I approach this year’s mid-term elections with a great deal of trepidation. The liberal Democrats who now control our government are dangerously out of control. They have corrupted the departments and agencies of government by appointing incompetent ideologues to run them and then turning them into political extensions of their party in order to advance a radical agenda. They have repeatedly demonstrated that they have little or no regard for the Constitution and the principles it sets forth. They have formed unholy alliances with the mainstream media and big tech to such an extent that the public trust credibility of all three is essentially destroyed for some time to come; the majority of our population is either misinformed or uninformed. Their quest for an authoritarian government that seeks only its own ideals and actively schemes to destroy any opposing thoughts is an extremely disturbing and dangerous development in the evolution of our country. The lack of shame, civility, transparency, morality, ethics, and simple respect demonstrated by the liberal Democrat Party we see today is a tragic embarrassment to our nation on a global scale, to our citizenry on an accountability scale, and to the (I hope and believe) majority of its own members.
On the other hand, it is
deeply disappointing that the best thing that can be said about the Republican
Party is that it is not the Democrat Party.
It has always been much simpler for the minority Party to criticize the
majority Party; the weight of governing is massive indeed. But my goodness, it is hard to be critical of
the Republican Party throwing up their hands in frustration considering the
one-party rule of the Democrats. The
Democrats have provided such a large target that it is difficult to blame the
Republicans for their lack of substance and easy to understand why they stand
to the side and simply fire away with the complaints. My point is that while I have no doubt that
an increased Republican Party presence in our government would be a positive
development, I have serious reservations about their ability and motivation to
go beyond the simple act of political victory and delve meaningfully into
solving the fundamental problems facing our society, culture, and government. Is there any reason whatsoever to think that
a Republican-led government will either introduce a new fiscal sanity to
federal spending and/or shrink the size of the bloated and wasteful
behemoth that our government has become?
History certainly lends no credence to that hope.
Separate Trump from his
policies and I am enthusiastically on board with those policies; but that
separation is impossible. Trump himself
makes it impossible. The Republicans
have to somehow solve their Trump problem.
Biden is not currently competent to serve as president and it goes
without saying that in any universe where water is wet, he is not fit to run
for a second term. Kamala Harris has
proven to be a master of holding a powerhouse hand and somehow losing the
biggest pot of the night. To put it
mildly, the Democrats have a Biden/Harris problem. To exacerbate that problem, they also have a bench
of potential successors that is long on tooth and short on viability. The Republicans seem to have a relatively deep
bench of reasonable substitutes ready to enter the game in place of Trump…if
they can get him off the court. Once the
mid-terms are past us, it is going to be absolutely intriguing to see how the
candidate selection process of the two parties plays out.
Hopefully, Trump and
Biden will both be removed from the game and the remaining candidates, having
their obvious political targets removed from action, will be forced to actually
put forth ideas and policies relating to moving our country back towards a
steady, responsible, and productive path.
But while that situation develops over the next couple of years, it will
remain a dangerous and ominous time as the liberal elements of the Democrat
Party see their opportunity to foist their radical agenda on our nation and beyond
continue to wane. The transition from
having a Democrat Congress to one that is either divided or hostile will
greatly diminish their ability to strongarm policy. The continued deterioration of their useful
idiot in the White House will also lessen their ability to force change through
executive action. These developments
will no doubt raise the desperate anxiousness of these liberal zealots in their
quest to shape our nation into their preferred vision. Add this explosive ingredient to the unstable
brew of a national election cycle and there can be little doubt that regardless
of the coming mid-term election results, the next two years will be full of
uncertainty and high drama. The very
fiber of our nation will be severely tested.
May God be with us as we navigate that space in time. Meanwhile…back at the ranch.
The Continuing
Degradation of Education.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-enormous-problem-of-university-leadership/
https://reason.com/2022/10/12/education-freedom-wins-big-in-arizona/
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/high-school-graduate-act-scores-drop-to-30-year-low/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-daily-chart-harvard-home-of-inflation.php
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/the-education-exodus-advances/
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/15/prodigies-of-credulousness-in-the-ivory-tower-of-utopia/
The Many Facets of the
U.S. Economy…Tax and Spend…Spend and Tax.
https://reason.com/2022/10/11/writing-student-loans-in-red-ink/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-latest-inflation-report-is-even-worse-than-it-looks/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-know-whos-to-blame-for-soaring-inflation-joe-biden
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/terence-p-jeffrey/food-prices-156-under-biden
https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-stagflation-president/
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/how-to-blow-a-trillion-dollars/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/investing/premarket-trading-stocks/index.html
The Complete Idiocy of
the Woke Movement.
https://reason.com/2022/10/15/the-rise-of-the-stake-holders/
Crime and Justice. The Corruptive Politization of Our Department
of Justice is Complete. It Has Become a
Partisan Tool.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/12/the-lefts-funny-new-lie-its-the-red-states-with-more-crime/
https://nypost.com/2022/10/12/utter-proof-the-fbi-framed-trump-and-shielded-hunter/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/fbi-offered-bribe-to-bring-down-trump.php
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/archives-politicization-portends-another-russiagate/
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/hiding-hunters-laptop/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-marijuana-myth/
Lying, Spying, Bending,
Breaking, Shading, and Trading On…the Truth.
Censorship by Any Other Name is Still Censorship.
The Greening of the
Planet Leading to Unintended Consequences.
