EDUCATION REFORM 101

HEADLINE: "High School Considers Removing George Washington Murals Because They ‘Traumatize’ Students"

It never ends, does it...

Want to solve the problem of over-sensitive snowflakes? Easy. Fire the propagandists who teach them, the revisionist writers who compose their textbooks--and, of course, the Superintendent and School Board. THEN, take over or otherwise direct your childrens' education. It's called good parenting 101. Do nothing and you doom your indoctrinated children to endless failure and, in many cases, probably suicide. And the fate of the country will be sealed as well.

(“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” -Vladimir Lenin)

CHALLENGE: SEEING THE DANGER AS IT REALLY IS

Among the decent, the natural inclination is to downplay, make excuses for, or even ignore evil, choosing instead to reserve judgement on the extent and reality of that evil's destructiveness until sufficient proof of that evil is so overwhelming as to be painfully unmistakable. For me, Islamic jihadis, radical white supremacist terrorists, authoritarians and the modern Democrat Party, aka Democratic Socialists, have more than clearly demonstrated their malicious intent. And since subversion of decency and liberty are the telltale signs of that evil, then it behooves us all to see it as it really is.

Yes, many of their leaders and followers have been blinded by their thirst for political power alone, and still others have simply become unhinged, misled and addled by the relentless and highly effective barrage of nihilistic Leftist propaganda over the years. But this must be clear to all who value peace, harmony and individual freedom: the "modern Democrat Party" has morphed into a malignant cancer which, if permitted to further metastasize in a free society which was born of an abiding belief in the value of individual freedom, will spell the end of individual Liberty, Capitalism and all other liberating and empowering natural forces for which humanity has always hungered and only by which it may flourish.

In short, the Democrat Party is no longer the JFk party, and hasn't been the JFK party for quite some time. Thus, awakened to the clear and present danger which the modern Democrat Party has become, and as wisely counseled by our Founders and buoyed by a healthy regard for our own survival as a free people, we are each duty-bound to ensure that the modern Democrat Party is not just resisted, but hobbled and ultimately excised from the body politic.

WILL TRUMP MESS UP HIS RECORD?

I know this will fall on deaf ears and blinded eyes. It may anger both Lefties AND patriots. But, here it is. The President appears to be prepared to violate the Constitution. Though I have been lauding him for his sterling record of faithfulness to date, I fear his likely deal with anti-constitutionalists Nancy and Chuck may jeopardize his law-abiding record.

The inconvenient truth, folks, is that the $1 - $2T infrastructure proposal is both unaffordable and unconscionably unconstitutional. I read and re-read the Constitution, specifically Articles I and II. I also consulted relevant Federalist papers by Monroe and Hamilton to tease forth at least a minimally convincing lawful justification for such a profligate project. Sorry, but an infrastructure bill, no matter how noble in intent, cannot be constitutionally justified. And even if infrastructure spending were justified and within the authority of the federal government, how in hell can a country already awash in gargantuan, unsustainable debt afford it?

So, how do the feds get around this problem? Our founders designed a solution. Congress would need to invoke Art V to amend the Constitution in a manner which would permit such expenditures. In his Farewell Address, Washington warned us that if we want the fed gov’t to have a power the Constitution doesn’t delegate to it, then we should amend the Constitution to delegate that new power – we must NOT allow the feds to exercise a power by usurpation.

Deeply disappointed. These days it requires super-human integrity and faithfulness to fully live up to one's Oath of Office. Tragic.

Recognizing We Have a Problem is the First Step

What Americans are confronting today is the cumulative effect of over a century of Progressive, aka Marxist, subversion. Aping Mao's Great Leap Forward and the Soviet's endless Five Year Plans, from Pres. Wilson's euphemistic New Freedom, FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, the alien ideological onslaught has been intensive and extremely effective.

In truth, the societal and political transformation we've undergone has been nothing short of traumatic and cause for clamorous alarms. 

It's taken a long time for the Progressives to indoctrinate, misinform, muddle and undermine our values, traditions and institutions, and their subversive attempts have been remarkably successful. Just look around. However, we do have an ace in the hole: most mainstream Americans have now awakened to this diabolical threat to our Liberty and our economic freedom and vitality. Clearly recognizing that there is a well-defined and potentially devastating threat poised against us is the first step to redemption.

