Although we might imagine that the operations of government and the conduct of our elected officials are a true reflection of our values and priorities, the reality is that what our government often does is a cruel distortion of our wishes, and their misdirections are fully supported by their co-conspirators in our mainstream news media, educational institutions, and the wild world of celebrity infotainment.
Most Americans care far more about securing our own national borders than those of Ukraine, but where does all the money go? Most Americans are deeply suspicious of efforts to censor what we can say and write, but government works hand in glove with academia and news media to silence those who speak out—unless it is approved speech. Most Americans don’t care a hoot about the color of anyone’s skin, but the government insists we must all be sorted and labeled—to improve racial harmony. Most Americans want their children to have a choice of quality educational alternatives, but the government, thanks to pressure from teacher unions, insists on herding our young into uneducational and unsafe public schools. Most Americans want to just be left alone to live their lives in peace, but the government refuses to stop monitoring, managing—and mangling—as many aspects of our lives as possible.
Money and power, of course, play a huge role in promoting policies that most Americans find troublesome, but there is another factor that makes it easy for many to acquiesce.
The lazy, crazy morality of America’s smirking celebrities, self-important news puppets, and coddled Ivy League professorate (who ever would have thought we could mention Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Maddow, and Claudine Gay in the same breath?) are a foundational problem in our nation today. Their brainless promotion of the bizarre idea that all values and behaviors are equally good and valid makes us all vulnerable to the sophistries of the liberal super-state. Given that judging another—much less expecting personal responsibility and accountability—is now considered insulting by our elite opinion makers because screwing up your life and the lives of others has now been transformed into an inalienable human right, governance in America today has been reduced to simply ensuring that everybody receives their validation and affirmation in the form of no-strings attached cash.
Although the failures of many individual Americans and sub-groups have less to do with oppression and much more to do with poor decision-making, lack of effort, and deeply flawed character, to even inquire why money is being expended on programs that promote unending dependency, self-destruction, and generational harm is—using the lovely circular logic of liberalism—itself a form of oppression. Therefore, the money must continue to flow into schools that don’t educate, welfare programs that fail to encourage gainful employment, illegal immigrant subsidies that promote continuing lawlessness, drug and alcohol treatments that work only rarely, crime reduction strategies that do nothing to reduce crime, and a variety of social programs that only serve to help many to foolishly embrace their borderline mental health problems.
Kicking ass, taking names, and demanding actual results is so totally out of fashion today that it makes one wonder what our nation is going to look like 25 years from now. Is it possible to continue to have a prosperous, strong, and resilient country if it is built on a foundation of wasted money, wasted lives, and wasted potential?
Thankfully, the greater portion of Americans, particularly those who live far away from the ruinously mismanaged liberal bastions on the coasts, are still smart enough to understand that stupidity and sloth are bad life choices. However, we all pay, one way or another, for the corrosive caterwauling of the beautiful people, smarmy news personalities, and so-called intellectuals, all of whom are certain that the ills of our country can be solved with more taxes, more regulation, more moral relativism, and more restrictions on speech that they don’t like. “Character Counts” is a phrase that means nothing to these arrogant elites, so they have no problem with blaming Americans for being disdainful of the criminals, the slackers, and the over-educated nincompoops who never met a job that they felt matched their wildly inflated sense of their own worth.
The routine distortions of reality that are used to paper over the yawning cracks in our social fabric are repeated so often that these flagrant lies have today become respectable viewpoints. These are useful props for the performative outrage that greets any attempt to firmly state just how terrible it is to hold up the worst among us as role models and paragons for our nation’s impressionable young.
Smooth-talking liberals in government, the universe of virtue-signaling celebrities, the fake news media, and academia take gleeful advantage of the moral and ethical confusion that they so diligently sow; it is, therefore, little wonder that so many of our nation’s adolescents and young adults are racked with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. We should pay far more attention than we do to the lost generations we are producing by insisting, to quote George Orwell, that “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength”, but to recognize the damage being done would create an intensely discomfiting obligation to recognize its cause—our national culture of mendacity.
There is an old truism that ugly people don’t like mirrors, and the same can held to be true if the ugliness is deep in the soul rather than simply the surface of the skin. We ignore the warning signs all around us at our own peril, and it is up to Americans to reject the lies and distortions destroying our nation and children.
Whether your choice is to boycott, protest—or simply ignore—the misguided elitists ruining America, your actions will be a necessary component of the battle to heal our country and get it back on track before it is too late.