At a commencement speech delivered this past weekend at Howard University, a famous, historically black college, President Biden once again raised the specter of “white supremacy”, affirming his eerie practice of scapegoating on the basis of race in our nation’s political discourse. According to Biden, “[T]he most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.” Never before in American history has a mainstream-party politician — much less a sitting president of the United States — ever so publicly resorted to a textbook tactic of totalitarian leaders worldwide. Joe Biden is now sounding this trope with almost every speech, in the early run-up to the 2024 national elections. Certainly, this is a portentous, frankly ominous, sign for the future of politics in America, based on the world’s history in the last century or so. This short review is highly instructive:
In apartheid-era South Africa (1948-1994), leaders of the ruling National Party regularly warned white voters of die swart gevaar (“the black peril”) as a means of scaring them into voting Nationalist instead of for either the United Party or the Progressive Party, both of which supported extending the voting franchise in varying degrees beyond just white people to citizens who were black or brown in skin color. The overwhelming majority of whites voted accordingly, rendering South Africa a virtual parliamentary dictatorship of one party and one white ethnicity (the Afrikaners). Throughout the age of apartheid, there were many governmental abuses of power, against not only blacks, Indians, and Coloreds (mixed-race people of partial white descent) but also whites who would not fully, completely conform to all of the strictures of “separate development.” The certain, increasing minority in the country over time of white South Africans overall, the economic and social pressures of increasing international sanctions, growing violence by and among blacks in their residential townships, and a changing consciousness among some elements of the Afrikaner elites all conspired in the late 1980s to move the National Party leadership to begin dismantling the edifices of racial separation — and thereby avoid a race-based war of catastrophic proportions. While post-1994 South Africa has had, and continues to have, many problems, including some dealing with race and language, a readily looming, internecine civil war is not one of them at this time.
In the America of today, given that the leaders of the Democratic Party — substantially in control of all national political power and vitally aided in remaining so by all of Big Media, Big Tech, Big Banking, Big Corporate, Big Academia, Big Culture, and the Deep State — is demonizing the majority demographic of the domestic populace, can an independent and sovereign republic dedicated to individual rights, equality, the universal rule of law, and federalism survive much longer? It remains to be seen, but through the lens of history the prospects seem rather dim.
In late April 2023, NBC’s Chuck Todd interviewed the young Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy (Harvard B.S., Biology; Yale Law School) and challenged his contention that there are only two real genders, claiming that scientific research now shows that gender is actually a “spectrum.” Vivek replied that they’d have to agree to disagree on that. Very cordial of him, to be sure, as a presidential aspirant, but the opportunity to make a much more important point was missed.
Leave it to fellow mid-30s female pundit Lisa Boothe to make that key point for him on May 1st on FOX’s morning show Outnumbered. Here’s what she said, in substance, after viewing the Todd/Vivek video clip, to the stunned silence of her three fellow female commenters and their male guest, a basketball celeb originally from Turkey:
This is about the Truth, the fight for the Truth. There are two genders, no more. This is a test for submission for the Left. If they can get people to accept demonstrable lies, deny basic biology, then they can get you to submit to anything. They own you, and society is then under their control. They will always try to silence you if you speak the Truth. They want us to live in fear of them. But don’t fear them, don’t submit to them. Speak out. Speak the Truth. Resist.
Lisa Boothe, courtesy of Business Insider
Out of the mouth of babes, both literally and figuratively! Thus and so, there’s genuine hope for the preservation of Individual Liberty and Autonomy in America when folks have the moral courage to speak out with crystal clarity and honesty. Long ago, George Orwell succinctly nailed it in several famous quips, thusly:
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent [people] is the restatement of the obvious.
Every sane, sober-minded person hopes and prays that’s all it will ever take to right our ship of state and preserve America as a sovereign, independent nation and home to a freedom-focused constitutional republic!
In the cosmic science of Astrology, Pluto, the furthest planetary orb in our solar system, represents the forces of transformation and purification. With a periodicity of 246 years, it moves around the Zodiac rather slowly, affecting the Earth, and so represents generational changes that potentially span decades. As such, it affects all people on the planet simultaneously and profoundly. The Age of Leo (1939-57), for example, witnessed World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, the electronics revolution, synthetic pharmaceuticals, space exploration, the end of Britain and France’s empires, and the emergence of the United States as the architect and prime leader of a new world order, economically, militarily, and culturally. Among many other new emergences.
