INSANITY IN OUR TIMES

 

The look of lunacy

Society has gone insane, every sort of aberration, abomination, perversion, eccentricity, or insanity, has now gone mainstream and is accepted by pop culture. It would take far too long to list every bit of craziness found in the recent news; therefore, I have listed a few stellar examples.

 

For our first example, a heroin addicted Columbia university professor has declared that drug usage should be a legalized human right. We must assume the man knows what he's talking about, he teaches at one of the most prestigious universities in world. Perhaps this stunt is intended to boost sales of his book, or perhaps he really believes his own craziness. It's easy to imagine the catastrophic results if the government was to suddenly legalize hardcore drug use, there would be an epidemic of addiction, overdoses, suicides, and different forms mental illness resulting from extended drug use. Perhaps the university should reconsider the quality of the professors it hires, and search for faculty that would not poison the students. 

In another bit of news from New York City, a teacher preparing to retire was fired for refusing to give the "Black Panther" salute to the school superintendent. The teacher, a Dominican-American who identifies as Afro-Latina, was one year away from retirement, and is now suing the school board for unlawful termination. Apparently, the school board adopted the salute from the Disney/Marvel film "Black Panther" in which the actors give the salute and shout "Wakanda Forever!". The teacher was admonished multiple times for not using this particular salute. I wonder if other forms of salute will become mandatory in the public school system, perhaps the straight hand Nazi salute, or the Roman salute in which soldiers and gladiators would bang their fist against their breastplate. The lawsuit also claims the teacher was informed she was "not black enough" and to "sit quiet and look pretty". Well, well.... if anyone except a black person had made such comments, the offender would be beaten to death by an angry mob, while liberal politicians and journalists would declare the violence to be a cathartic act of societal cleansing. The fired teacher is suing the school system for $40Million, and I hope she wins. 

I was going to avoid politics, but President Joe Biden deserves a bit of help. He simply can not do enough to appease the fanatical Socialist/Progressive Left of the Democrat Party that keeps hounding him to take ever more extreme positions on everything from the minimum wage to the deportation of illegal immigrants. The ACLU has declared the Biden administration's guidance on deportations a "step backwards".  Self-proclaimed Communist Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is assuring people that a national $15 per hour minimum wage will become a reality. Biden, with whatever wisdom remains to him, has rejected to idea of raising the minimum wage in such a dramatic fashion, declaring it would be harmful to businesses, the economy, and the labor market. 

 

In order to avoid to great a fight within the ranks of the Democrat Party, Biden could realistically place the blame for all these problems on Donald Trump. Why not? The man was hounded for four years, with every sort of specious accusation being hurled against him. Journalists would happily oblige by digging up nonexistent dirt given to them by confidential sources, claiming Trump has been masterminding everything by his use of social media; regardless if it is an impossibility. The voters will believe it, and that's all that matters to the Democrat Party. 

 

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Communist Bernie Sanders, he is known to have an acerbic personality.

PROGRESSIVES AGAIN PROVE THEIR INTOLERANCE FOR ANY DISSENT OR DIVERGENCE FROM THEIR AGENDA

 

Van Jones is a man with a life long history of impeccable Socialist/Progressive credentials: enthusiastic student of Marx and Lenin; community activist for police reform, social justice and environmentalism; CNN commentator; and a former Obama administration official. No one has ever accused Van Jones of being anything less than an exemplary member of the Socialist Left wing of the Democrat Party, until now. 

This man has committed a crime so dreadful, he is being ostracized by the same people that should be embracing him. He is now viewed as a pariah by the radicalized Socialist/Progressive fanatics that have come to dominate the Democrat Party, and even Republican never-Trumpers have turned against him. What is the heinous crime this man committed? What possible reason could cause the shrill, obnoxious, and hateful members of the "View", to attack one of their own? Van Jones, the man of impeccable Socialist/Progressive credentials and a life long dedication to social justice, made the mistake of being polite to Republicans and giving Donald Trump the slightest bit of credit for his policies. He has not changed his beliefs, nor has he abandoned the ardent Marxism of his youth. He was simply being polite, and that was enough for his Socialist/Progressive friends to attack him and impugn his character. 

