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AFTERMATH

It has been Prudent to wait for some of the dust to clear before applying a little Prudence to the new political, economic and governmental landscape dumped so unceremoniously upon the World, U.S. included.  Trump, a bit quieter but no more polished than in 2017, has returned.  If he generated a big wake, rocking many boats, rafts and canoes, it has had no moderating influence on his march to and through the sea.  A lot of the upset is good and long overdue.  The proto-communists and outright Islamists were in power somewhat, leading up to the Biden Carbuncle on the flow of culture.  Wiser heads – and hearts – have prevailed.

But, not perfectly. 

Within the ranks of Trump’s new friends and fawns there are many who act and speak as though the landscape has changed so much that they expect to be able to try any manner of different ways to govern.  Indeed, many seem to think that careful reflection upon new ideas is no longer needed in the presence of a “mandate” that is as ephemeral as any of Hamas’ agreements with the Israelis.  Not many minds have changed about any individual’s relationship to his or her national, federal government.  Allegiances that shifted for very personal, economic or victimization reasons, can shift away just as quickly.  Those of us who see the transition as transformation, should step back emotionally and politically and recognize our limitations… something Trump and those closest to him, have yet to do.

We think we are at the beginning of a revolution in America’s attitudes, but, reaching the next milestone – or millstone – will compare not to ploughing ahead through molasses, but more to moving step by torturous step through taffy, as courts have already demonstrated.

Trump’s rapid and brash actions, basically telling even mild opponents that his, Trump’s, recommendation / threat is the only way to go, may make for some great “MAGA” but at some point – soon – it’s going to meet an immovable object / opponent.  One can almost feel potential opponents calculating when each will show the world, before someone else does, how to buck Trump’s steamroller.  It would be Prudent to win these small battles fairly quietly, perhaps with a back-channel “thank-you” to those who acquiesce.  The path will be much smoother for future cooperation.

Donald… Mr. President, you have made your point… don’t get hung up on it.

“Cabinet” nominees are gaining confirmation at the rate of one or two per day, and the Senate has even worked the first weekend, something its members are barely familiar with.  They should work in a restaurant.  Trump has curated an eclectic group comprised of several “automatics” who have no vulnerabilities, and a number of “threats” who promise to change how business is done, both in hiring and firing and in mission and purpose, if “both” can apply to 4 promises.  With Trump setting the path and pace of change, all of his nominees appear to be ready to effect change according to the Trump vision.  We’ll have to see if such is the case 6 months from now.

Biden and his controllers – scoundrels nearly all – have left administrative and quasi-legal messes behind themselves as they scoot into obscurity, not least of which are military weakness and financial infirmity.  Ebullience like Trump’s will crash, more than bump, into fiscal reality.  In short, if two TRILLION in spending cuts are not found quickly, our economy may not have the resilience to drag Biden’s ball-and-chain across the starting line of the race to a Golden Age.  Elon Musk may admit that rocketry is more certain, and rewarding, than dueling with the deep administrative state and perpetual debt.  Let’s hope that every billion counts.

Our military weakness is going to hamper Trump’s dominance on the world stage.  Joe Biden’s allowing of every small (and large) nation to modify our foreign policies over the past four years, leaves the U. S. and Trump, specifically, in an odd, never-before-experienced position.  The bar on border control / security, and on law-enforcement generally, was pushed so low that just the act of replacing Biden and the other anal openings in his “administration” has made it seem that Trump has changed the world for the better and, worse, that he is right about everything.  This is dangerous.

Suppose, God forbid, that Harris-Walz had won.  The whole leftist movement would have been convinced that it was RIGHT about everything!  They/It would then have doubled down on everything Americans feared.  There’s an element of this reaction as Trump and Company takes over: everything that is the opposite of what Biden did is “good,” and more of it will be better.  But, we really don’t have the power that attitude implies and great international damage can be done if DJT doesn’t admit to his, and the U. S.’s limitations.  If he plays things carefully and somewhat… ummm, kindly, we might say, we could be approaching the position he thinks he has, now, by the end of his term.  Meanwhile, we’re in a tenuous position, able to bully Colombia, and perhaps Panama and even Iran, let’s hope, but without a much more formidable military stick, few others.

