During the past year or so, our thinking has changed. We used to speak freely without any thoughts of reprisal. Saying to another person what we thought at the moment was accepted and normal.  Then something changed.  Now there are many things that we feel and know are wrong, but can’t or won’t speak out for fear of being fired from a job or even ostracized from a community.  What has changed is that our innate courage that has been with us since our birth has been gradually reduced to fear.  Fear is a terrible state to be in because it incapacitates the will.  It immobilizes our psyche, and we become tantamount to sheep.  It is painful to think about this because we feel neutered, beaten down with no recourse.  This situation has been developing for many years.  It hasn’t happened over night.  The questions now become: “who is causing this to happen” and “how do we reverse this evil trend.?”  We must begin by replacing fear with courage. It is only with courage that we can answer the above questions.

Propaganda, censorship, indoctrination, socialism, Marxism and communism used to be dirty words with very dark and nasty baggages attached to them.  But now, with the help of all of the media in concert, they have been charged with new meanings which are supposed to help us renew our lives together.  The new and acceptable words heard everywhere are: diversity, many genders, racism, climate change and many more.  In reality diversity actually denigrates that idea by promoting divisiveness. Racism now actually causes more racism than was ever present in our society.  It is lucrative to the perpetrators. Climate change has been cyclical since the earth was born, but now we are to have caused it.  And so on with fake science.

Missing in our society are: integrity, respect, responsibility, manners and kindness.  Are we now so desensitized that we can no longer recognize evil right on our very doorstep?  Are we so clueless that we can no longer recognize assassination attempts by those who hate a political leader or anyone who honestly speaks their mind? Ae we so blinded by a personality conflict that we can no longer see the most important fundamental issues at stake?  Are we so self-centered that we can no longer celebrate the greatness of our country and its national interests that benefit all, not just a designated few.  Are we so confused by our news and social media that we can no longer find truth in issues because it is so hidden in misinformation that it is now actually fake?  Have we so devalued education that our children will grow up indoctrinated with liberal and far left socialist propaganda? Are there no journalists left who are able to report truthfully and honestly?  Our government and our nation are much bigger than one election or even one branch of our government.  We, the people, are the body of the USA.  And we embody the towns, cities, states and our nation as a whole.

Far too much of our country has become rude and crude, foul-mouthed and disrespectful to ourselves, our neighbors, our laws, police and military.  Some are trying to rewrite our history in most obnoxious terms. And our younger generation is learning from a one-sided media, film and music industry, and corrupted education system.  We need a reversal!  We need to bring back our firm foundations that say that everyone who works, earns and retains the fruits of their labors.  We must appreciate our leaders in their accomplishments with issues and not just their personalities.  But when they fail to meet our expectations, we need to say “enough.”  This is accomplished by secure voting and voter I.Ds.  Nothing less can be acceptable.

Enough of our fear-based lives.  We must say “No” to a Marxist-based education system.  And “No” to a concerted power grab by those trying to build a one-party system of government. “No” to a media that supports these evils, and “No” to those promoting censorship of all that does not fit their own limited agenda.  We must support our police and military. They must have the means to stop violence before or when it occurs.  The answer in all of the above is courage.  It must begin and end with the eligible voter. Our constitution is sacred to our way of life.  Let us protect it by insisting that those in government abide by its principles.  One by one, let us stand up and be counted.  Freedom is not free.  It must be protected every day in every way.  Let us clean up our system of government and return to civility with the stewardship that our own United Stated of America deserves.  God Bless America…!

I am back now for some comments that I have been storing up.  Since we were in the process of moving, I could not even think creatively or critically during February and March.  And I am still adapting and recovering, so I am not sure how together I am even now.  But I have to start somewhere.