In March/April 2023, Pluto began to tentatively touch the Age of Aquarius, but not making its first foray until February 2024 and continuing through August 2024. It returns to Aquarius in December 2024 and continues its sojourn there until March 2043, making for a relatively long visit.
So, what of it? If Capricorn, its preceding age, has to do with disruptions, revelations, and reformations concerning institutional authorities (such as governments, churches, academia, and corporations), wars and rumors of war, and social/economic systems – all of which, as of this writing, are still bubbling very vigorously – Aquarius will be characterized by innovations of truly unique natures, at once utopian and very possibly foreboding, across the spectrum of spheres of human experience. Many of us see a lot of this happening already, often with a knowing discomfiture. Such is the nature of revolutionary times.
So, what does this all look like? Technologically, we are witnessing the embryonic ascendancy of creative artificial intelligence, highly novel in its results but unconstrained by any set, pre-delimited protocols that govern its behavior. Writing cogent term papers and optimizing nee-business-opportunity options is one thing, but making decisions with palpable, immediate moral consequences for real human beings is quite another. Even famed innovator-entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of AI’s originators, has expressed serious concerns in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson about the prospects of AI applications untethered to scruples or moral constraints.
Equally ominous is the mad drive towards transhumanism, marrying natural biological reality with any of biochemical and bioengineered alterations, surgical modifications, and cybernetic implants. The Chinese communists are believed to have been working on creating super soldiers, human men endowed with superhuman physical strength, endurances, and enhanced perceptual abilities, all aimed at creating indomitable fighting machines.
Most immediately concerning, however, is the impending realization of the total surveillance state, enabled by a dystopian witches’ brew of currency digitization, ubiquitous camera systems in public, comprehensive social-credit scoring on all inhabitants (available to governmental agencies and private entities such as banks and educational institutions), and even implantable genetic markers and radio-frequency identification chips. Such a state will allow greater and dynamic micro-control of the nation’s civilian populace on a spectrum of matters, from gun ownership to vaccination penetration. The odium of an actual Brave New World is finally within our vision now.
The antidemocratic drives of America’s elites have been palpable for many years already, manifesting as the “cancel culture” (whose aim is the erasure of nonconforming thinking and values), identity politics (whose purpose is to alienate and divide the American people against one another based on immutable characteristics), and various social-engineering mandates (such as DEI, CRT, and CSE) in schools, colleges, and workplaces both public and private, civilian and military (all designed to morph the nation’s guiding culture from traditional Americanism to “wokeism”, an evolution of communism and globalism). In the name of combatting a phantom societal threat labelled as “white supremacy”, “white privilege”, or “white nationalism”, these elites are relentlessly demonizing all white Americans and European-sourced Western civilization. In a form of inverse intersectionality, the most execrable people according to their perverse worldview are those who are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian.
Of course, a person need not possess all of those features to be targeted for vilification: Blacks/browns, gays/lesbians, and Jews who espouse conservative, pro-America views publicly have all been targeted for vituperation. It’s just the honored communist way, after all, of transforming a nation’s consciousness against all enemies at the same time. Ane ages-old defect of every dictatorial regime, of course, is that the maw for chewing up rogues and renegades is never satisfied, ever more demanding new human sacrifices in the name of maintaining ideological purity. Rather like the insatiable-for-blood exotic plant from the stars, Audrey II, in the musical film, Little Shop of Horrors: There’s no such thing as enough mayhem.
So, the advent of a technological totalitarianism on a global basis is no longer just a febrile dream in the wild, fevered imaginations of a shrouded cohort of wealthy yet morally effete control freaks. Rather, it is the reification of an idea that appeals to a wide swath of avant-garde intellectuals, pioneering inventors, social-utopian activists, power-lusting politicians, and narcissistic film and major media celebrities – as well as the rich titans of banking, investment, industry, media, and entrepreneurism. As such, it’s a real specter of looming doom.
