My Thought for the Day -- Thanksgiving, 2020

 

I expect that all of my readers here know that I am a very strong and appreciative advocate of and for President Trump. Some may not know that I was not so at the beginning. Indeed I wrote and saw published articles strongly urging that he not be the Republican candidate back in 2016.

I later posted a mea culpa and apology, simply saying "I was wrong."

Why? Because I was.

The truth is -- and one can go on for pages on the "why" of this -- Donald Trump is without question the most consequential president of my (all of our?) lifetime.

I shan't repeat that lengthy list here this morning. But I will share just two things that matter greatly -- things that would not have happened if Pres. Trump was not the feisty, never-say-die, person that made and makes so many -- and yes, that once included me! -- dislike him so.

Point one. His insistence on his right and duty as president to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

The pressure on him not to do so was intense. The Democrats, their lock-step medis sycophants, the TV talking heads, the entire military/university complex -- all were shouting out "No! No! No!!"

Yet if he hadn't last night's protection of religious freedom simply would not have happened. The three court liberals, joined by the never-to-be-trusted pretty boy Chief Justice -- would have ensured that. Gone. Wiped out. And for that alone the President deserves our unending thanks.

Would ANYONE else -- would those that I myself had wanted to see elected president in Donald Trump's place -- have had the cojones to get Amy Coney Barrett sitting where she ought sit at this critical time? In one word: No.

And maybe of even greater import, now, is D.J. Trump's willingness to stand and fight what is now more and more clearly seen to be what it is: A total phonying -- the total fraud -- that was not just the election itself, but the entire election plan of the Democratic Party. -The putting into office by totally corrupt means a man of limited mental faculties -- that so he could and would be used to totally change the character of our nation. To turn it into a kleptocracy instead of a free republic.

Can you think of and name a single other man who could have, and would have, effectively resisted what these 'kleptos' had in mind for us ? And, yes, still have in mind (for this battle has not yet been won).

Yes, all of this is a reason, not only to be truly thankful -- to celebrate this grand national holiday just as President Lincoln had in mind for us as a people -- but to see it -- to see ourselves as a people -- as both truly blessed, and saved, by God.

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'Preyed' or the 'preyed upon' -- which are we?

 

I find it interesting that past president Barack Obama focused on our current president's resistance to very apparent corruption of the vote as “one more step in delegitimizing, not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally" and thought that to be "a dangerous path.” That while he had not a word about the very real and apparent corruption of this oddly ongoing election itself hurting our democracy -- destroying any remaining trust of the very people its government is supposed to be 'of, by and for.'

But then again, Barack Obama is from Chicago. And there such corruption -- and a general acceptance of it -- has long been seen as the norm.

I suppose that in a real sense these two presidents, one who followed the other, well represent the divide in our nation.

One, Obama, is smooth to the point of being glossy. The other is truly rough-hewn, sometimes even coarse.

One made his way in the greater world and became wealthy by building -- well rewarded for his own hard work. The other also got rich -- he, too, lives in a mansion -- but he did it via political gift giving and its peculiar form of 'reward for services rendered.'

America, too, is so divided. Some see that divide as simply being the difference between givers and takers.

I don't see it that simply. In large part because "giving" is a voluntary act. A good and positive thing. Where what I see is more akin to the 'preyers' and the preyed upon.

Some 'preyers' are people on the bottom -- those made dependent, be it by life's circumstances (often brought about by the dereliction of others) or by simple choice -- having taken the easy way out of life's challenges. Other are people on the top who use and abuse these beneath them. -This later a common trait found in lifetime politicians.

The preyed upon come in to several sorts as well. Those willing to simply take it as it comes, and those who refuse to do so.

Fortunately for humanity none of those states need be permanent. Occasionally a once 'taker' decided that the time for taking is over, and he or she becomes a giver. Some once upon a time willing to simply be someone else's prey simply somehow reaches a breaking point and comes to have had enough of it. (We call that "getting a backbone.")

And there you have the current American divide. Some take, some give.

Some put up with what "is." And others simply have come to think that enough is enough and have determined to be preyed upon no longer.

These later are Trump people. They comprise roughly half of the nation. The others -- be they the 'preying' type -- the takers -- or the accepting preyed upon -- are threatened by this. And there you have America as it exists today. A divided 50/50 nation battling it out for whose way holds sway.

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A Few Thought on the Ongoing Election Madness

 

*The central thing used to be winning votes.  Now it is winning power.  -Two very different things.

The first is predicated on the idea that ours is to be a government 'of, by and for the people.'  Today the "people" are seen as merely an obstacle to be won over, or equally, bamboozled or ignored.  The goal is no longer reaching them, but getting past them.

-Thus the selective hiding of essential facts and the blatant twisting of stories to those ends.

This has always been so on the margins -- within cities owned and run by a corrupt party apparatus -- but such was looked down upon -- seen as an aberration. Today it's what hired political operatives, many lawyers, and the media see as simply the means to getting what they think they deserve.  More power.

And "the people"?  These matter really not at all except as a means to an end.

And thus making 'the people' easier to bamboozle and easily countable or over-countable at election time is the long-term focus.

