The Political Utopia

“Tyranny is the use of power to dehumanize the individual and delegitimize his nature. Political utopianism is tyranny disguised as a desirable workable and even paradisiacal governing ideology.” So says Mark Levin in his book, Ameritopia. If you stop and think about it, he’s right. Look throughout history and see what tyrannical dominions did, how they treated their subjects. Kings and queens the world over have thought of their subjects as possessions to be used as they saw fit, not as human beings with rights.

Political utopianism, the ideology that the far-left radicals are pursuing, is just that. They are espousing the virtues of equality of everything from economics to so-called basic human rights. When everything, and everyone, is equal, there is no exceptionalism, there is no individualism. The worst-case scenario is there is no freedom; of thought, belief, speech, press, self-preservation or protection. It is tyranny when the government controls everything so that all are equal; except the government, which is privileged because they are the ones giving to the people.

It has been said many times by many people that if you do not study, and understand history, it will repeat itself. It is obvious that the ones promoting equality for all, basically totalitarianism, have not read a single line of history. It has been well documented over the centuries that such societies do not endure the test of time. Karl Marx’s theory of ‘From each according to his ability to each according to his need’ (equality for all) is unsustainable as those that are working the hardest soon realize that it doesn’t pay them to work that hard; especially when those that don’t work receive their support with no effort.

Margaret Thatcher stated it best, “The thing about socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Equality for all is just that – the government cannot give anyone anything until it takes from someone else. As Thatcher said, sooner or later that flow of money will disappear because those that the government is taking it from will either 1) leave or 2) become one of the recipients of government handouts. When everyone is on the handout bandwagon there will be no one to pull it.

The far-left are saying they only want to tax the top one percent; the wealthiest. That sounds really good to someone who is in the bottom one percent, or even the bottom ten percent. After all, why should those people that don’t work have all that money while the working man is starving? Throw in the statistics that the bottom ten percent are normally minorities and then you have racial divide on top of class division. What is the far-left’s answer to that question: take the top one percent’s money from them and redistribute it to the bottom percentile through government handouts. The top one percent didn’t get there by being stupid with their time, effort, or money. They will not give it up. If need be, they will take their money and leave the country. When that happens then the taxation falls to the next level down, then the next, and the next. Sooner or later there will be no one left to tax.

The state of Illinois came up with a grand scheme to keep its biggest taxpayers from leaving. That state instituted a tax on anyone leaving the state. Tyranny comes to mind. How can a government demand that a person stay within its’ boundaries or punish whoever wants to leave unless that government is tyrannical? If the ones paying the bills aren’t there to pay them, then that utopia is jeopardized. Thus, Mark Levin was correct in his assumption that political utopianism is tyranny.

How did Hitler win over the hearts and minds of the millions of people in Germany and Austria? He did it through promises of equality and prosperity for all. He propagandized the media of the day. He then turned his utopia into the Nazi regime it became. It took the world to defeat him. He had his loyal followers in the Nazi Party that had everything he promised. What the rest of his people had was poverty, strife, and terror. You either followed him totally or you were exterminated along with the rest of his enemies. He ruled with an iron fist as all totalitarian rules have done. What happened to the utopia he promised? He couldn’t deliver it as he well knew from the beginning. Utopia cannot exist alongside human nature.

Equality cannot ever be achieved. Ever. Not everyone is equal because not everyone has the motivation or ability to be equal to everyone else. Worker’s rights, immigrant’s rights, gay rights, black’s rights, transgender’s rights, the list goes on and one and is never-ending. Therefore, not everyone can be equal. As soon as one group is equal to everyone else, another group emerges demanding equality. This is not to say that everyone should not have equal rights under the law.

Everyone should have the ability to be housed, in a home they can afford; everyone should be able to feed themselves; everyone should be able to have healthcare available to them. Not everyone has the inalienable right to have these things given to them at the expense of the rest of the people. Not everyone is willing to put in the time and effort to afford what the next person has. Some can afford a huge, multi-million-dollar mansion while others can barely afford a two-room apartment. It is the effort put in that makes the difference. Equality, therefore, is equality in misery.

Dr. Ben Carson, the nation’s leading neurosurgeon now HUD secretary, grew up in poverty. Yes, he took advantage of government assistance to eat, be housed, go to school. The difference between Dr. Carson and the average poor person, of any color, is Dr. Carson had the motivation to get out of poverty and become successful. As Bill Gates once said, “If you are born poor, it isn’t your fault. If you die poor, it is.” In the far-left’s vision of Utopia, there can be no success for the individual because individualism is not allowed.

Liberty and equality cannot coexist. The Founding Fathers knew this. They did not create a government that restricted individualism and individual exceptionalism. It was just that individualism that helped create this great nation. It took innovators and free thinkers dedicated to a land of opportunity and freedom to go against the mightiest army and navy in the world. It was that need for freedom and liberty that drove the colonists to fight against King George and the mighty British military. That need was for the common good but brought about by the individuals with the passion for freedom to achieve those freedoms and liberties.

In the last 240 plus years this nation has created the world’s most remarkable things. We have been the leaders in innovation, manufacturing, and technology. We are not a perfect nation by any means because humanity is imperfect. This is another reason utopia will not ever succeed: man’s imperfection. Utopia tries to make the imperfect perfect. Without that perfection, it does not work. Equality demands perfection from all; perfect thought, perfect behavior, perfect obedience to government. Man is not perfect and never will be. God instilled in us free will and that free will demands expression. Without the motivation to succeed, to prosper, we might not have the electric light, automobiles, telephone or cell phone, computers, etc. It took unequal people to achieve this.

Right now, in Hong Kong, there are people protesting the tyrannical dominion of communist China. China is a working model of equality. Everyone is equal to everyone else. Everyone thinks the same, behaves the same, suffers the same; except in Hong Kong. The British had control of Hong Kong for years and those people knew what freedom and liberty were. That is their Utopia and they are fighting to keep it. They do not want to go back under the iron-fisted rule of a tyrannical central government. Hong Kong is the antithesis of Beijing. There is prosperity, free speech, free will, and exceptionalism in everything you see on that tiny island. There is poverty, suffering, and oppression in mainland China. A stark difference between the totalitarianism of an equalized government and a free, liberty-based society.

Barack Obama stated the utopian agenda so eloquently when he said that the individual did not create anything, it took the whole country. That is equality. It destroys the individual’s claim to creativity. Did Mr. Obama start the drive to political utopianism? No. This drive to socialistic tyranny started decades ago when the American people, in their complacency, started giving up their rights and freedoms to government regulation and assistance.

The best way to describe the advent of political utopianism is, as stated by Mark Levin in Ameritopia, “It usually takes the form of material ‘rights’ delivered to the individual by the state. Consequently, equality and liberty are both subjects of utopian demagoguery and manipulation. Liberty is encouraged if its end is equality. Liberty, by itself, is not.

“Equality is also disguised as or confused with people’s sovereignty – that is, the conflagration of ‘the people’s will’ with egalitarian campaigns, such as ‘social justice,’ ‘environmental justice,’ ‘immigrant rights.’ ‘workers’ rights,’ etc.”

