Election Fist Pumps And Jubilation - Democrats? No, Putin, Xi, And The Ayatollah

The gym was a happy place, a jubilant place as members fist-pumped, hugged, and smiled broadly.  The Ogre of Pennsylvania Avenue had been given his comeuppance, and the party of conscience and compassion now ruled both Senate and House.  Yes, the President still had a veto, and turning back his hateful, racist policies would not be easy sledding, but right always defeats wrong. 

The jubilation, however, was tame compared to that in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran where Putin, Xi, and the Ayatollah were all dancing with joy.  Finally, the only president who knew, understood, and practiced Machiavellian realpolitik, who recognized their imperial designs and had his own, and who had finally thrown off the traces of moral exceptionalism - and who, therefore, was a serious, implacable adversary - was soon to be gone. 

In its place would be a nation of Neville Chamberlains, political idealists mired in ideas of social reform and world peace; a government unwilling to challenge them, always eager to compromise, negotiate, and come to mutually beneficial agreements.  In other words a government which would give them what they wanted.  

The mullahs - or the Republican Guard - whichever is the ruling power in Iran were delighted beyond belief.  Imagine that! they said, a Congress which hates Israel as much as we do.  A Congress which has already made its pro-Palestinian sentiments clear.  In a miasmic fog of idealistic good will, commiseration, and compassion, these Democrats have lionized, almost deified Hamas; and now that they are in power, they will encourage - tacitly, but undeniably - Iranian support. 

Of course Hamas and Hezbollah are nothing like the mythical heroes limned by America's liberal Left.  They are intellectual frauds who have notions of infallibility and a fevered desire to take over Jerusalem from the Jews - and Iran is well aware of this, but has used them to fight their battles to rid the world of the infidel. Now, with liberal Democrats in power, the historic geopolitical fight can resume. 

Putin and his advisors did handstands in the Kremlin, for they couldn't believe their good fortune.  The Biden era was back, and in the spirit of peaceful accommodation and good will, free rein has been handed to Russia.  Of course the Democrats will pass resolution after resolution condemning Russia's continued aggression against Ukraine, but will do nothing.  Under Trump a realpolitik settlement was in the offing, now off the table, but Putin is unfazed, just a little more powder in the cannon until The Little Guy decides it's time to leave, seeks asylum in the south of France where he can live happily with the billions he 'diverted' from America's myopic generosity. 

Xi is the happiest of all.  Already the leader in AI, and understanding how the new Congress will freeze all new American data centers, will stop innovation in artificial intelligence for fear of the zombies it will release, China now will control the industry and exercise even more financial, economic, and geopolitical influence. 

Democrats' crippling of the oil and gas industry under the aegis of environmentalism and global warming, will further increase America's vulnerability.  China, investing trillions in electric power and using its abundant coal resources and those from complaisant nation states, will control the market.  The US will fall farther and farther behind in energy production and become weaker in the face of a continuingly aggressive China. 

All three of America's principal adversaries were once the world's imperial powers, and none of them have forgotten this legacy; and all have a central ethos around which political interests can be coalesced.  The Chinese know that with the living legacy of the world's great dynasties behind them, and with the continuing ethical center of Confucianism at the core of their culture, they can dominate once again. 

The theocrats of Iran have an evangelistic belief in Islam, and building on the greatness of the Persian Empire - their historical legacy  - it is a perfect storm for geopolitical expansion. 

Putin has been open and transparent about his respect and honor for Tsarist Russia and its imperial reign. Russia has emerged from the stultifying miasma of communism and is poised to resume the glory of its royal past.

The United States has none of these central, consolidating, beliefs.  It is a country which has veered so far into diversity, identity, and a blatantly fantastical Utopian ideology that it has no ethos, no ethical center around which its citizens can be rallied. 

The United States is a beacon no longer.  Its democracy has descended into the worst gutter-sniping, senseless and purposeless political caterwauling, that it retains hardly a vestige of the Enlightenment origins so valued by Jefferson and the framers of the Constitution.  America is now under the new far-Left liberal government, a nation of patsies, easy marks, rubes. 

The gym members who had kept their virulent hatred for Trump and his supporters indirect and non-confrontational over the last two years of Republican control of all three branches of government - White House, Congress, and Supreme Court - were now ecstatic, bullying, and undaunted.  In just the morning after the results of the election were known, all reserve was dropped, and the locker room was filled with the most crude, hateful, arrogant slander. Every Republican defeated in the election was a piece of shit, a corrupt, elitist cocksucker. 

The reality will soon hit.  The Democrats over the last decade have offered nothing in the way of substance, thoughtful policy, engaging discussion, or innovative ideas.  They have existed on a platform of hate and nothing more.  Now that they are in power, there is nothing on the shelf, nothing in the larder, nothing. 

