At a commencement speech delivered this past weekend at Howard University, a famous, historically black college, President Biden once again raised the specter of “white supremacy”, affirming his eerie practice of scapegoating on the basis of race in our nation’s political discourse. According to Biden, “[T]he most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.” Never before in American history has a mainstream-party politician — much less a sitting president of the United States — ever so publicly resorted to a textbook tactic of totalitarian leaders worldwide. Joe Biden is now sounding this trope with almost every speech, in the early run-up to the 2024 national elections. Certainly, this is a portentous, frankly ominous, sign for the future of politics in America, based on the world’s history in the last century or so. This short review is highly instructive:
In apartheid-era South Africa (1948-1994), leaders of the ruling National Party regularly warned white voters of die swart gevaar (“the black peril”) as a means of scaring them into voting Nationalist instead of for either the United Party or the Progressive Party, both of which supported extending the voting franchise in varying degrees beyond just white people to citizens who were black or brown in skin color. The overwhelming majority of whites voted accordingly, rendering South Africa a virtual parliamentary dictatorship of one party and one white ethnicity (the Afrikaners). Throughout the age of apartheid, there were many governmental abuses of power, against not only blacks, Indians, and Coloreds (mixed-race people of partial white descent) but also whites who would not fully, completely conform to all of the strictures of “separate development.” The certain, increasing minority in the country over time of white South Africans overall, the economic and social pressures of increasing international sanctions, growing violence by and among blacks in their residential townships, and a changing consciousness among some elements of the Afrikaner elites all conspired in the late 1980s to move the National Party leadership to begin dismantling the edifices of racial separation — and thereby avoid a race-based war of catastrophic proportions. While post-1994 South Africa has had, and continues to have, many problems, including some dealing with race and language, a readily looming, internecine civil war is not one of them at this time.
In the America of today, given that the leaders of the Democratic Party — substantially in control of all national political power and vitally aided in remaining so by all of Big Media, Big Tech, Big Banking, Big Corporate, Big Academia, Big Culture, and the Deep State — is demonizing the majority demographic of the domestic populace, can an independent and sovereign republic dedicated to individual rights, equality, the universal rule of law, and federalism survive much longer? It remains to be seen, but through the lens of history the prospects seem rather dim.
In late April 2023, NBC’s Chuck Todd interviewed the young Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy (Harvard B.S., Biology; Yale Law School) and challenged his contention that there are only two real genders, claiming that scientific research now shows that gender is actually a “spectrum.” Vivek replied that they’d have to agree to disagree on that. Very cordial of him, to be sure, as a presidential aspirant, but the opportunity to make a much more important point was missed.
Leave it to fellow mid-30s female pundit Lisa Boothe to make that key point for him on May 1st on FOX’s morning show Outnumbered. Here’s what she said, in substance, after viewing the Todd/Vivek video clip, to the stunned silence of her three fellow female commenters and their male guest, a basketball celeb originally from Turkey:
This is about the Truth, the fight for the Truth. There are two genders, no more. This is a test for submission for the Left. If they can get people to accept demonstrable lies, deny basic biology, then they can get you to submit to anything. They own you, and society is then under their control. They will always try to silence you if you speak the Truth. They want us to live in fear of them. But don’t fear them, don’t submit to them. Speak out. Speak the Truth. Resist.
Lisa Boothe, courtesy of Business Insider
Out of the mouth of babes, both literally and figuratively! Thus and so, there’s genuine hope for the preservation of Individual Liberty and Autonomy in America when folks have the moral courage to speak out with crystal clarity and honesty. Long ago, George Orwell succinctly nailed it in several famous quips, thusly:
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent [people] is the restatement of the obvious.
Every sane, sober-minded person hopes and prays that’s all it will ever take to right our ship of state and preserve America as a sovereign, independent nation and home to a freedom-focused constitutional republic!