Wishes and Dreams Will Not Keep Us Warm at Night.
https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/shapiro101222.php3
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/germany-apokalypse-now
Feckless Foreign Policy
Contributing to Global Chaos. Naïve
Fools Running the Ship of State is a Dangerous Prescription.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/were-in-the-climate-army-now/
Border…. What Border???
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas-shame-biden-whips-border/
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-immigration/2022/10/16/id/1092078/
Election Day Approaches. The Wolves are Herding the Sheep…But Will the
Sheep Stop and Stare Down the Wolves?
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/10/has-a-quisling-gop-enabled-a-desperate-october-surprise/
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/12/things-are-much-worse-than-they-seem-for-democrats/
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/no-the-main-character-of-2022-is-not-donald-trump/
As a registered
Independent, I find a lot about the Libertarian Party to agree with. But you have to look at their entire
platform before embracing their Party.
Beware of cherry-picking a policy or two when considering who to cast
your vote for. Here is the story of one
Libertarian candidate (first link) followed by the Libertarian Party
national platform (second link):
Politics In General.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/11/how-republicans-can-earn-national-supermajority-status/
Like her or not…this lady
speaks truth to power: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-compleat-tulsi.php
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/13/why-ron-desantis-should-run-in-2024/
Democrat Rule: Government
Grows, The Morass Expands, and Big Brother is Gathering.
https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/ponnuru101022.php
https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-states-have-worse-inequality-than-red-ones-new-census-data-shows
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/on-obamacare-biden-goes-where-even-obama-wouldnt/
https://www.city-journal.org/rand-pauls-lonely-battle
Extensive coverage has
revealed the Trump/RussiaGate farce to be the worst political scandal in my
lifetime (70 years); it was conducted with either a wink or a nod under
President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ). As Durham continues to pull back the sheets
on this filthy corruption that occurred under the Obama Administration and
continued with the “DOJ Deep State” under the Trump Administration (the
subversion of a sitting President), the limits of disgust for corruption in
government must be continually raised. This
level of malfeasance is so elevated that it literally boggles the mind. How can this happen in America? And make no mistake about: It DID happen
and it is STILL happening. When we
excessively empower our elected officials, it is inevitable that they will
become poisoned by the power granted them.
We as human creatures are organically fallible and given sufficient
opportunity, that fallibility will rise to the top.
I am an advocate for term
limits. I wrote about it here: http://centerlineright.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-place-to-begin.html
. I believe our nation’s founders
included term limits in the Constitution…they called them “elections”. They could not possibly have been expected to
foresee or imagine the awesome influence and all-encompassing power to shape
opinion that is today held by the mainstream media and incumbent
politicians. If they could see the death
grip doggedness exhibited today by incumbent Presidents, Senators, and
Representatives to hold on to the levers of power, I have little doubt that
they would quickly jump on board the term limits train. They would also be bitterly disappointed
in how casually Americans have taken for granted their right to vote and have
failed to inform themselves.
One of the more recent
chapters in a long litany of Democrat “dirty pool politics” is
the so-called “House Select Committee” on the January 6, 2020 WDC
activities. Putting aside a judgement on
the substance of any wrongdoing that occurred on that day, this circus
masquerading as a Congressional hearing is likely the biggest Capitol Hill joke
since the Mueller investigation. In
fact, the utter ridiculousness of this Committee makes it a most worthy
successor to the Mueller farce.
While wasting the opportunity to conduct an honest and transparent
investigation into an event that needs investigation, this Committee has
shamed itself and the body it represents by its bald-faced partisan efforts to
nail Donald Trump at any cost.
By including only two
Republican members (out of nine total committee members…and who
just happen to be rabidly anti-Trump) from a House where the Democrats
enjoy an historically-thin majority, the Democrats made a mockery of
bipartisanship and the composition of the Committee is a joke. There is nothing even remotely bipartisan
about this Committee. The fact that the
accused subject (or his representatives) of the investigation, Donald
Trump, was never given the reasonable opportunity to cross-examine witnesses or
offer up alternative versions of events shades the Committee findings even
further. The damning effects of treating
the hearings as a propaganda effort, hiring a professional liberal television
producer to orchestrate the hearings, and then coordinating with the mainstream
media to stage it in prime-time pushes the credibility of the effort near the
limit. Pushing it over that limit
is the fact that throughout its process, the Committee has selectively leaked
information to the mainstream media that was partisan, one-sided, and always
damaging to the image of Donald Trump.
The whole episode was a disgusting display of partisan politics run
amuck in the U.S. House of Representatives and will ultimately go down in
history as the clown show that it was.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/13/the-broken-promises-of-the-january-6-committee/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/five-loose-ends-jan-6-committee-left-tie-up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/politics/6-takeaways-last-jan6-hearing-before-midterms
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-response-jan-6/2022/10/14/id/1091848/
In Closing…. Music
is a subjective thing. Everyone has
their own individual tastes when it comes to music. There are also many different…and valid…methods
for measuring success in the music industry.
Whatever your tastes might be and whatever method you wish to use, it is
beyond debate that the Beatles were certainly one of, if not “the”,
greatest bands in music history. The
diversity of their music catalogue reflects the vast talents of the individual
members. It would be rare indeed for
someone to be unable to find a song or two somewhere in their history that they
could really enjoy. McCartney, Lennon,
Harrison, and Starr were certainly prolific during their careers and created
music that will live on for time immemorable.
All of the members were great artists, but here is a very interesting
story about Sir Paul, followed by a link to one of their greatest hits.
https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/paul-mccartneys-freakish-memory
How about the song that
ties back to the article link and to the groundbreaking movie Yellow
Submarine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y
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