Consent of the Governed Will Evaporate Like a Mirage in the Harshest Desert of TRUTH ....

Into:  This post is far from perfect!!!  As such, given everything I have going on right now with respect to finishing up my advanced degrees and processing my grief over the death of my father, this post will be an ongoing, evolving conversation about the state of America heading into the final stretch of the 2020 Presidential Election.  I definitely have A LOT of angst about the upcoming election, on multiple levels, but first and foremost I look around and bear witness to the violence and destruction unfolding on our major city streets and I see the unnecessary division being sewn among us for purely political ends and it grieves me greatly.  Living in the Seattle area, bearing witness to the chaos in our Democrat Party run city, truly makes me question my fellow man in a way I never would have thought possible a decade ago. People across the nation, but especially in my immediate surroundings have willingly surrendered their minds in order to "save the soul of our nation" and their own souls by default. Convenient timing, right? Just before a major election.  Matters of the soul transcend logic and reason, therefore one must blindly surrender on the basis of  a newfound 'faith; alone?  Blind adherence on the basis of a man-made dogma has always scared the hell out of me, no matter the source of its origin (i.e., religious or otherwise).

So what this post presently amounts to is basically my attempt to speak up and say:

1) We absolutely are NOT a systemically racist society--but in order to fully understand and accept this one must first know the history of their nation!!!

2) People need to ******* WAKE UP and start owning their OWN MINDS!!! --liberals now control most vehicles for thought-sharing today, in 2020, and that's on us for sitting idly by and letting it happen over the course of decades --have to give Democrats some credit here, they've patiently been playing the long-game; the only thing that gives me hope is that "the moral arc of the universe is long, but ultimately self-correcting" ... favorite saying of former President Obama. The question then becomes, what will We , the People, choose to do about this imbalance that clearly no longer serves us and the ideals upon which our great nation was founded?

3) The facts (e.g., previous voting records, former administration policies, bearing firsthand witness to a striking decline in candidate's cognitive capabilities and video clip-evidence of former statements made by candidates --they live on forever!!)  actually MATTER!  Prettily strung together, poetic prose delivered from on high cannot/should not detract from getting at some version of reality-based fact in order to find truth. To settle for less is just plain CRAZY!  Seriously, why would you ever put people into office who condescendingly think you, the People, are basically too stupid to understand their policy positions and therefore they offer nothing concrete --but in truth this lack of policy position stems largely from the fact that the Democratic Party is at present so splintered (e.g., radical left, progressive and moderate) that they can't actually commit to any one policy position stance on any issue for fear of alienating any part of their fractured base, thereby potentially costing them the election.  The Democrats current message --based on their convention-- is that "The other guy is BAD, so trust us --VOTE for us-- and we'll do what's best for you when we get into office"  So you have to VOTE for Democrats in order to SEE how they will govern??? Seriously, this is NOT a valid reason to vote for any political candidate, especially when the few policy positions they manage to coherently state wind up changing as the polling data dictates.  A resignation to vote this way --in the absence of facts and past history which speaks to counter the party's current promises-- is pure MADNESS and quite frankly, it doesn't paint a great picture for the future governance of America.

More to come as time permits and my head clears ....

With regards to “What are you going to do about it?” In my previous posts. Here are some concrete thoughts and ideas:

We seriously need to crowd fund a “Voice of the People” news & information service that serves as another source of fact-checking on mainstream media. Where this site would offer some reality-based version of truth, while calling out specific instances of misinformation, including the prevalent --albeit convenient-- sins of omission. If nothing else, we have to each step up to the plate and call these politically biased, agenda-driven liars out on the crap they are shoveling out into our airwaves 24/7. The media’s subversion only works if we let them get away with it! So please, put in the time and effort to search for your own version of truth and then let your voice be heard! Post on your social media –if you haven’t already walked away from these biased and controlling sites- talk to friends, acquaintances, neighbors and co-workers and offer some counter-balancing, reality-based reason to the story of America that is currently being told. We may be shunned, censored and have traffic to our sites shut-down [9/10/20 Yup, my daily traffic here is now down around 0-11 visits per day], but we have to TRY! If all else fails, write a book! Seriously! “Democracy, as we know, it is [truly] at stake in America.” That is the one talking point coming out of the DNC that I happen to agree with. We also need to push the federal government –by way of our U.S. Congress women and men-- to FINALLY have Social Media platforms regulated as news & media entities, thereby removing the protections that are presently allowing them to control news and information content on their respective platforms, while censoring those who dare disagree with the liberal agenda.