In the cosmic science of Astrology, Pluto, the furthest planetary orb in our solar system, represents the forces of transformation and purification. With a periodicity of 246 years, it moves around the Zodiac rather slowly, affecting the Earth, and so represents generational changes that potentially span decades. As such, it affects all people on the planet simultaneously and profoundly. The Age of Leo (1939-57), for example, witnessed World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, the electronics revolution, synthetic pharmaceuticals, space exploration, the end of Britain and France’s empires, and the emergence of the United States as the architect and prime leader of a new world order, economically, militarily, and culturally. Among many other new emergences.
In March/April 2023, Pluto began to tentatively touch the Age of Aquarius, but not making its first foray until February 2024 and continuing through August 2024. It returns to Aquarius in December 2024 and continues its sojourn there until March 2043, making for a relatively long visit.
So, what of it? If Capricorn, its preceding age, has to do with disruptions, revelations, and reformations concerning institutional authorities (such as governments, churches, academia, and corporations), wars and rumors of war, and social/economic systems – all of which, as of this writing, are still bubbling very vigorously – Aquarius will be characterized by innovations of truly unique natures, at once utopian and very possibly foreboding, across the spectrum of spheres of human experience. Many of us see a lot of this happening already, often with a knowing discomfiture. Such is the nature of revolutionary times.
So, what does this all look like? Technologically, we are witnessing the embryonic ascendancy of creative artificial intelligence, highly novel in its results but unconstrained by any set, pre-delimited protocols that govern its behavior. Writing cogent term papers and optimizing nee-business-opportunity options is one thing, but making decisions with palpable, immediate moral consequences for real human beings is quite another. Even famed innovator-entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of AI’s originators, has expressed serious concerns in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson about the prospects of AI applications untethered to scruples or moral constraints.
Equally ominous is the mad drive towards transhumanism, marrying natural biological reality with any of biochemical and bioengineered alterations, surgical modifications, and cybernetic implants. The Chinese communists are believed to have been working on creating super soldiers, human men endowed with superhuman physical strength, endurances, and enhanced perceptual abilities, all aimed at creating indomitable fighting machines.
Most immediately concerning, however, is the impending realization of the total surveillance state, enabled by a dystopian witches’ brew of currency digitization, ubiquitous camera systems in public, comprehensive social-credit scoring on all inhabitants (available to governmental agencies and private entities such as banks and educational institutions), and even implantable genetic markers and radio-frequency identification chips. Such a state will allow greater and dynamic micro-control of the nation’s civilian populace on a spectrum of matters, from gun ownership to vaccination penetration. The odium of an actual Brave New World is finally within our vision now.
The antidemocratic drives of America’s elites have been palpable for many years already, manifesting as the “cancel culture” (whose aim is the erasure of nonconforming thinking and values), identity politics (whose purpose is to alienate and divide the American people against one another based on immutable characteristics), and various social-engineering mandates (such as DEI, CRT, and CSE) in schools, colleges, and workplaces both public and private, civilian and military (all designed to morph the nation’s guiding culture from traditional Americanism to “wokeism”, an evolution of communism and globalism). In the name of combatting a phantom societal threat labelled as “white supremacy”, “white privilege”, or “white nationalism”, these elites are relentlessly demonizing all white Americans and European-sourced Western civilization. In a form of inverse intersectionality, the most execrable people according to their perverse worldview are those who are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian.
Of course, a person need not possess all of those features to be targeted for vilification: Blacks/browns, gays/lesbians, and Jews who espouse conservative, pro-America views publicly have all been targeted for vituperation. It’s just the honored communist way, after all, of transforming a nation’s consciousness against all enemies at the same time. Ane ages-old defect of every dictatorial regime, of course, is that the maw for chewing up rogues and renegades is never satisfied, ever more demanding new human sacrifices in the name of maintaining ideological purity. Rather like the insatiable-for-blood exotic plant from the stars, Audrey II, in the musical film, Little Shop of Horrors: There’s no such thing as enough mayhem.
