Where Does Elizabeth Warren Stand on the Issues?

The following are a few of Elizabeth Warren's views on important issues. I will attempt to explain these, in layman's terms, as best I can so you, the reader, are able to understand what she stands for and the repercussions of her policies.

On the economy:

Ultra-Millionaire Tax on America’s 75,000 richest families to produce trillions.

So, Ms. Warren wants the taxpayer to believe that taxing the top 75k families more will produce trillions of dollars. How, exactly, does that work? Those top wage earners don't make that much. Is she going to take all their money from them and then some? If she wants to tax enough to make trillions of dollars in federal revenue, she will end up taxing everyone more and more. According to wsj.com the Treasury Dept. brought in $3.3T last year with spending at $4.2T.

According to the Tax Foundation (taxfoundation.org) the lowest percent paid was 1.5% for the lowest income earner and the top 1% paid 33.3% tax. Also, the income before taxes and after taxes (this is the really important part) is surprisingly unfair. The lowest quintile earners before taxes share of income is 3.7% but after taxes (you know, with all the refundable credits, AKA redistribution of wealth) is 7.3% while the 81^st to 99^th percentile's is 38.4% before and 35.1% after. The top 1%, 16.6% and 13.2%. Looks to me like the lowest percentile earners are getting their fair share while the top wage earners are paying for it. And Ms Warren wants to make that an even larger gap in the before and after taxes percentages.

You have to understand that those high wage earners and corporations are the ones that are paying the wages to the lower earners. Those corporations spend billions on expanding their businesses to create more jobs so more people are working and earning. I agree that corporate greed is out of hand but it isn't the businesses, themselves, that are greedy. It is the CEOs, Board members, higher management that are greedy. And let's not forget the shareholders that demand those businesses make more and more profit to give to them.

On education:

Canceling student loan debt for most college graduates, eliminating all tuition costs at public two- and four-year schools.

“The entire cost of my broad debt cancellation plan and universal free college is more than covered by my Ultra-Millionaire Tax — a 2% annual tax on the 75,000 families with $50 million or more in wealth."

According to Americanprogress.org the federal student loan debt for the country is $1.5T with another $119B in private student loan debt. Ms Warren wants to have the Federal Government pay off that debt and then make college free? I don't think those 75K families have that much money to give away along with paying for all the other things she wants them to pay for. Once again, the taxes won't just be coming from the wealthy; she will raise taxes on every working family in the nation.

On energy and the environment:

Cutting carbon pollution roughly in half by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. As the world’s largest historical carbon polluter, the United States has a special responsibility to lead the way.

Wow! Can you believe that? How is she going to cut carbon emissions to net-zero? Along with AOC and the Squat Squad she wants to do away with internal combustion engines. Are you ready to start walking everywhere? Are you ready to quit using your AC and electric heat? Are you ready to quit buying things at the store? To cut carbon emissions to net-zero that is what it would take. Why would you have to stop buying things? It takes an internal combustion engine to power that truck down the road to deliver your iPhone, Nike's, PlayStation, Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. Electricity is produced using coal. You won't be able to own a car.

USCUSA.org reports that the US is number 2 for greenhouse gas emissions with China as being number one with almost twice the emissions as the United States.

On gun regulation:

 "As president, I will immediately take executive action to rein in an out-of-control gun industry — and to hold both gun dealers and manufacturers accountable for the violence promoted by their products. I will break the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress by passing sweeping anti-corruption legislation and eliminating the filibuster so that our nation can no longer be held hostage by a small group of well-financed extremists who have already made it perfectly clear that they will never put the safety of the American people first.”

Let's see, if gun dealers and manufacturers are to be held responsible for gun violence shouldn't auto manufacturers and dealers be held responsible for car deaths; tool manufacturers and dealers for deaths due to someone using a hammer, crowbar, screwdriver, etc.; doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies held responsible for prescription drug deaths; and maybe the government for deaths during war?

As for the NRA – there has yet to be an NRA member that has committed a gun crime. All the NRA does is stand up for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Ms. Warren would love to disarm the people totally so that the government can take complete control over the people instead of the people controlling the government.

On healthcare:

"The Medicare for All Act of 2019 would ensure that Americans could get the care they need, when they need it, without going into debt. It would empower the federal government to negotiate prices with drug companies. And it would expand coverage to include home- and community-based long-term care services, ensuring people with disabilities can receive the care they need to stay in their homes and remain part of their communities."

Single-payer, government-controlled healthcare. That's worked so well for the vets in this country. It's also worked well in every country that uses it. People aren't rushing to Canada, the UK, Venezuela, or any other socialist country for their healthcare. They come to the US. Why? They come here because the United States has the best healthcare in the world. Is the system broken and extremely expensive? Of course, it is. Does it need to be fixed? Of course, it does. Does it take government policy to do it? Oh, HELL no! The government shouldn't be involved in anything more than protections for the country. If the US government was put in charge of the Sahara Desert within 10 years there would be a shortage of sand.

On immigration:

 "Decriminalize migration and refocus enforcement on serious criminal activity. Separate law enforcement from immigration enforcement to strengthen our communities. Remake CBP and ICE in a way that reflects our values. Create accountability for the abuse perpetrated during the Trump Era."

"End unnecessary detention. Eliminate private detention facilities. Expand the executive use of parole and invest in alternatives-to-detention."

"Establish professional, independent Article I immigration courts. Eliminate expedited removal and provide due process."

: "Reject exclusionary policies based on race, religion, and nationality. Raise the refugee cap. Affirm asylum protections."

Ok. I get it. The Democrats want to flood the country with illegals. They want to give citizenship to illegals without those individuals going through the same process as the legal immigrants have. They want to do away with ICE so that those illegals in the country don't have to worry about being deported. I get it. They want people that will vote Democrat.

There is nothing else to say about the Democrat's immigration policies. They want open borders, no American sovereignty, and the entire world to be able to come to the United States and have the American taxpayer pay for their healthcare, housing, food, and education.

On impeachment:

"Every member of Congress took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States — not to protect and defend Donald Trump. Every elected official should read the Mueller report. And once they do, they’ll see the facts are inescapable. The House should do its job and begin impeachment proceedings.

This is to the point of being laughable. The Mueller Report stated clearly that there was no collusion and no obstruction committed by Donald J Trump, his campaign, his family, or his administration.

What the Mueller Report did find is that the Clinton Campaign paid for an unverifiable dossier from a foreign spy that got it from a Russian.

The Obama DOJ lied to the FISA court to obtain warrants to spy on an opposing candidate. The FBI exonerated Hillary Clinton before she was even interviewed, for any wrongdoing by having an unsecured, private server with government emails that were hacked by the Chinese. Hillary Clinton obstructed justice by destroying over 30K emails that were subpoenaed by the Congress, then destroyed phones and computers using BleachBit and hammers and removing SIM cards.

Who all was involved in the Trump Spygate? When it all comes out in the IG report I believe the entire Obama Administration, FBI, DOJ, Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama, himself, will be implicated.

If Congress was actually doing its job, it would stop investigating Trump over and over for trying to find a crime he committed and start doing something about illegal aliens, the economy, infrastructure, foreign policy, etc. If they were interested in equal justice and 'no one is above the law' they would be looking at several of their own members such as AOC, Ilan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters, and Frederica Wilson.

There is no equal justice in Congress. Democrats are above the law as has been proven by Hillary Clinton. There are several state officials that have been accused of some terrible crimes but aren't being prosecuted or even investigated. Brett Kavanaugh, on the other hand, is being humiliated by false accusations and Trump has been investigated since he was inaugurated for crimes he hasn't committed.

