THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS DESTROYING AMERICA RANT

     I am particularly, wilfully, and purposefully ignorant when it comes to the topic of sports – professional or otherwise – in this country which makes me I’m sure something of an oddity.  Once I effectively stopped playing some decades ago, my interest in the topic flagged precipitously.  I have no favorite team or teams, I couldn’t possibly tell you who won last years’ World Series or Super Bowl, this thing called the Stanley Cup does absolutely nothing for me, and the entire NBA phenomenon is a total yawn.  I do not watch sporting events, don’t discuss them, and would certainly never bet money on them.  I despise large crowds, don’t like noise, and traffic renders me virtually apoplectic so the prospects of my actually attending a live sporting event are less than nil.  I am viewed by my peers, not to mention my family, as something of a misfit in this regard but somehow they manage to put up with me as that old guy who’s just a bit off.

     I do, however, find the concept of the sports “fan” to be not only fascinating but one of life’s unfathomable mysteries. The idea that there exist out there so many individuals whose passions are so aroused and inflamed by watching others perform, in my view, a completely meaningless endeavor is something I’ll never be able to comprehend.  When I hear about Yankee and Red Sox fans literally beating the living snot out of one another over an umpire’s call leaves me scratching my head.  When I read about riots and arson occurring after a team actually WON a major sporting event and took home the coveted trophy, I am left speechless and for me this is no small feat (for some reason the cesspool of a city called Detroit comes to mind).  When I learned some years ago that a soccer goalie was actually murdered by fans because the poor Bastard let one get by him thus causing the team to lose some damned fool championship or other, I am bewildered.  When enjoying a libation at my favorite watering hole, and fights break out because some fan wandered in guilty of wearing the wrong jersey I am forced to wonder at the utter shallowness of the lives led by those participating in the mayhem, bruising, and bloodletting.  But hey, that’s just me.  Suffice it to say that when someone like myself actually hears about and even remembers something that is sports related, it must have made quite the impression and goes far beyond the significance of the silly game under consideration.  Whatever occurred to grab my attention made it far past the sports pages of the local tabloids and probably became the lead offering on our Eyewitness News for more than just a few days.

     What in the Hell, you may be asking, does any of this have to do with the topic under consideration?  Well, I’ll tell ya.  I am a complete and total news and current events junkie.  I’m addicted to this stuff.  Whether it’s local, national, or international I must have my daily fix and not to do so would be akin to a crack addict who misplaced his pipe.  It just ain’t pretty.  While those around me are engrossed in baseball stats, I’m looking to investigate the latest bone-headed blunder committed by John (I served in Vietnam) Kerry.  While most folks this time of year are thoroughly engaged in which team will take the NBA title, I’m interested in finding out about the current plans our Socialist-in-Chief (Old Hope & Change) has to further destroy my country.  While so many are preoccupied with such weighty and lofty issues as the NFL draft, I lose sleep over the prospect of Hillary (stand by your man) Clinton becoming out next Commander-in-Chief!

     So when I kept running across the name Donald Sterling, I was completely flummoxed!  Who in the Hell is this guy and what in the Hell did he do to garner so damned much negative publicity?  It must have been something so outlandish, bizarre, and atrocious as to rise to the level of genocide, cult murder, or child molestation.  This guy must represent nothing less than evil incarnate and should at the very least be banished from the realm never to be seen or heard from again!  Who in the Hell is this guy and why does everyone hate, loathe, and despise the Bastard?  He seems to be held in the same esteem as villains like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and in some circles George W. Bush!

     Well as most folks know, it turns out that he is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, a professional basketball team.  In fact, I discovered that he has held that esteemed position for something over thirty years which I’m told is some sort of a record. Bully for him!  He’s also an octogenarian and, of course, a billionaire.  Sounds to me like a rich guy who needed a hobby with which to amuse himself.  Well, I suppose owning a professional sports franchise could be amusing and take up enough time to keep busy in life’s so-called “Golden Years.”  What terrible crime, horrific fopa, could this old rich guy have committed to draw such attention to himself and his team?  It seems that in the privacy of his own home – not in public – he told his extremely attractive and very young girlfriend (hey, ain’t that always the way?) that he preferred that she not bring any black folks to the house.  From the admittedly little research I have done, that was it.  He used no pejoratives, the dreaded “N” word did not pass his lips, and he did not demand the repeal of the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments to our Constitution.  He also did not opine on the various Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s.  In the privacy of his own abode, he expressed a personal preference to his mistress who I subsequently learned is of mixed race and had taped the remarks at his own request.

     Well apparently the Broad (Oops – hope the Now Gang doesn’t get wind of this!) couldn’t keep her mouth shut and that was, as they say, all she wrote.  The shit hit the fan big time and this poor, old white Schmuck (oh, did I mention that Sterling is a white guy?) found himself engulfed in the firestorm of the ages!  He has been banned from the NBA for life, fined millions of dollars, and has become the nation’s number one pariah, outcast, and anathema.  I guess the old fool’s about to find out who are and who are not his real friends because the rats are deserting the ship in droves!  I don’t know how many thousands upon thousands of pages and perhaps millions of words have been penned excoriating, castigating, and vilifying this big-mouthed old idiot but suffice it to say he is roundly and universally despised and loathed.  Old Vlad Putin is busily reestablishing the former Soviet Union, our Destroyer-in-Chief continues to completely wreck the finest health care system ever devised in planetary history, our economy is still lodged firmly in the crapper and yet we have an entire nation completely mesmerized in the peccadillos of some used up old white guy expressing a personal and private preference and opinion!

     Let’s suppose for a moment that the particulars of the situation could be slightly altered.  Let’s imagine that this old, rich, white, big-mouthed asshole had suggested to his lady-friend that he didn’t want any white guys brought into his house.  Do you think that would have caused such a giant brouhaha?  Let’s further hypothesize that a black team owner had expressed a preference that no white folks be allowed to cross his threshold.  Do you think that would have even raised an eyebrow or warranted an outraged op-ed somewhere?  Let’s really go off the deep end here and suggest that the aforementioned theoretical black team owner objected to the presence of other black guys being brought to his home.  Do you really think that this scenario would have resulted in the ultimate shit-storm that our Mr. Sterling now has to endure?  We all know the answers here.  And please don’t misunderstand me.  I agree that the gentleman in question has thus far deserved all the notoriety and criticism he faces.  Why?  Perhaps because his remarks were insensitive and maybe even racist or bigoted?  Nope.  How about because he violated a long-standing rule that any savvy ten year old kid has thoroughly learned:  KEEP YOUR BIG FUCKIN’ MOUTH SHUT!  Had our Mr. Sterling observed said rule, the resulting silly shit would never have come to pass, the Jacksons, Sharptons, and other race hustlers would have had nothing to glom onto, and peace and quiet would have reigned supreme.

     But noooo, The Mouth That Roared let ‘er rip and here we are relearning one of the most basic lessons of 21^st Century America:  if thou art white, thou shalt not in any manner or form criticize or otherwise disparage any minority, person(s) of color, or member of any allegedly oppressed group or class.  Just don’t fucking do it!  It matters not that expressing such views, especially in private, is in no way illegal and does not violate any statute anywhere.  Forget the fact that people – even misguided idiots – are no longer free to freely speak for fear of (GASP) hurting someone’s feelings, and don’t worry even just a tad that this will initiate or precipitate some action or measure by our government which has already become far too large, intrusive, and unwieldy.  There is no law against insulting people or hurting their feelings.  There is no law against disliking certain groups and having no desire to associate with them and there aren’t even any laws that prohibit people from holding racist views.  The law, of course, should kick in when those who hold such views act upon them and actually harm those they dislike or even hate.  To outlaw discrimination may be worthy and perhaps even necessary, but to outlaw prejudice is just not possible.  To outlaw dark thoughts is the height of arrogance whereas outlawing dark deeds is absolutely necessary for the continued existence of anything even remotely resembling a civil society.

