Clearly something is wrong in America. At least something is wrong to roughly fifty percent of the American People. On the other hand, over the eight years of the Obama Administration, it seemed as though something was wrong as well; but to the other fifty percent of the American People. Similarly, the same feeling was prevalent with the eight years of the GW Bush Administration and the Clinton Administration; but not the administrations of the George HW Bush Administration or any before it; at least not until the end. It seems to have started with President William Jefferson Clinton. Maybe it was George H W Bush saying “They’ll try to get me to raise taxes and I’ll say no. Then they’ll try again ad I’ll say no. Then they’ll try again and I’ll say “Read my lips…no new taxes.” Then he raised them.
Maybe it was Clinton saying “I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” when he did. Maybe it was the semen on the dress that just happened to be Bill Clinton’s. Maybe it was Clinton attempting to redefine the word “is” when he was asked about the door to the Oval Office being open. Maybe it was the United States Government openly murdering women and children of the Weaver Family at Ruby Ridge. Maybe it was the murder of dozens of innocent people including mostly women and children for a “gun violation” in Waco Texas by an agency, the ATF which is not even constitutional. Maybe.
Regardless. Something happened to the American People and to the government. Something bad. Something very, very…very bad. It led to the rise of American Militia Groups in the 1990’s and one man who had enough and took matters into his own hands and destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City killing dozens of innocent people in a vain, misguided attempt to strike back at the U.S. Government. Timothy McVeigh was given the death penalty for his troubles. Later, we saw the birth of the TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) in the two thousands; which was immediately labeled as a right wing “extremist group” by the mainstream media and the American Left.
It led to the election of the “Hope and Change” candidate, Barack Hussein Obama, America’s first Black President who promised to “fundamentally transform” America. Unfortunately, only a few were intelligent enough to realize this meant transforming America into a European-Style democracy; including cradle to grave help from the federal government; starting with socialized medicine; or at least the first step with that being the ultimate goal. Indeed Obama and his extremist wife blurred the lines between acceptable and unacceptable behavior, trashed law enforcement and ridiculed longstanding American Traditions, celebrations and rituals which had been honored for over two hundred years; replacing them with communist Christmas Ornaments on the White House “Holiday Tree,” because Christmas was a bad word and Chairman Mao was a hero. Obama continued in lighting up the “People’s House,” with rainbow lights to celebrate the LGBTQRSTU…whatever community, while condemning and ridiculing heterosexuals and straight, traditional marriage.
Michelle Obama was right when she said “Barack” wants to change our history and our traditions and values. Really? Is that REALLY what America wanted? Or did they want a good economy with good paying jobs and a solid future? Probably the latter. We were even told that we somehow had a problem if we didn’t allow boys to shower with girls in high school locker rooms and for men who woke up Monday morning and decided they wanted to be a woman today had the right…the RIGHT to use the ladies’ room and Tuesday they might feel like men again. Yes, suddenly we were told we needed to accept and EMBRACE gender fluidity! Wrong! One more thing that led to Donald Trump!
While the world burned, Obama drew imaginary lines in Syria and dared them and the Russians to cross it. They RAN across it and sent Syria further into a genocidal civil war complete with wholesale slaughter of civilians and chemical weapons use. Meanwhile, Obama was championing transgenders and allowing men into women’s bathrooms and vice versa! He turned America upside down and dumped gasoline on the culture clash in America, while hollowing out America’s military and nuclear deterrent.
It led to the election of Donald J Trump; a New York Real Estate Tycoon, who promised to “Make America Great Again.” He promised to cut taxes, get rid of Obamacare and undo all of the regulations Obama had busily put in place to bypass Congress. He promised to get rid of all of Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders and to build a “Big beautiful Wall,” on the U.S. Mexican Border and round up and deport criminal illegals in America. He promised to renegotiate the ridiculous, one sided and unfair trade deals that have crippled American Industry since the 1990’s and Ross Perot’s “Great Sucking Sound” that he promised would happen if NAFTA was passed and it was and it did. He promised to rebuild the American Military which had basically been “used up” by George W Bush in a senseless war in Iraq and allowed to wither on the vine by Obama. He promised to rebuild our nuclear deterrent forces and replace military hardware which in most cases was much older than the troops using it! Planes couldn’t fly and ships couldn’t leave port. Trump promised to restore the American Military to its former glory and state of readiness.
