FAR TO THE LEFT OF REASON AND SANITY

You don’t have to be particularly bright to recognize and appreciate the mores and principles that provide for a safe, just, reasonable, happy and prosperous life. Of late, however, these tenets have been vacated by the leftists for their far more adverse, hostile alternatives.

I have written multiple times now about what I believe is the observable rapid moral declination of American society and the harm it proposes. It apparently hasn’t been enough times, though. So here we go again. This is a collection of rules and regulations by our governing bodies that do nothing other than divide, harm, damage and/or wrest control of society by diminishing or eliminating the personal responsibility and judgment we have long enjoyed as Americans. In some cases, it is the total elimination of those standards that are changing for the worst.

LOWERING THE STANDARDS

Lowering the standards seems to be a way Marxists choose to ruin our nation. D.E.I. is probably the most prominent and observable way to do so. Mandating diversity for businesses and government is an excuse to place unqualified or unskilled people in positions that can, and do, harm businesses and government alike. Businesses attempting to placate the loony leftists suffer until the balance sheet is nearly unrecoverable. Some don’t make it. Many revert back to merit, achievement and profitability in time to keep from folding.

Schools, police departments, fire departments, our military, and even our federal government have all suffered thanks to the insistence for including diversity and equity in every aspect of our lives. Acceptance of individual differences should never be denied. However, awarding those differences and even the failures with coveted and responsible positions is simply wrong. Rating skin color, sexual preference, etc. over excellence, skill, knowledge and ability is reaching insanity for any manager or business owner.

IN CALIFORNIA:

Citizen taxpayers in the state are forced to assume the costs for legal services of previously convicted illegal alien felons. These are people, by the nature of the assigned moniker, should not even be in our country, much less as sucklings of the citizen taxpayers’ teats. The taxes taken from the earnings of responsible individuals should, if at all, only be used for the most fundamental services for indigent illegal aliens, but not for ongoing legal appeals against the country and state they broke into. Taxes are collected for the betterment of the nation’s citizens lives and communities as a whole.

California’s total liabilities now stand at about $500 billion with the 2025-2026 budget proposing an additional $12 billion in deficit spending. California will soon be asking the federal government for a bailout. If agreed by Congress, every taxpayer of the United States will be forced to contribute a portion of their income to the failed fiscal management of this one state.

ENABLING MARXISM

It doesn’t take a Mensa member to see that the last administration did everything possible to drive the United States of America into insolvency. They threw money around as if they were attendees throwing confetti at a Macy’s parade.

Tens of millions of dollars in grants were given to non-profit groups for unnecessary projects that benefited only the recipients and produced few commendable results.

The mRNA technology may be a scientific breakthrough, but the harm it caused as an experiment against a respiratory disease that, in the long run, was no more dangerous than the annual flu strain. The new technology allowed the major drug companies to make billions of dollars offering a vaccine that did little to stop the spread of the virus it was supposed to control. In fact, many people with flu-like symptoms (which parallel Covid-19) were diagnosed as having Covid and treated with the new vaccine. They still had recurring episodes of “Covid”, were mandated to wear masks in public, get booster shots, and stay at least 6′ from others. Many people also died from the vaccine when they could have survived the virus without the injection(s).

THROW MORE MONEY AT IT

Our government (both parties, aka: Uniparty) seem always to agree that the way to care for problems that often are created by themselves is for greater funding. Whether it is the border, the migrants sanctioned within cities, security for presidential candidates or making sure there is enough energy to keep the general population warm and able to move about, the answer is always more funding for the agency in charge or the creation of another offshoot agency whose responsibility will be for mitigation of a specific problem.

IT’S TIME FOR YOUNGER MORE RESPONSIVE GOVERNORS

Governors, in this sense, might be city mayors, county supervisors, state governors or federal Congressional leaders. At any level, we need people in tune with today and with knowledge of yesteryear; a knowledge of history. We need responsible individuals with the wisdom and understanding of not just U.S. history, but world history, geography and geopolitics. We need people making decisions that do so, not on emotion but with wisdom. They must be willing to listen and learn from experts in various fields and make decisions incorporating the experience of the knowledgeable.