The radical Democratic Socialist agenda so admired by this new Congress - a giveaway program sure to bankrupt federal and local governments will increase hardship, economic difficulty, and social erosion.  By the time of the presidential election in 2028, the far-Left Democratic agenda will be discredited enough to enable a Republican presidency at the very least. 

Worst of all the racially biased, anti-democratic programs of Diversity Equity Inclusion will return with renewed commitment, and as a result the country will become more divided, parochial, self-centered, and exclusive than every before.

Putin, Xi, and the Ayatollah are delighted, for this neo-socialist agenda will further weaken the United States.  It will be so beholden to these petty ideological distinctions of race, gender, and ethnicity, that it will lose whatever focus it once had on global affairs. 

The whooping and hollering in the locker room will not last.  Jubilation over nothing is fanciful ignorance at best. 

Biden's Back, Iran Set Free, Woke Returns - Hold On To Your Hats, The Worst Is Yet To Come

The Republicans have just got badly beaten in the American midterm elections (11.3.26), and both House and Senate are in Democrat hands. 

The Left is salivating, pacing their cages, waiting for January when they can finally take back the Congress which they have felt belonged to them, always had and always will.  

'We will get that cocksucker', said Hakeem Jeffries, certain to be new Speaker of the House, in an unguarded moment, for the one principal, foremost item on the new Congressional agenda is to ruin the President, to pay him back for all his insults, dismissiveness, extra-judicial and unconstitutional assaults on American democracy.  Impeachment proceedings will be begun the day the Democrats take office, not only against the President, but against his entire Cabinet.  

Any presidential appointments whether to the Supreme Court or the federal bench will be held up in Congress, unable to move forward and doomed to failure.  

The legislative process, one designed by the Founding Fathers to do the nation's business, will turn exclusively on vendetta and retribution.  The one and only thing on the mind of Jeffries and his colleagues is to get rid of Donald Trump once and for all. 

The Democrats who have never run on their own policy and programs but have relied on Trump hatred, will be even more vicious and vituperative.  The nation's business?  To destroy every vestige of Trump, conservatism, and what they consider outdated, racist American foundational values.

Trump, however, will not go quietly.  He knows what is coming from Congress and he knows how to use executive power.  He knows that the pacifist Left will take every measure within their means to stop the war in Iran, and so will use his Constitutional power to deliver hammer blows to the mullahs, the Republican Guard, and their theocratic operatives.  It will be no holds barred to finish the job, to further degrade Iran's nuclear capability, to destroy whatever offensive and defensive infrastructure remains, and to severely limit its ability to support its client states. 

The President has the power to do this, and nothing in the Constitution obliges him to listen to the electoral voice of the people who have been increasingly against the war.  This man will not bow his head in contrition, offer peace and conciliation, and a generous settlement.  On the contrary, he will pull every lever of power at his disposal to complete what he started. 

Yet the Congress holds the purse strings, and will rein in whatever new offensives the President has in mind.  It will do everything it can to stop the war, assure 'peace in our times', and give full international sovereignty back to Iran.  The Democrats in Congress have always been haters of Israel, and pro-Palestine, and will do their best to free Iran, allowing it to achieve their goal of destroying Israel, a colonizer, an oppressor, and a slaver nation. 

Congress can use the War Powers Resolution mechanisms to halt all American interventions in Iran; pass a new authorization for the use of military force rescinding the old one, thus giving it increased powers over military use; pass new binding laws; and apply judicial pressure. 

The battle will be fierce with neither side giving an inch, with the edge to Congress, poised to take the White House in two years. 

The new Congress will exert its power and legislative influence to keep ICE, the National Guard, and the Army in their barracks.  The borders will once again be opened, sanctuary cities will be provided federal funding to welcome, house, and support illegal immigrants, and the country will once again be awash with destabilizing, demoralizing, and disruptive policies and programs. 

Feeling their new authority, the Congress will use all its federal power and influence to back decriminalization, defunding of the police, and allowing statutory crime to flourish. 

DEI, affirmative action, and all other anti-democratic and unconstitutional programs of the Biden era, although outlawed by the Supreme Court, will be back in the spotlight.  Already universities have figured out ways to maintain their racial preferences without overt measures; and the new Congress will do the same, pass enabling legislation that will circumvent the courts and continue the discriminatory, disassembling programs of racial preference.  

DEI will return with renewed commitment.  The Trump years, say the Left, were racist, reimposing de facto Jim Crow laws, favoring white privilege, and restoring a Euro-centric, colonialist culture. Minorities will immediately be restored to their proper place in positions of influence and power.  The dream of multiculturalism will be realized. 