Overweening governmental control in the name of the globalist “One World” impulse or just the notion of the collectivist “common good” is ineluctably hostile to individual freedom, the essential objective of all republican and democratic states in the Western tradition. The potential for brilliance in the Age of Aquarius for innovation, uniqueness, and healthy, uplifting transformations must not be allowed to be eclipsed by the dark side of cold, unfeeling domination; a godless intellectual utopian idealism; and an elitism that denies the innate worth and dignity of Everyman and Everywoman.
In early January 49 BCE, then Roman governor Julius Caesar crossed the river Rubicon with his army, in violation of the Senate’s edict prohibiting the entry of armies into Italy; the Rubicon then marked the northern border of Italy. In so moving his men under arms across that frontier, Caesar triggered a civil war that resulted in him becoming dictator for life over Rome. In the modern idiom, the phrase “crossing the Rubicon” suggests that someone is passing a point of no return on a path to intended tyranny.
Last Thursday evening in Philadelphia, in a campaign speech billed ahead of time as one aimed at unifying Americans in these troubled times, President Biden excoriated “MAGA Republicans” at great length, villainizing them as existential threats to the Constitution, the rule of law, and democracy. He claimed Trump supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” He followed with: “[T]here is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.” Such blatantly scurrilous “J’accuse” languaging was mean, lurid, and inflammatory — even inciteful. And the staging of the event was redolent of totalitarian leaders’ public speeches in the 20th century: A crimson-red backdrop and two Marines flanking him in the background standing at some form of parade rest, whether truly per-protocol or contrived. And so, with them, themes of anger (rage?), absolutist authority, the military’s support, and implied psychological intimidation were salient. As Tom Fitton, president of the civilian government watchdog Judicial Watch later observed, the combination of abusive rhetoric and totalitarian imagery serves to paint a target on Trump and tens of millions of supportive Americans for political suppression and worse. All this in the United States of America of 2022, just two months ahead of the mid-term elections.
No speech like that one given by Biden has been ever delivered at any time by a sitting president in American history. Even when the Republic was threatened with impending civil war in the mid-19th century, President Lincoln never resorted to rank vitriol and scorn demonizing the Confederacy, its leaders, or Southerners in general. Biden’s vituperative speech was as unique as it was explosive.
But it was not unexpected. The president has been scapegoating Americans who disagree with his plans and policies as “white nationalists” or “white supremacists” since early on in his administration. Underlying both terms of calumny is the cardinal sin in America today: “racism.” Disagree with any Democratic Party initiative emanating from the White House, Congress, or any federal agency and the challenger will be vilified publicly as a “racist”, regardless of whether there is any tangible nexus between the given issue and veridical racial discrimination. “Racism” is used as the all-purpose cudgel with which to beat down (“cancel”) anyone or any group or any organization that advocates for any viewpoint at variance with the “revealed truth” announced by any modern Democratic Party policymakers. On all issues — political, social, economic, technological, and moral — without exception. And the nation’s Big Media, Big Tech, Big Entertainment, and Big Business amplify all the charges and excoriations relentlessly and without restraint.
World history is instructive as to where such concerted assaults on a labelled group lead over time, however generalized and elastic, or particular and selective, the targeted members may be. Once the objects of an officialized ire and loathing have been identified, personalized, and isolated, the path forward for the scapegoaters becomes easy. Historically speaking, that path’s destination is always the same: destruction of human beings. Neocommunist activist Saul Alinsky described the process of agitation with doric clarity in his revolutionary guidebook Rules for Radicals, even as he omitted the eventual certain outcome of its protracted use over time.
In Mein Kampf (1923), Adolf Hitler infamously wrote: “The art of all the great popular leaders has always consisted in concentrating the attention of the masses on a single enemy [because] the masses are blind and stupid. [. . . .] The only thing that remains stable is emotion and hatred.”
His maxim had historical precedent even then: In 1789, the French Jacobins demonized the nation’s clergy (and royalty and aristocracy), and in 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks demonized the bourgeoisie (middle-class workers and merchants). Like so, and well before 1933, Hitler’s Nazis demonized the Jews and the communists. Later, starting in 1966, Chinese Communists demonized the bourgeois revisionists, and starting in 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge demonized the educated (including all wearers of eyeglasses). Much more recently, in 1994, the Hutus of Rwanda demonized the Tutsis, a minority black tribe in that African country.
