There are exceptions to nearly everything and everyone. Not all husbands batter their wives. Not all wives poison their husbands for the insurance money. Not all Republican members of Congress are pussies. Not all Democrats are left wing loonie leeches. And not all teenagers are arrogantly ignorant. You don’t fret, at least not desperately, about whacko husbands, conniving wives, corrupt politicians and tyrannical socialists. These notable exceptions are totally invested in their individual pathologies. You leave them to the tools of human justice and the winds of eternal judgment. As for their adult majorities, nothing and no one will alter their ritual proclivities and prejudices. They will act precisely as their ancestors before them, predestined to repeat immutable human behavior. However, in the case of ignorant teenagers — the majority, that is — they occupy an entirely different category. You do need to fret about them. No, that’s not accurate. You don’t fret. You obsess, you panic — in knowing that 18-year-old, ignorant teenagers have the Constitutional right to VOTE. You still shudder in disbelief that America’s so-called best and brightest — those who occupy the seats of power — have not yet repealed the irrational, nonsensical 26th amendment that gives dependent children voting rights. Before you get your panties in a wad, understand that this injunction would not pertain to teenagers in the military, and other teens who work and pay taxes. Teens who have skin in the game earn and deserve suffrage. In fact, 16 year-old, full-time wage earners are infinitely more qualified to vote than 20-year-old university students occupying their safe spaces. The question you must ask is this: What rational argument justifies voting privileges for high school students? Consider this: Nearly half the teen population is sexually active. My, my, that’s a real grown-up activity. Substance abuse is most common among adolescents and people in their mid-teens to mid-20s. The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16-19-year-olds than among any other age group. And then there’s something called crime. The “age crime curve” says that the incidence of crime increases with age and peaks when individuals reach ages 16 to 20. The stats aren’t pretty. But you don’t condemn youth. Youth is all hormone, urgency and delusive idealism. You should know. You were there once — an all-knowing stripling, certain about life and where you were going to take it. Then a dozen serious juvenile mistakes proved you had not the first clue. You were seriously sophomoric. A “tender and callow fellow.” With hindsight, it’s dead certain you were wholly unqualified to step into a voting booth. More important, you had not earned that privilege — and in 2019, neither have millions of students, regardless of age, who are listed as dependents on parental or guardian tax returns. If 18 is the magic age of adulthood, they deserve to be treated as adults. If teenagers Jack and Jill are mature enough to vote, they surely must be old enough to exercise their right to booze it up at a public watering hole. Well, it ain’t gonna happen, Clyde. The  Ruling Class is categorically opposed to the merger of teens and booze. These, by the way, are the same lawmakers who want to fill the voting booths with 18 year-old brains filled with mush — the slop dished out in thousands of classrooms by left-wing “educators.” These are the same lawmakers who oppose borders for one purpose alone — to populate America with grateful illegal aliens who will cast votes in their direction. These aliens will join thousands of dead voters, and voters who cast multiple votes, and voters who are prison inmates. You rightly may ask the question: What percentage of voters in America have skin in the game? Congress doesn’t know and doesn’t care. But long ago Congress sold its soul to the siren song of incumbency. It will never deal with voting reform. Electing new lawmakers will never effectuate voting reform. Donald Trump has neither the time or inclination to seek voting reform. Without this reform, America will steadily tumble into what might be called “Demographic” Socialism. This is a foregone conclusion, just as it was in the 1930’s when the Wehrmacht loomed over an indifferent, detached Europe. In America, the forewarning is there for all to see, most notably in the treasonous plot to bypass the Electoral College. Yes, it’s all there for you to see. Maybe someday you will help come to the rescue. Someday.

