Amidst the anxiety, worry, fear and complete inversion of logic that comprises “Climate Change,” a sad failure of the heart is heard as gullible men and women who might create families, declare that they are afraid to bring children into this world which is doomed by the follies of pollution and fossil fuels. It should be a mental thing, but it’s not: it’s a function of gullibility that is divorced from clear thinking.
America cannot survive gullibility. Americans, more than citizens of any other nation, are OBLIGATED to study and understand the words, and the meaning of the words, and the philosophies supporting them… in our Constitution and other founding documents. The United States of America – those are words, too, and we are obligated to understand them just as clearly. Ours is a country with a role in history unlike every other. “United” tells us that we are OBLIGATED to share common laws and moral guidance. “States” tells us that our States are the structure of our nation, and our strength. Ours is not a national government, it’s a federal one, yet every scrap of legislation that Congress passes EXPANDS national power over the states and the people, when it should be doing only what the states cannot do for themselves. Words matter. Whoever – or whatever – attempts to change the meaning of words is announcing its willingness to confuse the polity and steal our ability to discuss, reason and understand.
What American voters have allowed, so far, is an administrative bureaucracy that makes itself appear to be so important – so vital to our ability to remain fed and comfortable – that threats to its power or existence, even of tiny slivers of it, are tantamount to Hitler’s Nazism. Minor interruptions, like temporary shutdowns until appropriations are approved by Congress, are described as imminent defaults on U. S. obligations and threats to every aspect of life from stocking grocery stores to providing health care and life-saving operations. Worse, a government shutdown is racist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynist… and no one wants to be any of those things, let alone the whole country!
What illogical nonsense. Yet, that is the definition of our “democracy,” today. The “democracy” that we must impoverish ourselves to protect around the world, yet do our best to undermine, here, despite the fact that we are a Republic… that employs democracy.
Are your children gullible? Possibly. Once ideological teachers have taught our kids to believe untrue things, the pathways of gullibility are established. If a first-grader believes the United States was founded upon racism in 1619, he or she can be led to believe that gender can be changed. Pretty soon they’ll believe that their parents are a threat that cannot be told that their son or daughter is changing to daughter or son. So, now it’s better to hide truths from parents. We can’t survive gullibility.
Education, essentially dominated by government schools and unionized teachers and staff, is the fundament of culture and citizenship. Along with language, math, geography, civics, science and a second language, the success of our nation requires that our children learn about our history, our founding, the ideas behind the Constitution and how it works, and basic economics. Turning out students who cannot read – at huge expense – puts our nation at risk; filling their heads with untruths and radical theories of race and biology is the opposite of what parents – and our nation – need teachers to do. Yet, as schools fail to educate, teachers’ unions dictate policies to management that increase costs, compensation and staffing while reducing accountability for teachers’ lack of results. The incredible refusals to work and teach during “COVID” can never be forgiven.
Have we the intestinal fortitude to correct the direction and OWNERSHIP of our so-called “public” education system? Can we place the management of public schools back into the hands of those we elect to manage them? Or will we go to our graves with leftist, virtually communist teachers’ unions operating this huge fraction of our government for their own benefit… not for the advancement of our children? Government employees should be severely restricted in their abilities to influence elections. As it is, politicians charged with financial management of all departments rely on unions to get themselves elected. They (the elected) then “negotiate” with unions for pay and benefits. Those who are charged with representing citizens wind up basically representing only the unionized, public employees. What a debilitating economic farce. Will we continue this? Or are there politicians with the courage to break it up and restore fairness, balance and honesty to our republican form of government?
We are $33 Trillion in debt. Clearly the past 6 decades of “representative” government has failed to manage the people’s business. We are on the path to insolvency and economic ruin when that day comes that other nations will refuse payment in dollars. This is a system our “representatives” created in our name. Now we have a poop-head as president who has invited SEVEN MILLION or more new welfare recipients, many of whom are actual criminals and terrorist threats to our nation, to our people. Shame on him and shame on all of us who voted for him in 2020. We knew he was a fool from his 40 years of history in the Senate and his 8 years as Obama’s V. P. We knew he was a public policy and foreign policy idiot, yet we dutifully followed his party’s directions. Now, we’re the fools.
Are we patriotic enough – still – to make wiser, more sensible, economically aware choices about who will represent us American citizens and who will be our President, representing all of us and our country? Or, are we so gullible that we will again elect a caricature of a leader and toadies who claim to be our representatives? How many of our Senators and “Representatives” are receiving money or gifts of some sort from China? More than one, for sure. Why do we re-elect them and then cede them power in their respective houses?
American citizens are the most powerful people on Earth. We can affect both domestic and foreign policies of our powerful government. Yet we continuously give up our unique rights in exchange for not being called names, and we continuously re-elect relatively ignorant and corrupt people to both state and federal offices – people who soon give up representing we, the People, and then learn to represent their personal interests by cooperating with other corrupt “representatives” who have learned how to steal, legally. Whenever they actually face their voters, these worthies tend to represent the government to us rather than the other way around, explaining why this or that policy position that got them elected, cannot be accomplished.
Are we awake enough in 2023 to exercise our Constitutional rights and powers to put in place a legislature that will actually force the executive swamp to do the right things? How is it that we couldn’t even get the border closed with a threat to shut down the government? How is it that the Biden administration thinks it is “American” to force expenses upon the States in the breaking of federal immigration laws? We ARE gullible, but, are we crazy?