There are some foul winds blowing across this nation, especially if you are a long-time native of America as I and my family are.
I used to hear “However California goes, so goes America.” That appealed to me when I was a teenager, in the 1980s. I was young, free, and ignorant and the “California lifestyle” as I knew it from the 1960’s and 70’s media and friends, not EVER having even been there. I don’t think that is a unique situation, who have strong opinions based on what they’re fed by the media and no personal, experiential idea.
And I won’t get into Southern California, and San Fran, and Palo Alto, the largest three West Coast cancers. Now New York City has crumbled. “Never forget 9/11.” Until 2025, apparently. In another generation, they’ll be tearing down the firefighter statues. That’s all it took: one generation to elect a radical Islamic communist as mayor. This, of course, is after Brooklyn elected an inexperienced dingbat waitress who doesn’t even know how to file a motion in court as a federal congresswoman. Why not? “She’s like them.” And that says something profound.
That brings me to a big point I want to make about politicians. I’ve been studying them for most of my life. My aunt and family friends were from Albany, Georgia, and knew Carter, and thus easily got jobs for that failed administration. My mother was a special agent for a federal bureau. So I was intimate with the government from an early age. Not how most people are, though.
The proliferation of the internet has resulted in some interesting social experiments. One I’ve noticed is the competition for attention online and the lengths people will go to to gain that attention, which is represented by followers, clicks, shares, etc… and whatever other Analytics that they convert into money. That’s all the internet has really become: a money-making machine. The bare spots of intellectualism exist, but they are scarce oases, not a verdant pasture.
And that has resulted in some noticeable behavior, if you’ve followed along for decades as I have. Media outlets (MSM) rely on drama and entertainers to center around. Not just revolve around, but SUPPORT the ones they want, and use their podium to denounce the ones they don’t. All for one reason: to kick up dust. That makes money. So we see a LOT of stupid drama online.
We seem to prefer entertainers, not leaders, as our representatives. They play a ROLE. They may have ZERO experience in what their jobs entail, such as B. Obama and AOC. They had no resumes, yet became two of the most powerful people in the country, if not the Universe. Hey’re actors, and politics and the media is theater. Law itself is, but that’s another post.
We have ample examples of professional entertainers joining the political class. Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, Sonny Bono, Ronald Regan, Ahnold S., and that’s just the past few years. But as much as the previous exposure helps, it’s their ability to speak in public that launches their careers. It’s a skill most people don’t possess, envy even, and in fact would rather be dead before having to speak in front of a large audience. Being IN the audience is where humans prefer, being collectivists. And despite many collectively denying that characteristic.
The guy NYers just elected mayor is a symptom of a cancer in any society. Not just American, which he’s not a product of. Like Obama, his parents moved all over the place for some reason, and he’s from India, lived in Africa (South, of all places), and ended up in America. He’s a foreigner. That’s like giving someone something without them paying for it, I’ve noticed. People don’t have any appreciation for what they have been simply given. Sure, they can say and ACT like they are, but it’s what people DO that means anything. And their behavior is revealing.
But the media determines much of how people think, and most media is delivered via the internet in 2025. And they post lies, spin the truth, and manipulate photos, videos, and narratives to generate more discord. It leads to money. Not peace and happiness.
