothing to show anyone, nothing a jury could review, nothing with the possibility of forensic discovery. How much worse it is when a trusted adult asks the questions 5, 8, 11-year-old children don’t have the wisdom to answer.
Tik-Tok and other kid-centric social media enhance the peer pressure to adopt the latest, most affirmative trend / fad, and it is largely out of sight of parents and other non-affirmative adults. After all, your teacher, for Heaven’s sake… well, not Heaven’s sake, certainly, but someplace’s sake, told you not to tell your parents that you really aren’t a girl and that your name is now Brad instead of Bonnie. Go ahead and send that video to your favorite classmate of how cool you look, dressed like a boy. What rot.
Evil trends have conspired to destroy humanity, especially in the United States. Separating children from their actual selves denies them the ability and opportunity to fulfill the responsibilities of their gender. The education of boys ought to be different in key ways from the education of girls. Each gender has its own preparation for adulthood. Boys and girls are equal under the law, but not equivalent in roles and in life. It’s not mysterious, but it is a crime socially, culturally and (should be) actually.
There is no reason to trust anyone who thinks the explosion in “trans-genderism” is good or valid. There’s no reason to trust medical institutions or personnel who accept minors for surgery for the purpose of “changing” gender. No reason to trust anyone who will feed puberty blockers or opposite- sex hormones to minors. No reason to trust anyone who will ruin the maturation and fertility of a minor human child. God save us.
For some weird reasons: forms of moral communism, basically, sexuality has become a major element of elementary education and the business of thousands of men and women formerly respected as educators. One wonders why there has been a virtual explosion of sexual deviance and why America tolerates it, let alone cements it in place with illogical legal protections. The so-called LGBTQ+ “community” has shifted from seeking safety and tolerance to rabid dominance of culture and communications, and a legally enforced “right” to convert children to deviance in schools and elsewhere. This abrupt, new trend is a sign of sickness in a culture.
Normalization of homosexuality was the beginning to a societal tolerance of deviant sexuality, but by itself, neither virulent nor threatening to our core morality. Gay marriage, however, provided the breech in legality such that virulent deviance could force itself upon schools, society and families. Proto-Communists in the schools and teachers’ unions, perceived gender confusion as an excellent tool for dividing society and weakening families: a key process to create totalitarian control of society. How diabolically clever to choose as an “enemy” the widespread grasp of truth. What is the most damaging effect of this subversion?
To answer that we need to establish some moral – and spiritual – ground rules. It seems Prudent to reflect on life, itself. It is fundamentally spiritual, in the majoritarian worldwide view. There are too many “miraculous” events, large and small, that define, save and divert the lives of too many people to attribute everything to “luck.” Even cultures that place great emphasis on “luck” are dependent on something “spiritual” – forms of super-natural forces.
At the same time as “spiritual” beliefs or assumptions are at work, society, itself, must function for the maximum number of people. That means food, safety, comfort, property and advancement. All require stability and widespread agreement on rights and wrongs: ethics, courtesies and laws. People had to cooperate in trusted and trusting ways. The integrity and primacy of family units are essential, as are the education and acculturation of children. Those who would disrupt – to the point of replacing the structure and strengths of – a successful society, recognize that disrupting families is the first and most effective step. To some significant degree, those are people who are anti-spiritual, and in the case of America, anti-Christian in virulent ways.
Human sexuality, in nearly all family units, represents the creation of children, who are the descendants of that family line. Grandparents are as keenly interested in that process as parents are. Whatever interferes with conception, childbirth and acculturation of children, is striking at the essence of social success and of hope… for the future, one of those “spiritual” aspects of life. To the disrupters, sexuality, in the soup of hypersexualization of “Western” civilization, became a weapon against American culture.
“Gay” marriage was a move spurred by compassion. Once it had legal status, aggressive sex-weaponizers had a basis for demanding equal status in school settings: homosexuality now had to be taught along with heterosexuality, and not just about marriage. Heterosexuality is – and always has been – normalcy: mothers and fathers produce children; boys and girls are different in “normal,” predictable ways; growing up takes place in predictable, “normal” patterns with predictable responsibilities, that ought to respond to parental and societal expectations. The boundaries of ethics and law are equally recognized and predictable. Progress occurs as does advancement, in that individuals become more skilled, more valuable in the economies of families and communities… and nations, and more spiritual. Those formulas of cultural success are resilient, but only to a point. Feminism, a re-ordering of relationships between men and women, perhaps inadvertently, provided political power to legalize increasingly non-normal sexual practices. Gay marriage had opened the door a crack while a giant wedge of divisive realignment was poised, in the form of radical feminism, to jam it open to every form of deviant irresponsibility. Our culture has, so far, failed to recognize the danger lurking within the virulent move to get children to renounce their true selves – basically denying responsibilities inherent in their genders and roles in a healthy society. “Affirming” mental incongruities as more true than reality, has a very, very low rate of success. The web of lies we call “laws,” should be unraveled.
ELECTIONS
The majesty of United States’ citizenship is taught – if taught at all – through detraction and condemnation. Rare are the public, unionized schools where a deep understanding is gained by students, of the responsibilities imparted by our Constitution, Declaration and multiple other founding and originating documents and philosophies. Freedom is not a gift from our forefathers, except as a door to the future that we, American citizens are obligated to pass through as leaders for this world. We have the keys to progress, advancement and personal perfection in our hands; we have failed to implant it in the hearts of our children. For most of us, the closest we come to that responsibility is in our role as voters – authorized choosers of America’s leadership, authorized lenders of power to those we choose to hold it. That fundamental authority and power has been so corrupted as to be taken from us BY THE VERY PEOPLE we lend our nation’s representative powers to!