All this, of course, is doomed to failure, just as it was during the Biden years.  Open borders and the influx of twenty million illegal immigrants did nothing for the country except to consolidate Democrat electoral power - the real agenda behind opening America's doors.  Further opening of the border along with renewed justification of sanctuary cities and public funds for immigrant welfare will further erode whatever core ethos remains after the destructive progressive years. 

Foreign policy, always in the hands of the President, is nonetheless overseen by Congress, and with new punitive, restrictive legislation, the strong, aggressive, nationalism of the United States will be neutered.  Our principal adversaries, Russia and China, Machiavellian to the core, will benefit.  They, territorial, imperial, and nationalistic will take advantage of the new Neville Chamberlains in the US Congress and will emerge stronger, more defiant, and powerful. 

The US will fall further and further into debt as the new Congress will enact all kinds of new funding.  The Biden Administration and Congress authorized billions in bridges-to-nowhere infrastructure authorization, basically writing a check for municipal corruption.  It spent billions more on discredited, useless social programs.  The new Congress will renew its support for these initiatives. 

The Democratic Congress will pass tax laws punishing the rich, and engineer new regulations on finance, entrepreneurship, and innovative technology.  The Left's goal of income redistribution will be even closer. 

Democratic Socialism, once a small bit of the Left, will now come front and center.  The reconfiguration of America into a socialist state, once thought impossible, is being seriously considered and promoted. 

Most American voters see things very simplistically - there is no geopolitical context to rising oil prices just more money per fill up. There is similarly no context to unrestricted immigration, the European experience is too remote, too foreign, to have any relevance.  Multiculturalism in principle is the ethos on which the nation was founded, so even in its exaggerated, preferential, reverse racism, it still sounds good. 

The war in Iran and ICE in the streets turned the fickle mob against the President - and the mob was exactly what Alexander Hamilton feared.

Context never wins elections, and the Republicans found it difficult to parse and translate conservative immigration, military, economic, financial, social, and geopolitical policy into simple, understandable terms.  The Democrats were smart. Hammering away at the negatives is all it takes. 

The next two years will be dirty, base, remorseless, and destructive.  Trump has never given up and never will.  The Congress led by ideologues whose whole careers have been based on socialist cant and bombast want revenge.  They want a clear path to total electoral victory. 

A Nation Of Dreamers - America's Dalliance With The Pure, The Righteous, And The Good...Which Has Never Existed

Bob Muzelle was a creature of the trenches, the barricades, the million man march, protests, demands, and jamborees. 

'Going to the abortion thing?', he asked his friend and comrade in arms. They were brothers, both hewn from the same timber, both flying the same jib, both tacking towards Utopia.  They had both been acolytes of the Reverend Parker Allworth Morris, Yale Chaplain and Negro First freedom rider, a man of unimpeachable rectitude, honor, courage and commitment. 

  

Bob thought that Morris was more than just an honorable main, but a prophet, a secular saint, and a man of vision, purpose, and import.  Bob's apprenticeship with the Chaplain was seminal and epiphanic. After four years at the altar of this man-god, Bob's life's work was ordained.  He would fight for social justice until he drew his last breath. 

So the two of them - Bob and Jackson Finch - went down to the National Mall and joined there sisters in demanding abortion rights for all women.  'Abortion - any time, any place, any moment' was the rallying cry, for the protestors had had enough compromise.  Late term abortion was just as viable and righteous as early term.  A woman's body was hers and hers alone, and no man was going to abridge that right.  The fetus was nothing but a piece of phlegm, an unwanted visitor, an intruder, a violator. 

Bob particularly liked abortion rallies because they were existential and personal.  Climate change was indeed existential, for if global warming continued, the human species would cease to exist; but abortion was immediate, real, with visible consequences.  Pregnant women had been violated by predatory, pleasure-seeking, Paleolithic throwbacks whose 'article', that bit of unwanted scum needed to be flushed and removed. 

Both crises - blatant male patriarchy and forced pregnancy; and the warming climate - were stimulants to Bob's limbic system.  His perpetual state of euphoria was one of generic happiness.  A more verdant, peaceful, tolerant, and compassionate world was at hand, and that was cause for emotional bliss. 

Bob did not let things rest there.  While he had a particular fondness for abortion and climate change, his panoply was festooned with the black man, the transgender, the disenfranchised, and the poor.  He marshalled his resources and parceled out his energies to that all causes could be addressed.  Utopia was not simply a world of women, but one of a diverse, multicultural universe of plenty.  

