August 31st isn’t the last day of summer. It’s not even Labor Day this year, the unofficial last day of summer. But flipping the calendar from August to September is a psychological milestone. Even in an unusual year like this where the grass is lush and green and the flowers abound there are subtle signs that fall is imminent. The days are already shorter. Even on hot days the nights are cooler. Some birds are getting ready to leave and some of the insect life is dying off. The crickets and frogs are still singing but there is a certain desperate edge to their choruses.
So here we are at the end of the silly season and pretty soon politics will begin dominating the news as the pretend process of enacting all the psycho legislation that Biden and the rest of the nation-wreckers have teed up is displayed for us in the headlines. And once that charade is done it’s time for the Republicans to miraculously make a comeback and win back control of the House and maybe Senate in 2022. Of course, that won’t undo any of the damage done. Fake elections will have been enshrined as the law of the land and various other atrocities will be enacted. But, by gum, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell will be handing out PAC money to their loyal toadies the way nature intended it to be. And then it will be time for Mitt Romney to start talking about Senate investigations into the failures in the Afghanistan withdrawal. And the recommendations of that investigation will be to double the defense budget to make sure that next time we never leave a country like Afghanistan again.
But I’m guessing that a lot more Americans aren’t buying into any of this anymore. A lot of us have seen this movie before. Does anyone believe that our defense budget isn’t big enough? Does anyone think we need another aircraft carrier? Does anyone believe that we all need a third dose of COVID vaccine? Does anyone believe that putting the first tranny Moslem on the Moon is what NASA should be doing with their budget? Does anyone believe that eliminating all testing from our schools will bring about equal opportunity for kids in the ghetto? Does anyone believe that defunding the police will make black kids safer? Does anyone believe that mandating what percentage of women or minorities or sexual deviants make up the board of directors of a corporation will make it a more efficient or even a more moral company? Does anyone believe that a country that has tolerated endless affirmative action is afflicted with “systemic racism?”
I could go on forever. The point is we are reaching a tipping point. Soon more people will be done with the charade than follow it. At some point there won’t be enough people who believe in this stuff to keep the thing going. More people will be looking for ways to avoid the fallout of living in a madhouse than will be trying to keep it going. For instance, when public schools don’t teach, parents who care about their kids will opt out of them, even if they have to scrimp to pay for private schools. Eventually the public school system will become untenable. No employer will hire a public-school graduate. The local taxpayers will refuse to pay the salaries of people who don’t perform any useful service to the community.
When a city defunds the police, the middle class will move out. The very rich who can afford private security and the very poor who have no choice will stay. But the city will become a dysfunctional wasteland the way Detroit has.
And the eventual outcome when these breakdowns continue long enough is that somewhere someone is going to see an opportunity to challenge the system and provide people with an alternative. If a governor decides to insulate his citizens from the dysfunction that the federal government sponsors, he’ll be the most popular leader in America. And if he succeeds in resisting the federal government in this effort more than half of the other states will join him.
And if no one comes along to do this a lot of Americans will leave. We were born and raised in a free country. If we’re going to be serfs we might as well go somewhere where they treat the serfs better. We might as well go where they don’t indoctrinate our kids into believing that they were born evil because of the color of their skin. And when we leave America will become Brazil.
I hope that leader steps up sooner rather than later.
Oh, so do I. I’d hate to see what it would be like if we have to depend on me to save the world.
Hmmm… I didn’t mean to point a finger at anyone. In fact, in my mind, I was thinking someone already in politics, although that might not be a valid assumption. Now that you’ve sparked the thought, it could be any of us, really. (Now I’m pointing fingers! But including myself…)
Oh, I was being facetious. We need someone who will stand up to the killers who inhabit the Deep State Swamp. We will need a hero. I’m just the comic relief in our little play.