So, the advent of a technological totalitarianism on a global basis is no longer just a febrile dream in the wild, fevered imaginations of a shrouded cohort of wealthy yet morally effete control freaks. Rather, it is the reification of an idea that appeals to a wide swath of avant-garde intellectuals, pioneering inventors, social-utopian activists, power-lusting politicians, and narcissistic film and major media celebrities – as well as the rich titans of banking, investment, industry, media, and entrepreneurism. As such, it’s a real specter of looming doom.
Overweening governmental control in the name of the globalist “One World” impulse or just the notion of the collectivist “common good” is ineluctably hostile to individual freedom, the essential objective of all republican and democratic states in the Western tradition. The potential for brilliance in the Age of Aquarius for innovation, uniqueness, and healthy, uplifting transformations must not be allowed to be eclipsed by the dark side of cold, unfeeling domination; a godless intellectual utopian idealism; and an elitism that denies the innate worth and dignity of Everyman and Everywoman.
In early January 49 BCE, then Roman governor Julius Caesar crossed the river Rubicon with his army, in violation of the Senate’s edict prohibiting the entry of armies into Italy; the Rubicon then marked the northern border of Italy. In so moving his men under arms across that frontier, Caesar triggered a civil war that resulted in him becoming dictator for life over Rome. In the modern idiom, the phrase “crossing the Rubicon” suggests that someone is passing a point of no return on a path to intended tyranny.
Last Thursday evening in Philadelphia, in a campaign speech billed ahead of time as one aimed at unifying Americans in these troubled times, President Biden excoriated “MAGA Republicans” at great length, villainizing them as existential threats to the Constitution, the rule of law, and democracy. He claimed Trump supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” He followed with: “[T]here is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.” Such blatantly scurrilous “J’accuse” languaging was mean, lurid, and inflammatory — even inciteful. And the staging of the event was redolent of totalitarian leaders’ public speeches in the 20th century: A crimson-red backdrop and two Marines flanking him in the background standing at some form of parade rest, whether truly per-protocol or contrived. And so, with them, themes of anger (rage?), absolutist authority, the military’s support, and implied psychological intimidation were salient. As Tom Fitton, president of the civilian government watchdog Judicial Watch later observed, the combination of abusive rhetoric and totalitarian imagery serves to paint a target on Trump and tens of millions of supportive Americans for political suppression and worse. All this in the United States of America of 2022, just two months ahead of the mid-term elections.
No speech like that one given by Biden has been ever delivered at any time by a sitting president in American history. Even when the Republic was threatened with impending civil war in the mid-19th century, President Lincoln never resorted to rank vitriol and scorn demonizing the Confederacy, its leaders, or Southerners in general. Biden’s vituperative speech was as unique as it was explosive.
But it was not unexpected. The president has been scapegoating Americans who disagree with his plans and policies as “white nationalists” or “white supremacists” since early on in his administration. Underlying both terms of calumny is the cardinal sin in America today: “racism.” Disagree with any Democratic Party initiative emanating from the White House, Congress, or any federal agency and the challenger will be vilified publicly as a “racist”, regardless of whether there is any tangible nexus between the given issue and veridical racial discrimination. “Racism” is used as the all-purpose cudgel with which to beat down (“cancel”) anyone or any group or any organization that advocates for any viewpoint at variance with the “revealed truth” announced by any modern Democratic Party policymakers. On all issues — political, social, economic, technological, and moral — without exception. And the nation’s Big Media, Big Tech, Big Entertainment, and Big Business amplify all the charges and excoriations relentlessly and without restraint.
World history is instructive as to where such concerted assaults on a labelled group lead over time, however generalized and elastic, or particular and selective, the targeted members may be. Once the objects of an officialized ire and loathing have been identified, personalized, and isolated, the path forward for the scapegoaters becomes easy. Historically speaking, that path’s destination is always the same: destruction of human beings. Neocommunist activist Saul Alinsky described the process of agitation with doric clarity in his revolutionary guidebook Rules for Radicals, even as he omitted the eventual certain outcome of its protracted use over time.
