Cancel Culture

Cancel culture is the logical result of what happens when Marxist gain a foothold. Like true brown shirt revolutionaries everywhere they want to define thought, shut down and shout down any speech that opposes them, and then punish everyone who gets in the way of their quest for power. 

Their goal, as has been the goal of all Marxist, is to dismantle society and then rebuilt it to their vision of Utopia, This ultimately means getting rid of God, redefining morality and the family, controlling the press, the education system, the means of production and moving all power and transferring all money to the State. From there a small group of enlightened managers directed by a smaller group of enlightened leaders will distribute rights, wages, healthcare, services, security and unbridled happiness to an adoring population, so thankful to have such wise and righteous leaders and ruling class. What could go wrong?

Well for one, that's not American and everything that made and makes America great. It does not reflect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, or how the legal system and courts work. It does not reflect freedom of speech, freedom of religion or freedom to bear arms. It does not reflect the freedom we have in this country to innovate, to build, to start a business, to become wealthy or to fail in the effort to do so. It does not reflect either our generous spirit or our dogged determinism. And it does not reflect what every Founder was keenly aware of. All people are by nature selfish and weak and when small groups or individuals gain great power they have the potential to be despots.

It has been said that when you don't believe in God then your belief is not in nothing. Instead it means that you will believe anything. Marxism gets rid of God and replaces Him with a morality that has no foundation and which changes according to the times. What is dogma for a Marxist today can be replaced tomorrow without a blink of an eye or a hint of logical introspection. Because it is really a dogmatic religious belief it allows for no debate and has no respect for the past. In order to evolve into a glorious and just moral future American history and American society must not only be retold but destroyed as well. Think of giant rallys where books are burned.

This my friends is what our colleges and universities, with their heavy percentage of Marxist professors, have been churning out for the last couple of decades. They teach that America has been racist and sexist from the start and nothing that exists today is legitimate. Not everyone exits the education system that way of course but there does exist today a large population of social justice warriors (SJW's) who have become the brown shirts of social media.

One of their tactics is to declare that racism in America is systemic. This apparently is not the evil of normal racism, of which every person of every race is somewhat guilty of and which has existed in every society where there is a dominant tribe or people. No, this is specifically something that whites in America are guilty of, having inherited it from our white ancestors. And there is no cure for it. Reparations would be just, public humiliations should be expected, and when that's done perhaps whites should think of moving to some place that will have us.

And logical reasons for economic differences cannot be discussed. Statistical evidence shows quite clearly that across all races, the greatest indicator of poverty is having babies early and out of wedlock and not having a father figure in the home. This greatly decreases the odds for educational advancement and greatly increases the odds for being unemployed, having substance abuse and being imprisoned. Sadly, since the 1960's, government policies have helped create this very situation. And as a result males in particular are deprived of learning how and what it means to be a man and being able to achieve the basic human dignity afforded by having work that can provide for one's family. 

However, now all economic disparities are described as due to "white privilege".  I'm not disputing that for various reasons people get treated different in our country. Do majority populations or the majority tribe have advantages in every society? Yes. Should we be aware of that and strive to do better? Yes. Is it right to make racist statements and judge people as a group because of their skin color, including whites? No. 

Also in order to tear apart society and insert their own moral code SJW's want to redefine what it means to be a man, a woman and a family. To do this they need to control the language we use and frame how the debate is conducted and then shame and boycott anyone who does not go along. They identify dozens of micro groups, all like blacks oppressed by the dominate group that they intend to tear down and replace. This has been an active policy of the Left in the Democrat Party for a long time but it has now gone full bore over social media through the intimidation and mass shamming by the hordes of Social Justice Warriors.

There are different layers of Marxist influence in America and there are at least of couple of anarchist groups that somebody is organizing, directing and financing. Most SWJ's are just unwitting pawns, although they do have leaders that organize, direct and announce what their group's current moral outrage is. So how does Black Lives Matter fit into all of this? What I am going to say next might make some of you mad but I think it needs to at least be discussed.

