Government in Exile

Who’s Steering the Ship of State?

"Peter" is wondering who is steering the Ship of State.

The Democrats are becoming seriously concerned about Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities, albeit too late to avoid national embarrassment. The party bigwigs are meeting to decide on a course of action. They have asked Kamala Harris to resign, citing any reason she wants. But she has so far declined.

 

The latest offer assures Harris of the next vacancy on the Supreme Court. That’s how desperate they have become, to put someone of Harris’ limited intellect and lack of skill in oral communication on the Supreme Court: Shocking!

 

The Democrats want to be able to appoint a Democrat to the Vice Presidency who will be a strong candidate in 2024. That is their only hope for winning the White House in 2024. Harris is still resisting; most people believe it’s because she knows she’s unqualified. She knows she’s unqualified for her current position.

 

Biden has vehemently refused to resign, which is another fly in the Democrat’s ointment. They’ll have to resort to having the Cabinet remove him under the 25^th Amendment. They are loathe to do that prior to the mid-term elections, which leaves them little time to get their office shuffling done and have the new President ready for the 2024 elections.

 

The Democrats are flustered and being led by a cartoon character from Looney Tunes who is dazed and confused. What were American voters thinking when they chose to vote for Biden? Or, were they just voting AGAINST Donald Trump?

 

Something for Republican voters to think about before the 2024 primaries.

 

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The Marxist’s Plan for Rebuilding America

"Peter" has some thoughts about the Marxist's plan to rebuild America

 

“Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes—specifically between the bourgeoisie, or capitalists, and the proletariat, or workers—defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will lead inevitably to a communist revolution.”

 

Marxists also believe that before you can build a new house, you must first demolish the old house and lay in a new foundation. Their path to demolishing the old house, America, is in dividing the population against each other by use of polarizing issues; and weakening the country by attacking the economy and the financial structure.

 

Examples

 

Reducing energy output, such as cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, to wipe out energy independence.

 

Using “green” religious doctrine, such as reducing CO2 emissions, to attack gas fired electrical generating plants, vehicles and even the natural gas stoves in our homes, to cause further division and economic harm.

 

Using false charges of racism whenever and wherever possible to make racism the central component of any argument or issue.

 

Attacking individuals and institutions with false accusations of racism to “cancel” their voices and remove them from society.

 

Using our public schools to indoctrinate children to divide them from their parents using racial rhetoric and inappropriate sexual issues, such as gender dysphoria or LGBTQ “drag shows”, encouraging confused children to question their sexuality and even get gender reassigning hormonal therapy and often surgery without the knowledge or permission of the parents.

 

Weakening America around the world by foreign policy blunders, military blunders, intelligence blunders and national security blunders; along with a weak and fragile POTUS globe-trotting and blundering his way through dozens of foreign speeches filled with gaffes, lies, retractions, insults and meaningless drivel. Of course, the globe-trotting “word salad” speeches of the VP are always available to make the POTUS seem articulate by comparison.

 

Weakening the military with “woke” policies and DEI mandates; and making them appear dishonorable and incompetent, such as the surrender to the Taliban and the stupidly planned withdrawal, leaving behind tens of billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware, vehicles and equipment for the Taliban to sell to our adversaries; leaving behind hundreds of Americans along with thousands of allies. A huge stain on our military, directed by our “Manchurian candidate” POTUS – a true Marxist.

 

America is already well on the way to being torn down to her foundation, the U.S. Constitution.

 

Now the Marxists are attacking the Constitution itself. Free speech was written into the Constitution in the First Amendment. It is intended to protect unpopular views so that people hear every side of an issue. Our newspapers and social media depend on it for their existence, yet they have, stupidly, cooperated in censoring free speech by punishing those with whom they disagree. A recent example is Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and books. In a podcast, Adams said he preferred living in an all-white neighborhood to a racially mixed neighborhood because there was less crime. Newspapers across the country immediately removed the Dilbert comic strip from their papers. Adams has fallen into obscurity and has lost his main source of income. That is censorship. That is an attack on the First Amendment. Whether you agree with his opinion or not, you must respect his right to speak it.

 

The Second Amendment gives us the right to possess firearms. It is not intended solely for personal defense; it is intended to protect the citizenry from a tyrannical government bent on totalitarian oppression. Democrats want strict gun control, even gun confiscation. They attack the Second Amendment constantly, always blaming the gun rather than the criminal pulling the trigger. They do it not because they believe it, but because it is a means to an end; the end of the Second Amendment.