Other ways that our liberties are being restricted is through the misconceptions of ‘child safety,’ ‘security,’ ‘health issues,’ ‘government assistance,’ etc. With the advent of the social welfare system came the start of political utopianism; the start of liberty’s downfall. When the people started depending on the government, which depends on taxes paid to it from the people, the people started giving up their rights and conforming to the social utopia envisioned by the far left. Was the left as radical in the 1920’s, 30’s, even up to the 1990’s as they are now in the 2010s? Not outwardly.

The left has slowly but surely been indoctrinating the country into their utopian vision. That was the only way to achieve their goal. Once the ideology was out in the open during the Obama era, it was no longer necessary to be discreet about their ultimate end. The left now has at least one full generation indoctrinated into the utopian ideology as can be seen with the calls for socialism by many young people and the celebration of openly socialist politicians.

As I stated earlier, this did not start in the recent past. In 1887, Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission. This was the start, the embryo, of our socialist society. In 2016, Congress passed 2,966 pages of laws and other federal agencies churned out 97,110 pages of new regulations. Even President Calvin Coolidge was concerned about the power growth in government. “This is not the government which was put into form by Washington and Hamilton and popularized by Jefferson. Some of the stabilizing safeguards which they had provided have been weakened. (The Conservative Sensibility, George F. Will, 2019)

Gary Lawson described one small part of the monstrosity that had developed in our government with his description of the Federal Trade Commission:

“The Commission promulgates substantive rules of conduct. The Commission then considers whether to authorize investigations into whether the Commission’s rules have been violated. If the Commission authorizes an investigation, the investigation is conducted by the Commission, which reports its findings to the Commission. If the Commission thinks that the Commission’s findings warrant an enforcement action, the Commission issues a complaint. The Commission’s complaint that a Commission rule has been violated is then prosecuted by the Commission and adjudicated by the Commission. The Commission adjudication can either take place before the full Commission or before a semi-autonomous Commission administrative law judge. If the Commission chooses to adjudicate before an administrative law judge rather than before the Commission and the decision is adverse to the Commission, the Commission can appeal to the Commission. (Conservative Sensibilities, George F. Will, 2019)

What Mr. Lawson said, in a nutshell, is that the Federal Trade Commission has absolute power in conducting its’ business and if its’ rules are broken can investigate and adjudicate within its’ own authority with no oversight from anywhere else. This is just one example of government overreach and abuse of power. Since the start of the 20^th Century, the various government agencies have become so numerous and large that instead of being the exception to the rule, Philip Hamburger once said, they have ‘swallowed the rule.” Administrative law has “dwarfed statutory law and has become the federal government’s pervasive mode of dealing with the public.” Federal agencies’ regulation filled 18,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations in 1938 and 175,000 by 2014. (Conservative Sensibility, George F. Will, 2019)

This is exactly what the Founding Fathers feared most; a tyrannical government that was so large as to be unstoppable in its’ thirst for power over the people. The power that is not enumerated in the Constitution is left to the several states and the people of the country. What the federal government has done is overreach those boundaries a little at a time until it has gotten to the point where the people cannot live without it. With each new agency, each new department, there are more and more regulations and restrictions on the people and more and more power to the federal government. The political utopianism has been in the making for well over a century.

Before I could graduate high school in 1978, I was required to take a course called Government. This course taught the way government should be run, what government was, what powers the government had. Sadly, there was no comparison to what the government was to what the founders intended. I was not taught the Constitution and what it said about separation of power, enumerated powers, responsibilities of each branch, etc. I was taught the Preamble and the Bill of Rights. The sad thing is that my children were not taught these things. I taught them what the Constitution was and what rights and privileges we, the people, have.

The government-run schools don’t want the people to know how the founders intended the government to be restricted. They don’t want the people to know what rights they have or what power they have over the government. This is why young people today are demanding a more and more socialist society, equality for all, the political utopia. What these young people aren’t taught is that Marxism, Stalinism, socialism, and equality for all are all terms for tyranny, suffering, and oppression for all.

American exceptionalism is a very unique thing. The founders created a never-before-heard of style of governance of, for, and by the people. That, in and of itself, is unique. No other country in the world had ever been so governed and no other country in the world has ever done it since. There are democratic countries other than the United States; the United Kingdom is now democratically run by a parliament for example, but the monarchy remains. It is our exceptionalism that has made this country the greatest power in the world. What took Rome, Greece, and Britain hundreds, or thousands of years to achieve, the United States did in a little over a century; we became a world power that others sought out for help in crises. Today, it is the United States that polices and subsidizes the world. It is our military might that protects weaker countries. Even the once greatest military in the world, the British, come to us for help. The left’s vision of a political utopia would destroy that.

Equality for all is equality for none. Socialized medicine is not exceptional healthcare for all. It is healthcare only for those that keep producing for years; whether or not the sick had paid into the system. It doesn’t matter if a 70-year-old person had paid into the system their entire life, if they needed a major medical procedure and there was a 16-year-old patient, that had not paid in a penny, that needed a similar procedure the 16-year-old would receive care and the 70-year-old would not. Why? Simply because the younger patient has years of work ahead of him/her and the 70-year-old does not. Yet, socialized medicine is being called Medicare-For-All.

No country in the world has ever made socialism or communism work for the benefit of the people. The left keeps espousing the benefits of the Scandinavian countries and their socialist societies. What the left doesn’t say is that those countries are taxed so high that private ownership is practically unheard of and that most of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. Is that what you want for our country?

When Is America Going to Realize There Is A Double Standard

When is America going to realize that there is a double standard that cannot be broken? When are the people going to get their heads out of their backsides and do something about it?

Great way to start an article, huh?

Let’s take a look at all this crap that has been happening over the last few years, shall we? Hillary Clinton has gotten away with murder. Barack Obama got away with destroying our democracy. Powerful government people have gotten away with treason. Anyone that has information against a liberal dies or is imprisoned while liberals can do or say whatever they want with impunity. Prove me wrong.

The latest incident is the IG report on James Comey. He broke several laws and refused to follow FBI policy. What did the AG say? ‘Nah! We ain’t gonna prosecute him.’ He’s getting another pass. He broke the law. He lied to everyone and admitted it. What does this guy know? Why does the AG refuse to send him to jail?

Why is there no investigation against the Clintons? Why does Hillary get a pass on the overwhelming evidence against her on obstruction of justice and using the Federal Government against a political opponent? Why are there no investigations in the deaths of several people that were going to testify against her? Why are a lot of the deaths around the Clintons classified as a suicide when they clearly were not? Kinda hard to commit suicide by shooting yourself twice in the back of the head or two guards conveniently sleeping on the job while the cameras mysteriously don’t work and injuries more consistent with homicide than suicide. No one should have that much power. No one.

This isn’t medieval times where royalty was immune to any wrongdoing. Yet, here we are. There are a handful of people in this country that can do whatever they please with no consequences. The peasants, the serfs, the barons, etc. are subject to the law and will suffer greatly under that law. Royalty and their loyal followers are immune to that law. Who is that royalty? Why, the Clintons and Obamas. Who are their loyal followers? The Obama DOJ, former Obama Administration officials, anyone working for the mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.), and most governmental far-left liberals.

Who are the peasants, serfs, and barons? Anyone that supports Donald J Trump, the Constitution of the United States, the Rule of Law, wants secure borders, is against infanticide, against normalizing abnormal sexual behavior (such as boys in the girl’s bathroom or people encouraging LGBTQ behavior in children), and conservatives. Oh, and anyone that might consider testifying against the Clintons (they will commit suicide or die in some mysterious way).

