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I don’t pay a great deal of attention to the mainstream media. The benefit of this is that I tend to be happier. The problem with this, of course, is that I sometimes miss the message they are trying to tell me, and sometimes that message can be rather important. This is why it has taken until today – the last day of the Biden Administration – for me to recognize three obvious truths, which the mainstream media has been patiently trying to explain to me for the past 10-20 years:
You may be rolling your eyes, wondering how it took me this long to figure out these obvious truths. This isn’t a remarkable insight, requiring years of research and contemplation. No. Everybody from CNN to The New York Times to freakin’ ESPN have been shouting this from the rooftops for years. I just wasn’t listening.
Our federal government has around 3 million employees, nearly all of whom went to the right schools and majored in the right things. This means that a significant majority of 3 million federal employees have been trained to believe that America is bad – defined by slavery, colonialism, environmental destruction, and exploitation of women & minorities.
Most American citizens take a different view. They think that America has its flaws, like any other country, but it has done a lot of good in the world, and that there is a good reason that people all over the world want to come here – this is a pretty nice place, filled with a lot of pretty good people.
It’s difficult for most Americans to wrap their mind around the idea that their own government doesn’t like them or the country they live in. But it’s just a matter of education and background.
It’s also difficult for the average Republican politician when he wins an election and becomes a part of the government he seeks to constrict. He presumes that his Democrat colleagues represent Democrat voters, when in fact they represent government itself. He presumes that when a government policy makes things worse rather than better, that the policy must have failed. But perhaps it succeeded. Perhaps that’s what it was supposed to do.
I view Joe Biden as the most successful president in history. What President has gotten more of his party’s goals accomplished than Biden? Maybe FDR? Maybe. But Biden has been remarkably successful from the standpoint of the Democrat party.
I used to wonder why that was, since Mr. Biden was never an intellectual powerhouse, and to make it worse, he’s been suffering from dementia for the past several years. The federal government gained power like never before on Biden’s watch. How did a lightweight like Biden accomplish that?
Simple. Because the Democrat Party is simply the party of government. And without an acting President, the government was allowed to do what it wanted. It could grow its administrative and regulatory powers with a minimum of political interference. It just grew organically, the way any power structure does, if unconstrained.
The Democrats got what they wanted. Not because they had a powerhouse President who stood up for the people who voted for him. But because the Democrat Party is the party of government, and the government was permitted to grow unimpeded for four glorious years.
I don’t think President Trump quite understood what he was up against in his first term. But I think he does now. And I think the Democrats recognize that Trump has figured all this out, and they’re scared to death.
I suspect that the next four years are going to be eventful, and extremely important. I pray that Mr. Trump survives them.
I pray that America does as well.
May God continue to bless The United States of America.
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The obvious answer is that FJB didn't really accomplish anything. He was just the totem while others did the work. But he gave them an excuse, no vetos, he would sign anything that his puppeteers put in front of him.
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Minor quibble. The Democratic Party is comprised of (a) people who want the government to provide them with a livelihood and (b) people who want outcomes that require raw power to impose them. That latter group wants to mandate new social and moral values and dissolve that which created and sustains the middle class.
If it were just a political contest between taxpayers and tax-funded recipients, elections would be more rational, less bitter and more amenable to compromise. It is the emergence of an ideologically perverse yet uniform layer of very wealthy people, academics and media that has driven an ugly new politics.
RINOs and third-rate analysts blame Trump/MAGA for the shift in tone without a clue that Tump/MAGA is an antibody in a nation that wants to survive, not the infection.
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The Democrat Party holds control over the traditional media outlets, mimicking how in a totalitarian state, the One Uber Party and the media have a symbiotic relationship.
The Democrat Party uses the same strategy the totalitarian state actors use, such as canceling out the non-submissive person plus their identity plus their reputation. This often makes it impossible for the individual to continue to hold the job the individual once held.
Also utilized in this Brave New World is the ability to manufacture indictments, hold kangaroo court trials for the accused, and offer up lengthy prison sentences for made up or magnified offenses. (Witness today's J6 prisoners and the multitude of lawsuits against Trump.)
Hopefully we will return to normal. But there are a lot of factors standing in the way of the public achieving that.
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Public goods only.
If they are going to force us to use government money, the inflation rate should be 0% at most. I just heard Felix Zulaf say that the inflation rate is double what they say it is.
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