Overcoming Inspite of All Objections

“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” -Milton Friedman

Corruption, fraud and waste in the federal government is being exposed at a massive scale on a daily basis. Anger has been misdirected at the individuals auditing and uncovering these nefarious activities rather than at the ones responsible for them. Truly disheartening is the pervasive cult of bureaucracy that has been revealed by the oversight endeavor, priorities askew for those clinging to it in supposed defense of “our democracy.” Further, they are petulantly upset that federal employees must justify their continued employment in this overbloated bureaucracy. What they actually defend, though, is continuation of grift and plunder that has defrauded American taxpayers to the benefit of elitist shysters - far more severe with greater consequence than actions taken by the British crown that sparked a revolution centuries ago. It is mindnumbingly absurd, if not exhausting, that attempts to downsize and limit government is lamented as dictatorial by those who advocate for maintaining expansive bureaucratic tyranny.

To sabotage the undertaking, Democrats and a fractured legacy media have deployed their standard tactic: projection. Anything ruinous that would have continued to occur if they still held majority control - along with everything caused by them that did happen during that tenure - is now cast upon Republicans as a dire warning. From ending the Department of Education to reviewing Social Security, all allegedly will be decimated if efforts are successful at remaking a federal government more efficient and streamlined. Education will decline? It already has been for years due to federal bureaucracy. Social Security will become insolvent? It already has been for years due to federal bureaucracy. This is an across-the-board pattern that they continually refuse to acknowledge, for obvious reason. Nevertheless, Democrats’ sky-is-falling mindset when not in power is twisted, if not tiresome, wherever efforts to undue their catastrophic failures are implemented - efforts which the majority of Americans voted for back in November.

Every former president has wielded executive authority, but it is deemed unconstitutional only when objectionable ones use it. Yet, many now ignorantly lecturing about supposed fascism had no such qualms concerning tyrannical actions the federal government and unelected bureaucrats implemented five years ago during the global scamdemic. Even more, these same hypocrites advocate censorship whenever they encounter anything disagreeable to their viewpoint; accordingly, anyone opposed and attempting to counter suppression efforts is, unironically, labeled a fascist. Admittedly, a tyrant dismantling the apparatus of control and power would be an unprecedented anomaly. Add to this mix the routine surge in way-too-online constitutional, history, international affairs and military “experts” and “scholars” posting incoherently on social media. Fearmongering and warmongering always have gone hand-in-hand to stir emotions among the masses, and liberals who constantly decry disinformation nonetheless openly and consistently spread it to create hysteria.

In the game of poker, a person can win if they play their cards right holding none of them. Currently, Democrats hold an extremely weak hand yet are bluffing a stronger position within a dwindling minority. Republicans must call their bluff by continuing to successfully fulfill campaign promises, resisting innate conservative inclinations to subsist on laurels and backslide to mundanely administrate governance as is the characteristically warranted tendency. Contrary in some right-wing circles favoring less audacity, conservative principles do not necessitate a predisposition to constantly maintain a defensively timid posture against more activist liberal ones. To quote President Theodore Roosevelt, “aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.”

©2025 Steve Sagarra

By Providence and Resolute Courage

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” -William F. Buckley

With the re-election of President Donald Trump to a second, non-consecutive presidential term, Democrats have demonstrated an increased disconnect from the reality of the situation. Only a few weeks removed from the inauguration of President Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance - whose ascent to that office should be celebrated in its own right instead of slandered - it already has reached a fever pitch. The reality is that American voters resoundingly balked at continuing the extremist liberal agenda of the Biden administration under Kamala Harris - no doubt yet another potential extension of former President Barack Obama's administration - and which currently is in the process of being dismantled. The disconnect is a failure not only to accept this circumstance but also to comprehend why this is happening. Democrats seem to have the misguided delusion that the Trump administration - in tandem with a full Republican majority in Congress and a right-leaning Supreme Court - would keep intact and maintain the former's calamitous and destructive leftist policies, rather than swing the pendulum back under a conservative agenda for which it has been duly elected into office to implement.

