A world that has been buffeted for more than two years by a manufactured pandemic is now witness to a military assault on a neighboring country with full-blown invasion, bombings, heavy weapons and classical military pincer-movement on the neighbor’s capitol. People and troops are dying, children are screaming and the citizens of the attacked nation are proving their mettle in the face of overwhelming force arrayed against them. It is happening in the midst of what the World Economic Forum, an assemblage of ultra-wealthy bankers, actual and would-be dictators and global merchants, are hoping is the correct time to execute “The Great Reset” – a globalization of governance and finance and production that will cement the oligarchs into power, while redistributing some wealth to all the less-fortunate denizens of the planet sufficient to keep them from rising up against the idea of perpetual second-class-ism.
Given that the perpetrator is the dictator of Russia, an oligarch and grand grifter in his own right, it is likely that the military assault he is so proud of is happening with at least tacit permission of the “WEF,” if not its approval. “Why? And why now?” poorly informed Americans are asking. Of greater concern to those same questioners: “What will this do to gas prices?” And so it goes.
Russia is smashing Ukraine, one of the former Soviet “republics” that gained freedom upon the Soviet Union’s dissolution 30 years ago. Dictator-in-fact, Vladimir Putin, an old KGB operator once stationed in East Germany, is redressing grievances he believes the Russian people have with an independent Ukraine. The current U. S. leadership has not only hamstrung itself with ideological bindings that, so far at least, severely limit the options the U. S. has for countering or defusing this hottest stage of a war we barely understand. There is danger at almost every direction we might go.
In other words, hobbling American oil and gas production to accomplish some fallacious climate modification, has exposed the utter “boobishness” of our foreign policy establishment. The ability of these dopes to risk everything and surrender everything in Afghanistan, should have opened the eyes of those who engineered certification of Biden’s election in 2020. In a just world, the people, including voters, who put the Biden administration into office would be begging forgiveness from their fellow Americans and from most of the Western world. Elections have consequences.
Russia’s economy is not proportional to its geography, and it is heavily dependent upon oil and gas exports. By reversing America’s energy independence and surplus, President Biden provided Russia with both increasing revenues, propping up Putin’s preparations for war, and with increased leverage over western Europe’s need for natural gas. In short, kow-towing to ultra-leftists and believers in the Climate-Change faith has yielded utterly stupid national and international policies. Can we hope that the Biden administration might reverse its worst ideas? We can correct mistakes; it is more difficult to fix stupidity.
There are people who believe that the latest health threat
to emanate from China is caused or somehow made contagious by Corona Beer, a
well-known health threat from Mexico. It
is on this canvas that the gloppy acrylics of impeachment, economics,
presidential politics, petro-dollar monetary policy, Antifa, Hezbollah, North
Korea, opioid deaths and suicides, and the real threat of coronavirus must
create a picture that is both truthful and meaningful to majorities in dozens
of countries including our own. Whew! There are 15 national leaders whose views and
beliefs about these and other issues, will define the next ten years and
beyond: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin
Netanyahu, Ali Khamenei, Kim Jung Un, Xi Jinping, Ram Nath
Kovind, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Volodymyr Zelensky (who at least has a sense of humor), Arif
Alvi (who doesn’t), and both last and least, Nicolás Maduro, who is an idiot.
Mixed up in all of their opinions is the existence
of American constitutionalism, our ostensible structure of rights and freedoms,
and our unbalanced, imperial economy.
Our primary concern must be the survival of the United States and
freedom itself. What presidential
politics does every four years is stir us enough to reflect on our beliefs
about our nation and our country, not the same things.
Democrat hotheads, committed to control of… well,
everything, have impeached Trump to no good end, although his acquittal was
never in real doubt. No good end,
certainly, but the disinformation value of, first Mueller, and then impeachment
itself, must appear to elected Democrat leaders as a worthy end
nevertheless. Those who now shy away
from bottled Corona most assuredly cling to bottled hatreds, known and unknown,
but felt viscerally. So there is the
worthiness of relentless hatred of the aforementioned Mr. Trump.
