If you think that the solution for this is “voting them out”, then you still don’t get it. 1) Our voting system has been taken from us over the last few decades such that the theft of said elections is so blatantly obvious as to be laughable and 2) the real power is in “the deep state” permanent bureaucracy, the corpus of which is orchestrating this fifth generation warfare against the citizens of this country whom they hate, desire to kill and replace with desperate subjects who are nothing more than mindless Bugman slaves signed up as Democrats for the price of a free phone, food and taxpayer funded housing. They have effectively taken over every single institution of power including the judiciary, the military and the alphabet agencies. They’ve melded with the Globalist Economic Psychopaths like WEF and WHO, with their army of medical miscreants and Big Pharma which owns them all, in every state, city and town, especially Washington DC, lock stock and barrel. The politicians have sold their souls to The New Thing, China, whose corrupt, global power-hungry CCP finds the price of every man by drowning them in riches until they submit and scream, to hell with the country of my birth just give me the money! Indeed, those who cannot see this reality all around us are just willfully blind. None are so blind as those who refuse to see.
I agree. I don't see this ending well at all. In our Declaration of Independence we read:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . . "
What happens when enough people decide they no longer consent? As I said, I don't see this ending well at all.
I believe we are in the middle of a psy-op war and color revolution that seeks to confuse and to build fear, to create the perfect atmosphere for civil war… the goal is to take down the 'American Empire’, so that the globalists can be rid of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Part of me understands why, looking at the devastation of what constant 'regime change wars' have wrought. Did we do this for our nation alone, or also at the behest of another? We have become a land of PRIDEFUL God-haters who engage in child sacrifice, genital mutilation, who celebrate violence, greed and false gods… most prominently 'self-idolatry'. There are spiritual ramifications to a nation that has lost its moral compass…and we are seeing it spilling over into the natural. Humanity will always find something to worship, if not the Creator…then the ‘created'. If not Christ, then ‘self'. Paul the Apostle wrote: "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” -Galatians 6:7-8
You will get no argument from me. As Josh McDowell says, " There is a God shaped hole in our hearts longing to be filled, and we will fill it with something."
That is 100% what I’ve been thinking. I didn’t even know what a “color revolution” was until I watched Oliver Stone’s ‘Ukraine on Fire’ a year ago while trying to find the backstory about what’s going on there. After watching, I was like, OMG that is what’s happening here in America! Now I am of the belief that the Constitution is the last thing protecting us from tyrannical global fascism. Trump was right when he said “If America goes, the whole world will follow”....
I look to Jesus, even if everything and everyone else fails… He does not. He said, I will never leave you or forsake you. I find my true peace in Him, everything else is temporary.
I'm old enough to remember All In The Family in its first run. It was, of course, highly effective Leftist propaganda and gave all the then-nascent progressives something to celebrate and rally around. The protagonist, Archie Bunker, was a relic of the past, someone who wasn't particularly on board with the realignment of either the family structure nor the nation itself. He was a combat veteran who fought for his country -- and was wounded such that he could tell if someone had been sitting in his beloved easy chair. He was working class, loyal to his union, believed in hard work and individual responsibility, and provided for his family.
In other words, a useless relic.
One of my favorite riffs was when Archie went in for an operation and was assigned a black woman nurse. I want to remember her as Jamaican but can't be sure (I keep seeing the wise cracking Jamaican nurse from Absolutely Fabulous in my head. "Da're you go again, mistaken me for someone who gives a damn"). This spanned several episodes, with one of the first being the nurse walking out of the the room saying to Archie, "I'll be back to give you a shave" to which Archie responds, "I've already shaved this morning." The nurse's response? "No where I'm gonna shave you." Archive leaves us with one of those priceless expressions.
Back from the commercial break (remember those?) we see Archie lifting up the sheets and staring down at his now shaven junk. Abolutelely priceless.
The other end of the arc was Archie hearing from the same nurse that he'll need a blood transfusion, where he seeks confirmation that the blood will be "of the right color". Much hilarious banter ensues. Cut to Archie coming out of the anesthesia where the nurse walks in and hands Archie a mirror.
He is done up in black face.
Having caught a few reruns over the recent years it's hard not to see the show as a complete inversion of what it set out to be. You have the arrogant, smug, freeloading son-in-law Meathead living and eating (a lot) for free in Archie's house while constantly berating and demeaning his host and more or less sugar daddy. Then you have Archie and Edith's daughter (Meathead's wife) who dutifully defends her husband's attacks on her family like any subservient wife, yet still finding time to insert some feminist jibe every once in a while. Gloria was no less under the thumb of the Meathead than Edith was under Archie's.
Good comment, Brad. Funny thing, though, some people at the time noted that Archie was actually the anti-hero, working 9-5 at "the loading dock," driving a cab part-time, and literally paying the freight for his beloved daughter and his entitled son-in-law. I know this is how he was perceived in the house I grew up in.
