Time to Perform

I talked to my Aunt Glenda today, the good witch of Shelby, NC, and she told me the whole world was falling apart.  No one wants to work, and they are getting everything from the government.  Businesses are closing and inflation is at a record high, although I remember the days of Ronald Reagan.  Inflation was a problem then too.  Crap was expensive.  Four dollars for a dozen eggs?  Four dollars for a loaf of bread.  This is fallout from two years of Covid lock down.  Those who perpetrated this crime got it right.  They hammered a severe blow to American democracy and civilization as we once knew it.  "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" in the immortal music and words of Mercer Ellington and Ted Persons.  I wanted to begin my blog entry by having read, "Trumps tax returns now will be available to Congress."  It is a broken record.  How many times all ready have we, the American people, heard this nonsense?  Every month the headline reads, "Past president Donald  Trump must make his tax returns public," as most sitting presidents do.  (unless they have something to hide)  It has been six long years since this man connived his way to the American Presidency by bribing specifically targeted state legislators whose states don't require them to take the popular vote.  If they dissent for some reason, they can opt to discard the popular vote and send their own nominee.  How else could he have won?  We are in purgatory, and we can't get on with  American life until he gets his due.  Only six years ago before Donald Trump became president seemingly defeating Hillary Clinton (who had two million more votes) life in America was calm.  It was normal.  There was no Radical Right.  There was not so much racial violence, although police shootings of black men always have been problematic in America.  Jim Crow is responsible for this.  Six years later, even after democrat Joe Biden has won the presidency, all hell is breaking loose.  Imagine four covert years in the American presidency appointing judges, dismantling regulatory legislation and their accompanying agencies, and setting the stage for a violent overthrow of Congress at the Capital in Washington.  The damage this man did to America is far reaching and substantial.  It is he, Donald Trump, who is responsible for our pain.  Flip on the G5 network, and now there is a shooting every day, not just every week.  It is not a coincidence.  Start a Space Force.  Did anyone stop to ask what this is?  It was a sanction for Elon Musk to build Dr. No's evil network of low orbiting surveillance satellites.  Was it another James Bond villain?  That is the scope of this crisis.   "Anything Goes" in the immortal words and music of Cole Porter.  America's leadership has failed.  Any nation knowingly that allows children to drive while holding a smart phone is negligent and responsible for their deaths.  Children cannot discipline themselves.  They need structure, guidance, and mentoring.  If we said, "No driving with a smartphone," then they wouldn't do it.  Yet we allow them to do it recklessly, and for what reason?  We are inhibiting their personal freedom?  A nation cannot be a nation unless there is a main street.  Bill Clinton used to speak about Main Street, meaning the common ground among most Americans.  No longer do we have this.  We have been splintered, diverted, assaulted, and disrespected like no other American generation.  We are expected to disregard gender and allow humanity to devolve into single celled organisms incapable of understanding the beautiful difference between the sexes.  I don't want to marry myself.  Why would I?  An ugly mob of haters, inciters, and posers has descended from space and inhabited our bodies.  Sound familiar?  (The Walking Dead)  It is real.  We are being programmed to accept the zombies, but I am on to them.  You're going to have to do more than pose.  You're going to have to do something.    

Six Years of Hell

 Because I cut the cord my access to news has dwindled.  Staunchly I believed cable television was not worth the prices providers are charging.  Many times I watched, and even upon surfing through many channels, only commercials were on.  No matter what channel to which I navigated, commercials.  With the competition of internet streaming, the restrictions of Covid, and the real cost of quality production television has deteriorated.  Tim Cooke may want you to believe an iPhone can produce a sitcom or a feature movie, but in comparison to a bona fide "Golden Age of Hollywood" studio your product will pale.  If you have true talent or a ground-breaking concept, an iPhone will provide an introductory vehicle for your producing sentiments.  If anyone cares to studio film and television production at university, quickly they will realize "Things Ain't What They Used to Be."  Recently a Facebook friend posted about the attributes of the television comedy "Hogan's Heroes."  I agreed with his opinion that it was an almost revolutionary show.  The Germans were played by Jews in a parody not unlike the musical mounted in Mel Brookes "The Producers."  Hollywood as defined by many was a mecca created by the same Jews who sought to create a utopia in stark contrast to the Nazi atrocities.  Jews and the Jewish faith have a marked influence in the creative development of America, a newly emerging and burgeoning free nation.  "The Big Lie" was not just about the presidential election.  Donald Trump's "Big Lie" is a campaign which has undermined and degraded the core of American democratic, sociocultural, and academic postulates.  Everything in American life has been assaulted, dismantled, or disguised for simple economic and autocratic gain.  Like January 6th it is a coup d'etat.  It has been implemented from within with the slow eroding of our food, health, media, education, and government standard of practices.  Probably there are more.  Nothing has escaped unharmed.  Insurance ruined our health care, and the establishment was quick to comply.  Food has been Benedict Arnold since the 1920's.  Public education was fed to the dogs, and higher academia fell prey to the dollar.  As such "The Swamp" was created.  This siege upon American ideology was a result of "The Big Lie" implemented in other disciplines and aesthetics.  Complain about infrasonic pollution from the rail industry, and the GOP decries science.  Point out the dangers of climate change, and they lie.  Understand the importance of teachers in advancing society, and they cut funding.  Keep the minimum wage an unlivable, paltry, pittance of sustenance.  There are so many things gone awry in our country, it could be difficult to swim to the surface.  The disguising of the truth through gas lighting, the spread of misinformation, and flat out lying is a low point in American history, and subsequently our nation is in peril of extinction, war, or domination.  American ideals are what built America, and these extreme truths have kept us alive, proud, and free.  Democracy does work, but you must believe in and support it.  We have been sold out, and the salesmen are in Washington, DC. 