Trump has a view of who, or what, the United States ought to be relative to the rest of the world.  Putting him in the Whaite House affirms to him and his closest allies, that his view of the rest of American history is the right one.  While far, far better than the Obama-Biden relay-race toward darkness and communism, the rightness of Trump’s view is far from confirmed.  Some countries – and economies – may be malleable as the sleeping giant awakens… others, not so much.  One way or another, the new space demanded by Trump’s desires will have to accommodate to the wills of 200 other nations.

Will Trump end the war in Ukraine?… or in Israel?  Can he strike a deal with Denmark and Greenland to protect North America from encroachments across the Arctic by Russia and China?  We’ll see as he dispatches his bright minds to the hot-spots we’ve inherited.  What is likely useless and needlessly irritating is poking fun at Canada. 

There is a “new sheriff” in town, but the miscreants will adapt.  God save us.

Christianity Matters

CHRISTIANITY MATTERS

For those who fail, intentionally or ignorantly, or intentionally ignorantly, to grasp that the peoples of Earth are engaged in a fundamental, spiritual war for which there is no mechanism of compromise, it’s time to wake up.  I am sorry for the shock to which you may shortly awaken, but it is real and unavoidable.  Hinduism and the “Law of Karma” teach that life – and Earth itself – is a test of our individual spirits.  It also teaches, like Christianity and Judaism and virtually every other religious belief system, that there is an “afterlife” where the soul, or spirit, survives in some sort of relationship with God, the Great Spirit, Brahman… even with Allah.  Religiously, this belief – or hope – is nearly universal. 

Writings about humanity’s creation, evolution and ultimate destination go back for thousands of years… like the Bible, the Vedas, and tens of thousands of prehistoric paintings, drawings, hieroglyphs, carvings and traditions.  Some are quite detailed about the technology required to get to “heaven,” others about the spiritual mechanisms for the trip.  There is a path for everyone.

Sadly, it seems Prudent to say, millions of people have convinced themselves that religion is a hoax and since they have figured that out, the conflicts within and between religions have no connection to them nor impact on their lives.  They seem to believe that the only purpose of life and lifetimes is to find as much human comfort and pleasure as possible, and that the measure of “success” is the level of toys and pleasures accumulated before death, and by how much may be “left” to their descendants.  Basically, if they cannot see, touch, taste or feel something, it must not exist.  While “pragmatic,” that belief is not Prudent.

Lately the news is consumed by kinetic actions initiated by the Hamas terror organization and the reactions, using superior force and methods, by Israel.  We should all step back and review the far larger efforts, worldwide, to unseat religion and God, Himself.  The goal of global Communism is no less than the elimination of freedom and its conjoined relationships of individuals with God.  The “World Economic Forum” is clever at reducing all of life’s concerns to financial relationships, and so is Communism and the various layers of socialism that claim to be only sympathetic to the underprivileged.  Even churches, including the Catholic Church and the current Pope, have forgotten the difference between charity, which is guided by a spiritual willingness to sacrifice for others, and socialism, that steals the resources of others by police power, in order to distribute it to certain groups whose political support may be “purchased” by “government” benefits.

Charity increases spiritual awareness and purity of thought.  It may also serve to “balance” bad karma created by negative actions for which an individual is forever responsible.  The Christian Bible teaches the same lesson as the Hindu law of Karma: “…whatsoever a man soweth, so shall he also reap.”  In simpler terms we might say that one cannot “sow” socialism and “reap” salvation.  That is, people who tell themselves that socialist dependency is some wonderfully charitable work, are lying to themselves as they lie to everyone else.  Nothing good can come from a foundation of lies.  Communists and others who promote the separation of everyone from religious faith, including liars like the World Economic Forum, are attempting to take the place of a spiritual creator-God.  At the same time they propose to replace the freedom and responsibility of truth with the imprisonment of rules, such that following the rules eliminates the sacrificial blessings of responsibility.

The battles against honesty and truth are taking place daily in our schools, our government(s) agencies, our colleges and universities and in the houses of representation in municipalities, in states and in the federal Congress… as well as in Gaza, Israel, Lebanon and Iran and Davos, Ukraine, Russia, China and North Korea.  Ultimately, the goals coalesce into one: the demise of America and the destruction of Judeo-Christianity, itself.