But Trump wasn’t supposed to be elected. Hillary Rodham Clinton was. Despite her probable commission of multiple felonies, constant lies and embellishment of her career as well as he seemingly cavalier attitude toward the Benghazi Debacle where brave Americans were allowed to die and her treacherous and bloodthirsty laughing comment about Libyan Leader Muammar Al Gaddafi, when she said, “We came, we saw, he died,” even as she, as US Secretary of State had helped destabilize the entire Middle East from Syria, to Libya. As she joked. Gaddafi’s bloody, mutilated body was stripped and dragged through the streets. Surely, had a Republican Secretary of State made such comments, there would have been immediate calls for his firing. Yet not for HRC. Despite her deliberate mishandling of tens of thousands of ultra-sensitive classified government documents and a “home brew” computer server in a bathroom of a private residence, her use of multiple, unsecured email devices and cell phones as well as private email addresses, she was STILL supposed to be elected.
Despite her signing off on a deal which sold twenty percent of America’s uranium; something we have to import, to Russia in a backroom deal, she was supposed to be elected. Despite illegally using her office as secretary of state to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to the highly dubious “Clinton Foundation,” which was nothing more than a bank for influence pedaling and a private piggy bank for the Clinton Family, she was still supposed to be elected. Despite labeling half the country as “deplorables,” she was still supposed to be elected. Despite not campaigning in several traditionally democrat states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Michigan while Donald Trump did, she was still supposed to be elected.
Indeed, despite one catastrophic train wreck after another, the election was simply supposed to be a mere formality…. the coronation of “Queen Hillary” and the furtherance of the Clinton Dynasty, because after all….she deserved it and after all… it was “time” for a woman president; as if a vagina and breasts had some mystical impact on the presidency and some how made her more qualified.
But this time, the American People had had enough. At least 42% of them had, including this author and we elected Donald Trump in an electoral landslide as he decisively won states that hadn’t been won by a republican since Reagan like Pennsylvania and Michigan not to mention Wisconsin. Meanwhile, HRC was busy “resting” while Trump was barnstorming the nation talking to overflow crowds in massive venues where there were so many people, speakers had to be set up outside! The people who had been lied to by democrats for the past fifty years as they watched their jobs go away and their communities slowly die despite democrat promises had finally had enough. The people who were told their jobs were no longer needed had finally had enough. The people who saw what “hope and change” really meant had finally had enough.
But something funny happened. Something that has never happened before in American History at any time, in any era. As soon as HRC lost, she decided that if she couldn’t win, she would destroy the Trump Presidency one way or another even if it meant getting him outright impeached.The plan was ingenious and had never been tried before.
To do this she would use dozens of “deep state” operatives…left wing civil servants who were simply appalled by the very existence of Donald Trump and who would slow walk, stall and ignore his programs and initiatives; in some cases even refusing to take down the portraits of Obama and replace them with President Trump. She would also use a fake dossier which reportedly contained numerous disgusting and salacious facts about President Trump and his collusion and cooperation with the Russian Government in order to get him elected. Of course the dossier was totally fictitious as former FBI Director Jams Comey had said; since NONE of it could be verified an in fact many points had been disproved. The Clinton Campaign paid for this opposition research by themselves, colluding with Russian Agents via Michael Steele, a former British MI-6 Agent. The information was collected and pt into a dossier; none of which was ever proven or validated. Then, HRC had this dossier passed onm to her deep state contacts at the FBI in order to obtain a FISA Warrant to spy on President Trump and his associates, before, during and after the election. All the while maintaining that President and Candidate Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the U.S. Presidential Election. Ironically it was HRC who had ACTUALLY colluded with Russia!