And the Democrats are demanding his impeachment. It is almost laughable.

So, these are the policies that Elizabeth Warren stands behind; the Green New Deal, open borders, disarming the American citizens, free everything for anyone, taxing the American people into poverty while paying for everyone else, and impeaching a President that has done nothing wrong. Yep! My kind of candidate. Especially since she claimed to be Native American just to get into Harvard and get her first job and then continued to claim minority status until Donald Trump called her out on it. She fits into the Democrat Party just fine.

All information on Elizabeth Warren's standing on the issues is from ballotpedia.org/Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign 2020

Chaos and Tyranny vs Rule of Law and Freedom

Antifa counter-protested against some white supremacists this past weekend. Nothing new to either group. The thing about this protest, which was in Portland, Oregon, is that there were around a thousand Antifa and maybe two hundred others (white supremacists, journalists, on-lookers). Antifa, being the peaceful, kind, and generous group that they are shouted obscenities, threw hammers at people, threatened people’s lives, etc. After the smaller group disbanded, they then decided to start attacking law enforcement.

Mainstream media decided not to report about the violence, threats, or foul language of Antifa. The fact of the matter is, CNN, MSNBC, the local news source, and several other liberal-leaning outlets reported that Antifa was there as a peace-keeping force protecting the citizens of Portland from those oppressive white supremacists. Too bad there was a video of the whole ordeal that proves otherwise.

The far-left politicians seem to embrace anything that is violent, anti-American, antisemitic, and/or pro-chaos. Antifa is their go-to army against anything they don’t like. They seem to enjoy the chaos that follows the terrorist group and will never say anything against them.

Then again, the far left won’t say anything against anyone that has anti-American values. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are embraced instead of censured for their blatant antisemitism and hatred for everything American or Jewish. Nothing is said about the map of Israel with ‘Palestine’ written over Israel that hangs in Rashida Tlaib’s congressional office. Nothing is ever said about the rhetoric spewing forth from any of the Squad’s mouths that goes against the Constitution, our greatest ally in The Middle East or our American values.

Chaos and anarchy are the left’s biggest allies. Without these two ingredients, along with poverty and victimization of minorities, the left wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. They wouldn’t have any agenda to fight. Look at San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, NYC or any other big Democrat-controlled city and you will find homelessness, poverty, filth, open use of drugs, crime, and violence. They look like Third World countries, not American cities. Not that Republican-controlled cities don’t know these things also but not to the extent of the Democrat-controlled.

This is what the left wants. It gives them a purpose. It gets them votes. It increases their power. How? They lie. They promise to fix things, make people’s lives better, they ‘feel’ for the impoverished. They lie. What has the left done for anyone? Not a damn thing except make people’s lives worse while making their own lives better. While politicians live in multi-million-dollar mansions surrounded by walls and armed guards, the constituents of those politicians live in crime-ridden, filthy shitholes either on the streets or in homeless encampments. The homeless are increasing in numbers in these cities by the day. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Kamala Harris, etc., all say that we need to pay more in taxes to help the needy. How about they get their ultra-rich buddies, throw a party and raise a hundred million for housing, food, medical treatment, etc. for those homeless instead of demanding the rest of the country pay for their screw-ups?

That is what the left does though. Wealth redistribution…as long as it isn’t THEIR wealth.

Let’s look at Chicago for a minute. Every weekend there are tens of shootings and homicides. Why don’t we hear about those? It doesn’t fit the narrative. Chicago is a violent city with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. How can the left use Chicago to help their cause when it is under their control, with their strict laws, and it is still the highest gun violence in the nation? It’s all about politics and how to get more power for them. If they can’t blame Trump somehow, it isn’t worth talking about.

The El Paso and Dayton shootings were hours apart. The El Paso shooter allegedly wrote a manifesto citing his hatred of illegals, liberalism, and the chaos of the border. He also allegedly wrote that the left and media would say it was all because of Donald Trump but that it was, in fact, his own idea that had been in planning for years. He didn’t want anyone to think that Trump’s rhetoric or speeches had anything to do with it. The Left blamed Trump.

The Dayton shooter was a self-proclaimed Elizabeth Warren fan, liked the far-left ideology and was acting on the rhetoric of the far-left Congresswomen’s words of violence against conservatism. The Left was silent. The shooter at the ball field in Virginia a couple of years ago where Steve Scalise was shot and almost killed was a Bernie Sanders supporter. The Left was silent. Any time a mass shooting occurs and the perpetrator is a left-wing supporter the Left is silent. If the perp is even half-way supportive of conservatism or Donald Trump the left and the media shout to the heavens that it is all because of Trump. Do you get the idea yet?

Donald Trump makes the statement that the Jews that support the Democrats must be unknowledgeable or not loyal to Israel. The Left went nuts stating that Trump was anti-Semitic. Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib openly demand boycotting Israel, say how evil Jews are, that they want the end of the Jewish State, refuse to call the country Israel calling it Palestine and that it is occupied territory. The left defends these two women.

Do you get it yet?

Democrat policy is not founded in American values, morals, or culture. The Left wants open borders, decriminalization of illegal entry into the country, free healthcare for everyone that comes to the United States, freedom of speech only if it agrees with far-left ideology, doing away with Christianity, embracing Islam and Sharia Law, abolishing the Second Amendment, not giving the presumption of innocence to any conservative but ignoring any broken laws by liberals, taxing the people into poverty, growing government until the government controls every aspect of our lives,… the list goes on and on. In a nutshell, the Left wants a Marxist society here in the USA.

Do you get it yet?

Chaos over peace, tyranny over freedom. And the Left has the mainstream media on their side. When the nation’s top newspaper openly admits to pushing a false narrative, the Russian Collusion Delusion (as President Donald Trump calls it), for over two years then states they need to change their agenda to Trump’s racism and the racism of the conservative people it’s obvious that they no longer report news and prefer chaos.

When liberals are openly stating that they want a recession before the next election just so Trump won’t win, it’s obvious they want chaos over calm. When they refuse to denounce terrorist organizations such as Antifa, the Muslim Brotherhood, Black Lives Matter, etc., it’s obvious they want chaos. When sitting members of Congress openly spew forth antisemitism, the rhetoric of overthrowing the sitting President by way of the 25^th Amendment, demanding to impeach the President when he’s done nothing wrong (except winning the election against a known criminal), it is obvious they want chaos.

When every Democratic candidate running for the Oval Office in 2020 has policies of open borders, free healthcare for anyone and everyone, up to 70% tax rates, packing the Supreme Court, doing away with the Electoral College… you guessed it… it’s blatantly obvious they want tyranny. That is the Democrat Party of today. It didn’t use to be, not when John Kennedy was President. Today’s Democrats are socialists, communists, anti-Americans, and power-hungry oligarchs. They definitely don’t want what’s best for the nation. Look at those Democrat-controlled cities again and the hopelessness those people must be enduring. All the while these politicians are saying that illegals need to be protected and are welcomed in these towns.

With all the freebies promised by the Democrats a lot of Americans are saying, “Sure! Why not? I’ll vote for free healthcare, guaranteed income, who needs an AR-15 anyway, open borders because those poor people need our help, etc.” What the Democrats don’t, and won’t, tell their supporters is that with all the free stuff they want the government to hand out there comes a price. Not just higher taxes, to the point of forcing most middle-class taxpayers into poverty but the rationing of services from medical to education to food to housing. If you don’t believe me just look at any socialist/communist society throughout history.

