ALAN writes:

Am I missing something or have the Amish people not joined in all the hoopla surrounding Donald Trump?  Could that be because they know better?

Pardon my skepticism, but I suggest that all of that hoopla is merely the latest sideshow produced by the well-known stock company Bread and Circuses, Unlimited.

The moral and cultural rot in American society today did not originate in Washington.  It is the other way around:  The kind of government and public policies Americans get are consequences of certain bad ideas, which in turn are deeply ingrained in American culture today—in all the decadent forms and trends we see in daily life.  Government and public policies are the last expression of that moral rot.

I have seen all of this hope and expectation before.  American “conservatives” were delighted in 1980 to see one of their own in the White House.  I remember feeling happy also at that time, to a limited degree.  Yet it was the “conservative” administration of Ronald Reagan that gave us (a) a national “holiday” for Michael “Martin Luther” King, a plagiarist, womanizer, and Communist-trained agitator who hated America, preached peace but encouraged crime and lawlessness, and wanted to see America Socialized, and (b) the refusal to abolish the federal “Department of Education”, whose existence was recommended in 1848 by Marx and Engels in their Communist Manifesto and in 1932 by American Communist William Z. Foster in his book Toward Soviet America.  (Read some of Foster’s recommendations, reviewed here by Diana West)

That Mr. Reagan was thoroughly decent, patriotic, and sincere in what he said, I never doubted.  But what matters is what happens:  The point is that both political parties are controlled so effectively and so thoroughly by groups like the Fabian Socialists that even a “conservative” administration will not manage to achieve anything substantive in opposing the dominant Leftward drift of American culture.

My father was conservative in the same way that William F. Buckley, James J. Kirkpatrick, and Senator Barry Goldwater were conservative.  He took an interest in civic affairs and never failed to vote in local and national elections.  I hate to say this, but all that that concern ever yielded for him and like-minded patriotic Americans was bigger Nanny Government and more and more Socialist public policies.  I doubt that it ever occurred to him in the mid-1960s—when he and I began talking about such matters—that the America in which he had been born was already too far gone to be redeemed by political parties or public policies.

For eighty-plus years now, Americans have voted overwhelmingly in favor of expansionist, Do-Gooder, Nanny Government in which patriotic and productive citizens are increasingly punished while predators and parasites are increasingly protected and rewarded.  Neither Donald Trump nor anyone else is going to reverse or stop that trend, because Americans in overwhelming percentages have bought the worldview promoted to them by skillful agitators and propagandists.  That worldview is predicated on some very bad ideas.  But bad ideas cannot be undone by political solutions.  They must be opposed at a more fundamental and local level.

I imagine the Amish and a small percentage of Americans, mostly older Americans like me, realize these things and know better than to be impressed by Candidate A, B, or C.

I am not questioning Mr. Trump’s sincerity or that of many people whose hopes he may inspire.  I am suggesting rather that Americans should not pin their hopes or expectations on any candidate for national office.  All of their energy and hopes would be better expended on local issues and their own communities.

I see no reason to expect that any candidate for national office would even begin to unravel the moral and political rot so deeply ingrained in American culture today.  Besides which:  There are powerful, deeply-entrenched groups and coalitions who have a vital interest in promoting and expanding that rot.

[Note to Reader: The posting of the above video by Jimmy Fallon is not meant as a general endorsement of the work or politics of someone who is probably just another raunchy, mad-dog American comedian.]

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Terry Morris writes:

Kudos to Alan for taking the time to so thoroughly and accurately describe the dire situation we’re in, regardless of who is elected to national political office. Ann Barnhardt posted a link to an item a few days back, basically declaring our situation hopeless, and anyone seeking national political office who says there is a political solution a liar, and/or deluded. In any case, not fit for the office (s)he seeks. I agree.

I’ll leave it to your readers to go back in time and put the history of it all in perspective, but remember that it was around the year 1848 that Horace Mann successfully planted the seed of the current public education system in Massachusetts on the Prussian model. Shortly thereafter children in remote Massachusetts areas were being forcibly removed from their homes to be indoctrinated in anti-republican/pro-totalitarian philosophies of society, government and politics in the state schools. New York quickly followed suit, then many other states behind them until this inundated the nation. Prior to these events, however, George Washington publicly lamented, to no avail, that,

“It is with indescribable regret that I have seen the youth of the United States migrating to foreign countries in order to acquire the higher branches of erudition. … Although it would be injustice to many to pronounce the certainty of their imbibing maxims not congenial with republicanism, it must nevertheless be admitted that a serious danger is encountered by sending abroad, among other political systems, those who have not well learned the value of their own.”

Quite so! There is no political solution because, as Alan rightly points out, these crazy notions modern Americans overwhelming embrace to one extent or another (state enforced “tolerance” of immoral behavior, as a prime example among many), are deeply ingrained via systematic indoctrination since at least the time of Horace Mann and his “Common Schools,” which, by the way, was highly touted by Mann and his associates as opening new avenues of career opportunities for women. Hmmm …

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