Much has happened politically in the last few months.  Most of it has been negative and difficult to assimilate.  This makes my thinking confused because of the pervasive and slanted reporting by all of the media.  I am reading a book called “Bonhoeffer” by Eric Metaxas.  It is about a young priest in Germany beginning in the 20’s and continuing through the rise of Adolph Hitler.  Diedrich Bonhoeffer, the young priest, is from a well-to-do family who is politically connected pre-Hitler.  They are very aware of what is really happening, as are many other people, and they begin to warn their friends to try to do something to prevent what is surely coming if Hitler has his way.  The signs of trouble are unmistakeable to all reasoning people with any degree of common sense.  But most citizens and clergy fail to acknowledge these signs.  The church leaders, bishops and priests see their freedoms being eroded but they continue to think that they can reason with Hitler and his thugs.  The most astounding part of this book is the realization that many of the beginning restrictions, threats, censorships and losses of freedom are beginning to happen to us today here in the United States.

Businesses and shops in large cities are being trashed, looted and burned with impunity because the failed leadership in those states inhibit law enforcement from keeping the peace. This is sad, frustrating, unheard of, and certainly illegal.  No one in a leadership capacity should be able to inhibit the protection of their citizens or their businesses and property.  This happened in the beginnings of the Nazi party.  Censorship began at the same time as did racism, and the complicity of the news and all of the media in one-sided reporting.  Education was taken over by the state with only the approved party lines transmitted to the young and impressionable.  Bullying in all of its forms was rampant as it is here today.  If one says the wrong thing to the wrong person, one can be fired or ostracized or even jailed.  These things happened in Nazi Germany and they are beginning to happen here now as a matter of routine.

It is obvious that the far left has begun to take over our society.  They are virtually controlling the three branches of our government: executive, legislative and judicial.  This means that the checks and balances that have allowed our government and our society to exist are gone.  Needless to say, this is not only dangerous but ultimately a threat to our basic freedoms.  What has been a leaning toward socialism is now a slippery slope.  Open borders with the inherent crisis which is happening should be unthinkable.  No country can exist for very long with this as a policy.  This is like eating tainted food or drinking infected water.  Our southern border states now feel the effects, but soon, as this crisis spreads, all states and cities will feel the effects like a disease or a cancer that is out of control.  Racism is periodically trotted out by the very people who should want it to disappear.  It is very profitable.  Antifa (domestic terrorists) and BLM (Marxist sponsored) are both paid for by radical billionaires who want power and total control.  Realize that total control rapidly turns into dictatorship and then into Communism. No one wins in this scenario except the billionaires who want One World, an imaginary global utopia.  Keep in mind that this has never in the history of the earth worked anywhere.  It is self-defeating.

What is missing now is the same question that was asked during the rise of Hitler and his National Socialism.  How do we stop this move toward insanity?  Do we have to go through the devastating cycle that plagued Germany until it was stopped by a world war and immense destruction?  Can these democratic socialists be reasoned with?  Neville Chamberlin tried this with Hitler and we all know how that turned out for Britain and most of Europe.  The only thing that Hitler worried about from the beginning was the people of Germany.  Were they for him or against him.  He had to make Jews a scapegoat and promises of unity and a great society to “suck in” the whole population to his way of thinking.  It worked then.  The big question for us now is will this work again with us here in the United States.  We need to convince the misguided people that voted for a socialistic administration that there is a way out. We have to be united against the evils we are now experiencing.  We need to fix the broken voting process with a mandate for voter I.D. and uninhibited oversight of the process.  No exceptions.  The citizens of these United States do have a voice and it needs to be heard loudly and clearly.  No more raising of our taxes for frivolous spending and getting deeper in debt by trillions of dollars by just printing of more money by the Federal Reserve.  We have had enough of your mendacity. ” We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore.”  God Bless America…!

We have come to a very sad point in our ongoing American history. We are suffering from a “rot” within our society and our government.  We slogged and suffered through eight years of a left, liberal, socialistic thinking administration.  It left us weakened both domestically and in our foreign policy, not to mention economically.  This was the legacy of a Democrat administration and a Democrat strangle-hold of the House of Representatives.  Please take a minute and think about that term –  representatives.  This group is supposed to represent the thinking of their constituents no matter which party they belong to.  They are NOT supposed to forget about their constituents and just attach themselves to a bloc of politically motivated like-minded politicos.  They are instead representing the citizens who voted them to their present positions. Please think about the term “citizens” who are qualified to vote in the first place.  This is fundamental to our constitutionality.