 

The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees due process in our judicial system. Marxist- backed prosecutors across the country have been allowing criminals to go free, without bail, causing a spike in crime. These radical D.A.s have also arbitrarily reduced many felonies to misdemeanors and probationary sentences, contributing to recidivism and high crime rates. They turn a deaf ear to victims, but listen to every complaint of a criminal. They treat police disrespectfully in court, causing morale to drop and resignations to go up. The FBI and the DOJ have been so politicized by the Marxists that they have little credibility left. Their consistent cover-up of Democrats’ crimes, such as Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, and their constant attempts to prosecute – or should I say persecute – former POTUS Trump have left them shame-faced, disrespected and dishonored.

 

Our Constitutional Republic is being damaged more severely than any terrorist would ever have dreamed possible; and it has happened in a mere two and a half years. If you didn’t know any of this, you are part of the problem. Get informed. Read foreign newspapers online; they paint a different picture of America than you have seen previously. Get involved in your kid’s

school work and question their curricula. You may be shocked at what you discover. Demand that people like Scott Adams be heard and not punished for their words.

 

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”  Saul Alinsky – Rules for Radicals  (The Marxists’ Playbook)

 

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America Has Gone Crazy

 

Today I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is changing for the worse. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, no matter how much I pray; something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. 

I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. 

I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind! 

This insanity can’t be justified:

If a guy pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.

Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.

People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.

People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees. 

Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.

Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang member or terrorist who jumps the southern fence is welcome. 

$5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not. 

If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

If you cheat in an election nothing happens to you, but if you point out the mathematical errors of that election you are a conspiracy theorist & disdained. 

People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan for us.

Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of their rights. And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!

People are dying of a Chinese virus, but it's racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.

We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good. Nothing makes sense anymore - no values, no morals, and no civility. 

Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, it's taking on water, and is sinking fast. We Americans are drowning.

Speak up while you still have breath and a voice, for soon you will have neither if you don't!

Anonymous; born a man, still a man

 

The Destruction Strategy

 

"Peter" has some thoughts about the decline of America.

The Marxists currently controlling President Biden and many members of Congress have a plan for the future of the U.S.A. They want to build a socialist utopia and give everyone equity. But, before they can start building they must first destroy the U.S.A. down to it’s foundations and start from scratch.

 

They want to destroy our history and the memory of our founding fathers.

 

They want to cause division and turmoil between the races that make up our population.

 

They want to program our children away from critical thinking to cognitive dissonance and indoctrination.

 

They want to attack manhood, to impugn courage, to create new genders causing chaos and doubt amongst our children.

 

They want to create a lack of confidence in our electoral system to undermine our democratic processes.

 

They want to encourage more crime in the streets and the boardrooms of America.

 

They want to weaken our military services by making our military services unattractive to potential recruits through “woke” policies and military failures, such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

 

They want to drive us into unsustainable debt through “green” policies that ruin our economy and our incentive to work hard.

 

They have waged war upon our energy production by shutting down oil drilling and pipelines, forcing us to buy oil from hostile countries at exorbitant prices while, at the same time, selling our strategic reserves of oil to China at bargain basement prices.

 

They want to force us to buy and use electric vehicles, knowing full well that our electric grid can’t support them and that we have no way of dealing with the millions of very heavy used up batteries that would be discarded yearly.

 

They have opened our borders to millions of unidentified immigrants, including many terrorists, drug traffickers and human traffickers amongst their ranks. Hundreds of thousands of them are being trafficked for sex in major cities all across the country.

 

These tactics are ruining our economy and driving us into financial chaos. Banks are starting to fail and the stock market is falling fast. It will not be long before these Marxists have succeeded to the point where millions of Americans will be dependent upon the government for their subsistence; millions more will be unemployed and living on their savings.

 

All this is happening right before our eyes, right now.

 

WAKE UP! You won’t be able to smell the coffee over the stench of socialism all around you.

 

Transparency

"Peter" has some thoughts about transparency.

Joe Biden’s lawyers recently conducted a “more thorough” search of his home and garage in the wake of several “discoveries” of classified documents. The search was “monitored” by DOJ officials who did not participate in the search and who are not cleared to receive classified documents.

 

FBI agents are routinely issued Top Secret security clearances; but no FBI agents were “allowed” on the property. What?!

 

In my thirty-nine years as a criminal investigator for both state and federal agencies I have never seen or heard of an instance where the prosecuting agency deferred to the defense attorneys to conduct a search for evidence or to seize evidence where criminal violations apply; nor have I seen or heard of an instance where the investigators were “not allowed” to be present.

 

This is the transparency Biden promised, the transparency of corruption rising to the top of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the White House.

 

FBI SWAT Teams and Forensic Teams went through Mar-a-Lago with a fine-tooth comb, with very little justification. In Biden’s case, there have been several “discoveries” of classified documents in unsecure locations, including boxes stacked alongside his Corvette in the garage. The same Corvette that Hunter gets to drive.

