The Fragility of Our Comfort

If your political appeal is based strictly on pandering, then it matters little if you over promise.

You know going in that you have no intention of delivering on your platform promises, so why soft peddle? Go for it!

"We will bring all Americans together!"

"I can end discrimination in America!"

Power hungry partisan politicians have no respect for righteousness. To them, suggesting there is nobility in keeping campaign promises is an exercise in self aggrandizement.

So why not go all in and adopt the policy platforms of your competitor, especially when it looks like the public is embracing them? Claim that they are your original ideas and the opposition is plagiarizing you. Blow them up, make the promise bigger than life.

Low information voters will buy the lie because they don't know any better. They are your target audience, so don't be ashamed to co-opt your opponents most successful ideas.

This is the core of Kamala Harris's campaign strategy.  

"My administration will end taxes on tips!"

"I will complete the southern border wall, and stop the flow of illegal immigrants from flooding into border towns and draining social resources!"

"I will end the cycle of endless wars!"

This sort of political highway robbery will only get worse as the election nears because Kamala has nothing else to run on.

Besides, the agenda of the Progressive Jihad has nothing to do with what voters want. Expressing their desires is like OJ Simpson telling Nicole, "You mean everything to me. I couldn't live without you!"

Promises are just a means to an end. Should the Beltway Brotherhood maintain control of the Federal Government in 2025, you can expect more of what Biden began: they will continue to dismember the vote collection system. That is necessary to assure their continued occupancy in the Capitol Cockpit.

They will expedite the destruction of the coal and gas industry, and make it impossible to own or operate a gasoline engine driven automobile. America will never be a dominate force in the energy field again.

They will push DEI initiatives despite public resistance. Like the Covid Mandates, Washington will force citizens to comply with quotas, equity sharing,  racial segregation programs, paying reparations and gender bending celebrations all across American employment and entertainment institutions. Public education will codify state ownership of students. 

One of the most important initiatives will be to digitize money, eliminate cash, and implement total control of the monetary system. This will make it easier to collect taxes and fines, to control political opposition, to manage private enterprise, just as has the CCP in China. The Chinese claim they operate a free market, but only to the extent that a few selected individuals or groups are allowed to do business with other entities not under Communist control. Nevertheless, they all pay "Vig" to the Chinese Communist Party for the privilege to exist.

Slowly but surely, Communist Regimes gain control of the communications systems, allowing only approved information to be shared. They eventually control transportation systems, controlling who goes where and when. Then they capture the energy, financial services, and food supply chains. China at one point controlled the birthrate of women, because they wanted to slow the population growth, and decided only those that could physically do the hard work the state needed would be allowed to be born. Millions of female fetuses were terminated.

China has made it clear, in their One Hundred Year Marathon program, that they want to be the dominant force on the planet. They challenge anyone to doubt their resolve.

If you stand back and look at what has been happening in America for the past few decades, you must recognize Chinese fingerprints all over the crime scenes.

Every element of what were strengths of the American experience has been systematically undermined: Private property ownership (government overspending, printing dollars, inflating prices, raising interest rates has made it near impossible for young people to buy a home), small business growth (millions of mom and pop stores and services have gone belly up since the pandemic), freedom of speech and the practice of religion without government interference (some churches were forced to close during the pandemic, while states have taken all aspects of religion out of public schools, promoted acceptance of LGBTQ and DEI standards.)

It is one thing to get coldcocked walking down the street. To be struck from behind and lose your wallet and be paralyzed for life. Americans are too self assured that they can react like John Wick. They continue to take the dark alley shortcut, ignore the danger signs, and risk losing everything just for short term benefits and immediate gratification. Americans reach out and welcome foreign investment and influence, convinced everyone embraces our values and wants to integrate into our egalitarian society.

The Chinese have a different view on life. They have suffered for twenty generations, and now savor the idea that their greatest rival is arrogantly misinterpreting their intentions. That Americans can be easily bamboozled, tricked into a trap of self imposed servitude.

While we entertain ourselves, indulge in too much food, alcohol and recreational drugs, they are buying up our agricultural land, implanting data collection chips in all of our most personal electronic devices, spying on our military, and bribing our politicians.

They are forming coalitions with our arch enemies to undo our economic hegemony, and to encircle our formidable navy. Meanwhile they are planning to send men to the Moon where they will plant their flag and legally homestead it. 

The interesting part of this massive assault on American sovereignty, is that the participants make no bones about it. They are making it clear they want to destroy America's strangle hold on world economic and military power. They are making it clear, from now on, America First is an oxymoron.

And the way they intend to do it is to exploit our indifference and undermine our resolve to care about the fragility of our comfort.