Cotton PIckin' Values

 "How have we become fascist?"  It is amazing how susceptible humans are to temptation; it is not coincidental.  Almost everything around us is addictive in some way, because the traditional tenants of human interaction and fulfillment are absent.  The exploitation of the internet is responsible for much of this.  I have been watching Ken Burns' documentary about Congress, and it is telling.  Congress is problematic.  In a broad sense Congress has regressed 125 years to being mob bosses.  This era was known as the "Millionaire's Club," and our elected politicians were the richest and most powerful people in America.  Trusts were powerful, and inherited money accrued more wealth and power over time.  A "Progressive" contingency fought back and eventually won power, but it tested the fundamentals of democracy.  It happened in the streets by presence and with vocalization.  There was no internet.  With the shift of the American economy to technology and the internet, we, as a people, have lost touch with this responsibility.  If a free American market is to survive, then this turn toward automation, AI, and the replacing of live workers is not wise.  What does it say about America, once was a democracy?  Corporations are downsizing firing live human bodies and replacing them with software reliant upon wireless telecommunications. The resultant profits are absorbed back to the most wealthy.  We are becoming a Third World nation or "Banana Republic."  We, the people, no longer are in control or actively participation in governance.  Congress has failed to lead the country for the good of all.  No one can deny this change.  Internet commerce is key, but it was the Covid pandemic that has steered us down the wrong path.  To this day we do not know the real origins of Covid 19.  If we rely upon traditional means of enlightenment, the interview with Dr. Robert Redfield is helpful.  Why should we not trust him?  Former Vice President Dick Cheney appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci head of "The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases." NIAID became America's biodefense program.  Other departments, agencies, and centers, including the military, were relinquished of this responsibility.  Fauci was given billions of dollars in funding and had a direct political liaison from Scooter Libby giving Fauci complete control.  He receive the highest salary in the federal government and an open line of communication with then President, George W. Bush.  He held this highest paying position until 2022.  Dr. Redfield recently conceded Covid 19 was a highly engineered virus not capable of natural evolution.  HIAID was responsible for the creation of Covid 19 with the help of the Wuhan Lab in China, Fort Detrick in Maryland, and labs at UNC-Chapel Hill.  (my alma mater)  This is disturbing information.  It is probable this highly infectious and often deadly engineered pathogen inadvertently escaped the lab in Wuhan, killed its makers, and made its way to the United States on a cruise ship.  As the passengers disembarked, they were collapsing to the ground.  Because America, through her reaction to 9/11 and as evidenced through her erroneous decimation of Iraq, was responsible for sanctioning this kind of biological/chemical weapon, it stands to reason we have it now.  Dr. Anthony Fauci has disappeared from the public eye.  In retrospect we have discovered America's response to Covid 19 largely was misguided, ineffective, and dictated by those bearing the burden of responsibility for killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.  Only now and extremely slowly is America renewing faith in her own honesty and people.  The evil of Covid has begun to subside, but a second Trump presidency has muddied the water of a complete revival of truly American ideals.  I agree with some of the things President Trump is doing.  If we pay our troops only to train, and we are not engaged in war with boots on the ground, why not send them to curtail illegal immigration?  Transgender ideology clouds the efficiency of the military.  I did not have faith in the Secretary of Defense nor the Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff.  They were figureheads.  Inasmuch as people personally do not like Pete Hegseth because of his media past, an Ivy League educated military veteran is a better choice to lead active duty troops.  Knowing that America has the capability to use Covid 19 in the future, whether we choose to or not, demands active democratic leadership.  We cannot allow this to happen.  In a narrow view the Covid pandemic was similar to the Holocaust.  It just was cloaked in anonymity.  Its purveyors have disappeared like Nazi officers.  There is no telling where they may emerge.