Loading ...Everyone says they want America to be fixed. Who knows what that means and has the guts to see it through?
Very few voters comprehend the mess we are really in or how it came to be, you can tell that just by listening to them. How can they hire the next leader to fix problems they themselves cannot see? I have a small nucleus of friends who understand where we are as a nation but they are vastly outnumbered by citizens who are fooled by politicians and their media cronies.
The misled majority believe we can elect a new President and fix everything if we make the right choice. They believe their candidate can fix their party, the system and the world.
No new President can unite America for solutions and the thinkers know it. Back in 2008 when everyone was saying it was our last chance for peaceful solutions they were right, then we blew it. The clowns in Team GOP blew it by nominating McCain and Democrats blew it by electing Obama. Our fate was sealed when the GOP proved they did not have the patriotic guts to force Obama out of office. Over the past 8 years we have finished our journey to the land of No Good Way Back. There are too many severely divided and angry factions to unite us behind effective solutions.
Consider our major problems and who the solutions affect and you will see what I mean. Start with illegal immigration, a current hot-button issue. Both sides caused it, both let it ferment and now we have so many here the problem is saturating every corner of our country. They have been dispersed into many of our smallest rural towns and now control enclaves of all major cities. They will not quietly accept forced removal and the border wall it would take to keep them from coming back. They will react with violence to the solutions. Our government is not qualified to respond to the upheaval that would result. From the top down the guts and leadership skills are not there. If and when the illegals did resort to violence it would become so widespread all the other opportunists would join in taking advantage of the mess.
Our country is a powder keg waiting for a spark, the immigration solutions are sparks. So is our debt. Spending for entitlements is creating financial disaster for our future, just try fixing it. We have entire families who have lived off government benefits for 3 generations. We have tens of millions of citizens coast to coast with no ambition or useful skills living off what is taken from our workers and borrowed from our future. From free government health care to utility subsidies, free or reduced housing and free food these systems are suffering from widespread abuse neither party has the political courage to repair. The dependency is so entrenched that if we try to fix it now to save the future for our kids the recipients depending on the benefits will react violently from sea to sea. What is their option? They dont have job skills and if they were employable we have no jobs to teach them. Our workforce cannot absorb them.
Drug related crimes and violence are costing us lives and money but what happens if we fix it? This would require getting serious about street gangs along with border controls. Go after street gangs and you are a racist and we know where that leads. Google Baltimore or Ferguson if you forgot. Those gangs are heavily armed and embedded in our cities; tell me how you fix that peacefully, especially while ending the entitlement abuses all their babymamas rely on. The drug gang bangers in our cities are mostly housed and fed through our entitlement systems living among the young women in projects or housing funded by taxpayers. Remove drugs imports and they will have to turn to other crimes. Force them out of government food and housing and they will react. The cops charged with enforcing laws based on real solutions become targets in ground wars throughout every metro area. We do not have the resources to put down the unrest that would result from any of these problems getting fixed.
Can you honestly tell yourself we can drastically reduce entitlements, drug gang crime or saturation by illegals and do it without violent response? How about fixing all 3? This is why the Park Service tells us not to feed the bears, they get upset when you stop.
If we are to avoid cultural and financial disaster the solutions must come quickly or we pass a point of no return we could not recover from. How do we fare while implementing solutions? We need drastic cuts and enforcement of sensible laws but those who actively resist are a larger force than the civil authorities who would be sent to contain them. We dont even know how far the bad guys would go to make their point but we know they would have help.
Every state now has multiple FBI investigations going on as they try to unravel the web of Islamic sleeper cells no one has a good inventory of. What will these nuts do as unrest develops opportunities for them to strike? What would unfriendly nations do to assist resident bad guys if multiple zones of conflict emerged in America? Foreign hackers have proven they can disrupt everything from our power grids to our communication and banking systems. When American law enforcement has their hands full with internal problems the time is ripe for the hackers to get busy.
If the Democrats and socialists win in November we are pretty much finished as America the Republic. We know this because we have already learned conservatives will quietly sit by whining and making excuses for their lack of activism. What the socialists want, they get and conservatives sit around doing nothing but waiting on distant magical elections that never come from them.
If the GOP produces a winner beware. We get Trump, who may or may not follow through on solutions he understands, but would require immense fortitude to achieve. Or maybe we get a Cruz, Ryan or some other establishment hack from within our political gestation chamber that has no record of accomplishment or tested leadership skills. Only a fool would think such a person could or would bring real solutions then successfully preside over the ensuing melee. Guys like Cruz and Ryan are already paid for by donors who like things just the way they are.
Like we said in 2008, that was our last chance to save America peacefully, maybe then it was already too late. Today definitely is. So now we see the Dem/socialist players demanding more from a nation that cannot afford what was already given. On the other hand we have the GOP whose fans believe we have all the time in the world and if we get it wrong in November we just spend more decades trying to save the GOP so they can produce miracles eventually. Then we have Trump, the guy who does know how to fix things but whose solutions will not be well received.
All of this assumes we get past this summer and conduct a normal election in the fall followed by a peaceful transition of leadership.
I do not believe a Democrat loss will be accepted by them. Obama as President has created opportunities for bad actors and they all know time is running out. The division and vitriol now consuming the political discourse in America is already showing signs of becoming uncontrollable. The GOP has been backstabbing and eating their own for decades and now they are too divided to unite. If Trump wins the GOP will not force his agenda in Congress. No matter who is nominated many will refuse to vote for the party pick.
Democrats are suffering from the same internal collapse. The divisions are producing anger and unity will not be possible. The angry factions Democrats nurtured to take advantage of are growing into unmanageable Frankensteins turning on their creators. These mobs will be raising hell in both conventions.
Now what solutions do you want? I can be wrong, add a comment and explain how it will all go well. When you go too far down the wrong path turning back can mean climbing uphill. Yes, there are solutions for the mess voters allowed to develop. How many Americans are prepared to see it through? America first became great after being forced to rise up and do the right thing when it was their time to do so. The cycle repeats and our nation is once again at risk. We will find out if Americans can still do it. Time will tell, people will have to be forced to take care of business just as other great generations were. We cannot endure forever on the acts of others and soon we will decide if we will selflessly commit to our nation as others did when it was their turn. Someone will win and someone must lose but the division we have now is too volatile to persist. The cycle has come to our turn. The bad guys will never sit quietly if a win brings an outsider with a chance to start fixing America. I hope we are ready for what will surely follow.