There are certainly a lot of things to reflect on this Thanksgiving; both good and bad alike. A lot of mending and healing to be done in this country and let's hope that this holiday will start that process for all of us.
Thank you Andy for a thought provoking piece. We are all optimistic that as Lincoln famously said, “God has remembered to have mercy on us.” Indeed, we as a people are ready for some mercy, having just endured the worst and most destructive administration in our history. Lincoln also famously said during his second inauguration speech (paraphrasing) “good does not always prevail over evil.” Yes, my father’s Democratic Party has become an amalgamation of evil. Promoting a sick and vile theocracy. Even though we have endured this phase in history, Trump should be cautious in retribution against those enemies from within that would do us harm. Even Lincoln was scorned for suspending Habeas Corpus and jailing journalists.
Yes, the left has been at war with the American people and our way of life for some time. Everything from our environment, by our way of storing of water for energy and consumption to limiting our ability to produce energy from coal, oil, gas, including our ability to refine petroleum. War with us over the teaching of our children, with vile and disgusting theories, contrary to our religious values and beliefs. War with us over our foreign policy, so much so that we are on the verge of world war. I look forward to the day coming soon, when the “Rainbow Flag” will no longer fly over our Embassies abroad and we as a country can lead the world in a force for good.
The cancer grows so slowly. Every now and again there’s a growth spurt and when there’s light shined on it, it is checked . But the damage is there and just waiting to rise again. my sincerest hope is that the people of America wake up and see what has been taking place while they have slept, and reject all of the deceit and lives that have been fed to them for so long.
In the late sixties and early seventies, I saw America as the land of promise and opportunity for those who were willing to work for success. Following world War ll, America was the greatest powerhouse of production and agriculture in the world. Borders were protected and inward migration was controlled and efficient. Republicans and Democrats fought hard in elections, but treated one another as fellow Americans. I thought that Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil exemplified those relationships.
How did intelligent, good hearted, American Democrats allow their party to be taken over by Marxist-driven extremists, not only in strictly politics, but in every shred of the fabric of society, every nook and cranny of education, in our medical profession, in our state and local governance?
How did they and we allow our borders to become wide open to massive, uncontrolled immigration from every part of the world?
How have they, and we, allowed our cities across the nation, to become centers of crime in every distinction?
How have we lost the respect of other nations?
Donald Trump, our most unlikely savior, is now about to take office as our president. He is but one man in a powerful office. If he is to get America back on the right track, he needs the active support of everyone who voted for him. We cannot sit back and applaud. At its grass roots level, the GOP the must actively support him. This is especially true in California. The stranglehold of the super majority the Democrats have on the state government must be broken. We need new leaders in CAGOP to accomplish that.
DH: 1962: JFK Executive Order allowed government employees to unionize. This created a fundamental shift in government operations and our relationship to our own government. As you note from that date forward.
One political party now has existential skin in the game, to win elections at any cost to the country as a whole. One political party as a whole now has existential skin to prevent this takeover. Hence, our current endemic polarization. We must bring back a politically neutral government workforce.
How? First step, ban all government employee unions and see where DOGE takes us to streamline this out of control devouring monster of Big Government that we created in our midst.
Second step: honor the crucial conservative fundamental: limited government. (Also protect private property; rule of law; free and competitive markets.)
With respect to Janet Levy's writing about the 100-year-old plan by communists to destroy the West by “capturing the minds of its elites, artists, academicians, and students”, getting the US government out of the business of funding universities through student loans would go a long way toward defeating the ambitions of the left.
Until recently I would nightly "fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation" as Lincoln recommended. I feel that prayer was partially answered on November 5th, at least the medicine to heal our wounds is in hand. Now I pray that this opportunity to heal our nation not be lost to vanity or pride in the hands of our new, human and thus foibled administration.
During these last several years and the Presidential election, there has been an awakening for all of us. Never did I realize the level of stench within the Democratic Party as I do now. I have to wonder if President Lincoln would believe any of what is happening in the U.S. Common sense has been replaced with downright stupidity of about half of the citizens in our country. We are in a war. It's a war between those only accepting common sense and those, even the so-called "smart" ones, accepting the lies from those with evil, silver-tongues. Kids must be taught common sense at an early age and not to believe everything they hear ... being well taught in "critical thinking."
Daniel Greenfield sure was right about this: “the average leftist is a deeply insincere humanitarian who cares about others only as a vehicle for developing an identity and asserting it on a public stage.”
I wouldn’t call the Leftie-Commie-Dems ‘humanitarians’, they’re just a bunch of loser agitators who think it’s cool to disrupt the status quo with coo coo ideas meant to piss off ’the man’ and show their fellow jerks how progressive and ‘different’ they can be.
Great Points…much of our ills can be traced back to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank (by the cabal of characters & cronies behind its birth), which sits on a plot of non-US land, has no reserves, and is not a bank…Happy Thanksgiving to all, enjoy family & friends!
There are certainly a lot of things to reflect on this Thanksgiving; both good and bad alike. A lot of mending and healing to be done in this country and let's hope that this holiday will start that process for all of us.