There should be little disagreement with the
proposition that hatred is the worst
basis for political competition, yet hatred is everywhere employed in the United
States, of all places. Hatred doesn’t
develop automatically. Fear does: it’s
pure ethnocentrism, even “racism,” per se.
But racism and fear of difference are not hatred. Hatred is a visceral
desire to kill or destroy the “other.”
To fear or to mistrust a stranger – or a strange “culture” – is
instinctive and need not be taught. To HATE
that person or group requires coaching, teaching, explanation and
mythology. It’s a long-term, methodical
process to convert fear to hatred. Who
does crap like that?
Here and there are parents who were, themselves,
taught to hate certain others and to varying degrees manage to convince their
children to also hate them. But it’s not
as easy to do in the modern era, as public schools, ostensibly, fight the urge
to bully or to gang-up on the unusual or most defenseless kids. To some degree, children receiving messages
of hatred at home are going to hear enough lessons countering that prejudice,
that fewer and fewer reach early adulthood with firm hatreds.
Yet, now we have a split electorate, fueled by the
sweet lies of socialists (people complain about Trump’s looseness with the
truth but never a peep about the absolute and historical bullshit spread in the
name of socialism). A virtual communist is
at or near the front of the pack in the ostensible “Democrat” party’s campaign
for nomination to the presidency, and giddy polls regularly trumpet the
acceptance of “socialism” by millenials.
There are reasons to fear Bernie Sanders’ cry for “transformation” of
the United States, just as there were for the stated intentions of Barack Obama
to “fundamentally transform” the United States.
Consider just the “ACA,” Affordable Care Act, which was not “affordable,” whatever that was hoped to mean, and it wasn’t about “care,” particularly: it was about coverage, the perpetual stumbling bloc to health care. The nature of every “coverage” entity, whether “insurance” companies and HMO’s or governmental agencies that both regulate and directly pay actual care providers, is to reduce costs. The main difficulties inherent in the ACA-expanded coverage industry were made worse and more expensive, nearly removing people from decision-making while nearly removing physicians and others from caring about their customers.
These sorts of change ought to be anathema to citizens of a nation with the heritage of the United States. Our mythos is founded in individualism, self-made success, pioneering advancement into unexplored territories, and homesteads created even where the only building material was prairie turf. Somehow the steady erosion of socialist promises of “free” safety and comfort have weakened the resolve of Americans to take control of their lives and circumstances, and to do so responsibly.
Obama also made substantial changes to our foreign relations and to our ability to control events to our benefit, rather to enhance the influence and strength of Muslim regimes. Fundamental transformation. Here in 2020 these same intentions are voiced repeatedly by Bernie Sanders and others whose vision is not to improve or “perfect” our union, but to replace our form of government by altering Constitutional institutions and original rights. The “new” goals are not comprised of strengthening liberty, but to “set” everyone’s standard of living so that no one is “above” his fellow residents: ultimate “fairness,” a new form of political organization that removes the interference in individual beliefs by churches, and in which every sort of human pleasure-seeking will be permitted… by benign elites, and, perhaps, taught in public schools.
The struggle of socialism is never-ending. While “we” in the American, Judeo-Christian
traditions of individual liberty and responsibility tend to assume our battle
for freedom is won… and done, globalist socialism never rests on its continuum
of undermining and destroying liberty and faithfulness. It is a continuum that extends back to the
“Garden of Eden.”
“What?” you say, “nothing Prudent about that silly
claim.”
Well, a few terms we don’t think about enough: Thesis – The Word of God, or the first premise; Antithesis – Direct opposition to the Word of God; Synthesis – Human-generated, pretended, compromise position with the Word of God. The synthesis becomes the new Premise, no longer the Word of God, something less. Is this not exactly what the “Serpent” offered to Eve, assuring her that God’s threat to not eat of the tree in the midst (center) of the Garden, or touch it “…,lest thou die.” would not come true. “thou shalt not surely die.” the serpent told her. God issued the thesis to Not eat of the tree; Serpent offered the antithesis that the punishment would not be death (at least not right away) and the rewards of knowledge were worth the chance. Is this process any more or less than the Hegelian dialectic? Thesis – Antithesis – Synthesis. Abortion is no longer murder; socialism will create a better America than God did.