Some functions of democracy should not be computerized. The stealing of elections has become virtually part of the background humor of the United States, and it’s a part of history, most especially in large cities. The holding of public office in cities can, if manipulated successfully, provide great wealth and power over others. Those positions will be defended and fought-for. The rot of urban election theft has morphed, thanks to the mysterious wonders of computerized vote recording and tallying, into the theft of statewide and federal elections.
Voter lists are computerized and the printouts of those lists are available to official campaigns. So, too, are lists of deceased or moved-away voters, and those who are ineligible for other reasons. Fortunately for those who are willing to defraud the voting process, most of the ineligible voters are still listed among the names on the “voter” list. A moderately sly campaign functionary can arrange for persons to go to the polls and vote in the name of ineligible, but still listed, voters. It works, but is time consuming and risky. How fabulous to have a “pandemic” strike the nation during a federal election year! Resulting fears and medical ignorance (and mendacity) overrode legal and Constitutional strictures, enabling even more sly attorneys to win court cases allowing for “mail-in” ballots to “protect” voters from the scourge of COVID-19.
These mostly illegal changes under cover of a “national medical emergency,” were quickly stretched to allow ballot drop-boxes, official and unofficial, and then vote-harvesting from infirm voters, ostensibly. Sympathetic election officials allowed ever wider interpretations of “safety” and “every vote should count,” which included every ballot – licit and illicit. A handful of determined election fraudsters in mail-in states could, because of fellow-democrat fellow-travelers, sway tens and hundreds of thousands of invalid, but counted, “votes.” Even signature-match verification was disregarded in the interest of safety during a national medical emergency. Computers helped, of course, providing unmonitored curing of “erroneous” ballots with new electronic records. Damn the whole process.
Voting is the only sacrament in democracy. We have allowed one party, basically, to corrupt voting and vote-counting to its benefit. In 2020 these factors may have accounted for more than 8 million illicit votes. It changed history and the resulting President is changing history more every day… not in good ways, at all.
How can this Jin be pushed back into its cave? How can every election be trusted again? What are the steps? It requires a certain amount of automation, but no actual computerization and no internet connections to aggregation points or to state elections offices or to anywhere else.
First, hand-marked ballots, only. Fill in the ovals or squares and let a machine scan them and count them. A total is reported for each office. Count the handful of write-ins, and pack up the ballots with a bar-coded wrapper. A certified police officer transports that bundle to the single aggregation point near the state capitol. There, that bundle is unwrapped and fed through a certified machine identical to the one in East Podunk that generated the draft, on-site total. The stack is run through the second machine and the totals compared. If they are exactly alike, the total is reported as final.
If the totals don’t agree the ballots are inspected by hand while monitored by poll watchers. The stack is scanned again in a free-standing, non-networked machine. At some point there will be two identical totals and that number is reported. The total time to complete these steps might be 2 or 3 days, but the totals will be trustworthy. Everything else that has been interjected into this process is bogus and serves only the convenience of government – and the purposes of the leftist party. Absentee ballots should be only that, with significant reasons to avoid personally casting one’s ballot.
There should be no “early” voting, except, perhaps, for 2 or 3 days. That will facilitate convenience without encouraging voting in ignorance of much of what might be exposed by the campaigns. If the Post Office is to be involved in any significant way it should be to deliver registered ballots that must be signed-for by the requestor. Then, ON A SPECIFIC DAY prior to Election Day, and involving no mail delivery on that day – perhaps a Saturday – Postal route personnel can pick up the ballots at the addresses to which they were delivered. No wholesale mailings to untrustworthy “voting lists” and no ballot harvesting.
If we fail to secure our elections we fail to deserve the blessings of liberty.
BUDGETS
The term, “Budget” is not used in the Constitution. Budgeting for government spending, however, is vitally important – it’s the only way to set a standard for the key functions of the Congress: raising revenue and appropriating it for legitimate government expenditures. There are thousands of words in the U. S. Code relating to the President’s obligations to provide dozens of kinds and titles of data about programs and expenditures included in the President’s submitted budget. Sadly, about three-quarters of “the budget” is considered permanent or “entitlements” or both at once, and therefore unchangeable by the people’s representatives, despite having been created by those same worthies on behalf of those same people. Technically, EVERY element in the budget may be modified or removed. However, virtually every aspect of federal expenditure has its own advocacy group, mostly political. With Congress’ primary purposes being re-election and not the “people’s business,” no part of the budget that could have a negative impact politically, will be touched, except to increase it.
With a $32 Trillion federal debt, a large fraction of the sub-chapters of the budget must be “touched,” cut or eliminated. They cannot all grow in every budget cycle, including payrolls, welfare entitlements pensions and other hot-button items. There is no reason to expect that the Congress as constituted and elected, is going to ever balance expenditures and revenues, let alone cut any one of them. The collapse of the U. S. economically is being led and accelerated by government debt and deficit spending. All processes of taxation and revenue accumulation have failed to enhance America’s economic strength of freedom, nor has it done very much to increase the prosperity of a majority of Americans. We feel like we’re becoming more wealthy, higher real estate prices and so forth, perhaps larger retirement funds, but our money is worth less every year and a lot of what we think we’ve gained is “balanced” by those trillions in debt. Most of us will not be ready when the decline becomes a rout.
Our wonderful – magical – Federal Reserve Bank was given vital power by Congress in 1913: to coin money and set the value thereof. Along with that sloughing off of Constitutional power, Congress also provided “the Fed” the magical power to loan money to the federal government, even when it doesn’t have money to actually lend. So, it lends air and charges interest on it. The federal government owes so much that it must borrow money to pay the interest on previous loans. That amounts to three-quarters of a trillion dollars this year. Only the most irresponsible presidential administration would run a greater-than-Trillion-dollar deficit in its budget in the face of this unprecedented indebtedness.