Whiteness training, decolonizing, mediocre white men, classic white privilege are all terms to divide the country. They are all sophisticated terms used by Marxists to take away individual liberty, independence and responsibility; to solve inadequacies, instill laziness and enhance ignorance. Marxists want to replace merit with equity so that all suffer equally.

Rather than falling to the whims of fringe advocacy groups, we need to elect leaders to understand the needs of the community and respect the majority.

Can you see where I’m going with this? We are headed, at blinding speed, toward socialism. Our “leaders” are taking our earnings to use for their own political advancement. They are regulating companies and corporations to the point of infeasibility only to be overtaken by mega-corporations. The next move is for the government to step in and assume the duties and responsibilities of the management teams.

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION

Schools and education might be two incongruous terms when it comes to public education. The world of compulsory academe should be limited to conventional instruction. It might be augmented with extra-curricular activities such as physical fitness and health, vocational studies and arts development. Concentration on core subjects, however, seems no longer to be the main goal. Liberal/leftist/Marxist propaganda is projected infused into the captive young minds of the taxpayer paid public school indoctrination system today.

Study after study (with very few, highly biased, exceptions) show that children who have been home-schooled, community-schooled, schooled in charter or parochial environments consistently out perform their public-schooled peers on academic achievement tests despite the curriculum dictated by the local school district. According to We Have Kids: “Homeschooled students score about 72 points higher than the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The average American College Test (ACT) score is 21. The average score for homeschoolers is 22.8 out of a possible 36 points. Homeschoolers are at the 77th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills”. <link>

On the whole, alternative education cost per pupil runs 65%-75% that of their nearby government run competitors. While the actual numbers do vary slightly depending on the geographic location and whether the studies are taken in rural, urban or suburban settings the general themes of scores and costs hold true.

The students of the non-traditional schools rapidly come to learn and acknowledge that they won’t be passed to the next highest grade simply for attending classes more often than they ditch them. They learn the responsibility of completing assignments and handing them in for grading on time as well. And, as they learn how and what to study for knowledge, their grades improve remarkably. When personal responsibility is expected, the students respond accordingly.

Too many high school graduates today can’t find the sum of the digits of their home address without the aid of an electronic device or read all the words on their diplomas. They can, however, righteously tell you about gender ideology and that if the right person or people are put in place, socialism will make the world and all of our lives better. The true history of socialism, where, when, how many times it has been tried and the resultant outcome is not revealed in today’s text books or expounded by the teachers.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, wants to meld the U.S. public school system into the global education system and concentrate teaching of our young about white supremacy, socialism, gender ideology, wealth redistribution through global technology, etc. Still no concentration on core academics that will help graduates perform better or more knowledgeably in the workplace beyond the education system.

Is it responsible to teach malleable young minds that they should dislike the person sitting next to them because of a European ancestry rather than a heritage from Africa, Asia or South America? Could it be to ultimately divide the population into war-like factions making them vulnerable and susceptible to government “authority”?

How is it beneficial to a child’s psyche to be told they may be of a gender other than they are? It’s easy to see the damage done when a child assumes, or is given, a gender identity at school that they have to hide from their parents; Brenda at school and Brad at home.

Picking a pronoun or pronouns that fit a new identity is challenging in itself. What trauma might be self-imposed if one chooses a set of pronouns and demands others refer to them then later decides another pair or set is more befitting? How about when they find even another set? The personal confusion and frustration as well as re-training the community must begin again and again. Could this be causing the mental problems requiring years of therapy and ingestion of multiple synthetic pharmaceuticals?

MINIMUM WAGE AT MAXIMUM COST

The left loves to extol for a higher minimum wage. A “living” wage they call it. Twenty dollars an hour is now a regular call, and in some major cities it is for as much as thirty dollars an hour. In general, the Marxists don’t recognize (or maybe they do) that employers paying higher wages for minimal positions also requires more pay for the employees contributing most to the profitability of the company. Thus, collective overhead rises to the point where doing business becomes unsustainable.

When business becomes unprofitable due to raising wages beyond reason for the least skillful positions, it becomes necessary to raise prices or reduce the workforce to maintain viability. When prices become too costly, the clientele cannot afford what is offered. Wage escalation must keep pace with the economy, but cannot grow faster than what the economy can absorb. Large increases are self-defeating over time. The only individuals or assemblages that benefit from higher wages are the governments that extract more of the earnings in taxes.