Buckabee the Hun

The voting process in North America has undergone a test.  We discovered voting rights are individual to each state.  Moreover our electoral college was open to corrupt manipulation.  The Trump machine went to states and tried to convince them their election results for some reason were inaccurate.  In many states there is a provision that allows the statehouse the option of rejecting electors choices and simply replacing them with their own.  This is how Donald Trump won the election against Hillary Clinton.  It happened, and the nation did not catch it.  We just gasped at how a candidate could win receiving two million less popular votes.  Certainly it was not fair or representative, and it was not because this win was achieved by the method stated above.  Trump was one step ahead of us, and his "Big Lie" merely was what his campaign did in 2018.  They manipulated states' electoral colleges by bribery.  Superimpose President Trump or Senator Lindsey Graham calling the Secretary of State of a contested state and asking them to "find enough votes for him to win."  No matter how hard you spin this truth, it cannot be discounted.  The Trump machine slickly applied shrewd business practices to our Constitutional  processes eliminating moral and ethical ethos from America.  America became free range, and still we are stampeding like a herd of bison not knowing where we are headed.  Luckily Democratic wins in our recent midterm election has staved off some of the remnants of "The Big Lie."  Americans are ready to get back to their own lives.  The "Razzle Dazzle" has fizzled out, and America needs back her democracy and her local economy.  Inflation has set in, and when food prices become unreasonably high people become desperate.  This increases crime.  Our inequality of wealth is bursting at the seams, and eventually all of that money will have to escape finding its ways back into the hands of normal Americans.  The money has slowed to a drizzle, and it needs to flow.  Not hustle and flow but flow in a normal process of work and wage.  Our cost of living continues to increase, and our wages remain stagnant.  They have been for a long time.  Only a ludicrous longing for the free labor of slavery could condone our almost inhumane wages.  Certainly they are not livable.  If you did listen to Elizabeth Warren, she would tell you she supported a family on one paycheck back in the good old days.  Clearly I remember the "Soccer Mom," the metaphor for two working parents hauling their children in a minivan.  What was that date, when in America both parents had to work to earn enough money to live comfortably?  We are worse off today living pay check to pay check with very little security.  This is what America seeks, and this is why a "Red Wave" was diverted in the wake of a corrupt president.  The people are speaking again, and they spoke in this midterm election.  Now only if we can get Washington to listen.  It is disheartening the choices North Carolina has made.  The Honorable Senator from North Carolina...  a gun shop owner, a supporter of the Big Lie, and a right leaning zealot for Trump.  This is who the constituents of North Carolina chose to send to Washington, DC to represent us.  Thom Tillis and Ted Budd.  The reason was North Carolinians are so red, they just cannot elect a black woman to congress.  There was little publicity about this choice unlike the elections in Georgia which democrats flipped with the electing of Raphael Warnock.  It was not a matter of credentials, ability, or experience in legislative procedures.  We elected Ted Budd, because he is a white man.  We are ignorant enough to believe because he is a white man somehow he will do the right thing in Washington.  He won't.  Mitch doesn't, and neither do any of the GOP officials we have elected.  They do for themselves, not for the people.  We could have had an attorney and a judge with a lifetime of judicial experience speak for the people of North Carolina.  Instead we chose a gun store owner with a history of wrong-doing.  The only thing more improper is electing a mediocre past White House press secretary to the governorship of Arkansas.  The only reason she won is the same reason Ted Budd won.  They are not electing a professional to do a job, they are electing allegiance to Red.  At least now clearly we can see our mistakes and the level of intelligence in the country.  