Keeping the above in mind, let us remember that when a Republican became president in 2016, the Democrat party generally, and the House specifically, did everything possible to block policies that would eventually heal our national ills.  They tried impeachment based on fake info and every other means of obstruction they could find. This is government at its worst.  Many of the new policies were actually based on common sense, scientific fact and need.  Securing our Southern borders and adjusting our foreign policies and trade agreements back to our own advantage reversed the extensive outsourcing that erased jobs from our own work force.  There are many other examples of policies that have, or would have, benefitted our whole society if they had not been blocked by the bad decisions based on the corrupted thinking of the Democrat party.

All of this has culminated in an election, after four years of political nastiness from the misguided party in legislative power,  in a corrupt election process in November of 2020.  Instituted were mail-in voting which invited corruption, faulty voting machines with built-in corruption, and covert vote-counting in individual states which resulted in thousands of votes from the deceased, prisoners, illegals, underage voters, and stuffing ballot boxes with fake names and even no names.  This resulted, in many cases, in more ballots than voters, and when competent and impartial oversight is blocked, corruption rules. All of this is made possible by state governors and mayors who openly espouse the far left, socialism and even communism. These are the same governors and mayors who allowed domestic terrorism to continue into the destruction of property, businesses and even whole downtowns by hate-filled and hate-funded organizations such as Antifa and BLM.  All of this is unconscionable in our free society.   Freedom does not include anarchy and fascism. The paid activists who cause strife and destruction are unintelligent cowards and bullies. The only way to deal with these low-lifes locally, nationally or even globally is direct and decisive force to completely shut them down.

The next trial for the American people was the advent of a virus from China.  We still don’t know if it was accidentally spread or chemical terrorism, but it has affected virtually every corner of the earth.  We have all had to deal with sickness and death, masks and quarantines, the shut downs of businesses, entertainment, and the destruction of many types of small businesses.  Our president dealt with this swiftly and decisively  when it was first discovered by shutting down travel and assembling the best medical and chemical advisors available at the time.  These actions and the daily info sessions undoubtably saved many lives by preventing, or at least inhibiting, the rapid and pervasive spread of the virus.  Please note that at every step of this process the Democrat party was adversarial with opposing opinions intended to block progress.  All of their thinking was to be proved wrong or just blatant lies.  And of course the news and all of the media were, and continue to be, complicit.  We are still dealing with the effects of this virus which probably has morphed, making a universal vaccine problematic.  Even so, the first version of the vaccine was released  with much less testing and research than would be normal and advisable.  This being the case, the future opening of all places of business, including schools, is an unknown factor.

Hand in hand with the socialist Democrats is the media of all kinds. who daily spread negativity and misinformation and even lies.  But keep in mind, that, like a very tasty drink laced with an undetectable poison, any unthinking or unintelligent person will swallow the content eagerly and even ask for more and more.  The news is sugar-coated and gift wrapped to entrap and ensnare as many people as possible to adopt the evil party line they are paid to disseminate.  Both parties and many other people agree that they do not like the personality of the President, but they all forget about the issues and policies of great value that he has instituted despite the obstruction and  obstacles that have been thrown at him.  They also forget that he is a consummate businessman as was Harry Truman. Our president is not a politician. Having worked a lifetime in business, he has built and accomplished many things of value to our society.  He is refreshingly honest and is able to get done what he says he will do which is why he was elected by the American people in the first place. In being able to complete tasks and find solutions to problems, his personality is not set up to kiss asses like most politicians but to kick them. Ultra-sensitive and whiney personalities common to liberals and those with PC personalities don’t like this treatment.   When they hear the word “No,” they act like a child caught with a hand in a cookie jar, not as thinking adults.  Conversely, “common sense” citizens tend to love his straightforward honesty and ability to follow through and accomplish designated tasks.  Everyone should respect his love for America, our military, our police, fire and essential workers of all kinds, as well as his love of the working class, the people who had the good sense to elect him.