But yeah, "All in the Family" revealed where things were/where they were headed to an amazing extent. Well worth some time spent on re-runs.
Honestly, I'm not really sure. The show died a slow death, yet they kept it going on life support for far too long. Little by little the characters dropped off, either by leaving or gaining a spinoff (Jeffersons, Maude). It had the most impact in those first seasons.
So I just looked it up on the internet, Gloria and Meathead went to California, he lost his college teaching job after they protested at a nuclear site in the nude, he joined a commune, and Gloria came back to New York State with their child, etc.
The Tea Party, Trump, and MAGA are the real Resistance, American style. I don't know where the Dems are going, but their world is turning very weird and creepy and ultimately, violent and totalitarian.
Ever since winning the justified war against segregation in the '60s, the left have been co-opted by America-hating communists and turned into irrational hotheads and juvenile whiners, ready to start striking out at everyone who actually believes in an ethically-run Constitutional republic. Now they're older and in control of America's cultural and commercial institutions. Instead of working to strengthen American ideals, they are trying to destroy the country while being oblivious to the fact that they are burning down their own house.
"they are trying to destroy the country while being oblivious to the fact that they are burning down their own house."
Very well said! I agree that obliviousness is the problem with most of the leftists, perhaps especially the younger ones. I found it remarkable that the people of San Francisco favor a proposal to send $97,000 annually to each black slave descendant in their city, for the next 250 years! These same people hate the Constitution, state their intention to "dismantle" the country, but are confident that in 250 years we will not only still exist, but will be rich enough to fund all of their pet projects. This is the voice of children of wealthy parents, who have yet to discover that their infantile attacks on authority will in fact destroy all that they depend upon.
I bet they voted to send “other people’s” money and not their own money. I also double bet that the people who voted for it have never once given a stranger $97,000; let alone annually. SF is absolute BS.
Yes they are! They are even pushing an agenda that healthcare should be segregated, with patients assigned to doctors who match each others' oppression and privilege categories. I think they are currently primarily interested in seeing black patients assigned only to black doctors, but matching trans patients with trans doctors will probably also titillate them.
They think they are the heroes while burning down George Bailey's Savings and Loan. After they're trapped in Potter Town, they'll find out who they really helped. Too late.
"But the Potter controlled newspaper and radio station said we were the good guys!"
My real anger is toward those who do violent things (or cheer on the violent) and believe and obey any lies told them by the lying heads in their idiot boxes. They are deceived to some degree but still a danger to all around them.
Ends do not justify the means. Villains are those who do bad things. Heroes do good things.
The Democrats indeed are not the "good guys," anymore. Let's not make the mistake of thinking that the Republicans are. Currently, there are only a handful of outsider Representatives and Senators who happen to be Republican that might be among the "good guys" - far too many of those remaining are members of that ruling elite, the Political Class, the UniParty - and we know who most of them are, in the Senate, anyway.
"...and we’re ready to use our vote to tell them exactly what we think of them."
Assuming that our votes are properly counted, we need to use them to vote out incumbents in every single election. We need to accept that OUR guy, no matter how much we like him, needs to be replaced after his second consecutive term in the HoR, and after one in the Senate, and gut the funding for congressional staff.
We ought to be voting for the outsider, the challenger, in every primary.
Inspired essay and articulation of the last few years and what we likely have to look forward to. My family and I thank you for sharing your passion and courage. Your ability to blend history, politics and culture into a holistic portrait is amazing and so well worth the sub cost. My family and I were/are big Dylan fans and this song and lyrics are now how most of us view the Democratics (even though we were poor Irish Catholic and born in to the Dem party). Single: Positively 4th Street (1965)
I'm very glad I posted it then despite thinking that you'd probably know it. It's such a great version of such a great song. In case you haven't heard it, here's my other favorite Garcia (with the GD) Dylan cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhM-Ed8R8k.
I think what happens next is we become like Canada. Everyone is so nice there. They’ve “niced” their way into being completely controlled by their government. The people who protest up there are demonized by everyone. The government has bullied most into compliance using many of the same tactics being used here currently. I’m not sure voting is going to get us out of this pickle. It sounds hip and patriotic but they already have a lot of control over us using the laws and the courts. How do we challenge that, by protesting? Then we have another Jan. 6. Only one side is really allowed to protest. That is blatantly obvious after the Nashville shooting. I know it’s getting bad when I am moving to an area that is predominately religious, Mormon, which I used to be faithful years ago, but had to walk away from the culture of it, but moving back for a job where we can actually be ourselves. The work environment today is soul sucking. If you are someone who naturally fights against things when they are wrong, corporate world will chew you up and spit you out. Just be a robot if you want to maintain your livelihood. My husband and I are not robots. This place is looking for a leader who knows what they are fighting for so we must go. Far away from our first grandbaby about to be born. The whole thing is depressing.
Ha you wish you could live in Canada with its free healthcare and almost non-existent gun violence deaths! Matter of fact, almost all the gun violence are guns imported from the United States. Go weeks literally without ever thinking about the government, which, you know, is the ideal situation.