America, amidst great pressure to do so – including federal grants – is setting aside God, Christ and the fundamental honesty of Old and New Testament teachings… honesty that permeates our legal and commercial structures, at least in their founding and design.  The apparent trustworthy nature of America and Americans enabled the U. S. to become the heroic savior of Europe with our soldiers welcomed and trusted.  We were able to expunge Nazism and Japanese militarism at nearly the same time.  Little did we know that strategic and domestic lying had become federal policy.  Indeed, over the next 75 years the American people were among the least-informed while foreign governments and news organizations reported to their populations information about what the U. S. was actually doing internationally.  The federal Congress also transformed during this period, to one of the least trustworthy bodies in history.

Do we, Americans, comprehend what has been done to our heritage?  What is still being done at an accelerated rate during the Obama and Biden administrations?  Freedom, free speech, freedom of religion, equal application of the laws and, ostensibly, honest representation of our interests through democratic (honest) elections, comprise our culture.  So do free enterprise and ownership of private property and the ABSENCE OF LIMITS OTHER THAN WILL, INTITIATIVE, CAPABILITY AND HONESTY from attaining wealth and status.  The basis of all of it is Christianity in its purest intent.  We have turned away from our culture.  We deny our beliefs and our individual responsibility to them.  We refuse to pass our culture on to our children while we abort hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, and then wonder how it is that children grow up to kill one another. 

Sometimes fortunately, the world reacts to or reflects the attitudes and actions of the United States.  We have a dominant ability to communicate, and we are open enough to broadcast, literally, the evils we practice or allow, the foolishness we practice or allow, and the foul ideas we teach, encourage and vote into law.  The world can watch Americans and their government lie about everything from COVID infections, so-called vaccines, climate change, “fossil” fuels, genders, elections, history and economics, wars and foreign policies.  Then other nations are amazed as emissaries from the U. S. attempt to lie to them while encouraging others to govern themselves like Americans!  At the same time, Americans are rejecting their own form of government (two exclamation points!!)

Many U. S. citizens try to find comfort in the diaphanous idea that underneath it all there are people in the federal administrative structure that are managing things and keeping us safe.  Yet, little by little, we keep finding out that the bureaucracy has been lying to the citizenry, too… while scraping away our freedoms regulation by regulation, un-legislated rule by un-legislated rule.  Is this our “culture?”  Is this what brave and courageous Americans have fought and died for since Lexington Green?

We can track the socialist, even Communist assault on the principles of America’s founding, but we don’t spend much effort to expose the simultaneous assault on religion, especially Christianity.  The decline of “Americanism” has paralleled the decline of Christianity and Christian education.  The adoption of multiple evils as sources of revenue for governments out-pictures our cultural decline with sad clarity, as does the maintenance of addictions and homelessness.

Few recognize the threat to our independence and sovereignty that is resulting from these trends.  With politics and elections trusted less and less and less, and crime left unpunished by those elected, Americans are more and more accepting of the election – or presence by other means – of a strong leader who will “clean things up.”  The dangers of imposing the states of emergency or martial law are not always recognized as things start to get “cleaned up,” but sidestepping the Constitution for whatever supposed benefit is the ultimate danger.  Ours is a Constitutional Culture, as it were, and that is best described as a society where people make the rules limiting their government(s).  It is dependent upon a level of integrity and statesmanship in our elected representatives at every level.  That system has broken down.

We are challenged, now, to restore the principles upon which we were founded and, just as crucially, to restore our moral practices and beliefs.  What forces can be applied to shift so many directions?  Individually, we can improve ourselves and there are hundreds of self-help programs that might assist.  But, what about the “sins” we have codified as “rights?”  Is there a role for government in undoing the rush to replaces rights with licentiousness?  Or, can our “governors” be made to shift commercial activity away from our Communist enemies?  More simply, can tax laws be redirected to encourage marriage and families?

Somehow, probably including amendment to our Constitution, we have to establish a cleaner, less-drugged, less-addicted, less-debauched society that stands not for the victimization of every practitioner of destructive behaviors, but for the very best humans can be and for a future of greatness, growth, innovation… and hope.

We cannot make it if we continue to allow our people to weaken themselves and our purpose.