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Events over the past few weeks have given me grounds for optimism. Here they are:
1: The counterprotesters, the "USA" chants, the people standing up for what is good and right... we are no longer ceding the fields to the idiots. People are pushing back. Hugely important.
2: Transgender nonsense is in retreat. In the UK, the NHS has banned child mutilations, and it is picking up speed elsewhere.
3: Climate change hysteria is on the wane, as distractions like Gaza (and to some extent, the collapse in the EV market and other exposures of the vacuity of Green Energy) have removed this new paganism from the front pages and in the forefront of our minds. Causes come and go, and this one is on the way out. The sooner the better.
As always, there will be some people who do not move with the times - there will always be antisemitic loons, child mutilators, and planet worshippers. But if their causes are on the wane, it is a very good thing indeed for the future of mankind.
How will we know when we are winning? When birthrates come back up. That is both the most important sign of societal belief in itself and also an essential event in order for there to even be a future for civilized mankind.
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RE: The swing against the Hamasniks on college campuses and elsewhere.
If you want to keep up the momentum: Write to your college or university demanding expulsion of any and all of the campus SA (or Red Guards, pick your totalitarian poison) who have been involved in the Hamas demonstrations. Write to DAs and demand prosecution of the same individuals under anti-terrorism statutes. Another demand to make to the appropriate authorities is that all foreign nationals involved in the Islamonazi demonstrations be deported without any possibility of readmittance. Start with professors at the Ivies and work your way down on that list.
The retreat of the Green movement may be apparent in the U.S. but here in Germany they are still going strong. For now. Bavaria's Minister President has challenged the 2035 European ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel powered vehicles, but so far it's only rhetoric and he is one of the few voices here fighting back. The media is still overwhelmingly in the tank for the Gaians. The Netherlands and France are showing some sense, and we can pray it spread.
Thr lefts agenda may not March forward at the same rate, but it always goes forward. Until it is dealt a body blow, I don't think we can celebrate.
So guarded pessimism.
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And please, if any of this collapses, can’t somebody be made to pay? Or do we let them slither off to foist the next outrage?
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I am not seeing this. I am seeing some protests in Europe, which is also falling behind their impossible goals, but that is not here in the USA. I am seeing some talk about nuclear power, but that is mostly just talk now. I am seeing some wind and solar projects being canceled because of the cost of capital (high interest rates). Gen Y and Gen Z still think the planet is doomed and that permeates their life choices (no marriage, no kids, no investment,...) Team Biden is quietly destroying the oil and gas industry with regulations and that is making us all poorer and the people don't complain.
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The 2024 election process will be a big indicator.
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