A Battle of Extremes

We the People are the pawns in a battle of extremes.  Those seeking our submission do not have our best interests at heart.  They promote extremism and idolatry via emotional, nonsensical appeals short circuiting our vision of reality and ability to think rationally.  Our job is to take off the blinders, engage our brains, and get to work fixing this country by neutralizing those out for themselves.  

Let’s start with Trump.  I beseech all Trump supporters to critically examine his actions.  They are increasingly bizarre. Forget for a minute that he spared us a Hillary presidency, fought the good fight and implemented many policies that were good for our country. Ask instead, what has he done lately?  

For one, he unsuccessfully meddled in the 2022 midterms.  He elevated primary candidates based on whether they bent the knee not on their credentials and ability to win in the general.  Trump supporters complied and delivered Trump’s picks in the primaries, in some cases leaving the better candidate on the trash heap. The opposition recognized the opportunity and spent millions backing vulnerable Trump candidates. Trump’s ego grew.  Weak battleground candidates lost.  

Trump also exhibited incredibly poor judgement a couple days before the election at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.  With crass attacks against DeSantis and Pence, he effectively announced his bid for the presidency.  ME, ME, ME, I am the celestial body around which everything revolves.  Who cares about Oz!  Who cares about winning the Senate!  Look at ME!  How many decided against Trump’s boy Oz as a result?  

Let’s please stop making excuses for Trump’s failures.  Let’s not fall for the divisive con that anyone who criticizes Trump is a RINO or Never Trumper.  Let’s deep six the idea that Trump’s words don’t matter because he did good things as President.  It should be clear to all that what he says has an immense negative impact on voters.  Do we ignore Biden’s words when he says: “No more drilling”.  Of course not.  Trump is not “anointed”.  The only thing he wants to save is himself and as we watch him self-destruct, his success even at that is in question.  

With Trump’s post election, rambling attack on DeSantis one can only wonder if his ego has eaten his brain.  As we move to a runoff in Georgia, would any rational politician cause a war in the party?  Sadly, it appears Trump has become a caricature of himself.  

Eyes wide open please because Trump is a gnat compared to the other extreme forces at work. Progressivism is a wrecking ball on western society.  Our confused, shuffling President is the face of the American progressive movement while whoever is running the government is the brains.  Regulation and executive order are the weapons.  Lies and manipulation create the marketing.  We the People are the suckers.  

Does the majority believe it’s a good idea to throttle back on fossil fuels before a viable alternative exists?  That we should cast aside energy independence?  Doubtful.  Progressives want the Green New Deal even though the resultant inflation and energy shortages threaten our national and economic security.  That sounds like a real “threat to democracy”.  

It is also hard to believe most Americans support teaching kids they can be a boy or girl, both or neither and then give them health destroying drugs when they listen.  Or undermine the traditional family structure by legislating parents out of decisions involving their children.   Or divide our nation along racial lines and promote Marxist victim/oppressor ideology.  What is gained by teaching kids they are victims? Nothing good.

Progressive politicians support abortion until the moment of birth.  The extreme support killing babies born alive after a botched abortion.  Regardless of one’s belief regarding first term abortions, most agree late term and post birth abortions for convenience are a moral abomination.  The slippery slope of physician assisted suicide is also gaining ground in states controlled by progressives.  

Progressives authored the defund the police movement that created chaos in our society.  We should always remember the riots and the progressive politicians who did nothing to stop them.  The “summer of love” was designed to create chaos so We the People would seek change in November 2020.  We got change.  We went from the frying pan into the fire.  

It is progressives who support our porous border controlled by the cartels.  Millions of people are released into our country siphoning tax dollars from hardworking taxpayers.  We know nothing about these folks.  Will they help or hurt our country?  We do know an insane amount of drugs are entering through the southern border.  We are at 100,000 drug overdose deaths annually.  That this administration does nothing to change course suggests they are good with the drugs, deaths, chaos and human smuggling.  They do not care about the financial and emotional cost of their policies, or they would change them.  