The history of the past 60 years has made the budget process of the U. S. federal government, an increasingly fraudulent exercise. The fraud is perpetrated upon the American people, in the main, but also on every holder of dollars in the world, as the value of each dollar slips downward, year by year… sometimes week-by-week.
Prudence would dictate a different course for our ship of state, but we won’t see that happen under Democrat control of the White House.
Any mention of “climate” over the past, say, 40 years, has always been fraught with the effects of “good” or “evil” thinking. No matter where one lands on the spectrum of how much humans can effect changes in Earth’s climate, it is instructive to step back from personal fears or certainties and evaluate the phenomenon of “climate change” as political force. Historically, political movements have centered on efforts that will produce changes that most adherents will experience if successful. Fighting over abortion, for example will, within 9 months at most, yield a result. The result might manifest in a few hours or days with the cessation of creation, but most certainly in about 270 days or so. People can rally around reality and changes thereto.
Climate, however, that changes over decades and centuries, is a little harder to “pin down” when it comes to fears and certainties, so the people who have concocted the worst fears into a soup of political manipulation based on events that most followers, or fellow travelers on the anthropomorphic climate train, will never experience… are to be commended for their amorphous success. Regardless of the fears that drive them, the only “changes” that their followers will enjoy, as it were, are losses of freedom and personal sovereignty. Remarkable.
What if science revealed a change humans have made that has the actual potential to completely revamp Earth’s climate and even its geography? Would it cause true international cooperation to reverse or counter it? Or, would it hasten the takeover of national identities and create the one-world socialist Hell that many climate alarmists are in favor of? Unfortunately, these are not idle questions, anymore.
Scientists – geologists and others – have noticed tiny aberrations in Earth’s rotation. Several years ago they calculated that the filling of the 3 Gorges Dam in China had changed the location of enough millions of tons of water, plus the huge volume of concrete in the dam structure, itself, to perturb the Earth’s rotation around its axis. Wow… who knew our engineering could have that large an impact? Fast forward to 2022.
The Earth is wobbling a little more. Scientists have studied the wobbles in part because the magnetic north pole has been shifting eastward much more rapidly than expected, whereas it had been slowly drifting westward for some years prior. There appears to be a little more rotational wobble connected to the shift of the poles and, knowing that human engineering is massive enough to affect the wobble, scientists have been looking at other possible hydrological effects.
It turns out that it’s human activity that is putting the stability of the PLANET(!) at risk, and it has nothing to do with our “carbon footprints.” Global warming, freezing, the melting of glaciers, will all be as nothing if the processes that have resulted in the current rotational disturbances are not reversed and replaced with something else. “Oh, come on,” you say. “How can anything be worse than climate change? What ‘processes’ are you trying to scare us with?”
Water… which is to say, moving water around – putting it into storage or taking it out of storage. We talked about the Three Gorges Dam, which changed flowing waters into stored waters. At the other end of process, we take water out of the ground – out of huge aquifers – essentially out of the largest storage systems there are. Humans need water and public health and prosperity require “clean” water, not always available from surface, recycled waters. Humans need food, too, and food requires water. The best soil is rarely where the most fresh water is, or so we believed until we figured out that the biggest fresh-water lakes were under the ground. Hi-Ho, irrigation! … and the original “green revolution” that actually does a great deal of good.
However, just like putting a small bit of weight on the side of a top, the earth is wobbling as it spins at 1,000 miles per hour due to our rearrangement of fairly large amounts of weight. When huge volumes of water come out of the ground they become surface water that either evaporates or runs off into the sea. Where they were becomes much lighter. For India, for example, the volume of lake Erie leaves their aquifers every two years. That is, 50.2 Million tons of water is pumped to the surface every year! From there it runs off ultimately to the Indian Ocean, spreading its weight across the globe. Even for Mother Earth, that starts to add up. And in 10 or 20 years it’s enough to change her balance. But, so what? We don’t even notice the wobble. Here’s where the warning comes into play.
At some point, and that point is not certain, but we are heading toward it, the wobble will, literally, and in a destructively short time – perhaps a couple of days or so – cause the earth to roll over to a new axis of rotation that is “balanced” with the changes we have made. That is, the heaviest parts of the “top” that is our planet, will shift to the equator, and that new equator will be halfway between the new poles, north and south. The lightest parts will have shifted closer to the poles. And it won’t take long for these shifts to occur. What will the surface of the earth experience?
Among other cataclysms, there will be earthquakes of immeasurable amplitude, and in lots of places that haven’t been along known faults. Unfortunately, most people will be unable to pay attention to earthquakes because of the super-hurricane-strength winds that precede the largest tsunamis ever imagined: hundreds of feet high, as the oceans slosh over most of the land. It is hard to predict any region that will be able to ride out the Great Polar Shift with only survivable damage. One set of predictions places Europe at the new North Pole. Not much of a growing season after the waters subside, there. Chicago, in that scientifically and mathematically considered postulate, would be on the new equator. God forbid it all.
These natural disasters are far more likely than any of the fears with which “climate change” acolytes have twisted so many people’s politics. Will the Great Shift happen in the next 10 years? No one can tell. What can be told is that, barring a huge change in water management, worldwide, the shift will eventually happen. What can we do?