     So what dark deeds did our Mr. Sterling commit?  What evil did he perpetrate?  Whom did he actually and literally harm?  You got it, absolutely nobody.  Did he evince a bucket-load of insensitivity?  Yep.  Did he perhaps insult an entire race of fellow human beings?  Absolutely!  Can his remarks be considered outrageous?  You bet.  All of this, however, begs the question.  Did he violate any statute, law, or ordinance?  None that I can think of.  Isn’t his freedom of speech, his First Amendment rights, as inviolate as anybody else’s in this country?  ABSOLUTELY NOT!  Not in 21^st Century America where the concept of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS reigns supreme and must never be violated under any circumstances.  Does this loud-mouthed old fool deserve the notoriety and utter contempt he currently receives?  Hell yes!  He completely failed to gauge or comprehend the climate in which we currently live in the United States in 2014 and he is certainly guilty of not thinking before speaking.  He has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion for basically shooting himself in the foot, for having an extreme case of verbal diarrhea!

     Or maybe, just maybe, he knew exactly what he was doing and was supremely aware of the shit-storm his lack of discretion would evoke.  Maybe, just possibly, this is no more than a case of just one more white guy who became thoroughly fed up and disgusted by having to watch  his P’s and Q’s as well as his L’s. Z’s, X’s, M’s, C’s, F’s, and every other fuckin’ letter of the alphabet!  Maybe this rich, old, tired white guy just said FUCK IT!  I’ll say whatever I want, whenever I want, to whomever I want and the consequences be damned!  Is that a possibility we should consider?  I think so.

     There exist a lot of folks out here who are thoroughly sick of living in this Politically Correct atmosphere where something we say might invoke the dreaded and fearsome charge of RACISM!  There exist literally many millions upon millions upon millions of white people running around out here who are actually scared to death of speaking their minds for fear of offending some minority thereby being branded as racists.  It seems to be a combination of fear, cowardice, and self-preservation that causes the majority of those living in America to talk in hushed tones and look furtively around to make sure who is listening and who is not.  The converse, however, simply does not apply.  Apparently, the minorities among us can and do say exactly what’s on their minds without fear of being, “Sterlingized.”

     Make no mistake.  Political Correctness is indeed helping to fundamentally transform America (to coin a phrase) and it is harmful in the extreme.  When we live in fear of what we may say or think it forces us to self-censure, creates an atmosphere of distrust and even paranoia, and literally changes the way we behave.  Do you have any idea, for example, of how many white Americans voted for that disgrace who now occupies the White House?  Neither do I, but the numbers must run into at least the tens of millions.  These folks were afraid of being accused of racism if they admitted voting for the white candidate.  This is no more than Political Correctness rearing its ugly head and yet it is such a powerful force in our country that a completely inexperienced, irrelevant, and wrong-headed “Community Organizer” twice got elected to the highest office in the land.  It absolutely boggles the mind until we remember that since at least the 1960’s, this nation has been taught to cow-tow and cave to our nation’s minorities for fear of being labeled. We have been conditioned, brainwashed if you will, into making all sorts of excuses and caveats for those among us who have achieved the exalted status of the “oppressed”, while white America cowers and cringes at the prospect of being deemed the “oppressor”.  I wonder who in the Hell this guy Sterling ever oppressed?

     There is no question that Political Correctness is a contributing factor in the destruction of the United States as historically founded and presently constituted because it is, in the end, an attack on our freedom and liberty.  We are no longer free to speak our minds for fear of recriminations and sanctions that will be heaped upon us by the Politically Correct Fascists in our midst.  And make no mistake, Political Correctness is indeed a form of Fascism-Totalitarianism.  It is an undisguised attempt to control language in the United States which is an essential requirement and prelude for the next logical step:  controlling what we think.  If the PC crowd can successfully force us to limit our speech, then how free are we?  For examples of this phenomenon, one only has to look at what one of the most accomplished, brightest, and productive women in American history was recently forced to endure.  The students and faculty at Rutgers University refused to allow this Conservative black woman to speak at that supposedly renowned institute of higher learning.  Those authoritarian assholes apparently could not tolerate hearing anything or anybody who strayed even slightly from the sanctioned and approved PC-Liberal rhetoric and mindset.  That’s uniquely un-American and yet it is accepted practice at virtually all of our colleges and universities where I thought freedom of expression and thought were highly prized commodities.  Want to try an experiment?  Walk into any college cafeteria or student union and out loud in front of God and everybody criticize – even slightly – President Barry Boy.  You’ll be run out of town on the proverbial rail!  Our colleges and universities, it appears, are no longer interested in the quest for truth or enlightenment but rather in the creation of a PC world in which only the Far Left Orthodoxy is permitted and tolerated.

     An article entitled, "The Role of Educators in Destroying (http://capitalismmagazine.com),"  author Thomas Sowell explains that American educators have played a leading, “role in creating a mindset that undermines American society.”  Whereas schools, “were once thought of as places where a society’s knowledge and experience were passed on to the younger generation,” the role of the teacher has morphed into, “an agent of change – someone strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want a different kind of society.”  He continues that, “we are seeing schools across America indoctrinating students to believe in all sorts of politically correct notions.  The history that is taught in too many of our schools is a history that emphasizes everything that has gone bad, or can be made to look bad, in America – and that gives little, if any, attention to the great achievements of this country.”

     Sowell notes that educators have been, “poisoning the minds of millions of students in schools and colleges against their own country,” and that while teachers actually believe themselves to be agents of change there exists not even the, “slightest accountability for whether that change turns out to be for the better or for the worse – or indeed, catastrophic.”  The writer goes on to note that, “even in the face of mortal danger, political correctness forbids us to use terms like ‘terrorist’ when the approved euphemism is militant.  Milder terms such as illegal alien likewise cannot pass the political correctness test, so it must be replaced by another euphemism, undocumented worker.”  He concludes his piece by correctly pointing out that, “some think that we must tiptoe around in our own country, lest some foreigner living here or visiting here be offended by the sight of an American flag or a Christmas tree in some institutions.”

     A piece entitled, “Politically Correct Education:  The Power of Political Correctness (http://www.probe.org),” also examines the effects of current-day pedagogy as it relates to Political Correctness, multiculturalism, and diversity.  Whenever, by the way, you see these three terms routinely bandied about be aware that you are in the presence of a True Believer and a member of the Far Left Elite who thoroughly despise anything and everything about this country.  The author correctly notes that at the foundation of the PC movement in America, “is the belief that all education is political.  Nowhere in the curriculum can one find a hiding place from race, class, or gender issues.”  Additionally, author Don Closson cites the dependence upon moral relativism that is one of the underpinnings of Political Correctness in our country.  The PC among us truly believe that, “All systems of thought, all cultures are equal in value,” and that to, “assume otherwise is politically incorrect by definition.”  This is no more than an attempt to denigrate and disparage Western and American culture which the Left has been engaged in for at least half a century.  If the young and impressionable can be convinced that our culture is no better than any others that exist out there, then the Politically Correct Mob has won the battle of both hearts and minds.  Our schools for decades have been engaged in belittling and demeaning our distinctly American culture and have succeeded in creating generations of young ‘uns who actively dislike and disparage their own nation.  I am firmly convinced that this is the Hope & Change that old Barry Boy is looking to foster and his promise to fundamentally transform America is well on the way to being fulfilled.