No thanks...I don’t even like visiting there. It feels a bit hunger games like and that was before COvID. We’ve cancelled our trip to Mont Tremblant and not booking any Ironmans there again. No country is perfect but I still pick this over what you got going on up there. Free health care is good when you are healthy too. I’ve heard a few stories about lack access when it comes to specialties. And not to mention we are going through a bit of medical revolution here. So my trust in the medical profession is rather low. Free healthcare does not tempt me in the least. I’m not into banning guns so that doesn’t get me either. We have cultural rot here in the US that needs fixing.
Also has a lot to do with 1) not prosecuting crimes leading to 2) cops who don’t bother making arrests leading to 3) criminals staying on the street leading to 4) more criminals creating more crimes leading to 5) more crimes of a severe nature. Soros backed Kim Fox is the DA lololololol. Go figure.
I had to smile about the observation that the Dems do their dirty work behind a blackface nowadays. I thought I might be the only one to notice. That way they are insulated from any debate of pros and cons. Disagree and you are a racist. They’ve thought of everything
Wow. What a great article describing the decline of the Democrat party including many RINOs. No longer the good guys. Our constitutional republic is under assault and needs prayers for salvation. We have turned away from our Christian values of our founding fathers and now search for the elusive equity, when equality is the real measure to attain. These past 7 years of constant assault, lies, phony impeachments, to now an indictment of a former President have reached a boiling point. This will not end well. This corrupt administration and DOJ have stained our nation’s standing in the world. We are a laughing stock to other nations. BRICS will finish us off. If this ruling body of impotent leaders doesn’t let a real fighter take the reins, our days are numbered.
Indeed; equity is about equal outcomes, as in, divide the dollars and land in America and the distribute equally to every man, woman, child. It is Communism in disguise. Another Dem Drag show.
And within one generation, the lazy people will sell their portion for a pittance and the next fix on their crack pipes and smart and hard working people will gain more land and property than they had before. Look at Jesus’ Parable of the 10 talents, a form of money. Some people buried it, some people wasted it, some people put it in low interest savings accounts, and some invested it wisely to work hard. Equal outcomes as per the communist party line, never ends well. The cream will always rise to the top.
Middle America makes this country go. We produce the food and can take care of ourselves accordingly. We are accommodating, but we really do not need those that attack us.
Most importantly, we do not fall for games that are produced by the Left(UniParty) to provoke us. We know the game of the last seven years and we are not buying any of it.
Sasha, thank you for a brilliant, insightful piece.
Are you an older GenXer by chance? Taibbi, Carlson, others: our time has come at long last.
I am one. Our parable is that of the Prodigal Son: we need to come to our senses, come home, come clean, and then lead. It is happening. We are not too late.
I’m an old millennial and my older siblings are gen-x...I’m a Mixer. Your comment is 100%. It’s time we show and tell people how latch key kids survived without supervision for hours as our parents worked and returned to college to better theirs and our lives. It’s time to show what being responsible actually means.
Boomer here from mid 1950’s. We had no supervision at all. Get on the bike and just go all over. Ride the city bus downtown, no worries. No crime to speak of. Everyone disciplines all the children if they act up and all parents are ok with that. We looked after each other. We were taught to work hard, study hard, stay out of trouble, and respect our teachers, parents, and all adults. And each other. There were no psychologists outside of big cities. Need councilling? Go to your Pastor or Rabbi who cares about your soul and your heart. Church and Synagogue were central in our lives. Then came Vietnam and the hippies and the flower power crazy people.
Excellent piece, Sasha. I am curious as to how long it took you to pull all the video references. While I agree that the mirror has been shattered, there is a UNIPARTY that are ‘globalist elitists', that want to embrace whatever they believe this ‘bold new world to be’, so long as their wealth and position are protected. I believe we are in the middle of a psy-op war and color revolution that seeks to confuse and to build fear, to create the perfect atmosphere for civil war… the goal is to take down the 'American Empire’, so that the globalists can be rid of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Part of me understands why, looking at the devastation of what constant 'regime change wars' have wrought. Did we do this for our nation alone, or also at the behest of another? We have become a land of PRIDEFUL God-haters who engage in child sacrifice, genital mutilation, who celebrate violence, greed and false gods… most prominently 'self-idolatry'. There are spiritual ramifications to a nation that has lost its moral compass…and we are seeing it spilling over into the natural. Humanity will always find something to worship, if not the Creator…then the ‘created'. If not Christ, then ‘self'. Paul the Apostle wrote: "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” -Galatians 6:7-8
Well said. Our nation has let evil run amok and have forsaken the values our founding fathers fought hard to establish as a constitution republic, not a democracy. This evil will destroy our country if we don’t destroy the evil and prideful haters.
