During the Biden administration there was tremendous stress and anxiety as the "team" went further and further to the "left," and as we saw him failing as man. The endless lies from the MSM added to the burden. Dylan Mulvaney has come to typify the era.
Today, the country's mood has relaxed. The new democrats are obviously more Marxist than ever and are marginalizing themselves. The Trump team has been as absolutely transparent as it has been practical. Trump, although old, is obviously vigorous. The constant barrage from the MSM is taken for granted and, largely, ignored. They cannot get their footing not even with the "Epstein Files." Gavin Newsom, Walz, Pritzker and Schumer are beclowning themselves daily; it is rather amusing to watch. The declassification of documents that never should have been classified making evident the conspiracy that was the Russia hoax, invented by Hillary Clinton's team, is a relief. We all knew intuitively what had happened, now we know it factually. It would be good to see indictments, prosecutions and punishments, but no one is counting on it. The tariffs have not broken our economy; they are a good negotiating tool, and the working class are seeing their wages increase. The nuclear sites in Iran were bombed, which is comforting. X, thanks to Elon Musk, remains free and is a source of uncurated information. Western Europe appear to be on a downhill slide, but I don't live there. All-in-all, if a genie popped out of a lamp today and asked me for my wish, I'd probably just ask for a cold Pepsi Zero and let it go with that.
The enchantment of living in Western European Cities is dissolving. My only interest would be living in their lovely rural areas still untouched by the leftists and their immigration hoards. The very fact that these Countries are oblivious to this means it will not end well for them.
I view the next level of impact to move beyond polls, policies and schools, to the home. While much of the turmoil has centered around Trump’s victory, his aggressive policies and shifting schools from liberal brain-washing to fundamental education, the foundation of these efforts falls back to the hardest work; parenting. Whether it is the issue of parents’ responsibility for their children’s actions, or the onus of structure critical to sound development, parents have to bear the weight of our youth’s success. The elephant in the family room, is us. Many have parsed parental responsibility to teachers, to coaches or completely relinquished ownership to unnamed, on-line players. Abdicating ownership of our children, is at the base of many societal problems - be they educational, behavioral or broadly societal. Leading by example is hard. Demonstrating habits in working, practicing a religion, valuing family, requiring academic focus, emphasizing exercise and appreciating our country, are all fundamental to raising healthy, functional children, who feel confident in their path and capable of success. Imparting confidence takes many steps, beginning early with structure, diet and attention. Investing in their education, requires more than dropping kids off at school; we are their best teachers. Prioritizing analog interaction is challenging; the screens are ubiquitous and call loudly for attention. We are seeing the pernicious effects of on-line time, social media and video games, already. The deleterious impact of digital focus is most grotesquely amplified, in the spike in teen depression and sadly, instances of suicides. We limit screen time on school nights - not the coolest move, I know - as well as TV. While this may appear draconian, the kids adapted to it and, as a result, were able to focus their attention on school work, exercise and reading books. Yes, the actual things with pages in them. I am happy to report that, as a result of these efforts, both children are solid kids, excellent students and good athletes. Social media is peripheral, not a driver of their lives. Raising good kids is hard, but necessary. We all have to sacrifice some of our time, energy and effort to provide the basis for their lives. If we don’t, all the elected officials, policy changes and karate instructors in the world will not make the difference. We have to invest heavily in our children. Shy of that investment, I fear that future elections will be held by unhappy, insecure and poorly educated citizens and they are likely to fall prey to blaming others, wanting more government support and all of the negative consequences that come with these false gods. One man’s opinion. Back to working on mine; good luck with yours.
Agreed. Additionally, unless K-12 education is de-woked, the wokeism will continue to re-emerge with every generation of high school graduates. Teachers' unions are deeply infested with the woke ideology and hold tremendous power. In my opinion, dismantling of Department of Education is a mistake, sending the funds back to the blue states where they will be funneled directly into more of the woke programs is dangerous. Instead, they need to clean the DoE from the woke ideology, as hard as it is, and re-orient it towards focus on STEM and American values.
I live in a great suburb in Massachusetts that takes great pride in our school system - actually a good chunk of our home and property values come from the perception that our schools are much better than those in towns and districts around us.