The last component of the Clinton Plan to hobble, if not outright destroy the Trump Presidency before it even began was the mainstream media. Sean Hannity, conservative commentator had declared the death of the independent, watchdog media in America in 2007. He was right. During the presidential campaign, the U.S. Mainstream Media had OPENLY sided with the democrats. Many in America had talked about left wing bias in America for many years, especially during the Obama Years, but this election put it font and center for the entire country to see. In the debates, moderators attacked Trump. On the campaign trail, the media attacked Trump. Regardless of what he said, what he did, where he went, the media attacked Trump. Likewise, the bestowed endless praise on HRC. It was like living in “Bizzaro World” from the Superman Comics.
Trump was portrayed as a sadistic, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, racist, misogynist, war mongering dunce! Basically, a pile of steaming dog shit, while Clinton was portrayed as the progressive, experienced, sable, learned wise political sage who had worked her way to the top and whose reputation was simply beyond question! A gleaming gold bar! And while they dug for dirt about Trump and even invented and created it, they dismissed, covered up and ignored the real tarnishes and outright criminal acts of HRC. The mainstream media, with the exception of Fox News (minus Megyn Kelly) had simply shown itself to be nothing more than the media arm of the democrat party. Indeed, they had become the “Destroy Trump Media.”
And no sooner than Trump took office, did the far left begin protesting saying horrible, vile, disgusting things about Trump and his family. They demonstrated and accused him of destroying the country before he had even had a chance to sit down in the oval office! The Soros backed Tides Foundation and MoveOn.Org had decided to wage a permanent war against Trump. The “Deep State” which Washington Insiders scoffed at and dismissed also declared war on Trump. They weren’t going to allow this elected person to just come in and rain on their far left, career civil servant parade. Oh no.
They would go so far as even to refuse to take down Obama’s photos and replace them with Trump which is both custom and law! The deep state vowed silently to stop Trump from even being elected if they could and to have a backup plan if he was elected as we now know, thanks to the memo from Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devon Nunez; which was declassified by he president and released. Meanwhile, armed with a fake, Clinton bought and paid for dossier, special Counsel, Robert Meuller, who has clear conflict of interest with the president was chosen to take down and impeach Trump.
Even after the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released its report after fourteen months of investigation showing zip, zero, zilch, not one iota of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia; the Special Counsel WIDENED HIS investigation to include the Trump Organization! Instead of wrapping up his fruitless investigation which is little more than a witch hunt, he began looking even wider and deeper in the hopes of finding SOME SHRED of evidence to destroy President Trump.
Maybe he took a newspaper in 1971 without putting a quarter in the box. Maybe he spat on the sidewalk in 1993! Maybe he didn’t help an old lady across the street in 1978 when he was a Boy Scout. Maybe he tore that tag off a mattress in 1986 that says “Do not remove.” Meuller was going to ind SOMETHING! Even if he had to manufacture something, like he did against former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn, he was going to get Trump! He has already squandered millions of taxpayer dollars and hundreds of man-hours in a meaningless, open-ended search for something that doesn’t exist. But he and the left know as long as his “investigation” continues, the Trump Presidency is hobbled and cannot focus on governing. Wat’s been done to President Trump is sickening, disgusting and unAmerican. It actually smacks of the days of the USSR.
Meanwhile, in what the left in America has labeled with contempt, “flyover country,” life goes on. Yes, in the real America…the land between the East Coast establishment liberals and the left coast liberals, more Americans have jobs, as unemployment has reached record breaking low levels because of President Trump! Americans are taking home more money in their paychecks after one of he largest tax cuts and tax reforms in American History, because of President Trump! Americans are feeling better about themselves, about the economy and about the future, because of President Trump!
But you’d never know it if there was no Fox News, because the rest of the mainstream media has simply ignored the best economy in forty years, the lowest unemployment ever recorded for Blacks, Hispanics and women. The lowest overall unemployment in thirty years, the highs rate of home ownership, the highest stock market and on and on! He was a president who finally had the BALLS to keep his promises; regardless of the political consequences! He slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum being illegally dumped into America by our “trading partners” in the name of “free trade.”
He slapped tariffs on China for all of the multiple trade offenses they had been committing against America for the last thirty years! It seemed as though wen it comes to China, the only thing America exported was empty shipping containers. The Chinese in turn filled them up with cheap, low quality disposable goods and sent them back to America; where they were greedily devoured by Wal-Mart shoppers who were always looking for low price of quality, as their friends and neighbors were put out of work and entire towns and cities in America were devastated by job losses. No more would other countries prosper at the expense of American Jobs and American Workers. THESE were ALL of the things democrats and republicans alike had been promising for the past forty years without ever delivering. But Trump was a different kind of politician. He was actually doing it! He was actually KEEPING his promises!
