America is one of the most multicultural countries in the world and certainly one of the most diverse. It is also one that is devoted to allowing and encouraging all its peoples to be “all they can be.” Yes, from all over the world people try to come here to live the American Dream.
It is precisely America’s diversity, its multiculturalism and its attempts (at the very least) to respect all cultures and diversity that make America difficult. Few other countries have allowed their different voices to be heard, represented and protected as America has.
Not too long ago I ran a series of blog entries here dealing with the many different viewpoints in America. The blog picture was of two different pairs of shoes and the series asked which shoes you wear, examining how viewpoints were shaped not only by culture, religion or race but also by socio-economic level, education level, age, life experiences and more.
Put all of this together in a pseudo-free society and yes, America truly is hard.
Nevertheless, despite how diverse America is, despite all the factions within it and the subcategories within the factions too, no matter how difficult it is as a country and a society America must have a sense of decorum and a sense of law and order about her.
I’m no youngster. I’ve been around a while. I taught for more than thirty years and worked in kitchens for about twenty-five years. I say this only for a sense of context.
Sometime toward the end of the last century/turn of this century we started the beginnings of disregarding simple rules of argumentation and logic. It’s actually much more complicated than that but in a positive light I’d like to say that what took place was well-intentioned and what we’re experiencing now is unintended consequences. I’m not so sure that this is altogether true, but…
So in the interests of brevity and simplicity, you know, for the no-think, mob-mentality, all-in-regardless-of-any-consequences lefties, I’ll talk to only the first part of the “breakdown” now.
Simple, first part, feelings aren’t facts. If someone walks up next to you, maybe a little closer then you like but not really in your space, and is just there but not doing anything and you “feel” threatened even though you’re not being threatened in any way, your feeling threatened does not constitute a threat. The fact is you haven’t been threatened even if you feel that way.
If everyone who felt poor at any given time didn’t have to pay taxes because feeling poor was “a fact,” no one would ever pay taxes.
America’s societal breakdown begins when feelings are equated with facts. (I feel hurt by this statue, so rip it down.)
America is a difficult country. That’s an opinion, not a fact.
By Peter Weiss
Check out one of the last scenes in Zombieland: Double Tap, the one where Woody Harrelson jumps onto the hanging hook which leads all the zombies to jump off the edge of Babylon up-high.
Stupid is as stupid does.
So look at the mob. Look at the mob justice. Look at our failing Democratic Leaders and their idiocy in pandering to the mob, the mob justice, to going contrary to their oath of office, and on and on.
Look at those big-business sports organizations. Teams are owned by multi-billionaires, players are mostly all multi-millionaires, (like our Democrat leaders are). Look at those poor, downtrodden Hollywood actors, again, need I say it? Multi-millionaires. For all of them, only their business interests are at heart when they pander to the anarchists who have usurped any sense of real protest regarding the George Floyd murder. The rules we must follow do not apply to them. They are simply afraid of losing their incomes.
Stupid is as stupid does. Us following them is stupid, stupid, stupid. It makes no sense whatsoever.
The staggering increase in crime will not be fixed by defunding police and replacing them with community service organizations and social workers.
It’s simple. We can close our eyes and think this ridiculousness being perpetrated by the Democrat state and city leaders and those famous national leaders won’t affect us, or we can start to look at what’s really going on.
That’s where we’ll see that our leftist leaders are grossly failing us and that they ascribe to running blindly into stupidity.
Along with their lapdog Pravda USA media, also owned by several multi-billionaires who are looking after personal business interests, they are selling us a total lie. If we follow them…
Well, stupid is as stupid does.
By Peter Weiss
We could do better heading back to the hippie era. I lived through that, old enough to be part of it. Things were more honest then, more straightforward, less complicated. Issues were clear, not so convoluted.
The issues back then were meaningful ones, hard ones. The anti-war movement, the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement, burn the bra, were true struggles. The existing injustices were plain to see.
Burn the bra.
Make love, not war.
I’d rather be dead than red.