 

It will be months, maybe years, before the FBI can conclude a National Security damage assessment because of the unknown number and status of people having visited Biden’s home, particularly while he was out of office and had no Secret Service detail assigned to him. Such an assessment was unnecessary in Trump’s case.

 

Add to this transparent corruption the newly discovered information on how Hunter pays “the Big Guy” his share of the millions of dollars received from China and Ukraine. Hunter “rents” one of Joe Biden’s houses for $50,000 per month. Transparent influence peddling.

 

In the FBI motto, Integrity is listed last.  You guys in the trenches must demand that it be moved to the front and put on display. The citizens of this great nation deserve your Fidelity, your Bravery AND your Integrity.

 

 

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Was the Election Count Accurate?

"Peter" as some thoughts about the election.

It isn’t the voters that count; it’s the civil servants who count the votes.

Were the democrats just smart enough to find the polling place to cast their vote, while many Republicans were just lazy enough to not bother with voting? Maybe, but the democrats have been seducing the unions for a hundred years. The Deep State is made up of civil service union members. It’s not hard to figure out how they keep getting these “too close to call” elections tipping in their favor so often. Look at how often large blocks of votes are “found” at the last minute and every one of them a vote for the democrats. What are the odds of that happening, time after time?

It’s a difficult situation because the democrats promise the unions increased pay and benefits, passing the cost on to the tax payers. All the Republicans promise is austerity, lower taxes (which benefits everyone) and increased law enforcement resulting in lower crime rates.

Since lower taxes benefits everyone and increased law enforcement benefits everyone except criminals, shouldn’t that be the message of the GOP? Shouldn’t we be shouting that from the rooftops?

This is not rocket science. The Deep State is real; it’s controlling our elections and eroding our Constitution.

 

TIME TO VOTE - ELECTION NOVEMBER 8, 2022

 

By Brian Goff

As November 8th draws closer, we are witnessing the largest outlay of money both for political ads and to buy votes for Democrats that we have ever seen. The media’s left leaning bias is on full display as there are no serious questions asked of Democrat candidates. Outright lies (and gibberish) are spewed by President Biden and the White House which are never challenged or followed up on by the bobble-head “reporters.” Plausible deniability, smoke-screens, and gaslighting have become regularly used utensils in this White House’s Saul Alinsky provided toolbox. The far-left fanatics know that they have overplayed their hand and now in the final days of this election cycle there will be no limits on the tactics used to retain power as poll after poll indicates just how angry the American people really are.

One of the major mistakes made by the far-left was to believe that Americans whose careers require them to “get dirty” in the normal course of their jobs, were stupid. Carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and many other tradesmen are some of the smartest individuals you will encounter. They work hard for a living and are quick to separate reality from Biden-speak. Farmers deal with cow-manure on a regular basis, so they know exactly what it looks and smells like. And they can tell that the far-left and Washington D.C. is full of it.

You do not need a degree in economics to realize that your living expenses have increased dramatically, whether it is filling your fuel tank, a grocery cart, or paying the electric bill. Working class Americans are ready to take back this country from the far-left who have kidnapped common sense, accountability, morals, and virtue. There is a reckoning upon us and it will be decisive.
We live in a society where the far-left treats animal abuse as a much more serious crime than the termination of a human baby two days before its birth. Think about that for a moment. This is not the rationale of intelligent people. This is a government out of control in every respect, from economic insolvency, to raiding the homes of political opponents. In the year 2022 we are about four chapters into Orwell’s book “1984”.  The time has come to stop reading, and to start writing our own book. The date of publication will be November 8, 2022.

If you are still reading this blog, then you know what you must do on November 8th: Vote for every Republican on the ballot and send these socialist-communist-Marxists back to the landfill from which they came

 

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What have Biden and the Democrats Given Us?

"Peter" has some thoughts on Biden and the Democrats.

 

What have Biden and the Democrats Given Us?

1. By shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline and declining to issue drilling permits, forcing the US to start importing oil, they have given us dramatically higher gas prices.
2. By driving up fuel costs, they have given us higher prices on anything that requires manufacturing or shipping, which is just about everything.
3. Through Biden’s Department of Education, they have coerced our schools to include critical race theory and project 1619 as part of the regular curricula for students and as part of teacher’s training.
4. They have given us mandates for vaccinations that have caused hundreds of thousands of people who object to lose their jobs.
5. They have spent trillions of dollars they don’t have, causing inflation approaching ten percent. That costs the average taxpayer $8,450 per year in lost buying power.
6. They have dramatically weakened our military by underfunding and spending the military’s money on social programs such as food, health care, housing and education for illegal aliens.
7. They have driven up the number of criminals and crime statistics with “woke” policies, such as defunding the police, releasing suspects without requiring bail and releasing convicts, even murderers, from prisons.
8. They have politically weaponized the FBI and DOJ, with Democrats never facing indictments and Republicans harassed, harangued, persecuted and prosecuted mercilessly.
9. They have politically weaponized the media, social platforms and the entertainment industry to influence public opinion against anyone who is conservative, a Republican, a gun owner or a supporter of former POTUS Donald Trump.