Again, such was long so in a few corrupt cities.  Beer barrel voters. But today it is an almost open goal with non citizens increasingly given a voice in the selection of elected (can we even reliably use the phrase "duly elected" any longer?) officials, and, more recently the push to allow convicted felons to vote.

Too the dumbing down of education.  Thus the push for open borders. -The more unlearned the better. The easier comes the bamboozling and, yes, the outright vote buying with government program giveaways -- or so the common understanding has fr some time been.

*The selective silence about some election results along with the loud trumpeting of other results is also a part of this.  As is the timing of such.  

This has been increasingly so as the shift from winning votes to winning power has become the modus vivendi.  But new (it seems to me) this election is the willingness to actually publicly stop counting votes until new ones can be "found."  As is both the handmaiden media's willingness to go along with this, and the poorly educated's seeming willingness to accept both the fact of it and the excuses used to justify it.

*That all the above has not totally succeeded is because of the fundamental truths that underlie our republic -- especially that of the basic equality of man. For while untaught and "deeply  feeling" people have been successfully created  by the system (Check out slang word "Karen"!) the bringing in of supposedly easy to lead and mislead migrants has not  gone entirely according to plan.

Before the present election day debacle is resolved due credit will have to be given to the bulwark that the supposedly easy to lead and mislead hispanic population -- most especially those who came here from Cuba and Venezuela -- has proved to be. They who had been fed the socialist lie and line before and knew the "truth" about it. Such simply were not easily fooled. Thank God for that and them!

I am sure that there are many more lessons to be gleaned from what we currently are experiencing.  But those are a few that have come to my mind this morning.

"In God we trust"


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It's Democrats Who Are Really Being Tested

"October Surprise?"

The Joe and Hunter Biden story is breathtaking in its gross dishonesty, and corruption. Not only of Joe's "trusted" position in the Obama Administration (Do thinking Americans really trust these people, or just pretend?), but now in its total corruption of the media as we have been forced to come to know it.

No, they -- the media -- no longer even pretend. Their corruption is complete.

Yes, there may be some CNN watcher in Terre Haute who doesn't know about all this, but the real pressure is on the bulk of long-term Democratic voters who, despite all the efforts of their party to silence this story, in fact do.

The spotlight may -- okay, IS -- on Joe Biden. But it is even more on them.

Will they -- average, honest people -- quietly, in their own heart and in the voting booth, just pretend it hasn't happened? -That Bidenesque corruption doesn't matter? That hate for the portrait of Donald Trump that the media has painted for them is justification for 'pulling the lever' (licking the stamp?) -- and thus to actually participate in putting such corruption into the White House?

I do not know how one deals with that type of inner conflict. I have never faced it.

But they must.

Millions and millions of Democrats must.

One at a time, and each time they turn on the networks and see the lying faces. Or when they sign onto Facebook -- knowing in their hearts that they, by going along with the lie and pretending that all this just "isn't so", are making themselves complicit to something that they themselves have to truly loath.

Yes, it is a time of testing.


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Dealing with the Hate that is Everywhere

 

"Hate" is today everywhere. The word there in scare quotes because I am referring to the real thing -- not the supposed sister to today's "racism," "homophobia" and "misogyny" - all of which have their own faked and exaggerated version -- one that is paraded everywhere -- along with, I suppose (never having actually personally seen such), the real things.

No, hate -- true hate -- is real and spreading like a cancer. And it is moving from something felt and openly expressed, to something that is acted upon. -Sometimes by design, sometimes because of uncontrolled and unrestrained anger and rage.

Yes, hate is growing and spreading and leaving its mark -- more and more often a bloodstained one and/or in the form of a chalk outline on the floor -- that of its victim.

We see it everywhere. In part because the media loves to show it, and with phone cameras always on the ready even small occurrences of violent hate, in out of the way places, are now eye bait for the masses.

Crazed people jumping on the counter of a fast food restaurant screaming and threatening. That seems today to be happening everywhere within one demographic. Cars running over "protestors" among another.

Dare a person wear a red Trump hat today? Or put a Trump sign on their lawn?

Dare a person just sit with a few friends in a restaurant without being ready to either go along with, or riskily refuse, to make some idiotic racial/political chant on some angry stranger's threatening demand?

(Have you decided what you'd do if you found yourself in that situation?)

But the political and cause-driven hate is not the only type today being seen. There is also, and increasingly, the outright, old-fashioned, impassioned, type. Even murder.

Yes murder. And not just in the mean urban streets long known for such things, but even in quiet towns and smaller cities such as surround my own still-for-the-moment tranquil semi-rural community.

I man in a town neighboring my own recently murdered another local man who had an affair with his wife. And then he forced his wife to decapitate (yes, you read that right) and bury the murdered man's body.

This morning I read about another murder in yet another neighboring town -- this committed by teen who killed his own father with a hammer and a knife.

These were "headlines" of a sort. But not the sort I often look at. And certainly not the sort I'd have, even a short time ago, expected to read in a local paper.