In Mein Kampf (1923), Adolf Hitler infamously wrote: “The art of all the great popular leaders has always consisted in concentrating the attention of the masses on a single enemy [because] the masses are blind and stupid. [. . . .] The only thing that remains stable is emotion and hatred.”
His maxim had historical precedent even then: In 1789, the French Jacobins demonized the nation’s clergy (and royalty and aristocracy), and in 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks demonized the bourgeoisie (middle-class workers and merchants). Like so, and well before 1933, Hitler’s Nazis demonized the Jews and the communists. Later, starting in 1966, Chinese Communists demonized the bourgeois revisionists, and starting in 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge demonized the educated (including all wearers of eyeglasses). Much more recently, in 1994, the Hutus of Rwanda demonized the Tutsis, a minority black tribe in that African country.
Each time, regardless of who did the social demonizing and who was socially demonized, the result was eventually the same: Mass killings of innocent people, based on mass formation psychosis – a psychological, emotionalist conversion of throngs of otherwise pacific individuals into bestial killers.
Since early 2021, President Biden and America’s Democratic Party leaders have been demonizing “white nationalists” and “white supremacists” and the “privilege” and “status” supposedly accorded them based on their white skin color. But, in a reflection of just how twisted, contrived, and willfully tendentious such labels really are, even black conservatives such as attorney and gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder and author and social media celebrity Candace Owens have been tarred with the same opprobrious brush. Just for dissenting from the dictates, mandates, and potentates of the Democratic Party. They are, of course, not alone. And it’s still 2022, just the second year into the Bidenista regime.
America and all its inhabitants, legal and illegal, are now skating on dangerous ice as a society. The nation’s populace is increasingly polarized by ideology, moral values, the roles to be played by the federal government, the honesty and impartiality of government agencies, the fundamental integrity of our election processes, the notion of what a nation is, and even the nature of national allegiance. As a matter of history, these are the portents of not just a national decline but dramatic schism and overall collapse, to be followed by some form of brutally authoritarian, centralized control.
Indeed, as of this year to date, all indicators are that the metaphorical Rubicon has been crossed in America. Major agencies of the federal government that directly affect most Americans’ lives (viz., IRS, ATF, CDC, FDA, FBI, DHS, DOJ) have become covertly politicized and weaponized against dissent in word and deed by everyday citizens — and even against many of their customary and traditional practices of living, recreating, working, getting educated, and doing business. And now that Democrats in Congress have recently approved – completely unilaterally — the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, it may be said of Biden’s regime that it will have, once again in American history, “erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” (ref. the Declaration of Independence) The American people mightily resisted just such an onslaught beginning in 1775 and for six hard years afterwards, emerging victorious only after much toil, strife, and devastation.
Will the Democrats hear the modern American people “singing a song of angry men [and women!]” against a new, encroaching enslavement or adamantly continue enacting their program of total control, quite oblivious to it? The next two years, through the elections of 2024, may well be much more than a euphemistic “inflection point” in our unique American story; they may, in fact, constitute a pivotal passage of redemption in the history of self-governance by free peoples everywhere. With wisdom in both action and prayer, a national existential crisis may be averted. Only time can tell.
Running for President in 2024?CPAC 2022 Straw Poll’s Top Two Contenders
AWAKE, NOT WOKE. Sounding this defiant and clarion meme, the American Conservative Union once again, for a second time, hosted its annual gathering in Orlando, Florida, this year at the Rosen Shingle Creek resort hotel from February 24 -27, 2022. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is the largest yearly conclave of proudly patriotic Americans who are unabashedly conservative, adoring of America as originally conceived and traditionally understood, and not at all chary of proclaiming its foundational exceptionalism. In the face of the most radical-left regime ever to rule this nation, conservatives and libertarians have needed a collective, metaphorical “shot in the arm” (no thanks to “Dr.” Anthony Fauci) to inspire sustained, principled civil resistance and counterforce to the onslaught of absurd, delusional, and destructive policies emanating from the White House and Congress since January 20, 2021. This they got in spades at CPAC 2022. The parade of luminaries with great things to say was stellar and galvanizing, providing a robust springboard for the coming midterm electoral battles later this year. Clarity of purpose, perspective, and position was palpable in every speaker’s remarks, whether a current officeholder, candidate for elective office, pundit, or policy wonk. CPAC always delivers the core conservative message, of course, but this year it did so especially well.