In addition to raising the minimum wage to “an affordable wage” is the idea of giving people a guaranteed augmentation to their earnings. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the Marxist way of making more people worship big government. In some cases, UBI is even used to supplement unemployment insurance. This is to assure that recipients are able to pay their bills on time until they are once again gainfully employed. In at least one instance, as reported, a worker who had been laid off during a downturn was called back to work. He had been receiving more government money than he had been earning and told his former employer, “I’m sorry, I cannot afford to work right now. I’ll be back when my unemployment insurance runs out”.

When California mandated a minimum wage increase from $16/hr to $20/hr for limited-service restaurants (fast-food restaurants, coffee shops, etc.) it caused a loss of between 10,000 and 20,000 jobs. Between September 2023 and June 2024, while fast food employment across the nation grew by 1.6%, California’s employment stats show a drop of 1.1%. This is indicative of what forced employee pay causes. Independent merchants shuttered their businesses and declared bankruptcy to avoid paying ongoing leases without any income. Thus, building owners also lost revenue.

To overcome the burden of excess wages employers sometimes pay workers “under the table”. This allows the saving of taxes on the part of both employer and employee. In some cases the least skilled jobs are done by kids or illegal aliens. Unfortunately, the return of those uncollected taxes and associated costs (unemployment insurance, workman’s compensation insurance, private medical insurance, social security or retirement, etc.) are also not accorded the work-for-cash employees. Ultimately, it can be more costly for the employee.

Not caring about minimum wage, Gavin Newsom states that illegal aliens are necessary for picking crops and construction work lest the jobs not get done. Contractors, of course, are all-in for the cheap labor. They can bid a project at prevailing wage and complete it paying the workforce far less. If it happens to be a government job project, they often under-estimate the cost and time to completion, require time extensions and command a 10%-25% additional payment for contract fulfillment.

There must be a reasonable wage paid for work, but simple rote work does not mandate a “living wage”. Many entry level positions do not warrant $20/hr. Conversely, the receptionist, host or secretary are often not paid commensurate to their contributory worth. These people are the “first contact” with a company and by whom the deportment of the company is presented.

Wages must be proportionate to the value added. Otherwise positions will go unfilled or filled by robotics.

NEXT GENERATION – GLOBAL COMMUNISM

It’s not just happening in New York and Minneapolis. It’s not just happening in the U.S.

As I’m sure the world has heard, Zohran Mamdani won the NYC primary for mayor and at this time stands a very good chance of winning the seat. Omar Fateh, a member of the Minnesota State Senate since 2021, is now vying for Mayor of Minneapolis. We’ve had “the squad” in Congress for over 5 years. They, too, are about as anti-capitalist/anti-American as you can get.

Calling themselves liberals or progressives or Democratic Socialists does not disguise their true intentions. They are now blatant through both their words and actions. They, together, are seeking to reorganize our socioeconomic structure to match the ideologies of historical tyrants and change U.S. political and economic philosophy into one of Global Communism under a One World Government.

Among the candidates and those already in elected office are proponents of government owned and operated businesses, rent control, Universal Basic Income (wealth redistribution) and resource allocation. These are not capitalist and free-market doctrines.

“I don’t think we should have billionaires”. – Zohran Mamdani “The rich should pay their fair share.” – Bernie Sanders “The minimum wage should be the living wage” – Jon Ossoff These statements along with others like them should alert even the least capable minds to the direction some people in elected office (and vying for such) want to take the nation. Why not have “billionaires”? What is a “fair share”? What is a “living wage”? These are ambiguous statements that all lead to “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” – Karl Marx The number of proponents of Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist and Mussolini dictatorial and fascist ideologies in our country is growing rapidly.

In 2016, Danish Social Democrat Ida Auken referred to Agenda 2030 with the words, “You will own nothing and be happy”. The concept was adopted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its then- Chairman Klaus Schwab. This seems to be the theme of the leftists prevalent in and around our government.

“The Squad”, as originally designated, consisted of just four members – Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley. It has since grown to include both male and female members calling themselves Democratic Socialists. The two terms Democratic and Socialist are near polar opposites making the juxtaposition an oxymoron even by the least strict definitions.