I have never seen a time that people will work so hard against all things good while championing things like killing babies, supporting illegal aliens over natural-born citizens, destroying the Constitution, demanding open borders, assassinating the character of anyone opposing their views, encouraging civil unrest and violence against American values, supporting Islam over Christianity, etc. What are all those things that I claim are good? The Rule of Law, the Constitution of the United States and Bill of Rights, keeping children innocent from sexual deviancy, having only two genders, democracy over socialism, supporting the president even though he isn’t your party, putting Americans over illegal aliens, secure borders to keep our sovereignty, supporting our allies (Israel), keeping Islam (which goes against our Constitution and our Constitutional Republic) and Sharia Law out of our country and politics, and not killing innocent babies because they are an inconvenience.

I’ve been told I want to take us back to the dark ages. Back to a time of segregation, rampant racism, intolerance. Maybe I do. I don’t agree with racism, but it will never totally disappear. I don’t agree with being intolerant of other’s choices, as long as those choices aren’t forced on me. I actually want to go back to a time when Americans were patriotic; the Flag and National Anthem were respected; babies were treasured instead of killed; Christianity was lauded; the Constitution was the Law of the Land; a time when people were kind, considerate and respectful. Yes, I want to go back to the dark ages because that was a time when family was all-important and people would help each other. It was a time when a person’s word meant something, when friends were loyal, commitment meant forever (not until something else came along), and people weren’t afraid and offended by everything. It was a time when people were held accountable for their actions and there was no double standard under the law.

I grew up in the 1960s and 70s. We had civil unrest because of the Vietnam Conflict and racism. We had Martin Luther King, Jr and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. We went to the moon. There were hippies and free love as well as stuffy old people that didn’t understand that new rock-n-roll music. Nixon lied to the American people and was held accountable, some of his administration officials actually went to prison. The best part was that your friends were your friends, not snakes that would turn on you over nothing, people didn’t get offended by everything, boys were boys and girls were girls, if someone needed help it was given by a neighbor, not the nation, we recited the Pledge of Allegiance with pride and held our hands over our hearts instead of kneeling and complaining. Even the most downtrodden were patriotic to America. This was the greatest nation on Earth.

America. Land of the free because of the brave. We have fought wars to keep our freedoms and our rights. We have fought against tyranny around the world. The world has come to us for help and guidance. America – a beacon in the night. We have never gone quietly into the night when things were going bad, we fought for what we believed in and we believed in being free from tyranny, that all men were created equal and had equal rights. We have opened our arms to the downtrodden of the world as long as they believed in the same things we did. We have helped our neighbors and allies. We have stood against all who would-be tyrants. We aren’t that nation any more.

There are those in this great land that would do away with our God-given rights; that would change our very core to something that is equal to tyranny. We have elected officials that believe they know better how to run our lives than we do; that believe their way of governing is better than the people governing themselves. Corruption runs rampant in government. We no longer vote for the better man, instead, we vote for the lesser of two evils. The very foundation of our nation is at risk of crumbling into dust. Our choices for government stand before us bashing their opponents instead of informing us of what they would do to make things better. And we vote them in because of the lies and slander they force down our throats until we believe what they say.

This isn’t the America I grew up in. It isn’t even close. Parents today cannot raise their children the way I was raised because that America doesn’t exist anymore. I know that I rant about the liberals constantly, but they make it so hard not to. Liberal policy has ruined this great nation. We can’t discipline our kids because it might hurt their feelings. We can’t say what we think because it might hurt someone else’s feelings. We can’t protect ourselves because we might become a mass killer. We can’t demand legal immigration because illegals have our rights also. We don’t dare help someone because they might become offended or, gods forbid, something goes wrong and they sue us. We have to allow boys into the girl’s bathroom because they don’t feel comfortable peeing in front of other boys. We can’t speak out against anyone because we’ll be called a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, Islamophobe, etc. We can’t stand up for our rights because our rights only belong to those that aren’t citizens.

No, this isn’t the America I grew up in. Corruption is the norm. Deviant behavior is the norm. Anti-American rhetoric is the norm. I want my America back. The only person that is willing to stand up against the Anti-America crowd is a multi-billionaire that gave up that lifestyle to work, for free, to make America Great Again and he is bashed 24/7/365 by almost everyone except for people like me that love this country.

There is something that everyone needs to understand and that is simply: We, the people, the rightful owners of our own destinies and the rule of this nation, are now the peons, the peasants, the serfs, the slaves. There is one set of rules for the government and another for the citizens. The government does not legislate themselves; they legislate the people. What is good enough for us is not for them. The government has the best healthcare, educational facilities for their children, best housing, etc. What they tell us we must have is far less than what they have. As with most tyrannical dominions, the elites of Washington live lavishly on the taxpayer’s dollars.

As far as the rule of law goes – that only applies to the lesser people. With all the overwhelming evidence against such powerful people as Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, the entire Obama DOJ, etc., there will be no justice. Even the victims of Jeffery Epstein will not receive justice; not because he committed ‘suicide’ while awaiting trial in prison, but because the evidence that was found on his property was against some of the most powerful people in the world. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Why did the Congress, and the nation, ratify the twenty-second amendment? Congress decided that if one man could hold the office of President for more than eight years that would give him too much power. Think about this: there are people serving in Congress that have been there for over forty years. The record is fifty-nine years. These people are the most powerful in the nation. The Speaker of the House, currently Nancy Pelosi (D, Ca), is the third most powerful person in government. If perchance, the President and the Vice-President were to be killed, the Speaker of the House becomes President. That’s a LOT of power for a person that could be in office for a lifetime. Shouldn’t there be term limits on Congress as well? These people are actually more powerful than the President because of their length of service. And I use the term ‘service’ very loosely.

It is time for we, the people, to re-evaluate our current government. The Constitution specifically limits the government’s power. The current Congress is usurping its power with abandon and we are allowing it. We are willingly giving up our rights and freedoms to a group of power-hungry, egotistical, vile, vicious, oligarchs. All our so-called representatives want is more and more power over the people. They don’t care about the country. They don’t care about the people. They don’t care about the law. They don’t care about anything but gaining and keeping power. And they will do anything necessary to get it.

It’s time for the country to wake up. I’m not just talking about the Democrats, the liberals, or the idiots. I’m talking to every single American citizen but Red and Blue. If you were raised in the time when true history was taught, not this rewritten, anti-American rhetoric that kids are taught today, and know what the Constitution says and means, then you should be appalled at what the politicians are doing to our nation. It doesn’t matter if that representative is a Democrat or a Republican; if he/she is a liberal or conservative; they are all the same. The left and right wings are still part of the same bird. They are not representing the nation’s best interest or the interest of the citizens of the nation. They are representing themselves alone. Wake up and smell the cocaine coming from the hallowed halls.

I am an American. I love my country. I am appalled and disgusted with my government. I am appalled and disgusted with the double standards. I am appalled and disgusted with the corruption. I am terrified of where we are going as a country. At this point, the only thing the government fears is the people waking up and uniting once again into one nation, indivisible, that will rise up against the corruption and deceit that is in the Capitol. Isn’t it time that we, the people, re-unite as we did 243 years ago against a tyrannical government?