If these things had happened under Obama we would be inundated and SUFFOCATED by them! The mainstream media would deluge us with these facts! But because President Trump is responsible, these facts are simply ignored, if not vilified! Vilified, as though somehow they were bad! HRC was supposed to be president; NOT Trump! If he achieved world peace, eliminated the national debt and made every American a millionaire, the left would still condemn him and would NEVER accept him; because he wasn’t a liberal, left wing democrat! They hate him and yet are afraid of him because he had taken their constituency. He had proven they were liars repeatedly and labeled outlets like CNN and MSNBC as “fake news.” Ironically, they were caught in one lie after another, even inventing “news stories.” No longer was the mainstream media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC the final word. Their credibility was now in question and Americans were waking up to their bias and lies. Aided by FoxNews, President Trump was using social media to tell the truth and fight the lies and was succeeding!
At Trump’s rallies and public appearances, his supporters remain strong, vocal and proud and his support among his voters is rock solid. TRY AS THEY MAY TO DESTROY HIM; HIS APPROVAL RATING STILL HOVERS AROUND 50%! So what we have right now, on March 23, 2018 is divided, truly polarized nation. Indeed as I write this, I have NEVER, EVER seen the country like this in my 51 years; and I am a political and news junkie, indeed my undergraduate degree in in political science and I did an internship in Washington, D.C. under President Reagan. Even then, the atmosphere was not he toxic, poisonous gas that it is today. I’m not ashamed to say I’m afraid; not for me but for my fifteen year old son.
It seems as though the left will stop at nothing to forward its agenda, even using school children to further their anti-gun agenda, turning a student walk-out o memorialize the kids killed in Florida into anti-gun rallies all over the country without telling parents. And of course Hollywood and the Music Industry have jumped on the left wing band wagon as well. I think for me it really came to a head last week when it was reported that president Trump will met with the leader of North Korea. For months the media had portrayed Trump as an out of control mad man who was itching to start a nuclear war; then when his strategy woks, they criticize him for THAT! The strategy became clear. No matter what Trump says or does they will attack him. And that’s ALL it is. If you tune into CNN or MSNBC at any time of the day, there simply is no other news. It’s Trump Hatred, 24/7, unless of course there’s a mass shooting or something else they can blame Trump for. I have never sen anything like it.
When I was in college doing MY internship in Washington, D.C., Reagan was president and Tip O’Neil was the House Speaker. The democrats had both houses of Congress and yet there was civil discourse and the government worked together for the people of the country. Now that’s a pipe dream. It’s constant warfare and attack, obstruction and obfuscation by the democrats regardless of the issue! We have imbeciles like Nancy Pelosi saying that an extra thousand dollars is “crumbs” to a single mom making te n dollars and hour and calling the Trump Tax Cut “Armageddon,” while for the past eight years they spent money like there was no tomorrow! Yet somehow, giving Americans back some of their own money is somehow a bad thing!
The left is truly unhinged. We now in a world where innocent people are beaten for wearing a Trump Hat or T-Shirt; yet conservatives didn’t do those kind of things to Obama Supporters. People lose their jobs for questioning the left wing agenda! They lose their jobs for showing they are conservatives and now the online world is beginning to systematically stamp out any and all conservative views on websites and in videos from Google to Youtube. Americans are being herded toward the left wing view as any dissent is simply eliminated in an Orwellian nightmare! We will be at the point where conservative viewpoints are simply not available to be read anywhere on the internet. Next, the bookstores will stop selling conservative thought. It’s just like the USSR. Eliminate undesirable ideas; exempt the liberal left….those who claim to be about tolerance and understanding are the ones eliminating all opposing views.
