America, or Dystopia?

America, or Dystopia?

As a pretty much life-long republican, I have always believed in a vigorous opposition party.

I’ve had some fundamental policy differences with democrats like Roosevelt, Truman, LBJ and Bill Clinton, such as Keynesian vs Friedman economics, stance on social programs and conservatism vs liberalism, etc.  But I have voted for several democrats in the past, - for LBJ vs Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election, for Ann Richards vs Clayton Williams in the 1990 Texas governor election and in several other individual cases.  I have mostly respected democrats as worthy opponents, and did not have any sort of undue hatred for them.

Democrat Speakers of the House, such as Sam Rayburn, Tip O’Neill, Jim Wright and Tom Foley were obviously partisan, but they were respectable leaders of their party.

This current 2020 democrat party is unrecognizable in their abject, blind hatred of the incumbent president, and in their undisguised hypocrisy.  Figures like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her San Francisco senate associate, Dianne Feinstein, are truly odious and despicable, self-aggrandizing people. Others of this same ilk are AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Maizie Hirono and many other democrats of both houses of congress.  Their sole and over-riding purpose seems not to be to represent their constituents, but to spread their hatred of President Trump, and to force him out of office by any means possible, fair or foul.

These ruthless operatives and the rest of the democrats, aided by over 90% of the biased mainstream media, have twisted all of the ills afflicting our society onto President Trump.  Corona virus? – Trump’s fault.  Shutdown and lockdowns? – Trumps fault.  Racism? – Trump’s fault.  Economic downturn? – Trump’s fault.  Unemployment? – Trump’s fault.  George Floyd’s death, - Trump’s fault.  Rioting in the streets? – Trump’s fault.  Cultural revolution? – Trump’s fault.  Cancel culture? – Trump’s fault.  The litany is unending, and repeated so often by the unscrupulously dishonest media mob, that the public believe it more and more, and they too, blame Trump for everything wrong in America.

But before the corona virus economic shutdown, when we had the best economy, lowest unemployment, highest stock market in years, was it to Trump’s credit? – Nah, it was the continuation of the Obama 2% economy.  Bloody dishonest hypocrites!

In spite of all the forces massed against him, Trump’s policies after Obama created a record economy that lifted up all segments of the population. The government insiders, the administrative state, hated him and his management style, which was that of a businessman, and not of a politician.  He got virtually no credit from the mainstream media, and much of the country, propagandized by this mainstream media, -  for record aspects of the economy and other accomplishments, judges, judicial reform, tightening our borders, taking China and the EU to task on trade, and the EU on NATO contributions.  The list goes on and on.

Then China sends us the killer corona virus.  We shut the country down for over three months.  The economy tanks. We see depression type GDP and unemployment numbers.  One killing of a Black American by a cop sets off over a month of first legal protests, which are quickly hijacked by avowed Marxist mobs, and which are still going on.  The leftists and the mainstream press blame Trump, and a lot of the country believe them and back the Marxists fomenting a cultural revolution and revolt.  Statues are torn down, monuments defaced and long-standing icons of our culture and heritage cancelled, or worse.  The democrat regimes of our major cities blame and defund the police, refuse to arrest law-breakers, or play “catch and release” with the criminals destroying our cities.  The corona virus continues to kill Americans.  We are literally living in a in a dystopian nightmare.

Can President Trump, (or anyone) turn it around?  Joe Biden sits in his basement, and the few times he ventures to speak, he literally cannot put two sentences together.  His descent into senility is truly sad.  The latest gaffe, - “120 million Americans dead from Covid”.

And Trump’s polling numbers, even allowing for the bias and suppression in national presidential polls, are trailing a mostly dormant Biden.  Carl Rove’s white board says “not to worry”, but some of the polls show a double-digit difference.

Trump keeps saying “I did it once, I’ll do it again”, with typical “Trumpian” braggadocio, and he very well might “do it again”, in the four months leading to the early November elections.  Remember, four months ago, in February, we were at the height of the pre-Covid economy.

Of course, the downers here are the virus that won’t quit, and the Marxists in our streets, destroying our history and heritage and culture, that also don’t want to quit.  If Trump brings the country back to some modicum of normalcy, and manages to win re-election, it will be nothing short of a miracle, and will establish Trump’s legacy forever.  Of course, he needs both houses of congress with him, or it will all for naught, and a continuation of the AOC/Nancy Pelosi disaster.

We can only hope and pray for a vaccine to end the pandemic, and for a return to law and order, to stop the mob violence, and finally, for four more years of “Americana”, rather than a Venezuela type dystopia.

Ray Gruszecki

June 27, 2020