Guess what? We just got a letter from the Justice Department letting us know that our middle school librarian has beet charged and arrested for distributing child porn.
Meet Yvette Felarca. This woman is still teaching kids in Berkeley, now being laser focused on Teach Palestine curriculum. Note that only 25% of black students are proficient in math, but they are well-educated in Gaza snd reparations theories. https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/yvettefelarca
Speaking of de-woking our schools. Try this one on for size. The latest attempt of government trying to control our children. This should scare the heck out of you"
Like you say, we all have to be very well aware of how and what our kids are learning. Here's something that just happened that should scare the hell out of all of us.
Of course, I was very disappointed that Trump 'lost' in the 2020 election. But hindsight is 20/20 (pun not intended) and I now realize it was for the best. He had 8 years (his first term and his 'wilderness' term) to REALLY dive into the swamp to see just how deep it went (goes), who the major AND minor players were (are), and see who was (is) truly loyal. So far, so good.
@Sunny- I saw this on the news last night. My first thought(s)- who's going to do all this screening? What are the parameters? Who will follow up since we're already low on mental health providers?
Ronald Reagan was a great president and policy maker. The only thing he did that I disagree with is closing mental institutions! We need to address mental health - many, if not most, on the streets are mentally unstable.
Oh geez. How did he close the mental institutions if they were all run by the states? They were historically state run, going back to the 19th century. They never received federal funding and Reagan did not have the authority to close them. He kept the only federal mental hospital, St. Elizabeth's, open. The states closed the majority of the "insane asylums" at the urging of mental health "professionals," and state legislatures were more than happy to offload the expense. It was Jimmy Carter who championed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA), which provided grants to community mental health centers that were supposed to replace the mental institutions, but were a flawed concept from the beginning because many psychiatric patents need to be in secure facilities. We need to have both kinds of treatment available. What Reagan WAS responsible for is repealing the MHSA. Congress could have reinstated it and funded it at any time. The remaining state institutions are constrained because federal rules prohibit any facility from participating in Medicaid if they have more than 17 psychiatric beds, hence states have to provide most of the funding.
Between the government rules and the ACLU our mental health systems across America are a total disgrace. Take a look at what Illinois is doing....this will only destroy our children. Please spread this around to everyone you know.
What about President Reagan signing into law the NCVIA?
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill on November 14, 1986. NCVIA's purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims.” (Wikipedia)
We have gone from being a relatively healthy society to one that is plagued with autoimmune diseases, drug dependency, and the resulting rapid decline in mental health.
Here is another thing to keep an eye on, that has the potential to destroy our children and our future. Please spread this around to everyone you know.
I agree with you about mental health. The state of Illinois is doing something about it, but what they have put into law will destroy our young people and the future of America.
Thank you for sharing your perspective from Washington, DC. If it can become a calmer, stable place where U.S. citizens and Western values are priorities, we all will be blessed. Your work bringing this about, as well as vigilance in monitoring trends, is appreciated.
You might not be so happy when you hear about this that is happening right now in Illinois. Pretty sure it will spread like manure over the landscape if it actually spreads.
MAGA & ICE must protect and defend the Electoral College no matter how much the deep-state, alien smuggling Jihadists and the abortion Stalinists fake.
This is a positive take on where things are heading....and I would very much like to share in its confidence. Yes the tectonic plates have certainly shifted in the US. But the rest of the West is a different story. And even in America there are arguably two kinds of false dawns swirling round in right-wing media.....
"The first is the Woke is So Over! meme. Somehow the tens of millions of laptop culture warriors, including those sitting at all levels of the West’s civil service and bureaucracies, never got the message. Tell it to the ‘creatives’ in the multi-billion dollar TV advertising industry, I say.