Chaos and tyranny follow hand-in-hand with hard socialism, Marxism, and communism. Venezuela is the best example in recent history. Once the richest country in South America is now in chaos under the Socialistic control of Maduro. The people are begging for food and healthcare. They are being shot down in the streets by the military and police. That is what hard socialism is. That is what the Left wants. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Have you been paying attention to Hong Kong? The people of that little island are waving the AMERICAN FLAG and singing the AMERICAN national anthem because they want to keep the freedoms they have enjoyed under British control and do not want to fall under the Chinese communist rule. All the while our own Congress and celebrities are belittling our country, kneeling for the national anthem, and stomping on the American flag. Why? Because they can. They hate America yet love the freedom to protest everything American. I believe it was Abraham Lincoln that said that America would never be won over from the outside but would be overrun from within if we let our freedoms be taken from us through complacency. That is where we are today. We are complacent in our freedoms as those very freedoms are taken from us through regulation and unconstitutional laws passed by a corrupt Congress full of anti-American politicians.

As the world looks to us as the last bastion of hope and freedom, we are giving our freedoms away to tyranny. “But, but, but… you can’t fight the government.” Oh, but yes, we can. The Founders stated very plainly that is was not just our right but our responsibility to keep hold of our freedoms if our government ever usurped its authority. I’d say when Congress starts passing laws that go against the Supreme Law of the Land it has usurped its authority. Tyranny and chaos are on the horizon and we are sitting back and letting it get closer and closer without a fight.

Why do you think the Democrats are so intent on regulating away our Second Amendment? That Amendment guarantees that the government cannot disarm the people of the nation. The Supreme Court has ruled over and over that the government cannot go against the Second Amendment and that it is an inalienable right for us to keep and bear arms. So, what do the liberals do? They REGULATE everything around that so-important right. They regulate the magazine capacity. They put restrictions on which weapons can be bought. There are extensive background checks (not a bad idea with all the nutjobs running around these days). Now they are talking about ‘red-flag’ laws.

What are red-flag laws? Glad you asked. The red-flag law states that if ANYONE says that you are mentally unstable, were violent in any way even in speech, that you may be a threat to yourself or someone else, the government will confiscate your weapons and then you have to prove, beyond any shadow of doubt (even more so than in a court of law when charged with a crime) that you are competent to own those weapons. That’s right. All it takes is someone, anyone, making a statement against you. And that someone could be a person that holds a grudge against you. It won’t matter. It will cost you time, money, and more than likely, your weapons. How do you prove you are innocent? Wait, doesn’t that go against the presumption of innocence? Yes, it does.

Once again, the evil politicians are showing just how much they hate Americans and want complete control over us. We can fight back. It takes more than one of us. It takes more than a dozen. It takes the majority to beat back tyranny. If we can’t vote them out, then we become the bad guys. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

The Left, and unfortunately several of the conservative representatives, are bound and determined to take control from the people. Please, open your eyes and ears. Pay attention to what is actually going on in Washington, DC. Watch what your state government is doing. If we aren’t careful we will all be California, New York, Illinois, or Michigan.

The Media vs the American People

As I sit back and watch what is happening in the world, how social media and the mainstream media are controlling our thoughts, I am totally amazed. Here in the United States of America, the most democratic, the freest, nation in the world we are manipulated and controlled by a biased media and an intolerant, far left-leaning Congress.

As President Donald J Trump fights to keep America free, safe, and economically sound, our so-called representatives are fighting him tooth-and-nail on all fronts. They call him a Nazi, fascist, xenophobe, homophobe, racist; all because he wants to build a physical barrier between Mexico and the U.S., he wants to deport illegal aliens, he wants to have a photo ID to vote, he wants fair trade deals, and on and on. All the liberal left can do is investigate, investigate, investigate. There has never been a president so persecuted; not even Richard M Nixon was investigated this hard.

Why are they doing it? Let's take a walk through recent history.

During the primaries for the 2016 election, Hillary R Clinton rigged the selection process so that she would win the nomination for the Democratic presidential candidacy. The people, clearly, would have chosen Bernie Sanders by far.

During the presidential campaign, Clinton was given debate questions beforehand. She bought a shaky dossier from a former British spy of dirt about Trump from the Russians. She was also investigated for having an unsecured server with classified U.S. Documents on it. Because of bias in government, she was exonerated before any investigation started. During that investigation, she deleted over 30,000 emails that were subpoenaed by Congress, wiped her server clean with Bleach-bit, destroyed phones and removed SIM cards.

Bill Clinton received half a million dollars for a speech given in Russia, the Clinton Foundation received tens of millions of dollars from Russia, and let's not forget the Uranium One deal where 20% of our uranium was sold to Russia while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

Yet, here we are, over two years into the Trump Administration and all we hear is that Trump colluded with the Russians to win an election that even he didn't think he'd win. The liberal left were so hurt and dismayed by his historic, landslide win against the favorite that they are doing all they can to destroy him and his administration. The election was rigged against him, the Mueller investigation was rigged against him, the mainstream media is rigged against him, the former administration is fighting against him, yet here he is, fighting every day for America, and winning.

What does this have to do with being controlled and manipulated by social and mainstream media? CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The LA Times, Hollywood celebrities, athletes, college professors, anyone that leans left constantly pour out negative stories about Donald Trump. Not one of them ever says anything about the good he's done and is doing. They are more interested in destroying him. All because their savior, Hillary Rodham Clinton, didn't get elected. Yes, she won the popular vote by about 1.5 million votes. The thing about that is those votes came from New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Should three cities control what the entire nation does? The Democrats think so.

The socialist/communist agenda of the Democratic Party is being shoved down the collective throats of the entire nation. Universal everything is a fundamental right to all in the world at the expense of the U.S. Taxpayer. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has gone so far as to say it is a fundamental right for everyone to have an income to live on, even if they are unwilling but able, to work. Socialism at its best. The younger generation, the generation called Millennials, are all for this. They believe that they are owed a living with no effort from them. Thank you, Socialist Representatives, social media, and the mainstream media that parrot this talk on a 24/7 basis.

After over two years of extensive investigation, the Mueller Team found absolutely no evidence of any collusion by Donald J Trump or his campaign even though the far-left liberals and the mainstream media have been pronouncing, daily, that there was clear evidence. They are still saying it even after the Mueller Report came out stating there was no collusion. The Democrats just won't give up until they find something, anything, against the one President, since JFK, that is totally for America. And Kennedy was shot because of it.

The antisemitic terrorist attacks around the world are blamed on Trump by the left. Any terrorist attack is blamed on Trump. Why? The left doesn't like his straight, politically incorrect talk. He says what he thinks without a filter. Instead of blaming the radical Islamic, antisemitic, pro-socialist, racist terrorists for what they are doing, the left must blame Trump. Yes, they hate him that much. They hate him because he is against their anti-American ideology. The mainstream media and social media follow the left to the letter.

There are four freshman Congresswomen that have basically taken over the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. Each and every one of them has gone before cameras and the press and disrespected our nation in one way or another. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Oman have spoken out against Israel and the Jewish people, our biggest ally and the only Democratic nation in that region. Omar had the audacity to actually say “Some people did something” about the 9/11 attack on our nation and that all terror attacks around the world are due to America. AOC constantly accuses our men and women on the border as running concentration camps and being Nazis. Ayanna Pressly has said that if a black, brown, yellow face can't speak with the same color voice they don't need to be involved or heard.

The media has largely ignored all of the things these women have said and done. Instead, the media, the people that the nation goes to for truth in reporting and understanding in what goes on around the globe, have said that Trump is a racist, fascist., and a misogynist that is destroying the country with his tweets. As the 'Squad,' as they call themselves, give speeches, put out tweets, and give press conferences on how bad Trump has treated them, the press will not condemn them for any of their racist, Fascist, antisemitic, or anti-American rhetoric. The press praises these people like they are gods.