Long ago I printed out a poster of that speech by fictional President Andy Shepherd from Sorkin’s “The American President”. It sits on my wall of my business along with Dean Alfange’s “An American’s Creed”…reminding me every day where “True North” is. Specifically most powerful line for me: "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.”
Calling the Democrats and American left nowadays “the bad guys” is a start. Reminds me of when Reagan called the Soviets “evil”…it was the beginning of the end for them. Personally I knew they were evil when they put up razor wire around “my” Capitol, the people’s house, arrested and threw protestors into political prison (literally gulags) and called in the national guard to protect them from “we the people”.
Yes, same guy. This is a tough one, and good call out, btw. :) I have thought about this over the years because several of my conservative friends who remember the movie, have pointed it out to me in my office.
I get it, one moment he is speaking universal truths that bind us together as a nation, and later he is calling for the overturning of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution (at least that’s how I interpret it)
I totally understand the dilemma of the typical liberal doublethink proposed there. But lets remember, it was just a movie and a political one at that, written by liberals to appeal to liberals. (I even remember when "liberal" meant something and they used to be the good guys, am I right, Sasha?) I have no problem with that and if pressed, I am sure I can find similar good stories written by conservatives for conservatives.
It is not doublethink to me because I believe I can separate the truth in it from the propaganda. I believe in the main thrust of the speech and I strongly disagree with the boilerplate liberal policy prescriptions at the end. I do not believe they are inseparable. The speech (the part I have on my wall):
“America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free". “
The rest of it is not universal, it is specific to the characters and story being told in the movie; so it is irrelevant to me. I know the importance of 2A more than many, and I swore an oath to defend it; but unlike our leaders, when I swear to God about something, I don’t lie and I don’t try to figure out ways to circumvent.
When I first saw the movie I was old enough to recognize political indoctrination (from either side) but if you are just coming of age, Its getting harder and harder these days to avoid the propaganda…and its so obvious.
we have a young daughter (13), and it seems like every show we watch with her (even friggin Disney cartoons!) tries to slip in homosexuality, climate change, immigration, trans-whatever …one damn liberal talking point after another…and it has absolutely nothing to do with advancing the story! Its just slipped in there for no reason... We’re down to only her watching shows from the 70’s and 80’s like “Little House on the Prairie” or “The Waltons”. Only shows we have actually watched before and know there are no surprises...I swear we will be watching a perfectly great new production of “Anne of Green Gables” or “Nancy Drew”…and wham!!!…there is gay/lesbian relationship, racist stereotype conservatives, ignorant farmers from middle America…you name it. Then we have to turn it off, and explain to her why we dont want to continue, answer a bunch of questions that I was hoping we'd have a few more years... Its so sad, I really want her to have a childhood without political indoctrination. Anyway...its kind of off topic, but whatever.
If you think that the solution for this is “voting them out”, then you still don’t get it. 1) Our voting system has been taken from us over the last few decades such that the theft of said elections is so blatantly obvious as to be laughable and 2) the real power is in “the deep state” permanent bureaucracy, the corpus of which is orchestrating this fifth generation warfare against the citizens of this country whom they hate, desire to kill and replace with desperate subjects who are nothing more than mindless Bugman slaves signed up as Democrats for the price of a free phone, food and taxpayer funded housing. They have effectively taken over every single institution of power including the judiciary, the military and the alphabet agencies. They’ve melded with the Globalist Economic Psychopaths like WEF and WHO, with their army of medical miscreants and Big Pharma which owns them all, in every state, city and town, especially Washington DC, lock stock and barrel. The politicians have sold their souls to The New Thing, China, whose corrupt, global power-hungry CCP finds the price of every man by drowning them in riches until they submit and scream, to hell with the country of my birth just give me the money! Indeed, those who cannot see this reality all around us are just willfully blind. None are so blind as those who refuse to see.
I agree. I don't see this ending well at all. In our Declaration of Independence we read:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . . "
What happens when enough people decide they no longer consent? As I said, I don't see this ending well at all.
I believe we are in the middle of a psy-op war and color revolution that seeks to confuse and to build fear, to create the perfect atmosphere for civil war… the goal is to take down the 'American Empire’, so that the globalists can be rid of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Part of me understands why, looking at the devastation of what constant 'regime change wars' have wrought. Did we do this for our nation alone, or also at the behest of another? We have become a land of PRIDEFUL God-haters who engage in child sacrifice, genital mutilation, who celebrate violence, greed and false gods… most prominently 'self-idolatry'. There are spiritual ramifications to a nation that has lost its moral compass…and we are seeing it spilling over into the natural. Humanity will always find something to worship, if not the Creator…then the ‘created'. If not Christ, then ‘self'. Paul the Apostle wrote: "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” -Galatians 6:7-8
You will get no argument from me. As Josh McDowell says, " There is a God shaped hole in our hearts longing to be filled, and we will fill it with something."
Indeed.