At this point we need to pray for the ascendancy of common sense in all citizens, the return of the education of our young to the truth of our history and morals and the ability to think and analyze information. America is not perfect, but we are the best there is.  Let us all return to the love and respect that our country deserves. God bless us all, and may God continue to bless America.

Our lives are like a fabric woven thread by thread through time, year by year. Sometimes the fabric feels like burlap and sometimes like the finest silk. The length is indeterminate as is the width and breadth.  But whenever it shall end, it will tell our story to the One who lives eternally, the master of the loom. The collector of all fabrics adds to and builds this tapestry, the unending warp and woof of the universe.

Let us return to living with respect for other people, places and property.  And let us add to this our own discipline and resulting responsibility for passing along these tenets to our young who need the guidance and experience of their elders.  Let us think of someone other than ourselves, with their friends and families and their living spaces. Let us replace our negativity with lasting positivity and renew our commitment to faith and hope and love.  Let us occasionally meditate.  Why are we here?  We live and we die. Is that all there is?  What’s next?  When our bodies are gone, what’s left?  Do we survive as a soul?  Will someone ask us “Did you live with respect?” Do our lives have a purpose? Did we live with each other with respect?  Is eternity real?  Did we use our time wisely or waste it away?

Is there still time to wake up or are we deaf to the signs and warnings and exhortations to shape up and come together in love for one another, and with whomever we may meet who is traveling along the same path with a crutch or in an airplane?  Do we see?  Will we finally see?  We need to learn to live together and realize that the foundation for this is respect.  Respect…!

Idealists are a lot like frogs who, when put into a pot of slowly heating water, will stay there rather than jump out before the water boils and they die.  In the present political situation, the idealist would rather stay put while everything gets worse and worse and pulls everything down with them in a resounding crash rather than admit to a failure by jumping to safety.  I weep.  I fear.

I weep for the times gone by that took with them our freedom of speech and left censorship in its place.  I fear for the times to come when we will figuratively or literally die because of a misspoken word or even an implication however innocent that will spell our doom as a society. Can no one look ahead?  Is there anyone who can communicate the danger that awaits us around the next corner of our lives?

I weep for the young, our unknowing descendants who will inherit evil embodied as the solution to all of our problems.  I fear for the survival of our ability to think and express ourselves freely and unfettered by a government gotten too large and gone too wrong. Is there a messiah, a savior, a champion to save the common sense and the gentility of civilization? Or are there only liars, thieves and multibillionaires who support a mass stranglehold on a media which has become only a tool of these evildoers?  Not knowing, I weep.  I fear.  But enough…!

There are four solutions that I can see that will always be with us even if they are temporarily hidden.  These are faith, hope, love and …?…

Faith that enough citizens will wake up and put a stop to the election of mentally unsound leaders in government whether it is local or national.  Hope that we can retain the ability to communicate information accurately with or without our ruptured media.  And, love of one another.  This is the most difficult because it involves dealing with personalities that may be goodhearted but ostensibly unlovable.  And finally we need to begin again to ask questions.  Too often we forget to ask questions or have them blocked by someone with a crooked agenda who is in charge.  When we can no longer question anything or anybody, we are doomed to follow whomever or whatever wishes to lead us blindly into their den.

The bottom line to all of the above is freedom.  Freedom is not free.  Freedom takes constant vigilance and stewardship to keep it intact and to protect it.  Freedom is unique in our world.  It is not guaranteed and it is not universal.  We need to be very careful of the seduction of globalism.  To participate, each nation must give up something in order to blend in to the whole.  We must be aware that this could be a weakening of our precious freedom.  This freedom contains our common sense and our ability to think and express ourselves freely.  It is worth fighting for.  Semper fidelis. Semper paratus.   May God bless us, and may God bless these United States of America.

I met a man the other day.  We sat and talked about the way some people love and some hate because of looks and pigmentation.  We got along. We found some things to agree upon or even halfway, but parted pleasantly. I saw his point of view, but I am blind. I saw his point of view, but I am blind.  Color blind.