In my view the phrase, Black Lives Matter, is really a positive statement. By itself it is not racist, it promotes the idea that blacks have been both discriminated against as well as victims of violence and have been victims of violence specifically by police. I think almost everyone agrees with those statements. We all want to see improvement and actual healing in the way police respond to situations and they way we ourselves treat and view those of another race. However there are two things we have to be aware of if we want to associate ourselves with the organization called Black Lives Matter.

The first is to be aware of what actual statistics show regarding: the extent of police violence, the extent of police violence towards blacks and towards whites, the percentage of people of different races who commit violent crimes, the reasons why crime exists in certain areas, the personal risks that a police officer takes every day on the job, how difficult police unions make it to get rid of bad eggs and so on. When you start seeing that twice as many unarmed whites get killed than blacks by police, that blacks because of reasons economic and social commit 50 per cent of all violent crimes in our country and that most blacks murdered overall are murdered by other blacks, it starts to eat away at the narrative that not only are all cops bad but that white cops hate black people.

The second is to realize that Black Lives Matter was founded by 3 (female) community organizers who put into the groups founding, statements such as - blacks are victims of state sponsored violence and, as we are seeing today, the solution to state sponsored violence is to defund police departments. They are quite radical in many other social ways and violence seems to follow them where ever they go. I don't know if they would be strictly considered a Marxist group but they seem to have many of the same goals and are supported and financed by the same people in the background. 

There are people with a far reaching and hate filled toward whites agenda who have no problem using people of good faith to achieve that agenda. The times we are in have exposed how radical the people in the background really are and what total hypocrates the people on the Left in power really are. There are some people on the Left who are not Marxist but stay quiet thinking they can control the crazies. They lust for power and don't care if the country burns so that they will end up with more power in the end. There are also people in power on the Right who lust for that same power just as much and have no problem making promises but then screwing us. Both groups should be cleaned out.

This is a spiritual war. It is a war of ideas and principles. For many years the enemy has been playing the long game, infiltrating the education system, eliminating objectivity in the media, attacking Christian beliefs, bit by bit, piece by piece, principle by principle. Now, all of a sudden, the darkness has started coming fully out of the closet. And there is more to come. Cancel culture does not reason or debate. It screams at us and thinks it makes intelligent points by the number of vulgar words yelled, typed or spray painted.

Here is a secret though. Although they will continue to get louder for a time, know for certain - We have won and they have lost. We have won and they have lost. We have won and they have lost.

Our task now is to think through what our principles are, what they are based on and how they fit with the things that are happening today. Always stand for truth and justice but be aware that there are out there wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. Then teach your children well. 

 

 

Trump To Win In November By Twenty Points

The Democrat Party is dying. They just don't know it yet.

There is a revolution coming, but much different than you think. We may even be looking at a new civil war, sparked by the results of the November elections. People are going to vote Republican in record numbers, the Democrat Party is going to split, the major news media, now the propaganda arm of the Left, will be momentarly stunned and may not recover, and some high profile people who were active in the attempted coup against President Trump will be put on trial.

Because all of this may come as a bit of of shock to my never Trump friends and family, some of whom, even as I write, may actually believe that Joe Biden is really leading in the polls and has a good chance to take the prize, I will present the reasons I believe why a landslide Trump win is coming.

My first reason is the most important one and it undergirds everything else, but it is also one that never Trumpers either cannot or are most unwilling to understand. They may shout and scream and even tear their hair out even at the mention of it. But here goes. God has chosen Donald J. Trump for such a time as this. It would take me many pages to expand on that and if asked (yeah right) I would love to lay out step by step my reasons. Instead, for now, speaking as a Christian sensitive to the how the Holy Spirit is moving in these times and seasons, trust me when I say - this is a God thing.

Because of that everything that has been hurled at President Trump over the last 3 1/2 years has or will come back at the accusers.