Free speech is under attack throughout our country. It is clear now that this administration has coordinated with social media to squash what they deem to be misinformation.  Watch progressive heads explode as Musk eliminates Twitter censorship.  In one of his most ironic moves, Biden suggested Musk be investigated for his ties to foreign countries.  Let that sink in.  

Progressives support the concentration of power at the federal level, packing the supreme court, eliminating the filibuster, woke ideology in our institutions, the elimination of the electoral college, federalizing elections, no voter ID, socializing large segments of our economy, high taxation, dumping trillions into the economy, and they absolutely love buying votes and dependency with our tax dollars whether they have the constitutional authority or not.  

Do the Americans in the middle agree with these extreme progressive policies and the obvious consequences?  Doubtful.  Yet a good number of them voted in the midterms for their continuation.  Why?  

When Biden said “democracy was on the ballot” his goal was to put Trump on the ballot, something the progressives desperately needed to deflect attention from the disastrous results of their policies.  They knew from 2020 many moderate democrats and independents have such a visceral hatred for Trump they would vote for a banana instead of him.  To aid in this effort, progressives spent millions backing Trump’s picks in the primaries figuring they would be easier to beat in the general.  They were right.  

Trump, with his big mouth and bad judgement, took the bait and plastered himself all over the ballot.  Trump himself confirmed the fear the progressives stoked.  Democrats voted in high numbers and independents broke for democrat and progressive candidates.  While there are other significant issues such as abortion that drove voters, the Trump factor in battleground states seems clear.  Emotions, ginned up by progressives and reinforced by Trump, resulted in some folks rejecting Trump candidates even though the candidate’s platform was a better reflection of their beliefs.  In other words, they hate Trump more than their grocery bills.

As progressive politicians vote progressively and democrats follow like sheep, emotion-based voters will likely say the country is headed in the wrong direction and wonder why.  

What is to be done?  

• We must neutralize the extremes.  Progressivism is an extreme virulent cancer.  These words are not a republican scare tactic as the progressives in power would have many believe.  It’s real.  For those who consider this statement the ramblings of a nutbag, research is recommended.  Perhaps start with Thomas Sowell’s Black Wisdom Matters series to understand the race and equity con job.  The articles in the Transgender Campaign offer a window into the dangers of gender ideology.  Once a few threads are pulled the big picture will become clear.  

• What can citizens do?  We can educate ourselves and then tell others.  Grassroot movements are the most effective.  

• Woke indoctrination in schools must stop.  Parents are the front line in this effort.  

• Gridlock in Washington will slow down the progressives. If control of the Senate comes down to the runoff in Georgia, support Herschel Walker.  While divided government will not stop Biden’s progressive pen or the regulatory actions of his administration, it will stop unlimited spending and efforts to pack the court or eliminate the filibuster.  Note the stock market responds well to grid lock.   Update 11.13.22 – Democrats will retain control in the Senate due to Republican losses in AZ (Masters) and NV (Laxalt). Herschel must win now in the event there are any free thinkers on the Democrat side.

• Trump, the other extreme, must be neutralized as well if the republican party has any hope of uniting.  He has once again allowed himself to be the progressives’ most effective weapon.  Hopefully Trump supporters understand that he can’t win and if we back him, the country loses and progressivism wins.  We must support effective ethical leaders who can communicate clearly.  

• The best way to neutralize Trump is to ignore him. 

• Fringe Trump and far left progressive supporters are different sides of the same coin.  The rational middle should take control and demand the return of common sense and the demise of anything woke.  

• All politicians use emotional appeals to win votes.  To get our country back on track, we can no longer afford to fall for that trick.  Let’s stand firm on our beliefs and vote accordingly.  

Our country is in a perilous position on nearly every front.  Hopefully, We the People pay attention, dig for the truth and take action.