I met someone the other day, and as we talked, I wondered where she came from.  A touch of east, a touch of south, some slang from a place run-down and overrun by filth and hate.  We got along and talked awhile, and then we parted.  I saw her point of view, but I am blind.  I saw her point of view, but I am blind.  Color blind.

As humans, from birth to death we crave to control our circumstances.  We need to be the center of our own personal universe.  The very young learn to control with bodily functions and vocal demands like crying or yelling or screaming.  Adolescents control by dropping out or rising above their situations, sometimes either bullying or just causing worry to others because of their pitiable plight, whether real or imagined or acted out.  And there are exceptions.  Adults control by seduction or strength or power over others whether in the workplace, business, or as a worker or administrator.  The only brakes that can stop any of these are applied by confrontation by another who has either equal or more powerful control.  This same process continues on into those comparative few who lead towns, cities, states or even countries.

Nothing good comes from meanness, hypocrisy, violence or parasitic behavior.  And well-meaning people?  Please keep in mind that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  As long as racism and divisiveness in whatever form are taught as indoctrination to our young, nothing will change for the better in our society.  Education is a very precious necessity whether of our young or of our general populace.  If this process should ever be corrupted, then our society will go the way of the Etruscans, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and hundreds of other ancient civilizations that peaked and then crumbled from within.  They all found out the hard way that if their leaders are puppets and marionettes who are controlled by money, they only hasten the downfall.  Their weak and malleable minds only assist in the dissembling of their society’s infrastructure, icons, statues, traditions, ethics, mores, respect and ability to be responsible.  They are then always ripe for the seduction of socialism with leads to communism, which inevitably leads to the destruction of the once magnificent society.

It is frightening to think of the above in terms of our own situation.  When survival, sometimes day to day or meal to meal become paramount, only the strongest and most powerful survive with those of their own choosing.  There are far too many well-meaning people in our present day society that base their opinions on wishful thinking, and the ideal, and unity of all upon earth and a world government.  In its essence, on paper, this seems admirable, but as a system of government in real life it is the road to hell on banana peels.  Why?  Because there is evil in our world and in our daily lives.  Not us, of course, but definitely other people who live with evil intent.  Our salvation as a society is in recognizing this fact and acting accordingly.  Given a choice, all societies choose freedom.  Freedom is not something we can take for granted.  Our forbearers fought and died so that we might live freely.  Many of us and our progeny are still fighting for this idea and for our safety and security.  This is vital if we are to continue to exist.

We must all be aware and responsible and educated as to the pitfalls we face in keeping our freedoms intact.  We cannot depend on our news purveyors or our media, including social media.  We must read books by those who are writing responsibly about today’s issues.  We must wake up to the realization that political personalities are only part of our concern.  It is the issues themselves and the actual valid accomplishments of our leaders and surrogates that are most meaningful.  Racism works in all directions. Socialism is ultimately a death sentence.  Censorship is an evil device used, like indoctrination, to control us. Political cheating to accomplish your goals is most evil.

We need to reject the idiocracy that now threatens our society and choose kindness over meanness, responsibility and adherence to our laws over violence and destruction, respect over distrust, love over hate, religion over paganism or nihilism, education over indoctrination, the ability to think over assimilating meaningless, inaccurate news reporting.  We need to eliminate evil in favor of faith, hope and charity.  This must begin with each of us personally.  Our young learn from birth by our own examples.  Let us be aware that ignorance is no excuse for anything in our lives.  We are born, we live our lives and then we pass on.  May our goodness in this regard overcome the evils that we all face together.  May God bless us, and may God Bless the United States of America.

The other side is afraid that we will win and they will lose. We are afraid that they will win and we will lose. Either way, the motivation is fear.

