A Consumer Price Index report released yesterday revealed that the costs of goods and services, advanced 0.1 percent in August and are up 8.3 percent in the last 12 months. The cost of living continues to rise precipitously.
https://twitter.com/BLS_gov/status/1569664757858279424
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1569775170730049536
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1569757050242043916
Following the bad news of inflation, the stock market crashed by nearly 1,300 points suffering its worst day since June 2020. The losses to citizens are immeasurable.
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1569780379317579776
Clearly, citizens are suffering gravely.
So how did the Biden administration react?
They were celebrating by inviting folk musician James Taylor to sing for
them on the White House lawn.
The cause for celebration?
The passage of a multibillion-dollar green energy spending bill
disguised as an “Inflation Reduction Act”
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1569765712603783168
All of the
above occurred only yesterday.
The situation
overall is dire.
The U.S. is in
the midst of a massive
border crisis since Biden took over, with over 1.7 million migrant
encounters in FY 2021, and over 2 million in FY 2022. Some among these
migrants could be violent criminals.
Police
departments across America face severe staffing shortages as they struggle to
recruit and retain officers. The result is the rate of violent
crimes in the U.S. in 2020 rose for the first time in years, while the murder
rate spiked by 30%, the biggest increase since record-keeping began in 1960.
To sum it up,
the economy is in the doldrums, and surging prices are adding to the struggles
of American families. The citizen is no longer safe with law enforcement
understaffed and a crime spike. The political establishment is in denial such
that they are celebrating.
These are crises
like never before.
When matters
go so haywire, it makes sense to go back to the very basics.
To understand
the meaning of Democracy.
Democracy was
defined by Lincoln as a
government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Since all
people cannot govern simultaneously, they lend power to an
individual through their votes. It is essential to emphasize the word
‘lend.’
Tenants who
have stayed for long on rented property begin to think of themselves as owners.
This is what has happened with elected officials.
They no longer
think of themselves as subordinates to the citizens but they instead see
themselves are rulers. Citizens are regarded as subjects. They see freedom for
citizens as a luxury rather than a right. They think Citizens need to be
controlled. They look at their political opposition as impediments that
need to be crushed.
Their sole
focus is to ensure their permanence.
They focus on
targeting political opponents.
They intend to
overwhelm a dissenting electorate with a permanent servile underclass who will
vote unconditionally.
If this isn’t
a national emergency what else is.
During such
volatile times, there are three groups that citizens look toward for hope
Government
agencies, the news media, and the political opposition.
So let's look
at the news media first.
The function
of the news media is to report the activities and output of the political class
as objectively as possible and hold them accountable for their promises. They
are also supposed to be a watchdog who report anti-Democratic activity.
Now for the
reality
The mainstream
media functions like a department within the Democrat party. The
editorials, anchors, and panelists speak in unison even using identical
phraseology ordered by the Democrats. Words such as ‘insurrection’ or
‘collusion’ did not just catch on naturally, it was an instance of the media
following orders.
When the Biden
administration finds itself in perpetual disarray they merely look the other
way or resort to spinning.
The Opposition
The political
opposition has a duty to keep the government in check. Their job is to be
vigilant when there is even a hint that matters be moving in the wrong
direction. When citizens are suffering gravely and the opposition becomes a
voice for those people.
How are the
Republicans reacting?
Some remain
quiet, some side the Democrats, and the rest appear on Fox News to express their outrage. They
also appear outraged during hearings as they grill Biden’s minions.
However very little occurs in terms of action. The Republicans have no
proper strategy in response to Biden’s catastrophic misgovernance and their
assault on Democracy.
Most
Republicans probably lack either the killer instinct or the empathy or both.
Finally the
agencies
For a
democracy to be fully functional, there always have to be controls installed,
to make sure that human invention doesn't compromise the system.
There are
three types of controls: the detective control function which identifies the
problem and deduces the cause of the problem, the corrective control attempts to
undo the damage caused by the problem, and the preventive control attempts to
avert the event from recurring.
The
implementation of these controls is the agencies such as the FBI, CDC, IRS,
etc.
What's become
of these agencies currently?
The FBI is
targeting political opponents. The CDC allowed a few vested interests to hijack
the opinions on COVID-19 in order to tamper with the norms of the 2020
Presidential elections.
These agencies
now serve at the pleasure of the Democrat establishment. Their goal
now is to detect and prevent impediments i.e. persecute challengers before the
Democrat establishment. Their goal also is to deter any other potential
challengers.
Let’s look at
the FBI as an example.
The home of Donald Trump
who is the primary challenger of the Washington Establishment was raided by the
foremost law enforcement agency in the US. Yesterday ardent Trump supporter and
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell revealed that his cellphone was
seized by the FBI.
Many other Trump aides have either been arrested or targeted and had their phones seized. The January 6th protestors have been subjected to sub-human conditions.
Biden relentlessly demonizes MAGA Republicans calling them a "threat
to democracy." The regime calls dissenting citizens, who are most
likely MAGA Republicans, domestic
terrorists.
In Conclusion
The government is incompetent with a proclivity toward totalitarianism and antagonism toward a section of citizens.
The mainstream media functions as willful stenographers of the establishment.
The agencies have been hijacked by
Democrats. The opposition is apathetic and ineffective.
Citizens are subjected to misinformation, mandates, and restrictions. Challengers are subjected to demonization and intimidation.
If these myriad crises continue, and citizens
continue to be subjected to hardships, dangers, and humiliation, their patience
will run out, a breaking point will be reached and the reaction will not be
peaceful.
Perhaps that
is the goal, to subject relentless hardships on citizens to provoke a violent
response. and then claim it is a domestic terror situation.
This truly is an unprecedented emergency, winning one election will not be enough to dismantle the damages done.
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