Thursday, June 14, 2018

The Pretenders

            Sometimes a film producer just finds the right idea. In my opinion Galaxy Quest was one of those ideas....there's a friendly alien planet out there somewhere whose inhabitants are being killed off by bad aliens. Their extraterrestrial technology allows them to scan our earth and they come across a Star Trek type television show....only they believe Tim Allen's character similar to Captain Kirk to be real and visit us to enlist him to help them on their planet.
            Groundhog Day was another idea that took off....the producer may have taken the idea from our biennial elections....for every two years it's like waking up to the same scenario.....either the Democrats or the Republicans or now the Trump party tell us that we must rally right now to save the planet from Nancy Pelosi....don't think too much....just muster up and work.....for it's the most important election ever! The candidates all sound passionate but then after they win they take a two year break from those passions....and then we wake up from the nightmare...."and do it again...Amen....say a prayer for the pretender(s)."
             In this case the Nancy Pelosi party is real and totally destructive....and I have written about this in one way or another for a few decades....in fact Donald Trump gets to ride Air Force One to his golf courses because we had rallied for decades while he was on reality television.....but these elections could not save us even if the supposed conservative candidates were not pretenders.
             Compounding the problem today is that this Trump party is far from conservative. It's an ideology all its own....part Washington establishment....part globalist....and part P. T. Barnum. President Trump is reforming his coalition.....serving prime rib to the National Populists.....and milkbones to us. I submit to you that conservatives were the bulwark in this defense against this Communist/Progressive onslaught against America but after the 'victory' we are now perceived as being too religious....too idealistic....and not pragmatic enough. We ourselves admit that conservatism itself saves no one....that only God causes nations to rise or to fall.....but they will never admit that God's will trumps their Trump.
             Not that they care....for they hope to replace us....but what do we want? It's called transparency.... Donald Trump is transparent....for you can see right through him....but he and Rush and Sean are not being transparent. Any conservative candidate in the past election would have stimulated economic growth after the Obama era....any one of them would have freed the hands of our military in the Middle East......any one of them would have given us a conservative Supreme Court Justice....and any one of them would have lowered the corporate tax rate and voided restrictive regulations. Rush and Sean....try mentioning this just once....just once. On the other hand none of these candidates would have turned to text trolling or turned diplomacy and statesmanship into a reality show.
             OK you got us....we've been had. It was a masterful campaign....and no we can't just let the Nancy Pelosi party back in power....but don't ask us to think pragmatically like you where truth is selective.....don't ask us to treat President Trump like the mainstream media had treated the Clintons and Barack Obama......which in effect was to give them a free ride no matter what they did....and don't expect us to put on the Saffron robes and chant Hare Trump.
             Difficult days are ahead....not difficult deals....but difficult days. Is there no humility left anywhere in America? The importance of this mid-term election pales in comparison to the weightier issues that paralyze us....a nation where half of the people want nothing to do with God while the other half thinks that He is in the press box rooting us on....and where we giddily celebrate that the economy is doing so wonderfully when it sits on tectonic plates that are shifting violently and a gargantuan fault line that is stressed to its limit.