Now, Yale should have taught him something.  Back in the day it was a beacon of rational discourse, serious study, analytical thinking, and promising scholarship; but Bob had been shanghaied by the Reverend Morris, caught in his web of earnest compassion, and from Day One did not listen to reason. 

It mattered not that the world had been eternally violent since Cain killed Abel, that wars killed millions each century, and that the most recent, the Twentieth, was the bloodiest of them all.  Humanity was not progressing towards a new, peaceful, communal world, but mired in the same brutal territorialism that had always characterized it. 

 

Social distinction - 'Stick to your own kind' - had been the rule ever since the first human settlements.  There would always be the most intelligent, the most ambitious, the most productive, and the most wealth.  They would reside at one asymptote of the bell curve, and the least able at the other; and yet, despite the infamous, failed  Soviet Communist experiment of recent years, progressives like Bob earnestly believed that it could work - that a communal, fair, just, and equal society was possible. 

Despite natural law, the physio-genetic determinants of sexuality, and millennia of heterosexual reproduction, Bob and his associates truly believed that sexuality was a social phenomenon, open to choice, and open to all. 

Despite slavery challenging prostitution as the world's oldest profession, and despite the incontrovertible fact that there would always be slaves and slavers of one kind or another, Bob hammered away at 'racists' everywhere.  He held a particular animus for the American South, vowed never to set foot on desecrated land, and continued to blame the region for the most callous racist recidivism in the West. 

Something had happened to Bob at Yale where he lost his way.  Perhaps it was Reverend Morris - one had only to remember the leader of the cult religion in Guyana a few years ago who convinced 1000 of his followers to drink poisoned Kool Aid and commit suicide to understand how much an influential leader can have over the desperately credulous and gullible. 

 

It might have been a resurgence of his childhood religious faith.  One does not get rid of Jesus and his Christian mission that easily.  Or perhaps it was that mystifying randomness of genetic combination - Bob was predisposed by a compassion gene for looking out for others. 

One wonders how much is left in the tank, and whether the generator has enough spark to keep the engine running, especially at the full speed Bob was used to.  He was getting on in years, and sooner later the Great Beyond would be too close to ignore; but Bob seemed to be as tireless as he was in the freedom ride years, marching across the Pettus Bridge with Martin and Ralph, being set upon by Bull Connor's dogs and beaten with ax handles and iron pipes, sitting in with Negroes in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.  Ahh...those were the days, and they had not dimmed one bit. 

Nothing else mattered to Bob other than doing the right thing.  He lived in a rented, shabby Fifties rambler, disparaged his neighbors' petty bourgeois insistence that he mow the lawn and trim the hedges, and laughed at their garden parties.  The older he got, the more immersed in this febrile vision of Utopia.  Anyone who did not do his part for world betterment was automatically a reprobate to be cancelled.  

There was no such thing as half way when it came to social justice, no sitting on the fence; and so it was that the list of cancelled grew.  He was as thorough as Stalin's secret police, East Germany's Stasi, or the Shah's Sevak.  His purges were legendary, but he was left with only a very tight circle of friends now as unhinged as he. 

 

Bob was not alone, despite his narrowing cabal of zealotry.  America itself had become almost as launched into political reverie as Bob.  Trump hatred was viral, nasty, ugly, and insistent.  Ordinarily useful men and women went complete around the bend when it came to the President.  Once stabile intellects wandered into uncharted, wooly, dark and desperate conspiracy theories.  The level of Trump's transgressions,  thievery, lies, duplicity, and villainy reached unimaginable proportions. Americans were apoplectic about the man, and like Bob lost all sense of grounding, objectivity, reasoned thought, and intellectual distance. Half the country had turned into a rabid mob - exactly as Alexander Hamilton had feared. 

Bob died in his traces as he had often wished he would - face down in a tumbled stack of policy papers, dead as a doornail, found by the after-hours cleaning service who thought he was finally taking a much needed rest from his fatiguing schedule.  One last nudge before leaving toppled him onto the floor, and such as the end of Bob Muzelle. 

His wife, expecting accolades, public eulogies, ceremonial last wishes, and the presence of the leaders of America, was disappointed.  A five-line obituary in the Washington Post, a gathering to celebrate his life attended by the few who kept him company, and that was that. 

Obsession is never a good thing especially when it is for a lost cause - or rather a cause never worth pursuing.  

'It was that fucker Parker Morris', said one Yale classmate who had missed the bus along with Bob; and perhaps it was, but the viral disease that has infected millions cannot be laid at his doorstep.  

Bob's will stipulated that he wanted to be buried next to the Reverend Parker Morris, but there was no room, so his wife opted for cremation, a flowered urn, and his picture on the mantelpiece.