The major news media (controlled by a small group of Left leaning individuals) who since his election have been well over 90 per cent negative in their coverage of President Trump, who have twisted and taken out of context everything he has said or done to match their narratives of racism, incompetence, being a Russian pawn, orange man bad in all it's forms, etc, in order to get him out of power, are no longer trusted as accurate news sources by the vast majority of the population. New Conservative internet platforms with far greater audiences (despite being censored and demontinized by their Left leaning platform hosts) have sprung up as alternatives and are flourishing. Meanwhile, someone like Rachel Maddow, a MSNBC host who had an average of 6 million viewers during the Russia debacle, is now down to 600,000 and still dropping like a stone.

There are major trends working against the Democrat Party. First, at the same time as it has shifted far to the Left, the world at large has been shifting more to the Right, toward National Capitialism. While education systems both here and in Europe are still controlled by professors that favor Socialist and Communist viewpoints, and while those views are then still heavily ingrained in the hearts and minds of younger college and university educated populations, people eventually get older and more experienced and confront the real world. In doing so most become more Conservative. In Europe, because of low birthrates and heavy restrictions imposed on their countries by the EU, they are encountering both the limitations of the inherent flaws of Socialism and the desire for greater Nationalism.

This is currently happening in many European countries, but look no further than Great Britain. Several years ago, against the opposition of most party leaders and their own Main Stream Media, the Brits voted by 66 per cent to leave the EU (Brexit). This was a shock to the ruling class who kept promising to get it done but could never in their hearts go far enough to actually do it. Finally last year the people had enough. The ruling Labour party (Left) was demolished in new elections by huge margins, many replaced by people who had never run for office before.

We don't have a Brexit movement in the United States but there is a Blexit (Black exit from the Democrat Party) movement alive and well and growing fast in the Black community. Throughout the last couple of years polls have been showing increasing support for President Trump among people of color. There are a half a dozen major reasons for this. (1) Black owed business have grown by 400 per cent under President Trump, (2), Prison reform under President Trump, (3), Media voices like Candace Owens, Charles Paine and Larry Elder, (4) The work Ben Carson has done through HUD, (5) The idea that Blacks have been on the Democrat "plantation", i.e., "They woo us every 4 years for our votes and then forget us, so what do we have to lose?", (6) The growing realization that the current Democrat Party is actually opposed to religion and other conservative views held by the majority of the Black community.

In 2016 President Trump received about 9 per cent of the Black vote, which is average for a Republican. He was helped because fewer Blacks showed up to vote for Clinton than they did for President Obama. A Rasmussen poll taken a few days ago among active voters showed President Trump with a 40 per cent approval rating among Blacks. Let that sink in for a moment. If Trump receives 12 per cent of the Black vote he will win easily. If he receives 15 per cent of the Black vote the Democrat Party itself is in serious trouble. Those numbers in 2020 are not only likely but could even be greater.

President Trump;s support with Hispanics is also in the 40 per cent range. Strange isn't it? And yet it reflects the faces you will find in a typical Trump rally. The Democrat Party has left the working middle class and, despite what the media wants you to believe, there are an awful lot of Blacks and Hispanics who do not view President Trump as a racist.

Just as what happened with Blexit, there is a huge backlash welling up in America against far Left policies and the actions of certain Democrat Governors during the Corona Virus lock downs and the recent rioting and lootings, I'm telling you, when gun sales increased by 80 per cent even before the riots, people are going to express themselves by more than just buying guns. While defunding police departments may seem like Left nirvana, it will end up being suicide in the next election. And people are not going to blame Trump either for lives lost or for jobs lost or for freedoms being taken away from them. But they are going to blame somebody.

The economy took a hit during the shutdowns but should recover at a good pace before the elections. And as every politician knows, "It's the economy stupid". President Trump will get credit for that.

Finally, Trump's approval from his base is over 90 per cent. He has collected record vote totals in the primaries for an unopposed canidate. Special elections have been swinging heavy Republican. There were a lot of Evangelical voters who sat out the last election but who will cast their ballots red this election because Trump has proven to be a champion for pro-life, pro-religious freedom,, pro-gun, pro-free speech and pro Israel causes. He has also appointed and had approved over 200 Conservative Federal Judges and there is a high likely hood that the next President will select at least one more Conservative Supreme Court Justice.

