There has not been an appropriate sense of crisis during a time of unprecedented failure in America’s economy, its political life, and in its foreign affairs. There is a reason for that. The failures are the direct result of policies that are favored by the progressive elite and their allies in the media.
The nation is currently experiencing an odd combination of high prices and poor growth. Emerging from COVID, the U.S. economy should have bolted out of the starting gate at a fast clip. However, on day one, the Biden Administration crippled that opportunity by a direct attack on energy. The availability of affordable energy is the very foundation of the modern economy. So-called renewables cannot meet the needs of the 21st Century marketplace. Instead of attempting to repeal modernity, It would be logical to concentrate on the development of truly viable new sources such as fusion. Instead, a scientifically irrational and economically damaging assault on fossil fuels was launched. The media, largely responsible for the outcome of the 2020 election, is loath to admit Biden’s mistake, so the foolish policy continues.
The damaging experiment in luddite environmentalism is getting worse. Bans are being proposed on many uses of clean, plentiful natural gas, with no adequate replacement in sight. Turning the clock back to the pre-industrial revolution era will result in more than just the greatest depression the planet has ever endured. The truly insane drive against fertilizers will result in the starvation of millions.
The Biden Administration, by far the most left-leaning in U.S. history, alleges that it is having success in job creation. Nonsense! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, during COVD, “The longest employment recovery and expansion in U.S. history abruptly ended, with total nonfarm employment falling sharply because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the efforts to contain it. Job losses were historic and widespread. Although state and local government restrictions on businesses and individuals began to ease somewhat after April 2020, total nonfarm employment ended the year 10.0 million below its February peak. Since Biden became president, the job recovery has merely been the expected effects of a return to normalcy.
There can be no excuse for racism. It is undeniable that black Americans suffered horribly from slavery and segregation. However, those practices ended 158 years and 58 years ago, respectively. Almost three generations of affirmative action, poverty programs, and legal reforms have followed. There has been a black president, black governors, supreme court justices, police commissioners, and military leaders. The mayors of the nations’ largest cities are black. Contrary to the allegation of “systemic racism,” there are no laws, regulations or governmental practices that condone racist policies.
But because progressives cannot point to any achievements, they instead seek to gain support by the vile practice of inciting groups of people against each other on specious grounds. Isolated instances of rare abuses by police officers are portrayed as general practices and used to justify false claims of official malpractice.
Similarly, over the past several years, radicalized educational leaders have warped lower school curriculum and abused school finances to develop practices such as introducing explicit sex lessons for very young students and having drag queens and transvestites teach inappropriate instruction to the lowest grades. When parents rightfully object to these warped endeavors, the response is to create a myth that America is biased against non-heterosexuals. That’s nonsense! Parental objections would be the same if similar but “straight” explicit sex lessons were being used.
The other gambit progressives have employed to win elections an influence the public is by buying support and votes through give-away programs that are inherently unfair to the majority of hard-working, taxpaying citizens. With a nation already more deeply in debt than anytime since the Second World War, and with nothing to show for it (except many elected progressive politicians) the left has sought to ignore international dangers and underfund the military. Biden’s defense budgets have resulted in actual spending power cuts, when inflation is taken into consideration. Ignoring China’s massive threat is a dangerous choice.
Progressives have shamelessly divided the nation, abused public finances, and run roughshod over hardworking Americans.
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