Musings
Musings on the
Week
January 12, 2019
Politics – “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” Samuel Adams.
Politics – Ex-Nobel secretary, Geir Lundestad, admitted that awarding the committee’s esteemed Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 was a mistake,
since it was based entirely on his media popularity, not based on anything he
actually did.
Politics – The Democrat party
has been captured by cultural Marxists
who are radically hostile to America's founding principles, its history, and
its people.
Politics – The Democrat
Party is not articulating any policies for advancement of our country,
but instead substituting ideology for policy and slogans as a means of stifling
discussion.
Politics – The Democrat
Party remains infected by fatal strains
of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), utopian socialist fantasies, and
terminal identity politics.
Politics – There is an obvious parallel between the emergence of Barack Hussein Obama (BHO) and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) since both
emerged from obscurity with no achievements other than being photogenic and
able to give “good speech,”
but AOC hurts her image everytime she talks because
it reveals her lack of any policy understanding.
Politics – The Democrat
lesson learned from the Obama
presidency was that incremental change does not work, so Democrats are now embracing radical changes to the culture, the economy,
and foreign policy, totally ignoring that these
ideas only make things worse.
Politics – Two lessons learned from the
2018 Midterm elections were: First, the Democrats will
do anything to win an election, legal or not, and not care how open they
are about it; and second, Democrats will do anything to
undo the 2016 presidential election.
Politics – The Left says the Right are the haters even as they take to
the streets to rampage, riot, destroy, loot, burn, and assault the good
people of America, which apparently is permitted in blue states where governors tell the police to stand back and allow their
crimes.
Politics – Congressional
Democrats have become openly anti-Semitic
as they embrace anti-Israel propaganda and boycotts of Jewish-made goods to
wage economic warfare.
Politics – Politico and Harvard conducted
a poll on the public’s top priorities for the
next Congress and of the 21 possible priorities, impeaching the president was tied for last.
Politics – Democrats cannot
stand that the Republicans are growing the economy, so they are campaigning to
end prosperity to replace with an expanded welfare
state.
Politics – Democrats have no
sense of humor,
because the party of tolerance cannot tolerate anything
that does not support their liberal narrative and especially ridicule.
Politics – The FBI
and the Justice Department have succeeded in the most significant abuse of
power and coverup in American political history,
perpetrated by employees of the government, under color of law, with the
intention of affecting the outcome of an election.
Politics – The Republicans
lost their grip on power for a variety of reasons including their refusal to enact the agenda endorsed by the American people
in the 2016 election.
Media – President Trump has maintained steadfast approval
by his supporters,
second only to George
W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks.
Media – Donald Trump spoke directly to the American
people using the
presidential bully pulpit to reach beyond his hardcore base of supporters to
make his case on immigration.
Politics – “That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.” Thomas Jefferson.
Government – Most
Americans regard “idle”
and “bureaucrat” as
synonyms
because, for those of us who have spent our lives toiling in the private sector
where employees are expected to produce things, “nonessential worker” is a concept
that has no meaning.
Economy – It is now clear that neither major political party is fiscally responsible:
the Republicans focus primarily on tax cuts, the Democrats focus primarily on
spending increases and neither party focuses on the
“bottom line” and
longer-term.
Economy – Democratic Socialists want to
embrace big-government socialism, while the “socialist paradise” countries to
be emulated are moving in the opposite direction – cutting taxes,
reining in government benefits, and freeing up their economies.
Jobs – Since Trump took office, some 4.8 million new jobs have been created and the labor participation rate rose to 63.1% while there
are more jobs than unemployed people.
Immigration – According to the U.S.
Border Patrol, walls work:
illegal crossings dropped 92% since the San Diego wall went up; dropped 95% since
the El Paso wall went up; dropped 90% since the Tucson sector wall went up; and
dropped 95% since the Yuma sector wall went up.
Energy – The federal government is
interfering with the energy marketplace by over-subsidizing
renewable energy producers to cover-up the vast differences in energy costs.
Environment – The “Green
New Deal” features three main goals:
decarbonize the economy (transition to 100% renewable by 2030),
provide a federal jobs guarantee with large
scale public investments and with protections
for those hardest hit by historical discrimination.
Environment – The only
guarantee in the “Green New Deal”
is that federal tax revenue will increase, but every other promise is
notional with no chance achieving its political goals.
Elections – California's
electoral officials are admitting that they have no idea how many illegals and other non-citizens voted in the last
primary, based on the state's motor-voter registration, which has been shown to
have registered thousands of non-citizen voters..
Education – U.S. medical
and business schools, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs in math,
science, and engineering, are the world’s best; but liberal arts and social sciences courses have lost their reputations and
have not prepared graduates to write persuasively and elegantly, to read
critically and to think inductively while drawing on a wide body of
literary, linguistic, historical, artistic, and philosophical knowledge.
Drugs – New York and New Jersey are
racing to join the 10 states that already allow recreational use of cannabis,
despite large studies in peer-reviewed journals showing
that marijuana increases the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia (higher the
use; greater the risk).
Sexuality – The American Psychological
Association has “jumped the shark” by redefining a scientific condition into a political mental disorder,
now attacking traditional masculinity.
Crime – Hate Speech attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of some
identity, so Democrat calls for
“impeachment” with no crime, just politics is Hate Speech!
Politics – “Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.” Theodore Roosevelt.
Trade – After all the apocryphal trade
predictions, Trump’s policies have produced a steady increase in
exports in every quarter in 2018 over 2017, and in 2017 up substantially
over 2016.
GWOT – The underpinnings of the two Islamic sects, Sunni and Shiite, are different and
their strategies may differ in some respects, but their objective to dominate the world is the same.
Israel – “Palestine”
was created by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and finalized by the League of Nations’
Palestine Mandate in 1922, which resulted in a “two state solution” Transjordan being split into the two states of Jordan and
Israel; the Hashemite kingdom for the Arab populations and a Jewish state that included all residents, Jewish and Arab.
Brazil – Jair Bolsonaro, the new
president, won a landslide election on a platform that’s pro-business, pro-gun, pro-United States, and pro-Israel,
and also anti-crime, anti-political-correctness,
anti-Cuba, and anti-Venezuela and now has a
75% approval rating!
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