The Conservative Talk Show Hosts Are Idiots

Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Andrew Wilkow, David Webb, and, yes, Rush Limbaugh – You all are complete and total buffoons. You are idiots.

Let me elaborate on that statement just a little. These conservative radio/tv talk show hosts sit behind their microphones touting the advantages of conservatism and the hoaxes of the far-left wing’s liberalism. Each and every day, Monday through Friday and sometimes on the weekends, the airwaves are filled with their right-wing rhetoric. They call out the liberals on their lies and hypocrisy. Sometimes they answer their listener’s calls and comment on those opinions. In other words – they do exactly what the liberal hosts do in the opposite.

Why does that make them buffoons and idiots? It is rare that a liberal will call in and they answer that call. On the occasions that they do take those calls they usually talk over them. I’ve listened to Tucker Carlson shut down liberal guests on his show by not letting them answer questions fully. I’ve heard Hannity, Levin and Limbaugh do the same thing. I do have to admit that Levin did a great job in letting that psychiatrist woman put out her opinion on Trump the other day. You know, the one that diagnosed Trump as being ‘dangerous’ to the world because of his narcissism and mental instability?

What these conservatives don’t do is tell the whole truth. They don’t say that Trump can be a childish egotist. That his tweeting is middle school mentality at times. That his name-calling is consistent with a five-year-old most of the time, especially when it comes to other world leaders (Rocket Man come to mind?). They stick with the accolades of his accomplishments and what he is trying to do.

It doesn’t matter that minority unemployment is at record lows. It doesn’t matter that he has quashed the ISIS threat. It doesn’t matter that the stock market is at record highs. It doesn’t matter that he’s doing everything he can to secure our southern border. It doesn’t matter that he instigated the largest tax cuts in years and put more money into middle America’s pockets. All that matters is that the whole truth is spoken.

If these conservative talk show hosts would just open up and say that Donald J Trump isn’t a saint. If they would just say that he’s not gotten North Korea to dispose of their nuclear weapons and that Iran will never adhere to any deal they make with America. Maybe they should tell their listeners that China might agree to a free-trade deal but when the Democrats win back the White House it will go back to stealing our intellectual property and putting tariffs back on our products going into China while not paying America a dime.

His mental capacities are waning. He’s 70-some years old and everyone knows that Alzheimer’s has got to be setting in. He speaks out against Omar, Tlaib, AOC, Nancy, and Chuck more and more instead of praising them for their inability to work with him on any issue. He stands by Israel which is, as everyone knows, the bane of the world because of its’ desire to survive as a sovereign nation against every other country’s demands for its’ annihilation. He expects North Korea and China to stand by any deal made with them and that Russia will not interfere with any other country in the world.

Another way to prove that Trump is losing his mind is by his insults against the far-left-wing liberals that are campaigning for the 2020 election. Sleepy, Creepy Joe Biden who doesn’t even know where he is most of the time shouldn’t be disparaged. After all, he was the Vice President of the United States and has served in Congress for decades. Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, can’t help it that she lied about her heritage to gain power and influence. Corey “Spartacus” Booker was just making his point when he spouted off during the Senate hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. This name-calling has got to stop.

The conservative radio/tv hosts should bring all this up while expounding on the virtues of conservatism and the Constitution. Which brings me to another issue. The Constitution of the United States of America. It was written and ratified over two hundred years ago. The Founding Father could not have expected people today to follow the Law of the Land to the letter. They didn’t expect the country to have over a billion people living here and importing millions every year. They couldn’t have foreseen the advent of a police force that was militarily equipped and able to respond within minutes to any call for help that might need to be answered in seconds. Why would they expect the country to become a two-party political system where one party uses the press against the other on an hourly basis? Did they think that law enforcement would ever forget about unreasonable search and seizure or presumption of innocence?

All these conservative hosts do is talk about the rights and freedoms that have been fought for since the beginning. That just isn’t right. They need to address the feelings and wants of every single individual that might be offended by words or presumed actions against them. They need to start advocating for the murder of unborn (and in some states the barely born). They need to stand up for boys wanting to use the girl’s bathroom because boys are being turned into effeminate wimps by the immoral minority. They should agree that every single person that wants to come to America to take what we have and not give anything in return should be able to. Borders are just imaginary lines drawn on a piece of paper; except when that border is a wall around a multi-million-dollar estate owned and occupied by a liberal.

Back to why these hosts are buffoons and idiots. They are such because they are preaching to the choir. They are the pastors of a great church that sits empty except for the choir. The windows are open, and the doors are not locked. Everyone is welcome and invited in. The only problem is that the ones that need to hear the message won’t listen and the ones that listen don’t need to hear it, they know it. They talk to Congress over the airwaves. They talk to the liberal left over the airwaves. They are idiots because they actually believe that the left is listening to them just as the pastor believes his message is getting to the ones that need it the most but are preaching to an empty congregation.

To the very few that they do get to, it doesn’t matter because they have been brainwashed into believing that all conservatives lie and twist the truth. The few liberals that I have listened to on these radio shows wouldn’t change their minds for love nor money. Well, maybe money. Maybe but doubtful. It does absolutely no good to talk about any of it. It doesn’t change a thing. It didn’t change the liberal’s belief that Trump had colluded with the Russians for over two years when every bit of evidence showed it was the Clinton campaign colluding and obstructing justice. They will not change their minds.

Until the brainwashing stops it won’t change. I am all for freedom of the press and speech. I don’t have to agree with the opposition. But when the press usurps its responsibility and becomes propaganda for a political belief that goes against the Constitution and everything that has made America what she is, then maybe that freedom should be curtailed just a bit. With great power comes great responsibility.

Yes, Hannity, Levin, Wilkow, Webb, Carlson, Limbaugh and the rest of the conservatives on radio and tv are idiots for believing they are actually making a difference by speaking out against the socialism/communism of the liberal left. They aren’t. Even I, as a conservative blogger, am doing nothing to keep America great and free. My message doesn’t get to the ones that need it. Hell, my blog isn’t even read enough to make a difference to a conservative. I could only wish that I had the exposure that radio and tv has.

I’m glad they are there. I just wish that it would actually do some good.

The Tolerant Left

The anti-Trump agenda is ramping up. With twenty or more candidates running against him on the Anti-American (aka Democrat) Party ticket, the rhetoric is worsening by the minute. Not only are all the candidates anti-Trump, they are also very pro-socialist/communist. They each talk raising taxes, spending more, giving away trillions of dollars worth of services to those that either refuse to work or are not motivated to enrich their lives through work, not to mention the millions of illegal aliens that continue to invade our country.

They believe that the poor are unable to better themselves without governmental interference. I think that people like Ben Carson would refute that. There are countless examples of extremely poor people gaining greatness, and wealth, through hard work, perseverance and motivation. Some had governmental assistance, some didn't.

The liberals are wanting to give away college educations at the taxpayers expense. How about we cap college professor's salaries and the profit margin of colleges? How about we start promoting tech schools instead of 4 year degrees in liberal arts or majors that aren't in demand? How about maybe encouraging on-the-job training and internships? Why does the taxpayer have to foot the bill for an unusable 4 year degree?