The impetus now for conservatives to gather, get inspired, get energized, get organized, and get working to elect conservatives at every level has never been greater, being loudly demanded by the increasingly disorienting times we live in. After only one year of total control of the federal government by hard-Left Democrats, the regime of Joe Biden threatens to erode, cleave, and subvert Americans’ liberty, prosperity, security, moral cohesion, and sovereignty. All conservatives and other sane, sensible citizens must rally in the face of the rolling insurrection against this constitutional republic that began in earnest on Inauguration Day 2021. Presto!, this CPAC provided the counterrevolt with a loud and splashy launch.
The speaker line-up was particularly compelling, with a multitude of celebrity pundits, commentators, wonks, and strong conservative candidates for elective office across the nation. But early on, one of the most convicted advocates at this or any other year’s CPAC confab was the current governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, already a conservative icon in his first term for his many principled actions in signing legislative bills and issuing executive orders that honor and will surely work to guarantee Floridians’ safety, security, election integrity, public morality, and educational sanity. In a 20-minute stemwinder, DeSantis cited his aggressive countermoves against “Faucian dystopia” (disavowing the federal vaccine mandates and passports), electoral subversion (outlawing ballot harvesting and the privatizing of election management), Big Tech elitist censorship (penalizing it criminally), public street chaos (criminalizing political rioting), transgender ideology (protecting women’s athletics), radical demographical transformation (banning sanctuary cities and removing illegal migrants to Delaware), and usurpation of parents’ child-raising authority (banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory and child sexualization in K-12 schools). In addition to emulating President Trump’s appointment of three jurists to the highest court in his state, DeSantis has halted the onslaught of “progressive” efforts to rob Americans of their rights, freedoms, jobs, businesses, and sovereignty. In less than four years, he has set a template for a 10th Amendment defense of Americanism that all states should act to follow. At CPAC, he was rewarded for his raw combination of smarts, courage, creativity, and steadfastness: In a straw poll conducted among the attendees for their preferred nominee for president in 2024, he outpolled all other new possible contenders combined, besting everyone except Donald Trump. With Trump eliminated as a choice in a second round, DeSantis cleared the table even more dramatically. America has a bold new champion in the event Trump decides not to run again in 2024.
Another striking highlight was a speech by journalist/author Julie Kelly, who chronicled the partisan authoritarian abuses and derelictions of the Biden regime since the sensationalized riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. From the mass arrests and incarceration of peaceful patriotic attendees at that event without due process, bail, legal representation, speedy trials, and humane treatment to the abject failure to hold criminally accountable any of the rioters, looters, arsonists, and killers who tormented so many American cities in the summer and fall of 2020, Kelly painted an Orwellian picture of an administration selectively sanctioning political violence, censoring opposing views, resisting legitimate inquiries, suppressing video evidence, misusing law enforcement, and eroding and ignoring many sacred legal norms and constitutional protections. She exhorted the audience to recognize how very critical to the future of American Liberty the upcoming elections this year are: Failure at the polls is not an option if our free republic is to survive.
The critical issue of energy supply for the nation was spotlighted by Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD), an ardent advocate for American energy production and independence. Cataloging the stream of injurious restrictions, permit withholdings, and project abrogations of the O’Bidenistas, she reminded attendees just how essential to prosperity a free and thriving domestic energy-production market is. Along with Governor DeSantis, Noem acted throughout the Covid scare of 2020-21 to maintain her citizens’ freedoms to conduct business, attend their jobs and schools, worship, and avert all mandates and lockdowns. Her clear-mindedness, staunch pragmatism, and firm reliance on traditional American precepts of governance will likely make her a serious contender for higher office in the coming years.
