Countries in the world have been divided into categories since the beginning of the  Cold War Era when French demographer Alfred Sauvy wrote “Three World’s, One Planet” in 1952, an article that divided countries into the three different groups. Capitalist democracies such as the United States, France, Great Britain and Japan were considered to be part of the first world.  Third world countries were the poorest and most undeveloped countries, countries with few freedoms, often still embroiled in tribal conflicts, and sometimes with what the first world countries would consider to be barbaric customs.  These included most of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia.  In between were the second world countries, mostly controlled by communist regimes and thus having less vibrant economies that the capitalist countries, yet not as poor and undeveloped as those of the third world.  The second world included much of communist Eastern Europe, the U.S.S.R., China and Cuba.

Sadly, in recent years there has been a push by the left in America to move us from the healthy and prosperous capitalistic society that makes us a part of the first world and send us spiraling into the barbaric practices and lack of freedom that often marks the second and third world countries, or even into the practices of ancient, even less civilized cultures. Examples of  this abound.

  •  The Aztecs, the Incas , and the Mayans all practiced child sacrifice, as did the Moabites in Old Testament times, the Carthaginians, and the ancient Minoans on Crete. Today, child sacrifice has sprung up again in Uganda (a third world country), even by the wealthy though it is downplayed by the government.  We think this is barbaric, as it is, yet the United States performs the 4th most abortions of any country in the world, following Russia, China, and Vietnam.  Of these four, only the United States is a first world country, yet it massacres its unborn at the rate of over 600,000 babies each year, all sacrificed for the convenience of the mother.
  • We deplore the female genital mutilation practiced in many third world countries, yet we mutilate our young children and feed them hormones whose effects upon them we do not know in order to turn the boys into the girls we really wanted, or the girls into the boys we wanted.  It is crazy enough for an adult to attempt the scientifically and biologically impossible feat of changing his or her gender from to male to female or female to male.  But for parents of kindergartners to decide that their little boy really is a girl or their little girl is playing with toy trucks and must thus really be a boy inside is insanity and child molestation.  Transgenderism has become a popular trend in the U.S. despite the fact that it never does what it is supposed to accomplish, and is instead setting these individuals up for a sad and unfulfilling future.  The human brain does not fully develop the reasoning lobe until about age 25.  How then can a child of 5 make a choice  that changes and effectively ruins his or her life?  That child cannot!  And the parent who does it for the child is criminally negligent as a parent!  Transgenders cannot have their own biological children.  Transgenders suffer depression and suicide at a much higher rate than the general population. Not everyone is willing to buy into this latest craze.  President Macron of France and many French government ministers, for instance,  are very concerned that the “transgender craze” of the United States will spill into France.  Some people understand that what is biologically impossible is biologically impossible.  Many Americans, especially among the liberals on the coasts, do not. 
  • In Nazi Germany and in Communist countries (second world nations), speech is controlled by the government, as is the press.  In the United States, only Fox News and News Max and a bevy of online news sources can be depended upon to give anything approaching a fair look at the news.  The other news organizations, staffed mostly by Democrats by their own admission, give out as “news” whatever fits the Party line and ignores everything else.  Misleading and twisting words and actions to make their opponents (Republicans) look bad is far more important than accuracy in reporting. Before the 2020 election, Twitter, a social media site, banned the President of the United States from its site because he was tweeting things they didn’t like.  Facebook has followed up with that, causing President Trump to sue the huge media giants.  But it isn’t just President Trump whose voice has been silenced on those sites.  Other conservatives have also been blocked or banned. And just recently, we discovered that the Federal government under Biden is checking our text messages to look for “misinformation” about the COVID vaccines that they refused to consider taking when President Trump was in office, but which they now want everyone to take.  President Asterisk’s spokesperson, Jen Psaki, also said recently that the government is  reading Facebook messages and asking Facebook to take down things that they find to be “misinformation.”  At least three Republican congressmen and women have had Facebook or YouTube accounts closed because the information they posted, while factually correct, did not align with the government’s official position and was therefore classified as misinformation. 
  • Many third world countries, especially in Africa, do not have enforced borders and terrorist organizations and other unwanted individuals pass unmolested into their countries. A civilized first world and even a second world country has borders to prevent the at-will incursion of people from other countries.  Most countries have had borders since nearly the beginning of time.  Even in the early days of the American continent, tribes of native Americans controlled certain territory and it was well known by other tribes where the boundaries were.  If members of another tribe encroached upon that tribe’s land, they would be captured and either enslaved or killed.  Incursions into another tribe’s territory started wars between tribes.  The same was the case throughout history in the rest of the world. Borders were always closely guarded and people from other lands were not allowed to simply move in.  Land and resources were precious and not to be squandered on outsiders.  
  • But in the U.S., under Democrat administrations such as this one, our southern border is in many places non- existent.  People from all over the world can enter our country by simply walking in from Mexico, without a passport, without a visa, without a work permit, without a health check, without any permission at all.  And once they enter, they stay. We house them, we feed them, we educate them. We catch their diseases.  And a few of us exploit them by hiring them to work for wages that no American would ever consider working for.  And, because it is illegal to hire them, the elite don’t give them health benefits or pay into social security for them and pay them in cash so, they never pay taxes.  They are nothing but a drain on our already overtaxed social services.  They are not Americans.  They just live here.  Illegally.  Doing more harm than good as many of them are human traffickers, gang members, and drug runners. 