They also want universal health care. I agree that healthcare is needed. I also believe that insurance companies need to stop raping people with high premiums. I believe that Big Pharma needs to stop raping the American public with exorbitant pricing while having their drugs priced cheaply in other countries. When it can cost around $150.00 to see a doctor for 5 minutes, an asprin can cost $80 in the hospital, an ER visit $500, and an ambulance ride takes a second mortgage on your house you tend to think that healthcare is a little expensive and ridiculous. But, it doesn't take government to pay for it. It takes government to regulate it.

Each of the liberal candidates seem to want open borders and amnesty for all illegals. The Liberal Congress can't seem to get anything done with and don't seem to want to enforce the laws we have. With Homeland Security and ICE running out of money to take care of the hundreds of thousands of illegals that we already have, Congress refuses to give them more. That is not surprising seeing as how that is a major talking point for them – how the Trump Administration is mistreating illegals. The Donald is just trying to enforce the laws that are on the books now.

Another thing the left has driven into the ground is the obstruction of justice and Russian collusion rhetoric. Bob Mueller didn't find any evidence against Trump or his campaign. The Left keeps saying that no one is above the law. They refuse to admit that the Clinton Campaign, the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, the Obama DOJ, and possibly (more than likely) Barack Obama himself broke the law by colluding with foreign agents and obstructed justice. All they want is to get rid of Donald Trump. Why? It's probably because he isn't a politician that can be bought. Maybe it's because he loves America and the American way of life. Could be because he's actually doing what he promised and what Congress hasn't been able to do for half a century. Maybe it's because he puts America first before lobbyists, special interest, and foreign powers. Maybe it's because he is a patriotic American.

The Anti-American (aka Democrat) Party is pro-socialist to the point of being communist. If that is what the people of this country want we are doomed. All you have to do is look at cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, or New York City to see what socialist policy does. All these cities are Democrat controlled and they all look like third world countries. While the elitists live in luxury, the general population live in squalor. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, the Hollywood celebrities, etc. all live in their walled mansions while there are tent cities, people defecating on the streets, drug paraphernalia everywhere, etc. All the while those same elitists scream that the government needs to spend more and more on illegals. How about those same, extremely rich elitists spend some of their ill-gotten gains on social problems and the elected government officials take care of their own cities problems? Why doesn't the state of California take some of the BILLIONS of dollars they spend on protecting illegals and spend it on housing for the homeless AMERICANS? One of the reasons they don't is because they need those illegals to vote for them. The American people have come to realize that the Anti-American (aka Democrat) Party doesn't represent their best interest but their own wealth and power.

Don't get me wrong; there are good Democrats. You know, the JFK Democrats, those that are still American with the American dream still in their blood. The problem with them is that they are being driven out, over-ruled, and even ridiculed by the far-left socialist/communist sect. They are silenced just as the conservatives are being silenced. The far-left liberals are out to destroy our Constitutional Republic and turn it into another Venezuela, China, Soviet Russia, North Korea, or even an Islamic State. Anything but a free nation where the people have a voice; where freedom reigns. Those far-left wingers want total control over every aspect of our lives and they will do anything, no matter how low they have to go, to get and keep that power.

The far left, the ones I call libtards, will stop at nothing to get and keep power over the people. They scream racist, fascist, Nazi, whateverphobe at whoever disagrees with them. The intolerant left preach tolerance as long as their agenda isn't challenged. The First Amendment applies only if it helps them. The Second Amendment only applies to them (if they actually aren't afraid of weapons), The Fourth Amendment is only for them. The Fifth Amendment? Only the Left can use it. The Sixth Amendment? Well, did Paul Manafort get an impartial jury? I think that the fact that the Liberal run House of Representatives, redoing the collusion and obstruction of justice case against Trump goes against the Seventh Amendment. The Tenth Amendment, well, let's see, the States, themselves, have turned a lot of their rights over to the federal government. The people of the country have, themselves, turned a lot of their rights over to the government whether voluntarily or behind their backs in the dark of night.

If there comes a time that another Civil War is fought, it will not be North against the South. It will be American against the Anti-American (aka Democrat) Party. The Democrats have traditionally been more socialist than the GOP. Some Democrat policy has been needed. There will always be social needs that should be addressed. But for the federal government to take over and control these programs is NOT in the best interest of America. Charity needs to start at home and should not be forced on anyone. If I want to donate to a charity, I will. I do not want to be forced to donate to anything that I don't believe in. I don't believe in financing people that refuse to work but are able to. I don't believe in donating to abortion for convenience. I don't believe in financing illegals. I don't want to donate to anyone's college fund other than my own children's. I don't want to pay for anyone's healthcare other than my own family's. I sure don't want to donate to a foreign country. But I am forced to, every time I pay my taxes. MOST, not all, but most of these policies are Democrat.

This country, America, was built on self-reliance, hard work, innovation, imagination, Capitalism. It was not built on government handouts and socialism. Nowhere, no time, in history has socialism/communism worked. The far-left elitists, people like Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, etc, scream the accolades of socialism while they are worth millions. Will they redistribute their wealth to the masses? Of course not. Bernie said that all anyone had to do was write a bestselling book and become rich while he has never had a real job in his life; never received a paycheck other than for public service. Nancy Pelosi screams that walls are immoral yet lives in a walled estate and has had illegals arrested for trespassing on her property. Only two examples of how the elitist left are hypocritical. They are hell-bent to spend the money of anyone but them.

The far left effectively silence conservatives by screaming racist, fascist, Nazi whenever the right speaks out. They protest against anything that goes against their agenda while saying that tolerance is necessary. By protest I mean riot. Only the left use destruction of property, physical and verbal attacks, even accusations of wrong-doing as protest. All you need to is see how the left react to people like Milo Yannoplois, Ben Shapiro, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, even President Donald J Trump. Yes, the left is very tolerant - for illegals, Islam, and anything that is anti-American. Their least violent protest is not standing for the National Anthem and desecrating the American Flag (which a liberal court decided was freedom of SPEECH).

Another example of the far left's intolerance is the big tech companies. Maybe you've heard of some of them: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram. These major players are censoring conservatives. At one point Facebook went so far as to claim a statement by Mother Theresa as hate speech. Anything that goes against the far-left agenda is censored, belittled, condemned, deleted. Tolerance at its best.

How does the far-left keep track of all these conservative voices? Surveillance. How do they surveil us? By using tech. Our phones listen to us all the time waiting to hear “OK Google.” Alexa is always listening. Our computers, always right there. If you are naive enough to think that the government is not using our own devices against us, to listen and watch us, then you, my friend are lost. Any device that has a camera and/or microphone is a spying device for Big Brother. Who is Big Brother? The government, the Deep State, advertising agencies, and foreign powers are all in there together watching and listening to everything we say and do. Not a conspiracy theory – fact.

Look around honestly. Open your eyes to what is going on. George Orwell's '1984' is upon us and the far-left is at the forefront. The time is coming when they will win and political correctness, socialism/communism, a no-borders policy, etc. will be the norm. By the way, political correctness is just thought control. Soon enough the left will be able to arrest a person for what they are thinking. Everything against their agenda is hate speech. You can't use certain words but have to use what they want you to (after all, those five million different genders all have different pronouns and if you don't use the right one you've hurt someone's feelings and are in deep trouble).

