Sometimes, I would love to scream, Stop the world I want to get off. It is moving far too fast for my age and temperament. I have an analog brain in a digital world. My late wife, a farmer’s daughter, had several down on the farm words of wisdom. Most memorable and apropos for the country’s current situation was the fear of the unknown.
Nothing sounds more accurate to me than this simple statement. The country and much of the world’s rejection of Christianity and the Golden Rule, the decline of the family, and the Left’s attack on women and children, and the violent state of politics threatens us and everything we believe.
The events during July were just too much to process without feeling great pangs of unease. First it was the near assassination of Donald J. Trump. I cannot get the assassination attempt of our former president, out of my mind. I keep having visions of his grasping for his ear and then falling out of sight.
Then it was the chaotic remains of the Biden presidency, including his classless removal from the 2024 Presidential ticket by Party leaders, led by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Many called this a bona fide palace coup. The former evoked memories of my reading the book Blood Sport. I never thought I should have taken the title seriously.
There has been nothing like this in recent memory, unless you count the Republican leaders who approached President Richard Nixon in 1974. Nixon had engaged in a cover-up of the Watergate scandal, a year before this. He was in deep trouble and was on the verge of suffering the first presidential impeachment with a conviction in American history. His subsequent resignation allowed him to gracefully leave the office, in favor of Gerald Ford, in stark contrast to the way the Democrats treated Joe Biden.
The Congressional testimony of acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Jr raised even more concerns about the near assassination of the former president. Rowe not only got testy with a few Republican Senators but also gained little favor by whining about how little sleep he had been getting since his appointment. The number of questions he answered hovered around zero, increasing the darkness surrounding the attack. He had to answer just one significant question and that was Who was in charge?
This is a question that has cast doubts on the entire month of July, if not the entire Biden presidency. In the above case, Rowe must have known which agent oversaw the detail to protect Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. I have read where SS whistle-blowers have said there were five people in the Secret Service, who were responsible for the failure of the SS to adequately protect the former president. One is already gone, more than likely former director, Kimberly Cheatle. The continued presence of the other four unnamed members of the SS add to fears that there will be additional attacks on Trump before the election.
This question also applies to the leadership in the White House these past four years. A recent Catholic Vote news release revealed four administrative officials who allegedly covered up the mental condition of the lame duck president. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told the Daily Signal that the four were the president’s physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, Special Assistant to the President Ashley Williams and Anthony Bernal, the Senior advisor to Jill Biden.
Comer added that while the administration is obstructing the Committee’s investigation, it is evident that there clearly has been a cover-up. The question remains, who’s been calling the shots? Kamala Harris belongs on this list as well. While I doubt that she is running the government now, I believe she has been 100% complicit in the cover-up of Biden’s serious cognitive decline.
Comer also wondered aloud. Is it Hunter Biden? While this is very plausible, I doubt we will ever know since the Biden administration has lacked transparency from its very beginnings. To amplify this more, who oversees the office of the presidency right now? Hunter and Dr. Jill are first on my list.
To clarify the nation’s dire situation, my new favorite radio talk show host, Erick Erickson’s new book, Ye shall be like Gods is a major source. He begins with an incisive history of one of the first heresies, known as Gnosticism. Its wisdom dates to Genesis 3. Since the Enlightenment it has grown rapidly, especially since the rise of Progressivism 125 years ago.
Progressivism, which has the soul of Fascism and its new gnostic religion, have led to many evils in our culture, especially our politics. Since the Obama presidency, the Left has corrupted every aspect of the Executive Department with a concerted effort to infect our democratic system with a progressive virus of a centralized political and military power.
This would, in effect, permanently reduce our Constitution to a Democratic Party handbook of power. This has not been a recent development but traces its origins back to the first progressive Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, who favored a Parliamentarian system. In England, all viable power rests with the Prime Minister. This would be the end of our independent court system, checks and balances, the Electoral College and any other protections against our democracy devolving into an autocracy.
In the broader spectrum, during my lifetime, I have painfully watched the enduring heritage of a solid and stable culture, rich in religious traditions, reason and a true understanding of humans’ place in the universe, nearly vanish from the earth during my lifetime. But unlike the Southern culture, which disappeared in the winds of war, the loss of our heritage has nearly passed away with a mere whimper.
The Left has replaced traditional religion and morality with a new gnostic faith, secular Modernism. They call their attack on our culture, Wokeism. It involves the dismantling, eradication and eliminations of all vestiges of Western Civilization. This means the loss of five centuries of thinking which has led to our system of government, including its inherent protections against tyranny, including religious teachings, critical thinking and a true understanding of truth and reality.
Since I was in college, I have watched a determined elite try to reduce our culture to one, which would be more appropriate for the paganism that dominated Rome in its declining years. Someone raised the question of why did the Roman Empire fall? The main reason the Romans fell to the Barbarian tribes, after five centuries, was it could not control its borders. Does this sound familiar?
The Left has replaced much of Western Civilization with their Woke canon of ideas, devoid of truth and reality. This culture has already shown how it will devolve into an ethos of violence on women, urban poverty, sexual abuse, mental illness, gender confusion, rampant suicide, deadly drug use, a sinking economy and the organized chaos of insanity.
The dystopian images of a Woke culture reminds me of the 1975 futuristic film called Roller Ball, which was a combination of corporate greed and playing a game, so violent that it is analogous to Roman gladiators with machine guns. The coming election scares me and many others to the extent that many believe that if the Democrats win, it will be the last true election in the nation’s history.
This is true because the Harris campaign and her progressive ideology include many things that are inimical to true Democracy and the American Dream. By this I means her known antipathy for the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, traditional marriage, the unborn, private health insurance, fracking, low taxes and many other critical issues. To me their policies are Obamanomics in a new wine cask.
Vice-President Harris now denies her long-term stance on these issues, but we must never forget that her predecessor, Joe Biden promised a return to normalcy, which would heal our division. Five minutes after he became our 46th president, he started adopting the socialistic principles of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The election may hinge on how their first and only debate goes.
There is also a good deal of evidence to support this, especially the Democratic Party’s recent plan to virtually eliminate the Supreme Court as an independent body. This violation of the separation of powers would politicize the Executive branch to the extent that the United States will soon become a one-party state like Russia under Vladamir Putin.
Harris has miraculously gone from an ungainly duck to a beautiful swan in a matter of weeks. Her groomers in the party and the legacy media have scripted her so well that she has responded with the faux spirit of a seasoned political performer. The real question the voters must answer is just who is Kamala Harris?
For better or worse, the voters already know a good deal about President Trump, some of which is true. So far, the voters truly know little about Harris, except her notorious word salads and her uncanny penchant for laughing for no real reason. Just who is she and what does she really believe is best for this country? To date she has had many protectors, including the entire legacy media, keeping her on message, which so far has been empty. Will she ever have a press conference or is the plan to keep her in the White House basement?
I am not overly optimistic about this election. Voters have a short memory. It has been four years since Trump presided over a decent economy, little inflation and a closed border. The real question is can he get away from his obsession with Harris’s many racial iterations and focus on what more he can do to re-establish MAGA. The former president also needs to return to the kind of self-control he exhibited during Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance.
Voting and some serious prayers are the only reserves we can rely on. Personally, I don’t blame Trump because I think he is still suffering from the fact he came within a second and few millimeters of losing his life. Like so many of his followers, I think the former president is expressing his fear of the future.