There are three major goals in Prudence’ view: 1) Cease draining aquifers, everywhere, and allow them to refill – takes a century or more – this will require a global shift to ocean desalinization, the production from which will have negligible effects on weight distribution. 2) Gradually eliminate giant dams everywhere, replacing them with simpler, smaller, flood-control dams and intentional flood plains. 3) Engineer and re-engineer nuclear power-plant designs so that hydro-power can be replaced and exceeded, facilitating economic advancement for all nations… cleanly.
There may be a fourth goal, as well: thanking our lucky stars – and God – that we paid attention to warning signs in time to avoid our own extinction.
Homelessness, despite its explosive increase in the past 30 years, still feels like an exception, an anomaly in the grand, prosperous and self-righteous tableau that is America. How can so many be living “on the street,” basically, in a country with so many resources and so comprehensive a political infrastructure? Liberalism causes otherwise rational people to defend the RIGHTS of the mentally ill, weird or addicted and largely uncivilized people to sleep in public places. Eventually, their rights to urinate and defecate in public places are also “recognized.” Due to some dislocation in the logical thinking of other liberals who consider themselves civilized (living in houses, indoor plumbing, decent ‘human’ activities and some form of productive wealth), residents of the same jurisdiction are permitted by virtue of the existence of other “rights,” to make their ways around the city, including eating in restaurants and entering various other businesses, in the nude. Once good sense is breeched, the uncrossable lines of civilized decency become harder and harder to discern.
To varying degrees, many municipalities have descended into some form of what San Francisco has become a leader of. Prior to the last 20 to 30 years western civilization, largely founded according to Judeo-Christian beliefs and ethics, was endeavoring to advance in terms of human civilization, habits and public, interactive, practices. That direction has reversed. That reversal seems to be centered in and controlled by liberals, leftists and socialists. Conservatives are distinctly unimpressed by these trends, if not disgusted – as seems Prudent.
This accelerating retreat from good sense makes almost every “civilized” resident very uncomfortable. It has seeped out into criminal justice to the point that criminals are coddled while ultra-liberal prosecutors expand the list of crimes for which punishment and retribution are no longer very important. But the trend started with rampant and financially-encouraged homelessness – all of which programs have failed despite the millions of explanations of success by those same liberal politicians. Liberal “government” has foresworn any moral judgment to the point that anywhere it can insert some “public” monies must also eliminate morality as a shared ethic.
The Prudent approach is to recognize that life is better, safer, cleaner, more productive and successful when the vast majority of the population – and its “governors” – share a basic morality. In such a civilized environment certain behaviors and practices are not allowed for sensible reasons of health, public safety, compassion and cleanliness. We can begin the return to civilization by ending the “root causes” of homelessness. This will require the enforcing of laws despite the chagrin of some who are incorrigible – both homeless and “normal.”
Block by block, street-sleepers have to be rounded up and held in temporary – emphasis on temporary – facilities for evaluation. Which of them are addicted? Which truly mentally ill? There won’t be any free needles or free drugs… only compassionate detox, physical clean-up and healthy food. Every person will be required to adhere to rules in order to eat, hunger being the universal motivator. Those who are clinically determined to be mentally ill will be treated, possibly medicated if it will help, and housed separately… depending on the nature of supportive bonds with others, mentally ill or not. Instead of spending tens of millions of dollars on better tents or other free stuff that facilitates living on the streets, every person will be rehabilitated to the best degree possible. Vocational training will be offered within controlled circumstances. For many this will be a refresher for skills that used to support them before addiction took over. Each will have to work in some way to earn his or her room and board. Each should also be offered contact with religious people, ministers, or others. There is always hope.
In a sense it is a program of second chances, but not a second chance to live on the street. For those whose mental illness can’t be controlled, proper institutionalization is needed – not “warehousing” of humans, modified assisted living. Nearly every state has a history of terrible handling of the mentally ill. It always offended Prudence to hear about bad treatment and terrible conditions that seemed to go on and on… for years and decades. Were those the only solutions human beings could come up with? Was there someone else who could be blamed for the cruelty and stupidity that marked so many mental hospitals?
No, it was us, the same people who threw up their hands and closed the awful facilities and “mainstreamed” mentally ill people. Every person living “homeless,” can be helped, rehabilitated made more healthy and given / offered new direction and opportunity to take good care of themselves. If your politicians don’t agree, get some new ones. Politicians who are willing to run on a platform of honesty would be the best place to start.
Wise humans generally have tried to select their leaders from among those who think logically relative to the traditions and cultural mores of the society. Those who would be leaders, but who tend to propose completely opposite ideas and beliefs at proximate times, are generally rejected for positions of leadership, and denied power over the “people” who have sought leaders who will protect their families and partner in achieving greater safety, comfort and wealth. Along the way, their leaders are expected to protect and strengthen the children so that society will grow, be strong and continue.
In earlier times, especially when education was not widespread – mainly reserved to self-selected religious leaders and somewhat self-selected royal families – populations accepted their statuses as serfs and peasants for whom reverence of their “leaders” was how safety for themselves and their families was increased, including food security. Things changed as education became “public.” Wisdom and philosophies from the “ancient” past spread among millions of thoughtful humans, some of whom refined and expanded on the “pure” ideas of the Greeks, Hebrews, Romans, Persians and many others, interpreting human interactions amidst the “new” realities of economics, civic participation and independence.
Great minds eventually proscribed the foundational ideas of the United States, and they are quite simple!
Underlying the simplicity of the Constitution are principles of preventing or avoiding the proven tendencies of the worst of human nature to gain power and wealth at the expense of others: tyranny of one form or another. Let’s consider the simple ideas and the assumptions on which they are dependent. Our founders designed “self-government” against the backdrop of tyrannies they had seen and fought, both religious and monarchical, as well as militaristic. They could not include tools designed to thwart the new tyrannies defined and refined by Marxism in the middle of the 19th century. That is our job, today.
