Ah, what a morass of trouble we have sunk into in only five months since the Democrats took power.
Our respect in the world:
Our so-called president wanders confusedly away from the podium during speeches, can’t remember without his note cards that he is supposed to blame President Trump for everything, alternates between shouting angrily at reporters and leaning forward to whisper to them confidentially, and at the G7, not only gave away everything while getting nothing in return, but made such a fool of himself that even the British Prime Minister is on video leaning over repeatedly to pat him on the arm and assure him that the rest of them had things under control.
Turmoil at home:
But under control is what our country is not! Biden stopped construction on the wall causing a relentless surge of illegals across our southern border, hundreds of thousands in the first two months of the Biden administration alone. But Gov. Abbott of Texas is using part of the federal bail-out money sent to the states in an effort to help out fiscally irresponsible blue states like Illinois, to restart the construction. Texas will have a wall! In the meantime, since the federal government cannot stop the surge of illegals from 160 countries around the world across our southern border, Gov. Abbott has deployed his own national guard and police units to do the work and called on other states to assist him. Several states answered the call and sent their own national guards to assist. When the federal government doesn’t protect us, as is their sole responsibility, then it is up to citizens to protect themselves.
The push by Democrat cities to defund the police has resulted in huge upticks in crime. In some cities in California, shoplifters grab a few items from one store, then go on to the next and the next with no one stopping them. Then they brazenly sell the items in street markets. Police departments across the country are hampered not only by the lack of funding, but by early retirements, a lack of police cadets to fill the empty spots on their forces, and a general fear among the police to apprehend any criminal whose skin is not white, lest he/she be sued, arrested for brutality or murder, and be imprisoned. When arrests are made, Democrat prosecutors often refuse to prosecute what they view as “lesser crimes,” thus releasing criminals onto the streets with the idea that they can get away with anything. Homicides have risen in major cities from as much as 20% in Washington D.C. to 45% in NYC, 55% in Chicago and 70% in Louisville in 2020 and in most cases are even higher so far this year. The percentage of non-fatal shootings has increased even more. Portions of Democrat-run American cities are unsafe for habitation.
The Great Melting Pot that isn’t:
America was once looked upon as the “great melting pot,” where people from many cultures and races came together as Americans with shared values and freedoms. Such is no longer the case. Critical Race Theory is being taught in many of our schools, causing raucous school board meetings as parents, black and white alike, angrily protest, and both parents and teachers have filed law suits against some school boards. Why? Because CRT, sometimes cloaked as “diversity awareness” or “racial consciousness” physically divides students into groups in the classroom according to the color of their skin. The white students are shamed in front of the others, charged as racists and as being “privileged.” The non-whites are taught that the white children hate them deep down because they of the color of their skin. This obvious segregation and discrimination against whites is against the law and the Constitution, but Democrats don’t see our laws and Constitution as anything more than examples of white supremacy and thus to be disregarded.
CRT is also being taught to our fighting forces. Imagine depending upon the soldier next to you to cover you in battle when you have been taught that he/she hates you because of the color of your skin? How cohesive and efficient is that fighting force going to be?
Recently China put out an ad about the ability of their Artificial Intelligent fighter pilots to shoot down planes piloted by humans. At the same time, our Armed Forces put out an ad about hosting a “drag queen festival” at the base that trains our fighter pilots. This, they assured us, would improve the morale and fighting ability of our armed forces. The guffaws from around the world could surely be heard even in the Pentagon!
The 1619 Project, also taught in many schools, contends that the country had its start when the first slaves were brought to our shores by Portuguese traders. The blame for slavery in the colonies and later the fledgling United States, is placed firmly on those who lived in America at the time and especially upon the shoulders of the Founding Fathers who are to be vilified and denounced. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Certainly, the colonists did not have to buy slaves, but the British pushed them to do so, because the cheap labor produced more of the tobacco, sugar cane, and cotton that they wanted in Great Britain and more income to be taxed and placed in British coffers. In fact, many of the slave traders were themselves British. African slaves were sold to the British and Portuguese traders by other black Africans! Had the British and Portuguese not purchased them, they would simply have been sold to other Black African tribes. Slavery was booming on the African continent and is still practiced in many parts of it, and especially in Muslim countries today.
But the biggest lie of all in the 1619 Project is that the reason we fought for independence from the British was to preserve slavery in America which the British wished to end. Sadly for the 1619 Project, this, like everything else they say, is a bald-faced lie. When one colony attempted to ban slaves, it was the British Governor of that colony that refused to allow it. The Colonies fought for independence because they had no representation in the British Parliament to oppose the heavy taxes that were being imposed upon them, nor the other restrictions upon their lives, including slavery. They themselves were enslaved to the British. As for the suggestion that the British would have abolished slavery in the Colonies had we not revolted, that is proven a lie by the fact that Great Britain only abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833, fifty years after the Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution and 19 years after we defeated the British a second time in the War of 1812 for refusing to abide by the terms of the Treaty of 1783 and for attacking our ships and impressing our sailors into their own navy — virtually enslaving them, in fact.