Each time, regardless of who did the social demonizing and who was socially demonized, the result was eventually the same: Mass killings of innocent people, based on mass formation psychosis – a psychological, emotionalist conversion of throngs of otherwise pacific individuals into bestial killers.
Since early 2021, President Biden and America’s Democratic Party leaders have been demonizing “white nationalists” and “white supremacists” and the “privilege” and “status” supposedly accorded them based on their white skin color. But, in a reflection of just how twisted, contrived, and willfully tendentious such labels really are, even black conservatives such as attorney and gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder and author and social media celebrity Candace Owens have been tarred with the same opprobrious brush. Just for dissenting from the dictates, mandates, and potentates of the Democratic Party. They are, of course, not alone. And it’s still 2022, just the second year into the Bidenista regime.
America and all its inhabitants, legal and illegal, are now skating on dangerous ice as a society. The nation’s populace is increasingly polarized by ideology, moral values, the roles to be played by the federal government, the honesty and impartiality of government agencies, the fundamental integrity of our election processes, the notion of what a nation is, and even the nature of national allegiance. As a matter of history, these are the portents of not just a national decline but dramatic schism and overall collapse, to be followed by some form of brutally authoritarian, centralized control.
Indeed, as of this year to date, all indicators are that the metaphorical Rubicon has been crossed in America. Major agencies of the federal government that directly affect most Americans’ lives (viz., IRS, ATF, CDC, FDA, FBI, DHS, DOJ) have become covertly politicized and weaponized against dissent in word and deed by everyday citizens — and even against many of their customary and traditional practices of living, recreating, working, getting educated, and doing business. And now that Democrats in Congress have recently approved – completely unilaterally — the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, it may be said of Biden’s regime that it will have, once again in American history, “erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” (ref. the Declaration of Independence) The American people mightily resisted just such an onslaught beginning in 1775 and for six hard years afterwards, emerging victorious only after much toil, strife, and devastation.
Will the Democrats hear the modern American people “singing a song of angry men [and women!]” against a new, encroaching enslavement or adamantly continue enacting their program of total control, quite oblivious to it? The next two years, through the elections of 2024, may well be much more than a euphemistic “inflection point” in our unique American story; they may, in fact, constitute a pivotal passage of redemption in the history of self-governance by free peoples everywhere. With wisdom in both action and prayer, a national existential crisis may be averted. Only time can tell.
This is the last entry in my small portfolio of reincarnation experiences for which I have direct experience correlated with some kind of paranormal (aka “psychic”) validation. In June 1993, I embarked on a three-week trip to the State of Israel. The first two weeks were spent touring with a group on a preplanned itinerary of sightseeing, recreational outings, and lectures and viewings, followed by a week on my own, first with a couple of friends visiting more of the Galilee and then by myself in a rental car.
One of my favorite places in the country is the city of Tiberias, which sits on the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (aka “the Kinneret”). This large freshwater lake figures prominently in the Bible and is very picturesque, its shoreline once shared by both Israel and Syria. Post the 1967 Six Day War and Israel’s later annexation of the Golan Heights, this body of water is wholly contained within the geographic borders of Israel. Swimming in its water is palpably refreshing, which I did on several occasions to my everlasting delight. The water is clean and crystal clear, and it felt very fresh on my body’s skin.
When I left Tiberias, I travelled the two-lane highway that leads south through Israel into Samaria (aka Shomron or “the West Bank”) to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, for my bus ride and airflight home. I had ample time to make the return drive, and so I drove at a leisurely pace. It was in the later afternoon, the sun shining brightly on a clear-sky day, when I spied a small, white roadside sign on a pole with an arrow end pointing to the right, about 12 miles south of Tiberias. It simply read “Belvoir”. My knowledge of the French language was sufficient for me to recall that this literally meant “beautiful to see.” Curious, I made the right turn and snaked my way up a hilly incline till I reached a small guardhouse hut on the other side of a rise in the terrain. A man standing in it sold me a ticket and waved me into the open parking area behind him. At 4:00 PM in the afternoon that day, I was the only person visiting whatever this site was.
