Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
November 19 2016
Independence – “Our founders got it right when they
wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and
nature's God, not from government.” Paul Ryan.
Politics –
The 2016 election results reveal an America electorate
fed up with politicians of both parties, ready to stick it to Washington
and Donald Trump was their mechanism.
Politics - Donald Trump's victory was a shock to liberals everywhere who were so confident of
their own brilliance, superiority and their own rightness in all things, his
win was a major shock.
Politics
– One lesson learned from the election is that radical
liberalism doesn’t play in most of the country
and the culture may have changed, but not yet supported
nationally.
Culture
– Trump’s victory also included the loss of unquestioned cultural
dominance and the rejection of political correctness and dumbed-down version of harassment on social media.
Politics
– The liberal left routinely employs false accusations,
divisiveness and polarization, yet they demand personal tolerance unless it
disagrees with them, which may result in the destruction of personal property,
burning of your business, or beating of your life.
Politics
– The Democrat
Party degradation can be explained by looking at their leadership:
the angry liberal, Nancy Pelosi, pushed out to
be replaced by the progressive sock puppet, Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz, and now replaced by the anti-American Muslim, Kevin Ellison!
Politics
– “The
Great Meltdown” protesting the election is a waste of
time since the results have already been settled, so it’s just a
temper tantrum by an intolerant electorate.
Politics
– No Democrat leader, including President Obama, has denounced the anti-Trump violent protests, vandalism,
and riots as criminal and anti-American giving tacit
approval.
Politics
– Election protests by paid anarchists reveal a
segment of progressives who can’t accept a loss
and fear Bizarro-conditions that only exist in an
alternative reality.
Politics
– The Progress Unity Fund is providing the funding for protests
around the country that have threatened a divided nation’s ability
to unify after a contentious Presidential election.
Politics
– Hyperbole was particularly extreme this election, and most catastrophic
predictions were once again found to be false, further damaging any
credibility left after this campaign.
Politics
– The psycho-somatic “Bush Derangement Syndrome” has morphed into
“Post Trumpmatic Stress Disorder,” a mental disease confusing political fantasy with reality.
Politics –
Democrats don’t understand that groups like Occupy Wall Street and
Anti-Trump protestors will not coalesce into a “tea party on the left,” since their people are
anarchist mercenaries and its unifying ideology is
anti-capitalism and communism.
Politics
– Apples don’t fall far from the tree as Chelsea Clinton is being groomed to run for Congress despite having no talent, no experience, and no
accomplishments, like her Mom!
Politics
– Trump must
prosecute Hillary
Clinton to demonstrate the rule of law applies to Democrats as well
as Republicans (Scooter Libby, Tom Delay, Rick Perry, David
Patraeus).
Media
– After the Mainstream Media came out of the Democrat closet,
we should expect the slow demise of the major media conglomerates
to continue to erode and accelerate.
Media
– Leftist reporters can never be objective,
surrounded by other leftists, since they will eventually succumb to groupthink
and confirmation bias erasing any objectivity.
Independence
– “True
individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.
People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are
made.” Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Healthcare
– In Colorado, 80% of voters rejected ColoradoCare, a first-ever statewide single-payer healthcare
system as unaffordable and a disaster waiting to happen.
Healthcare
– Our nation has wasted eight
years with this vain and costly experiment in statist coercion, which
has proven to be unaffordable, expensive and under-performing.
Immigration
– Trump has pledged to defund the sanctuary cites:
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and District of
Columbia for not enforcing immigration laws.
Environment
– Trump has pledged to dismantle the climate change hoax
as a green gravy train powered by moral vanity that contributes
nothing to the public welfare.
Elections
– Roughly 40% of votes were cast before
Election Day as a convenience, as compared to prior to 1980 when absentee
ballots accounted for only 5%.
Elections
– Most states only count absentee ballots if there is
a sufficient number to influence the outcome, so most never do and if they were,
Donald Trump would win the
popular vote.
Education
– Unproven educational schemes have been
inflicted on students (Whole
Word in 1931, New Math in 1962, Reform Math in 1985, and now Common Core in
2009) and never achieved their educational
objectives, but instead undermined student understanding.
Education
– College campuses have become left wing propaganda camps in need of grief counseling and
“cry-in’s”
when inconvenient election reality must be confronted.
Marriage – The U.S.
marriage rate is up to 32.3 marriages per 1,000 unmarried women (highest
level since 2009) and the divorce rate is down
to 18.9 per 1,000 married women (lowest level in 35 years), but weddings are
still half as common as they were in the 1970s.
Civil Rights - The
overall welfare of black people requires attention to devastating problems that
can be solved only at the family and community levels.
Crime – The only election violence has proven to be leftist inspired,
while every “Trump inspired” violence and vandalism has turned out to be hoaxes
or complete fabrications.
Independence
–
“The
United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence
for all its members.” Harry S. Truman.
Trade – Free Trade is a
priority for the Trump administration,
as long as treaties are restricted to trade issues and not encumbered with
globalism and social justice expansion.
GWOT – Islam is a religion of conquest, based
on expansion by force and conversion by submission and thus unable to co-exist with other mainstream global religions.
Defense – First thing, Trump must revisit the Quadrennial Defense Review to
ensure alignment between national security strategy and military readiness / ability to execute those missions.
Israel – President-elect
Trump invited Prime Minister
Netanyahu to a meeting in the United States as the first opportunity
based on shared values, shared interests, and a shared future.
Iraq
– Militarily, the U.S. won the war in Iraq, but then the U.S. failed to
successfully effect regime change, then abandoned the country without an
effective transition strategy.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/