The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Screwing up domestic policies by embracing an insane pseudo-philosophy is par for the course with the Democrat party. Spend money we don't have? Sure! Push the lunacy of transgenderism (including child mutilation)? Why not! Open the borders to every criminal on earth? Hell yes! Militarize federal law enforcement against political enemies? Duh! Create a seamless vote-stealing apparatus to maintain power? Dude!

And our country has muddled along since 1828 with this malign influence constantly eroding the intent of our founders. The Democrat party protected slavery...both the chattel flavor and the modern equivalent of keeping its pressure groups in financial and social bondage via its expansive welfare state and constant application of the charge of racism.

But we have managed by and large to keep that dirty laundry confined to our domestic political sphere. We tend to unify when foreign affairs come knocking. Sure, we have had idiots at the helm, and our foreign adventures are increasingly driven by grift and graft and nonsensical geopolitical considerations like "Nation Building!" But the defense of America tended to be the primary consideration.

Those days are gone. We have now trotted out the worst failures of our internal political complexities for the world to see. A nodding, drooling, incoherent octogenarian is now the face of America. And worse than that; it is abundantly clear that his junta's goals are not the defense of America and it citizens across the world. No, the overarching goal is a vacuous post-modern "All Countries Are Equal" nonsense, coupled with the original sin of being the richest and most successful country on earth.

That projects weakness, and the world has noticed.

Stone-age Houthis can now control a huge chunk of world trade because they are unafraid of America's might. 7th century savages can rape and murder and kidnap Americans, and our national response is cowardly -- evenhanded in the worst possible way. Our traditional adversaries on the world stage are chipping away at our spheres of influence without a care. Cuba...Venezuela...most of the Pacific...Europe...the Middle East...

And our response is to trot out the dessicated husk that sits atop the aimless and chaotic administrative state that supposedly guides our foreign policy for a politically motivated presser designed to reassure domestic adversaries.

Embattled Biden prepares for leadership test in NATO press conference

President Joe Biden will hold a rare press conference on the sidelines of the 75th NATO summit that the White House has billed as a “big boy” event.

A make-or-break moment, the press conference comes as Biden faces mounting pressure from Democrats to appear in public without the help of a script and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) encourages her congressional colleagues to provide the president with this week to prove himself after last month’s first debate against former President Donald Trump.

Never mind that it will be an unmistakable signal that the Commander in Chief is not in control, and America's foreign policy and military are being controlled behind the scenes by a sorry group of political operatives intent upon securing power for themselves, and furthering their own political agendas.

The goal has so obviously changed that it is now unrecognizable. "A Big Boy Event?" What happened to dignity and firm application of American power and influence? What happened to the simple goal of protecting America's interests above all others?

The destruction of America's image and self-image began here, in the minds of our college students of the 1960s, and then in their students as they became professors and high school teachers. Their tentacles have entered every bit of the educational complex, and the explosion of college attendance (driven by the SCOTUS decision in Griggs v. Duke Power) has shifted America from a rational people who eventually lean on their innate good sense to a fragmented society in which a good chunk of that common sense has been destroyed by the idiocy of higher education.

Hopefully the trend away from college as the only path to success will accelerate, and the glut of baristas and part-time web designers will ease...replaced by HVAC techs and plumbers and steamfitters and heavy equipment operators.

You know...the people who are the repository of that famed American common sense!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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