"It can't happen here"

For the last 30 years or so the U.S. has been running on inertia--spending the social capital built up by earlier (and likely better and wiser) generations and institutions.

One is reminded of the reign of the emperor Nero in the late stages of the  Roman Empire.  And a reasonable question is, how long can a nation with such corrupt, incompetent rulers last?

If we are to have a chance to recover, we need to understand how we got here, and the nature of the fatal end to which they're taking us--with most Americans having no idea of any of this.

Within weeks of biden's installation it became clear that U.S. policies were being "fundamentally changed."  He has abandoned the idea of America being able to deter aggression by opponents.  Opponents know they can do anything, without fear of U.S. reprisal.

Our allies don't trust us, for good reasons.

After the disastrous flight from Afghanistan in 2021, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2023 Chinese sending a huge spy balloon on a long, leisurely, uncontested flight over the U.S, the recent Hamas invasion of Israel, the serial Iranian-fueled terrorist attacks on U.S. installations in the Middle East, and the terrorist Houthis’ attacks on Red Sea shipping, America’s enemies realize that the Democrat regime is no longer a factor.

Every honest member of the armed forces knows that the regime's insistence on the woke agenda--demanding soldiers use "preferred pronouns," abolishing fitness standards (to supposedly meet recruiting goals) and promoting on the basis of diversity rather than competence are causing fit, capable males to avoid joining.

Even if voters manage to kick the Democrats out of control of the government, reversing that downward trend will take decades, if ever.

From biden's installation, the biden/mayorkas regime has flagrantly, brazenly violated federal immigration law.  They have erased our border, allowing more than 8 million unvetted aliens to illegally enter the U.S., and the rate is growing, with 242,000 in November and the same number in December with a week remaining in the month.  That's a rate of three million per year, up slightly from 2021 and 2022.

The regime is flying these illegals to cities far from the border, knowing that barely one out of 20 will show up for their immigration hearing.  Yet the regime releases them into the U.S. anyway.

If someone breaks our laws to enter the U.S, is that person likely to be a good U.S. citizen?

It's significant that these millions of illegal aliens were never required to take the ineffective covid "clot shot," nor have a background check.  The biden regime will soon be demanding that U.S. citizens have "real" IDs to fly, but do you think the illegals will have to obey the same decree?

Right now illegal aliens are flown to every city without any identification at all.

Leftist university faculty and administrators have been indoctrinating college students for 40 years or more.  Most can't be fired.  By contrast, even tenured conservatives have been fired for refusing to toe the left's line.

The double-standards were perfectly revealed when the corrupt board of Harvard refused to fire black female president Claudine Gay, despite dozens of instances of her plagiarizing in her weak "scholarly writings."

Harvard’s leftist board even coined a new euphemism—“duplicative language”--to rationalize defending her against a charge that they've suspended ordinary students for.

Most recently four Ivy-league Colorado supreme court justices ORDERED Donald Trump's name removed from the 2024 ballot.  Although the ruling will be stayed pending appeal, the precedent has been established.  They claimed the 14th Amendment, passed just after the end of the U.S. Civil War, barring those who had joined the Confederacy from holding a federal office.

Aside from the misapplication of the spirt and letter of that post-Civil War legislation, those responsible for erasing Trump know that he has never been charged with, much less convicted of “insurrection--and never will be.  But this didn't deter the four Ivy-league judges.

Honest Americans may have noticed that Hillary Clinton destroyed subpoenaed emails and devices and was never even charged.  The FBI lied to get judges to issue "FISA warrants," and lied again in denying that it pressured social media to delete posts the biden regime didn't like, but no charges.

The biden/yellen regime has been propping up the economy by spending money we don't have, and must borrow.  Spending like there's no tomorrow.  In past presidencies a deficit of $400 BILLION was considered a disaster.  Biden's deficit for FY2023 (which ended September 30th) was over four times worse, at $1.7 trillion.  

The amazingly incompetent Yellen was warned that spending so MUCH borrowed money in a single non-wartime year would fuel inflation, but she's either too stupid to believe it, or couldn't get biden's handlers to listen.  And inflation spiked to the highest level in 30 years.  Now the *rate* of inflation has dropped, which the media implies means prices are falling.  They're not, but polls show the average Democrat thinks they are.

The nation is burdened by a $34 trillion national debt.  Many young Americans don't know that we have to pay interest on that vast debt—and that in the current year all economists agree that the amount we'll have to pay in interest will be right at a TRILLION dollars.

"Experts" often write "At some point soon, future Americans are going to have to exercise spending restraint."  This is called "whistling past the graveyard."  There is no chance at all of any corrupt pol trying to rein in our massive deficits.  They *could,* of course, but they won't.

Far safer to just go along with "continuing resolutions" keeping government spending at current, insane levels.  (Young readers: if you're not familiar with "continuing resolutions"...)

World War Two began on September 1, 1939.  France was then considered a major power, and had a defense system they were confident would protect them.  You cannot imagine how stunned the world was when German troops out-flanked the French Maginot Line and forced France to surrender in a mere ten MONTHS.

Most of you know nothing true about military history, so this is entirely foreign to you.  You think it couldn't happen here, not because of logic but because of a psychological defense mechanism called "normalcy bias."

Look it up.

The French army between the world wars was plagued by crazy ideology, effete generals, corruption, mediocrity and dumb strategies.

Democrat: "But dat can't happen *here,* citizen!  Ouah brilliant leader and his handlers [st] brilliant assistants like Merrick Garland, Jennifer Granholm, Tony Blinken, Pete Buttigeig, Alejandro Mayorkas and Xavier Becerra would *nevah* allow that!  Cuz dey all reel smaht!  Dey beez Hahvahd grads, jus' like dat smaht Claudine Gay!"

Starting to understand yet?

Because I'm fairly old, and the nation isn't likely to implode before I'm gone--and I don't have kids--the fate of the U.S. is only of academic interest to me.  But if you have kids--or if you're a young American who wants to have a family at some point--you should be mad as hell.

If you knew what I know, you'd be organizing to defeat the Democrat party at every level.  Don't know if that will save us, but you can be assured that if the Dems keep control in 2024, we're dead.