Free love.
Those were some of the slogans. They represent two basic notions, first free love and equality, and second that America is a good country: better to be free than to live in subjugation.
Not hard. Not unclear. Certainly not easy.
Shoot forward to when the Berlin Wall fell. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, was president. America became the only superpower in the world. She did not attempt to conquer the world. She spent her time and resources helping the rest of the world. Stupidly, she allowed China and Russia to rebuild and regain superpower status. Those two totalitarian powers are now attempting to and succeeding in expanding their attempts at world domination as this pandemic goes on, while America is in the throes of this anarchist turmoil.
The time for silence has passed. If the silent majority stays silent now, America will be lost. Our The Despicable Dems and their lapdog mainstream media, Pravda USA, are hell-bent not just on failing us, but on taking us over. They have spent their last three years attempting to overthrow a legal, regular election. They would rather see us go down as a country than not have political power for themselves.
Our fate is blowing in the wind.
By Peter Weiss
When the FBI came in plain clothes and started beating up the demonstrator and the police were waiting around the corner with full riot-type gear, I started to believe in the notion that certain people and agencies and parts of the government had their own agendas.
The lefties like to work the all-or-nothing game. So they invoke the conspiracy theory notion, and say to dismiss any criticism that anyone who disagrees with them and looks into how things occurred are wacko conspiracy theory people.
Not.
Of course there are some.
The person in the paddy wagon who led the conversation that showed up verbatim at my trial was an undercover cop. He was let out of the holding cell within about a half hour and was on his way to finish out his shift. I saw him some weeks later selling weed in the street trying to get more arrests. He didn’t recognize me, but I recognized him.
Excuse me, but I don’t really trust many institutions. I don’t trust many people. I certainly don’t trust the media, the government, ours or any other, and I don’t trust a world that is now run buy a select group of multi-billionaires whose interests are so convoluted that they would end up helping China with its internet-theft capabilities (of course not under that guise) yet not open the cell phone of a terrorist, domestic or otherwise, here in the U.S.
We’ve seen our politicians lie over and over. We have them on videotape and can definitively show they are lying. Trust them? I don’t.
And so we come back to the same thing over and over. Check out everything for yourself. Don’t believe the Despicable Dems. Don’t believe Trump. Don’t believe me. Check it out for yourself.
Really think Medicare for all will work? Check out the reality of such a thing.
Really believe the Democrats are for you? Check out their records and their history.
Really believe our government has your best interests at heart?
Really believe Bill Clinton didn’t do anything untoward on his 26 trips on Epstein’s Lolita Express?
Give us a break.
I don’t trust anyone whose way to win an election is by offering free stuff and dividing us by saying some of us deserve free stuff while others of us deserve to pay for the free stuff.
The saying goes: believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. Take it as you will.
The real deal is that this election is a choice between manure on one side and manure on the other. That’s because man is by nature selfish and greedy.
It’s already clear that several of those big billionaires (Trump is a pauper comparatively, by the way) have already begun censoring what can be seen on their social media outlets. This means we won’t even get a fair representation of what’s really going on.
Who do you trust? I certainly don’t trust a party that starts with 50 million voters who are on the government take (pay no taxes and collect government benefits) and then offers them more free stuff, a party willing to wreck our economy and our way of life for policies we already know are untenable.
By Peter Weiss
Simply put, and things must be simply put these days in the heat of mob-think and leftist power-grab mentality, the answer to racism whether real or perceived is not more racism. The answer to injustice is not more injustice.
Is that not what we are seeing? What we’ve been seeing?
Are we not in the throes of emotionalism? What does emotionalism get us?
Did the owner of the Wendy’s in Atlanta deserve to have his/her place burned down for calling police to move someone who had “fallen asleep” at the wheel in their drive-thru?
So we need to think things through. We need to all of us take a deep breath, take a pause, and think about what’s going on.
We need to ask ourselves many questions.
First question: is the answer to racism more racism?
Second question: is the answer to injustice more injustice?