One upside of Covid-19 is that it has shown us a new way to conduct higher learner, a way that doesn’t necessarily have to cost a small fortune to realize aspirations of a college education. What all of this on-line learning has taught us is that we need to embrace a method of learning and expanding thought, logic and reason that doesn’t have to take place within limiting confines of the sterile liberal vacuum of indoctrination that the majority of our colleges and institutions in America have now become. We must avidly pursue these alternative on-line options for higher education moving forward – as well as pushing for "school choice", at the K thru level.  We need to do these thing for the sake of our nation, in order to preserve the minds of our future generations with regards to their ability to think for themselves, using facts, logic & reason, so that they can then act independently, if necessary, to grasp the concepts of future consequence.

The masses, mostly on the left in our nation, just cannot seem to grasp the notion of consequence, future or otherwise these days? They seem willing to just be blindly led, in the absence of actual policy positions –or for the few positions that have been stated by Democrats, they wind up blowing with the prevailing wind of the latest polls … In other words, Democrats will pretty much say and spin anything in order to regain power once again. The modern masses seem completely oblivious to the fate that awaits them should the plans of the liberal elite be enacted.  For in the absence of tangible policy positions, you will have nothing with which to hold your elected official accountable.  I mean, just try taking some of the Left’s main talking points and then try for a moment to follow them through to their long-term, logical conclusions. The long-term outcomes aren’t pretty. Maybe accountability no longer matters to the voters left?  Don’t know about you, but that sure scare the HELL out of me!

Bottom-line, the time has come to reclaim our American institutions: Education, Academia, Corporate Elites crushing small business competition (e.g., riots in big cities burning small businesses to ASH), mainstream media –both television and print-- big tech and social media giants. This IS THE REVOLUTION WE NEED! Not revisiting the days of slavery and the Civil Rights movement, because we have actually conquered these issues. To quote Jason D. Hill in the intro to his new book: “We have overcome.” We have come so very far, but only by truly knowing our history will you ever be able to see the progress America has made thus far.  This is why the left is on a mission to systemically destroy our nation's history. Do we still have some work to left to do, absolutely and most Americans agree with this. What I reject, and what most Americans reject, is the notion that “America is a systemically racist nation”…  "The notion that "A long over-due revolution against systemic racially inequality is finally taking hold" is a myth, a flat-out lie being pushed the blatantly left-biased media in order to further a political agenda, namely that of allowing the Democrats to regain control of our country.  If America were a systemically racist country why didn't this revolution take hold during the  eight years of leadership under our first ever Black President of the United States, President Obama?  If you truly believe that America is now, all of a sudden, a systemically racist country then  you are truly being played! You are being used as a pawn in a larger political game, with the end-game being regaining POWER. And sadly you, your thoughts, hopes and dreams are wholly expendable as far as the left is concerned. Why you would continue to believe the empty promises being spun-out on the left just completely bewilders me! Joe Biden has been in political office, in one form or another, for the better part of 47 years and what exactly can he point to in his record as ”promises kept”, or really any tangible action that has made life better for Black communities?

The answer is Biden can’t point to a single thing that he’s done to tangibly help the Black community. In point of fact, Biden was part of the U.S. congress that wrote and passed the “Three Strikes” criminal justice reform, in the 90’s, that wound up ripping Black families apart by incarcerating --for ridiculously long sentences!-- people for drug possessions that aren’t even prosecuted nowadays in many states. It was President Trump who turned this unjust tide around with his "First Step Act” [corrected the name of this act 9/10, I had it wrong in my original post]. This program is now commuting the sentences of deserving individuals who have more than served their time and done so responsibly, with dignity and a willingness to reform. Take for instance recent honoree at the White House, Alice Johnson.  Alice was the first beneficiary of the First Step Act and she later received a pardon from President Trump as well. The First Step Act is an incredible program that is not only correcting injustices but it’s opening the doors of HOPE for forgotten people who deserve so much better. Did Obama-Biden take this type of legislation up during either one of their two terms in office? NOPE! Did wages and opportunities improve for Black communities under Obama-Biden? NOPE! But under Trump-Pence wages have been rising consistently, temporarily put on hold by Covid-19 impacts to our economy, but if the stock-market hitting 29,000 is any indication of what the future state of our economy looks like, wages will continuing their upward trend shortly, across the entire nation.

Historically Black Universities have had their funding significantly increased under the Trump administration as well.  Moreover, President Trump made the increase permanent, so the HBU’s don’t have to worry about constantly having to reapply for this funding. Working with HUD, President Trump has brought in private-sector investors to create "opportunity-zones" which are now providing business opportunities, jobs and revitalizing Black communities across the nation. Under the Trump economy, Black unemployment hit the lowest recorded rate in the history of our nation, same for women, Hispanics and Asians. That is so HUGE!  President Trump also realizes that in order to have any shot at the American Dream –whatever your version of this may be-- you need a quality primary --K -12th grade-- education, first and foremost. As such, President Trump wants to work with Department of Education to bring school choice to every child in America.  With this crucial policy change in place,  children in our poorest communities will no longer be trapped in failing schools. 