The second kind is a narrative where everything gets blamed on a so-called ‘Woke elite’. This is a malign elite who (so we are told) have been ‘in control’ of it all. A kind of Wokievellian Illuminati. In this telling of our 21st Century hyper-progressive dystopia, Woke reality has simply been foisted on a great mass of grounded and well-adjusted citizenry. Yes, they have put up with it, but entirely unwillingly. Hence the proposed answer to the problem is for this ‘Woke elite’ to be vanquished by new swashbuckling Trump-type administrations in order to Make Everything Great Again. There’s one big failure in this narrative. By implication, the US Democratic Party ought, for example, to have attracted around 5 per cent of the popular vote last November, not the near-50 per cent it actually got." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/everyone-has-lost-control-of-the
Trump didn’t have much competition. He should have trounced the lackluster Kamala Harris, but he didn’t, even with Hannity lying about her platform. And if Trump ran today against Kamala, he would not have the support of young black males – Trump failed to warn them of his plans to nuke DEI; many of their mothers and wives lost their good middle class jobs through DEI annihilation.
Luck? To battle against the forces against him to a win? That's not luck my friend.
We can disagree, but I think you're not thinking straight.
Trump's win was a sign, like when the attendees at the superbowl ignoring the mask mandate. These sorts of things are just signs to allow the majority to operate freely.
Indicators that the the culture has changed. It's the middle of the process, not the beginning.
Can the culture change again and do I think there will be a backlash? Of course, but if Covid flared up again, do you think we'd shutdown and mask up again?
All for.better or worse, but the trust in US institutions is gone.
No one knows of course, but my opinion is the results would have been the same. Who wins is a trailing sign of the change, but a leading sign for public appreciation of the change.
Again, we may disagree on this. All of the dems were weakened by the Biden Presidency and the cultural overreach of that crowd.
Are you thinking that the basic platform would change? I think not. So one dem would have just as much trouble swimming against a tide.
But that would mean literally tens of millions in the university-sheep-dipped lefty, middle classes suddenly and completely upending their whole world view? Either that or it would mean tens of millions of people are incredibly shallow and biddable.
Wins are achievable now, a better economy, clean up the cities, deportation means something now that the border is closed, ending conflicts around the world...
Agreed that more needs to be done ... but a careful choice and approach could yield observable change.
I'm a.little concerned about elected officials being too self serving. Like a new tax bracket.on $M earners would have been good optics.
Here is a new approach to destroy our youth from the Dems who have brought so much destruction in the US. Time to watch the state of Illinois very carefully.
Your point about woke being far more widespread than the Right wants to believe is very important. We can argue about why that is. But the traditional Right-wing answer, "people are just afraid of the woke lunatics who run the show" is belied (as you say) by the Democratic Party's performance in 2024.
I've long said that wokeness fills a necessary hole in the modern West. It answers the question "what is good and evil?" It makes normative claims and freely uses power to defend them. Since Nietzsche declared God and His standards of morality dead and Mill declared the use of power for normative purposes verboten... we've struggled not only in defining a collective definition of "good" and "evil, but even debating whether we should.
Everyone knows this is untenable; a society that agrees on nothing except "do as thou wilt" can not remain stable. And ours is not. Wokeness is an illiberal, left-wing answer to this problem or defining a moral order. We're still looking for the illiberal, right-wing version.
All well said. So many on the Right do not seem to want to face up to just how widespread the hyper-Progressive rot has extended through our Western Liberalism. Rather blame it all on some 'elite' class of bogeymen.
When we were struggling in the wilderness infected with this Covid induced woke mind virus and rational people like you and Peter Bogosian and Robert Malone, and other brave souls were being vilified for rational thought
Being canceled, threatened and worse it is beyond gratitude that we see this sea change, and those four years of Biden had a different purpose, exposing the absolute insanity of the left
We can’t be thankful enough for your voices your fortitude, and the platforms that have allowed your voices to prevail
We conservatives have been struggling in the wilderness for many years. It's time to stand up, and speak up. Especially about this new "happening from the State of Illinois."
Great “Dispatch”, Chris! And good comments, as well. What do we need for long-term success? How can we prevail for more than a few years? Love America and take pride in it. You protect and nurture what you love and care about.
Thank you for your thoughts Ben. Here is something that just happened that I thought everyone needs to know about: Please spread this around to everyone you know.