Third question: when our politicians say no one is above the law, do they mean that or do they only mean when it suits their political needs?
Fourth question (at least for now): can we really believe anything we’re told by the media?
And a final statement: it behooves us all to think for ourselves and to check out what we’re being told by our elected officials and especially by our openly-biased media.
By Peter Weiss
I wrote a rant for Friday and decided, well, another time.
In light of what seems to be a concerted effort to effect the destruction of America…
It is difficult to understand what we’ve all seen many, many times. First it is difficult to understand why that police officer did what he did. Second, it is difficult to understand why the others stood there and simply let him do what he did. Third, and more germane, it is difficult to understand why that policeman was there in the first place. He had double-digit complaints against him. Why was he allowed to be out on the street at all?
So, George Floyd, rest in peace. My heart goes out to your family and loved ones. Everyone I know, their hearts do too.
For the rest of us, those of us still alive, we need to do some real soul-searching and that starts with independent thinking and stepping out of group think.
By Peter Weiss
Unfortunately we are limited by our own thinking. Me too! Of course, me too! When I was teaching, especially when I was teaching argumentation, either forensics or composition, I always told my students not believe what I said, to check things out for themselves. Furthermore, if I offered a personal opinion I offered the opposing opinion and reasoning as well. I think that is fairness if one is in a position of power, that being not imposing one’s personal opinions on others.
So there are many ways my thinking/our thinking is limited. We are automatically limited by having our parents’ thinking superimposed upon us. Then we are limited by our environment, our culture, our heritage, and even by our socioeconomic status. Very often our socioeconomic status determines how and where we are educated and that can either expand and extend our thinking or grossly (and unfairly) limit it.
Another element that plays into our thinking is our life experiences. While all of this is quite complex, being appropriately nurtured at birth, especially in those critical first three months, is a major factor. Having two parents is a factor. Life events, losing a parent, other trauma, physical and/or mental abuse are all factors that determine how and what we think. In some people, such things severely limit thinking. In others, they move through it all and end up with expanded thinking.
Who knows? Who can say? We are all different although of course as human animals we are all the same. And on top of all that is the physiology of how we’re born, if our brains are normal, whether or not our parents used substances while we were in the womb, etc.
And so it goes.
Well, I’m not a sociologist or medical doctor or psychologist. I’m and EdD and I was a teacher for more than 30 years. I also have an MA in English and have been writing for more than 50 years, since I was 15. I’ve had my own life experiences and I was born the way I was born. For those of you who have read my work and/or know me, you know I was an incubator baby and I was born with a lazy eye. I had three eye operations when I was three (I think it was actually when I was four, but I’m fond of saying it as three at three, so…) And here I am at nearly 71.
So the point of all of this is, plain and simple, I think I know when people are messing with my head and I’m here to tell you that our government, particularly the Despicable Democrats are messing with our heads. As the newly disclosed indisputable facts show, Schiff, Comey, Clapper, Brenan, Susan Rice and others said one thing under oath and in secret and the opposite out in public.
Or, they were messing with our heads, plain and simple.
We now know Obama lied. Biden lied. We now know the FBI lied to the FISA court and about Flynn as well as other things.
Or, they were messing with our heads.
It goes on and on and on, and it’s never been worse.
Pravda USA, the mainstream media lapdogs of the Despicable Dems, have been lying to us for years, like forever actually. They hide behind the First Amendment and claim they are unbiased. That is their first lie.
Pravda USA, the Despicable Dem mainstream media lapdogs that are definitely lying to us are worse now than ever because they are brazen about it and don’t even attempt to hide it. It’s worse than ever now because they are owned by a few multi-billionaires all of whom have their own personal agendas from making millions of dollars in China to seeing that their sweetheart deals with our government aren’t upended by an independent president like Trump.
It’s all diabolical. They are messing with our brains and they want our thinking limited and controlled.
But hey! Don’t believe me. Don’t believe them. Check things out for yourselves. Facts are facts. Opinions are opinions. All or nothing is almost always a fallacious argument.