The mainstream media has become the mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. Instead of news, we get an opinion. Instead of reporting all the good that Trump has and is doing, we hear everything against him. They tear apart every tweet, every speech, even every gesture that the President makes and makes him look the bad guy. All the while screaming out the attributes of the new Socialist Democratic Party and ignoring that party's anti-American, pro-socialist, racist rants.

Whatever happened to news anchors like Walter Cronkite?

“And that's the way is was...”

Capitalism vs Socialism/Democratic Socialism

Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Furthermore, characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system, and competitive markets.

Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. In Marxist theory, socialism is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.

Democratic Socialism: a political philosophy that advocates political democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production, with an emphasis on self-management and democratic management of economic institutions within a market or some form of a decentralized planned socialist economy. This is from Wikipedia so the definition is suspect. The definitions of Capitalism and Socialism were from Google dictionary.

Take a good, hard, long look at these definitions; especially that of 'democratic' socialism. The first thing a person needs to understand there is that Wikipedia is not an accepted source of information at any university. Anyone can change anything in an entry on that website. I included it here as a reference to what Bernie Sanders calls himself.

This nation was built on capitalism. Each and every man that helped this country grow from a British colony to the greatest nation in world (in less than 250 years, no less) took pride in what he did, was compensated fairly for what he produced, and capitalism drove men to innovation and excellence. Without the incentive to achieve greater and greater things, men, the economy, and the country stagnate. Capitalism keeps the waters flowing hard and fast instead of pooling and turning sour.

When the people control the market, control the economy, control innovation, great things happen. The electric light bulb, the telephone, the telegraph, X-rays, the Polio vaccine, and innumerable other great inventions and discoveries would not have happened as soon as they did, if ever, without capitalism and the free market. In other words, all you millennials would be listening to your rap music and watching Game of Thrones in the dark without speakers while lying in an iron lung or having leeches bleed you out. Facebook would not be around. Cell phones wouldn't even be thought of. OMG! Instagram wouldn't exist.

In today's world, all you little snot-nosed, whiny, liberal, wanna-be socialists have it pretty darn good because of CAPITALISM! Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerburg, etc. all are, are you ready for this, capitalists! Nike, Polo Ralph Lauren, Aeropostale, etc.; yep, capitalists. Every athlete, every entertainer, every YouTuber... capitalists. They are all out there doing what they do for, you got it, MONEY! Socialism would take all that away. The State, the government, would control all that. The State would control what you did, when you did it, how much you got paid, when you got paid, where you live, how you live... all of it. Socialism destroys economies. Just look at Venezuela. Once the richest country in South America, now one of the poorest; all because of socialism.

Don't think that all these failed socialist countries failed because they didn't do it right. There is no right way to do socialism. There is only a state-controlled economy. If the government was given control over the Sahara Desert within ten years there would be a sand shortage. Government is not the answer. Government is the problem.

During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the Founding Fathers debated over what kind of government would rule over this brand new nation. They didn't want a monarchy such as the one that they had just fought a war to get away from. They didn't want one man to rule over the many as too much power would make that one corrupt. They decided on three branches of government: the Executive to administer and uphold the law, the Legislative to make the law, and the Judicial to enforce the law. They wanted the people to have their say so the Executive and Legislative branches would be filled with representatives voted for by the people.

Why do I bring this up in a study about Capitalism and Socialism? Because it is exactly our form of government that makes capitalism work, and work well. When the government controls the economy, that economy does not prosper as well, or as fast, as when the people, the market, control it. We became the greatest nation on Earth in less than 200 years. The world came to us, the United States of America, when it was in need. We became the richest nation in the world faster than any other country or empire in history. It took centuries for Rome, England, the Greeks, to become what this nation did in less than two centuries. That is capitalism.

If you really need to see what happens to a country that changed from capitalism to socialism take a look at Venezuela. Once one of the richest countries of South America it is now one of the poorest. While the people of Venezuela starve, the elites live in luxury. While the socialist government controls everything, the people live like animals, and when they object they are shot in the streets. When the Bolsheviks revolted in Russia against Czar Nicholas, it was because the elite was living in luxury and the people were impoverished. What the people didn't understand was that the communist regime that took over would be no better. After the fall of the monarchy, the Leninists created their own regime of socialism/communism. The USSR, even though it became a world power, did not prosper. The people still starved and were told what to do and how to do it. It took Ronald Reagan telling Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall' for the Russian people to see the advantages of capitalism. It is sad that the Russian government is a corrupt, and power-hungry, entity.

Our government, which is to be by, and for, the people, has become a corrupt entity. What the founders envisioned was not the socialistic leaning body that we have in Washington, DC. What was to be a small, people controlled government has become a large, people controlling monstrosity that is much more socialistic than democratic. With that in mind, look where our nation is heading. Many of our states are bankrupt, or close to it; our national debt is in the trillions. This is a far cry from the capitalist nation that grew so fast and so wealthy. The representatives that we elect are more interested in their own wealth and power than what the people want. It is much more socialistic than what a lot of Americans realize. The Constitution is meant to curtail government, not control the people.

Federalizing everything is socializing. The Constitution states that what is not specifically enumerated to the federal government is to be delegated to the individual states. What has happened over the years is that the states have abdicated their authority to the federal government. We became a soft socialistic nation. Our individual rights have been whittled away so as not to be noticed. Now, the socialists aren't hiding their agenda. They are screaming socialism from the rooftops and the House floor. Facebook, Twitter, the mainstream media are all filled with the socialist campaign against capitalism and control by the people; and we are suffering for it. Little by little the federal government is taking over and destroying our once great nation. Regulating, wasteful spending, taxation to the point of poverty, taking from those that work and giving to those that are able but unwilling to work, opening our borders to whoever wants to enter, and giving those people the same rights as if they were natural born citizens.

The ones that scream the loudest for socialism are the elites (which won't be affected because they have millions of dollars) and the ones that aren't contributing in any way at all now. Once everyone is on the wagon of government handouts, who will pull it? Government has already proven it does not have economic sense. All government knows is tax and spend. Washington, DC can't even come up with a budget, and if they do, they can't stick with it. If a private business was run like the government (federal, state, and local) that business wouldn't survive. Why does the government? The government survives because it will tax more and more and there is not a thing a private citizen can do. The government is all powerful. Ask the IRS if you can skip paying your taxes this year. Sure you can but you have to realize that your tax debt supersedes all others, and the interest and penalties of not paying your taxes will bury you. You can lose your wages, your property, your business, everything, if you refuse to pay the government what it demands.

That, my friends, is socialism. Welcome to the New World Order and the dystopian world of politics.

A Nation in Distress

What has happened to the world? It wasn't that long ago that Americans were proud to be Americans, were kind and considerate of others, believed in God, guns and country, would do whatever it took to protect their own, had a little common sense and were actually fairly intelligent.

I've driven a truck from border to border and coast to coast over the last 30 plus years and have seen a lot of things but what is happening today is beyond my imagination. People, driving both cars and semi-trucks, are getting more and more stupid every day. I've had to hit the brakes to keep some idiot from taking off my hood because of cutting in too fast so many times in the last few months, I've had truck drivers act like they were driving a powder blue Prius and was late for their date with a caramel, chocolate, non-dairy, extra-espresso latte at Star Bucks. There are so many people that will screw with trucks that the considerate ones are the exception instead of the rule. Speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down, don't let that truck get in front of me for any reason whatsoever even though I'm only going ten miles under the speed limit and he's late for an appointment or is trying to get there before his clock runs out (and this is from BOTH POVs and trucks).