This is a question for a Constitutional expert: without destroying the fundamental framework of our Constitution, how can we change the abilities of the communists rampant among us, to make supporting communism treason and force them underground, where they can be exterminated like the vermin they are?
I think you hit the nail on the head. The country has a true undermining force operating in classrooms and behind political closed doors. I use to dismiss it as hyperbole, but it’s there. You know their goal once they get in is to slowly dismantle the United States. It’s all the fruits of the long march through the institutions, and the ideologues won’t give up their kool-aid, no matter how bitter the outcome is. I hate it that this exists in the United States. The energy that we could put into make the States better is spent trying to ward off their damaging policies, while still playing nice.. as if they should have a place at the table under our rules.. only to have them throw it back in our faces.
If you think this all you mentioned is bad...wait until Illinois starts this nonsense they just signed into law. Please spread this around to everyone you know.
I like your thinking and would also like to know how to fix this. I do know that you can't fix stupid! Here's something to add to your list of things to worry about regarding the commies around us.
During the Biden administration there was tremendous stress and anxiety as the "team" went further and further to the "left," and as we saw him failing as man. The endless lies from the MSM added to the burden. Dylan Mulvaney has come to typify the era.
Today, the country's mood has relaxed. The new democrats are obviously more Marxist than ever and are marginalizing themselves. The Trump team has been as absolutely transparent as it has been practical. Trump, although old, is obviously vigorous. The constant barrage from the MSM is taken for granted and, largely, ignored. They cannot get their footing not even with the "Epstein Files." Gavin Newsom, Walz, Pritzker and Schumer are beclowning themselves daily; it is rather amusing to watch. The declassification of documents that never should have been classified making evident the conspiracy that was the Russia hoax, invented by Hillary Clinton's team, is a relief. We all knew intuitively what had happened, now we know it factually. It would be good to see indictments, prosecutions and punishments, but no one is counting on it. The tariffs have not broken our economy; they are a good negotiating tool, and the working class are seeing their wages increase. The nuclear sites in Iran were bombed, which is comforting. X, thanks to Elon Musk, remains free and is a source of uncurated information. Western Europe appear to be on a downhill slide, but I don't live there. All-in-all, if a genie popped out of a lamp today and asked me for my wish, I'd probably just ask for a cold Pepsi Zero and let it go with that.
The enchantment of living in Western European Cities is dissolving. My only interest would be living in their lovely rural areas still untouched by the leftists and their immigration hoards. The very fact that these Countries are oblivious to this means it will not end well for them.
We are not oblivious, far from it.
Here's something I thought you might be interested in knowing about:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Here is the kind of nonsense if the Liberals come back into real power:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Excellent summary of what happened!
Excellent summary.
I view the next level of impact to move beyond polls, policies and schools, to the home. While much of the turmoil has centered around Trump’s victory, his aggressive policies and shifting schools from liberal brain-washing to fundamental education, the foundation of these efforts falls back to the hardest work; parenting. Whether it is the issue of parents’ responsibility for their children’s actions, or the onus of structure critical to sound development, parents have to bear the weight of our youth’s success. The elephant in the family room, is us. Many have parsed parental responsibility to teachers, to coaches or completely relinquished ownership to unnamed, on-line players. Abdicating ownership of our children, is at the base of many societal problems - be they educational, behavioral or broadly societal. Leading by example is hard. Demonstrating habits in working, practicing a religion, valuing family, requiring academic focus, emphasizing exercise and appreciating our country, are all fundamental to raising healthy, functional children, who feel confident in their path and capable of success. Imparting confidence takes many steps, beginning early with structure, diet and attention. Investing in their education, requires more than dropping kids off at school; we are their best teachers. Prioritizing analog interaction is challenging; the screens are ubiquitous and call loudly for attention. We are seeing the pernicious effects of on-line time, social media and video games, already. The deleterious impact of digital focus is most grotesquely amplified, in the spike in teen depression and sadly, instances of suicides. We limit screen time on school nights - not the coolest move, I know - as well as TV. While this may appear draconian, the kids adapted to it and, as a result, were able to focus their attention on school work, exercise and reading books. Yes, the actual things with pages in them. I am happy to report that, as a result of these efforts, both children are solid kids, excellent students and good athletes. Social media is peripheral, not a driver of their lives. Raising good kids is hard, but necessary. We all have to sacrifice some of our time, energy and effort to provide the basis for their lives. If we don’t, all the elected officials, policy changes and karate instructors in the world will not make the difference. We have to invest heavily in our children. Shy of that investment, I fear that future elections will be held by unhappy, insecure and poorly educated citizens and they are likely to fall prey to blaming others, wanting more government support and all of the negative consequences that come with these false gods. One man’s opinion. Back to working on mine; good luck with yours.
