Sol's Culture Wars

Maybe sparked in a restless, dream, but I awakened with an inexplicable bent to compose a rational disclaimer for these upside-down times. Only to realize there is simply no denying our current societal mass lunacy.  There is no refusing responsibility for our culture's inflamed and worsening headline violence. Yet, a disclaimer would list the usual suspects of shadow guilt and complicity: callous and venal media, corrupt public officials, and faceless, unelected power bosses, bureaucrats who quietly decide the sacrosanct boundaries of everyone's fragile freedoms.  Self-promoting social designers, whose someday agendas envision a mythical world of centralized unity, and the sheer dominance over personal belief and behavior. Slander and Liable were seen slinking around a corner, both now irrelevant, leaving town for good. There is no disclaimer for our Constitution tossed into the shredder, laws picking their friends, or the American ethic of justice as a brokered commodity. Cr...

Challenge to my Democrat friends: Read this to the end, and I'll keep it succinct. Generally, I loathe both party machines. My positions are mostly Independent and Libertarian. These are the BIG LIES that the Left pushes, top three: If I want secure borders that keep out Fentanyl and terrorists, then I am racist. If I don't support transgenders in women's sports, or, schools keeping secrets from parents, then I am transphobic. If I want only legal immigration, or, emphasize American products and jobs, I'm xenophobic. These are monstrous mischaracterizations. So, if any Facebook friends here believe I'm racist, transphobic, or xenophobic, I don't want to be so mischaracterized. Please unfriend me now. Nationally, socially, culturally, and politically, the lying and demonizing must end. It's so extreme, hateful, and dangerous.

So, just to recap: Rapist, Sexual assaulter, Racist, Traitor, Criminal, Carpet bagger, Defrauder, Tax evader, Dictator, Elitist lackey, Sociopath, Serial liar, Collusionist, Russian collaborator, Right wing extremist, Insurrectionist, Slum lord, and Trumpist.  These are the top eighteen labels. The last one is 100% true. The rest so far didn't stick. Folks are savvy, by now voters have heard from both sides.

The unprecedented irony is now actually painful to witness. Hate-crazed Democrats have only themselves to congratulate for largely reverse engineering Donald Trump's huge popularity with a smarmy, un-American 'lawfare' strategy.  Multiple dubious trials and convictions, all meant to handcuff Trump's run for the Whitehouse - didn't work. The desperate incumbent team didn't understand the very core principle of our tumultuous Republic: the unshakeable bedrock value of fairness. Voters saw thru the BS.

These strange days, there is a sense that the scarce magic remaining in our lives is vaporizing into cheap fakes, AI machine identities, avatars, or digital wallets. This is all illusion. The intrinsic magic of Creation's innocence is still intact, still unfazed. As if my new smartphone taps to happiness or can replace some touch of human meaning lost and still unfound. Certainly, our kids still bring us hope so that the future is well, constant crisis is status quo, just our messy system.  They say today go with the trends, don't buck progress or question where the old values went, they just left, it was time, they say. Certainly, like the hapless galaxies, the social distance between us expands now faster and faster.

Commander-in-Chief cognitively compromised  they knew it and we  knew it too so now  swamp rats leave rapidly  in single file seeking fast  and new heroes while  not looking back at  the sinking ship of deceit  and subterfuge cargoes  of peddled lies become  anchors of doom.

Never again will I claim that I've seen it all. One candidate is convicted in a thoroughly biased and bogus banana Republic 'jail your opponent' trial. The other - the incumbent - dangerously lies to the country about his mental infirmities, putting all of us at risk. Legacy media is complicit in their shameful malfeasance reporting facts known. No one trusts anyone for good reason. The talking heads have lost all credibility. The dopey experts are looked at sideways. Everyone has an agenda they want to push, and the public has no chance to be informed day to day.  Never again will I think I've seen all the shams, scams, gaslights, and games, all the groveling grifters frothing and grunting for my vote.