What happened to common sense and intelligence in America (or the world for that matter)? When a state will elect an air-headed barmaid running on giving everyone free stuff with no way to pay for it, well, that is a sure sign of the downfall of our way of life. The United States wasn't founded on free stuff. It was founded on hard work, self-reliability and self-responsibility.

When did racism make its big comeback? Dr Martin Luther King, Jr had a dream of equality for all people and we, as a nation, were well on the way to that goal. Now, everyone is a racist and everything that Dr King stood for has been erased. The liberal left blames Donald J Trump. Which is actually pretty hilarious when you come to think about it. After all, it wasn't until Barack Hussein Obama that racism reared its ugly head and that was before Trump was in office.

Now we have so many 'movements' as to be confusing. There's the MeToo Movement, the IslamicsArePeaceful Movement, the OpenBorders Movement... get my drift? None of these liberal 'movements' are helping America at all. They are damaging our nation and destroying our society. A man can't ask a woman out without fear of being accused of assault. We can't speak our mind about radical Islamic terrorism without fear of being called xenophobic and Islamophobic and being arrested. We can't speak out for strong borders and keeping illegal aliens out of our country without being called racists, fascist, or nazi.

The rule of law is only for liberals, if they ever get into trouble at all. Assumption of innocence is a thing of the past when it comes to conservatives. With overwhelming evidence against Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, etc., the liberals are bound and determined to 'get Trump' on anything and will spend as much time and taxpayer money as they have to to find something on him. All the while ignoring what is actually criminal activities.

Corruption in government has become the norm. If the liberals don't win an election they argue about it, throw shit-fits and demand recounts. If they still lose, they being investigations because there is no way that a conservative could actually win an election, they had to cheat somehow. The only problem with that is when someone constantly accuses you of wrongdoing, it's usually them that are doing it. Take the Florida mid-terms for example. Broward and Palm Beach counties have had to do recounts since the Bush/Gore election. This year, not only did the same woman that has been found to be corrupt against conservatives every election for the last 20 years have control over the election again, she made sure that the conservative didn't get any more votes in the recount by missing the deadline by two minutes thus making those extra votes null and void, she kept 'finding' votes by the thousands after the election was officially over.

The left want to change the election rules to make sure that they win, no matter what. The saddest part of this is that the conservative side of government won't do anything about it. In fact, they have kowtowed to the left, even with a majority in both the House and Senate for the last two years. The conservative party is so weak that they are afraid of a couple of Congressmen just because those people call them names. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have effectively taken control of our government simply by being bullies against their colleagues across the aisle.

I have long believed that the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and the failed attack on the White House was a conspiracy so that G. W. Bush could take us to war with the Middle East and whatever terrorist organization that would surface. That being said, how did we go from watching a plane hit the World Trade Center to being afraid of offending Muslims? Islam, as a whole, has been the enemy of every nation, every religion, every society since its inception about twelve hundred years ago. Islam is against anything that is not Islam and they are bound by their religion to destroy anything that fails to convert to Islam. Something like Old Testament Christianity. The worst part of this is that the world over is bowing to Islam now. Islam is NOT a religion of peace. They believe in killing anyone for just about any reason just because the Q'aran says they must. Their prophet, their revered leader, was a monster. He had child brides as young as seven, he had slaves, he murdered and was a thief. He demanded that anyone not believing in Islam (the infidels) should be killed...PERIOD. Gays are to be killed. Women have no rights. Islam, the religion of peace, tolerance and human rights. Let's protect them and let them take over our governments and countries.

Then there is this 'caravan' of people from El Salvador and Guatemala. What the hell are the liberals thinking? Let them in? Are they insane? Over 10,000 people at one time is not a bunch of people looking for asylum; it is an invasion. Especially since at least 80% of those people are young, healthy men. What do you suppose those men are wanting? It ain't asylum; if it was they would have brought their families WITH them instead of leaving those defenseless women and children in the dangerous conditions these people are supposedly running from.

Mexico offered most of these people asylum, and jobs, but these people refused Mexico's help. All they want is to get to the USA and take advantage of our benefits and to be able to attack us from within. Yet, the liberals in all their higher moral glory have decided that conservatives are racist because we want to protect our borders and make people come in LEGALLY. Our Constitution was written for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, not the world. Our Constitution applies to United States CITIZENS, both natural born and naturalized, NOT anyone who wants to infiltrate our borders for whatever reason.

When the Constitution was written giving immigrants birthright citizenship, we were a new nation and there were a lot of people that were coming here as immigrants. The Founding Fathers wanted to make sure that those people's children were citizens of this new nation. That is what the birthright citizenship was about. Those people weren't here ILLEGALLY; they were here to help this country grow. Because of the wording of the Constitution the liberals seem to think that everyone should be a citizen if they are born here whether the parent is here legally or not. With an ever growing population of immigrants in this country there has to be a way to control said growth. The way the immigration system works now it doesn't matter whether you are legal or not, you will be released into the country on a promise to return for your hearing. Few return, have babies and are anchored in our country to reap the benefits reserved for those that have done it the legal way.

Michael Savage has said for years that liberalism is a mental illness. If you listen to what the liberals say, you will eventually have to agree with him. This is a capitalist country, built on hard work and compensation for that work. Without capitalism, this country would have ended up like a lot of the European, South American and Asian countries with most of the population in poverty, slow economic growth, slow technological growth and little incentive to strive for better. THAT is what the liberals want - open borders and government controlled everything, Socialism gives them power over the people and power is all they want. What they don't understand is that once everyone is on the government dole wagon, there will be no one to pull it. And gods forbid that they should give up their wealth and redistribute it to the poor.

Now we have a government shut down. Yes, Donald Trump shut one quarter of the government down so that the liberals (read: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer) would relent and allocate $5Billion to build a border wall along the Rio Grande. Yes, he is being petulant in not relenting to the aggression of the left. Why? Because he wants a secure border and you can't have that without a physical barrier. Common sense, America.

Once Ms Pelosi gained her status back as Speaker of the House, the Donald had a meeting with her and the Minority leader of the Senate, Mr Schumer. What happened? Nothing. They had another meeting in the Situation Room and what happened? Trump asked the two of them if he gave them what they wanted and re-opened the government would they give him border security and the wall. Guess what? They said, NO. He stood up, said it was a waste of time and walked out. Why try to negotiate when the other party won't give anything?

The President had an eight minute speech on TV informing the people of this great country of the crisis on the border and why we need the Wall. Chuck and Nancy demanded equal time for a rebuttal. A FUCKING REBUTTAL to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! Who the hell is running this country? The Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader or the the President? Looks to me like the Congress is trying to take over. Then again, isn't that what they have been trying to do since before Donald was elected?

Everything that President Trump has asked for Nancy, Chuck, Obama, Hillary and the rest of the opposition have already voted for in the past. Why won't they give it now? Because Donald J Trump is President instead of Hillary Rodham Clinton. All because a businessman won the election instead of a bought and paid for politician. Who are these people working for? It sure ain't the people that elected them.

Why won't the liberals give Trump what he wants? Are they making money from the drug cartels and human traffickers? Are MS-13 and the radical Islamic terrorists paying them money to keep the borders open so they can come in without prejudice? Seems like it.

Then we have the freshman class of Congressmen. Those socialists and Muslims that the liberal states seemed to desperately need to rule over them. Tlaib spouting off that they were going to “impeach that motherfucker.” Ocasio-Cortez spouting off that taxes needed to go up to 70% plus to pay for all her socialist policies. Sarsour hiding her Islamic agenda behind a sly smile. Yep, this country is had and it won't be long before the Constitution is done away with. Wait, watch, and worry.