And then we come to who the Democrats will run against Trump. Vice President Biden has just secured enough delegates to officially be his party's nominee. If they stay with Biden he will be crushed six ways to Sunday. Apart from scandals involving Hunter (among other things he went over to CHINA with his dad on Air Force 2 and came back with a 1.5 BILLION dollar deal), his public grouping, shoulder squeezing and hair sniffing of females both young and younger, the sexual accusations against him and a political past that does not match the demands of the new Leftists in his party, it is obvious that Old Joe is in serious cognitive decline. I think "word salad" is how many pundents describe many of his off the prompter remarks during the last 6 months.

If Biden resigns at some point or is replaced at the convention there will be a battle royal between the Democrat factions for power. I believe the far Left faction, thinking this is actually their time, will demand to have one of theirs run. If they don't get their way, many will riot and then sit out the election. Either way, not only is President Trump heading for a landslide election but both the House and the Senate will be solidly in Republican hands. And it could remain so for a long, long time.

That is my prediction for today. As of now God's hand is still on President Trump. Hopefully he will learn to humble himself because, as we all know - Pride comes before the fall.

Zoo

Jackie and I have been doing stay at home for so long that she found a show about the Bronx Zoo on Animal Planet and is now hooked. Me, not so much. There are a lot of things I just don't understand.

Why, for example, does each croc or gator get fed 20-30 pounds of fish a day but when one of the zoo fish gets a cataract they bring in an optometrist (that must not be cheap, and besides I didn't know they made house calls) to do an operation. I'd say, get a bad eye fish and you're dinner.

Then there was the story about the 800 lb. tiger who needed a root canal. This time they get a dentist to come in, the tiger is sedated but the tiger's tooth is too big for the regular dentist drill. So he finds a larger drill with a larger drill bit and after some time into the drill the anestheoligist (yup, another specialist) starts to get nervous that the tiger is going to wake up so he pressures the dentist to hurry up. Now at this point I'm finally getting interested but then we go to commercial and by the time we get back everything seems to have ended up fine. OR THEY'RE LYING TO US!.

Five hundred forty people work at the Bronx Zoo and on TV they all seem to love it. They even found a gal who loved taking care of the wild African dogs. No one else wanted the job because those dogs like to roll around in the dirt and their own poop. I was trying to imagine the young lady having lunch at the cafeteria with no one wanting to sit next to her.

If you're an animal in the wild and something goes wrong, that's pretty much if. If you live in a zoo and have a bad foot you end up with an artificial leg. If you have no social skills and can/t mate that's called survival of the fittest. However in a zoo you have a team of a dozen people trying to work out all the details for you.

For those of you who might have been worried, 4 of their 5 tigers ended up with the Covid 19 virus but are doing fine. The fifth one still has cotton in his mouth so we'll have to ask him later.

Sunday, Two Weeks In

Finished a book this afternoon
Jackie completed her puzzle last midnight
David McCullough's history of Ohio's beginning
Heritage providing a memory of July's trip to Lake McDonald

Outside the day is gray and windy
two robins stand with heads cocked to the side then fly away
a few brown leaves are tumbling across our lawn
somewhere on a dead stump is the tat tat tat of a woodpecker

Yesterday we watched a new Hallmark movie
he was trying to escape the hub bub of fame and the big city
she wanted to snag a big promotion by interviewing the poor sap
we were on the edge of our rocker recliners until they kissed

Little pieces are back in their box and card table put away
when this is all over we will return puzzles and books
give each of our grandchildren an extra long hug
then turn our heads to the side and drive away

12 Things The Democrats Tried To Add To The Covid19 Relief Package

Well, it's day two of State mandated stay at home for Jackie and me (minimum of 3 weeks). I was wondering what kind of relief package our government would pass that would help take the bite out of not being able to work for that amount of time and how could small and big business be helped so that many of them don't have to go out of business. And I wondered if that would be possible without adding excessive amounts of dept for my children and grandchildren.