Lastly, as for the notion that all Police are “Bad” and “need to be defended” --the ‘reason for the rampant violence, destruction and looting currently being waged our city streets across the nation’-- consider this:  “more Black men were struck by lightening than were murdered by police officers last year.”~Tucker Carlson 9/3/20 ... I tried to find stats on the number of Black men killed by Police Officers under the Obama-Biden administration, but all the data I found starts --conveniently?-- only at the very end of 2015. That is to say data during the Obama-Biden years is not readily available.  Rather suspicious, isn’t it? I’m guessing these Obama-Biden numbers don’t fit the current narrative -- that this is Trump inspired problem-- and as such the Obama-Biden numbers for Black men killed by cops are being suppressed?

Do we need to weed out bad cops, absolutely. But agreement on this point does not, in turn, mean we currently have an "epidemic of Bad Cops” that warrants shutting down ALL law enforcement.  This defies all logic and reason, as does the omission of important facts surrounding the death of Black men who are shot --usually in self-defense-- by police officers.  The medical examiner determined that George Floyd had a lethal level of fentanal in his system at the time of his death.  The key symptom of which is an inability to breathe, with eventual respiratory failure resulting in death.  There is video footage of George Floyd sitting in the back of the police care, before  he tried to escape, stating repeatedly "I can't breathe" ... long before officers tried to restrain him in order to put him back into the vehicle.  But did you hear this on ANY ONE of the mainstream media networks?  Nope! To add insult to injury the left --staff members on Kamala Harris' election team among them-- is supporting rioters wreaking havoc in our cities --by funding organizations raising money to fund rioter bailouts.  They were silent on the riots throughout the DNC, calling the protests 'most peaceful protests' --a fact which was countered every evening on local news in these burning cities.  Then they encouraged "the [inevitable] revolution" and now due to polling dictates, Joe Biden and company are finally denouncing the violent rioters, wink-wink.... Bottom-line, the vast majority of men and women in our local law enforcement communities do a fantastic job of keeping us safe and serving our local communities, putting their own lives on the line each and every day, and they should commended and supported not attacked, defunded and driven out of their communities. Representative Tim Scott has a plan to begin addressing short-comings in police standards and training –and he’s willing to take amendments/make changes-- but Democrats flat-out refuse to work with him in any meaningful way. Why? Democrats want to keep tensions high and have violent riots raging in the street in our biggest cities across the nation in order to keep the idea of “systemic racism” alive and well heading into the election 2020. How truly shameful! They are the ones creating and fueling the national battle to combat a supposed ‘systemic racism’ and they have the gall to put the blame on President Trump?! Really?? How dumb do you think “We the People” are? And these are the people you would entrusting with looking out for your best interests?

Given all of the above, people have a CLEAR and informed choice to make. Will  YOU be played, used for purely partisan political ends –yet again, when the stakes are so very high and when the opportunity for REAL change is so very CLOSE-- or will YOU finally awaken and embrace some form of meaningful logic and reason in order to find the courage to VOTE for meaningful change and opportunity? As Americans, we need to focus on the larger battle not waste valuable time & energy battling with each other! We need to focus on reclaiming our American institutions? Because not only do these institutions no longer serve “We the People”, but they now stand to impede our very right to purse Life, Liberty and own unique versions of Happiness. These institutions now solely serve the liberal elites who have their own nefarious agenda. They look down upon “We the People”, mere average citizens, with disdain and contempt. They lecture us on almost a daily basis –in fact, this pretty much sums up the entirety of Democratic National Convention. These elites want to control every aspect of your life, “for the greater good”, systematically stripping away your liberties, one at a time, until America will become completely unrecognizable. They want to put a stake in the “American Dream”, the notion that if you work hard you can achieve anything. Instead, the elites plan to replace this dream with privilege for them and control for the rest of us, as they move America into the greater ' ‘global community’ ' --just look well (not) the European worked out-- with complete disregard (and utter disdain) for founding principles of our uniquely equitable nation, as clearly outlined in our United States Constitution. If you do nothing now, if you let them win THIS TIME there may well be no turning back. A new contract will be forged and it will be one of ABSOLUTE control, where the notion of “consent of the governed” will evaporate like a mirage in the harshest desert of truth. You have been warned, not with the intent of generating FEAR but rather ACTION!