Lest We Forget the History of Fallen Nations

 

Just thinking... Cuba’s Fidel Castro had price controls, and people starved for lack of sustenance. China’s Mao Zedong mandated price controls and people starved for lack of sustenance. Russia’s Joseph Stalin established price controls and people starved for lack of sustenance. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro instituted price controls and people are starving for lack of sustenance... Beware the future of a nation’s citizenry whose leaders set in place restrictions and enforce the restrictions on who gets what and for how much and from whom they get it from... It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights; the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of vassalage, oppression, slavery... the hay and a barn for human cattle. Lest we forget the history of fallen nations, those awaiting their demise that came before us who yielded to the far left of government restrictions and domination. “When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education... the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint... It is not necessary to do violence to such a people to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold... they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.” Metaphorically speaking, what was true yesterday is true today and will be true tomorrow, regardless of who conclusively champions it. Do you think Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian, hit the nail on the head when he stated, “Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”

Just Thinking... Inconsistent and Par for The Course

Just thinking... The poll numbers show that it’s a real phenomenon. There’s a lot of drivel about the shadowy forces of “BlueAnon”, but this isn’t a movement. It’s just what happens when you get your reality from social media. It’s also what happens when a society no longer has any concept of objective truth and people just pick whatever truth fits their preconceptions. It is said that one in three is just an early assessment of where people get their facts from which translates into their truth. Now that there’s a whole infrastructure of grafter’s aka, con artists ‘analyzing videos frame by frame’, doing ""substacks" and podcasts on it, then followed by books describing it as the new Reichstag fire, expect those numbers to climb even higher. The media destroyed its credibility through relentless partisan bias not just for conservatives, but also for much of the public. A culture of lying set in along with online conspiracy grifters and nuts who make mega bucks from social media. But while it’s easy to take shots at “Ear Truthers”, is this any more bizarre than Democrats and the media insisting for years that Vladimir Putin engineered, better stated, rigged the 2016 election with Facebook ads and controlled Trump through videos of pee peeing prostitutes? It’s certainly no crazier and perhaps actually less crazy. If you believe, as Democrats claim to, that Vladimir is running Trump through a series of conspiracies, this makes perfect sense. It’s the media that chooses to draw the line at one insane conspiracy, but not another, which is being inconsistent and par for the course.

In Past Times Maybe but Not so Much Today

In times past, the Olympic games were the most elite athletic event in the world. Not so much today. For years, we have applauded our world-class female athletes. Remember Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mary Lou Retton, Katie Ledecky, Simone Biles...  They’re legends of which movies are made of. Their resolution, achievements, and grit made us proud to be Americans, showcasing skill and discipline that took years of blood, sweat, tears and years to cultivate. Young girls looked up to them and were inspired to pursue their own dreams. But what if Jackie had been forced to race against men? Or Mary had been forced to compete against men? Or Katie had been forced to swim against men? Or Biles forced to compete against male gymnasts. What if, after all their years of training and imagining, their accolades had been taken away because they were forced to compete against men? For today’s Olympians, this could become a reality. Powerful institutions in our country and around the world have embraced radical ideology to the detriment of the privacy, safety, and fairness of our girls. Sadly, the media, schools, universities, and even our federal government, to include presidential candidate, Kamala Harris have bought into a lie, and they want the rest of us to live according to this prevaricate, too: that’s what makes us men or women is our own identity, not how God created us.