The first simple idea, upon which our survival depended then and does, now: religious freedom. Education in the late 18th century was based largely upon religious philosophies and structures of good and evil as spread by and through churches and prelates of all kinds, mostly Christian, and by locally hired teachers. The vast majority of Americans shared basic beliefs in right and wrong as they ratified the Constitution; they never imagined that within a few generations the vast majority of Americans – AND THEIR CHURCHES – would no longer agree upon the principles of right and wrong and self-discipline. The functioning of Constitutional republicanism depends upon “the people” being a moral, self-disciplined body politic. To participate in and manage a republic, requires that its members – citizens – be educated in its principles and practices. Sadly, this is no longer the case.
The second simple idea is representation. A people who have learned to choose their representatives such that those so chosen will guard the people from the worst excesses of executive rulers, will, if properly educated, keep a civic eye on those representatives, in our case, on members of the House of Representatives. Our Founders believed, based on a social compact within which nearly everyone shared common rights and wrongs, that representing people in the many states, would remain a mission of honor and fealty to their constituents. They never imagined that election to Congress would become such a lucrative opportunity for personal gain, that re-election, and the many corruptions that facilitate re-election, would replace the proper role of service and honor. “The People’s House” is no longer a place of honor but for a few. Americans must educate themselves about the original purpose and model for representation, and MAKE THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES required to restore representation to the primary purpose – and effect – of election to “The House.”
The third simple idea is states’ rights. That is, that the Federal government is limited to those functions that states cannot do for themselves, and that the powers not granted to the Federal Government, or prohibited to it, are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people. Senators are supposed to represent the interests of the States; they are not supposed to be longer-serving, at-large representatives of the people. They are supposed to be selected by the state legislatures to represent the STATES, guarding their rights and powers in a federal, not NATIONAL system of governance. Because of the failures of some state legislatures during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, leaving Senate seats unfilled, Congress proposed the 17th Amendment and it was ratified with little delay. Since then, 6-year-term Senators have been elected similarly to 2-year-term Representatives. Thus were the constituencies of Senators changed from their state governments to the general populations of states, which changed the responsibilities of Senators. Being elected “at large” means that Senate candidates have, ever since, been able to lie at varying levels of effectiveness, twisting truth and news, particularly for incumbents, to gain popular vote victories.
If the Senator in question had to answer to members of his or her state’s legislature, men and women who, to some greater degree, know what is going on and what they instructed their Senator to do, then the re-election/appointment landscape would be far, far different than the amorphous, dishonest campaigning that works with popular-vote elections. Prior to the 17th Amendment, states’ senators had to answer for what they did in Washington. It would be very good to repeal the 17th and make Senators responsible to SOMEBODY. The chance of senators being re-elected for 24, 30 or 36 years, would be much reduced: a good thing.
The fourth simple idea is equal application of the laws. The fundament of individual sovereignty and freedom is equal STATUS under the laws. Our Bill of Rights, without which the Constitution would have never been ratified, or even considered for ratification by some states, codifies the assumptions that underlay the debates that developed the Constitution. Madison and others believed that having won independence from a powerful monarchy, under which laws and persecutions were applied differently to citizens deemed by the monarch to be favored or unfavored, had cemented the concepts of equal application of law into the American people. In fact, the ability of governments of any type: elected or hereditary, to become tyrannical, was bound to color the debates. The likelihood that executive authority will garner power not specifically granted to it, is historically likely. Government can NEVER be trusted to control itself on behalf of even the highest principles. The rules limiting the power of government and protecting the unalienable rights of every person, had to be part of the proposed Constitution. Ratification was effected by legislative agreement of three-fourths of the states; the formation of a FEDERAL government was a function of the STATES and not even of popular vote.
Let’s repeat that concept: the Federal Government is a creation of the states. The power and rights of, now, 50 STATES, are SUPERIOR to the powers of the Federal Government. How foreign this truth sounds. It means that criminal laws as well as civil laws, are primarily the business of states, and that federal laws should be few in number and limited in scope to matters of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and other amendments, and matters of military justice and treason. It also means that federal police powers and the so-called “F.B.I.” should be severely limited in terms of interactions with individual citizens. Things have changed, to say the least.
The fifth simple idea is the ELECTORAL COLLEGE, which provides a mechanism of election of the Chief Executive Officer / Commander-in-Chief, free of undue influence from Congress or from direct democracy. Our Founders understood the inherent dangers of pure democracy and that democracy, alone, would quickly yield tyranny of shifting majorities. This is why so many mechanisms dividing power between states and the federal system, between states and pure democracy, and between citizens and their representatives, are built into the Constitution. Lately, many on the Left have complained about the Electoral College, always touting the “popular vote” as having favored a losing Presidential ticket. Needless to say, the popular vote is meaningless in presidential politics. The Electoral college makes sure that presidents are elected by the States, not by popular vote. The U. S. holds 50 state elections for 50 slates of electors who are committed to a presidential ticket. While electors are related to representative numbers: 2 senators per state plus the number of representatives per state, presidential tickets must win the majority of presidential electors, state by state. Both large and small states are important to the final total. Presidents are elected by the states, not through direct democracy.
Those who want to get rid of the Electoral College are those who want government to be empowered through pure democracy, and they are not to be trusted with real power.