The initial grouping consists of four individuals who could not survive in a socialist society, yet they ignorantly call for the U.S. to become one. All come from mid to upper income families who gained their financial status through our capitalist society. All have elite college degrees (which might explain their ignorance about socialism).

* AOC – BA Economics and International Relations-basically global socialist redistribution of wealth, and government owned industry

* RASHIDA TLAIB – BA (POLY SCI) J.D. – Member of Democratic Socialists of America

* ILHAN OMAR – BA Political Science and International Studies – a proponent for economical social justice

* AYANNA PRESSLEY – multiple undisclosed college degrees – net worth 2018 was $12,500. Current net worth $5.25M. Ayanna attended the Francis W. Parker School where tuition ranges from $40,910 for kindergarten to $46,760 for grade 12. The school is based on the distorted and disjointed progressive education philosophies of John Dewey and Colonel Francis Wayland Parker.

Today’s leftists are out fund-raising even their “liberal” and “progressive” counterparts by a margin of 2-3 to 1 headed for the 2026 elections. With the continuation of this popular trend, the United States of America will no longer be a Constitutional Republic. It’s easy to predict that we will by a Communist nation in two generations. Your grand kids will own nothing and be miserable.

YOU CAN’T TRUST GOVERNMENT STATISTICS

Last week President Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He accused her of having “faked the Jobs Numbers”. He was, in turn, accused of firing her because “he didn’t like the numbers in the latest jobs report”. While that may be true, it is not necessarily true. We don’t know because we can’t trust the first words of either the accuser or the president any more than we can trust the numbers or words themselves. After all, they came from the government.

Being able to trust the information that is presented would be nice, but I don’t trust government statistics or any statistics or information that comes from any political source (virtually every source is politically motivated today). There is simply too much “wiggle room” in the gathering and reporting of numbers and information to trust any source. Who gathered the numbers? Who’s reporting the numbers? Who was interviewed for this article and when? How many people are represented in the sampling? The answers to these questions and many more are seldom given along with the numbers, percentages or other vital information used to make up the chart or story. The presenter is too often able to pick and choose the set of numbers that best fits the narrative of the presentation.

I’m not saying that everything you hear, read or see from the broadcast or cyber world is purposefully manipulated for influence, just most of it. “You could die if you don’t get the vaccine” is but one example that I’m sure we can all remember. We heard that from the top government “authorities” and virtually every news organization in America and abroad. Just how many people died from the vaccine is still unknown. According to the CDC and VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) only 1-in-7 to 1-in-10 adverse events were ever reported by clinics, hospitals or doctors. Fact checkers, yeah right, believe them!

The deep state is still in full force despite the recent revelations. And it will undoubtedly always be. There are people who gravitate to the government for good reasons and there are people who do it for all the wrong reasons. It seems that evil persists and, over time, permeates throughout the good when it comes to the government power structure.

Then, of course, there is the media. “The most trusted name in news” has proven to be no longer trusted. Be it CNN or FOX or ABC,CBS, NBC or whomever, there is a bias slant to their coverage and reporting of the events of the day. Political stories, in particular, get the royal partisan treatment. It seems that from most of the “news” outlets, the predisposition is either leaning or full-weighted on the liberal-progressive-socialist side of the realm of possibilities. It cannot be trusted on first issuance. Often, it takes days, weeks, months and sometimes years before the dust settles and the real story emerges.

Your favorite propaganda outlet is still extolling “The science is settled”. “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2019. Well kids, we’re half way there and science is still discovering new and different things and the world hasn’t weakened one bit from the climate change. We have changed from fossil fuels to wind and solar energy generation and moved a few people from combustion engines to EVs. All we have done is boost the dirty coal output from China making the components of the cars, wind generators and solar panels. The ill-fated attempts to control the weather has brought on more intense storms and reduced the stability of our electric grid.

You can continue to believe the jobs numbers and the economy numbers and everything that comes out of D.C. if you so desire, but I’ll wait a few beats for things to settle before I draw plans and buy the lumber needed to construct an ark because “Florida will be under water by 2032” or 2040 or 2050 or whatever the current scare factor is today.