May we remember this in the weeks, months, and years to come.

Tis certainly a worrisome time, but all is not lost.

In spite of what the media portrays as apocalyptic, the end is not near.  Certainly, COVID19 presents serious challenges.  However, the death knell is not sounding.  Our great nation will recover.

Disappointing, but not surprising, are the actions by politicians, opinion spewers, activists, and media types to first create near panic and then attempt to use it as leverage to get their pet rock project funded, limit American freedoms, change the national cultural landscape, and inject fraud inducements into the election process.  Not only disappointing, it is also repugnant.


We are also seeing the publicity hungry, media porn addicted individuals for who they really are.  Whether it is AOC and her incessant radical pronouncements, actors/actresses struggling to be seen as relevant, speaking heads from various so-called-news outlets, "professional" athletes, the "influencers" pushing out totally unimportant selfies, or the plethora of activists demanding this and that.  These worthless folks contribute nothing but noise.  They aren't working for betterment of the nation, but seek screen time for their names and faces.

Most reprehensible are the elected officials, overwhelmingly Democrats, using this crisis to force big government on the people.  Regrettably, most disaster legislation empowers a single individual (governor or mayor) with extraordinary powers.  Many times unchecked power.  Ostensibly this is so the government, state or municipal, can be more agile and responsive in addressing the underlying crisis.  Sadly, tragically some overstep their mandates.  Of course, prudence and judgment must carry the day to protect their citizens.  But too many examples of the unreasonable are surfacing.  Overreactions, whether due to exceptionally poor judgment or naked pursuit of power in order to pursue their own agendas.  Hopefully the voters will have long memories.

Another comment about the elected exceeding their proper limitations.  Governor Newsom of California was at least honest about it, declaring he saw the COVID19 as providing the opportunity for him to enact his progressive agenda.  More infamously, Nancy Pelosi incoherrently demands a progressive wish list, a wish list that could never be passed through routine legislation.  These two and many others are attempting to ride a crisis on the backs of Americans in order to increase their political power and personal fortunes.  Shameful, disgusting, and reprehensible.

Nonetheless, the vast majority of the nation is adapting, as it always does when faced with real threats, not the manufactured ones MSNBC and Democrat politicians proclaim.  Even though the mainstream media attempts to suppress positive reports, they make their way into the national dialogue.  Reports of average citizens (note...CITIZENS) helping one another abound.  Reports of recognizing our front line heroes, those indisputably essential to our way of life, uplift us. 

May we remember this in the weeks, months, and years to come.