     Author Closson notes that at our so-called institutions of learning, “Curricula, admissions policies, the hiring and promotion of faculty, and the freedom to debate issues have all been modified by those who currently define political correctness.”  Indeed, “There is a growing body of evidence that quota systems are now in place in many admissions offices across the country,” and that, “Textbooks are being written and courses changed to promote multiculturalism at the expense of teaching about Western Civilization.”  Freedom of speech at our colleges and universities only exists if said speech and speakers are deemed Politically Correct.  Just ask Condaliza Rice, Anne Coulter, or perhaps Sarah Palin if you have any doubts here.  The author points out that at the University of Michigan, restrictions on freedom of speech have been codified and institutionalized.  We note that a, “new policy on discrimination and discriminatory harassment has been approved.  It defines as punishable, “any behavior, verbal or physical, that stigmatizes or victimizes an individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, handicap, or Vietnam-era veteran status.”  Message from those fine folks at the good old U of M?  Shut The Fuck Up!!  Unless, of course, you feel like picking on white males for then you are on solid, unimpeachable PC grounds.  The piece concludes by stating that the upshot of the PC movement, “has been to encourage people to find some reason to declare oppression, for it seems that only those who are oppressed are in a position to determine what is politically correct.  White, middleclass males are the great Satan incarnate – even the most repentant among them must be watched closely.”

     Once the youth of America have had their minds made right, the war for Far Left supremacy in this nation is all but over and they have emerged victorious.  As the young grow and mature, they too will have children and grandchildren who will be dutifully taught only the “correct” ways to think and express themselves.  By the time they become adults, they will have lost any ability or even desire to think for themselves and evaluate situations based on the concepts of merit or common sense.  Political Correctness will have robbed them of the ability to think creatively, objectively, or independently.  They will have been transformed into soldiers of the Left who seek to destroy all those who fail to pass muster ideologically or politically and will have become the most intolerant among us.  And yet it begins so innocently.  Teach the young to be tolerant and nonjudgmental.  Teach them to never be insensitive to others and to accept and applaud the differences among us rather than those unifying factors that made this nation the greatest country in the history of nations.  Make sure they never offend and instill in them an overwhelming and overriding fear of being criticized or being critical.

     They must be made to understand that what used to be deemed normal and appropriate language is now verboten because it may, in fact, offend someone somewhere.  When I was young, for example, the simple phrase and salutation of “Merry Christmas” was commonplace, raised not an eyebrow or an objection anywhere, and offended absolutely no one. Not so anymore.  After decades of Politically Correct education and indoctrination, we have been “taught” that this simple and heartfelt greeting at a particular time of year may be offensive to those non-Christians among us who are a distinct minority in America.  Better we should water down the phrase to a mushy and meaningless, “Happy Holidays,” or, “Seasons Greetings,” so as to make sure no minority feathers are even slightly ruffled.  Public displays of Christmas trees or nativity scenes must also be suppressed for the same reason. We must conform, cow-tow, and appease the minorities in our midst rather than insist that they get on board with the rest of the nation.

     In similar fashion, we must remove all references to God from the public domain for fear of offending the miniscule percentage of atheists among us or of angering those who don’t believe in the same God as do most Americans.  Phrases like, “In God We Trust,” or, “Under God,” must be expunged and the Ten Commandments must never be displayed for fear of being branded insensitive or intolerant.  To folks my age, it’s all a bunch of Silly Shit but when generations of our young are taught this stuff it has a transformative effect and one that can only harm America.  Its purpose is to divide us as a people and a nation and thereby tear asunder the ties that bind and unify us.  Its purpose is to create disunity, discord, and friction where none need exist and has, in fact, never existed until the Far Left Politically Correct Mob began to use it as a tactic to purposely weaken our country and create as much division and distrust as possible.

     A piece entitled, “19 Shocking Examples Of How Political Correctness Is Destroying America (http://www.infowars.com),” is highly illustrative in this regard.  The author begins with the simple but accurate statement that, “Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation.”  The article notes that according to Wikipedia the whole idea is the establishment of, “a reduced language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit free thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality . . . .” and that, “any form of thought alternative to the party’s construct is classified as a thought crime.”  Well now, that’s just a little bit extreme don’t you think?  Am I suggesting that this is exactly where the Far Left in this country wants to take us?  Damned Skippy, I am!

     Once the Politically Correct in our midst can effectively control what comes out of our mouths, controlling what goes into our heads can’t be too far behind and if our school systems are used as a measuring rod and teachers are now perceived of as agents of change, then thought control is all but a given in the United States and freedom and liberty are indeed at risk.  Writer Michael Snyder offers up numerous examples of the dangers that political correctness poses to our nation.  He notes that a rodeo clown was permanently barred from performing at the Missouri State Fair because he wore an Obama mask while on the job.  All such clowns are now being forced to undergo sensitivity training.  Yeah, I guess we musn’t make fun of the nation’s first Brother-in-Chief for fear of being deemed offensive, politically incorrect, insensitive, or racist.  Yet I notice no one raising a stink when some Liberal Puke runs around on Halloween sporting a Reagan or George W mask.

     The same piece informs us that government workers in Seattle may no longer use the words “citizen” or “brown bag” because non-citizens and non-whites may find them offensive.  Additionally, Obama and the Boys have banned government agencies from producing material that links Islam to terrorism and even the venerable FBI has removed references to Islam and terrorism from older documents.  In fact, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against criminals because that might have an overly negative impact on minorities in this country.  The author informs us that U.S. Army Chaplains are now forced to perform gay marriages even if that violates the very core of their faith, and that according to a new Army manual our soldiers must avoid any criticism or negative comments on the subject of pedophilia.  It seems that a student at Sonoma State University was forced to remove a cross she habitually wore because it might offend someone and a student at Florida Atlantic University was banned from attending class because he refused to stomp on the name of Jesus which was apparently a mandatory part of a course he was taking.

     When taken as isolated instances, the PC examples proffered thus far seem utterly ridiculous, petty, and even childish.  When taken as a whole, however, they are anything but.  They represent an undisguised attack on our First Amendment rights and a totalitarian-authoritarian mindset that will brook no behavior or attitude that violates the tenets of Political Correctness.  The price to be paid for overstepping the bounds can lead at the very least to a loss of standing in one’s community, a loss of employment, and certainly to a loss of freedom and opportunity.  Political Correctness, then, is a direct frontal assault on cherished American traditions like individual responsibility, freedom of expression, and freedom from fear. It is an attempt not only to change this country but to destroy it from within.  It erodes that sense of confidence and optimism which are cornerstones of the American experience.  They are replaced, instead, with self-doubt and guilt which serves to undermine a peoples’ belief in the goodness of their own country even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  This attack is being purposely perpetrated upon us by the Far Left in America in its relentless attempt to destroy the very foundations that made us a great and exceptional nation.

     By now, most of us who have reached a certain age can recognize the phenomenon of Political Correctness when confronted by it for we were around long before the PC Mob took the ascendancy in America.  We see it for what it is and are aware of its negative ramifications.  Those, however, who grew up with it, went to school with it, and have been brainwashed by it do not view it as anything but normal.  They cannot possibly understand just how dangerous and stultifying it is and the negative effect it has on the human spirit and psyche.  They will never know the freedom of thought and expression experienced by those of us who have been around for a while and can’t possibly imagine how it has helped to ruin this country and turn a once proud and fiercely independent people into sniveling, frightened, and pusillanimous wimps, wussies, and abject cowards.  Our fear of offending some minority or other has outweighed our fear of losing our sense of independence, autonomy, and freedom.  It produces a loss of confidence in our heritage, traditions, and institutions that can only serve to harm this country in immeasurable ways.  It serves to destroy all that America has stood for and represented over the centuries, it emboldens our enemies both at home and abroad, and has impeded if not destroyed this country’s ability and desire to act in our own self and best interests.