By Peter Weiss
In Friday’s rant I asked the question: when did we stop thinking. It was about subscribing to a dogma hook, line and sinker. I was not proselytizing or advocating for anything. I was asking how anyone could accept a dogma straight down the line when aspects/parts of the dogma are unabashedly nonsensical and/or absolutely outrageously absurd.
Well, I continue to ask that question.
Responses to Friday’s posting were predictable. Righties, or those leaning right, applauded. They didn’t applaud the political position. They applauded the question asked and the idea that yes, we should all be independent thinkers. We should think for ourselves.
And while I think of it, and I know this is an aside, but since I was a teacher in both high school and college for more than thirty years and taught ELA and forensics, silly me, but I thought and back then we all thought we were supposed to (and we did this) teach our students how to think, not what to think.
Lefties’ responses were predictable lefty responses. Insult, name-calling, shaming and pointing to how wonderful their lefty-leaders are and how morally superior and much more wise they themselves are.
Or, lefties’ responses were so typically astoundingly unthinking as is supporting a green policy that they know will bankrupt the country and destroy its economy.
Now here’s the rub on that. Lefties will respond by saying I’m anti green energy policy and save-the-planet-stuff in all its different aspects. They’ll make the first and most fallacious forensic mistake: the all or nothing argument. Note that I haven’t stated a position. I’ve only talked to the economics of the New Green Deal.
Yes. To my Friday’s rant, lefty criticism praised Obama, attacked Trump and that was the good part of it.
Oh me, oh my, oh you, whatever shall I do?
So here we are in America 2020. According to the lefties, attributing the corona virus to China is racist. Saying that China caused the pandemic and is responsible for the size of it because they lied about it is not only racist, but it’s part of a conspiracy theory.
According to the lefties, the first rule is never let a good crisis go to waste. See what’s in Nancy Pelosi’s three trillion dollar bill? Maybe all of us should. It’s almost as long as the Obamacare bill was, the one Pelosi said you had to “sign it to see what’s in it.”
We’ll keep this one short too. Wouldn’t want to tax those dogma-driven lefty-supporters’ brains too much.
We already have a bunch of idiots running many states, mostly the blue ones, you know, the ones in fiscal trouble. Cuomo is a smart idiot. He ordered the corona virus-infected elderly back to the nursing homes to create the biggest kill-off of old people we’ve ever seen and then covered his tracks with a nursing home investigation. Now that’s brilliant. Now that’s the epitome of and a metaphor for democratic politics.
Joe Biden for President? Watch the movie The Manchurian Candidate.
By Peter Weiss
A long, long time ago I asked a dear your friend to help me pick a stereo system. Back then, a system consisted of a tuner, amp, tape deck, speakers and turntable. If you were not an aficionado you could get the tuner and amp in one piece, which is what we did.
We got really great stuff, no question about it, and I had a primo stereo system that lasted a very long time. Problem was we exceeded my budget by about 50%. Let me say that again. We exceeded my budget by about 50%.
My friend was very happy. He knew he got me a great system and since he was really into sound and music and gadgets, well, from his standpoint he’d done me a great service and really helped me out. This was all true.
Me, I was happy. I liked the system. It made good sound, for sure. But it had cost too much and it was a bit too complicated for me. I had to learn how to use it. I wasn’t all that interested in learning and ended up never using it to its full capacity. It was too complicated and too much for me. And it had cost 50% more than I could afford.
I love my friend. We’ve been friends for more than sixty years. It was easy for him back then to spend my money. It was easy because it wasn’t his money. I could have spoken up and told him not to exceed my budget, and he would have listened to me because he was my friend. So it’s not about blame or anything of that nature.
The point here is very simple: it’s really easy to spend other people’s money. He’s a great friend. He was excited to help me out and exuberant in fulfilling his task. He really wanted to do me a solid and of course he did.
But…
He exceeded/we exceeded my budget by 50%.
Exceeding my budget meant that somewhere, somehow I had to skimp on some things.