Agreed. Additionally, unless K-12 education is de-woked, the wokeism will continue to re-emerge with every generation of high school graduates. Teachers' unions are deeply infested with the woke ideology and hold tremendous power. In my opinion, dismantling of Department of Education is a mistake, sending the funds back to the blue states where they will be funneled directly into more of the woke programs is dangerous. Instead, they need to clean the DoE from the woke ideology, as hard as it is, and re-orient it towards focus on STEM and American values.
I live in a great suburb in Massachusetts that takes great pride in our school system - actually a good chunk of our home and property values come from the perception that our schools are much better than those in towns and districts around us.
Guess what? We just got a letter from the Justice Department letting us know that our middle school librarian has beet charged and arrested for distributing child porn.
Swell. This is what we get now...
At least you know about it. I fear many weirdos are still in the School System spreading their poisonous ideas. It is revolting.
Meet Yvette Felarca. This woman is still teaching kids in Berkeley, now being laser focused on Teach Palestine curriculum. Note that only 25% of black students are proficient in math, but they are well-educated in Gaza snd reparations theories. https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/yvettefelarca
That is absolutely horrible. Wait until you see what is about to happen in Illinois:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Speaking of de-woking our schools. Try this one on for size. The latest attempt of government trying to control our children. This should scare the heck out of you"
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
I couldn’t agree with you more!
Your post looked interesting and was well liked.
But without paragraphs even the best comments will go unread.
Like you say, we all have to be very well aware of how and what our kids are learning. Here's something that just happened that should scare the hell out of all of us.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Patriots are in control. We are only in the second inning of the counter-cultural revolution. Here are 5 priorities to ensure long term victory: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/counter-cultural-revolution-priorities
Here's another area to pinpoint as part of our counter-cultural revolution:
This is an absolute disgrace:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Of course, I was very disappointed that Trump 'lost' in the 2020 election. But hindsight is 20/20 (pun not intended) and I now realize it was for the best. He had 8 years (his first term and his 'wilderness' term) to REALLY dive into the swamp to see just how deep it went (goes), who the major AND minor players were (are), and see who was (is) truly loyal. So far, so good.
Exactly! It was time to reflect, regroup & formulate a plan which is now being implemented.
First of all I think DC is a sewer, not a swamp. It should be renamed.
Wait until you read this on from Illinois:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
@Sunny- I saw this on the news last night. My first thought(s)- who's going to do all this screening? What are the parameters? Who will follow up since we're already low on mental health providers?
Positive enlightenment! Praying they will keep momentum and get our Country back on the path our Founding Fathers intended.
I'm hoping that this new "happening" will quickly get on our radar to get our country back.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Please spread this around to everyone you know.
Ronald Reagan was a great president and policy maker. The only thing he did that I disagree with is closing mental institutions! We need to address mental health - many, if not most, on the streets are mentally unstable.
Oh geez. How did he close the mental institutions if they were all run by the states? They were historically state run, going back to the 19th century. They never received federal funding and Reagan did not have the authority to close them. He kept the only federal mental hospital, St. Elizabeth's, open. The states closed the majority of the "insane asylums" at the urging of mental health "professionals," and state legislatures were more than happy to offload the expense. It was Jimmy Carter who championed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA), which provided grants to community mental health centers that were supposed to replace the mental institutions, but were a flawed concept from the beginning because many psychiatric patents need to be in secure facilities. We need to have both kinds of treatment available. What Reagan WAS responsible for is repealing the MHSA. Congress could have reinstated it and funded it at any time. The remaining state institutions are constrained because federal rules prohibit any facility from participating in Medicaid if they have more than 17 psychiatric beds, hence states have to provide most of the funding.