     Certainly, one very clear example of the negative effects of political correctness comes to mind when we recall the name of Major Nidal Hassan and his murderous rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, not all that long ago.  Here was an individual who described himself as a militant Muslim and even carried business cards which read, “A Soldier Of Allah.”  His fellow comrades in arms as well as his superiors knew of his Islamist tendencies and predilections but took no preemptive action for fear of offending the Muslim minority that resides in the United States.  We must never offend for fear of being labeled insensitive, intolerant, or perhaps even racist.  A piece entitled, “A Nation of Pansy Assed Wusses (http://palin4america.com),” notes that our, “overwhelming obsession with not saying or doing anything to offend anyone or any group has compromised our nation’s security in countless instances, but one of the most egregious examples is the Ft. Hood shooting where an avowed Islamic terrorist sympathizer gunned down 13 people and injured 32 others.  The U.S. Government still refuses to refer to this massacre as a terrorist attack.”  Yet it most certainly was a terrorist attack perpetrated by a terrorist who was a high ranking member of our own military.  Why won’t our President identify it as such?  Political Correctness, of course, and its attendant fear of offending any minority groups in this nation.  The same insane and inane standard applies when it comes to the fear of offending our country’s Hispanic minority.  The article continues, “Then there’s the epidemic of illegal aliens, who are not to be dissed and offended by calling them illegal, so the media and the government calls them undocumented.”  Well, I call them illegal and a threat to our country’s way of life and security and I don’t give a FLYING FUCK who’s offended by my calling a spade a spade!  How’s that for Political Correctness?

     One certain method of showing just how ridiculous and dangerous political correctness can be is by illustrating the absurd by employing absurdity (an old but very effective and illuminating Rush Limbaugh tactic).  The same piece referenced above uses two versions of Christmas greetings – one traditional and one deemed to be Politically Correct.  It clearly exposes the destruction of our language coupled with the complete bastardization of our culture and heritage.  Ready?  Here we go.

“To My Democrat Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or tradition of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.  I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year of 2014, but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great.  Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere.  Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preferences of the wish recipient.”

Wow, now that’s a mouthful but the author of the piece offers up an explanation of this PC gibberish which succinctly and simply translates into, “Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and may God Bless You!”  Absurd isn’t it?  Yet this is where we are headed if the PC crowd is not stymied and stifled by those of us out here who still have even of modicum of common sense left.

     Okay, okay, so big deal.  The Politically Correct leftists in our midst have managed to screw up a traditional, Christmas-New Year’s greeting and have thereby illustrated just how laughable and pathetic they can be.  Does this, however, justify getting my shorts all in a twist and predicting doom and gloom for America’s future?  You bet it does!  Political correctness does far more than merely alter and pollute language.  It serves to undermine and warp our judgment in comprehending very real threats to our way of life and our ability to recognize an enemy.  It destroys that all important survival instinct for it prevents us from acknowledging real and concrete danger until it is too late to effectively react.  Political Correctness enables us to ignore a threat until it has literally consumed us.

     A piece entitled, “Political Correctness and the Sunset of American Power (http://pjmedia.com),” speaks directly to these issues and pulls absolutely no punches.  The article begins by stating that, “something is now happening in the West that may truly spell the end, not of the world, but of Western Civilization’s long historical trajectory.  A plague is spreading far and wide that may be described as an intellectual bubonic taking its dismal toll among those it has infected.  It is called political correctness.”  Furthermore, Political Correctness, “is not just an abomination.  It is a danger, clear and present.”  The piece also predicts that, “political correctness will be the death of western civilization because unlike our earlier forms of pluralistic tolerance, PC is willfully blind to the lack of reciprocal tolerance in other cultures.”  Indeed, PC “takes tolerance to a culturally suicidal degree,” and in fact, “we welcome and extenuate those whose most profound desire and intention is to destroy us.”  Do you begin to get it?  Do you understand?  Those who advocate and champion Political Correctness are involved in a real and substantive effort to destroy this country and everything it stands for.  They are deadly serious about their hatred for America and will stop at nothing to do us harm.  Unfortunately and tragically, they are for the most part fellow Americans.

     More than this, however, Political Correctness evinces a, “disturbing element of self-hatred, cultural masochism, and delusions about the difference between social tolerance and political tolerance – and an elevation of tolerance over the principle of justice.”  You see, PC and its Liberal champions are not about justice but rather about power.  They see Political Correctness as a weapon with which to club perceived enemies into silence and submission.  These guys don’t give a flying rat’s ass about freedom of speech or expression nor do they even give half a hoot about the rights of the American people.  They care only about their overriding agenda of transforming our nation and turning it into something it was never intended to be.  In fact, political correctness, “is without doubt one of the most effective weapons in the real unacknowledged war that is being waged today, the war of self-subversion.”  This relies on, “the strategy of specialized euphemism to avoid naming things or events honestly and directly, gutting the vocabulary in order to avoid giving offense or to dodge the labor and inconvenience of confronting unsettling circumstances.  What one recoils from naming, one cannot identify and adequately combat.”  Political Correctness is essentially the, “idiom of cowards who, by refusing to name things candidly and unequivocally, will ironically bring upon themselves precisely what they wish to escape.”

     This is particularly true when it comes to any discussion of our current Disaster-in-Chief.  To criticize anything said, done, or not done by this sorry-ass excuse for an American President is deemed politically incorrect in the extreme.  Honesty and objectivity simply will not be tolerated when it comes to the subject of Barrack Hussein Obama.  To find fault with this saboteur is to leave oneself open to charges of racism, intolerance, and bigotry.  To criticize The Exalted One is to impugn an entire race rather than just one self-loathing American, and very few of us out here are willing to undergo the utter scorn, ridicule, and hatred that are heaped upon those folks who dare to violate the unwritten law of never, ever criticizing or condemning those deemed to be members of a protected class.  It matters not that such criticism may be accurate and deserved.

     The article explains that this is exactly the case with the majority of Americans, “who persist in regarding him as someone who has drunk from the well of wisdom rather than the gutter of Chicago politics.”  He is continually portrayed, “as anything but the man who has clearly revealed himself in action and executive fiat – a man who by temperament and conviction – is deeply hostile to the welfare of his country and whose policies threaten to plunge the United States into debacle and collapse,” cannot be tolerated by those on the Far Left.  To honestly and openly criticize the Supreme Leader is to be automatically deemed a racist, intolerant, and a Conservative.  The article points out that our President has removed the word terrorism from the political lexicon and replaced it with the Politically correct, “man-made disasters.”  The Booby-in-Chief constantly apologizes to the world for American action and initiatives, and unabashedly supports dictators and totalitarian thugs like Manuel Zelaya, Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez, and Bashar Assad.  Yet, Political Correctness leaves him all but immune from effective criticism.

     He has allowed, “his personal animosities to intrude upon his public comportment and has acted like a rank amateur in the field of international diplomacy.”  Additionally, he constantly violates our Constitution and literally bows to foreign kings, emperors, and potentates.  The author correctly maintains that, “if this man is not frustrated in his efforts, the United States will see the end of its tenure as the world’s leading power and may never recover its primacy on the world stage.”  This is exactly and precisely the end Obama strives for because he despises the United States but too many of us are too afraid to say so for fear of being labeled racist.  This is the very real danger posed by Political C.dorrectness and the Far Left in America counts on it to keep most citizens docile, quiet, and afraid.

     The author concludes by asking, “Has political correctness successfully shielded a ruinous President from public disclosure and, in so doing, ensured the approaching dusk of a once great power and the Western world along with it?  Will tolerance trump justice?  Will the deception win?  Is America about to enter the third status?  Is this how America disintegrates, not with a bang and not with a whimper, but with the presumption of false grandeur and the rhetoric of cant and doublespeak?”  Political Correctness is indeed destroying the United States and when it all comes crashing down, we will only have ourselves to blame because we let it happen.

Much Luv Y’All and Have a Great Day!