Thank you Andy for a thought provoking piece. We are all optimistic that as Lincoln famously said, “God has remembered to have mercy on us.” Indeed, we as a people are ready for some mercy, having just endured the worst and most destructive administration in our history. Lincoln also famously said during his second inauguration speech (paraphrasing) “good does not always prevail over evil.” Yes, my father’s Democratic Party has become an amalgamation of evil. Promoting a sick and vile theocracy. Even though we have endured this phase in history, Trump should be cautious in retribution against those enemies from within that would do us harm. Even Lincoln was scorned for suspending Habeas Corpus and jailing journalists.
Yes, the left has been at war with the American people and our way of life for some time. Everything from our environment, by our way of storing of water for energy and consumption to limiting our ability to produce energy from coal, oil, gas, including our ability to refine petroleum. War with us over the teaching of our children, with vile and disgusting theories, contrary to our religious values and beliefs. War with us over our foreign policy, so much so that we are on the verge of world war. I look forward to the day coming soon, when the “Rainbow Flag” will no longer fly over our Embassies abroad and we as a country can lead the world in a force for good.
Yes, “Mercy” cannot come soon enough!
The cancer grows so slowly. Every now and again there’s a growth spurt and when there’s light shined on it, it is checked . But the damage is there and just waiting to rise again. my sincerest hope is that the people of America wake up and see what has been taking place while they have slept, and reject all of the deceit and lives that have been fed to them for so long.
Andy, thanks for the updated reading list. The leftists use our good heartedness against us.
Hopefully people are waking up and will resist their plans to enslave us.
In the late sixties and early seventies, I saw America as the land of promise and opportunity for those who were willing to work for success. Following world War ll, America was the greatest powerhouse of production and agriculture in the world. Borders were protected and inward migration was controlled and efficient. Republicans and Democrats fought hard in elections, but treated one another as fellow Americans. I thought that Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil exemplified those relationships.
How did intelligent, good hearted, American Democrats allow their party to be taken over by Marxist-driven extremists, not only in strictly politics, but in every shred of the fabric of society, every nook and cranny of education, in our medical profession, in our state and local governance?
How did they and we allow our borders to become wide open to massive, uncontrolled immigration from every part of the world?
How have they, and we, allowed our cities across the nation, to become centers of crime in every distinction?
How have we lost the respect of other nations?
Donald Trump, our most unlikely savior, is now about to take office as our president. He is but one man in a powerful office. If he is to get America back on the right track, he needs the active support of everyone who voted for him. We cannot sit back and applaud. At its grass roots level, the GOP the must actively support him. This is especially true in California. The stranglehold of the super majority the Democrats have on the state government must be broken. We need new leaders in CAGOP to accomplish that.
DH: 1962: JFK Executive Order allowed government employees to unionize. This created a fundamental shift in government operations and our relationship to our own government. As you note from that date forward.
One political party now has existential skin in the game, to win elections at any cost to the country as a whole. One political party as a whole now has existential skin to prevent this takeover. Hence, our current endemic polarization. We must bring back a politically neutral government workforce.
How? First step, ban all government employee unions and see where DOGE takes us to streamline this out of control devouring monster of Big Government that we created in our midst.
Second step: honor the crucial conservative fundamental: limited government. (Also protect private property; rule of law; free and competitive markets.)
With respect to Janet Levy's writing about the 100-year-old plan by communists to destroy the West by “capturing the minds of its elites, artists, academicians, and students”, getting the US government out of the business of funding universities through student loans would go a long way toward defeating the ambitions of the left.
Until recently I would nightly "fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation" as Lincoln recommended. I feel that prayer was partially answered on November 5th, at least the medicine to heal our wounds is in hand. Now I pray that this opportunity to heal our nation not be lost to vanity or pride in the hands of our new, human and thus foibled administration.
Great column, Andy. This message needs to get out there. Thank you for it. Thank you for the work you do! M
During these last several years and the Presidential election, there has been an awakening for all of us. Never did I realize the level of stench within the Democratic Party as I do now. I have to wonder if President Lincoln would believe any of what is happening in the U.S. Common sense has been replaced with downright stupidity of about half of the citizens in our country. We are in a war. It's a war between those only accepting common sense and those, even the so-called "smart" ones, accepting the lies from those with evil, silver-tongues. Kids must be taught common sense at an early age and not to believe everything they hear ... being well taught in "critical thinking."
Daniel Greenfield sure was right about this: “the average leftist is a deeply insincere humanitarian who cares about others only as a vehicle for developing an identity and asserting it on a public stage.”
I wouldn’t call the Leftie-Commie-Dems ‘humanitarians’, they’re just a bunch of loser agitators who think it’s cool to disrupt the status quo with coo coo ideas meant to piss off ’the man’ and show their fellow jerks how progressive and ‘different’ they can be.
Great Points…much of our ills can be traced back to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank (by the cabal of characters & cronies behind its birth), which sits on a plot of non-US land, has no reserves, and is not a bank…Happy Thanksgiving to all, enjoy family & friends!
That is one of the stupidest statements EVER!
WAS IT THE DELETED COMMENT ANDY?
yes
Yes, it was deleted.
"The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell..." is the first clue....where is the ICC when you need them? Oh wait.....