This is the year. 2022 has been forced by the left to be the fulcrum of history. The perception of the left in 2020, faced with the likelihood of Trump’s re-election, was that the field was finally fertile enough to sow Communism (under a variety of euphemisms) in the sharply divided and guilt-ridden, formerly United States. Cities were collapsing in 2020, “Black Lives Matter” had coordinated with thousands of weirdos, “antifa” thugs and students and other youth who had been taught to hate our nation and history. The time seemed right to pull the trigger on revolution… besides, the media and a strange congress had many municipal leaders so consumed with hatred for Donald Trump and the Americanism he represented, that they too, agreed with “BLM” and allowed rioting in the name of myriad hatreds to destroy their communities.
The demise of George Floyd provided the spark as if written into a script. If Derek Chauvin had not been so incredibly stupid, some other event would have happened, some other black man would have conflicted with police and drawn fire while unarmed. Then his family would have become millionaires and Nancy Pelosi and a bunch of other dopes would have kneeled in the rotunda in that man’s memory, while the same cities – and hopes – burned.
The left engineered the answer to a big wish of theirs: dumping Donald Trump. We can begin to grasp what leftists really have for an end-game, when we dissect their hatreds, and their hatred for Trump – and trump supporters – is instructive. Trump, they decry, is a “populist,” which is to say, he only goes with what is “popular.” “Populist,” however, actually means being a member of the “Populist Party,” which gained traction in the late 19th century over issues like initiating an income tax, public ownership of utilities, support for unionization to counter the power of large corporations and banks, and support for fair returns for farmers. As a “people’s” party, the Populists were seeking to balance economic freedom for small business and workers, against the explosion of industrial growth and price-fixing power of industrial and financial trusts. Many of these issues were assumed by Progressives and the “Trust-Busters” in the first decade of the 20th century.
The more meaningful approbation of Trump is that of “Nationalist.” This is supposedly terrible, and likened to Nazism, ostensibly because Hitler was a nationalist. “America First” became pejorative in the view of leftists. So, what is the alternative goal? Globalism: the dissolution of national identities and, therefore, national heritage and culture. Destruction of American culture was the primary effect of 2020 lawlessness. It seemed to have many allies, one of whom is now president. What were/are they thinking?
Anti-nationalism has only one goal, globalist, one-world government. Is there any reason to expect that one-world government will be based on the American, Constitutionally limited model? We can learn a lot from the last 50 years of United Nations “enlightenment.” The vaunted U. N. was a creation of liberals and leftists who sold war-weary Americans on the image of diverse peoples all getting along to spread peace, democracy and the end of hunger around the world. Communists never accepted those premises, nor did other kinds of tyrants… nor Nazi-enflamed fundamentalist Muslims. To poorer nations it was a way to get money from the United States; to Communists a way to weaken the United States, to Muslims, a way to get the U. S. to pay for oil for poorer nations while weakening Christianity.
Within a very short time the U. N. became an excusatory congress for the U. S. policy of containing Communism, and we were thrust into the Korean Conflict for that stated purpose, but at its heart that war was an excuse to pit the U. S. against the Soviet Union and, ultimately, against communist China, while weakening the only super-power. It was the first war we won by losing: a new experience for the greatest generation.
Right on its heels the globalist C.I.A. and State Department leftists concocted what became the Viet-Nam War, the scars of which have never healed. Still ostensibly “containing” Communism, the U. S. consumed about a $Trillion dollars (back when a Billion dollars was a lot of money) and destroyed Americans’ faith in their military. So many lies were told about the conduct and success of that stupid conflict, that the Army had to hire hundreds of paid dissemblers to keep up with the flow. Again, we lost by winning, and were shamed.
Since Viet-Nam we have embarked on numerous military adventures, most of which are unknown to Americans and better grasped by other nations, including our enemies, of which there is a considerable list. At the same time we have exhausted our credit line with policies of welfare, corporate, family and personal, international and more. Nine administrations and 18 Congresses have seen fit to overspend – not at declining but at INCREASING rates. We now have commitments that cannot be met, and devaluing the currency is the final effect. Americans are seeking a political solution to a philosophical deficit: we have accepted the blandishments of socialists and communists for 60 years and mismanaged our industrial base so badly that we can barely afford to defend ourselves, much less project power to constrain tyrants. Freedom is shrinking, everywhere.
Americans have swayed from responsibility to licentiousness, forswearing God and religion, turning instead to the perpetual debt-creation of government. We are not able to sacrifice for a better future as our parents and grandparents did, automatically. We have a plethora of foolish rights… and fewer freedoms. The freedoms remaining are under assault, now that we have elected a tyrant of our own.
So, 2022 poses a host of problems that took a long time to gestate, but which need to be corrected in very short order. It will take sacrifice on everyone’s part. America has never been invaded, discounting the War of 1812, and we have not felt the devastation and losses of war. But a war is brewing, here amongst us, and a welfare check won’t stave it off. What do Americans have to do, now? Learn Mandarin?