Van Jones brought to tears as he celebrates Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 Presidential election.

 

From now on this man will have his every word, deed, Tweet, thought, and facial expression, viewed under a microscope with the greatest suspicion. Regardless of how hard he tries, his reputation within Socialist/Progressives circles is tarnished forever. This is how the Left has come to operate within the US. They do not forgive, forget, nor grant mercy to those that show the slightest bit of weakness or non-compliance. Free thought is an anathema, free speech is a crime. Being polite to an enemy of the Revolution (conservatives, libertarians, or even non-political folk) is an offense so serious it may eventually require prison or even capital punishment. Make no mistake, this is the United States that is being discussed in this post, not the USSR. However, it should be obvious to anyone that remembers the evil of the Soviet Union or has studied the list bit about it, the tactics that have been adopted by the Socialist/Progressives in the US are an exact copy of the infamous behaviors of the Communist Bolshevik Party that would eventually lead to the deaths of more than 50 million people. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn tried to warn the world about the Soviet system with his famous work The Gulag Archipelago, but he and his book have been consigned to the dustbin of history by the new generation of uninformed Socialist fanatics. Anyone that disagrees with the Marxist Socialist/Progressives, or deviates in the slight bit by being polite, is called a traitor and will be treated with severe harshness, just as it happened in the Soviet Union. 

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GROWING GOVERNMENT SHRINKING FREEDOM

 

It seems to be the goal of every Socialist/Progressive to grow the size and strength of government, in every nation of the world. The fanatically Progressive editor of The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, wrote high praise of Joe Biden in a recent article for his multitude of executive orders that appear "transformative" in increasing government control and oversight. She is not alone in trumpeting the need for governments to impose ever greater control over society, below I will quote Sebastian Mallaby from his article in Foreign Affairs Magazine in which he declares governments should become more assertive.

"Today, the United States and other advanced countries are experiencing the second wave of an especially powerful twin shock. Taken individually, either the global financial crises of 2008 or the global pandemic of 2020 would have been enough to change public finances, driving government to to create and borrow money freely. Combined, these two crises are set to transform the spending power of the state. A new era of assertive and expansive government beckons. Call it the age of magic money."

Read it carefully. "A new era of assertive and expansive government beckons." What does he mean by assertive government? Powerful government, and government becomes powerful when citizens lose power.

 

Katrina vanden Heuvel gave numerous examples of why she supported President Biden's actions, and she also took the opportunity to attack anyone with a different point of view. She declared "the era of small government is over".  She went on to say "Biden is essentially announcing that the Washington consensus — one that favors deregulation, austerity, and pro-corporate trade policies — is bankrupt,"

 

 Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package was at the forefront of her praise, claiming the Republicans "have no clue as the suffering of the people" with their counteroffer of $600 billion. She took the opportunity to mention Barak Obama and his administration, "As President Barack Obama came to understand only too late, attempts to compromise with obstructionists gain nothing".

 

Let's think about this very carefully. Katrina vanden Heuvel in her praise of Biden is also advocating for an end to legitimate political debate. Her declaring that Obama's compromising with the Republican led Congress gained nothing is very revealing of her true desire, a an apparent desire for one party rule. Is this the future Progressives are so eager to attain? A future in which the citizens have become little more than servants to an all powerful government that is ruled by Socialist elites. This has been tried before, in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. These ideas failed in the Communist block, and they will fail if implemented in the West. The greatest quality a nation can have is freedom and liberty for it's citizens to make their own economic choices, reach their highest potential in life, or to fail if they so choose. This argument is one of choice, and it is best left to individuals to choose for themselves. We do not need the illustrious Katrina vanden Heuvel, Sebastian Mallaby, Bernie Sanders, or Joe Biden to dictate to us how we should live our lives. 

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