18APR2023 – The Winter of My Discontent

So much stuff to do.  And so much more coming up.  Here it is almost tomorrow and I’m just getting started on a post.  And I’m groggy from the business of the day.  So, let’s just go with what’s on my mind right now.  I have to say all the indicators are bleak.  In a democracy, if the clear majority of citizens back the government in the teeth of extreme economic downturn, then there doesn’t seem to be much hope for the opposition.  We have reached that proverbial tipping point where more than fifty percent of the people are on the dole and prefer a marginal existence with no effort versus working hard and prospering.

Now that’s the death spiral.  And as the older generation dies out all that will be left will be these bread and circus losers, immigrant serfs and the elites.  I’ve been asking the question whether leaving the country is a viable choice.  Well, I haven’t really even begun that investigation but I’ve got to tell you I’m starting to think that the way things are going, leaving may be the only hope for young people to survive this situation.

I mean, how do you find a spouse, raise a family and make a living in this country?  The school system tells women that giving birth to children is at best a betrayal of their own self-interests and at worst a crime against the planet.  Succeeding through merit is being banned as toxic whiteness.  And children are being indoctrinated by their schools to hate their race and question their biological identity.  Any way you want to evaluate the society around us, it’s a diseased culture that won’t support the continuance of the America we knew.  And it was that older America that we’re trying to restore so if the people that are left are already supporting this new degraded version of the country, then we’re definitely not going to be able to save the whole country.  Places like the West Coast and the Northeast are irredeemable and other areas like the Great Lakes and the Southwest are slipping away too.

Maybe I’m just down because of all the awful stuff in the headlines.  But it does seem to me that what’s going on now is what you expect after that tipping point.  From now on the deconstruction of America will be a continuous drum beat that will only move in one direction.  And maybe geographically, it will be uneven.  Maybe Florida and the South will hold out a little longer but I haven’t seen anything yet that looks like state nullification of federal interference.  I know I’d love to see it.  It would give me hope.  But currently it’s just grumbling.  We’ve never stopped the federal government doing anything.  And we’ve never even heard of reversing any outrage that’s already happened.

I guess now is the winter of my discontent.  Bleak was the word I used earlier and I think it’s apt.  I was tempted to just delete this thing and just go to bed.  But I like to use this blog as a journal sometimes.  So, this is my current feeling about our country.  And even if we’re the hegemon there must still be places outside this country that don’t engage in Orwellian psychic torture of their citizens.  So maybe that’s the consolation.  If this place doesn’t turn around and if the Red States cave, then bailing out is a logical and optimistic choice.  But what a defeat that would be.  My people came here less than a century and a half ago.  Could the American dream have only had that much time left when they arrived?  Well, if they could do it maybe we can too.

I hope in the morning I’m feeling more hopeful than right now.  But there it is.

Letting Go of Comforting Pessimism

Over the last five years it’s been necessary to recognize just how dysfunctional American politics had become.  Adding together the power and corruption of the Deep State and the cowardly and backstabbing nature of the Republicans with the ubiquitous nature of the Left’s control of almost all of the levers of power in civil society it is almost impossible to overestimate how hopeless the Right’s plight seems to be.  I mean, look at what the FBI did to the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.  And after what the 2020 election tells us about the ability of the Democrats to nullify their opponents’ electoral advantage by simply fabricating votes through fraud, it’s amazing we haven’t all just thrown in the towel and given up on this country.

But unfortunately, there is hope.  And hope is painful and exhausting because it comes with inevitable disappointment.  If you take three steps forward there will be two steps back.  Out of every hundred “leaders” maybe three or four will be for real.  The rest are grifters, nuts and just plain RINO’s.  What passes for pro-Trump Republicans is a motley crew that includes politicians who have put on a disguise of being on our side.  And that becomes clear when they get a chance to vote with Democrats on obvious partisan issues like the infrastructure bill.  Looking at Republicans like Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney should be enough to extinguish any last embers of hope that are still remaining on the Right.

But I’ve come to the scary conclusion over the last few months that someone like Ron DeSantis might just be able to rally enough people around him to take some ground back from the Biden Administration and his Deep State stormtroopers.  It’s definitely not certain or even highly likely but it is possible.  And if it is, I’d be a coward if I didn’t at least allow myself to follow the story and even help the effort if it comes to it.  I just read the other day that Republican voter registration in Florida exceeded Democrat registration for the first time in history.  And then we have the elections in Virginia.  And the Federal Courts have put a temporary injunction on the OSHA vaccine mandate for larger companies.  And Biden’s poll numbers have plunged.   And, and, and.  Let’s face it horrible, horrible optimism is creeping into the political scene against my will.

So, I will not pretend that nothing has improved since that horrendous day last November when the fake Biden win was engineered against us.  The blowback from so many bad policies and incompetent leadership is becoming a storm.  Whether it turns into a hurricane that blows away Dementia Joe’s regime remains to be seen.  But just ignoring all this is a mistake I don’t intend to make.

And I won’t suddenly become some kind of Pollyanna pundit.  I’ll call them as I see them.  You won’t hear me seeing allies in every leftist who complains about woke persecution.  That’s just friendly fire on their side.  I won’t start warning against primarying RINO’s.  RINO’s not only deserve to be knocked out of their offices but doing so is therapeutic.  Even if it means we lose a seat to the Dems.  Punishing traitors is good for the movement and good for morale.  I will pay attention to the real results positive and negative.

But doggone it, I’m not going to be allowed to wallow in my delightful misery.  I’ve got to start caring about things again.  Well, here we go.