Belvoir was a Crusader fort that was erected to protect this frontier of the Holy Land against the Muslim invaders under Salah ad-Din (aka Saladin) in the 12th century CE. All that remained in 1993 were stone walls and concentric embankments with many interior partitions made of the same material. Mostly sand but some green grass underlay my feet both inside and outside of the many structures. No explanatory signs were then in evidence about anything, and I do not specifically recall receiving a brochure at the entrance that offered any real details concerning Belvoir’s history or significance.
Alone in these ruins that bright summer day under a lowering sun, I wandered amongst all of the walls and structures in quiet awe. It had obviously been quite a construction in its time, and the ambient setting was peaceful and picturesque, looking as it did out over the Jordan River Valley about 1,600 feet below.
Inside the most interior wall, I viewed smaller areas that been partitioned, their floors barren of any structure or accoutrement. However, upon regarding them, I began “remembering” that it was in these discrete rooms where “we” had variously stored our foodstuffs; our swords and shields, lances, and battle armor; our water supplies, and where “we” had stabled our horses. Excuse me, We? It was then that I “remembered” being there, being a part of those who had garrisoned this fort. Climbing up onto the top of the east-facing outer wall, I gazed out over the beautifully serene river valley below, the setting sun casting magnificent shadows onto the hills in Syria across the river. Then, hearing the year “1200” in my mind, I “recalled” again that I had been there before, that I had been a knight of some kind, and that we had all been conquered by the Muslims at some point. In a gesture of mercy, the victors had allowed the knights to take their individual horses and go home (presumably to Europe via Jerusalem), but the common soldiers (whoever and however many they were) were ritually slaughtered.
Whoa! Was all this “remembering” merely a figment of my imagination, just an overly lurid daytime reverie? There was no way to tell that I could figure. And, how to validate such active imaginings?
Walking among the ruins some more, I left there much later, the sun then being hidden behind the hills to the west but not quite dusk, noting that the ticket-giver had vacated his hut for the day, nowhere to be seen. I drove back to Jerusalem in a somber mood, glad for the time spent in, on, and around the stonework of Belvoir, but still somewhat unsettled by the strength of my apparent recalls. I believed in the reality of reincarnation by that time, having had some vivid past-life regressions by the hand of a skilled regressionist and Ph.D. psychologist who was then the training director for the Association for Past Life Research and Therapies (APRT, later known as IARRT). This was not the first time that I had experienced “direct knowings” of past events and other things, but this was an epoch and train of events I was only superficially familiar with.
Today, the online Wikipedia website provides a concise history:
The Knights Hospitaller purchased the site from Velos, a French nobleman, in 1168. As soon as the Knights Hospitaller purchased the land, they began construction of [the] castle. While Gilbert of Assailly was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, the order gained around thirteen new castles, among which Belvoir was the most important. The castle of Belvoir served as a major obstacle to the Muslim goal of invading the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the east. It withstood an attack by Muslim forces in 1180. During the campaign of 1182, the Battle of Belvoir Castle was fought nearby between King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Saladin.
Following Saladin’s victory over the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin [on 4 July 1187], Belvoir was besieged. The siege lasted a year and a half, until the defenders surrendered on 5 January 1189. An Arab governor occupied it until 1219 when the Ayyubid ruler in Damascus had it slighted. In 1241 Belvoir was ceded to the Franks, who controlled it until 1263.
Another Wikipedia entry provides an explanation of the Knights Hospitaller. In pertinent part, the “Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem” (aka the Knights Hospitaller) was a medieval Roman Catholic military religious order that arose in the early 12th century CE under its own papal charter. Originally formed to administer a hospital in Jerusalem that cared for sick and injured pilgrims to the Holy Land, and headquartered there until 1291, it became charged with the care and defense of the Holy Land after the success of the First Crusade.
That the Muslims under Salah ad-Din may have spared the lives of at least some of the Christian defenders of Belvoir is evidenced by this Wikipedia entry for the Battle of Hattin, which had concluded with the Muslims’ victory just a year and a half earlier:
The Crusader king, Guy of Lusignan, was taken to Damascus as a prisoner and granted release in 1188, while the other noble captives were eventually ransomed.