The Fifth Horseman

(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)               

        

                               

              

                     

The Social Justice Scam Rant

Social Justice. Think about that simple phrase for just a moment. Ponder it. Roll it around in your cerebellum for a couple of minutes and see what conclusions you can draw. It sounds anything but venal or destructive. It conjures up concepts like fairness, equality, or perhaps beneficence. It certainly doesn’t bring to mind anything obviously sinister or malevolent. Be warned, however, because that’s exactly what it is.(see related video) If you hear folks enthusiastically singing its praises you are listening to people who utterly loathe and despise this country as presently constituted and envisioned by our Founding Fathers. These people are at the very least Socialists and/or Communists who literally hate such American cornerstones as Rugged Individualism and Free Market Capitalism. They vehemently oppose such bedrock traditions like the Bill of Rights because it absolutely limits the power of government and reins in the desire to rule rather than govern. Social Justice advocates a massive, all powerful centralized government in which the rights of the people come not from God but rather from men – mere mortals. Rights granted by men are at best arbitrary and therefore temporary. Natural rights, conversely, are granted by the Creator and are thus immune from the machinations of those who would restrict or even destroy our freedoms.

In the June, 2011, rant, “The Anti-Americanism In Our Public Schools Rant,” Social Justice was discussed pretty much as it relates to our nation’s educational system in all of its astounding negativity. This piece takes the concept in a broader sense but the conclusions and effects are very similar. Its champions and proponents would love nothing more than to turn our country into just another third world shit-hole. They do not believe in American Exceptionalism and are utterly convinced that anyone who has more than anybody else could not have obtained whatever wealth they have accumulated by dint of hard work, planning, and establishing and reaching goals. No, success can only be achieved nefariously with no regard for the “little people” whose lives have been crushed by those of us who have achieved even a modicum of prosperity. Success, according to them, can be achieved only at the expense of others for they claim that our system constitutes a zero sum gain in which there is only so much to go around. If I, for example, have two pieces of pie it’s more than obvious that someone out there has been unfairly and cruelly deprived of his piece! It can be no other way. They refuse to comprehend or acknowledge the truism that barring the occasional glitch, our Free Market System causes the pie to continually grow and expand thus affording more and more individuals access to the resources they need to succeed and improve their lives.

Those that preach Social Justice are society’s great levelers and are determined to bring everyone down to the same plateau of misery, despair, and hopelessness. This they believe is only fair and just. If everyone can’t achieve wealth then obviously no one should be allowed to do so and therefore one of the main tenets of the Social Justice Mob is wealth redistribution. Take from those who have worked and earned and give it to those who have not. In their warped, distorted view of reality nothing could be more equitable than that and anyone who disagrees is obviously an evil advocate of Capitalism and, ipso facto, must be severely punished! How will they achieve their sinister plans for bringing the United States to its knees and implementing the destruction of Free Market Capitalism?

They will do so by constantly increasingly the size and scope of government to such an extent that its tentacles reach down to every citizen and controls-regulates all aspects of life in this country. It’s happening right now and has been the Liberal battle plan since at least the 1960’s with the advent of the Great Society which was a 100% total failure! The Social Justicers amongst us use as one of their main weapons an utterly confiscatory and horribly unfair system of taxation which is employed to both change and control our behavior from cradle to grave. They then provide those at the bottom with ever more so-called “entitlements” to create a permanent and utterly dependent underclass that will unquestionably do the bidding of the elite few who control the system and issue marching orders to the unthinking “booby” class! Those that control the purse strings can dictate any behavior they believe is in their own best interest which is and has always been raw, unbridled, and unmitigated power!

While meandering through a variety of dictionaries, I failed to find the term Social Justice. I did, however, come up with: Social; Justice; and Just. Well certainly, I thought those are fine starting points with which to begin an investigation of the concept and its consequences. Merriam-Webster’s defines social as, “of or relating to human society; the interaction of the group and its members and the welfare of those members.” Justice is defined as, “the administration of what is just,” and just is explained as, “morally or legally right,” and it is tied to terms like Deserved, Merited, Upright, Honorable, and Honest. Well then, there you have it. How can any concept or movement tied to the words Social Justice be anything but beneficial, noble, and benign? This makes no sense unless you are very familiar with Liberal tactics like prevarication, obfuscation, and plain old Double Speak!

The Liberals amongst us can’t openly, honestly, and unabashedly announce their intentions of literally destroying America and transforming it into something it was never intended to be. That old dog just don’t hunt and that old mule ain’t never gonna plow! So, how to overcome this weighty problem? Invent a name or a phrase that no one, at least on the surface, could possibly object to and wouldn’t even dare verbalize those objections because of the torrent of invectives and ad hominem attacks that will be hurled at him as sure as flies are attracted to shit! It might sound something like, “What the Hell is wrong with you? How can you possibly be against Social Justice? You must be some kinda damned racist!” You’ll get a similar reaction should you have the utter temerity, the balls, to ever object to Liberal efforts to throw more money at our public school system when the adults in the room fully comprehend that the problems with education have absolutely nothing to do with increased funding. You’re sure to hear something like, “What, are you nuts? What have you got against the children? You’re just a cold, cruel, heartless Son of a Bitch!”

Care for a few more short examples? You bet! Liberals constantly tout themselves off as the champions of the nation’s poor, downtrodden, and powerless and they sound ever so compassionate in their utterances. Why then do they do their damndest to foment and instigate class warfare at every opportunity? They need the various classes to constantly be at one another’s throats in order to further reinforce the illusion that they really do care about the less fortunate amongst us. If poor folks ever stop voting the Liberal Line, they’ll be under that proverbial bus in less time than it took Barry Boy to dump good old Pastor Jeremiah! You ever hear the Liberals make the claim that they want America to be a color blind society so that Martin’s dream can finally be brought to fruition? Of course you have, for it is a Liberal trademark. It’s also a bald-faced, out and out, total lie! They do all they can to exacerbate and escalate racial division and expressions like “institutional racism” are a mainstay of their old, tired, and worn playbook. If ever the perception spreads that there exists harmony between and among the races then the Liberals lose their huge voting block that they hold with our minority citizens. Additionally, race hustlers and baiters like Jackson and Sharpton are unemployed and we certainly can’t have that, now can we? Remember, words mean things and anyone can sound good, caring, and compassionate. In order to understand just how truly dangerous and destructive Liberalism is you must get past the Bullshit and Bombast and reflect only on their actions and the horribly deleterious results of Liberal policy!

The author of an article entitled, “Republican Voter: Liberal Democrats Are Ruining America(www.delcotimes.com), notes that he has been following politics for more than forty years and this is the first time he fears, “for this country’s future due to the liberal policies of this administration and the over-liberal Democratic Congress that wastes no time in writing another check on the shoulders of the American taxpayer.” He continues that, “if we allow this spending frenzy to continue, we will end up having a third world nation instead of what our forefathers envisioned more than 200 years ago, a republic with limited government and freedom for the individual.” The author expresses this view that countless Americans fully concur with and in fact it is precisely these concerns that spawned the entire and entirely successful grass roots Tea Party Movement.

If any of us ran our homes the way the Social Justice Mob wants to run the nation we’d all be bankrupt, living in a shelter, or perhaps on the street. We simply can’t run up debt and deficits on a personal level like the Liberal Democrats are doing on the national level. At some point the piper must be paid and we simply can no longer afford the bill! The writer continues that, “champions of social justice have harmed this country for too long,” and we absolutely, “know all too well the dangers of permanent handouts at the expense of the working public.” Amen, Brother! I have read absolutely frightening statistics that point out that fewer than half of those in our so-called labor force are actually employed and are therefore paying taxes. Something like the top 2% of all American wage earners pay just about 40% of all taxes while the top ten percent pay over 75% of all taxes. This is utterly unsustainable! The bottom 51% of all wage earners pay nada, zip, zero!

