After locking kids in their homes, isolating them from their peers, muzzling them with ineffective face diapers, and pounding them with fear and doom for 2 years, activists have swooped in to provide emotional support in the classroom once they were permitted to return. In typical government fashion, it seems like a solution looking for a problem. They didn’t create SEL to mend the fragile psyches of youth, they damaged the fragile psyches of youth to push SEL.
Casus belli is a Latin term that, literally translated, means a case for war. Under the Just War Theory of St. Augustine, Christians subscribe to certain conditions that must be met to make a case for righteous warfare. Just War Theory largely permits warfare in defense of oneself or the defenseless, and those who make war are keenly aware of this. This is the reason why those who desire war must often shift public sentiment in their favor by enacting subversive schemes.
I sincerely wish that every week when I sit down to put ideas to paper that all I had to do was point out the obvious insanity that is the left spectrum of politics in America. I couldn’t be so fortunate. You see, there’s this problem that consistently gets in the way, and it’s my own side. We are our own worst enemy.
In 1984, KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned that the bulk of efforts to take down America would not be done as covert espionage, but rather by ideological subversion. He goes on to explain that despite open access to an abundance of information, Americans’ perception of reality would be “so inundated with disinformation, that they are unable to discern what is necessary to protect their way of life, their country, their families, themselves, etc.” We see this now in our disassociated culture. How can a nation that doesn’t agree on objective reality like biology, come together on ethereal ideas like freedom and liberty? They cannot.
If you oppose identity politics you will swiftly receive any number of labels that your ideological opposition can muster against you. The term Nazi comes to mind. Ironically, the Nazis specialized in identity politics. Adolf Hitler understood the power in scapegoating entire populations based on their identities and not their contributions to the world or their ideas. These people who throw around these labels so flippantly fail introspection enough to see that it is they who operate as Nazis.
In his Blowback series of books, former CIA consultant and political scientist Chalmers Johnson identified the United States’ policy of foreign regime change as the impetus for many geopolitical consequences that are unforeseen by the American public. They are unforeseen because many of these actions are done covertly and with little public knowledge. This appears to be the case in the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I must admit that I viewed Bitcoin much the same way many investors probably view Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) now. I didn’t necessarily see the value in investing in a fiat (unbacked) currency as volatile as Bitcoin when a more stable U.S. dollar was king. The libertarians got the last laugh. Had I purchased ten thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin ten years ago, I would be sitting on nearly forty million dollars’ worth today.
Historically, when a company has produced a game-changing product like an iPhone or a Tesla electric vehicle, the stock price has soared based on the objective value that the company has brought to the world. Now with ESG funds, a company like Nike can continue to manufacture their shoes in a foreign sweatshop, so long as they speak out against white privilege and achieve the coveted ESG label, or get bundled into larger ESG funds. A company can afford to lose a percentage of its consumer base if it can still grow by users investing in its activism.
There was always going to be a correction after our ill-advised COVID retreat policies. Locking down supply chains in an attempt to run from viral contagion based on a high school experiment was never going to be without consequence. Perhaps our greatest error was allowing these policies to persist unfettered for as long as we did? Earlier course correction may have saved us from our current trajectory.
It’s exceedingly rare for a Georgia sports team to win a championship, and even more rare for two Georgia sports teams to win a championship in the same year. This year, the Atlanta Braves finally broke the curse and opened up the floodgates of divine favor by capturing the World Series. It’s not that I believe that God cares about sporting events, but there is more than a little bit of irony in where and how these championships came to be.
For most of us on the right, there won’t be any forgetting about the ham-fisted political bashing the left has adopted in pushing through their insane transformational agenda. From electoral chicanery to the inhumane withholding of cheap and readily available outpatient treatment of disease, to the plague of racist and divisive social policies we’ve endured, the left spectrum makes an insufferable foxhole neighbor.
There is no such thing as a moderate utopia. In reality, there is no such thing as Utopia on Earth. It is the pursuit of the state of perfection. When it comes to governing, there are really only two means of pursuing perfection: either by force or by freedom.
Joe Biden didn’t win. Despite a system intent on anybody but Trump and willing to look the other way for whatever personal or professional benefit complicit parties may have received, the gaslighting hasn’t worked. Joe Biden is exactly the disaster portended by the incontinent geriatric on the campaign trail who couldn’t muster enough courage to shake hands with prospective voters. As it turns out you don’t need to shake hands with real people when a good bloc of your voters doesn’t exist.
Something that I learned early on is that the drudge of American life makes it enticing to live from moment to moment. Whether it’s holiday to holiday, or season to season, there is some sense of anticipation for whatever may come next. Perhaps it’s a byproduct of the traditional American work ethic, where the hours are long and the siestas are non-existent?
When we had children, we decided that we always wanted to be in a position for them to come to us for anything, and the way that we hope to accomplish that is by always telling them the truth. This creates challenges for me when it comes to holiday traditions.
When you were a kid, the idiom “say uncle” was synonymous with tapping out of an uncomfortable situation by capitulating to the demands of your captor. Often implemented by an older sibling or friend by twisting your arm behind your back, saying “uncle” is an act of submission that demonstrates being brought under compliance. This is what your current captors demand of you.
When you are skiing, one of the hardest parts is often making the initial commitment to pick a line and turn downhill. If you are too busy staring at the totality of the mountain, you may begin to feel overwhelmed and lack the confidence to tackle the obstacles immediately in front of you.
The press knew all of these things. Yet at every point, the corporate press, celebrities, and even President Joe Biden wasted no opportunity to sell hate, racism, bigotry, and division throughout this ordeal. They weaved context into the event where it was simply unjustified. The disinformation that they imparted to the public was so blatant, that it cannot be dismissed as merely hasty or negligent. They have been active participants in sowing discord and strife in society.
For some reason, the American Left chooses to look to the worst of history and relitigate society through a lens of the worst of history’s transgressions. Not content with the unmatched progress we’ve made, they intend to reverse course and start over. Like those children’s novels, Choose Your Own Adventure, they don’t like the decidedly non-Communist outcome and wish to return to point A and try again.
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” – Rosa Parks n 2007, Seth McFarlane, creator of the cartoon Family Guy, skewered the undecided voter in an episode titled “It Takes a Village Idiot“. In this episode, the protagonist, Lois Griffin, runs…