Nor does the 1619 Project give any mention to the fact that the new, fledgling country, a group of mostly ordinary people struggling to create a nation while having to fight a second war against the strongest country in the world whom they had just defeated a few years before, this group of stalwart patriots, still managed to eliminate slavery from the United States entirely only 82 years after they had officially won their freedom and begun to build a nation of their own. The various countries that eventually became Great Britain began to pass laws against slavery as early as the 1100s, but slavery still existed in England until 1772, and in its colonies until 1833. England had first become an independent country in 927. France banned slavery in 1315 although it had been an independent country since the 800s. Portugal only banned slavery in 1761 although it had existed as a country since 868. It seems that Americans accomplished something in only 82 years, a mere couple of generations, that most nations of the world took hundreds upon hundreds of years to accomplish!
Fantasy:
The Democrat Party, which has now become engulfed by the extreme left, is currently trying to force the rest of America to believe other fantastical ideas. Climate Change is sworn to be solely caused by the carbon dioxide that we burn when we drive our cars, fly in airplanes, and heat our homes with oil, natural gas, or coal-produced electricity. We are urged to buy battery-powered electrical cars that the majority of Americans cannot afford and to charge them on wind or solar-powered electricity which is incapable of heating, cooling, lighting our homes and powering our cell phones, notebooks, and computers without adding the need to charge our car batteries for hours. In addition, science and history points to the effects of changes in the sun, the eruption of volcanoes, and the shifting of plates under the ocean that releases hot gases from the earth’s core as having much more effect on climate change than the release of CO2 into the atmosphere.
And, as well, we are expected to believe, that although science tells us that an individual’s gender is determined by his/her DNA and that no tinkering with operations and hormones can make a man capable of bearing children or a woman of producing sperm, men can still choose to become women and women can choose to become men. And when these transgenders have made their choice, we must look at the tall, muscular woman with male genitalia, and call her “she” and let her compete against real women in sports, regardless of the fact that their change in gender is more of a mindset than an actuality. As one writer put it, put the fastest woman up against the slowest man and even after reducing his testosterone levels, he will beat the fastest woman every time. Yet, this fantasy of changing genders is one we are expected to swallow without question.
Economics:
Gas prices are rising to over $3 a gallon for the first time in nearly seven years. Everything, from groceries to clothing to eating out in a restaurant is more expensive. Store shelves continue to have gaps because of items that cannot be replenished swiftly enough. The most popular models of cars are largely unavailable because they are all sitting in fields, waiting for parts that have yet to be manufactured. A dealer recently told us that most dealerships will not sell you a new car unless you have one to trade in because used cars are in such short supply. Fuel prices will continue to rise as Democrat put more restrictions on fossil fuels and as the lack of new oil and fracking begins to be felt. Biden stopped the construction on the Keystone XL Pipeline even though his own energy secretary admits that pipelines deliver fuel much more safely that surface transportation. He also banned fracking and drilling in Alaska and in Arctic waters, diminishing our ability to remain an energy producer rather than an energy consumer. Yet he removed sanctions that prevented Russia from completing a pipeline into Europe that would make them dependent upon Russia for their fuel.
Hypocrisy:
Violent mobs of Black Lives Matter and Antifa have ravaged parts of Democrat-run cities across the country for the past year, at times, setting fire to police stations and federal buildings, taking over police stations, sealing off portions of cities and setting up their own government there. Elsewhere they have looted, destroyed, burned, beaten, and murdered during what the media has called “mostly peaceful demonstrations.” Of those whom police arrested, most were bailed out quickly, often by Democrats including Kamala Harris, and most were never prosecuted. But on January 6, a group of unarmed supporters of President Trump entered the Capitol Building to convince Congress not to validate the election which they believed, with considerable proof, had been stolen. Some broke windows to enter or scaled walls, but most strolled in the front door, invited in by the Capitol police, and spent their time wandering aimlessly around, looking at the sights and taking selfies of themselves. The only ones who died were four demonstrators who died of natural causes and an unarmed female veteran who was shot dead by an unidentified policeman whom she was in no way threatening. Hundreds of these protestors are facing charges for which they must return to Washington D.C., hire an expensive D.C. lawyer, and say there are sorry for their acts of misdemeanor trespass (in a building that is open to the public!), pay a fine, and go on probation. The difference? BLM and Antifa are Democrat-supported groups. The righteously angry but misguided folks on January 6 were Republicans.
Such is the world in which we now live.