We had a revolution in this country all those years ago and one of the major issues then was taxation especially the kind without representation. I’ve got news for you folks, we are in the exact same situation today regarding both of those issues. Those of us who still fork over our hard-earned money to the government are certainly not receiving adequate representation from the political class that believes it has a license to steal. Are you aware, for example, that “Obamacare” was vehemently rejected by something like 80% of our citizens who were either satisfied or very satisfied with the health care and health insurance they currently hold? The public completely rejected it but it was rammed down our throats nonetheless. Does that sound like representation to you, hmmm?

The Bamster’s tax on energy use and production – Cap and Trade – has not yet become a reality but it will if we allow The Anointed One and his minions to continue to ride rough-shod over our rights. (see the, “Obama Crap and Tax Rant,” of 11/23/10) The vast majority of us insist that we become self-sufficient concerning energy and we sure as Hell have enough of our own natural resources to make it happen! Are we drilling in places like ANWR? No. Our Environmentalist Wacko-in-Chief has publicly vowed to personally destroy our coal industry even though we can now liquefy the stuff so that it burns cleanly. Are we using our vast resources wisely and productively? No. We have more natural gas than anyone on the planet. Are we allowed to go and get it? No. Does this sound like we are receiving adequate representation on these and so many more crucial areas of life? No!! If our Founding Fathers could look down and see what has happened to their original vision they’d come back and stage a second American Revolution!

John J. Pino, the author of the piece under consideration, concludes by pointing out that, “Sixty-five years ago, referring to a socialistic system of government, Ludwig Von Mises said, “The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves Democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.” Finally he notes that this, “is the view of many Democrats today. Under the guise of social justice, they plan to create a socialist environment with scarce resources, curtailed freedom for the individual and a federal budget that would choke a horse.”

One Kasey Write Wringer penned a piece entitled, “Is Social Justice Destroying America?” (www.associatedcontent.com), which deals with the issues of what exactly Social Justice is and how it harms our nation. She explains that, “Social Justice in a nutshell is when the wealth of those who work is taken from them by the government and redistributed to those who have not worked for it.” Simply and accurately put. Wealth transfer is advocated only by Socialists or Communists whose end game has always been and remains the creation of a government that intrudes and invades literally every and all aspects of the lives of its citizens. Obviously, as the government becomes ever bigger and more powerful the populace finds itself with less and less freedom. The concept of limited government with only those powers granted to it in our magnificent Constitution is enough to send these people into a total wild-eyed, foaming at the mouth fury! If you ever want to test this little theory, here’s something that you can do.

Step into any student union at virtually any of our nation’s colleges or universities for there you will find an endless supply of grist for your mill. Begin reading the Tenth Amendment and make sure your voice resonates and you precisely articulate your message. Next, get ready to run like Hell after having carefully planned your escape route! You’ll immediately realize that it’s time to get the Hell out of Dodge and head for the tall grass!! You’ll also rather quickly learn how utterly and ruthlessly intolerant these folks truly are even while consistently claiming that they are the most tolerant and open minded of our citizenry. Don’t ever suggest to these Far Left Ideologues that our government should be limited in size and scope for you’ll drive them thoroughly and completely apoplectic although I gotta admit, it’s great fun to watch!

Winger continues that even when our Huckster-in-Chief was running for office he complained that the, “founders made mistakes when they wrote out the nation’s founding documents, they left out the redistribution of wealth.” The author points out the obvious by stating that it, “doesn’t take a genius to realize that social justice implies and justifies socialism which seeks to create what they call equality through various means of wealth redistribution (taxation, monetary policies, welfare, nationalization, etc.)” The concept also focuses on America’s Have-Nots for, “those without food and decent shelter ought to be given these things.” It also gives way to socialized health care, “where all the healthcare in the country is nationalized, that is government takes control over everyone’s health care.” Sound familiar folks? The establishment of socialized medicine tightens the government’s already vice-like death grip on our freedoms, gives it control over just about twenty per cent of America’s economy, and completely destroys the historical relationship between patient and physician. Your health care and insurance are now in the hands of nameless and faceless beaurocrats who couldn’t give a flying rat’s ass about you or your loved ones!

Those who advocate for Social Justice are utterly ecstatic about this radical departure from our history and traditions. The writer accurately recognizes that on the surface, the tenets and goals of the Social Justice Movement may sound compassionate and caring but if one just digs a little deeper, “you will see total disaster as the masses of citizens lose their personal liberty in place of a socialist system of so called health care.” The remedy to this obvious, clear cut, and unambiguous threat to America’ very existence is that, “solid conservative men and women must fill the halls of Congress if we are ever to get a hold on our tax system, and get rid of Obamacare, and allow oil exploration to occur so we can get prices back down to a decent level.” She correctly concludes that, “Social Justice is the path to full blown Communism! It MUST be stopped!”

For those out there who view issues like Social Justice, the threat of creeping Socialism, or the vast and intrusive growth of government size and power as merely esoteric or ethereal issues too far removed from our busy daily lives – think again. Social Justice advocates rely heavily on the apathetic and the ignorant amongst us. They understand full well that most of us have immediate daily concerns like earning a living, moaning and groaning about paying our taxes, and raising our families. They count on this as a tactic for quietly enacting their Far Left agenda and utterly destroying the country. Their ideas and ideology have indeed filtered down to the local level and are not merely relegated to academe or arguments between Republicans and Democrats in our nation’s capitol.

Take the city of Seattle, Washington and its police force as an example. Yeah, I know. Why should law enforcement and anti-American concepts like Social Justice even be included in the same sentence? I want our cops all over America to be concerned with only a few very basic issues and politics is certainly not one of them. I want them to pay attention to such things as apprehending those out there who break the law and prey on the average citizen. I want those in law enforcement to see to it that the miscreants and marauders amongst us are harshly punished. But, hey, that’s just me. I don’t want them distracted or confused or in any way impeded by issues like Social Justice, Political Correctness, Multiculturalism or any of that sort of bilge! I want them to focus with laser-like energy and precision on performing their ever so important job of getting rid of the barbarians out there who would do us harm. That’s it!

Sadly, according to one Officer Steve Pomper, this is not the case. Writing for The Guardian, the newsletter for the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, that city, “using its Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJJ), continues its assault on traditional and constitutional values such as self-reliance, equal justice, and individual liberty.” He is more concerned, however, by the fact that Seattle is, “inflicting its socialist policies directly on the Seattle Police Department(http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com).”

The officer explains that, “the city has extended its leftist political agenda to the police department, which should remain as apolitical as possible. The police department is not a laboratory and its cops are not guinea pigs.” Pomper could not be more correct for politicizing cops is not unlike President Barry Boy’s insistence that terrorist scum captured on a battlefield must be read their Miranda Rights! Maybe next he’ll insist that we serve them tea and crumpets. The author continues that, “Social justice is a socialist scheme that judges people not as individuals, but by their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status,” and that the, “groups touting social justice all tend toward the political left, including socialist and communist groups.” The gentleman is absolutely one hundred per cent accurate in his assessment and equally so when he states that even, “in its least aggressive forms, socialism is responsible for wrecking economies, restricting liberty, and stifling human innovation and achievement worldwide.”(see related video)

Pomper is definitely on to something here. By establishing Socialism at the local level, the community is afforded the opportunity to gradually and comfortably grow accustomed to it. Once enough folks in enough small cities and towns have become inured to it and it has become a “normal” aspect of their everyday existence, advocates of concepts like Social Justice can move on to the state level and eventually over time go national. Officer Pomper correctly maintains that, “any student of history knows that totalitarianism begins with small bites,” and that, “if we aren’t careful, we will literally vote ourselves into tyranny.” In fact, “Some people think we came pretty damn close in 2008.”