After executing Raynald of Chatillon, Saladin ordered that the other captive barons be spared and treated humanely. All 200 of the Templar and Hospitaller Knights taken prisoner were executed on Saladin’s orders, with the exception of the Grand Master of the Temple. The executions were by decapitation. . . .
Captured turcopoles (locally recruited mounted archers employed by the Crusader states) were also executed on Saladin’s orders. Though the prisoners claimed to be Christians by heritage, Saladin believed the turcopoles to be Christian converts from Islam, which was only punishable by death under the form of Islamic jurisprudence followed by the Ayyubid state. Modern historians have corroborated Saladin’s belief that the turcopoles in the Ayyubid–Crusader wars were mostly recruited from converted Turks and Arabs.
The rest of the captured knights and soldiers were sold into slavery, and one was reportedly bought in Damascus in exchange for some sandals. The high-ranking Frankish barons captured were held in Damascus and treated well. Some of Saladin’s men left the army after the battle, taking lower-ranking Frankish prisoners with them as slaves.
My own at-that-time untutored “memories” of Belvoir circa 1188-89 only sparingly coincide with the history described above, even if not totally at variance with it. But, more importantly, without some reasonable form of independent validation, all of these recollections could easily be attributed to mere fanciful mental meandering on my part. Just my imagination run amok on a quiet summer afternoon in an ancient foreign land with a long and storied political and religious history. I was thus left not knowing what, if anything, may have been true for a long time.
Flash forward to December 2007: I had a reading with a friend of mine who has been training to be a psychic with a company called Psychic Horizons located in Boulder, Colorado. Denise G. was a successful businesswoman with Xerox who had demonstrated a natural ability in reading people who sat with her, detailing significant events and people in their lives with an uncanny accuracy. That day, she read me “blind”, that is, without any frontloading by me of any details of my current life or issues of concern. When I asked her about any past lives of mine that she could discern, she replied as follows:
It appears that you had a life as a Templar knight during the time of the Crusades. Your fort was captured by the Muslims, but your life was spared. You returned to Europe a broken man, likely to Germany, and you died there very sad and lonely.
And that was it. A stunningly clear confirmation, if again spare in the details.
Later, I related this episode to an older female friend, Pat L., who was also a long-time believer in reincarnation, she having had dreams and readings that seemingly indicated a past life as a female European royal who had been sentenced to death and was beheaded. She believed a former romantic partner in her current life had been her illicit paramour in that earlier life, and that I had signed the death warrant in some official capacity that authorized her decapitation. For myself, I had no memory then or afterwards of any such act or such a life, so that remains an unsolvable mystery at this time. However, she also related that she had seen me in a dream as a Templar knight in another life, signified as such by a tunic I was wearing with a red Maltese cross emblazoned on it. More she could not say.
So, what does all of the foregoing prove? It is hard to assert that these two anecdotes validate beyond a reasonable doubt that I lived an earlier incarnation as a medieval Templar or Hospitaller or Teutonic knight and served in the Holy Land defending a Crusader fort (“castle”) against a massive Muslim army bent on reclaiming it for Islam. Still, the close correlation between these psychical anecdotes and my original ruminations while walking the site of Belvoir castle in June 1993 is inescapable. Given my earlier experiences with reincarnation and their independent-source validations, all as detailed in earlier posts I have made to this blog, it seems likely that I did experience a lifetime in some medieval military order’s service to Christ and Christendom against Salah ad-Din’s Muslims in what is today the modern State of Israel. All I can think to say is, Praise Christ I survived the siege of Belvoir!