Finally, the coup degrasse…in a move reminiscent of the days leading up to the shots at Fort Sumter and the Civil War, the State of California has apparently decided that Jerry Brown, aka Moonbeam is no a governor, but a president and California is no longer a state, but an independent country and they no longer need to obey US Law or the US Constitution! They have not only declared numerous “sanctuary cities” around the country, but now California has declared itself a “sanctuary state!” They have gone so far as to pass laws which PUNISH citizens who Dare…..DARE to cooperate with the federal government! Here I thought we were SUPPOSED to OBEY the law! I guess if you’re a liberal, you have to obey only “certain” laws! Yes, this is really happening!!! In fact they have enacted laws CONTRARY to the US Constitution, which deliberately break the law as they are champions of what the liberal left calls, “the resistance.” I keep wondering resistance to what?
Resistance to low unemployment and good paying jobs? Resistance to more take home pay? Resistance to less crime? Resistance to enforcing our border like every other nation in the world? Resistance to being proud Americans again instead of apologizing for our wealth, power, prosperity and standard of living? Resistance to enforcing the US Constitution which created this great nation? Resistance to protecting American Industry and American Jobs? Resistance to protecting the American Middle Class and the American Standard of living? These are the things the left is resisting? REALLY???
Then I remember just who the people who are “resisting” are. These are the people who don’t believe in freedom of religion or religious rights. These are the people like Joy Behar, who belittle and ridicule Christians who worship God as delusional and mentally ill. These are the people like Barack Hussein Obama, who want to scrap the Constitution and have labeled it as a “quaint piece of history” that’s not relevant today and believe it’s an obstacle to be circumvented, not obeyed. These are the people who cheered at Barack Hussein Obama governed by executive order because e refused to cooperate with Congress and operate as a constitutional president. The people who want to disregard the Bill of Rights. The same people who want the Second Amendment repealed. The people who want the First Amendment curtailed. The people who want unilateral nuclear disarmament. The people who want teenage boys and girls in the same shower and locker rooms. The same people who have joyfully advocated for the murder of of fifty six million American Babies through abortion. Then I realize why they are “resisting.” They don’t like America. They never have. They created the Federal Reserve and embarked on a one hundred year plan to destroy America circa 1905. It’s a hundred years later and they are well on their way.
I could go on. In fact I could write a book and may some day about just how polarized and divided America has become. We have had over forty presidential elections in America. We have always had ugly, mudslinging campaigns that were down and dirty. But afterwards we always cam together as Americans. AMERICANS! NOT hyphenated Americans, but Americans. We banded together for better of worse and fought the Spanish- American War. We came together after the horrific scale of the American Civil War where brother killed brother and neighbor killed neighbor. We cam together after the killings which led to the Civil Rights Act. We came together to save Europe an the first world war. We came together stamp out Hitler and Tojo! We came together to stand up to communism, brought down the Berlin Wall and freed the people of the USSR. President Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Thomas, “Tip” O’Neil sat and drank beer together while cutting taxes and rebuilding America’s Defenses because they were Americans and though they were democrat and republican they KNEW that was secondary and that AMERICA was what counted. I did my internship during those days. It was incredible to work and learn among giants of American History.
Who are the giants today? Congresswoman Maxine Watters who is clearly mentally ill? Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is clearly suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease? Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer who is a complete and total hypocrite and liar and who has flip flopped more than a pancake in a frying pan? Maybe it’s Congressman Adam Schiff who repeatedly claims he as all of this “evidence” about President Trump, but never reveals it. There IS no cooperation! There IS no working together! There is no America anymore to these people. It’s all about THEIR left wing liberal agenda and if you oppose it, you need anger management classes or sensitivity training or need to be silenced because there is clearly something wrong with you and YOU are not an American.
Not only won’t they work with a duly elected President of the United States, but they have actively opposed and undermined him since before he was sworn in attacking him on everything from the way he wears his tie to his foreign policy and everything in between. And while they cry “investigate, investigate, investigate,” over alleged Trump ties to Russia, and Russian attempts to undermine our electoral process, they happily ignore the fact that former President Barack Hussein Obama was warned about possible Russian meddling all the way back in 2014 and did NOTHING! Yet somehow Trump is the bad guy!