In one of his now-trademark 90-minute orations, President Trump delivered a rousing review of his manifold successes as president, warned of the plethora of threats Americans face under the Biden regime and Pelosi/Schumer Congress, catalogued the many electoral depredations orchestrated by radical Democrats and Big Tech that criminally deprived him of a second term in 2020, and urged his supporters to work for the resumption of the policies and acts that were making America a truly great nation again. Advocating for renewed energy independence, a completed border wall, strict migration controls, a pantheon of election reforms, new presidential termination authority over federal bureaucrats, a revitalized pro-America military, a strong and resolute America First foreign policy, full prosecution of violent criminals, an end to Covid-inspired mandates, the empowerment of parents to veto radical gender ideology in schools, and the legal breakup of Big Tech’s oligarchy, Trump had the audience repeatedly standing and applauding with giddy and gleeful approval. Rising in tempo and high passion, he responded to the aims of what he characterized as “the radical, power-hungry ruling class” to extinguish “our identity as Americans and rob us of our liberties” with this Churchillian peroration: “The People of America will not surrender our borders, our culture, our faith, our values, our history, our liberty, or our children to a small band of bullies and extremists who want to tell everyone else what to do.” It was, once again among many, a vocal tour de force , one that signals to this observer that Donald Trump will be running for president again in 2024. Coyness be damned.
The charge to CPAC’s attendees this year was annunciated loud and ringingly clear by many speakers throughout the conference. In perhaps the most succinct, stirring call to action to American patriots in 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, to tumultuous applause, exhorted the assembled throng to: “Stand Up, Lean Forward, and Fight Back!” If such brio fully materializes throughout the nation in the coming months, 2022 may well be a singularly pivotal year in American history. May this so “woke tyranny” be gone!
This observer continues to be skeptical that America, under the O’Bidenista regime, really wants any direct and open military conflict between Russia and America over Russia’s now two-month-old military invasion of Ukraine. However, Fox News Channel news host Tucker Carlson posited last night on his nightly show that President Joe Biden and the national Democratic leadership are actively precipitating such a conflict as a means of toppling Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin and thereby securing total regime change in his nation. Why? As Democratic punishment for Putin’s and Russia’s covert complicity in Donald’s Trump’s presidential election victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. This, despite the now widely acknowledged fact there was no Russian collusion in that year’s election that aided in Donalld Trump’s astounding win and that the whole delusional Russia-Trump collusion campaign was a cynically concocted, wholly seditious machination of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The evidence of a coup attempt is now in abundance and has been for some time now, but the serious federal prosecutions have yet to begin. The “when” can only be a matter of conjecture at this point, virtually sidelined by the press of many newer, late-breaking madcap events, both at home and abroad.
All that said, in the event of war between Russia and NATO and the U.S., qui bono? Well, China, of course. And with communist Chinese influence coursing through the D.C. intelligentsia, could this all be a ploy by China (with connivance by America’s woke elites) to eliminate its two biggest strategic rivals via a kinetic confrontation between them? One in which China would not at all be directly involved. Then, with both major adversaries much weakened — perhaps even destroyed (one or both) — China will surely emerge as the world’s only superpower. And then, in short order, it’ll be “Goodbye Taiwan” (perhaps without ever firing a shot) — and likely goodbye to every other free nation in the world as well.
Can we thank Joe Biden (and the man [men?] behind his curtain) for this real-life actualization of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, both here and overseas, all at the same time? Maybe the Nobel Committee in Oslo should look into this unfolding tale of some Obamaesque “potential promise” for a new, even more demented Peace Prize selection of him — or better yet (much more sanely!), the International Criminal Court in the Hague for a wider inclusion of war criminals in the dock. The dusty Doomsday Clock of yesteryear’s Cold War is ominously ticking once again — only more suddenly now, more precipitously, and yet really no less precariously.