Running for President in 2024?CPAC 2022 Straw Poll’s Top Two Contenders
AWAKE, NOT WOKE. Sounding this defiant and clarion meme, the American Conservative Union once again, for a second time, hosted its annual gathering in Orlando, Florida, this year at the Rosen Shingle Creek resort hotel from February 24 -27, 2022. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is the largest yearly conclave of proudly patriotic Americans who are unabashedly conservative, adoring of America as originally conceived and traditionally understood, and not at all chary of proclaiming its foundational exceptionalism. In the face of the most radical-left regime ever to rule this nation, conservatives and libertarians have needed a collective, metaphorical “shot in the arm” (no thanks to “Dr.” Anthony Fauci) to inspire sustained, principled civil resistance and counterforce to the onslaught of absurd, delusional, and destructive policies emanating from the White House and Congress since January 20, 2021. This they got in spades at CPAC 2022. The parade of luminaries with great things to say was stellar and galvanizing, providing a robust springboard for the coming midterm electoral battles later this year. Clarity of purpose, perspective, and position was palpable in every speaker’s remarks, whether a current officeholder, candidate for elective office, pundit, or policy wonk. CPAC always delivers the core conservative message, of course, but this year it did so especially well.
The impetus now for conservatives to gather, get inspired, get energized, get organized, and get working to elect conservatives at every level has never been greater, being loudly demanded by the increasingly disorienting times we live in. After only one year of total control of the federal government by hard-Left Democrats, the regime of Joe Biden threatens to erode, cleave, and subvert Americans’ liberty, prosperity, security, moral cohesion, and sovereignty. All conservatives and other sane, sensible citizens must rally in the face of the rolling insurrection against this constitutional republic that began in earnest on Inauguration Day 2021. Presto!, this CPAC provided the counterrevolt with a loud and splashy launch.
The speaker line-up was particularly compelling, with a multitude of celebrity pundits, commentators, wonks, and strong conservative candidates for elective office across the nation. But early on, one of the most convicted advocates at this or any other year’s CPAC confab was the current governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, already a conservative icon in his first term for his many principled actions in signing legislative bills and issuing executive orders that honor and will surely work to guarantee Floridians’ safety, security, election integrity, public morality, and educational sanity. In a 20-minute stemwinder, DeSantis cited his aggressive countermoves against “Faucian dystopia” (disavowing the federal vaccine mandates and passports), electoral subversion (outlawing ballot harvesting and the privatizing of election management), Big Tech elitist censorship (penalizing it criminally), public street chaos (criminalizing political rioting), transgender ideology (protecting women’s athletics), radical demographical transformation (banning sanctuary cities and removing illegal migrants to Delaware), and usurpation of parents’ child-raising authority (banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory and child sexualization in K-12 schools). In addition to emulating President Trump’s appointment of three jurists to the highest court in his state, DeSantis has halted the onslaught of “progressive” efforts to rob Americans of their rights, freedoms, jobs, businesses, and sovereignty. In less than four years, he has set a template for a 10th Amendment defense of Americanism that all states should act to follow. At CPAC, he was rewarded for his raw combination of smarts, courage, creativity, and steadfastness: In a straw poll conducted among the attendees for their preferred nominee for president in 2024, he outpolled all other new possible contenders combined, besting everyone except Donald Trump. With Trump eliminated as a choice in a second round, DeSantis cleared the table even more dramatically. America has a bold new champion in the event Trump decides not to run again in 2024.
Another striking highlight was a speech by journalist/author Julie Kelly, who chronicled the partisan authoritarian abuses and derelictions of the Biden regime since the sensationalized riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. From the mass arrests and incarceration of peaceful patriotic attendees at that event without due process, bail, legal representation, speedy trials, and humane treatment to the abject failure to hold criminally accountable any of the rioters, looters, arsonists, and killers who tormented so many American cities in the summer and fall of 2020, Kelly painted an Orwellian picture of an administration selectively sanctioning political violence, censoring opposing views, resisting legitimate inquiries, suppressing video evidence, misusing law enforcement, and eroding and ignoring many sacred legal norms and constitutional protections. She exhorted the audience to recognize how very critical to the future of American Liberty the upcoming elections this year are: Failure at the polls is not an option if our free republic is to survive.
