Foreword.
Rant after rant. Complaint after complaint. You’ve had your share of negative strokes. Especially now, when so many people, starved for tranquility, see signs of better days ahead. But you can’t blame Legacy Media and online mercenaries for continuing to dish out deception — for television programmers and advertisers still hellbent on brainwashing a nation — for online disinformation that invades your privacy. It’s what left-leaning media hacks and political ringleaders consistently do — Trump or no Trump. It’s also what you do, foolishly, in response. You cooperate. You choose to ignore the online opportunities to “Unsubscribe.” You choose to access the Almighty Tube for hours on end. For months, really. No, for years. You willingly tune-in to the lies, hypocrisy and treachery. Why? Psychologists probing this behavior might brand you a “couch flagellant,” because you clearly choose to punish yourself, to magnify your anger by chasing the very things you hate. Definitely true, Matilda. The only excuse you can offer is something called “irresistible impulse,” an insanity plea argued in at least one celebrated murder trial. But now is no time dwell on the tyranny of the past four years, when murder frequently crossed your mind — when you chose to repeatedly condemn those in power for crimes against humanity.
The First Thirty Days
Now is the time to look ahead, to the next four years, to spread the gospels of confidence and optimism. But, please, do so without mimicking the gloating delirium of Trump fans. Now’s the time to look calmly at the scorecard of the new administration. Undeniably, Donald Trump is the Usain Bolt of the Beltway, making him the fastest-moving patriot since Paul Revere’s horse Brown Beauty. In the first 30 days, over 100 executive actions invaded the federal bureaucracy — the economy, health, foreign policy, energy, national security, education and immigration. Too many actions to name but a dozen that are too important not to call out:
Declare national emergency at Southern border.
End DEI at all Federal agencies.
Approve eliminating USAID.
Restructure or abolish DOE.
Abolish or restructure FEMA.
Terminate thousands of career bureaucrats.
Freeze spending.
Enact reciprocal tariffs.
Withdraw from WHO.
Withdraw from U.N. Human Rights Council
Pardon Jan 6 and pro-life activists.
Set immediate Ukraine peace talks.
Neither A Trump Advocate
Before anyone gives a fist pump, understand that speeding alongside the Trump train, six dozen lawsuits have been filed, looking for Progressive judges to derail or weaken his agenda. Anyone counting on a Trump sprint to the finish needs a reality check. Prepare for a cross-country marathon. And better keep your eyes on Congress and SCOTUS, because neither body sanctions the Musk chainsaw. Neither one supports any weakening of Federal Government size and jurisdiction. And, frankly, to vastly understate it, neither one is a Trump advocate. But please don’t view this reality as gloom and doom. The President is not alone. And, politically, he now is far more astute, more able to spot a Judas. Therefore, you should come along for a little fun to recommend what Donald Trump might realistically accomplish in four short years.
The Wish List
Immediately educate Americans about what you’re doing and what it means to America. Publish it. The Trump Manifesto.
Shut down mass migration from both borders and erase drugs and human trafficking.
Limit the size, scope and jurisdiction of the Federal Government by at least 30%, or the rest of this exercise doesn’t matter.
Take the national debt from 36 to 26 trillion.
Abolish half the Cabinet Departments and enjoy doing it.
Tell the DOJ to clean house and seek indictments for perjury and treason. If nothing else, execute Fauci for mass murder. And put Adam Schiff in J. Epstein’s old jail cell.
Sweep America’s Intelligence agencies to root out dark operations.
Rev the economy and raise all boats.
Slash foreign aid across the board.
Help give Putin and Zelensky a way out.
Tell Black Americans to get off the Federal plantation.
The Elusive Answer
So much for the wish list. There’s no crystal ball here. You’re on the outside looking in — no way to predict a one-year result, much less four. You might ask political pundits. They get paid big bucks to investigate, evaluate, correlate and eventually intimate what lies ahead. Based on their track records, however, you sooner would consult Vegas bookmakers. History doesn’t help either. What you’ve learned from the great minds of antiquity is that destructive behavior repeats itself century after century. Visibly, the 21c has continued that dark tradition. Why? Why must hostility win? Why has America abandoned the historic principles of governance that made Her the envy of the world? Why are America’s elected officials unable or unwilling to harness the genius of The Constitution? Why won’t they ignite its moral and ethical conscience to remedy their own behavior? You thought If you explored these questions widely enough, analyzed deeply enough and followed ethical pathways, you were bound to produce the elusive answer. You were bound to discover a persuasive strategy that could heal the country and unify the people. So you embarked on the circuitous trail of serious scholarship, going back and forth and round and round; and following hours, days and months, you ended up where you began. Nowhere. As in, searching for the meaning of life. Why then do you, without scholarly credentials, presume to give anyone counsel? Alan and Marilyn Bergman wrote some lyrics about it — which neatly sum up the merit and value of your critical thinking.
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmill of your mind.
You should be Muslim. The answer to America’s future?
“It is written.”
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