That is 100% what I’ve been thinking. I didn’t even know what a “color revolution” was until I watched Oliver Stone’s ‘Ukraine on Fire’ a year ago while trying to find the backstory about what’s going on there. After watching, I was like, OMG that is what’s happening here in America! Now I am of the belief that the Constitution is the last thing protecting us from tyrannical global fascism. Trump was right when he said “If America goes, the whole world will follow”....
I look to Jesus, even if everything and everyone else fails… He does not. He said, I will never leave you or forsake you. I find my true peace in Him, everything else is temporary.
I’ve never been a religious person (I do consider myself spiritual though), but religion is making more and more sense these days...
Global predators with no loyalty to any country or any people.
It would appear so.
I'm old enough to remember All In The Family in its first run. It was, of course, highly effective Leftist propaganda and gave all the then-nascent progressives something to celebrate and rally around. The protagonist, Archie Bunker, was a relic of the past, someone who wasn't particularly on board with the realignment of either the family structure nor the nation itself. He was a combat veteran who fought for his country -- and was wounded such that he could tell if someone had been sitting in his beloved easy chair. He was working class, loyal to his union, believed in hard work and individual responsibility, and provided for his family.
In other words, a useless relic.
One of my favorite riffs was when Archie went in for an operation and was assigned a black woman nurse. I want to remember her as Jamaican but can't be sure (I keep seeing the wise cracking Jamaican nurse from Absolutely Fabulous in my head. "Da're you go again, mistaken me for someone who gives a damn"). This spanned several episodes, with one of the first being the nurse walking out of the the room saying to Archie, "I'll be back to give you a shave" to which Archie responds, "I've already shaved this morning." The nurse's response? "No where I'm gonna shave you." Archive leaves us with one of those priceless expressions.
Back from the commercial break (remember those?) we see Archie lifting up the sheets and staring down at his now shaven junk. Abolutelely priceless.
The other end of the arc was Archie hearing from the same nurse that he'll need a blood transfusion, where he seeks confirmation that the blood will be "of the right color". Much hilarious banter ensues. Cut to Archie coming out of the anesthesia where the nurse walks in and hands Archie a mirror.
He is done up in black face.
Having caught a few reruns over the recent years it's hard not to see the show as a complete inversion of what it set out to be. You have the arrogant, smug, freeloading son-in-law Meathead living and eating (a lot) for free in Archie's house while constantly berating and demeaning his host and more or less sugar daddy. Then you have Archie and Edith's daughter (Meathead's wife) who dutifully defends her husband's attacks on her family like any subservient wife, yet still finding time to insert some feminist jibe every once in a while. Gloria was no less under the thumb of the Meathead than Edith was under Archie's.
I now know that Rob Reiner wasn't acting at all. He was playing himself.
Life imitates art, as always.
Good comment, Brad. Funny thing, though, some people at the time noted that Archie was actually the anti-hero, working 9-5 at "the loading dock," driving a cab part-time, and literally paying the freight for his beloved daughter and his entitled son-in-law. I know this is how he was perceived in the house I grew up in.
But yeah, "All in the Family" revealed where things were/where they were headed to an amazing extent. Well worth some time spent on re-runs.
That's why I identified him as the protagonist. :)
He was likeable enough to gain and keep viewers.
And didn’t Meathead take off and it was Archie who raised Meathead’s child? (Vaguely remembering...)
Honestly, I'm not really sure. The show died a slow death, yet they kept it going on life support for far too long. Little by little the characters dropped off, either by leaving or gaining a spinoff (Jeffersons, Maude). It had the most impact in those first seasons.
So I just looked it up on the internet, Gloria and Meathead went to California, he lost his college teaching job after they protested at a nuclear site in the nude, he joined a commune, and Gloria came back to New York State with their child, etc.
That sounds vaguely familiar. Thanks for doing the research!
Thank you Sasha. You describe perfectly the sorry state of the Dem overreach along with their puppets in the MSM.
The Tea Party, Trump, and MAGA are the real Resistance, American style. I don't know where the Dems are going, but their world is turning very weird and creepy and ultimately, violent and totalitarian.
Ever since winning the justified war against segregation in the '60s, the left have been co-opted by America-hating communists and turned into irrational hotheads and juvenile whiners, ready to start striking out at everyone who actually believes in an ethically-run Constitutional republic. Now they're older and in control of America's cultural and commercial institutions. Instead of working to strengthen American ideals, they are trying to destroy the country while being oblivious to the fact that they are burning down their own house.
"they are trying to destroy the country while being oblivious to the fact that they are burning down their own house."
Very well said! I agree that obliviousness is the problem with most of the leftists, perhaps especially the younger ones. I found it remarkable that the people of San Francisco favor a proposal to send $97,000 annually to each black slave descendant in their city, for the next 250 years! These same people hate the Constitution, state their intention to "dismantle" the country, but are confident that in 250 years we will not only still exist, but will be rich enough to fund all of their pet projects. This is the voice of children of wealthy parents, who have yet to discover that their infantile attacks on authority will in fact destroy all that they depend upon.