Last time I looked, I’m not like the government. I can’t print money to cover my expenditures, and working for myself, if I don’t have a product to sell or customers to buy my product, I can’t generate wealth. If I spend more money in one area, I have to cut in a different area. If I exceed my income and deplete my savings, I go broke.
Also unlike the government I can’t print money to cover debt. If I can’t pay my mortgage, I’ll lose my house. If I can’t pay for food, I’ll have to go without eating. Needless to say, if I can’t make my car payment, you guessed it, they’ll repossess my car.
Once a regular person like me gets into that, it’s a snowball effect. If I lose my car, I can’t go to work. Then I can’t pay my credit cards, so those banks that the wonderful Barack Obama reformed will charge me more than 25% interest. My debt now continually increases more and more rapidly, interest on interest and I end up destitute.
But that’s what they want, isn’t it? For everyone to owe them? They want us to be enslaved yet to not think so.
Bottom line: you can’t give up the store. So let’s be nice. Let’s give the Despicable Democrats the benefit of the doubt and say they really want to help us, the American people. (I don’t believe that for a second, but let’s say…) Even so, they can’t do it by giving up the store. They can’t in and of themselves generate money/income/wealth and so they use ours to pay for all the welfare/support programs they want to continue. Now they want to initiate new ones too.
It simply doesn’t work and it can never work. For, as Margaret Thatcher intimated, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.
The Democrats, and it’s only for their own power, will give up the store. Think it’s a coincidence that the majority of the states needing bailouts are Democrat-run? If we let them, they will squander everything the American people have worked for simply for their own power and self-enrichment.
It’s time we looked at the books and admitted some facts. Government does not generate wealth. It spends other people’s money. If it keeps giving up the store, sooner or later it will implode.
By Peter Weiss
I say it over and over and take no credit for it. I credit my father in law who said to me in the early 1970s “Man is by nature selfish and greedy.”
And here we are. Now some 50 years later we are ruled by a class of politicians many of whom are career politicians. The large majority of them are millionaires, many of them multi-millionaires. They stay in their political positions for many, many terms and then pass them on to family members. Or, quite simply, we are now ruled by a political class very similar to if not the same as the Politburo in Communist Russia.
We deserve better.
We are told by these people what to do, yet they do what they please.
We deserve better.
Examples? Do I really have to? Al Gore: he flies in a private plane and uses more electricity in a month than his whole town. Yet he tells us to conserve. We must sacrifice so he can live like a king.
Our media today is no better than Pravda is in Russia. It is biased and dishonest. Some of the print media is owned by the billionaire-owners of large corporations with strong left-wing ties. So, like the Bloomberg paradigm, they leave the lefties alone while they concentrate on destroying the Republicans, especially President Trump. They are so corrupt, dishonest and brazen that they don’t hide their bias anymore and aren’t afraid to admit it or say it openly.
We deserve better.
Our government, particularly Congress, stays home during this pandemic and gets paid while they tell people who literally need their paycheck to survive on a day-to-day basis to stay home and stay out of work and thus not get paid.
They deserve better. We deserve better.
If you look back to what now seems so long ago, the impeachment, we see it was plotted before Trump was inaugurated and the the biased media’s not investigating it truly has allowed it to go where it has.
We deserve better. Trump deserves better.
General Flynn and Brett Kavanaugh are some good examples and metaphors for what happens if you go counter to the Darling Democrat politics. What the Democrats and their media lapdogs did to Flynn and Kavanaugh show how ruthless and destructive the Democrats are as a political party and as our media who are supposed to present unbiased truth. What happened to Flynn and Kavanaugh shows how power hungry that party is and how little they care for the people they are supposed to represent.
We all deserve better.
When the president of a country is criticized for saying that his job is to take care of the people of his country first, something is drastically wrong.
We deserve better than the politics we’ve seen from the left for the last three years. We deserve better than the government we have.
For all the taxes we pay and how rich we let our leaders get on our dime, we deserve a lot better.