The various types of violence I mention above are not to my mind unrelated. They each in their own way reflect the same 'demons' having been loosed into the world. -One that here (and elsewhere) had been kept in check by the now "outmoded" idea of religion and basic morality. And in the place of such faith-based self-restraint has come the, yes!, demons of the unrestrained human soul.

I see all the above occuring and I choose to act for self preservation, and as and if needed, in self-protection.

Foremost of my own soul. I will not hate. I will not allow myself to see hate and unrestrained anger as normal. It is, and will remain, of another world inhabited by a different psyche. "Out there," not "in here."

TV and movies. Social media posts. If encouraging hate is their theme I want no part of them. No, none. Not to fill my mind or my heart.

But the second act of self defence is the building up of a perimeter. The "wall" that surrounds my life separating it from what is "out there."

And, with that, the development of a practiced and ready system of defence -- in this case not against an idea, but as needed against quite real and physical forces. To be used against any violent hater that wishes to force their way into the tranquil world that I inhabit with my friends and loved ones.

One does what one must. Such is a fundamental of adulthood.

Yes, It is as simple as that. And the first step toward doing so is being willing to see and recognise what is in fact, no matter how much we may personally dislike it, happening. To avoid childlike denial.

Yes, the threat of growing hate and violence is real. And that sad fact must be faced up to, and as required, dealt with.


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Finally! It's Wake Up Time!

Okay, the polls show a fast growing trend away from Joe Biden towards President Trump's reelection.

The why of this is simple -- and was predicted to occur by many knowing people.

Basically it is that we have reached wake up time. People, including those with at most a passing interest in politics, are now starting to seriously consider the choices in November's election.

Simply put, how can anyone actually support what the Democrats have been favoring? Crime and violence. Rioting and looting. Disintegration of the family. Rewarding irresponsibility. Punishing policemen and women who do what they have to defend themselves while arresting repeat criminals who have in some cases for years been preying on society. Outsourcing American jobs and making that profitable for Democratic Party candidate's family members. Keeping schools closed. Keeping businesses closed -- with exceptions for, again, politicians and their own families. Endless nastiness. And the pitting of one American against another -- against our own neighbors!

And along with all that there is the now more and more obvious contradiction between what people see with their own eyes and what the media tells them is supposedly happening. -The realization that most of the "news" is a twisted lie. This while real news -- important and often uplifting stories (such as the winding down of foreign wars and entanglements and the start of true peace in the Middle East) are being ignored and buried.

America has worked for now near two hundred a fifty years because most people are not only "smart," but often way smarter in a practical way than those who pride themselves in their own elite "smartness." -And indeed, those supposedly "elite" people are often shown to be quite stupid.

Open eyes show all the above. And that the division that has already taken place shows a dividing line between failure, widespread poverty, devolving morality and broken communities -- many of them large (our nation's cities!) and other communities -- those outside of the grip of the experts and the "woke" and the "now" -- that are peaceful, prosperous, safe and, despite all the world's problems, still relatively joy-filled.

You see this, don't you? So do I. How can anyone not see it unless they simply refuse to?

And so it is happening.

And once again this leaves me to say it: Smile, people. Smile. And keep busy and open and frank about who is on America's side, and who simply isn't.

The later these days sadly includes most of the Democratic Party.

And thus we shall soon VOTE THEM OUT.


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If there is a hope of "salvation" for today's America, It lies with us

It's said that every generation must learn the rules of life for itself. And that is true. But we used to have the past to guide us. History -- how things worked out when this or that had been tried -- and religion, guidance about "sins" and the bad that followed them. Literature, too. Yes, fiction, but fiction often based on closely observed reality.

Today's "youth" -- in quotes because the years here included in the phrase go way beyond just the young and inexperienced, but include all the uneducated and overprotected who never learned that actions have consequences -- has none of those advantages. No, nor for many the positive models of actual doers. Not personally, nor as in the examples of larger-than-life myths and fables.

This began with my generation -- so so-called boomers. Our teachers started watering down the truths, our ministers and rabbis to soften and justify what was once called "sin."

But they couldn't -- they just didn't have the power -- to eliminate or change the results that naturally followed. So instead they buried them or attached them to other causes. "Inequality." "Systemic racism."

I was a rock n roller back then. I watched as all this was happening. The "if it feels good do it" nonsense, the start of the drug craze, the rejection of what now, and often with mocking disdain, are called "family values."

I saw lives of people I truly cared for and about -- fellow musicians -- throw away the value of their gifts, and even of their own labor, chasing chimeras. Some paid with total dissolution, other found their way back. A few paid with their lives.

And now I/we see the same thing happening with entire large segments of our population. Cities reeling and nearing their breaking point. And unlike my friends back then -- people who had been reared with exposure to the ancient truths and understandings, and thus who had those to fall back upon when the errors of their ways -- life's hard realities that had led men to the past wisdom -- today we see people and entire communities totally lost.

Is it too late for them? Perhaps not if enough of us who know and remember are willing to speak. And if -- big if! -- they are willing to listen.

Ignorance, like drugs, is self-perpetuating. Easier to fall into than to climb out of. Especially when the media is equivalent to a drug dealer selling freely on the street.

If there is hope it lies with we who know. To pass along those hard earned truths -- the things that make up both history and religion.


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