President Joe “Nottrump”
We are inaugurating another president today. We can call him “Teleprompter Joe”, or “Joe
Obamalike Nottrump”, to reflect the main campaign theme from his Delaware
basement and car parking lots.
Just like in Maduro’s Venezuela, there are over 25,000
military troops in the capitol to ensure that the new regime gets installed
without protest or demonstration, First Amendment notwithstanding. As Saul Alinsky dictated, keep them fearful,
they’ll be easier to control.
Now, Joe is not allowed to speak extemporaneously these
days because of his historical propensity to plagiarize, exaggerate and
embellish, or as Obama once said, to f--- things up. This is even more important now with his
advancing senility, because he gets lost in the middle of a thought, gets
pissed off, and ends up by shouting at perceived opponents in the audience.
His outgoing predecessor, on the other hand, is Mr.
Extemporaneous. He can fashion both “bon
mots” and “mal mots” with machine gun rapidity, both verbally, and on
line. Jack Dorsey has broken his
tweeter, though, so he has been somewhat hobbled since his last House
impeachment. He has winged away to his
Mar-a-Lago estates in Florida to nurse his wounds on the golf course, and plot
his next incursion into the American psyche.
In the meantime, here comes “The Brave New World” of
pseudo-socialism, steeped in identity politics as the standard for choosing
members of the cabinet and other administration positions.
Identity politics does not hold qualification and ability
as the main criteria for a job, as is evident when one looks at the new cabinet
choices. No, choice for a position
depends on what you look like and which bucket you’re in.
The most desirable buckets seem to revolve around color
and ethnicity first, then sexual orientation, then gender. If you are a black, trans-gender, Jamaican-American,
your chances for a high-level job are really good, whatever your other
qualifications. Straight Caucasian
women, once aiming for political hegemony, have drifted way lower, to just
above white heterosexual males.
The new administration seems fueled by hatred for
anything that Trump has touched in the previous four years. Their avowed goal seems to be to undo
everything, good or bad, that the previous administration has done. Here is a partial list, some of which can be
accomplished by executive orders, some with considerably more difficulty in a
nearly tied congress.
1.) We
are a systemic racist country that owes our origins to 1619, when the first
African slaves arrived, not 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was
signed. We need to address systemic racism as a societal priority.
2.) We
should continue to disarm our police departments, and rely more on
psychological and psychiatric interactions in civil and criminal disturbances,
particularly those involving our black or brown citizens. The police are racist, and shouldn’t have
guns.
3.) We
should all be classified by group, for assigning rewards or condemnation, per Identity
politics. Order of preference should be
race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/preference, gender.
4.) Use
of “cancel culture”, “doxing” and other forms of social ostracism should not be
discouraged, since these practices tend to bring recalcitrant individuals back
into line with acceptable thought and opinion, i.e., back to “our truth”.
5.) Adherents
of opposition politics, such as followers of Donald Trump, should be
“re-educated” to bring them in line with acceptable political thought.
6.) Wealthy
people and companies should “pay their fair share” of taxes, forgetting that
they already have “paid their fair share”, and are using their wealth to grow
the economy and create employment.
7.) The
Keystone Pipeline should be shut down and “fracking” curtailed for
environmental reasons. The effect on
energy independence is secondary.
8.) We
should reverse Trump’s tax decreases and increase taxes as necessary to pay for
the recommended social programs. These
programs should start with a 2 trillion-dollar relief package which would include
another $1400 payment to all Americans and support for foundering democratic-run
cities.
9.) We
should enfranchise all inhabitants of the country as U.S. citizens, no matter
how they arrived here. We should make
our borders accessible to all comers, and welcome them to U.S. citizenship
quickly and expeditiously.
10.)
We should immediately rejoin the “Paris Climate
Accords”, and our country, along with other wealthy western countries, should
join to ban fossil fuels, nuclear energy and other “polluting” power sources,
and concentrate on renewable “green” energy, (wind, sun, tides, etc.). Participation by other “developing”
countries, such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia would not be
mandatory, since they are considered poor and “developing”.
11.)
We should export our “democratic” form of
government to “hot spots” around the world, and enforce this “democracy”
militarily, if necessary.
12.)
We should rely on non-proliferation treaties,
with appropriate monetary incentives, to curb the international spread of
nuclear weapons.
Just for grins, we should record some indicators of where
we are on this inauguration day, 2021.
No wars in four years
Relative job security
Unemployment 6.7 % (with Covid, - was 3.5% before the
pandemic)
Oil independence and exporting energy
GDP (2017 CIA) $19.5 Trillion, $59,400 per capita
Gas, about $2.00 per gallon (Texas)
Dow above 31,000
Ray Gruszecki
January 20, 2021
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