Unfortunately, our whole society at this time is based on fear. Conservatives are afraid to display anything politically about the coming election or the President or conservative candidates. A child was killed for wearing a MAGA hat. Another was suspended from school for the same reason.  If you put anything conservative on your car bumper your car could be trashed.  If you wear anything unacceptable to a liberal you could be attacked.  You also must be careful of whom you talk with about conservative ideas. You could be ostracized.  All of the above is based on fear.  Free thinking and free speech are heavily censored by the left leaning media and socialistic “community agitators.”  Be careful what you say and who you say it to. The “wrong word” has gotten many people fired immediately without discussion.

The above is just a very small taste of the Socialism that is being forced upon us by the left, liberals, and the Democrat Socialist party.  It is not creeping into our society anymore.  It has been galloping and is now here. There are certain basic principles that Socialists use to infiltrate and then take over a society.  Here are a few:

EDUCATION – This is primary. It is a must to indoctrinate the young by taking over the way they think.  They must adhere to the party line.  They must learn an abridged version of our history.  They must learn to only follow someone else’s thinking, not their own.  Creativity is only permitted when it is approved.

ENTERTAINMENT – All entertainers in movies, music, sports, the media must support the party line.  This means that actors, musicians, athletes, reporters and news anchors and their writers must follow the leftist script or they will be released from their jobs and ostracized.  This is essential to the spread of the gospel of the left.

LAW ENFORCEMENT – The police and any other types of law enforcement must be neutralized.  They must be ridiculed in the media by staged set-ups of rioting, screaming, intimidating crowds who are paid to agitate and cause mayhem, blood, and murder while they are filming for the evening news. Anything to make law enforcement look bad; the more violent the better. Sacrificing their own to the cause becomes a new kind of martyrdom.

RACISM – The black community owns the rights to control this abomination. Not people of any other color.  The oppressed race must be classified as black only. This entire agenda is supported by people in Congress and evil entities with unlimited amounts of money to fund the agenda indefinitely. Every time things calm down and there is no sign of racism, the “community agitators” are again paid and charged with the orders to again start fresh “race-baiting.” Any excuse will do, but the best is when a young black person is either apprehended in a crime or tased or beaten or even killed.  The expectant filming of the event is the spark that is supposed to once again ignite racism.  And this, once again, must return to the issue of oppression, beginning with slavery.  And slavery, even though it has existed in every society throughout history and with every race, now must only refer to the black population.  Why?  Because it pays.  It is the evil impetus for blackmail, intimidation, rioting, violence and mayhem.  Why? Because this will allow the Socialists to once again further their control over businesses, corporations, and immediate access to the waiting media.  All controlled by fear.

IMMIGRATION – We have had legal immigration in this country throughout its history. The process has worked by gradual assimilation into our society of people who were glad to be productive and honest citizens.  The left, liberals, and the Democrat Socialist party has done everything they can to change this.  They want open borders, voting without an ID, no wall on our southern border, voting even if the person is not a citizen, providing jobs, medical care, driver’s licenses, to anyone here illegally.  Many of these inhibit our way of life economically and raise the crime rate exponentially by having undocumented persons of ill-intent freely living in our midst and joining the already present thugs, murderers and gang members who live as parasites in our society.  And cause fear.  This fear excites the left.

POLITICS – Nowhere is fear more prevalent than in politics.  Votes and elections leading to riches and power, if you are willing to sell your soul, are the name of the game.  Lying, cheating, stealing, and misleading are just tools of the trade. Anyone who is to last for any time at all must learn these.  Anything that will get a politician elected is permissible.  The “anything” that will keep the person in office is also permissible.  The left has instilled fear in office by causing Socialists to be elected by having access to unlimited funding, but they must further the party line.  The exception is our current president who has upset the left by thinking out-of-the-box and following what the conservative majority wants in this country.  We must support this man and the issues he is able to complete in order to retain our society and civilization as we know it.

VOTING – It would seem that at no time in our history has the voting process been more important.  At no time also is each person’s individual vote more important than the coming election.  We need to eliminate fear.  We need to eliminate the diseases that are stated above.  We need to change the insanity of Socialism back into the common sense of our constitution.  The silent majority must arise and make itself heard by coming to the aid of our country and allowing our sitting president to continue his good works which are so vital to us and our future generations.  May God bless our President and may God bless these United States of America.