Sixty million guns and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammo won't be enough to fight off the liberals that don't even know which bathroom to use. Why? Because they will have the full power of the United Socialist States of America behind them and with that the might of the military. Abraham Lincoln foresaw this and told us about it. “America will never be defeated from an outside enemy but from within.” Paraphrased but I think you get the idea.

Anonymous, The III%, the Militiamen... none are doing anything that they say they will. They do a lot of talking but little action. The left is DOING. When is the RIGHT going to start standing up for American values, morals, rights and freedoms? All these people do is TALK. Action speaks volumes. Talk is just bullshit. You can write, or call, your Congressmen. You can post on Facebook. You can even bitch to your neighbors, friends and family but that ain't gonna do a damn thing. It's time to fight back. March in the streets. Stand up for your First and Second Amendment rights. Don't back down in the face of the tyrannical libtards. That is how they are winning. Conservatives back down and try to do the right thing without confrontation. The left doesn't give a shit. They will 'get in your face!' They will bitch and scream and go to the 9^th Circuit Court that is so fucking liberal it ain't funny.

Stand up. Don't back down. Go ahead and write or call your elected officials. After all, they are supposed to be working FOR you. But, do more. Protest. March. Demand equality of rights. Don't be afraid to be called a racist, bigot, misogynist, Islamiphobe, xenophobe, etc. Like Moron Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, if that is what a radical is, then I am a radical. I don't give a rat's ass what the left thinks of me. THEY are the ones that are destroying MY country, MY Constitution, taking MY rights away and giving them to foreigners.

Remember this, the liberals think that walls are immoral yet they all surround their homes with walls. They think that $5B for a border wall is too much to protect the country yet want to spend $20B on foreign aid and $12 B on foreign ABORTIONS. If that doesn't tell you something about who the left want to represent then maybe YOU are part of the PROBLEM. Charity starts at home. We need to take care of ourselves before we can take care of anyone else. If you don't believe that, once again, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. If you think that illegal aliens should be taken care of before our own homeless and hungry (yes, there ARE homeless and hungry AMERICAN children) then YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. If you think that illegal Muslims, gang members, human traffickers, drug dealers, murderers, etc., should be allowed in the country and given money, food, shelter and healthcare while there are US military veterans that need these things first, then YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. America First. Then the world. It ain't OUR problem that these people can't stand up for themselves and take care of their own problems. We have our own that need addressed. Maybe we should become isolationists again. Let the world burn. Let China and Russia spend their money on these people that won't lift a finger to help themselves.

Do we need to have a presence in the world scene to keep our own republic free? Yes. Do we need to keep a military strong around the world to protect those that are trying to keep their own freedoms? Yes. Do we need to go in and try to change other countries governments and change their way of life? No. The Middle East has been killing each other for centuries. We aren't going to change that. That is how they live and they really don't want to change. Let them kill each other off. Gene Roddenberry had the right idea with his Prime Directive in Star Trek; DON”T INTERFER WITH ANEYONE'S SOCIETY. Let them figure it out for themselves.

A novel idea for this country would be this: let's take care of the corruption in our own government. Let's take care of our homeless and hungry. Let's take care of our ecological problems. Let's take care of US. There is a large enough plank in our own eye that needs taken out before we can even begin to remove the splinter in someone else's eye. We have corrupt politicians in Washington DC all the way down to local government. We have enough corrupt lawmen in this country that need weeded out that it could take decades to take care of. And by lawmen I mean from the FBI down to the local sheriff's department and city police. By politicians I mean from Congress down to your City Manager and Mayor.

Wait. What? Are you telling me that Mayor Honest Harold is corrupt? And Sheriff Andy is too? What about Deputy Fife? Wake up, sheeple. Just because you haven't seen the corruption doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just ask anyone who has been persecuted by local law enforcement or the City government. All it takes is someone that doesn't like you and you're had. Trust me on that one. A lot of local government is run just like Hazzard County Mississippi right out of the Dukes of Hazzard. There are more 'bad lieutenants' in this country than there are Andy Taylors. Especially in small town America where oversight is at a minimum. Lawmen use their badges as crowns and get away with it through deceit or threats. Local government officials cover-up their wrongdoings with deceit and new ordinances.

There are more and more new laws that restrict us every day. All in the name of safety for the people. No, it is control over the people. Revenue for the government. Power for the politician. People used to be able to take care of little problems on their own. It may have ended in fisticuffs, yes. BUT, it was done and over with without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on attorneys and court costs. Now, the first thing people do is call the law, get someone arrested, have to pay attorneys exorbitant fees and extortion based court costs. AND, it doesn't matter who is in the right. There is no justice in court. Only what can be proven. There are a lot of things that people do that cannot be proven in court because there are no witnesses, no paper trail. It was much better when you could go out behind the bar, beat the shit out of each other then go back in and drink a beer together. It was done and over with. Not anymore. Let's all go to court! Let's make more laws. Let's make it harder and harder on everyone (well, everyone but us politicians because the laws don't pertain to us).

Yes, friends, this is a country in distress. A country on a slippery slope. Are you willing to sit back and watch it die? Or are you willing to stand up and fight for it, to defend it, to keep it free? It's in your hands and your decision. You will have to live with it and so will your children and their children.

The Self Destruction of the Human Race

Humanity, the species that was given dominion over the Earth and all that was on it by God. The Creator also gave humanity free will which brought about our expulsion from Eden. What else did the great originator of life give to humans? Pride, lust, covetousness, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. For a supposedly omniscient being I don't think he/she thought that one through too thoroughly. Even I, a mere mortal with limited knowledge of the cosmos, can see far enough into the future to realize that the combination of emotions and thought patterns that have been given to humans is a recipe for self annihilation. All you have to do is listen to what is called news and it is plainly obvious that the human race is bent on self-destruction.

Let us not put all the blame on modern man, though. If you are a Christian, and most of the world is today, all you need do is read Genesis. Satan, disguised as a serpent, convinced Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, then to talk Adam into doing the same. Ah, deceit. Granted, that came from the Great Liar. And Eve, being pretty gullible and innocent, took that nasty serpent at his word. Adam was the same. They didn't know any better. Innocence can be so damning.

One small step forward from the expulsion would be the story of Cain and Able. Uh, oh! Here comes even more treachery. This time between men and a lot more bloody. The beginning of mortal crime – murder. Covered up by lying. Oh, what a tangled web we weave. And just think, the Holy Bible is filled from front to back with lies, treachery, murder, thievery, and all other kinds of mortal crimes. Even the Messiah, Jesus Christ, was crucified by his own people because of lies while a real criminal was set free. Sounds a little like our modern day court system.

According to Jewish history, The Jewish diaspora started with the Assyrian conquest and continued with the Babylonian conquest when the Tribe of Judah was exiled to Babylonia in the 6^th century BC (I refuse to be politically correct and be offended by religious references). Christianity started with the birth of Jesus of Nazareth some 2100 years ago. I make these references for examples. Most of the world's population is now Christian yet that religious order is actually fairly young.

I do not profess to be Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or any other organized, main stream religion. Nor will I downgrade or disrespect anyone's beliefs just because those beliefs are not in accord with my own. I believe that whatever makes you happy is fine with me, just don't force me to believe as you do and I won't force you to believe like I do. I just want people to have an open mind and hear what other people think and believe without judgment. I am using Christianity and Judaism as a way of explanation and example only at this time. There are other religions and belief systems that will be used later.