You’re an ordinary Joe. Or an ordinary Jane. Or, to be fair, an ordinary alternative gender. Pick a biology or no biology. No matter, you share something in common. You’re generic — an unspecified member of the rank and file. Beyond family members and a few hundred acquaintances and friends, you’re a nobody on the world stage. The Swamp dwellers in Washington don’t know you and don’t want to know you. The Media/Entertainment moguls never heard of you but always trust that you’re a sap waiting to be manipulated. And too many of you don’t disappoint them. The only people who have you in their data base are individuals and organizations who want your money. In effect, you’re an anonymous target. But, as cheeky Americans, most of you willfully ignore the people who ignore you. You go about the business of feathering your own nests. As you should. Taking care of No. 1.  As Americans, that’s your signal responsibility. Taking care of No. 1 — the linchpin of individual liberty — the essential ideal behind The American Idea. During America’s first 150 years, millions upon millions of your ancestors loved The Idea. They crowded onto ocean vessels, lugging everything they owned, for the chance of work, for the chance at self reliance, for the chance to be free to take care of No. 1. Once here, they toiled to feather their own nests, learned to speak English and proudly became Americans. These immigrants and their children were charter members of the Greatest Generation. Then something happened : The Astronomically Stupid Idea. Some marketing consultant told Lyndon Johnson to call it The Great Society. The “leftist” name itself screamed “abort, abort!” But, no, only a callous, heartless swine would dare denounce such a lofty goal. Can making war on poverty and racial bigotry be considered a mistake? No, it was no mistake. It was an epic, abysmal blunder. So the tainted die was cast. And it was recast — by every POTUS and every Congress since LBJ swindled his way to power. The Federal Government, under every President, created entitlement programs that grew exponentially, and spawned over half a century of human inadequacy, weakness and generational dependency. The outcome speaks for itself. Poverty? It has dwindled not a smidgen. Racism? Antagonism, bitterness and resentment are at all time highs. But hang on. Overlooked during these decades of abject failure was something even more insidious — a crime that all but nullified The Constitution itself. Year by year, decade by decade, the Federal Government  systematically hijacked your States’ constitutional sovereignty. This very day, once sovereign States are nothing more than Federal lackeys. State lawmakers are political minions. Governors are figurehead flunkies. The U.S. Congress, in cahoots with the SCOTUS, knowingly and willingly  butchered The Constitution; and in doing so, eviscerated The American Idea. But America nobodies can’t worry about pandemic events. You’re still free to come and go as you please, busily putting food on the table and taking care of No. 1. Sooner or later, you say, America is bound to fix itself. Eventually, the debt has to go away. The anti-American movement will dry up. The people will reject socialism. And, BTW, you’ll win the lottery. Anyway, you put your trust in elected politicians to take care of business. In fact, you learned that your State legislature has the Constitutional power to take back power from Washington. Your State can join other States to empty the Swamp and restore The American Idea. Unfortunately, in 2019,  a majority of your State lawmakers will not take action to rescue their country, but instead will shrink in fear from their sworn obligation. Perhaps they should consider following the example of some ordinary citizens who faced their fears. They were at the frozen ground of Valley Forge, at the beaches of Normandy and at Ground Zero. Taking action. So you and yours are free to look out for No. 1.

That about fries it.

Today, Rush (the Limbaugh one)reported on the latest lawsuit filed against Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado. A guy– a homosexual male — walked into Phillips’ bake store and requested that Jack bake him a cake with a depiction of Satan performing fellatio. For those of you not versed in Italian, fellatio is what practitioners might call an appetizing sexual feat. So far, the prospective recipient of Satan’s talent has been withheld, most likely pending notification of kin. To be sure, Phillips told his unwelcome customer to take a hike. Unfortunately, militants never take a hike. Because this one happens to live in the despotic State of Colorado, he’s free to stalk a small business owner — a Christian — who refuses to bow to his demands. You remember Jack. He made national news in 2012 for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a homosexual couple. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission sued Phillips. Yes, it really happened. A State entity sued an American citizen. Let that sink in. Worse, lower courts let  the protracted case land in the U. S. Supreme Court. The vote favored Phillips 7-2, over Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissents. But that decision wasn’t the end of the crusade against the Lakewood confectionery. It took awhile for transgender lawyer Autumn Scardina  to show up at Masterpiece. But show up he/she did. He/She asked Phillips to bake a gender transition cake — pink on the inside and blue on the outside. He answered, “No.” Scardina filed with Colorado’s Nazi Civil Rights Commission for Masterpiece/Round 2. Phillips counter sued and the charges were dropped. And then Satan came calling. Evil has many faces. However, just about everyone overlooks the real story behind the Phillips persecution. It isn’t about religious freedom at all. It’s about individual freedom. Sure, the Court exonerated him, finding that his Christian beliefs deserved Constitutional protection. Which means, what exactly? Which means, if he had refused service on the basis of his personal, prejudicial reasons, the Court would have nailed him to the wall. You see, Phillips was and is not free to detest homosexuals or Muslims or tattooed females or anyone else. He is not free to deny service on the basis of his disdain or hostility. And neither are you. In America, the land of the free, if you own a business, you’re not free to discriminate — period. You’re not free to be racist. The Law says “it is illegal . . .to discriminate against someone . . . because of that person’s race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation . . . ” Obviously, The Founders were not moral, nor were they smart enough to create the USCC or EEOC. Thankfully, their lack of vision has been rectified by the U.S Supreme Court and various Federal agencies who only want to make the world a fairer place, even at the expense of crushing the archaic notion of individual freedom. Promoting LGBT studies in elementary schools can only make your children more tolerant, while helping them examine their own sexual options. Enforcing same sex marriage in The Church, even against the will of the majority, can only help educate congregations and  encourage diversity. You already can see the results of this governmental and LGBT activism in the private sector — primarily in the rapidly increasing appearance of TV ads and programming that display LGBT culture. Of course, you do realize that  advances in societal evolution invariably lead to mishaps.  Tell that to Jack Phillips. He’s a marked man, whatever he does, wherever he goes. He’s a Christian at a time when  Christianity is uncool. The majority is on his side; but the majority lives in the suburbs, in Every Town, USA. Unknown. Unspoken. Unequipped. Powerless. No match for The Swamp, SCOTUS and Media. But give Jack credit. He won’t give in. Not to  PC, not to LGBT — not to The Devil Himself.