Recently Antifa rallied in Portland, Oregon. They have the right to peaceably assemble and voice their opinions. The problem with Antifa (Anti-Fascist) is that none of their protests are peaceful. During this protest Antifa members physically attacked a conservative journalist and gave him a brain hemorrhage. What did law enforcement in Portland do about this? They did absolutely nothing. The esteemed mayor of Portland had instructed law enforcement to stand down, allow events to play out as they would. There is going to be law suits over this. The mayor should be charged, law enforcement should be charged, and Antifa members should be charged. Will they be? Only time will tell but even if they are the consequences will be minimal. There is now a double-standard in the law. Liberals are allowed while conservatives are not.

Keep vigilant. Keep wary. We are the greatest country in the world because we are the only country in history that gave the people the ability to govern themselves. Don't throw that away. It won't be an easy conflict. The far-left is embedded deep within our ranks. Freedom can, and will win the day if patriotic, freedom loving Americans continue to fight against the far-left. Keep America Great.

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.

Is It Really Worth It?

     Is it really worth it? I mean, really? In today’s society where being offended is more important than keeping safe, where madness and chaos rule and sanity and calm are persecuted, where caring about another is looked down upon and hedonism is cherished, is it really, really worth it? Is love just something to be taken advantage of because it shows weakness?

     Ok, we have the liberals that are doing everything they can to destroy the Constitution, except the parts that they want for themselves (conservatives aren’t allowed any rights). They want to do away with freedom of religion (at least the right to practice Christianity), free speech (as long as it comes from conservatives), the right to keep and bear arms (except for law enforcement and their army of security people), protection from illegal search and seizure (except when it comes to their illegal activity which is totally within their rights to do, such as Hillary’s email server). Do you see where this is going?

     The problem is this; the conservatives aren’t doing a damn thing about what the liberals are doing. The Republicans in Congress sit back and cower, kowtowing to the liberal rants and giving them ground instead of standing up and fighting for our rights. Thank the gods of Asgard that Patton, McArthur, Washington, etc., all the great generals in each war we’ve been in since the American Revolution, wasn’t so fucking weak. We would have lost to the British, twice; we would have lost to the Mexicans, the Germans, the Viet Cong (oh, sorry, we DID lose to the Viet Cong). We are losing to the liberal left.

     We are sitting here, spending millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars on bogus investigations against Trump when the Clinton’s and Obama were given passes on all their crimes that COULD be proven. It is only allegations, rumor, mainstream media bias and a lot of ‘anonymous sources’ that are against Trump and Company. Yet, the Republicans are doing just what the liberals want – going along with their game against America.

     Is it really worth it? When actual crimes can be overlooked because they are committed by the liberals and rumored crimes are investigated beyond belief against a conservative it is beyond stupid. It is anti-American politics. It isn’t worth it anymore.

Facebook posts being deleted when they are anti-Muslim (actually anti-ISIS). Is it wrong to put out there what the fucking bastards are doing? Is it wrong to state facts that not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslim? Is it wrong to be wary of ‘refugees’ from ISIS controlled countries?

     I am not politically correct in any way, shape or form. I call a spade a spade and a terrorist a terrorist. I’m not racist or anti-gay. That being said, if you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. If words hurt you so bad go live in a bloody monastery. I will not, under ANY circumstances give up my right to free speech because of your feelings. No one bothered about my feelings when I was growing up and I learned to live with it all. If you don’t get your precious little feelings hurt then you don’t grow and learn other’s viewpoints. All you do, if you won’t let anyone hurt your feelings, is live in a bubble and don’t get a thick enough skin to survive this journey we call life.

     Is it really worth it? Stupidity and idiocy run amok while common sense and intelligence is ridiculed and persecuted. All you have to do is turn on CNN, MSNBC, Fox; read the New York Times, Washington Post, Oregonian or even the Des Moines Register; watch NBC, CBS or ABC.       Here in the United States it is getting worse and worse with the open arms policy of protecting criminal illegal aliens but in Europe it is so much more dangerous with their government’s open arms policies. The peace-loving citizens of the world are allowing the terror inducing RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS to just take over. They have said for decades that the world would become Islamic. They were right and every other religion, ideology, form of government, etc., are ALLOWING IT AND EVEN INVITING IT.

     Is it really worth it? As an over the road driver I see a LOT of stupid. Never underestimate the stupidity of people behind the wheel of a vehicle. Construction zones where it bottlenecks into one lane is a prime example: people will run up the lane that is ending at full throttle until the lane ends then stops all traffic just to get into the open lane. Three miles back there was a sign that informed traffic what was happening; doesn’t matter: gotta get in front of everyone else. There are also those idiots that just have to get in front of that truck, no matter what traffic laws they break to do it, just to slow that truck down. Where did these people learn to drive???? Stupid, stupid, stupid…. Idiotic, idiotic, idiotic. All because of some undeserved sense of self-worth that makes some think they are more important than everyone else.

     Is it all worth it? We elect politicians to represent us in government. That is the way the Founding Fathers set up this experimental government. Over the years these politicians have learned that they are above any laws they pass. All they have to do is state in said law that Congress is exempt. REALLY? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Our elected officials have become absolutely corrupted. Once again, listen to the ‘news’ on the radio or television or read the ‘news’papers. When we get someone in office that is NOT a politician, the politicos do everything they can to destroy that person because he is NOT corrupted by politics. He may be corrupted by wealth and business but not politics.

     Is it all worth it? I have been called racist, fascist, bigoted, homophobic, islamaphobic, and a host of other things that really don’t describe me. I AM racist; I’ve gotten to hate the HUMAN RACE. As for hating any nationality, religion, color, creed, etc., nah. I love my black boys that call me dad. I love my Russian/Ukrainian boys that call me dad; I have friends that are Mexican, Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, Korean, English, Welsh, Malaysian, Australian, etc. I have known Palestinians, Catholics, Jews, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Methodists, Hindus, atheists, Pagans, heathens, etc. Yep! I’m a racist.

     Fascist? According to the Oxford American dictionary, the definition of fascism is: 1) a right-wing system of government with extreme nationalistic beliefs. 2) an attitude that is very intolerant or right-wing. Well, I guess they have the ‘right-wing’ and ‘nationalistic’ parts of it right. I have noticed, though, that it is the left that has become very intolerant. I, myself, have been very tolerant of the liberal rants against the Trump Train, albeit with my own comments following said rants.

     I am not even going to go any further with explaining myself or my beliefs. It doesn’t really matter to anyone anyway. Suffice it to say that I am NOT what the left thinks I am.

     So, I ask: Is it all worth it? Is this journey through life worth all the bullshit that the human race piles upon each other? Is it worth the lies, deceit, corruption, greed, etc.? Is it worth all the protests against free speech, owning weapons? Is it worth it to fight against open borders, extreme tax and spend, taking from those that earn and giving to those that refuse to work? There are times that I definitely feel like putting the bottle to my head and pulling the trigger. Is it really worth it?