Another simple idea, relative to the Executive authority, is that Congress must declare war, not the President. Under monarchies, the monarch can dictate foreign policy and declare war when he or she doesn’t get what he or she desires. Again, to limit the concentration of power in the executive branch, our founders anticipated that Congress’ interests would be closer to the people and rarely in complete agreement with the Chief Executive. What was never anticipated was that both the House and Senate would be so willing to avoid responsibility for much of anything, and so willing to relinquish powers to the executive bureaucracies of unelected rule-makers, as is attractive to communists. Like all contracts and covenants, they are only as good as the quality and integrity of the parties to them.
Our founders, likewise, never anticipated that Congress would devise a means of creating perpetually growing public debt (in the form of the extra-constitutional “Federal Reserve” Check out: http://www.prudenceleadbetter.com/2020/09/27/knife-edge-election/). In 1789 people – and governments – had to pay their debts before more loans would be offered; today we raise the “debt ceiling” so that we might borrow enough to pay only the interest on previous debts, let alone pay down the principals. This results in our “representatives” failing utterly to represent the interests of the people each is paid handsomely to represent… adding annually to the peoples’ debt burden and being re-elected despite having done so.
The SUPREME COURT is a simple idea, although modern beliefs complicate it beyond reason. The Constitution provides federal judges, including Supreme Court Justices, with lifetime appointments. The purpose is to insulate justices from political whims and winds of change, and, presumably, allow them to hold firmly to the meaning of the Constitution’s words as ever newer, unanticipated legal problems emerge. Politics has caused never anticipated complications to the balancing work of the Supreme Court. Elected men and women have added to the responsibilities of the Federal government beyond anything the Founders could have imagined. The lines between Constitutional powers and protections of individual rights, have become broader and diffuse as politicians have found political power in the invention of new “rights,” many based on falsehoods. The Left’s penchant for changing the definitions of words has made “equal protection under the law” nearly impossible; foolish politicians have passed laws to accommodate false definitions and whimsical “realities.” The supreme court is tested to find narrow truths amidst broadened political fantasies.
Yet, the concept of a final arbiter of our Constitutional protections is both wise and essential. That the U. S. was founded in the presence of printing and publications, forms of mail service and book-binding, kept our founders mindful of the spread of new ideas and opinions. Launching the new nation on a “ship” of ideals required that some mechanism of preserving and reinforcing those ideas and ideals was essential. The Supreme Court, almost inadvertently, became that mechanism, thanks to the innovative application of its limited powers by Chief Justice John Marshall.
Finally, the NINTH and TENTH amendments are a combined, simple idea. Hardly any of our student youth are taught about the Constitution, and few of them, or even of their parents, have knowledge or opinions about the last two amendments of the Bill of Rights.
Amendment 9 admonishes the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that the rights named and listed in the Constitution – rights of individuals – cannot be construed to “deny or disparage” others (rights) retained by the people. This is worth contemplating every day and upon every election: The rights that are inherent in every citizen (unalienable rights), ARE NOT LIMITED to only those “enumerated” in the text of the Constitution, NOR can the constitution be employed to limit any of them! These few words are quite possibly the most important and far-reaching in our Constitutional system. EVERY piece of legislation and every surreptitious new regulation that spews forth from the tens of thousands of unelected bureaucrats, should be evaluated BY OUR (ostensible) REPRESENTATIVES as to its neutrality toward or protection of our inherent rights as individual citizens. What a different “official” status we are each entitled to, than what we are now saddled with.
The 10th Amendment, in effect, reserves to the STATES, much as the 9th reserves to the people, all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution. It then goes beyond the power of states and reserves the rest to the people, again. This remarkable Constitution is unique in world history, and exceptional. The rights secured to the citizens of the United States are exceptional among all the nations. How is it that we have elected so many to Congress and even to the White House, who do not agree with what the Constitution says and promises to us as citizens?
Dear readers and fellow citizens, the simplest, most Prudent idea of all is to learn, teach, discuss, and study the Constitution and the thinking that supported its ultimate design. Our students are deprived of the ONLY knowledge that will keep us and them, free. If you have the ability to communicate to whomever is educating your children, insist that they, and all other teachers, produce high-school graduates who understand our rights and powers as U. S. citizens.
As the Christ Mass approaches we tend to – are obligated to – place our most prized results of our year of labor and multiplication upon the altar, proving our willingness to sacrifice for God and thanks to God. It’s metaphysical… in a non-computerized sort of way. God, of course, doesn’t need our sacrifices, he needs the act of sacrificing. He needs that expression of love, and so do we.
There’s a lot of charity flowing at this time of year, as you surely notice. Charity is an act of selfless, as in “non-selfish” love; acts of love with no physical benefit in return. Of course those and their organizations whose appeals we may answer as Christmas nears, do their best to thank all who gave of our supply of time or treasure, but acts of charity don’t require such recognition. Thanking is certainly good manners, sometimes done to ensure future charity and, truth be known, most humans resent the lack of thanks, but it’s not a true factor in the equation of love or of its charitable expression.
We humans are beings defined, or measured, by economics. We consistently judge the values of giving and receiving, thanks for a gift… or for charity. It’s not always a healthy calculation, nor is it part of the love equation. Or, of the charity equation. Love, or charity, is an aetheric substance. What we do here on Earth is a rather crude reflection of the pure, spiritual development that happens to and for our higher selves, our non-physical selves. Except, we can’t manifest things to and for other humans without being in the physical plane, as it were. If we are, someday, accepted into the plane where our soul is supposed to be, love is an automatic manifestation, not a choice. Here, amidst a thousand distractions and evil opportunities, love and charity are a decision – sometimes a difficult one. If you find it easy to express love for others and to sacrifice for others, count your blessings.