Democrats as a political party have to reconcile that their ideology and worldview has been stymied by an electorate that rejected it. For the soul of the nation to heal from the wounds inflicted by those disastrous policies, it is beyond time for them to take their medicine. Sensitive to the devastation and loss caused by the latest California wildfires, they nonetheless are a prime example of leftist policies literally going up in smoke. While the situation is indeed man-made, it easily could have been avoided decades ago with proper standards of forest management and water collection that radical environmentalists and their monied politicos lobbied against. Like the nation as a whole, Californians hopefully will realize that it is the failure of their elected officials to enact those necessary climate-related policies - rather than defaulting to the usual boogeyman “climate change” hoax - and cast them out of office. Calls by Democrats to be included in the conversation about pertinent issues, many of their own making, is enlightening if not hypocritical; having had years to address these matters, they suddenly feign interest to undoubtedly hinder the effort.

Most people dislike having their worldview challenged, and politicians especially fear losing influence and power, so anyone attempting to is dismissed as either unhinged or unqualified. Of course, it is extremely difficult to even penetrate let alone expunge the brainwash after years of manipulation and propaganda. This is acutely evident as concerns Trump’s cabinet nominees, who have faced an onslaught of melodramatic hyperventilating from the bureaucratic swamp and underlying deep state that is terrified of full exposure and accountability. The reeking hypocrisy alone is insufferable. Moreover, Democrats clearly learned nothing from their election losses and even less its significance given their self-moralizing behavior and lack of introspection. This is highlighted by their recent leadership selections, the newest crop of laughable officeholders nauseatingly recycling and poised to double down on issues and policies that previously alienated voters and failed at the ballot box. More things change the more they stay the same - or, at least, that is how Washington operated before lawfare and assassination attempts. Now, Trump is determined to reverse the chaos propagated by the Biden administration.

Author and humorist E. B. White once wrote, “Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.” (The New Yorker, July 3, 1944) In that vein, Republicans have to continue the momentum and govern on campaign promises made during the election - a notion that oftentimes has evaded them once in the leadership role. Conservative by nature, they must stay on offense rather than default to their usual entrenched defensive posture to buttress the unrelenting efforts by out-of-touch Democrats to wrest back control. Fortunately, the unburdening already has commenced away from the continued decline that could have been under even more catastrophic leftist policies and toward the prosperity that can be over the ensuing years. Time is ripe not to squander this generational opportunity to harness and usher in a renewed American exceptionalism as a beacon of hope that will benefit the cause not only of the United States but also all mankind.

©2025 Steve Sagarra

'Tis (Not) Season For Grinchy Humbugs

Several years ago, I decided to no longer own an automobile as it seemed ridiculous to pay for and maintain something only sporadically used. As such, I mainly walk or ride the bus, occasionally renting a vehicle or using a ride-sharing service when necessary. Of course, this assuredly will change and I will rejoin the great American car culture in the near future. Riding the bus, I have observed that typically everyone keeps to themselves and desires to be left alone - a sentiment I fully embrace and understand - with their faces buried either in their phone, tablet or other gadget. To my point - and this equally pertains to social media as well - although we are all connected in our modern lives, are we really communicating with each other? It is not baseless to believe that this undoubtedly is a contributing factor to society's current ills, to say the least.

Oftentimes, my general aversion of people and overall disdain for humanity is misconstrued as an outright, if not perchance irrational, loathing of both. However, it is quite to the contrary - for the most part. This attitude stems mainly from the study of history and the harrowing atrocities of which individuals and groups alike have been capable of throughout it - and that their contemporary equivalents continue to perpetuate, frustrating any potential wasted by such actions. Having landed on the Moon in 1969, there measurably should be a permanent colony on it by now - if not beyond on the outer reaches of our solar system - to further explore the fundamentals of existence. Instead, humanity continues to devise ways to annihilate itself from existence on this singular body we zealously remind ourselves as our only home.

Like countless others of a certain age, I grew up watching Bob Barker and The Price Is Right - especially on those glorious mornings home “sick” from school. During that one hour of the day, you cheer on and root for strangers to win. This is partly the reason I still tune in:  the  hope that it inspires. Hope not only for individual contestants but for humanity as a whole to succeed. Mr. Barker's genial and considerate demeanor exuded a lot of this optimistic sentiment, passionate in his encouragement toward everyone appearing on the game show; Drew Carey, of course, continues the custom in his own animated and kind way. Imagine if that message would extend past that hour, though, and engulf the world, desperately in need of it, beyond a television screen? One can dream, as many have before.

Merry Christmas and, hopefully, a Happy New Year. To, and especially for, all mankind.

©2023 Steve Sagarra