     There are a few things that I have in my life that make all the bullshit worth every minute: my children (Jennifer, Andrew, Jaquie, Michael), my grandkids (Destiny, Ryan, Oktober, Nova), my ‘adopted’ kids (Travon, Malcolm, Max, Misha, Julian, Josh), even my ‘adopted’ grandkids (Alex, Danny, the Bentley’s, Tucker, Lorelei, and a few others that I claim that belong to friends). I even happen to have a few friends that make it all worth it (actually too many to list, amazingly enough).        Things don’t make life worth living, things make life easier. Family, friends, loved ones are what make life worth living. Even though friends may come and go and family my disown you, it is the camaraderie, the love, the sharing of special moments with those people that make even the shortest time seem like a lifetime. Each person comes into your life for a short time and for a special reason only to leave when their time with you is up. Still, that is what makes it all worth it.

     So, is it really worth it? In a word: yes.

Terrorist Attacks Since 9/11

After waking up this morning to more news of Radical Islamic terrorism in London I thought I’d do a little research on the ‘religion of peace’ and see just how peaceful this cult actually is. It was striking what I discovered. Since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, killing over 3,000 innocent Americans, radical Islam has attacked the world almost 31,000 times.

Think about that for a minute. This religion of peace has conducted almost 31,000 terrorist attacks against innocent people over the course of 15 and a half years; all in the name of Allah and to destroy the infidels. Last week they attacked a concert killing 22 people, some of which were just children. Last night they attacked innocents on London Bridge. When are the liberal idiots and governments of the world going to get it into their heads that the radical extremists aren’t going to give up? Worse, when are those peaceful Muslims of the world going to stand up against their extremist brothers and sisters?

From May 27 through June 2 of this year alone, Islamic terrorists conducted 40 attacks, killed 455 and injured 677 in 14 countries. That was in a week. A bloody week! And what do the liberals keep saying? “Oh, Islam is a religion of peace. They just need more understanding. We need to bring the entire bloody Middle East into our countries and give them love.” Right! Invite them in, give them free housing, food, and medical care and give them jobs that natural born or naturalized citizens need. Why do the governments of the world do that? They do it because all those ‘refugees’ are trying to get out of a war torn area to be safe from harm. By the by, did you realize that the Middle East has been fighting wars within the area since the inception of Islam and lasting peace will never happen because killing is all they have ever known? (Statistics are from thereligionofpeace.com.)

The Koran tells its followers that anyone who does not believe in Islam is to be killed just as God told Moses to go into the land of Canaan and kill them all, men, women and children, because they were not believers. The difference is this – Christianity, for the most part, has decided that killing non-believers is not acceptable in civilized times. Islam still believes that is what needs to be done.

I am not saying that all Muslims are evil, dangerous and murdering thugs; they are not. There are more peaceful Muslims than there are the radical extremists. The problem lies in that a person never knows which is which. Just as the soldiers in the Vietnam conflict couldn’t tell whether that child walking down the street was a Viet Cong bomb waiting to go off or not, how do you tell if that burka covered Muslim is wired to the teeth with C4? You don’t know. There is no way to determine whether a person standing around or walking down the street is going to go postal and kill people because that is their duty to Islam. To make the problem even worse, in today’s screwed up society, Islam is recruiting ‘homegrown’ terrorists by the hundreds. It may have something to do with those 72 virgins that are promised if you die for Islam.

Here in the United States, the liberal idiots are even going against Federal Law and becoming sanctuary cities, counties and states just to protect any illegal that wants to go into their boundaries against immigration law. Due to multi-culturalism that seems to be so prevalent in the liberal world of Utopia, these sanctuary municipalities are going to be the downfall for the rest of the country just as the EU is going to be the downfall of Europe. The radicals go in as refugees or illegals, move about with impunity and get where they want to be to do the most harm to innocent lives.

Until the world can get off is politically correct ass and admit that Islam is NOT a religion of peace and that the extremists are a real threat to everyone the world will continue to die a few at a time. Innocent lives will be lost because people are afraid of offending the enemy. The idiocy of political correctness is being shown every day, with every attack by the Radical Islamic Terrorists known as ISIS. There is nothing normal about this. It should never become something that we should just expect to happen. We should never become complacent about terrorism.

Instead of taking our guns so we cannot protect ourselves, we should be told to gather as many as possible. Not just here in the US but in every country around the world. If citizens were armed then these radicals wouldn’t be able to do near as much damage and carnage as they do. Citizens could stop the killing by gunning down the outlaws before they completed their ‘missions.’ Stop the idiocy and let us protect ourselves; after all, our governments aren’t able to do it.

Relationships Today: Just a Little Advice

I think I’m going to do something a little different this weekend. Instead of something really controversial like politics or religion I’m going to delve into the realm of relationships. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, who am I to give out advice on something that I can’t even keep together? In answer to that question I will reply that I am very experienced in what NOT to do. After being married three times, three times divorced, having children with all three, I would like to think that I have a pretty good idea of what is going on. I may be wrong on that but I’m going to go with it anyway.

I got married the first time when I was twenty and she was eighteen. She wanted away from home and I wanted someone there. Trust me when I say that when a relationship is built like that it will never work out. Two years later, after she and I were separated, along came a beautiful baby girl. Was I ready to be a parent in any way, shape or form? Not on your life. Thank the gods that my ex-wife was a hell of a lot more mature than I was. My daughter grew to be a fantastic woman with children of her own that have grown into pretty great young people. When my daughter was around three I surrendered parental rights and let her step-dad adopt her. I thought I was doing the right thing.

Relationship number two, that ended in marriage and divorce, came along a few years later when I was 27. I met this girl while I was servicing a truck where I worked. I was covered in grease and oil and this cute little thing came wandering into the shop and started complaining about being stood up by some sop that had made a movie date with her. As it ended up my buddy and I got cleaned up and we both took her to the drive in movie. It was a triple feature that I have no idea what was playing. We talked through the whole damn thing. My buddy? He sat along the wall of the drive in bored out of his mind.

This girl had a three year old boy that was adorable. He came to me one day and asked if I minded if he called me ‘Dad.’ My heart melted. After we got married I adopted him. He was a great kid and I love him as much as if he was my own blood. But, once again, the fates decided that this wasn’t the one, either. We fought constantly about everything. I was a jealous SOB and she was an eighth Crow Indian and had an evil streak that made her want to stir me up.

I was working for Schwan’s at the time and came home one night to a note on the pillow. Yeah! Can you believe that old cliché? I wasn’t sober for about three or four months. I quit working for Schwan’s and went back to real trucking.

Number three was a few months later. I picked her up in a truck stop where she was hitch hiking. It was in Columbia, MO and she was trying to get to Minneapolis. You just don’t get from the middle of Missouri to southern Minnesota very easily. I gave her ride from there to Indiana and then back to Des Moines and put her on a truck headed to Minneapolis. A couple of months later she was back and in the truck with me.

To make this story shorter, in the ten years we were together we moved from Des Moines to Portland, my beautiful baby daughter was born four months after her mother turned eighteen and my son was born two and half years later. My boy was born in New York while I was still in Portland, OR. Yeah, I’m a dick and she thought I wasn’t paying enough attention to her so she took my daughter across the country for a year. She came back to Portland and then we moved around the country while I was trucking again. We ended up in Fremont, NE where it finally came to an end.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Every time I got married it was forever but, there is that little problem of me being a dick. When I got together with the last one I told her that I didn’t own her and she didn’t own me; as long as my children were taken care of she did what she wanted and I was not going to change my lifestyle of trucking. I didn’t cheat on her. I am NOT that kind of driver. I am loyal to a fault and once committed that is all she wrote. No.3 and I never fought until that last night when she walked out on me and the kids.