One of the tests we must pass is how to not slip through the diaphanous membrane between love and hate. Hatred is often expressed towards ourselves, where it is most damaging. It may be as simple as a mistake, even just dropping something, spilling something… stupid stuff. Immediately we chastise ourselves in words we’d never apply to another, certainly never towards someone we love. If our spouse or child experiences something irritating, an accident, a time-consuming error that makes him or her angry, your usual reaction is to sooth and help in resolving the problem. Yet when we do something similar, ourselves, we immediately express self-hatred for our failing to do something smarter. Prudence can’t explain why it works this way, but “the force,” God, the Universe, or Life, cannot deliver the best, most fortunate opportunities to you if you are immersed in hatred of yourself, OR, toward others. It’s an equation: Love fits into it but hatred never does. Love yourself – you are a product of love and of an investment by your mother and others of love. You never deserve to be hated.
The greatest gift we can give, whether at Christmas or on any morning, is to review and refresh the love you are giving to yourself and others. Even in mundane, economic interactions like sales, the advice always is to imagine that you love the stranger you would like to have a sales relationship with, before you pick up the phone or walk into an office. It seems to make the interaction far more successful. Prudence can testify to this effect.
How different might all interactions be if every human projected love toward his or her correspondents. Unfortunately, our society and politics, even our elementary schools and teachers(!), spend much of their efforts at teaching children and grownups alike to hate others. What a gross distortion of the life opportunities God gives us every year and day.
Children, most sadly, are taught not just hatred of their race or skin color, but hatred of their selves. If born male, they are taught to forego the responsibilities of manhood and to pretend to be female; if born female, they are taught to forego the majesty of motherhood and to pretend to be male: two special forms of self-hatred. Part of the self-hatred process involves separation from parents and other relatives who won’t “confirm” their new sexual outlook. Learning to no longer trust one’s parents is a giant step toward hating them or, at least, hating their roles.
Children can be, and should be, taught to love themselves… not to hate themselves… or others. Like Critical Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory is an agenda based on hatred.
Questions of race and slavery generate peculiar ripples of hatred, essentially only in the United States. Millions are caught up in them, especially politicians of various stripes, who have learned that constant aggravation of these questions can yield political influence. Such influence is fruitful within a population of people who “enjoy” rubbing hatreds raw, including within themselves. Foolishly, politicians have figured out that hatred can be not only powerful, but profitable. Still, the strong feelings do not, and cannot, lead to solutions or transformation into positive feelings, outlooks and cooperation.
There are truths about slavery… and falsehoods. There are truths about racism… and falsehoods. Falsehoods seem to prevail, but truths about both subjects are immediately seized upon to draw false conclusions and false premises about what some true piece of history should force upon people of today. Just the fact of slavery in the past has proven sufficient reason to never stop hating, as evidenced by the renewed, and listened-to demands for “reparations.” Reparations justify hatred for white-skinned people: apparently whites owe an undying debt to blacks because of slavery. Whites, it seems, are prone to guilt over having succeeded in mastering so many sciences and skills. Not all skills, of course, but whites pioneered in many skills that not only have created comfortable standards of living and great wealth, but which have benefitted virtually all peoples on the planet. Perfectly? Absolutely not.
If we are waiting to stop feeling guilty until we are perfect, no less, we’ll wait forever. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t become better. But, are the children guilty of the sins of their parents? Only by choice and training; those who decidedly choose a better path than their ancestors, better ways to treat and interact with everyone else, skin color notwithstanding, should be respected and loved as anyone might be loved. There’s no guilt appropriate. Unfortunate and deceitful politics, however, casts all whites into the guilty column because some of their forbears owned slaves or mistreated blacks following slavery. What is owed to whom, today?
One of whites’ imperfections is an expectation that money can replace sin – the monetization of guilt. It is the fundament of perpetual welfare and the social welfare state. Perhaps handing over money for no value will convert hatred for whites into love for whites. That seems doubtful based on the “success” of the Great Society. Otherwise, every welfare recipient would run into the street to hug any taxpayer who wanders by their less-than-ideal, welfare-provided home. Nope. Giving free stuff makes only the most temporary of friendships and quickly reverts to resentment. The only “reparations” of any value or consequence to the quality of life for anyone, is teaching a person how to succeed in our culture, perhaps even helping that person to succeed for a limited time. But locking that person into perpetual victim-hood and welfare-poverty is a system designed to destroy that persons humanity and worth, yet we persist at it, waiting for the miracle socialists promise.
For their part, far too many blacks believe that destroying the society and culture whites have succeeded in, is going to make their lives better and balance the cosmic scales, somehow. That approach requires perpetual hatred and resentment – there is no love that is part of it. One doesn’t steal, loot, destroy and burn the work of others out of love. One doesn’t teach others to hate anyone, let alone a group, or to hate themselves… out of love. This is why socialism is an abject, deceitful lie: it is premised on the belief of the inability of the individual to elevate him- or herself, improving skills and understandings and esteem while teaching him or her to love the good in everyone and to strive against the bad. Under socialism, all trust is placed in others, mostly unknown.
Interestingly, America is full of blacks who have raised themselves up by working within the system and then transcending the system, leading the rest of us to better ourselves. In almost every field, great, accomplished black-skinned Americans have excelled and led. Why not emulate them instead of hating whites? Crappy politics, that’s why. Since the Clintons popped into the White House, hatred has become the overarching driver of political action: not freedom, not justice, not improvement of living standards, not wisdom in foreign policy, not budgeting on behalf of American citizens, not “America first.” Despite constant accusations from the Democrat left, most of the hatred emanates from Democrats and their allies. Yes, there are haters on both sides of the divide, but the distinction between left and right is gigantic, culminating in the Communist uprisings in 2020 and the Covid pandemic. There weren’t “right-wingers” burning America in 2020.