There have been more wars fought in the name of God than for any other reason since the Middle Ages. The Crusades are a good example of that. Here we have the Roman Catholic Church waging war against the Muslim Turks. Why? To protect pilgrims going to the Holy Land. The only problem with that is that Jerusalem was situated in an Arab region. It wasn't until Israel was recognized as a sovereign state in the late 1940's that it became the Christian-Judaeo land that it is today. Even though it is where Christians believe that the Christ was born and raised, the area was Palestinian. Was the Catholic Church wrong for waging war against these people? Especially since they were only protecting what was theirs? It is a moot point now, it's all done and over with. Kind of. The Israelis and Palestinians are still waging war against each other.

Islam has waged jihad against the world since its inception just after 1000 AD. Death to the Infidels! The Quran, from what I understand, is pretty much what the Old Testament is. Death to all nonbelievers and ours is the only true and correct belief system. There are rules that have to be followed and if they aren't, well, too bad, you die a horrible death at the hands of the holy ones. Christians don't want to remember that part of the Book.

Even within the Christian faith there are divisions. Catholicism, Protestant, Mormon, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witness, Methodist, Baptist, Southern Baptist, Organized and Re-Organized... the list goes on and on. Let us not forget the Orange and the Green. Protestant against Catholic in Ireland. Each denomination has its own belief system. The most humorous thing about all these religious wars between Christians is that they all believe in the same God, the same Holy Trinity, the same Heaven and Hell. The only differences are the pomp and circumstance. Yet there have been wars.

The Jewish people have been persecuted since the beginning of time, I think. Everyone has been against them. Over the millennia they have learned how to protect themselves. Instead of running away from slavery and/or persecutors, they have learned to stand and fight. Especially after the Holocaust (which, by the way, DID happen for all those non-believers out there). Theirs is not an offensive role but a defensive one. All they want is to be left alone and keep a tiny piece of land in the middle of Arab country that contains their most holy city, Jerusalem. Would it be so much to ask to just let them have it?

As stated above, Islam has waged jihad against everyone for the last 1100 years. As the youngest religious order, I really don't think they have a leg to stand on. As with Christianity, there are different orders of this ancient thinking religion and they make war between themselves as well. And, they kill off their own for things that shouldn't even be worried about. Death to gays. Death to adulterers. Death to non-believers. Death to those that eat pork. Death, death, death. Islam, the religion of peace.

Are religious beliefs so ingrained into people's brains that they are willing to die for them? Is any one religion any better than the others? Every religion preaches peace, except Islam, yet one of the major parts of each is to kill others (at least in part; most religious orders today don't believe in killing off the opposition as they once did). Even today there are religious wars; the jihad against all infidels more commonly called the war against terrorism. Hitler killed off Christians and Jews by the millions. Religion has been the cause of more mass extermination of mankind than even greed yet each religion preaches peace. Where is that peace? Where is the tolerance of other's beliefs? In my opinion such things don't exist within any religious thought process.

Greed is the only other reason for wars. Greed of land since the beginning of recorded history. Rome wanted to rule the known world and almost achieved that goal. England, also, wanted to rule all it could and succeeded in conquering lands around the globe. City States of Greece, tribes of ancient civilizations, the Celts, the Normans, the Vikings; all fought to conquer other lands. Even the Indians of the western hemisphere fought each other over land.

Untold millions have died over the millennia at the order of their rulers just so those men of power could gain more. Look at those ancient kingdoms now. Rome is but a city in Italy. England's holdings have diminished to a handful of countries with complete control over only that tiny island resting in the Atlantic Ocean. The Normans, Celts and Vikings have all but disappeared from the face of the Earth. Empires rise and fall across the centuries never lasting very long in the fabric of time. Yet, those that died for those empires believed they were doing what was right and that their rulers, their kingdoms, would last forever. Nothing lasts forever.

What of Germany and Hitler's great ideals of ruling the world with his master race? That ended well for him, didn't it? And what of the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Now a conglomerate of independent nations. Empires, countries, entire regions of continents are conquered and lost over and over again. All the while killing off millions. Isn't this a self-destructive way of thinking? Or is it just population control?

As you can see, our self-destructive tendencies started with the evolution of homo sapiens. Even those very first of mankind were killers. It is theorized that modern humans exterminated the Neanderthals. It is very possible. Mankind has feared what it doesn't know since intelligent thought evolved. Mankind believes that what they don't know will kill them. Why has the government kept secret the existence of alien life? Why has the Church denied the existence of life on other worlds? Fear. Well, fear and egotism. What man fears needs to die before it kills us. Those early humans, the homo sapiens, feared what they didn't understand.

Some scientist theorize that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens co-inhabited and even interbred. Others don't think they lived during the same time period. Still others believe that we evolved from them. No matter how you look at it, something caused the extermination of one species and left the other to survive. Homo sapiens' higher intelligence would account for better survival abilities and thought processes of how to do away with others.

We are killers at our core. Over hundreds of thousands of years that is what we have done to survive, kill. Only, we don't, and haven't, killed just to survive. Mankind has killed out of greed, lust, envy, anger. Sometimes we kill for no reason whatsoever other than to just see someone, or something, else die. That is our self-destructive nature.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is so much truth in that statement it is almost terrifying. Take a look at the political arena today. The hatred shown by the liberals toward Donald Trump is so bad that it has gotten violent. Politicians have been shot, harassed, accosted, humiliated. Elected officials have spoken openly of violence against conservatives, even threatening death. All for more power.

Governments and politicians make laws that do not pertain to themselves. The government is all powerful and is above the law. I'm not just talking nationally and I'm not just talking elected officials. Ever hear of the blue veil of secrecy? You know, the brother's code among lawmen? It doesn't matter what a lawman does he/she will be protected against discovery because all other lawmen will not say anything against them. Hazzard County is alive and well in these United States. Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coletrain are on the job! But, how does this pertain to our self-destruction?

Corruption is one of biggest forms of self-destruction. It is the powerful against the powerless. Millions die because of the powerful in many different ways. While the elite wine and dine extravagantly, the peasant starves. While the elite are protected by walls, gates and guns, the poor are left to the wolves. The Bolshevik Revolution of Russia is a prime example of what can happen when the poor finally get tired of the rich. The Romanov family was executed by the rebels because of their extravagance and not caring about the people they ruled over. Granted, communism wasn't much better for them but at least everyone was poor.

Back before modern technology and instant information, it would take days or weeks for information to travel. If the President sneezed wrong on the East Coast it may take a couple of weeks for the people in the West to hear about it. Was there corruption back then? Of course there was. As long as there is humanity there will be corruption. Was it as bad as it is today? I don't believe so. In the days when corruption would have been much harder to detect, it was less prevalent than it is today with instant communication. When Trump farts in the Oval Office at 02:30, people in South Africa know it by 02:45. Why is it that politicians think that their corrupt ways are kept secret better today than they were before Al Gore invented the internet and cell phones with cameras came along?

People will still lie. That is why. If you don't like someone, lie about them. Tell some ungodly, horrific lie about them that cannot, or it is extremely hard to, be proved or disproved. The public is nothing more than bunch of idiotic sheeple that will believe whatever is told to them by the people in power. If lying doesn't work, just call them racist, xenophobic, bigots, misogynistic, etc. That will get them. What does this all come to? People destroying other people for other reason than they don't like them. We are destroying ourselves over nothing more than emotional prejudice.