Teach, Sandra!
I bet they voted to send “other people’s” money and not their own money. I also double bet that the people who voted for it have never once given a stranger $97,000; let alone annually. SF is absolute BS.
I predict they will all move to a gated community in Florida before the first bill comes due.
Sitting on a tree limb while sawing it off.
So true and further, they are working to re-segregate institutions based on race.
Yes they are! They are even pushing an agenda that healthcare should be segregated, with patients assigned to doctors who match each others' oppression and privilege categories. I think they are currently primarily interested in seeing black patients assigned only to black doctors, but matching trans patients with trans doctors will probably also titillate them.
Hard to believe this is happening after the long and often terrible road to desegregate.
Yes, it is heartbreaking.
Ugh. I’m Irish Catholic; I’m screwed.
Sorry to have to agree with you.
Maybe we could make you look Chinese?
Yes please!
All about division.
They think they are the heroes while burning down George Bailey's Savings and Loan. After they're trapped in Potter Town, they'll find out who they really helped. Too late.
"But the Potter controlled newspaper and radio station said we were the good guys!"
They've turned snobby too.
My real anger is toward those who do violent things (or cheer on the violent) and believe and obey any lies told them by the lying heads in their idiot boxes. They are deceived to some degree but still a danger to all around them.
Ends do not justify the means. Villains are those who do bad things. Heroes do good things.
Very creepy indeed
I think voting machines will stop any significant change.
Another excellent piece, Sasha!
The Democrats indeed are not the "good guys," anymore. Let's not make the mistake of thinking that the Republicans are. Currently, there are only a handful of outsider Representatives and Senators who happen to be Republican that might be among the "good guys" - far too many of those remaining are members of that ruling elite, the Political Class, the UniParty - and we know who most of them are, in the Senate, anyway.
"...and we’re ready to use our vote to tell them exactly what we think of them."
Assuming that our votes are properly counted, we need to use them to vote out incumbents in every single election. We need to accept that OUR guy, no matter how much we like him, needs to be replaced after his second consecutive term in the HoR, and after one in the Senate, and gut the funding for congressional staff.
We ought to be voting for the outsider, the challenger, in every primary.
"We ought to be voting for the outsider, the challenger, in every primary."
This.
Inspired essay and articulation of the last few years and what we likely have to look forward to. My family and I thank you for sharing your passion and courage. Your ability to blend history, politics and culture into a holistic portrait is amazing and so well worth the sub cost. My family and I were/are big Dylan fans and this song and lyrics are now how most of us view the Democratics (even though we were poor Irish Catholic and born in to the Dem party). Single: Positively 4th Street (1965)
"Yes, I wish that for just one time,
You could stand inside my shoes,
You’d know what a drag it is,
To see you."
If you haven’t heard this version, you should: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZLskgAKo8
Brother, that was an excellent rendition. I was already a Dead fan but I had not heard Garcia do that one before. Made my day. thank-you.
Ditto, love the Dead and this was truly beautiful, thanks for sharing
I'm very glad I posted it then despite thinking that you'd probably know it. It's such a great version of such a great song. In case you haven't heard it, here's my other favorite Garcia (with the GD) Dylan cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhM-Ed8R8k.
With Trump now indicted
The left is excited
The Statue of Liberty weeps
Farewell to the notion
Tom J set in motion
Lex Rex at bay tyranny keeps
As we watch our descent
Our brave feet of cement
Turn out to be nothing but clay
The cheering will fade
When the cops come to raid
Who thinks they are over the fray
And when they’re all through
There'll be no me and you
Equity finally achieved
But not quite as they thought
When their collars were hot
The alphabet people aggrieved
We’ll all become one
Slaving under the Sun
Inclusiveness under the whip
Of a state run A.I.
On us all it will spy
Tolerate it will not any lip
Farewell to what was
We lost sight in the buzz
Now into a dark age we go
The blind led the dumb
As they canceled our fun
The freedom we had we did blow
What's next is uncertain
As they pull back the curtain
The brick wall at long last exposed
'Twas all an illusion
Maintained with confusion
Methodically our minds were closed
They sent Judas goats
So at each other's throats
The herd moved with eyes open wide
Like lambs to the slaughter
Knowing not what we ought to
Our overlords gloated with pride
Half hated the other
While they had no bother
From all of us so far below
As we were all fighting
Around us was tightening
The digital noose did not show
The door we were pushed through
Closed tight as was meant to
We sit here to ponder our fate
Bewildered no longer
Each day we get stronger
We hope that it's not all too late
Such the perfect pen name for such heresy.