It turns out that there was a package ready to go Sunday night that was hammered out between Dems and Repubs that focused just on those areas (except for the debt). And then Nancy flew into town on her private jet, talked with Chuck, bipartisanship flew out the window, and the following stuff was added into the relief package.

Please point out to me which one of these is needed to dig us out of the hole that the Covid19 virus is putting our country in.

- Racial and gender pay equity provisions
- Diversity on corporate boards
- Increased use of minority banks by federal officials plus other diversity provisions
- Increased collective bargaining power for unions
- Cancel all U.S. Postal Service debt
- Fuel emissions standards for airlines
- Required carbon offsets for airlines
- Tax credits for alternative energy programs
- 9.5 billion in funds to colleges and universities
- 100 million to juvenile justice programs
- Suspension of various aspects of immigration laws
- Election requirements for States

There was more but I digress. It really doesn't matter if you are for these provisions or not. Our country is in a crisis and elected officials are putting ideology ahead of recovery.

I would like to boil up some tar, gather some feathers, tie a rail or 2 to the top of my car and drive to Washington. But, oh yeah, I'm currently sheltered in place.

Driver Testing With Covid19

My blue latex gloved hand
holds a yellow number 2 pencil
jotting down upon a legal sized scoresheet
intersections, head checks and stop lines

I notice every eye flutter and sweaty palm wipe
how markets are full while roads are sparse
an itch on my cheek that cannot be touched
and the wash of bright Spring sun on fading brown

When our forty-five minutes are up
certificate signed, black pen Cloroxed wiped
I great the next customer from a distance
extending my blue fingers for their documents

It has been two crazy weeks without inspiration
words like the virus hiding somewhere out there
perhaps next week I will shelter-in-place
watching for cars outside my window

It's All Over Except For The Shouting

As I write, the South Carolina Democrat primary is over and the all important Super Tuesday primaries are coming up in just two days. Joe Biden managed to stay important with a 30 point victory margin. However Bernie Sanders (according to Five Thirty Eight) is still the odds on favorite to win Super Tuesday and advance to the July Democrat party convention with the most delegates in hand, although maybe not enough to secure the nomination. The only other person who may figure into the race is Mayor Bloomberg, whose billions bought him name recognition but whose lack of personality was priceless.

But let me say this to all my liberal friends and family who may be convinced that Bernie, Joe or Mike actually has a chance of beating Donald in November. The political world has been and is currently rapidly undergoing a fundamental shift in alliances. In probably appears to you and to your friends that Progressive ideology is winning and the revolution is at hand when in truth just the opposite has been happening. This shift has been so fast that it doesn't matter who the Democrat Party runs in 2020. He or she will lose, the margins may be huge and there is a real possibility that your party will splinter and not recover for decades.

The first trend is with the African-American electric. In 2016 Donald Trump collected just 8% of that voting group, which is about average for Republicans in past Presidential elections. Several months ago 3 different polls showed Trump with an average 33% favorable rating with Blacks. Those numbers increased to 40% in a poll released 2 weeks ago. There are several reasons why, not the least of which is the Democrat Party's surge to far left social positions. So it's not just about Trump popularity but also about a movement away from the traditional alliance Blacks have had with the Democrat Party.

Twenty-seven per cent of overall Democrat votes come from the Black community. I'm not saying that President Trump will increase his share from 8 to 30% votes in 2020, but if he increases to 15% or even 12% with Blacks then it is game over (for a long time).

In may shock you but President Trump's approval rating in the Hispanic community is also over forty per cent (he received 28% in 2016). There are a lot of reasons for this as well (some the same as with the Black community) but the important thing to note is that the numbers are increasing. Forty per cent of those who attend Trump rallies in places like New Mexico are Hispanic.