We have prisons full of people that made mistakes, from simple, unintended infractions to premeditated murders with a full spectrum in-between. Why? Because humanity is humane. We incarcerate law breakers no matter how insane the broken law is. We refuse to kill the killer but we will drive him/her insane with boredom for twenty to life. We incarcerate the weed smoker because he/she wants to self-medicate or just chill and destroy the refrigerator. Justice is not just because it doesn't matter who is right or wrong, who is innocent or guilty, only what can be proven to the satisfaction of a judge or jury and that has come under scrutiny lately with the Brett Kavanaugh accusations.

Here in the US today it can be seen everywhere. The elitist ruling class push for gun laws to disarm the people, demand that there not be a border wall to keep out undesirables, and want economic equality all while they are protected by walls and guns and huge bank accounts. They don't want to save the people from harm, they want to do away with those pesky little vermin that get in the way of their power. What they don't understand is that once the poor are gone, there will be no one to lord their power over, thus becoming powerless themselves. Just as humanity doesn't realize that once we are done destroying our home (planet Earth) and each other, there will be nothing left. Oxymoron in its finest form. We will destroy ourselves to make things better for ourselves.

I am totally surprised that the human race has lasted as long as it has. There is so much hate, greed, envy, and lust in the world today. People killing each other over nothing. Not to mention the total insanity of some people. Terrorism is at an all time high with radical Islamist jihadists bombing places and running people down with vehicles, radical people of both liberal and conservative ideology trying to kill the other side, foreign nationals violently breaking down national borders to other countries, illegal aliens killing natural citizens and breaking every law the invaded nation has... the list goes on and on and on. Recipe for self-destruction. We are killing ourselves off for no reason. How have we lasted this long?

War is not healthy for children and other living things and you will believe that if I have to kill you to get you there. Modern thought process. Do as I say, not as I do, and, me being the peaceful, tolerant person that I am, will beat the hell out of you if you don't. My agenda is the only right one even if it involves killing unborn children while professing compassion for foreign children, even if it involves tolerance for a certain ideology and intolerance for anyone who doesn't believe that way, even if I profess hatred for my own color because I am tolerant and accepting of a different color, even if I have to lie about my ancestry to get ahead while professing honesty. Hypocrisy is rampant and violence has become the norm for intolerance to that hypocrisy.

As we destroy our own homeworld, we are in search of other planets that are inhabitable by humanity. Mars, the closest planet to Earth, has been a great prospect for colonization. Granted, we would have to nuke both poles to get an atmosphere but that's okay, we'd be able to move there and exploit the planet taking its natural resources to make money with. After a few decades and millions of colonists, Mars would be the twin to Earth. It would be polluted, government would be corrupt, laws would be broken, murder and mayhem would ensue. After a few centuries, if it took that long, we would have to find another planet to move to and destroy.

With all our intellect, all our civilization, all our enlightenment, it is my belief that we are the bane to life. The animal kingdom, those controlled by instinct to survive, are much more civilized than humanity. The lion only kills to eat and protect. Humanity kills for pleasure and sport. We are not even as civil as a congress of baboons. The ape genus is more civilized and organized than homo sapiens. The pride of lions that live on the savanna are more humane than humanity. Crocodiles, sharks, wolves, every living thing in the world that humans fear are only doing what they must to survive. It is humanity that has encroached upon the world, not the animal kingdom. We have destroyed millions of acres of natural beauty and bounty so that we can grow crops to eat. We have killed off hundreds of species of animals for sport and food. We have polluted our land, our air and our water for our own convenience. Most of all, we have overpopulated to the point of no return.

That brings me to the point of sex. The only other species that copulates for pleasure is the dolphin. Humans fornicate for pleasure only. This is proven by the number of abortions that are performed because the participants didn't want to procreate, only orgasm for trade to get something such as drugs. Procreation is not in the thought process when she drops her panties and he whips it out. What do people think is going to happen? They think they're going to get a Sony Playstation once the deed is done?

So here we are, kids becoming parents or killing off the results of unprotected, for pleasure sex. Not that I am against sex mind you. I just don't believe in sex without protection and random sex with whoever happens to be next to you when the bar closes whether you know them or not. If you don't want babies, don't do the dirty. If the only reason you want babies is for an income, either from the sperm donor or the government, don't do the dirty. A baby, a child, is a gift of life not an income or something that should be done away with on a whim. Don't stand up for children's rights if you've every killed an unborn child. Another form of self-destruction... killing unborn children.

I realize that I ramble. My thoughts are as incoherent as a politician's promises. I apologize for that. As I read, or hear, about world events I feel the need to make comments on said events and it may be hours or days or even weeks before I get a chance to write anything down. By then, everything is jumbled up in my mind. One day, I may realize that to edit is to organize. Until that day, a-ramblin' I shall do. Rants and ravings of a demented mind.

So far I have only delved into the powerful against the powerless. Let's take a look at the common man (or woman, or thing, or whatever you want to call yourself). How do we interact between ourselves on the the personal level? As a professional driver for over 30 years I can tell you some horror stories most of which won't mean a thing to you because you don't put up with it on a daily basis. But I'll try to convey the stress that is put upon the nation's most important industry.

A semi-truck can weigh up to, and sometimes more, than 80,000 pounds. That is like 40 times more than your little powder blue Prius. With that kind of weight it takes a pretty good distance to get going up to speed or to stop. Trucks don't do jack rabbit starts and stops like your Prius. Think about a football field from goal post to goal post. That is how far it takes a truck to stop when going 55 miles an hour. It may take up to 3 miles before it can get up to highway speed depending on the weight in the trailer. You have to remember that trucks have nine to 18 gears to go through and the lower five are SLOW.

Drivers today think that they are invincible. Nothing can harm them because the law says you can't run over them. It doesn't matter if you have the RIGHT to cut that truck off. That truck can't stop on a dime. It WILL run over you and you WILL die. The professional driver will survive most likely and have to live with the fact that he/she killed an idiot but that is beside the point. You cut in front of a truck and then hit the brakes because you don't like trucks. You're in the far left lane and you remember your exit ramp is fifteen feet in front of you so... let's cut across three to six lanes of rush hour traffic that is going 50 miles an hour. Self destructive behavior if you ask me. Especially if there is a truck in one of those lanes.

You've been following a truck down the highway. He's been running along about five miles over the speed limit and then you have to go through some little one horse town and slow down to 35. When the speed limit goes back up that truck takes a little time to get back to road speed. Too long for you. You have to get around him no matter what law you have to break. Then, because you're turning off a mile outside that town, you hit the brakes right in front of him. Good way to die.

I have had people pass me on the shoulder. I've had people cut in front of me and almost take my hood off. I've had people speed up when I could get around them and slow down when I couldn't. I've even had people pass me then slam on the brakes. People are bound and determined to kill themselves when they are behind the wheel of their Prius. Why? Because they have to be first, can't let a truck in front of them, they are morons. Tell me how the human race isn't bound for self-destruction.

Radical Islamic Terrorists (yes, I will call the what they are) will do anything to kill the infidels, gang members will do anything to kill other gang members, differing political ideologies will do anything to do away with the opposition. See the trend? We are killing ourselves over nothing when it comes to the grand scheme of the Universe. We are nothing but a speck in this infinite space. Less than a speck. We can kill ourselves, destroy our world, even the entire solar system could disappear and the Universe wouldn't even notice. But we are all we have. This Earth is all we have. If we want to survive we will have make some drastic changes in our thinking.

We will have to change our basic natures if we want to survive as a species. We will have to start taking care of Mother Earth. We will have to learn how not to hate and kill. Is that possible? I have my doubts. Humanity hasn't changed in several millennia and don't see any hope for it in the future. All I see is a world that burns because of hate and greed and religion.