A New Coalition

They have been dumbing down students since the fifties, and have been influencing us via the mass media, to think less and to emote more.

Is it possible that enough Americans can eventually see how bad things are? I hear so many folks chastise anyone who talks about how much trouble our country is in. My wife often warns me to keep quiet about my concerns when we go to social gatherings. 

"When you start in talking about your worries, you upset people. This is supposed to be a fun time. So, please zip your lip!"

So I do. I never want to be Debby Downer! But within just a few minutes, someone else will bring up the subject. Before you know it, people are talking about how the schools are pushing "the Gay Agenda". Or without exception, the subject of inflation comes up. 

"Can you believe how much everything has gone up in price?"

"So much for our solar panel investment! Our electric bill is outrageous!"

"I bought a smaller more efficient car. But I am still paying twice as much a month as I was before!"

It is impossible to spend time with friends, family and neighbors, without talking about our culture, our lifestyle, or our children.

And when you do that, it is natural to discuss how good or bad things are! Sorry, but overall, most people are not living the good life right now. Some are, but they tend to be hanging around major university students and the faculty, or dining with federal employees in Washington DC. If you are in the top 1% club, you're set. But once you get involved with young mothers, service industry workers, or stay-at-home office workers, it becomes clear that a lot is wrong in this country. That so much of what we were used to take for granted is going away or gone. 

What I hear at parties is:

The cost of living is out of control. 

I get searched at the airport when illegals are flooding the border?

Schools don't reflect our values anymore.

What ever happened to law and order and equal justice?

If moving would help, we would. But it won't.

The Make America Great Again movement is a reflection of those problems. Too many Americans feel left behind economically. They feel forgotten by the social justice police, the push to make everyone the same, to assure everyone crosses the finish line at the same time. They are angry that citizenship is considered "privileged" and the benefits of it are given away to strangers. Most people I talk to are angry that they are seen as the problem when they resist open borders, Drag Queens in the classroom, mystery fees on restaurant and phone bills. 

They are starved for good news. So it is no wonder the topic of conversations always comes back to "What the hell is going on? Who is making so many stupid decisions?"

On the way home, Cathy said, "I guess you tried." But I am glad we had a chance to share our condition. This kind of informal friendly exchanges are what has always been the core value of my existence. As a privileged American, that we get to speak our minds, to hear the other side of the story, and to use our intellect to make our own decisions.

If there is one thing that stands out in our world today, it is the resentment that so many of us fell like that single most important advantage of being American, the freedom to think for ourselves, is being pushed aside by a malicious and unremitting force of elitists that think we are just too remedial to be involved in the day-to-day operations of the world. That those combative and immoral forces are gaining the upper hand, not because they are righteous but because too many people are too complacent.

Beyond now, the average person is scared because they are more aware than ever that these forces have been at work against us, for decades. And the effects are becoming so obvious and frightening, that we have to be increasingly active to overcome them.

They have been dumbing down students since the fifties, and have been influencing us via the mass media, to think less and to emote more. That we are now two generations into a vast assault on Americanism and autonomy. That many of our most important and influential institutions have been compromised. 

Which is now manifesting itself in the vast cultural conflict we are seeing taking place everyday at home, in the workplace and among our friends and family. The whole idea of unity seems to be a remnant of the past.

Joe Biden promised to "Bring America together" in his inaugural speech. During  the 2024 Republican and Democratic National Conventions, nearly every speaker reiterated the hope that "if our guy is elected, we will bring the nation together, again."

Where have we heard that before? How many times do we have to hear the same rhetoric repeated before it has no value at all? Year after year, politicians promise to stop hatred, to overcome poverty, to make all Americans proud of being American. 

Joey Bananas stood on the podium, as he has so many times before, he screamed "We are the United States of America! We just have to remember! We can do anything we set our minds to!"

Third Party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced that he was still going to campaign, but he also pointed out that building a new coalition under the concept of The Unity Party, might be the best formula for inoculating the United States of America from the increasingly devious and deadly Democcult Disease.

He pointed out that, as a lifelong Democrat, brought up in the legacy of his father and his uncle, both murdered by ideological lunatics, he is especially sensitive to cultural issues. His candidacy has been focused on ending endless wars, protecting children and the next generation from poverty of values and healthy food sources, and supporting the free and open exchange of ideas and information. In each of those areas, he claims the Democrats have lost his trust. That have violated their historic promise to preserve free press, and are instead corrupting journalism and free speech to protect their political dogma. They have worked to undermine efforts to end the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. And they have consistently resisted legitimate concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy.

He went on to protest the impact and influence of multinational corporations on the medical industry, the military industrial complex and mass media.

Finally, after spending many hours meeting with Trump and his advisors and others in the alternative media, he has come to the conclusion that he has much more in common with them then with, what he considers, the overly self absorbed Progressive arm of the Democrat Party.

Meantime, while he was making his remarks on a nationally streamed address, MSNBC coverage was smothering every word with inane commentary so their viewers would not be exposed to anything he actually said.