I no longer live in America. Oh, I’m still in the same geographical spot I was in a year ago, two years ago, twenty years ago. But I’m not in America. And, I loathe the country I now find myself in, in its stead.
America is “over there” somewhere, on life-support - and I love America. I served America, and I want to rescue America. I want to build her up, put her back in place with a security that never allows what is happening to her now to ever happen again. I want her back, but it’s kinda iffy as to whether we’ll ever get our America back again.
How do I know I’m not living in America? It’s easy:
America is not supposed to abandon fellow-Americans on foreign soil and to our enemies, and America did not do that. An awful administration did that, one that is holding America hostage to totalitarian policies and actions. This, in hopes America dies, and allows the rancid nation they are building to come to full fruition and placement, vice the toe-hold it presently has.
America is not supposed to abandon our allies in foreign countries and to our enemies. Same.
America is not supposed to hand a country, its infrastructure, and 85 billion dollars in advanced weaponry to our enemies. Need I say “same” any further?
America is supposed to have borders. The country I live in has no southern border! It was opened with a snap, with an open invitation by a President who seemingly behaves as a traitor does, with an expressed, public, invitation for people to simply come on in. He’ll then fly and bus them from the southern border to various states, absent any sort of “vaccine” or test requirement - as is required of most citizens, with Nazi-like coercion for all but those illegal aliens.
America is not supposed to coerce people into taking drugs, marketed as “vaccines” - posing harm rather than good - lest those Americans lose their reputations, their jobs, their entire livelihoods, and their freedom of speech, assembly, and their very pursuit of happiness.
America is not supposed to open channels for ballot manipulations, multiple votes per person, votes from dead people, electronic manipulation (I’ve experienced this personally), inflated counts, and certainly is not supposed to let non-citizens vote in any election.
The America I know values the police, border patrol agents, firefighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, healthcare personnel (my apologies to any I’m overlooking) - all those who went from “hero-to-zero” overnight as painted by this rancid federal government that has kicked America away from me, you, and any possible return - if we let them get away with it.
The strong America I know, the home of the brave, would not turn an entire generation of vulnerable children into face-diaper-wearing sissies, treating their mouth and nose as if they were genitalia, of which to be ashamed if they should be exposed, and leading to dire punishment - basically expulsion and the extreme “otherization” that so many of us face.
The America I know would never have gotten anywhere near putting damaging drugs, fake “vaccines,” into the most vulnerable amongst us - those children - too young to grant informed consent.
The America I know would never have called a simple parent, a proud parent, a parent possessed of plain sense and sanity - the most important person and constituent in the country - a DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
The America I know worked to eradicate racism, not to inculcate it as does my present country via the racist platform of Critical Race Theory (CRT), even as CRT robs critical thinking skills, and time from Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic (the “three Rs”) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
The America I know would not obliterate standards and merit in service to the falsity of “equity.” Equity is unConstitutional, unethical, and evil. “Equity” in this context is racist, prejudicial, and bigoted (each of those has their own meaning).
The America I know did not have time devoted to Drag Queen Story hours at school at the expense of the learning that young people need in order to compete in the world, and to keep America competitive in the world. (There are plenty of clubs and rooms for DQs, sex shows, and porn and anything else without putting them on schools’ schedules. Stop the insanity).
The America I know does not allow biological males in girls’ locker rooms and on girls’ sports teams. The America I know does not obliterate women’s sports with trans-women’s superior musculature, skeletal systems, strength, height, weight, and even testosterone where reduction/suppression drugs are not used. “Identities” do not compete in sports… bodies do. (The Chess Club, the Debate Team, etc.? I’ll talk about it with ya).
The America I know did not empty jails and prisons of criminals, as paired with low-bail/no-bail policies, and the turning of felonies into misdemeanors and even into subsequent no-show “no prosecution” propositions.
Thus, the America I know did not tolerate smash-and-grab looting, unbridled rioting, and rising rates of crimes of all kinds, to include murder, rape, home invasion, and unprovoked random attacks.
The America I know did not actively work to abolish our own energy independence, sending us to our knees, and begging foreign shores for oil.
The America I know did not work to create pain in life: inflation, shortages, empty shelves, “social distancing,” division, danger, and bad outcomes.
The America I know knew that we could not outrun a micro virus: My America never instituted the pure Covid insanity for any flu or illness of the past. We knew enough not to crash systems, families, freedoms and society over Life’s challenges.
The America I know does not suppress truth through censorship, as practiced by the mainstream media (MSM), and as aided by Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others.
The country I’m living in now does or enables all these things. I live under constant threat - and so do you.
I loathe the country I live in. It is purposefully building and propagating weakness throughout society through racism, division, distancing, economic wreckage, shortage, inflation, border incursion, firings, mandated damaging drugs, mandated unhealthy masks, the Covid fear-porn, abolishment of accomplishment and merit, and the damaging effects of “wokeism” - in substituting a country for America that we cannot recognize - a country in which we all now live. They are actively destroying strength. It is a fair question to ask: “To what purpose do we destroy strength?” Invasion? Takeover?- that already is underway. Our President, his cabinet, and the entire Democrat infrastructure are a puppet to the extreme, narrow, radical, Left.
This much is clear to all but those whistling past the graveyard: We need to vote in numbers significant enough to BEAT THE CHEAT. For, the rancid Left will attempt to cheat on a scale unprecedented. Make it a meme, a mantra, a sign - carry it and proclaim it and spread it far and wide:
Let’s get America back, and get rid of Biden’s/Harris’s/Pelosi’s/Fauci’s/Schumer’s/ Buttigieg’s/Clinton’s/the Deep State’s, etc. scheme of Totalitarian One Party rule.
Hopefully we can do that for 2022 and 2024 - if we last. In the meantime, I’ll quote Roger Kimball who put it very succinctly:
“The outstanding question is whether the country will be able to survive three more years of a deep state conspiracy presided over by an angry, incompetent, and increasingly senile puppet.”
If we get an opportunity for just one, close-to-true, mid-term election - and just one, close-to-true, presidential election, vote to beat the cheat. Round up neighbors, friends, associates, children (of voting age), Republicans, Independents, awakening-Dems, Bohemian Libertarians, bongo banging dope-smoking lounge lizards, and the guy pushing his dogs in a wheeled gazebo.
You can call a horse a duck but it won’t go “quack-quack” and fly. You can call the Left’s America “America” but it won’t stand clear of your freedoms and reign government back to the limited box it is supposed to occupy. We don’t live in America at present: We live in a burgeoning (hopefully temporary) totalitarian state that is laboring mightily to control all aspects of private lives.
One more set of elections, and that is all. One more set of elections to put things back on balance.
One more chance - and that is all.
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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive. He is also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE: A PI’s strange bounces through a surfeit of eateries, juke joints, and dark doorways. Prior, he authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, more than a dozen others). Books and expanded bio are available on Amazon.