American Adolescence

 One's traditions are the only thing they have.  If we were to base our existence on what we experience each day via the internet, television, and human interaction, I would be a walking basket case.  It would seem few of the things traditionally we have embraced in America as mainstream and meriting our loyalty are at play.  Truly we are on our own in terms of our values.  When push comes to shove one's traditions are the only thing we have.  What is religion?  What is philosophy?  What are the arts?  What is philanthropy?  What is fellowship?  I have no reason to doubt or question my upbringing.  For me it was a mix of Christian reverence, musical competitiveness, spirit, love, and devotion.  Somehow I learned to work hard at and for what I believed in.  It stuck with me all of my life.  Today I am faced with a predicament, and that predicament is much of what I believe and consider integral to a happy and healthy life no longer is in the majority.  If I take the time to look around, America has become more diverse in ethnicity.  The Left without asking would tout this as a good thing.  Our Left today unfortunately blindly is ascribing to things they feel should be good, but with further study could yield serious threats to American solidarity.  Not all nationalities agree with or adhere to American principles of governance or behavior.  The huge posse of Afghans who were welcomed into the United States largely not vetted by any arbitrary body could pose a significant threat to American security.  Who are these people, and why were they welcomed here with a red carpet, when the GOP only screams about building a wall to keep foreigners out?  There are some unsavory politics going on in Washington concerning foreign policy, espionage, and balance of power.  The enemy having emerged in America is foreign, and they have immigrated legally.  These legal aliens have brought with them their disdain for democracy, and slowly from within they have mounted an attack on our country from the inside.  I see it every day.  The true fabric of American philosophy has been infiltrated and convoluted developing into a disparate and unwieldy conglomeration of extreme and selfish behavior.  Covid did not help.  Two years of isolation with only the internet as our teacher has proven disastrous to our youth intelligence.  All schools are under-performing, because we have lost sight of how to work.  Working for American youth is playing video games on the internet.  It is immediate gratification with minimal physical exertion, concentration, or dedication.  The more alarming aspect of this two year isolation was lack of socialization coupled with a burgeoning LGBT community.  Again the Left in America supports many things they think are liberal, but upon closer scrutiny have no value at all.  The LGBT movement is a good example.  It is far from a gay rights movement.  It has become a radicalized, extreme, separatist cult better kept hidden in pop culture.  That is where it belongs, because the behavior exhibited in this movement is far from adult.  It it more like a costume party for those with thin skins.  Life in America is difficult, and it is difficult for everyone.  Not everyone declares themselves "Special Needs" and asks for special treatment.  As an educator with an education degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I can find little favorable or supportive philosophy in this choice.  Instead what I see are extremely confused, androgynous, asexual organisms who are not able to understand a sexual identity other than their own.  They are missing the entire challenge rendered by our Creator and the subsequent rewards of its mitigation.  Physical, emotional, and spiritual love fully cannot be actualized without an understanding of two sexes.  Perhaps homosexuals can fabricate physical love through various means, but only God's intended methodology will yield that possible and probable ecstatic relationship yielded by two sexes which were meant to coincide and recreate human life.  Procreation once was a metaphor for human love, but now it just is a tool for life.  This bothers me.  This bothers me, because what I see most days is a rejection of heterosexuality.  Not only is it rejected, it is shunned and demonized like shallow Baptiste doctrine.  Southerners in their naivety fear teaching their children how wholly and healthily to love one another responsibly and resort to abstinence.  Consequently the possible and probably sexual titillation so necessary for adolescent development becomes absent.  Eventually the sexes become desensitized to one another and eventually sexual identity is lost all together.  What do you get?  The answer is androgyny, and it is ugly.  Ask a painter to paint an androgynous form, and it will be ameba or an earthworm.  What fascination does this hold for romance?  The stark result of this American trend is the loss of sexual feeling between women and men, and without it much of the traditional human experience is lost.  No wonder we have become F-I-N-E.  Freaked out, insecure, neurotic, and emotional.  Our environment is not helping.  There is little in our daily lives that presents examples of healthy human living.  Instead it is hard core pornography on the internet, LGBT perversion, or cult-like divisiveness.  Few places offer a safe and nurturing environment for Christian sexual love.  How are youth to learn how to live this life without instruction or models?  Ignoring burgeoning adolescent sexuality in the home will be a disaster, and it should be embraced, respected, and nurtured with care.  How else can we become loving human adults?  In the old days wealthy families had special rooms in their mansions for this activity.  Instead of resorting to cul-de-sacs, movie houses, and nightclubs, teenagers were encouraged to mingle and socialize within the family structure.  What is so threatening about your child becoming an adult, if you help them?