The weather has turned cold.\u00a0 There was some sun today but temperatures were in the fifties.\u00a0 We got out for a walk and there was enough to do around the house but for some reason I couldn\u2019t get a handle on anything interesting in the news.\u00a0 I guess things will have to percolate for a while.<\/p>\n
I watched an old John Barrymore movie called Counsellor at Law.\u00a0 It was really pretty good.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t seen it for a few years and I even forgot the ending.\u00a0 It had all the stock characters for a movie taking place in 1930s Manhattan.\u00a0 And it occurred to me that the despised European immigrants that were the downtrodden denizens of the criminal courts in this movie have moved three generations later to the position of despised oppressors of the new downtrodden.<\/p>\n
But the funny part is they did this without ever being rich or powerful in between.\u00a0 Our parents and grandparents struggled to become good Americans in the hope that their descendants would get to live in the working and middle classes by following the rules and believing in the civic nationalism that said that a man was judged by his deeds and not his pedigree.<\/p>\n
And now we are told that all that was a mistake.\u00a0 Everything they did and we believed in was wrong.\u00a0 All that talk about freedoms and inalienable rights was just a dodge.\u00a0 It turns out that the Communists and the Fascists were right.\u00a0 Power comes from the barrel of a gun.\u00a0 We have no more right to freedom and happiness here than we did back in the old country where some patron or mafioso decided who got to work and who got to starve.\u00a0 In fact, at least back in the old country there was some sense of loyalty even toward the peasants by those in charge.<\/p>\n
So, we\u2019re all expendable now.\u00a0 Just a bunch of spare parts that are no longer needed in the new American economy.\u00a0 A giant game of musical chairs where they turn off the music and there\u2019s no place left for you.\u00a0 It seems to me this explains why the Latinos are starting to gravitate toward the Republican party.\u00a0 They\u2019re basically the new version of the southern Europeans of a hundred years ago.\u00a0 They came here expecting to work their way up and now they\u2019re seeing the same dead end.\u00a0 And they\u2019re figuring out that the Democrats aren\u2019t the party that helps families.\u00a0 They\u2019re the party of trans-gender indoctrination for their kids and of working women with no time for raising families.<\/p>\n
I was reading Putin\u2019s speech about the absorption of the Donbass regions into Russia.\u00a0 It was very long and had a lot about Russian history and the fall of the Soviet Union.\u00a0 But there was also a lot about the West.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve copied some sections that I found interesting:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, they spit on the natural right of billions of people, most of humanity, to freedom and justice, to determine their own future on their own. Now they have completely moved to a radical denial of moral norms, religion, and family.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. I now want to return to what I said, I want to address all the citizens of the country \u2013 not only to those colleagues who are in the hall \u2013 to all the citizens of Russia: do we want to have, here, in our country, in Russia, instead of mom and dad there was \u201cparent number one\u201d, \u201cnumber two\u201d, \u201cnumber three\u201d \u2013 are they completely crazy already there? Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed on children in our schools from the primary grades? To be drummed into them that there are supposedly other genders besides women and men, and to be offered a sex change operation? Do we want all this for our country and our children? For us, all this is unacceptable, we have a different, our own future.<\/strong><\/p>\n I repeat, the dictatorship of the Western elites is directed against all societies, including the peoples of the Western countries themselves. This is a challenge for everyone. Such a complete denial of man, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, the suppression of freedom acquires the features of a \u201creverse religion\u201d \u2013 outright Satanism. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ, denouncing the false prophets, says: By their fruits you will know them. And these poisonous fruits are already obvious to people \u2013 not only in our country, in all countries, including for many people and in the West itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n The world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, they are of a fundamental nature. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority \u2013 the majority! \u2013 of the world community and are ready not only to declare their interests, but also to protect them, and see multipolarity as an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means to gain true freedom, a historical perspective, their right to independent, creative, original development, to a harmonious process.<\/strong><\/p>\n All over the world, including in Europe and the United States, as I said, we have many like-minded people, and we feel, we see their support. A liberation, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is already developing within the most diverse countries and societies. His subjectivity will only grow. It is this force that will determine the future geopolitical reality.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Now I have no illusions about Vladimir Putin.\u00a0 He is a cold-blooded killer.\u00a0 He will use whatever means he needs to achieve his goals.\u00a0 He was the architect of the Second Chechen War, a brutal conflict.\u00a0 He is a Russian partisan.\u00a0 He has no love for America.\u00a0 And yet most of what I copied above from his speech is demonstrably true.\u00a0 Our government is erasing normalcy from our society and substituting a sick twisted anti-human creed.\u00a0 The family is denigrated and mocked.\u00a0 Freedom is being erased as a hate crime.\u00a0 Prosperity for most people is being outlawed.\u00a0 Even Vlad the Impaler can point to us and name our sins.\u00a0 They\u2019re that mortally clear.<\/p>\n It’s a cold, kind of bleak day, but I found illumination in an old black and white movie and the words of a modern-day autocrat.\u00a0 The United States has abandoned the principles that made it great.\u00a0 It has broken faith with the people who fought for it and believed in it.\u00a0 It remains to be seen if it can be prodded back on the high road again.\u00a0 But at least I found a little clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The weather has turned cold.\u00a0 There was some sun today but temperatures were in the fifties.\u00a0 We got out for a walk and there was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1469,2417,3214,3624,1262,2696],"class_list":["post-20572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-american-identity","tag-globalism","tag-the-great-contraction","tag-transgender-madness","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-woke-world"],"yoast_head":"\n