At the end of the first week in January, the world seems eerily drifting once again towards the brink of international war, and likely so in more than one region. It’s all redolent of the year 1938, when predatory dictatorships in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Soviet Russia were all either maneuvering diplomatically, warring militarily, or engaging clandestinely in infiltration into governments with the goal of territorial expansion. By that year’s end, the Nazis had absorbed all of Czechoslovakia and annexed Austria, Mussolini’s fascisti had earlier subdued Abyssinia (the old Ethiopia), Tojo’s imperialist military was brutally subjugating Manchuria (China), and Russia’s Comintern agents were clandestinely fomenting discontent, diffidence, and appeasement elsewhere in Europe, not to mention in Great Britain and America.
Today, the Red Chinese are saber-rattling against Taiwan, the North Koreans are acting with provocation against their free national counterpart to the south, the Russians are readying manpower and materiel on their border with Ukraine, and Iran’s ayatollahs are moving inexorably to develop an offensive nuclear weapons capability, presumably with Israel and Saudi Arabia in their immediate strategic target sights. Irredentism, a state’s drive to reclaim lands once held by a former national regime or its religion — whether as factual history or some fancy ideological mandate – is making a comeback across the globe.
Just as in the 1930s, this comeback is being enabled by the appearance and reality of a complex of weak resolve in leadership, fading allegiance by elites to democratic values, dwindling economic and fiscal health, and fraying military readiness and strength in the nations of the West in general, and America in particular. In a signal distinction from yesteryear, however, the United States as superpower is now the sole tentpole of the Free World, and without its unparalleled excellence in all of these dimensions, the history of the mid-twentieth century is about to repeat itself. The appeasement mindset, and actions and policies of accommodation that flow from it, being demonstrated by America’s current rulers constitute surefire catnip to aggressors everywhere.
It appears to be just a matter of time now before “the balloon goes up” and the shooting starts. Several years ago, Russia, China, and Iran created the Shanghai Cooperative Organization, aiming to coordinate military exercises at the very least, and presumably for the purpose of strategizing about how best to undermine and upset American global power in pursuit of their own foreign-policy objectives. This appears to have gained impetus since Joseph R. Biden became president in 2021. If ever there were any doubt as to the incompetency of the O’Biden regime or — what’s more likely — its insidious globalist agenda to emasculate America on the world stage, “desovereigntize” the nation, and deconstruct its republican form of government from within, the debacle of our withdrawal from Afghanistan last August and the unrelenting federal efforts since February to facilitate a rank invasion by foreign migrants into the homeland has dispelled it forever. With increasing divisions and polarization amongst the American populace now the order of the day partly as a result (by design, no doubt), the advent of open civil strife appears very likely to occur in our near future.
If such a scenario does come to pass – and even if it doesn’t result in widespread civil violence – the enemies of America will certainly be quick to capitalize on the distractions that it will create for the nation as a whole and its civilian and military leadership circles in particular. Coordinated, concurrent military campaigns by America’s main adversaries, and perhaps others, against their strategic targets could easily overwhelm this nation’s ability to respond in any efficacious way, diplomatically, economically, or militarily. The geopolitical order of the world could well be transformed virtually overnight, with a desperate resort to nuclear weapons by our leaders being the only cognizable way of addressing all of the seismic assaults decisively. But what sane person would advocate for such a Wagnerian Götterdämmerung? Even dedicated conservative patriots have to wince hard at the prospect of such a holocaust.
The only rational way to avert such a global catastrophe is to organize Americans to face the threat posed by weak leaders in the administration and their plans for appeasement abroad and deconstruction at home, and to act civilly and lawfully in political advocacy and, as necessary, lawfare to oust Democrats from control of the Congress in the elections to be held this year. And then to work to impeach this president and his ideologically aligned successors and key cabinet officers as soon thereafter as practicable. If dedicated patriots succeed in their efforts, this nation and its great republic can likely be preserved. And millions of Taiwanese, Ukrainians, Israelis, Saudis, and South Koreans will sleep the night and breathe a whole lot easier. And just perhaps, they will be joined by many more millions of other Europeans, Asians, and Arabs. It’s well worth working for, for sure — and praying for, mightily.
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