Musings
Musings on the
Week
August 31, 2019
Government - “There is nothing government can give you that it
hasn’t taken from you in the first place.” Winston Churchill.
Politics – Communism is
theoretically classless and egalitarian, but no pure Marxist systems exist
today, such as
the former Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea,
since they all had to introduce some form of capitalism
to survive.
Politics – Progressives have
no choice but to create excuses
that cast the blame for large swaths of black America's lived experience on anything and anyone but themselves.
Politics – The Left in America
is powerful, and loud,
and it controls academia, most of mass media, and most of the culture which allows it to prosper by suppressing the truth.
Politics – Cultural
Marxism is the father of the Democrat Party’s identity politics and
political correctness, and transgender insanity and
racial polarization, open borders and rights for illegal immigrants, and
anarchy and nihilism and movies that portray hunting people.
Politics – Trump’s biggest achievement is getting the Democrat
Party to drop their center left pretense and openly embrace their anti-American
socialist views, rejecting the Constitution, and embracing and defending their
anti-American views.
Politics – When Democrats say
they want to make an “investment,” what they mean is that want
to take our taxpayer money and spend it on something
that will help them politically.
Politics – Democrats are
backing away from their unneeded, ineffective, and unaffordable campaign
promises so they
re-label them as “aspirational”
not operational.
Politics – Democrat campaign
strategy is political “Divide and
Conquer” (identity politics),
while Republican campaign strategy is “United We Prosper” (United States
of America).
Politics – Never forget that the “gang of four” Congresswomen
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(Sanctuary NYC), Ilhan Omar (Minneapol-istan),
Ayanna Pressley (Peoples Republic of Cambridge), and Rashida Tlaib
(Dearborn-istan) are just told-what-to-do sock-puppets dangling from the Justice Democrats / New Consensus Svengali masters
strings.
Politics – Much of the “deep
state” is populated with Democrats, leftists, or at best, nameless,
faceless arrogant bureaucrats who think they know better than the American
people, masquerading as mainly reasonable and nonpartisan
professionals.
Politics – Ten years ago the TEA Party exploded on the political scene to bring government back under control, limit government
spending, and repeal ObamaCare but has been largely unsuccessful except
for awakening unhappy voters to the real power of their Vote!
Social Media – A “social credit system” is designed
as a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program for behavior
modification that operates as an extralegal (outside
the legal system) tool that uses no judge, no jury, no legal representation and
no appeal.
Media – The mass media
serves as a willing megaphone for the Left,
delivering a constant stream of inflammatory and dishonest rhetoric, thus targeting the emotions of the under informed with a constant
diet of incendiary speech and misinformation.
Media – Fact Checkers, such as PolitiFact,
Snopes, and FactCheck.org, wield enormous power by actively filtering content removing speech that does not
agree with their “truth.”
Media – The American
people are far more perceptive about media objectivity than their
self-appointed betters, which explains the sinking ratings of the
liberal mainstream media.
Taxes – “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Winston Churchill.
Income – Because of unreported income,
charity, and non-cash government benefits like Medicaid and food stamps, consumption
by America’s poorest 20% exceeds the national averages even in developed
nations like Japan, New Zealand and Denmark.
Environment – Current climate models fail to take into account effects of
cloud coverage on global temperatures, overestimating the impact of human-generated
greenhouse gases, and providing little evidence to
support the idea of man-made climate change.
Education – The
collegiate social justice warriors are still looking for the six-figure salary
their advisor promised, because they cannot even earn a living wage in
today’s marketplace.
Sports – The number of
high-school boys playing football fell for the fifth straight year in
2018–19,
and basketball, baseball, golf, and lacrosse are also losing players.
Family – The 1960s sexual
revolution aimed to sever human sexuality from marriage and child-rearing, from the responsibilities
society had imposed on the individual sexual appetite, but resulted in
fatherless homes, family shrinkage and breakup, childlessness and abortions.
Sexuality – A new comprehensive
study of the biological roots of sexual orientation proved there is no
“gay gene” and that genetic factors are insignificant defining
sexual orientation.
Civil Rights – The New York Times “1619 Project”
is an attempt to rewrite history to emphasize slavery but
over-emphasizes the impact and significance of this institution within the complex tapestry of
the emerging American culture, economy, and political environment.
Crime – When politicians demonize
police, the “Ferguson Effect,” less vigorous enforcement
in situations that might lead to backlash, results in number
of arrests plummeting.
Sexuality – The Boston
Straight Pride Parade is still on August 31st and will march on the same
route that the Gay Pride Parade marched, demonstrating equal
treatment under the law.
Crime – Noncitizens make up
7% of the U.S. population, but accounted for 15% of all federal arrests in 2018, and accounted for 25% of
federal drug and property crime arrests.
Diplomacy – “Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” Winston Churchill.
Defense – The new Space Force
is suffering from a lack of a unified vision and strategy, attempting unsuccessfully
to balance tactical objectives with more strategic capabilities.
Israel – In 1967, Yasser
Arafat created “Palestinians” out of thin air, and now, in 2019, Mahmoud Abbas, to be more historically grounded, has resurrected them as “Canaanites.”
China – It
is best to wait until the end of a war to determine who is victorious,
so conclusions are very premature in the USA –
China “Trade War” as both sides exchange tariff broadsides.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