Everyone should ask themselves whether they were better off under Trump and the Republicans or Biden and the Democrats. The answer should be obvious to anyone with common sense.

 

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Patriotism

"Peter" has some thoughts on Patriotism.

The typical U.S. household headed by a person aged 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday.

 

They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are "Baby Boomers" getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days, and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God, and have grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.

 

In school we studied English, history, math, and science, which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don't know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.

We are probably considered old fashioned and outdated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam. We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn't fight for the Socialist States of America; we fought for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag.

 

We know the words to the “Star Spangled Banner,” “America,” and “America the Beautiful” by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books, and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America.

 

Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country, and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.

 

It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama, and now Biden, and the Democratic Congress You fell for the "Hope and Change" which in reality was nothing but "Hype and Lies." You youngsters have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face and have found you don't like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or "Climbing the Social Ladder" to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting.

 

 Many of those who fell for the "Great Lie" in 2008 and 2020 are now having buyer's remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn't have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the 'Kool-Aid.' Now you're paying the price and complaining about it; no jobs, lost mortgages, higher gasoline prices, higher taxes, inflation, shortages, and less freedom.

 

This is what you voted for, and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty, and you traded it for a paycheck and a new favorite car.

 

Well, don't worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here, and in the mid-term 2022 and in 2024 elections we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like, but we get where we're going, and in 2022 and 2024 we're going to the polls by the millions.

 

This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, etc. It belongs to "We the People," and "We the People" plan to reclaim our land and our freedom.

We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren.

 

So, the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers who saved your bacon.

Embarrassed America

"Peter" has thoughts on the current state of America.

When I was growing up in the forties and fifties everyone was a patriot. Coming out of WWII the nation was united as never before. People helped one another. People respected law enforcement. People respected press reporters. People respected teachers.

In the sixties numbers of Communist influenced college instructors began to try teaching their students to hate America. The Soviet Union provided support and propaganda to these America haters and soon their numbers swelled. Many of them became teachers in middle and high schools, where they influenced a generation of young Americans to question U.S. history and the founding of this nation.

Today we see the lasting effects of the Communist propaganda in “Critical Race Theory” and “Project 1619” popping up in public schools across the country. The title “Patriot” has become an insult to many, as is MAGA, which stands for Make America Great Again. Why would anyone in their right mind think that was a bad thing, unless they hated America? Whether you’re a Biden or a Trump supporter, you should want to make America great again.

Democrat cities are burning down, with murders, robberies and arson at historic highs. Gas prices are at historic highs. Inflation rates are at historic highs. It is no coincidence that we now have a President who is an America hater. When Biden travels overseas, which he is doing more and more, he embarrasses America with his stupidity and gaffes. We all feel embarrassed, whether we admit it or not. We are losing our pride. We are more divided than we have been since the Civil War.

The Republicans in office have failed to aggressively fight Biden’s anti-American policies. The leaders are old and tired. Some have smoked the propaganda, such as Liz Cheney. The coming Red Wave needs to wash out many RINO Republicans, along with the Democrats. Don’t settle for incompetence!

 

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An Empire in Decline

 

By Don Feder

Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?

In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.

Nations too have seasons. Imagine a Roman of the 2^nd. century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever.

Forever was about 500 years, give or take.

France was the thing in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. Now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19^th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire. Now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population is aging so rapidly, that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1946, almost at the midpoint of the 20^th century – the American century.  America’s prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks to the Greatest Generation, we won a World War fought over most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.

It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity. We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world.

We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and COVID.  We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA, the blueprint  of life.

But where is the glory that once was Rome?

America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well nowhere in the world. We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year.

Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, Dr. Jill had to lead him like a child.

In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble  nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.

We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds.

We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5^th graders could pass a generation ago.

Crime rates soar and we blame the 2^nd. Amendment and slash police budgets.

Our culture is certifiably insane. We have men who marry men. Men who think they’re women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.”

We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year.

Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality.

Our “entertainment” is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.

Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.

A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.

We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.

How meekly most submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks and hand sanitizers) shows the death of the American spirit.

How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?

• Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win
• Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay
• Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde
• Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
• Allowing indoctrination of the young
• Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy
• Losing national identity
• Indulging indolence
• Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks social order.

In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.

Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?

I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.

This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.

During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, “Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.”

The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?

While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.