Month: January 2023

The politicization of every facet of American life is tearing the nation apart.

There was a time, not so long ago, when you watched a sporting event and didn’t care about which candidate the athletes voted for, or which party the team owner contributed to. You bought groceries based on the product, not the politics of the manufacturer. When you watched entertainment shows, you weren’t bombarded with propaganda. Journalists were encouraged to confine their opinions to the editorial page.

But then China developed a “social credit” system as a method to exert tyrannical control over every aspect of their citizens’ lives, a concept picked up by American college campuses.  Leftists turned it into an obsession.  They called it “Intersectionality,” defined as an “ytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.”

Woke politicians signed on, reaching its high (or low, if one favors personal freedom) during the Biden Administration. The whole power of government was turned into a partisan weapon for the purpose of perpetuating left-wing ideals.

Hermeet Dhillon, writing for Imprimis, called out the politicized Department of Justice for its actions. “…the DOJ today appears to be increasingly motivated by partisanship. Compounding the problem, it has access to the powers of the modern surveillance state…the DOJ was in the midst of a year-long campaign of spying on Project Veritas—a campaign that involved no fewer than 19 clandestine subpoenas, orders, and warrants obtained from nine magistrate judges. The secrecy of this spying campaign was maintained through the use of wide-ranging gag orders, including at least two that were obtained without notice to the judge overseeing the Project Veritas case. Through this spying campaign, we now know that the DOJ obtained approximately 200,000 Project Veritas emails from Microsoft and countless text messages (and heaven knows what else) from Apple, Google, Uber, and other still unknown companies.”

The Wall Street Journal provides this example: “In an effort to ’promote diversity and inclusion,’ the State Department is funding “drag theater performances” in Ecuador through cultural grants. “

National Review adds this: “Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the Department of Energy will require applicants for research funding to explain how their research projects will incorporate the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Even the Pentagon signed on. Consider this note from American Military News: The Air Force has taken ‘full responsibility’ for leaking a confidential personnel file of a service member and Republican congressional candidate, which revealed a sexual assault she suffered on duty in Iraq… The Air Force leaker gave the files to a Democrat research firm in the lead-up to the midterm elections.”

The corporate world became a battleground. Corporate executives who opposed the Chinese Social Credit system in America spoke out at their own risk. A New York Post article describes one instance: “Jennifer Sey was Levi’s brand president and on track to be the jeans company’s CEO. But when she complained online about extended school closures and their effect on children, she was attacked and falsely labeled a “COVID denier” who wanted to get former President Donald Trump re-elected. Levi’s management gave her a choice: Shut up or leave. As she explains in her new memoir, “Levi’s Unbuttoned,” Sey felt she had to quit her dream job on principle… Sey explains how many of today’s CEOs — lacking any backbone, yet desperate to be seen as ‘good’— cave to performative woke mobs.”

Internet search engines were among the most virulent advocates of this politics over truth concept. Fox News has reported that “Google is manipulating search engine results to harm Republicans in critical Senate races, according to the Media Research Center. “

Not surprisingly, since colleges have been the leading advocates of the Chinese concept of “social credit,” education has been on the front lines of the problem.  A Heritage study found that “our children are being indoctrinated. The education system designed to teach them how to think critically has been weaponized by the radical left to push an anti-American agenda… the left propagandizes through the normalization of its views and positions as nonpolitical.”

Much more unites us than divides us. By attempting to permeate every aspect of life with Leftist propaganda backed by various forms of social and financial punishment, these social credit antagonists seek to achieve goals which they could not win at the ballot box.  

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2022 is in the rearview mirror, and for most, that didn’t happen soon enough. 

It was the year that common sense and common decency were shunted aside by ideologues who saw the suffering they caused as irrelevant to their pursuit of Progressive goals. In affairs both foreign and domestic, on issues as broad as international affairs and as domestic as local school boards, absurd policies reigned supreme.

The Biden Administration pushed the fiction that alternative energy could replace fossil fuels.  The assault on U.S. energy independence initiated an inflationary spiral that continues to cripple the world economy and bankrupt families, all without producing any benefit to the environment particularly since China, the world’s largest polluter, ignores the whole idea. The White House doubled down on irrational economics by spending profligately, on areas that produce no long-term benefits. The national debt has reached $31 Trillion, and consumer prices jumped to an absurd 9.1% hike.

2022 was the year in which lies reigned supreme. Despite clear, televised contrary evidence broadcast into homes every night, the President and his aides continue to insist that the U.S. Southern Border is under control.  Unprecedented numbers of illegals literally storm across.  In at least one instance, a horde of military-aged young males carrying the flag of their home nation aggressively attacked border patrol agents. Illegals rushed into southwestern states, leading local officials to declare an invasion and begging Washington for help, which never came. Human trafficking, fentanyl pushing criminals are the chief beneficiaries.

Lies have been the hallmark of 2022. The evidence that federal agencies conspired with social media outlets to warp the 2020 election is now clear, thanks to the unsealing of records following the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter.  It is also clear that Rep. Adam Schiff utterly lied about “Russian Collusion,” yet he continues to remain unpunished.

As Russia prepared its invasion of Ukraine, the Biden Administration not only failed to take steps to dissuade it, it actually encouraged the illegal move when Biden bizarrely stated, on January 20, 2022, that he would tolerate “a little invasion.”   

Lies were prominent in domestic affairs.  Americans were told that remote learning was the only proper response to the pandemic. U.S. school children will suffer for years because of it. Private and parochial schools managed to stay open with no harm to their students.  But one good result came from the action: Parents got a glimpse into the horrific garbage that was being shoved down their kids’ throats, both in subjects that schools traditionally teach and in topics that reflect the mental disorders of some adults.   Political propaganda and woke nonsense replaced objective teaching of civics and history.

Topics that have no place in school curriculum were inserted.   In one jurisdiction, New York City, it was reported that $200,000 was spent on drag queen shows. Objecting to this usurpation of parental prerogatives in personal issues is not being “anti-gay” or “anti-LGBTIQQ.”  School officials and teacher-union bullies have no right to intervene into personal areas that are the rights of parents to decide. The actions of the Biden Administration to label outraged parents as “domestic terrorists” deserve universal condemnation.

Academic and editorial fools tried to tell us that men could give birth, and that there were more than two physical genders.

As Washington surrendered control of the borders, state and local officials gave up control of the streets to the worst criminals. Violent crime, including murder, assault, rape, and robbery in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C. rose up to 40%.  Despite the clear statistics, elected officials insisted there was no crime wave, and continued with their absurd bail reform and decriminalization policies.

2022, and its irrationalities, are over. America’s 2023 resolution should be to undo the damage done by the collection of dishonest and incompetent elected officials and progressive ideologues who caused so much harm to the nation.

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