All “good” Liberals including those that advocate Social Justice will insist that they only do what they do for our own and the nation’s good. They will take care of us lesser folk out there for they are utterly condescending and paternalistic and they hold that we are obviously too selfish, stupid, and irrational to look out for our own and the nation’s best interests. While they may claim nothing but the best of intentions they are out and out liars beginning with our current Liar-in-Chief right on down to city council members of local municipalities. While they, “may not intend oppression, this is to where socialism always-always leads, to one degree or another.” I, unlike the author, am firmly convinced that the “Progressives” among us absolutely and purposefully intend harm and they are anything but well intentioned! They desire to cause as much mayhem and destruction as they possibly can.

They are power hungry in the extreme and more than anything else desperately desire to wreck this great nation and transform it into yet one more failed Socialist enclave in which the rights and freedoms of the citizen are so greatly reduced so as to be effectively nonexistent. The author queries, “at what point does our commitment to American liberty and opposition to socialism compel us to disengage from something we find so abhorrent to our nation?” That’s a damned good question and is eminently prescient at this very precarious moment in our country’s history. Pomper maintains that for most of our country’s past, America was exceptional, “and we must remain exceptional now. And what makes America exceptional is our commitment to equal justice and individual liberty, not social justice and emulating Europe’s failures.”

One of the many reasons for the success of this phenomenon known as Social Justice is simply that we have been transformed into a nation of cowards. Yup, there it is right out in the open in front of God and everybody. Over time, we have morphed into a country of whiners, complainers and weak and soft blubberers. We have become afraid of virtually everything and everybody. Major American characteristics like confidence, optimism regarding the future, and the absolute bedrock conviction that America’s best days are yet ahead of us have virtually evaporated and disappeared. We quake and cower. We are afraid to criticize or to be criticized for fear of offending this group or that special interest or anybody deemed a member of a so-called “protected class”.

We must never, absolutely never in any manner shape or form even remotely hint at the slightest disapproval of any minority race or ethnicity because we may be deemed – horror of all horrors – to be politically incorrect. Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians are strictly off limits as are Muslims – especially Muslims. We will invariably be excoriated as haters, bigots, racist, and xenophobic. We will lay ourselves open to the most vile ad hominem attacks conceivable. In more than just a few instances, those verbal attacks become physical. We must never speak negatively of homosexuals or homosexuality. After all, I guess everyone is entitled to their own brand of aberrant behavior because I mean who among us is perfect? We must never speak ill of the armies of illegal immigrants invading our nation everyday for fear of offending somebody or some group. We have become a nation of sniveling, fearful poltroons and our collective testosterone levels have completely fallen of the charts! It has literally gotten to the point where our Doofus-in-Chief has banned anyone in his administration from using the terms “Terrorist” or “War on Terror.”

One of America’s most famous Socialists, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, famously admonished that the, “only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Crap, Hooey, Balls, and Bullshit! I don’t know what that really means and I doubt that Roosevelt did either. But hey, it was a catchy phrase, served some nebulous purpose, and like all of Liberalism it represented nothing more than symbolism over substance (please note the Limbaughism here). We have much to fear, We have enemies who are Hell-Bent on bringing America down and while they should be feared, it is far more important to thoroughly defeat them before they destroy us! And yes, it really is that bad. The Social Justice Mob, the Politically Correct Crowd, the Multiculturalists, the Globalists and One-Worlders, and many more are all tied to one another and all are solidly on the Far Left!

In an article entitled, “Political Correctness is Destroying America(http://kansascity.com),” author Glen Enloe comments that he notices, “a great fear in the land. Huge economic, social, and environmental uncertainties have given us pause. For the first time that I can recall, many of us have doubts that our nation will even survive.” Unfortunately, that statement is utterly and frustratingly true. It also seems to represent a rather new phenomenon in our collective psyches. America has always been a land of boundless, unbridled hope, energy, and optimism. We have always been a confident and positive place and for most of our history have assumed that there is nothing America can’t accomplish once we decide to undertake a task or achieve specific goals. This seems no longer to be the case and this uncertainty and indecision can be laid directly at the feet of Liberalism and those who espouse it.

After all, if you are brainwashed with the “Big Lie” often enough far too many people develop chinks in their mental and intellectual armor. After at least half a century of negative propaganda purposely perpetrated by the Far Left a certain amount of self-doubt is inevitable. Many begin to wonder why there is so much criticism of the United States by its own citizens not to mention the constant attacks by those from abroad. The “Lame-Stream” media exacerbates and reinforces the negativity until too many Americans begin to ask, “Could it really be true? Could America really have fallen so far?”

The author continues that, “our leaders have become strangers in a strange land who do everything in their power to weaken us, change our values and shape us into something we don’t want to become. We rightly fear that they are in it for themselves; for the money, fame, power and blind ideology.” He further notes that our, “leaders are not for the people. They arrogantly hold their noses in the air as they toss platitudes to the peasants and mandate what they think is best for us.” That’s a very succinct and fearfully accurate characterization of today’s Liberal Elite Ruling Class. They mock and deride those of us on the Conservative side as Neanderthals, out-dated, and irrelevant. We are charged with standing in the way of progress and it’s high time we became silent and let our “betters” control our lives. They simply refuse and can’t accept the absolute and undeniable truism that they, the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) are at the root of every problem we now face. If these folks are left unchecked, the United States of America is literally doomed!

Mr. Enloe points out that, “Conservative bogeymen are forever conjured up, and race cards are continually thrown as we are accused of being too hateful in our speech. If someone foolishly dares to speak the truth, that person is humiliated and destroyed,” and the author correctly concludes that, “we have become cowards in our own country. It is political correctness and supposed social justice that will lead to our fall.” Did you catch that last? Go back and read it again. Good. We are not dealing here with the theoretical or hypothetical. We are dealing in cold, hard realities. Those of us who can envisage the end of America as most of us have come to love it are NOT being hysterical nor are we attempting to merely gain recognition and maybe grab some headlines. We genuinely fear for the very survival of the greatest nation God ever gave mankind!

Under the guise of things like Social Justice, our current leadership is purposefully and assiduously destroying our beloved country. They are quite literally bound and determined to reduce us to a system of economic slavery in which we are forced to turn to government to provide all of our wants and needs! If the Founders could see what has happened to our Great Experiment, they would be spinning in their graves at about 50,000 RPM’s! During a break at the Constitutional Convention all those years ago, Old Ben Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of government those great men were going to give us. Franklin tersely replied, “A republic, Madame, if you can keep it!” Well, Ben Old Boy, whaddya think? Have we maintained what was supposed to be a limited government with only a few responsibilities and powers? Do we still have a government of, for, and by the people? The honest answer to these and many other crucial questions is a resounding, ear-splitting NO!!

How will the Social Justice Mob and the Liberals in general bring about this condition of economic slavery referenced above? The answer is frighteningly and forbodingly simple. First of all, over the last sixty or so years they have preconditioned, brainwashed if you will, far too many of us to accept as normal and natural what was once though to be abhorrent and utterly destructive. The idea of “Entitlements” is a primary and instructive example of this dangerous trend. By definition, if someone is entitled to a thing, then that thing must be paid for and it will only be paid for by the government (read that as your money!). Those on the Far Left would ask, “What’s wrong with that? Isn’t that what government is for?” Those of us on the Right side of the issue instinctively know the answer to questions like these.

Over the last 235 years, we have managed to run up deficits of over $14,000,000,000,000! That’s an amazingly unconceivable number that most of us simply can’t wrap our brains around. It’s just not fathomable. Just as an aside, all Presidents from Washington to G.W. Bush are responsible for approximately 53% of that horror show! So how do we account for the other 47%? That’s right! Boy, I’m tellin’ ya, absolutely nothin’ gets by you guys now does it? Our very own Communist-in-Chief, Barry Boy Wonder Obama single handedly accounts for that 47% and he did it solo! Your grandchildren’s grandchildren will still be paying just the interest on that monstrosity which now amounts to roughly $25,000,000,000 each and every month! Does the concept of economic slavery in the United States sound so bizarre now?