There weren’t right-wingers creating and pushing Covid across the planet, or creating and pushing ersatz vaccines into every body. Those were the works of the left. Why?
It wasn’t to increase individual freedom or to balance the budget; it wasn’t to prevent inflation of the monetary supply or to strengthen energy independence and the U. S. balance of payments with other countries; it wasn’t to solve our weak border enforcement, improve public safety, reduce the rate of drug overdoses and deaths or to strengthen the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights in any way. Why would a political movement take significant, even drastic steps that weaken the United States of America?
Well, aside from enrichening its adherents, it would be to, well… weaken the United States.
Love of country makes us stronger; hatred of it makes us weaker. To govern and legislate in conformity with the warped ideas of the World Economic Forum and with the corrupted, communistic ideas of the United Nations, is to express hatred for the United States. To promulgate policies, persecutions and punishments that divide Americans into two classes – favored and hated – is to DIS-unite the previously United States: hatred.
This is the time of this most important year, when love of others, of law, of nation, of selves and of God, should be foremost in all of our intentions, yet our politics has failed us, creating problems that our democratic republic can’t solve, while rewarding hatred as the means to power. Let us pray as we see fit to return ourselves to a transcendent path, not the descendent path we’re on.
There are so many things to think about, wonder about, dream of or simply, profoundly contemplate… at Christmastime. Modern society provides thousands of distractions to contemplative thought, even of religious thought. It confuses young and old and even quite intelligent people, who, many of them, find comfort in overthrowing traditions and beliefs that, however jerkily, created pathways of progress and even enlightenment. Enlightenment’s end will be realized when “woke” ideologies capture the last government.
Christmas takes place at the altar of God, like it or not. Mankind is obligated to bring gifts of thanks to the Creator, gifts derived from multiplying what we have been given for a full year’s cycle of days and nights, pains and suffering, triumphs and failures, loves and losses, lives and deaths, babies and aged cadavers. If we manage to not be destructively distracted, we have much to offer our Creator, and offer it we must. This is not a new or even a “Christian” concept. Most religious traditions include significant measures of time, “moons,” seasons and solstices. The traditions that built our civilization caused the development of calendars that have a clear beginning and ending, recognized by everyone. Those who understood the segments of time and lengths of daylight hours gained great influence. As God and His prophets explained and taught spiritual laws, it was into the traditions of our incipient civilization that they fit them. As much as the first day of a new year is meaningful about beginnings, plans and courage to attempt new things, the end of the year is important for tallying the results and expressing gratitude for the victories and challenges thereof.
That there is believed to be a cycle of receiving and giving and of giving and receiving, all of which may contribute to a better destiny after one’s earthly life is finished, formed the basis of ethics, charity and hard work, and, it can be said, of honesty and personal responsibility. Populations that share these concepts develop individual consciences and the greatest of all gifts: self-control. This very capability is essential – indispensable – for the creation and maintenance of a personal relationship with God, God by any name, and, clearly, for the establishment of the democratic republic of the United States of America.
Many are alive today who, as socialists also do, believe that their purpose in life is to take as much advantage of society as possible. They expect levels of wealth, comfort and licentious rights as though by magic. Many don’t work or produce anything of useful value to others. If they are in college due to signed loan contracts, they tend to agitate energetically for “the government” to absorb their debts, as if they who signed those contracts were magically absolved of a solemn promise. It is an extraordinary expectation with literally no prior basis in law or social organization. Such an outlook is the diametric opposite of accepting an annual opportunity to live, multiply and serve others, and laying the results on the altar at the conclusion of the annual cycle. Education, parenting and religion have failed these people.
The American holiday, Thanksgiving, fits our founding philosophies perfectly. As we approach the end of each year, we are reminded unceasingly that it is time to give thanks for the blessings of freedom and of our Constitutional governance. Amongst the football, shopping, road-races and overeating, families and friends come together, let’s hope without conflict, where, even if not articulated, being thankful seeps in to the most unaware. But, thankful to whom?
Some might think they are thanking the government… for the good fortune that has found them in the United States. Yet the government spends most of its time limiting our freedom, not something to thank anyone for. However, we do enjoy a good fraction of the freedom that was present at our founding and we should be thankful for that. We still enjoy a measure of personal responsibility, the one ingredient in freedom that makes our personal choices meaningful as it makes our lives meaningful. Government seems to be actively eliminating personal responsibility as though everything good or bad that happens is a social consequence, not a personal one. That’s not what – or whom – we are thankful for, either.
Like love, hate or forgiveness, thankfulness is uniquely human. So, too, is the ability to worship. This combination of human attitudes and abilities is why socially sensitive civilizations exist. Add to them the sense of sacrifice that spurs preparation for a better future for ourselves and for others, and some of the most sublime philosophies of social organization, economics and government can be understood. The greatest advances of science and medicine would be impossible without certain attitudes, including sacrifice. These are attitudes common to what we call, “human nature,” and which are fought against consistently by philosophies of what we call, “socialism.”
Humans have a further grant from, well, their creator… certainly not from any government. We call it “free will” and it refers to the opportunity to choose from evil, which is to say, “away from evil.” Clearly, God (I’ll use “God” – easier to type, you know) brought humans into being on a planet where “free will” would always be tested against the blandishments of evil. Freedom will exist only so long as the young are taught about it and of it and, if truth be told, so long as God is worshipped. No form of governance that denies those understandings is able to keep people out of tyranny. For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, and hearts to maintain the courage of free will, I am thankful.
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” Frederick Douglass
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
