THE "BINDING" OF THE COLLECTIVE AMERICAN MIND

Just as the Chinese foot binding practice crippled feet, American education and politics is attempting to cripple Americans' minds - and has succeeded to a large degree

Have a look at Chinese women’s feet from the foot-binding “era.” (Note: If you’re squeamish you may wish to defer). The practice is supposedly gone; but with China - a country comprising slave and child labor on a large scale - who in the West can really know? But foot-binding was the practice of placing restraints on children’s feet as they grew - primarily girls - so that as they matured toward adulthood, those feet would grow into gross hobbles of what a foot should be; something to support standing, walking, running, sports indulgences, and so on.

No Westerner (such as Tim Walz - who travelled to China more than 30 times and honeymooned there) will ever be allowed to see the real China extant. Even native Chinese cannot know, unless they’re a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China… or a victim of it… but even then, only in slices. Whether foot-binding goes on, and at whatever scale, and just as we do know there is slavery and child-slavery as practiced in China, we can only really guess at the scale. But we know: We’re not that stupid and ignorant, are we? No. Not amongst this readership.

But just as bound feet can never recover… can never attain full functionality even with surgery… a mind that is bound through biased and constricted education - indoctrination - from earliest sentience can never recover fully. It can never blossom to its full raw intellectual potential and will never avail itself of non-biased educational pursuits… it will never seek unburdened honesty, existential truth, non-politicized justice, and operational deliveries of true solutions to common, simple, problems and challenges. K-through-12 (and university, beyond) education is now a factory stamping out clones as the product. The product is Leftist idealogues who believe in American unexceptionalism, in her inherent racism and classism, in anthropogenic climate change, in open borders, and the magical thinking of unlimited spending toward a kumbaya world where people striving to grow up can live peacefully side-by-side with people who want them to blow up.

Ironically, America is becoming a racist society via the political Left. The Left is a fetid basket of putrid racism (DEI); and classism is practiced by the Left’s leadership: You are nothing more than a “deplorable,” an “extremist,” you’re a “Nazi,” a “Fascist,” and other slurs. When you are classified as such, the Left is practicing pure classism.

Consider: You’re born knowing only three things - cold, hunger, and fear. You’re squalling, having just left a warm, floating, environment. Shortly, you are being told things by people around you… and people are fallible. Much of what you learn will be false, but will feel comfortable nonetheless your whole life long. That is because the infrastructure for your mind, the brain, is still growing, and your mind is developing along with it. Other than in the case of very, very, very exceptional people, it becomes nearly impossible to “change your mind” from very early indoctrinations. Think of it as trying to change a cherry pie into an apple pie. Oops! Too late - we selected cherries as we were rolling the dough, and stuffing it, and now it’s further along being baked… it’s a bit too late for “changing” - it is, simply, what it is.

These shrieking, protesting, Leftists aren’t very bright. You can argue that “anyone can be saved/rescued/changed/can see the light/no one is irredeemable/etc., etc., etc. But consider your relatives who are unremittingly liberal past all common sense, who vote for idiots, who shoot themselves in the foot with their votes. Yep.

It is only the most astute who fully blossom their minds and reassess - for purpose of stripping indoctrinations, assumptions, and fantasies - a true minority. Conversely, the Democrat Party makes it a business to indoctrinate people with falsehoods, and to raise people as enthusiastic “useful idiots.” They now have a factory complex of conveyor belts churning out Leftists who will vote for the “first! black! female! president of the United States!”… and feel like they’ve accomplished something useful, practical, and good… when in fact, as far as safety, economic health, and freedom goes, it will be useless, impractical, and tragic. To say nothing of witless. But indoctrinated people routinely do witless things: that’s the whole point for the Left.

The political Left binds people’s minds. The Democrat party (hereafter DP) is now a stew of outright radicalism comprising Marxism and general Totalitarianism. The DP is antithetical to American ideals, as in our founding, and is thus anti-American. It is an enemy to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and concepts, ideals, and working-practices such as the separation of powers (Executive; Legislative; Judicial), individual liberty, and government’s ultimate subordination to, and control by, We the People.

Instead, the DP party is racist, sexist, and essentially Communist. The DP is attempting, and largely succeeding, in indoctrinating children and young adults into DEI, CRT, ESG, and other foul theories and practices in their subornation to, and control by, government. The DP party labors to create imbeciles who cannot think rationally. These people become ideologues and ingrates: Worse, they become creatures who are incapable of fulfillment and just plain, general, happiness. They must constantly protest something. Anything. And, they must make others around them uncomfortable at the least and to put them in dangerous misery and ultimately injury and death at the worst.

