And that brings me back to the hard times. We are very much living in those hard times now. Not in the sense that Americans are destitute and the economy is a broken husk as it was during the Depression. The economy is actually doing fairly well, but make no mistake, we are careening into an abyss.
What do I mean by that? We have become a nation where logic and rationality no longer exist and where no one seems capable of or willing to do anything about it. Across the country, we have states that not only pretend boys can be girls and vice versa but are enabling schools and hospitals to butcher children without their parents’ consent and against their wishes.
We have federal judges deciding they can exercise executive authority with impunity.
We’ve seen the exposure of trillions of dollars of waste and fraud in federal programs, yet a GOP Congress keeps funding them.
We have criminals with rap sheets a mile long, but they’re relentlessly released to continue to terrorize communities.
We had an election that was stolen, a president who was targeted, and hundreds of citizens persecuted for J6. And not a single person has been held accountable.
Over the quarter-century following 9/11, we imported millions of Muslims who practice a religion that is diametrically opposed to our First Amendment, yet we’re told we must be tolerant.
Perhaps nowhere is all this dysfunction crystallized more than in the embarrassing spectacle of a Republican government unable (or unwilling) to pass the SAVE Act, something that 95% of their constituents support, as do 70% of their opponents. Ensuring honest elections—at 85% support—is possibly the most unified issue in American history, and yet the issue hits a brick wall because a handful of GOP Senators don’t like President Trump’s bombastic style, and Democrats don’t care about honesty.
America seems to have become impotent in addressing real, concrete problems in citizens’ lives. This is what happens when weak men refuse to do what’s right for fear of being called names.
Donald Trump is brash and full of bravado, but he’s in charge of the Justice Department, and this is happening on his watch. What’s more, just last week, the “Deportation” president let a communist come into his office and convince him to release an illegal alien who’d been arrested by ICE.
It may sound strange to call Trump weak, particularly when he flexes muscles internationally, but here at home, he has let himself be corralled on the issues that will define our future. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, John Thune talks a lot but lets himself be manhandled by a semi catatonic octogenarian in a wheelchair. And, if we’re being honest, the reality is, he’s simply too much of a coward and or a fool to act in America’s best interests...or more likely, he’s owned.
A rational, normal person looking at this can’t help but wonder if there is any hope... Can the system be fixed within the current framework? If not, what then?
I think we may just see this summer. The tipping point upon which all the above rests is election integrity. If the SAVE Act fails and patriotic Americans realize that the GOP has basically sold out the country to elite grifters who manipulate elections from the school board to the White House, I wonder if we may not see large-scale protests and more by strong men across the country who have decided enough is enough.
It would be a lot easier if Congress just passed the SAVE Act. It would be nice to get back to just thinking about sex and the Roman Empire like a normal American man for a change.