Throughout all three of these relationships there is one common denominator: my attitude that I was not owned by anyone and I was going to do what I wanted regardless. Don’t get me wrong, I did my best to take care of my family and my children are my world. That was probably the biggest thing, I paid more attention to my kids than the other half. Not the best way to keep a relationship together.

In any relationship it has to be a two way street. It cannot just go one way. Give and take and if you give a little more than you take then it will, more than likely, stay together; if there is any chance that one is taking more than the other it will end in disaster. Communication is just as important. If you can’t talk things through, you get angry and go to bed that way, you will end up as bitter enemies. You have to be able to compromise in all things. And, this one is very important, if you try to change someone that you are with, you’ve lost. You didn’t fall in love with what you want to change them into. You fell in love with what they are.

In today’s world I’ve watched these kids from 14 to 20 do their utmost to get into a serious relationship and have kids. Stupidest thing they could do. These kids are just as immature as we were back in the 70’s but they think they are much more grown up. I throw down the BS card on that. These girls today think they can be moms at 14, 16, 18 years old. They can’t. And these boys won’t be ready to be dads until they reach about 30.

I’ve seen girls destroy boy’s lives because they didn’t get what they wanted, which was to have a baby, and then if they do get what they want, they destroy that poor boy’s life and her own. Well, maybe not destroy but definitely make it exponentially harder. Life is NOT easier with a baby on your hip. When I was young and you had a child, that child was yours to take care of. Today, I constantly see posts on Facebook or hear girls cry because they need time off from their children. These girls seem to think that having a living child is like taking care of that stupid doll they have in high school independent living class. It isn’t.

Who is to blame for this social problem? I blame us. By ‘us’ I mean the parents of these children that think they are grown up at 14. We have become so complacent and relaxed in parenting that these kids are basically raising themselves. That doesn’t bring about morally adept children. They start sleeping with the opposite sex at 14 just to have someone to sleep next to. Next thing you know they’re doing the dirty with whoever it is next to them without protection and then, BAM, they’re pregnant and think they’re gonna get a Sony TV. Oh, sorry. That baby that is growing in there suddenly becomes one of two things: an income from a poor, unemployed teenaged boy and the government or, it’s an inconvenience and needs to be aborted.

My best advice to anyone from 14 to 25 – stay single, enjoy life, get set financially then start thinking about getting into a serious relationship. The world isn’t going to end if you don’t get serious with someone before you’re 30. Kids are wonderful gifts that require a LOT of work and a lot of money. Stay children for as long as you can. Being grown up is not as great as what it’s advertised to be. Life is hard enough by yourself and it isn’t any easier when you have others that you are responsible for. Relationships don’t last. I’ve known people that were married for decades that broke apart. Children aren’t mature enough to even know what love is much less what commitment and loyalty are. Most girls are out to get into a boy’s wallet and get a baby for an income. Boys are out to get their wedding tackle wet, period.

Those last two statements are generalities; there are those rare boys and girls that are actually loyal and true. If you can find one, keep them. The biggest problem is that those with good hearts, the loyal, are taken advantage of more often than not by those that are so immature that they can’t see beyond their own noses. Hedonism runs rampant in today’s world and that is the saddest thing that could ever happen. Dorian Grey is king; the only problem there is that these modern Dorian’s aren’t immortal.

I Have No Respect for the Far Left Anymore

Over the last few months, well, actually since the election in November, I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even have the smallest amount of respect for the liberal left. Now, to be forthright, it isn’t all liberals. There are some on the left that aren’t totally insane but, for the most part, a person cannot have a decent debate with a liberal from the far left.

It isn’t that I can’t speak my mind or give facts to disprove a liberal’s opinion. I do that on an everyday basis. Where the problem lies is in the fact that the far left have it in their mind that no matter what our President does, it is wrong. The far left is on a mission to destroy Donald Trump at all cost. It doesn’t matter that everyone in the Intelligence Community has stated over and over that there is no evidence that there was collusion between the Russians and the Trump Team to swing the vote toward Trump. It doesn’t matter that there is evidence that the Obama Administration was surveilling the Trump Team at Trump Tower for over a year before the election. It doesn’t matter that Trump is doing everything he can to keep the Radical Islamic Terrorists out of the country and to take down their strongholds. All that matters to the far left is that Trump must be destroyed.

I have inquired many times to my left leaning friends as to what, exactly, they want out of the government. I have yet to get an answer that makes any sense. All they tell me is they want Trump out of office because he is destroying the country. How is he destroying the country? They really don’t have any concrete answer to that other than he is trying to take insurance away from the poor, putting gays back in the closet, starting WWIII and that he is a misogynist, fascist, bigot and racist. None of these things is even close to the truth yet that is what they believe.

What is Trump trying to do? Let’s go through the list:

·         Secure the nation’s borders against illegal crossing

·         Bring businesses and jobs back into the country and keep them from leaving the country

·         Replacing the failing Affordable Care Act that is definitely NOT affordable to anyone other than the poor who don’t pay for health insurance anyway

·         Destroying the Radical Islamic Terrorist Threat

·         Building back our military to the strength it was before Obama castrated it

·         Building back the respect of the world for our country that it had before Obama destroyed it

·         Standing up for our allies, including Israel, instead of embracing our enemies as Obama did

·         Making the NATO allies pay their share of the cost of defending the member nations

·         Becoming more of a nationalist country where America comes before other nations

·         Strengthening the American economy

These things are not destroying the country; they are making America great again. The President doesn’t want to undo the liberal ideology of equal rights for every so-called minority (i.e. gay rights, women’s rights, etc.). He does want to rein in the idiocy of some of those Obama policies such as men in the women’s restroom. If making this country great again, bringing it back to the respected, feared nation it was before the Obama Administration, is destroying it, then I am all for it. The Socialist/Communist ideology of the far left is not what built this nation. It was the conservative values of self-reliance, morals and values of the Christian faith, small government and states regulating themselves instead of the Federal Government regulating the citizens.

The Bernie Sanders/Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama far left liberals are what are destroying this country with their Socialist/Communist ideology of more government control and dependence, fewer rights (such as doing away with the Second Amendment), open borders, allowing illegals to have the same rights and privileges as natural or naturalized citizens and the immoral values of gender neutral society without any form of religious morals or values at all, except those of the Sharia Law as long as they don’t offend anyone on the left.

Have I tried to have intellectual debates with liberals? Of course I have. They only degrade me and call me a racist, fascist and bigot that has been brainwashed by the conservative right. If only they could understand that I do my best to see things from all sides and make decisions based on what I feel is right or wrong. I grew up in a free America without all the far left socialism that they want to bring on these days. We had a Democratic Republic that worked well. Now, I don’t know what we have. All I do know is that the far left needs to get their heads out of their asses and quit dressing up as vaginas to protest things that aren’t even happening.

I have zero respect for the liberal left anymore because of their idiocy. They think that the Trump Train is making America a laughingstock. It was Obama’s effeminate lack of leadership and the left’s own idiotic actions that are making a laughingstock of this nation. It is their constant war against the Trump Administration and their constant undermining of the authority of the office of President that makes the world wonder if we are trustworthy. Until the far left can get their act together they will get no respect from me nor will I even attempt to see their side of any issue. It just isn’t worth the drama.