  • But, because Democrats welcome them and don’t require voter registration and ID, they can vote.  And they always vote for Democrats.  Recently, a border patrol officer in Texas was shot at by drug cartel members from inside of Mexico across the Rio Grande River.  Every month President Joe Biden has been in office, illegal border crossings have increased. In June, Border Patrol recorded 178,000 border arrests — a 571% jump from June 2020. In July the numbers hit a 20-year high with 212,672 illegals caught and who knows how many more who slipped in undetected. That is more than the population of Columbus, Ohio; Little Rock, Arkansas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Birmingham, Alabama and many others! Border arrests are on track to reach 1.8 million this year. The COVID spike in parts of the country is a direct result of the illegal aliens who are bussed or flown to cities around the country.  Recently Laredo, Texas refused to accept several buses of illegals when they discovered that 40% of them were COVID positive. Biden is failing in his constitutional duty to defend the United States from foreign invasion. 
  • First world countries are countries governed by laws that protect the vulnerable and assure fair treatment for all.  But in our once first world country, lawlessness has overcome us so that in our great cities, all of them run by Democrats, shootings and killings are more and more frequent, with violence in some cities more than 500% of what it was a year ago.  Police, at the same time, whose job it is to curb the crime, have been prosecuted, vilified, and defunded until few police remain to chase the criminals since so many law officers have quit or retired.  In California, you are not prosecuted for stealing less than $950 worth of property so now shoplifters boldly stroll into stores, load up what they want, walk out without paying for the items and then sell them openly in street markets.  Streets of many large California cities are littered with used needles, human feces and urine, trash discarded by the homeless, and the makeshift tents housing the homeless themselves.  Now, more than half of all the homeless people in the United States squat in California where the weather is warm and the laws are lax to non-existent.
  • Numerous Democrats have been charged with crimes, from Hillary Clinton to members of the FBI hierarchy themselves.  But none of them are ever prosecuted because they are Democrats.  Democrats believe that laws only apply to Republicans and Independents.
  • Every time a black criminal is shot by a police officer, Black Lives Matter and Antifa jump into mob violence in major Democrat-controlled cities, burning, looting, and killing in revenge, destroying, stupidly, the businesses of the very people they claim to be supporting. Sometimes they have run the police out of police stations or have taken over entire areas of a city for weeks on end under the benevolent watch of the Democrat mayors. If a criminal is shot by a police officer and he is NOT black, the police are swift to make that distinction rapidly because no one cares about white criminals, only black criminals.  This, of course, is ironic, since 80-90% of all blacks who are killed, are killed by other blacks.  NOT by the police.  So far this year, 187 whites have been killed by police as compared to 104 blacks.  Given that blacks make up just over 13% of the population, that statistic looks really bad.  But it needs to be viewed in light of another statistic:  blacks, according to the FBI, commit 55.9% of all homicides.  Thus, it is not so unusual that these violent offenders would come into equally violent contact with the police at a far greater rate than white, Asian, or Hispanic offenders.  But, as in third world countries, truth and facts are meaningless in the United States today.
  • Third world countries do not generally educate the majority of their children, thus perpetuating the poverty of their countries as educated adults are not available to run businesses, work as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or even politicians.  Without education, their people are left with no way to advance.  
  • In the inner-city neighborhoods of Democrat controlled cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York and others, blacks and other minorities are forced to attend schools that are failing.  Gang violence is rife.  Drugs are easily available, but education is not.  These children grow up in poverty, but because they are not taught to read and write correct English, nor how to do math, they are set up for failure.  There is no place for them in the technological world of the 21st century.  Yet, Democrats prevent them from choosing to send their children to successful schools outside of their neighborhoods because the teacher unions, who contribute heavily and almost exclusively to Democrat candidates, wish to protect the incompetent teachers and administrators in those failing schools. Some Democrats have claimed that math and proper English are racist and examples of white supremacy.  Thus, the state of Oregon recently stopped requiring proficiency standards in basic reading, writing, and math for graduating seniors, not just in minority neighborhoods in major cities, but in the entire state. Expecting students to have learned how to get along in modern American society after 13 years of education, they concluded, is- – – racist!

The United States used to be at the top of the rank of first nations with quality education, law and order, pride of country, a strong belief in the value of all human life, respect for the authority of parents to make decisions for their minor children, and the understanding that you cannot have a country without secure borders.  Alas, with Democrats in power, those days seem to be behind us. All first world countries are also democracies in that the people have a voice in their own governance by electing those who make decisions on their behalf.  In third world countries, an elite few dispense punishment or favors on the masses whom they consider to be their inferiors.  That is where we are now.  A questionable election has landed us with a government who disdains America, its history, and its flag.  They will not stand for the National Anthem, and they consider those who love this country to be domestic terrorists. The majority of the country, all that is not on the coasts, they believe is populated by uneducated rubes in bib overalls and straw hats who “cling to their guns and their Bibles” and must be guided through life by their oh so superior and educated Democrat elites on the coasts. 

Those educated elites should remember the French Revolution.  Things didn’t turn out so well for the elites when the “rubes” got fed up with being walked upon.  It took France hundreds of years to rid themselves of tyrants.  We have already done it once, in 1776.  It will not take us so long a second time.  Remember.  We have the guns!