From the America I grew up in, in the 1970’s and 1980’s where I graduated from high school in 1984 and college in 1988 to 2018 there are no similarities between then and now. I grew up in a traditional American Family with traditional American values with a sister and a brother and a mom and dad. We respect police officers, say please and thank you and yes ma’am and yes sir. We go to church, celebrate Christmas and work hard to get what we want. I was the first to graduate from college. I was the only one to get a master’s degree. We get together for every holiday and every birthday….every birth and death ad wedding and everything in between.
Now, I am supposed to believe that the way I have lived for the past fifty on years is somehow wrong? I m supposed to believe that I am defective? That my way of thinking cannot be tolerated and I must keep my mouth shut and my views to myself less I b fired from my job or worse? Like the David Bowie song says, “This is NOT America.”
Perhaps the most ironic thing of all is just WHO is spewing the hate, the poison and the venom…..the intolerance, the judgements and the hatred. It’s not conservatives. Nope. We always behave ourselves, use nice language and even pick up our trash when we have political rallies. It’s liberals. LIBERALS! LIBERALS! The irony is that the very people who claim to be all about tolerance are completely IN-tolerant! The people who claim to be all about civil rights want to curtail and CUT freedom of speech, freedom of religion and repeal the Second Amendment. They aggressively and violently advocate their position and if you don’t agree with them you are immediately labeled and marginalized, then ignored.
I went to school with a lot of liberals at a small liberal arts college back in the 1980’s which has since expand and become a university, and we had spirited debates. Then we went out and had a few beers, went to dances, partied and played sports. Now colleges have “safe spaces” because liberal students are actually in fear of hearing opposing view points. We have free speech zones which are the only places you may speak opposing views. We give out hot chocolate and Lego Blocks to calm the nerves and soothe hurt feelings of co-eds who have been exposed to opposing viewpoints. What happened? Where is the tolerance? Where is the acceptance? The polarization is NOT stopping, weakening or lessening. It’s getting worse and worse and worse and I fear for the future.
Common language, common culture and secure borders are things that are vital for a nation to survive. In 2018, not only do liberals not believe these simple facts, but actively fight against them and as the polarization worsens and the divide widens talk of secession by states has started and talk of states breaking apart has begun. America is on the path to a civil war. Anyone looking at the way the federal government worked under the Obama Administration can see that America has become a “Banana Republic,” where the apparatus of government was actively used against opposition politicians. If you asked anyone in 1860 if they really, really believed there would be a civil war, they would have laughed at you. By 1865. no one was laughing.
I close with this. It’s something that happened to me almost a year ago today. We here in Pennsylvania were hit by a blizzard and received over two feet of snow. As the only guy on the block with a snowblower, I always take care of my property and my next door neighbor’s as well when we get a good pile of snow. Well, this storm really dumped a pile of snow on us, so I figured would go right down the block and help everyone who needed to be dug out. I never ask for money more anything else. I do it because I believe in being a good neighbor. Well, I walked behind the snowblower working my way down the block and I got to the last house. Just then a woman, who I guess is in her mid twenties came out of her house and started digging out her porch and clearing off her car with a broom.
I noticed a magnet on the back of her car that read “My cat is a democrat.” I shouted over to her, “So your cat is a democrat. Are you a democrat too?” She shouted back in a really snippy tone as though I should no better than to ask and said “What else would I be? Why what are you?” I shouted, “I’m a conservative libertarian. But isn’t it great we live in a country where we can all have our views and still get along and help one another?” She shouted back, “NO, it’s not!” With that she tossed the broom into the snow and stormed into the house and slammed the door! I was shocked and amazed. I stood there flabbergasted! Was I suddenly transported to the streets of Beirut? I turned the snowblower around an just went home without finishing her walks.
I was angry, disgusted, but most of all I was sad. She made me feel like I was less of a person because I wasn’t a liberal and she was so disgusted she couldn’t even be in my presence….even though I was doing her a favor! Excuse my language, but that’s fucked up! Any way you slice it, that’s fucked up and if that’s happening in my little town of 5000 people, I can understand what’s happening in the big cities of America. Sad. Very Sad. I weep for the future. Maybe we should just take a vote and let the liberals go their own way and break away from America and allow the rest of us to live free, strong, courageous and brave as proud Americans. I don’t know. I only know this can’t keep going the way it is now.