It should be obvious to people of good heart, of good cheer, of sound human fiber, that the DP is not one of hope, progress, and delivery. The DP sustains problems and creates new ones; it leverages crises and creates new ones. It inflates collective misery and disperses it to all corners of the nation. Just consider one example: no party can be “anti-racist” without racism itself. Thus, while there is a measure of racism in any society selected for examination (worldwide), America is the best representation of a pluralistic, diverse, society. People break-in to America (whereas in Totalitarian regimes, people must break-out). But to hear the DP tell it, America is comprised of “White Extremists” and toxic racism at every level and around the turn of every corner.

Just consider the documentary for what the DP and political Left has done to this country, The Fall of Minneapolis. (And keep in mind: Tim Walz let Minneapolis burn. His wife left her bedroom window open so she could “smell the burning tires” because it was a “touchstone for what was happening.”) These are sick, sick people. (I warn you: This documentary is very dispiriting. It left me with a feeling that reminded me of the feeling I had after reading “The Gulag Archipelago”, and “Ordinary Men” (the latter about the four Einsatzgruppen death squads that followed in the wake of the Wehrmacht’s push into Russia, behind Nazi Germany’s Eastern front).

Ms. Walz had no idea what was truly happening: People rioting because the MSM and the judicial system perpetrated a prejudicial case against a police officer doing his job. He was using a restraint technique on the shoulder blade/back-of-neck (not front/trachea - on video), approved and indicated by his training and associated training manual, on a high-on-drugs career criminal, who succumbed to his dilapidated physical state as he was subdued for resisting arrest. The judge disallowed the training and associated manual in court, thus screening all from the jury’s consideration. Have a look at George Floyd’s criminal career sometime, as we criminalize and jail our police for doing their jobs whilst we laud criminals.

That’s the DP: Take anything rational and reverse it. Men are women; women are men. The Border Patrol agents are bad; criminal illegal aliens are good. Billion$ for borders overseas; destruction of ours at home. De-criminalize crime; criminalize self-protection and police. A real plan for living, all that, and a real plan for securing our country and a way of life that is (or was) universally recognized as the best… with attendant freedom to be a freak if you wish! Imagine that! Of course, the grown-ups amongst us know that the real goal is to turn America into a fungible charcoal sketch on a map, and to subordinate her to the NWO paradise of One World Government.

I don’t know how any rational person reconciles themself with the DP - whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, a Libertarian, or an all-inclusive- gender-fluid-homeopathic-reincarnated-Otherkin - as the minting of fresh idiot idealogues continues to accelerate via Drag Queen Story Hour in Kindergartens and elementary school classes, while pre-pubescent minors are allowed “choice” as to their gender, while history is re-written, while LGBTQ+ idiots - IDIOTS - fly flags such as “Gays for Hamas,” “Queers for Palestine,” etc. for parts of the world where they’d be burned, stoned, and thrown from rooftops… (I think it was VDH who said this is akin to “Chickens for KFC”). Just ask a Harris-supporting young person, who believes in anthropogenic climate change, just how much of the earth’s surface is inhabited by humankind. Answers vary from 50 to 90%. (It’s between 1 and 3 depending on your source).

We may not have to worry about our feet, but the binding of the collective American mind is the goal - with the binding of our physical mobility increasing: The constriction of our speech; the tracking of our phone calls and internet searches and communications; the increasing number of “Karens” around us, spilling forth from the Left’s academies, to report on us. The increasing numbers of Walz types to snitch on us* then snatch us off to the Gulag. (*His Covid “snitch line” anyone?).

Just you wait for travel restrictions if Harris/Walz comes to full fruition. Initially, it will be to “conserve energy”… maybe it will be “two weeks to slow the depletion of the strategic oil reserve.” Then it will be as good as permanent, with permission from the government to go visit your grandparents. But it will really be to deny freedom of association - and a new lockdown will manifest. Are you ready for a Soviet-style “America”?

America WILL go down… if we don’t unbind our minds and inform those around us. The DP is not the DP of the past.

Meantime, a coupla other things: See this: Big Question: How are Ukraine Stakeholders, CIA and U.S. Intelligence Community Going to Stop Donald Trump? - The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

And: If you’re in need of some humor, see the joke below my bio.

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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY; ShuffleLabs, Inc., Virginia, more) as well as employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as TS contract work for clients (most notably BCP, Int., Alexandria, VA). Mr. Strain has passed three FBI background checks in association with his work.  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 (2020) and A Bohemian in a Precarious Belfry - Vol. I: Poetry & Prose (2023). (Available on Amazon - Kindle and paperback). Prior, he authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, others).

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Joke of the day:

A guy goes into a bar. He’s already drunk on arrival, and as he sits on his barstool with drink, he stews about his local Democrat representation. Suddenly, he yells out:

“All Democrats are assholes!”

Several patrons look around, some in amusement, others with a bit of shock. The guy stands up and yells even louder,

“I say again, all Democrats are ASSHOLES!!”

A man comes over to the guy and says,

“I resent that remark.”

The guy says, “Are you a Democrat?”

The man says, “No, I’m an asshole.”

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