Subversion of Our Immigration System is Deliberate

THINK ABOUT IT. While it's understandable and, I believe, constitutionally justifiable to invoke his emergency authority per Art IV Sec 4, Art I Sec 9 Cl 1, Art II Sec 2, Art I Sec 8, 15, 16 to stop the "invasion" on the southern border, Trump must know that walls are but band-aids intended to stanch the heavy bleeding but that they do not address the underlying causes of the border crisis. 

The real fix is in enforcing employer sanctions on those employers who hire illegal aliens (something the "US" Chamber of Commerce will continue to resist and hate), ridding the system of catch-and-release, and subjecting ALL illegal entrants to arrest, detention and/or imprisonment, as appropriate. Any illegal re-entries must entitle those entrants to a nice cell in a federal prison and immediate deportation after serving his/her time. And no more "alternative detention" scenarios which effectively permit illegals to hole up in internal "detention" situations far from the border where they are allowed to await judicial review of their asylum claims. We all know what happens to 98% of these illegals: they remain in the country permanently. There must also be a strict accounting of visa overstays and an aggressive effort to locate and either imprison or deport them. 

For a variety of greedy economic and self-serving political reasons, our so-called "immigration system" is deliberately designed by politicians and their business lobbyists/donors to encourage illegal entries. Cheap labor and future voters. SO, let's not get our hopes up too high on the effectiveness of the wall. Ultimately, the "system" itself must be shaken out and the deliberately laid mine fields removed.

UNITY AT "ANY" PRICE?

A number of folks have asked me what I meant by my words, "Unity at ANY price is suicidal." It's really quite simple:

If union alone is the goal of Americans, and not the safeguarding of our traditions, the principles of dual state-federal sovereignty, limited federal authority, and protecting our liberties, then what good is such a union to a free man.

It is also important to note that our framers never suggested we would be--or, logically, should be--an "indivisible union", indivisibility being a fatuous and revisionist notion injected into our thinking in the early 20th century by a socialist. In fact, understanding the innate corruption of man, the consensus among our founders was that the republic they created would likely not last much beyond 1825. In truth, original meaning and intent were already under siege from the earliest years of our republic. Add Lincoln's War in 1861 and relentless Progressive subversion since the early 20th century and you have a constitutional republic in its death throes. In short , for over 150 years we've been spiraling into constitutional disorder and lurching toward authoritarianism.

So, that's what I mean by those words which, with each passing day, sound increasingly more painfully relevant. And, very frankly, I'm too old to embrace my overly optimistic Pollyanna side, a puerile facet which is always so readily inclined to ignore the menacing and divisive ideological winds besetting us and our once seemingly indestructible constitutional republic. For me, there is some special comfort and wisdom in dealing with reality. Unity at ANY price really is suicidal.

SOCIALISM AND SECESSION

GRAB A CUP OF COFFEE AND READ this amazingly spot-on article by the scholarly Abbeville Institute. As teasers, I offer these two short paragraphs from the article which, for many years now, perfectly mirrors my own viewpoints in this matter. Take heed, folks. And with the enactment of the National Popular Vote proceeding at a rapid pace among blue states, we may be closer to realizing our national fate, for better or worse, than any us could have imagined. For me, successful passage of the NPV interstate compact, a Progressive initiative quietly underway now for some time which obliterates the Electoral College, will surely seal our fate, one way or the other. Best we be fully prepared for any eventuality. For too long now, we've scurried around stanching the endless bleeding on every front, essentially plugging a damn which is about to burst, and hoping against hope that it will all somehow work out for the best, with or without our own active engagement. My humble advice: best we jettison the Pollyanna in us and focus on the likely irremediably foundational mess we are now in. Clearly see that our "fight", while noble indeed, is very likely in vain. Anyway, read on, please.

"Are we not living in a geographical entity officially called the United States of America where verifiably there are TWO Americas, TWO conceptions of what is real and what is not real, TWO ideas of what is moral and what is not, TWO views about Truth and Error, TWO visions about using whatever means is available to reach a desired and posited end (which for one of these groups is the creation of a brutal, vicious and soulless “utopia” that would make Joe Stalin’s Communism seem like Disneyland in comparison)?

"Words—“devil terms”—now pop up with amazing regularity and frequency: “racism,” “white privilege,” “sexism,” “toxic masculinity,” “equality,” “democracy,” and so on. And these terms have been weaponized and are now employed by those on the Left—but also by many elitist movement conservatives (“conservatism inc.”)—to disauthorize, condemn, and damn anyone who would actually oppose the rapid Leftward spiral of what remains of this nation."

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