I think what happens next is we become like Canada. Everyone is so nice there. They’ve “niced” their way into being completely controlled by their government. The people who protest up there are demonized by everyone. The government has bullied most into compliance using many of the same tactics being used here currently. I’m not sure voting is going to get us out of this pickle. It sounds hip and patriotic but they already have a lot of control over us using the laws and the courts. How do we challenge that, by protesting? Then we have another Jan. 6. Only one side is really allowed to protest. That is blatantly obvious after the Nashville shooting. I know it’s getting bad when I am moving to an area that is predominately religious, Mormon, which I used to be faithful years ago, but had to walk away from the culture of it, but moving back for a job where we can actually be ourselves. The work environment today is soul sucking. If you are someone who naturally fights against things when they are wrong, corporate world will chew you up and spit you out. Just be a robot if you want to maintain your livelihood. My husband and I are not robots. This place is looking for a leader who knows what they are fighting for so we must go. Far away from our first grandbaby about to be born. The whole thing is depressing.
Ha you wish you could live in Canada with its free healthcare and almost non-existent gun violence deaths! Matter of fact, almost all the gun violence are guns imported from the United States. Go weeks literally without ever thinking about the government, which, you know, is the ideal situation.
No thanks...I don’t even like visiting there. It feels a bit hunger games like and that was before COvID. We’ve cancelled our trip to Mont Tremblant and not booking any Ironmans there again. No country is perfect but I still pick this over what you got going on up there. Free health care is good when you are healthy too. I’ve heard a few stories about lack access when it comes to specialties. And not to mention we are going through a bit of medical revolution here. So my trust in the medical profession is rather low. Free healthcare does not tempt me in the least. I’m not into banning guns so that doesn’t get me either. We have cultural rot here in the US that needs fixing.
It must be because of all the gun restrictions and regulations in Chicago that violent crime is so rare in that lovely city.
Also has a lot to do with 1) not prosecuting crimes leading to 2) cops who don’t bother making arrests leading to 3) criminals staying on the street leading to 4) more criminals creating more crimes leading to 5) more crimes of a severe nature. Soros backed Kim Fox is the DA lololololol. Go figure.
I had to smile about the observation that the Dems do their dirty work behind a blackface nowadays. I thought I might be the only one to notice. That way they are insulated from any debate of pros and cons. Disagree and you are a racist. They’ve thought of everything
I agree, Sasha nailed that one!
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Wow. What a great article describing the decline of the Democrat party including many RINOs. No longer the good guys. Our constitutional republic is under assault and needs prayers for salvation. We have turned away from our Christian values of our founding fathers and now search for the elusive equity, when equality is the real measure to attain. These past 7 years of constant assault, lies, phony impeachments, to now an indictment of a former President have reached a boiling point. This will not end well. This corrupt administration and DOJ have stained our nation’s standing in the world. We are a laughing stock to other nations. BRICS will finish us off. If this ruling body of impotent leaders doesn’t let a real fighter take the reins, our days are numbered.
Indeed; equity is about equal outcomes, as in, divide the dollars and land in America and the distribute equally to every man, woman, child. It is Communism in disguise. Another Dem Drag show.
And within one generation, the lazy people will sell their portion for a pittance and the next fix on their crack pipes and smart and hard working people will gain more land and property than they had before. Look at Jesus’ Parable of the 10 talents, a form of money. Some people buried it, some people wasted it, some people put it in low interest savings accounts, and some invested it wisely to work hard. Equal outcomes as per the communist party line, never ends well. The cream will always rise to the top.
Politics of envy.
Middle America makes this country go. We produce the food and can take care of ourselves accordingly. We are accommodating, but we really do not need those that attack us.
Most importantly, we do not fall for games that are produced by the Left(UniParty) to provoke us. We know the game of the last seven years and we are not buying any of it.
"I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn (Yeah)
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain't too many things these old boys can't do
We grow good-ole tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
And we can skin a buck, we can run a trout line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
'Cause you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns
We say grace, and we say ma'am
If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn"
Yes sir.
That’s my favorite Bocephus song. The video that goes with it is also pretty awesome.
Sasha, thank you for a brilliant, insightful piece.
Are you an older GenXer by chance? Taibbi, Carlson, others: our time has come at long last.
I am one. Our parable is that of the Prodigal Son: we need to come to our senses, come home, come clean, and then lead. It is happening. We are not too late.
I’m an old millennial and my older siblings are gen-x...I’m a Mixer. Your comment is 100%. It’s time we show and tell people how latch key kids survived without supervision for hours as our parents worked and returned to college to better theirs and our lives. It’s time to show what being responsible actually means.
Boomer here from mid 1950’s. We had no supervision at all. Get on the bike and just go all over. Ride the city bus downtown, no worries. No crime to speak of. Everyone disciplines all the children if they act up and all parents are ok with that. We looked after each other. We were taught to work hard, study hard, stay out of trouble, and respect our teachers, parents, and all adults. And each other. There were no psychologists outside of big cities. Need councilling? Go to your Pastor or Rabbi who cares about your soul and your heart. Church and Synagogue were central in our lives. Then came Vietnam and the hippies and the flower power crazy people.
Todays world is hell in comparison.
El gato malo has a stack “in praise of lawn darts” that I suspect you’d enjoy.