Between the government rules and the ACLU our mental health systems across America are a total disgrace. Take a look at what Illinois is doing....this will only destroy our children. Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
What about President Reagan signing into law the NCVIA?
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill on November 14, 1986. NCVIA's purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims.” (Wikipedia)
We have gone from being a relatively healthy society to one that is plagued with autoimmune diseases, drug dependency, and the resulting rapid decline in mental health.
Here is another thing to keep an eye on, that has the potential to destroy our children and our future. Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
I agree with you about mental health. The state of Illinois is doing something about it, but what they have put into law will destroy our young people and the future of America.
Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Thank you for sharing your perspective from Washington, DC. If it can become a calmer, stable place where U.S. citizens and Western values are priorities, we all will be blessed. Your work bringing this about, as well as vigilance in monitoring trends, is appreciated.
Mary, Here's a terrible trend that if it catches on, will destroy our future!
Please spread around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Sounds like an amazing transition for the better. That makes me happy, so thank you!
You might not be so happy when you hear about this that is happening right now in Illinois. Pretty sure it will spread like manure over the landscape if it actually spreads.
Please let everyone you know about this:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
MAGA & ICE must protect and defend the Electoral College no matter how much the deep-state, alien smuggling Jihadists and the abortion Stalinists fake.
Here's another cause we all need to be aware of, if not, it will be to our future detriment.
Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
You have repeated this post TWENTY TIMES. Enough already! We have all seen it!
This is a positive take on where things are heading....and I would very much like to share in its confidence. Yes the tectonic plates have certainly shifted in the US. But the rest of the West is a different story. And even in America there are arguably two kinds of false dawns swirling round in right-wing media.....
"The first is the Woke is So Over! meme. Somehow the tens of millions of laptop culture warriors, including those sitting at all levels of the West’s civil service and bureaucracies, never got the message. Tell it to the ‘creatives’ in the multi-billion dollar TV advertising industry, I say.
The second kind is a narrative where everything gets blamed on a so-called ‘Woke elite’. This is a malign elite who (so we are told) have been ‘in control’ of it all. A kind of Wokievellian Illuminati. In this telling of our 21st Century hyper-progressive dystopia, Woke reality has simply been foisted on a great mass of grounded and well-adjusted citizenry. Yes, they have put up with it, but entirely unwillingly. Hence the proposed answer to the problem is for this ‘Woke elite’ to be vanquished by new swashbuckling Trump-type administrations in order to Make Everything Great Again. There’s one big failure in this narrative. By implication, the US Democratic Party ought, for example, to have attracted around 5 per cent of the popular vote last November, not the near-50 per cent it actually got." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/everyone-has-lost-control-of-the
Trump winning was against all odds. The left went maximum, over max really, and he beat it.
That loss created a crumble that has turned into an avalanche.
What do you think Trump's electoral margin would be if the election was today?? Methinks overwhelming.
Trump didn’t have much competition. He should have trounced the lackluster Kamala Harris, but he didn’t, even with Hannity lying about her platform. And if Trump ran today against Kamala, he would not have the support of young black males – Trump failed to warn them of his plans to nuke DEI; many of their mothers and wives lost their good middle class jobs through DEI annihilation.
Trump got lucky.
Luck? To battle against the forces against him to a win? That's not luck my friend.
We can disagree, but I think you're not thinking straight.
Trump's win was a sign, like when the attendees at the superbowl ignoring the mask mandate. These sorts of things are just signs to allow the majority to operate freely.
Indicators that the the culture has changed. It's the middle of the process, not the beginning.
Can the culture change again and do I think there will be a backlash? Of course, but if Covid flared up again, do you think we'd shutdown and mask up again?
All for.better or worse, but the trust in US institutions is gone.
How well would Trump have performed against Gavin Newsom( in fact, anybody but Kamala), and without the new young black male black vote?
No one knows of course, but my opinion is the results would have been the same. Who wins is a trailing sign of the change, but a leading sign for public appreciation of the change.