The critical issue of energy supply for the nation was spotlighted by Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD), an ardent advocate for American energy production and independence. Cataloging the stream of injurious restrictions, permit withholdings, and project abrogations of the O’Bidenistas, she reminded attendees just how essential to prosperity a free and thriving domestic energy-production market is. Along with Governor DeSantis, Noem acted throughout the Covid scare of 2020-21 to maintain her citizens’ freedoms to conduct business, attend their jobs and schools, worship, and avert all mandates and lockdowns. Her clear-mindedness, staunch pragmatism, and firm reliance on traditional American precepts of governance will likely make her a serious contender for higher office in the coming years.
In one of his now-trademark 90-minute orations, President Trump delivered a rousing review of his manifold successes as president, warned of the plethora of threats Americans face under the Biden regime and Pelosi/Schumer Congress, catalogued the many electoral depredations orchestrated by radical Democrats and Big Tech that criminally deprived him of a second term in 2020, and urged his supporters to work for the resumption of the policies and acts that were making America a truly great nation again. Advocating for renewed energy independence, a completed border wall, strict migration controls, a pantheon of election reforms, new presidential termination authority over federal bureaucrats, a revitalized pro-America military, a strong and resolute America First foreign policy, full prosecution of violent criminals, an end to Covid-inspired mandates, the empowerment of parents to veto radical gender ideology in schools, and the legal breakup of Big Tech’s oligarchy, Trump had the audience repeatedly standing and applauding with giddy and gleeful approval. Rising in tempo and high passion, he responded to the aims of what he characterized as “the radical, power-hungry ruling class” to extinguish “our identity as Americans and rob us of our liberties” with this Churchillian peroration: “The People of America will not surrender our borders, our culture, our faith, our values, our history, our liberty, or our children to a small band of bullies and extremists who want to tell everyone else what to do.” It was, once again among many, a vocal tour de force , one that signals to this observer that Donald Trump will be running for president again in 2024. Coyness be damned.
The charge to CPAC’s attendees this year was annunciated loud and ringingly clear by many speakers throughout the conference. In perhaps the most succinct, stirring call to action to American patriots in 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, to tumultuous applause, exhorted the assembled throng to: “Stand Up, Lean Forward, and Fight Back!” If such brio fully materializes throughout the nation in the coming months, 2022 may well be a singularly pivotal year in American history. May this so “woke tyranny” be gone!
This observer continues to be skeptical that America, under the O’Bidenista regime, really wants any direct and open military conflict between Russia and America over Russia’s now two-month-old military invasion of Ukraine. However, Fox News Channel news host Tucker Carlson posited last night on his nightly show that President Joe Biden and the national Democratic leadership are actively precipitating such a conflict as a means of toppling Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin and thereby securing total regime change in his nation. Why? As Democratic punishment for Putin’s and Russia’s covert complicity in Donald’s Trump’s presidential election victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. This, despite the now widely acknowledged fact there was no Russian collusion in that year’s election that aided in Donalld Trump’s astounding win and that the whole delusional Russia-Trump collusion campaign was a cynically concocted, wholly seditious machination of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The evidence of a coup attempt is now in abundance and has been for some time now, but the serious federal prosecutions have yet to begin. The “when” can only be a matter of conjecture at this point, virtually sidelined by the press of many newer, late-breaking madcap events, both at home and abroad.
All that said, in the event of war between Russia and NATO and the U.S., qui bono? Well, China, of course. And with communist Chinese influence coursing through the D.C. intelligentsia, could this all be a ploy by China (with connivance by America’s woke elites) to eliminate its two biggest strategic rivals via a kinetic confrontation between them? One in which China would not at all be directly involved. Then, with both major adversaries much weakened — perhaps even destroyed (one or both) — China will surely emerge as the world’s only superpower. And then, in short order, it’ll be “Goodbye Taiwan” (perhaps without ever firing a shot) — and likely goodbye to every other free nation in the world as well.
Can we thank Joe Biden (and the man [men?] behind his curtain) for this real-life actualization of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, both here and overseas, all at the same time? Maybe the Nobel Committee in Oslo should look into this unfolding tale of some Obamaesque “potential promise” for a new, even more demented Peace Prize selection of him — or better yet (much more sanely!), the International Criminal Court in the Hague for a wider inclusion of war criminals in the dock. The dusty Doomsday Clock of yesteryear’s Cold War is ominously ticking once again — only more suddenly now, more precipitously, and yet really no less precariously.
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