The current Democrat Party is rapidly losing their traditional support from White working class voters in industrial states. In 2016 Trump's narrow victories in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and one other industrial state were because of this. In those states there were a total of 200 counties that had voted blue by a twenty point margin since the 1980's who voted red by a 20 point margin in 2016. Those voters have not been given any reason to flip back. In fact I predict they were just the tip of an oncoming iceberg

Which leads to the next interesting point. Trump received about the same total number of votes as Romney did in 2012. That means that if he overperformed in the traditional Democrat white working class he underperformed in another area. And I can tell you for certain that area was with Evangelical voters who did not believe that Trump would do what he promised and were put off by the person. Many either voted third party or did not vote.  Many are still put off by the person but are thrilled by what President Trump has accomplished in regards to pro-life, pro-Christian, pro-Israel efforts and by the 2 Supreme Court selections and the 200 Federal and Circuit Court judges chosen and confirmed.

President Trumps approval rating in his party is over 90%. That is higher at this point in a Presidency than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT - EVER.  Unlike most other politicians he has kept or at least tried to keep almost every one of his campaign promises. From pro-life to judges to building up the military to getting other countries to pay their fair share be it NATO funding or trade agreements, to a middle class tax cut to reducing Federal regulations and the size of the Federal government to moving our embassy to Jerusalem to eliminating ISIS to reducing our military presence in the Middle-East to removing the government mandate in Obama Care to reducing the flow of illegal immigrants across the Southern border to shaking things up in the Washington swamp, Trump has followed through.

And of course there is the economy stupid, which has been robust in almost every historic metric under Trump and where most people actually feel and understand that it has been. The average American votes on how they think the economy is treating them.

So a note on the Corona Virus where the stock market has seen a sharp drop because of fear and the disruption of supply chains. This really could not have come at a better time for President Trump. The Dow average rose from a 18,000 high when President Obama left to 29,000 in just over 3 years under Trump. It was due for a major correction and the virus and disruptions were as good any reasons to get the needed correction. Drugs to treat the virus will be available within 3 months, factories for Apple and others in China are starting to open again, and by fall it will all be a distant memory.

The move toward rejecting globalism and embracing nationalism has been happening throughout Europe. The effects of large immigrant communities not adapting to a countries traditional norms and beliefs has been a huge factor there. While we in America do not have massive immigration of Muslim populations from Northern Africa and the Mid-East who live separated in their own communities it should not be underestimated how important the issue of illegal immigration is to the vast majority of average American. It was one of the main issues Trump ran on. The current Democrat position of open borders and universal amnesty of illegals is not a winning political argument. And by calling President Trump racist on the issue it is at the same time calling everyone else who agrees with him racist.

If Bernie Sanders comes into the convention with enough delegates he will get the nomination. He has already surrendered Florida because of the Cuban vote. He will be positioned not as a Scandinavian Socialist (which he is not) but rather as a Marxist/Communist which he and a couple of the top people in his campaign actually are. The motivation on the Republican side (already very high) will be huge. There will be a fever pitch of excitement with the Bernie true believers but it will not be enough to overcome those Dems who will sit this one out. Bernie will lose by historic margins.

If Sanders comes into the convention with out a clear majority of delegates it is very likely that the DNC will go with someone else. Let us say Sleepy Joe. Now Biden might make the race a little closer (although he has his own problems) except for one major problem  How will the Bernie Bros react? Will they riot? Will they want Bernie to go third party?  Will many of them sit out or even some of them vote Trump? A third party run by whomever will mean a 50 state sweep for Trump.

One last word on trends. Unlike what you may have heard, the percentage of the White population is not shrinking in America. Historic trends show that not only do 70% of Americans identify as White but that 70 per cent will remain constant for many decades forward. The major immigrant population in America is Hispanic.Ten per cent of first generation Hispanics intermarry with Whites. Forty per cent of second generation Hispanics intermarry with Whites. Seventy to ninety per cent of third generation Hispanics intermarry with Whites. Most of the offspring of those that intermarry identify themselves as White and adopt the same (mostly Conservative) values.

So come November, even though the media and your friends have assured you that Bernie has it in the bag and no one of right mind would ever vote for Trump again, remember to take a deep breath, stay calm, and if you want to make a little extra money, invest in some Pence 2024 buttons.