Another method the LFE employs to enslave the rest of us is the tax code which is implemented via the most vicious and fiercest collection agency on the planet – the dreaded Internal Revenue Service. You know, you can literally get away with murder in this country but you’ll never, ever escape the vice-like clutches of the IRS! You will go to jail and you will lose your home and all of your other possessions until the beast is satiated! We are constantly bombarded with the Liberal war cry that the rich don’t pay their fair share of the tax burden ad infinitum and ad nausea. Those evil rich guys out there are hurting the nation and their greed and selfishness is absolutely boundless! Pap, Crap, Hooey, and Phooey!! By way of reinforcing a point made earlier, let me again run a few simple numbers by you and see what you think. The top 2% of all wage earners in this country pay just about 40% all taxes! The top10% pay just under 80% while the bottom 51% pay absolutely nada, zip, zero, zilch!! The next time some clown starts bitching and moaning that the rich don’t pay their fair share, I’m absolutely gonna slap him!

Still on the issue of taxes, we must remember that His Highness magnanimously – but temporarily – extended the Bush tax cuts that lowered the marginal rates and increased the amount of taxes actually paid into our Treasury Department. By the way, that happens every time it’s tried. Well, when the tax cuts expire the marginal tax rates in what was once the good old U.S.A. will spike to something like 62% and that’s only on the Federal level! When you add to that state and local taxes, sales tax, etc. it will absolutely no longer be worth it to work. Does economic slavery make just a tad more sense now? As more and more of us stop working then more and more of us will have to depend on government to provide all of our wants and needs. Dependency and government are synonymous.

Just recently, Obama imperiously declared – you know, he’s very good at imperiously declaring – that polls he is aware of informed him that upwards of 80% of Americans want to or at least are willing to pay more and higher taxes. PUH-LEEEEZE!! I and far more competent folks than myself have searched for said poll or similar ones. They don’t exist. You mean the President of the United States out and out lied to the American people? Nah, that would never happen, not with Old Honest Obama at the helm! That Brother has lied to us so many times that I’m sure the size of his schnazola makes even Pinnochio blush a deep shade of red! As long as we’re still on the topics of Social Justice and economic slavery let’s spend just a few more minutes on subjects financial. The Heritage Foundation, by far one of the premier think tanks and research organizations in extant, publishes a blog called The Foundry: Conservative Policy News From The Heritage Foundation(http://blog.heritage.org). Brian Reidl wrote a piece entitled, “Obama Budget Adds $80,000 Per Household To National Debt.” Doesn’t that sound full of hope and change?

Reidl points out that while, “President Obama claimed his budget would produce $7.2 trillion in deficits (a staggering figure) over the next decade the CBO calculated $9.5 trillion in deficits.” No, could the Bamster be lying to us yet again or is this simply an honest miscalculation? The author continues that this constitutes, “more debt than the federal government accumulated from 1789-2010 combined,” and that, “the national debt held by the public – 40 percent of GDP before the recession – would soar past 87 percent of GDP in a decade.” Translation? We’re fucked! He correctly asserts that these, “large deficits will persist because the President’s steep tax hikes cannot keep up with his runaway spending. President Obama would raise taxes by 1.3 percent of GDP, yet increase spending by 4 percent of GDP.” This being the case, the “annual cost of interest on the national debt would quadruple.”

I have read that the annual cost of servicing the debt stands at about twenty-five billion per month and this fool’s gonna push it to around one hundred billion a month!?! I’ve got news for ya’ folks, the well is quickly running dry! The writer gloomily concludes that under the Saboteur-in Chief’s budget proposal, “taxpayers would see large tax increases, bigger government, and slower economic growth.” Additionally, “The President . . . would, over the next decade, drop an additional $80,000 per household in debt onto the laps of our children. This is an irresponsible budget proposal by any standard.” Economic slavery anyone? Sure as shit sounds like Social Justice to me!

The Social Justice Mob and Liberals in general are out to destroy our country and that should be more than just a little obvious to anyone with a discerning and analytical mind. This is a perfect illustration of something called “Achum’s Razor” which states that all things being equal, the simplest answer or explanation is almost always the correct one. In attempting to cipher or fathom why Liberal’s in our society behave the way they do, why they support legislation that stifles freedom and choice, or why they vehemently reject the notion of American Exceptionalism just think of the simplest answer for there can only be one. They despise the United States of America and desire above all else its speedy demise!

A piece entitled, “Does Obama Want To Destroy America? Yes, But. . .”,(http://biggovernment.com), quotes well known Conservative Michael Medved who says, ‘that a politician who wants to be re-elected would not want to destroy the very nation that he has been elected to lead.’ The author correctly points out, “that would make sense only if Obama were a conventional politician and if only Obama himself hadn’t told ABC News, ‘I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.’ That very sentence directly from the President’s own mouth seems to shoot full of holes Medved’s conventional logic.” Yup. You know the old adage that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck – well then.

The problem here is that most Americans have tremendous difficulty understanding or grasping the concept of American citizens and leaders wanting to destroy this great nation. It is so mind boggling, so foreign to any rationale we could possibly imagine or conjure up that too many Americans simply refuse to accept or come to grips with it. They are perfectly capable of understanding that this country does have foreign enemies out there that literally want to destroy “The Great Satan” but American citizens, no way in Hell! For those of you who fall into this category, I’ve got some news. The Tooth Fairy is dead and good old Santa is to be found only at the mall! It’s time for you to get your heads either out of the sand and/or your own ass and wake up and smell the damned coffee!

You see, among other things, “Liberals think that the U.S. is arrogant and needs to be taken down a notch or three. Liberals think that U.S. history is filled with nothing but evil and any attacks on the U.S. are richly deserved.” It is we who brought 9-11 on ourselves and have only ourselves to blame! Yeah folks, they mean that with every fiber of their being and with every breath they take. Additionally, these saboteurs believe that America, “was founded by evil, selfish, hateful white men who were only interested in their own power and didn’t want to empower others.” That being the case, those Bastards on the Far Left, “want the founder’s memories eviscerated,” and, “our capitalist system to be eliminated.” They literally, “want to erase everything that makes the U.S.A. the U.S.A.,” and then, “build a U.S. to their own liking using the very freedoms they used to lay her low.”

The author correctly explains that in fact it is Liberals and not Conservatives or Republicans, “that have used government to destroy America. Liberals have used the courts to destroy religion. Liberals have used the schools to preach against American history. Liberals have used the government to weaken economies and create a culture of dependence.” Conversely, “Conservatives have not used government to do anything of the kind. In fact, even in the bad old days it was Democrats that tried to use the government as a weapon against those that it wanted to keep down.”

The advocates of Social Justice, those that espouse causes like Political Correctness, Multiculturalists, Cultural Diversity Champions, and Liberals in general are no more or less than out and out statists with an absolutist, authoritarian world view and mindset. They don’t think in the short term but instead concoct very long-range plans that can literally take decades to successfully implement. They have infinite patience and that works against most Americans who must think about the next day or next week. Those that have a clear-cut plan and are highly motivated behind the idea of destroying America are more than just a little dangerous. It is also important to remember that these types don’t even, “care if they lose elections in the short term. It is the obliteration of the old to be replaced by their new ‘improved’ U.S.A. that is their actual goal, not anything as mundane as winning elections.” Folks, these guys have gotta be stopped if the America we know and love is to continue to exist and I’m positive that there isn’t a whole lot of time left!

Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!
The Fifth Horseman
(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)