Currently, traditional and venerated mores are mocked and ridiculed while the bizarre and fringe are normalized and mainstreamed. In this vein, questionable attitudes and behaviors garner unflinching applause by society for fear of discrimination, thus allowing them to fester and run amok instead of receiving proper treatment from trained mental health professionals. Likewise, the majority of amateur and professional sports leagues are failing to understand, and live up to, the concept of their existence. Although hockey continues to be a tolerable refuge, current leadership, particularly in baseball and football, seems hellbent to implement changes disguised as innovation and “woke” policies diminishing any entertainment value.
Honestly, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and, especially, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) very well could be the latest hope for saving our constitutional republic from the radical left’s destructive agenda that enables these conditions. With no other Democrats caring or willing to stand up to Speaker Nancy Pelosi or “the Squad” in the House of Representatives, Manchin and Sinema stand out as Senate mavericks in the spirit of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Seems many, if not most, Americans do not even understand the concept of either a constitutional republic or federalism; sadly, this clearly includes the current administration. Blame our poor civic education in this country, replaced by diametrically-opposed ideological indoctrination curricula disguised as it.
In conjunction with this circumstance, an entire generation is being programmed for blind obedience as brainwashed and paranoid automatons unable to critically think or forthrightly act. All of it perpetrated by the cultist inheritors of the vainglorious self-esteem movement and the equally abysmal common core that afforded neither natural valuation or intrinsic congruity. When I once thought about pursuing a teaching career, the groundwork for this situation was in its nascence and certain prerequisites just then being implemented. Today, I could not imagine attempting to teach in such a chaotic and absurd environment, especially as a history teacher confronted by current events and cancel culture that subverts any modicum of education.
Is it any wonder, then, that people continue to believe, and be manipulated by, disinformation and outright lies spread concerning multiple current “crises” - and even more so about matters that should be labeled as such but are not - over the past year? They live in fear - exactly as desired by autocrats and martinets attempting to maintain provisional, and waning, control and power - rather than acknowledging the truth. The truth that they have been deceived and fleeced over that same period of time by these so-called “leaders” and “experts” claiming, without question or challenge, that the sky is falling. When the moment is reached, there is a necessity, if not an obligation, to no longer acquiesce to such charlatans.
For as Simon & Garfunkel vocalized, “silence like a cancer grows.”
To remain silent is no longer beneficial, nor obligatory, for the reticent plurality. Undeniably, it is beyond time to take back this world from those attempting to usurp it by deceit and graft.
©2021 Steve Sagarra