More than once over the past eight years we have considered our ballooning debt. For the past two years elements of our deep state, agencies of the National Institutes of Health, elected leftists, George Soros’ minions and Communist China, have conspired to hobble capitalism about as rapidly as has ever been done – our hobbling of ourselves not having proceeded as quickly as they’d liked. Brutal lockdowns and debt-defying welfare payments to locked out workers and free-loaders, fearful school closings and now mandated injections of ersatz vaccines or firings – even in the military and emergency domestic personnel – have stripped our workforce and businesses of the people needed to produce our goods and productive surplus. We are broke and rushing to become poorer…, well, except for a few multi-billionaire-global merchants and money manipulators. We have given up the capitalist opportunity society for an oligarchy of wealth and severe stratification into the rakers, the makers, the takers and the fakers.
Even more effectively, we have turned the “vaxxed” into haters of the “unvaxxed,” while formerly trustworthy doctors and hospitals, in thrall to the pharmaceutical manufacturers, have started denying medical care to those who choose to not be injected with mRNA poisons, whose safety and efficacy have been unknown, only now being revealed as neither safe nor effective. Our barely recognizable “government’s” only offering is dissolution of the constitution and further expansion of the debt by another couple of $Trillion. God save us.
It appears that a massive shift in political alignment is in the offing for the mid-term elections, but so what? We are teetering, contemplating a preposterous war1 and swearing at one another. Society is rending itself as it awaits the next free-delivery of goodies and gadgets from Amazon Prime and GrubHub, no longer even bothering to cook for ourselves. We’ve demonized smokers, and glorified tokers. Will changing control of Congress mean a tinker’s dam? What do we expect a powerful new Congress to do?
Will a Republican congress cut the federal budget? Will it use its “power of the purse” to force enforcement of the Constitution and of laws? Will it impeach scurrilous Joe Biden? Will it pursue exposure of the deep state and various collusions and corruptions that seem to have happened? Will it force a complete house-cleaning at the Department of Justice? Will it impeach Merrick Garland on Constitutional grounds? Will it stop raising the debt “ceiling?” Will it undue a host of bad laws and regulations? Will Republicans eliminate clearly racist distinctions in the application of laws? Will it pass a budget? Will it resist any legislation of more than say, 30 or 40 pages in length? Will it prevent the back-door passage of unrelated “wants” that certain Reps or Senators want to attach to true “needs” legislation? Do we think either House will reform itself for the benefit of citizens or in defense of Constitutional rights and freedoms? Given the last 40 or 50 years of congressional history, all these hopes… indeed, ANY of these, seems like a long shot.
We saw, upon the surprise election of both leftist and somewhat questionable Democrat Senators from Georgia, that the Democrat party was poised to push through utterly radical policies. Indeed, their virulent attempts to “reset” American Constitutionality would lead patriots to accept the plausibility of concerted efforts to steal the presidential – and other – elections in 2020, in order to get the “reset” underway. It, the rabid intensity for replacing the American system, seems to not be politics, anymore; it is no longer based on how to best represent the needs of the American people, but rather a mission to undo the last bastion of freedom in favor of a Chinese-led global tyranny.
The question, then, aside from “will we descend into war over Ukraine,” is how radically, how rabidly will the Pelosi-Schumer Democrats breach the bounds of law, custom and ethics to achieve victory in the mid-terms? They have shown, repeatedly, that free and fair elections cannot be depended upon to maintain their majority in either house.
Consequently, given the building expectation of a Republican sweep of the mid-term elections, the threat to a Democrat majority anywhere is also building. Watching the criminality guiding the Biden administration along our southern border, and the willingness of Merrick Garland to abridge the Bill of Rights, the threat to the survival of the United States will likely be experienced in 2022. There is no one to our West who will save democracy for US. We must save and defend it ourselves… right now.
1 There is really only one solution to the Ukraine standoff. With consequences for invasion on the table, the U. S. must reach out to Putin and President Zelensky, not at the same time or place, but close, to commence negotiations. Ukraine deserves respect, but not American blood. Biden or Blinken or one of their apologists must make clear to Zelensky that neither NATO, or an assemblage of European states is going to risk everything to defend Ukraine from the Russian juggernaut. Russia holds the military cards and killing thousands of them and more thousands of Ukrainians is not going to shift that balance materially.
Russia also must be respected, and assuaged. The U. S. must assure Putin in no uncertain terms that war will not ensue over Ukraine IF an acceptable condition of neutrality for Ukraine: neutrality with sovereignty, can be established that is acceptable to Ukraine and Russia. That may involve special trading status between those two nations, and sufficient flexibility for Ukraine to trade elsewhere as well. It will have to recognize the special status of Crimea as a military enclave for the Russian Navy with some rights of veto by Ukraine for other than agreed uses and operations there, perhaps with a 99-year “lease” of the peninsula. It could include a pact within which neither nation would take sides with any 3rd party against the other. It must also recognize the cultural distinctions of ethnic Russians resident in Ukraine, and possible changes in the acceptance of the Russian language within Ukraine.
There is a diplomatic path that the U. S. could broker and cause to be recognized by the European Union and NATO itself, including NATO’s firm rejection of membership by Ukraine and agreement by Ukraine to cease negotiations with or appeals to NATO. The U. S. should agree to recognize the neutrality of Ukraine and to lead the effort to have the rest of the U. N. similarly recognize the new status. Russia must agree to exercise no military provocation or threat to Ukraine and to recognize, unequivocally, its independence, neutrality and sovereignty. It’s possible. All alternatives to this framework are disastrous.