Again, we may disagree on this. All of the dems were weakened by the Biden Presidency and the cultural overreach of that crowd.
Are you thinking that the basic platform would change? I think not. So one dem would have just as much trouble swimming against a tide.
Well maybe....good to hope so anyway.
But that would mean literally tens of millions in the university-sheep-dipped lefty, middle classes suddenly and completely upending their whole world view? Either that or it would mean tens of millions of people are incredibly shallow and biddable.
Wins are achievable now, a better economy, clean up the cities, deportation means something now that the border is closed, ending conflicts around the world...
Agreed that more needs to be done ... but a careful choice and approach could yield observable change.
I'm a.little concerned about elected officials being too self serving. Like a new tax bracket.on $M earners would have been good optics.
Nunya, as in Nunya business? I love that!
Here is a new approach to destroy our youth from the Dems who have brought so much destruction in the US. Time to watch the state of Illinois very carefully.
Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
Was this comment meant for a different thread?
Your point about woke being far more widespread than the Right wants to believe is very important. We can argue about why that is. But the traditional Right-wing answer, "people are just afraid of the woke lunatics who run the show" is belied (as you say) by the Democratic Party's performance in 2024.
I've long said that wokeness fills a necessary hole in the modern West. It answers the question "what is good and evil?" It makes normative claims and freely uses power to defend them. Since Nietzsche declared God and His standards of morality dead and Mill declared the use of power for normative purposes verboten... we've struggled not only in defining a collective definition of "good" and "evil, but even debating whether we should.
Everyone knows this is untenable; a society that agrees on nothing except "do as thou wilt" can not remain stable. And ours is not. Wokeness is an illiberal, left-wing answer to this problem or defining a moral order. We're still looking for the illiberal, right-wing version.
All well said. So many on the Right do not seem to want to face up to just how widespread the hyper-Progressive rot has extended through our Western Liberalism. Rather blame it all on some 'elite' class of bogeymen.
Pretty sure you have just written the answer to why we are where we are in this country.
If you think things are bad now...wait until you read this:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
When we were struggling in the wilderness infected with this Covid induced woke mind virus and rational people like you and Peter Bogosian and Robert Malone, and other brave souls were being vilified for rational thought
Being canceled, threatened and worse it is beyond gratitude that we see this sea change, and those four years of Biden had a different purpose, exposing the absolute insanity of the left
We can’t be thankful enough for your voices your fortitude, and the platforms that have allowed your voices to prevail
Thank you, thank you thank you
We conservatives have been struggling in the wilderness for many years. It's time to stand up, and speak up. Especially about this new "happening from the State of Illinois."
Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
I suspect a great deal of the vote in 2024 was essentially for MANA - Make America Normal Again.
Best wishes and Godspeed CR.
Ah Chris,the old man in the movement.
You are too self-effacing. I'm sure the folks you mentioned are in awe of you.
Great “Dispatch”, Chris! And good comments, as well. What do we need for long-term success? How can we prevail for more than a few years? Love America and take pride in it. You protect and nurture what you love and care about.
Thank you for your thoughts Ben. Here is something that just happened that I thought everyone needs to know about: Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
This is a question for a Constitutional expert: without destroying the fundamental framework of our Constitution, how can we change the abilities of the communists rampant among us, to make supporting communism treason and force them underground, where they can be exterminated like the vermin they are?
I think you hit the nail on the head. The country has a true undermining force operating in classrooms and behind political closed doors. I use to dismiss it as hyperbole, but it’s there. You know their goal once they get in is to slowly dismantle the United States. It’s all the fruits of the long march through the institutions, and the ideologues won’t give up their kool-aid, no matter how bitter the outcome is. I hate it that this exists in the United States. The energy that we could put into make the States better is spent trying to ward off their damaging policies, while still playing nice.. as if they should have a place at the table under our rules.. only to have them throw it back in our faces.
If you think this all you mentioned is bad...wait until Illinois starts this nonsense they just signed into law. Please spread this around to everyone you know.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain
I like your thinking and would also like to know how to fix this. I do know that you can't fix stupid! Here's something to add to your list of things to worry about regarding the commies around us.
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/illinois-decides-your-kids-brain