Excellent piece, Sasha. I am curious as to how long it took you to pull all the video references. While I agree that the mirror has been shattered, there is a UNIPARTY that are ‘globalist elitists', that want to embrace whatever they believe this ‘bold new world to be’, so long as their wealth and position are protected. I believe we are in the middle of a psy-op war and color revolution that seeks to confuse and to build fear, to create the perfect atmosphere for civil war… the goal is to take down the 'American Empire’, so that the globalists can be rid of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Part of me understands why, looking at the devastation of what constant 'regime change wars' have wrought. Did we do this for our nation alone, or also at the behest of another? We have become a land of PRIDEFUL God-haters who engage in child sacrifice, genital mutilation, who celebrate violence, greed and false gods… most prominently 'self-idolatry'. There are spiritual ramifications to a nation that has lost its moral compass…and we are seeing it spilling over into the natural. Humanity will always find something to worship, if not the Creator…then the ‘created'. If not Christ, then ‘self'. Paul the Apostle wrote: "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” -Galatians 6:7-8
Well said. Our nation has let evil run amok and have forsaken the values our founding fathers fought hard to establish as a constitution republic, not a democracy. This evil will destroy our country if we don’t destroy the evil and prideful haters.
Mr. Global wants to smash every country. Starting with the symbol of freedom called America. Then "build back better." He is succeeding too.
Neither ballots nor bullets can stop this. Too deep. Most conservatives remain clueless.
I suspect Trump is helping the NWO by distracting us and providing fake hope.
We should pray and work on building our own structures instead. America is going down and cannot be saved. But our families and neighbors may.
Not Dylan, this time let’s go with Townshend’s “Won’t get fooled again”
And please for the love of all that is holy, stop the war in UKraine. Those poor people 😢
A few comments
excellent piece, Sasha. Impressive writing.
Long ago I printed out a poster of that speech by fictional President Andy Shepherd from Sorkin’s “The American President”. It sits on my wall of my business along with Dean Alfange’s “An American’s Creed”…reminding me every day where “True North” is. Specifically most powerful line for me: "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.”
Calling the Democrats and American left nowadays “the bad guys” is a start. Reminds me of when Reagan called the Soviets “evil”…it was the beginning of the end for them. Personally I knew they were evil when they put up razor wire around “my” Capitol, the people’s house, arrested and threw protestors into political prison (literally gulags) and called in the national guard to protect them from “we the people”.
Andy “I’m gonna get the guns” Shepherd?
“Andy “I’m gonna get the guns” Shepherd?”
Yes, same guy. This is a tough one, and good call out, btw. :) I have thought about this over the years because several of my conservative friends who remember the movie, have pointed it out to me in my office.
I get it, one moment he is speaking universal truths that bind us together as a nation, and later he is calling for the overturning of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution (at least that’s how I interpret it)
I totally understand the dilemma of the typical liberal doublethink proposed there. But lets remember, it was just a movie and a political one at that, written by liberals to appeal to liberals. (I even remember when "liberal" meant something and they used to be the good guys, am I right, Sasha?) I have no problem with that and if pressed, I am sure I can find similar good stories written by conservatives for conservatives.
It is not doublethink to me because I believe I can separate the truth in it from the propaganda. I believe in the main thrust of the speech and I strongly disagree with the boilerplate liberal policy prescriptions at the end. I do not believe they are inseparable. The speech (the part I have on my wall):
“America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free". “
The rest of it is not universal, it is specific to the characters and story being told in the movie; so it is irrelevant to me. I know the importance of 2A more than many, and I swore an oath to defend it; but unlike our leaders, when I swear to God about something, I don’t lie and I don’t try to figure out ways to circumvent.
Absolutely agree. My husband and I came to the same conclusion, really liked the movie, just ignore the Uber lib parts.
Thanks
When I first saw the movie I was old enough to recognize political indoctrination (from either side) but if you are just coming of age, Its getting harder and harder these days to avoid the propaganda…and its so obvious.
we have a young daughter (13), and it seems like every show we watch with her (even friggin Disney cartoons!) tries to slip in homosexuality, climate change, immigration, trans-whatever …one damn liberal talking point after another…and it has absolutely nothing to do with advancing the story! Its just slipped in there for no reason... We’re down to only her watching shows from the 70’s and 80’s like “Little House on the Prairie” or “The Waltons”. Only shows we have actually watched before and know there are no surprises...I swear we will be watching a perfectly great new production of “Anne of Green Gables” or “Nancy Drew”…and wham!!!…there is gay/lesbian relationship, racist stereotype conservatives, ignorant farmers from middle America…you name it. Then we have to turn it off, and explain to her why we dont want to continue, answer a bunch of questions that I was hoping we'd have a few more years... Its so sad, I really want her to have a childhood without political indoctrination. Anyway...its kind of off topic, but whatever.
The infiltration of kids programming is the most disgusting. What kind of people try to indoctrinate children???