Packets of newly printed $20 bills are processed and packaged at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2018
There are 10 new claims that are changing America, and perhaps that change is as good as it’s ever been.
1) Money is a conceit that can be created out of thin air, without a trace. Annual deficits and total national debt no longer matter.
Previous presidents experienced huge deficits every year, but at least they admitted it: the money was real and had to be paid back. And now the situation has completely changed. As the national debt approaches the $30 trillion mark and reaches 110% of annual GDP, our social elites either believe that permanently zero interest rates make collateral obligations irrelevant, or that the larger the debt, the more likely it is that they will be forced to address the required income redistribution.
2) The law is no longer necessarily binding. Joe Biden has vowed to “ensure that the laws are faithfully enforced,” but the current administration has rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some lawbreakers have been prosecuted for violating federal law, while others have gone unpunished. Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are unprincipled, and ideology invisibly dictates the entire process of law enforcement.
Crime rates aren’t necessarily a concern anymore. If someone is carjacked, beaten, or shot, the victim is considered as much at fault as the perpetrator. The victim is often blamed for not being alert, not being perceptive enough, not defending himself, or even actively provoking the perpetrator. Who is the real victim and who is the real perpetrator depends entirely on how exploitative the case is to the left’s vast agenda.
3) Racism is now acceptable. We are first distinguished into categories by race or religion, and secondly treated as Americans, if we are even uniformly treated as Americans. The explicit exclusion of white groups from programs such as college dormitories, safe spaces, and federal aid is now taken for granted and uncontroversial. This is a self-evident retribution for the sins of the past; in other words, a kind of “laudable” racism. It is more guilt-inducing to be forced to be labeled a “racist” than to be forced to label someone else a “racist.
4) Immigrants are mostly better than citizens. The newcomers are different from the natives and are not tainted with the multiple evils of America’s founding history. Most current citizens must abide by the rules of segregation, maintain social distance, attend work at home, and obey all laws.
Yet those who are illegal immigrants are not required to comply with this apparently redundant new canopy of immunity rules. Their children should go to school immediately and not be subjected to quarantine. Illegal immigrants do not have to worry about their own illegal entry or illegal stay, etc. To the elites of our society, illegal aliens are more “masters of the country” than legal citizens, and about half of all law-abiding citizens are irredeemable.
5) Most Americans should be treated like toddlers. They don’t have to provide identification when they vote. The social elite are making up Platonic “noble lies” in the face of the new epidemic-proofing rules, which are necessary to protect the prehistoric human “Neanderthal” (Neanderthal) from harm.
Americans deserve relief from the pressures of job performance, standardized testing and school codes of conduct. Gas prices are rising, electricity rates are rising, and the cost of living is climbing for reasons they don’t know and are not being told.
6) Showing benevolence has become obsolete. Moralistic labeling is all the rage. Climate change activists travel in private jets; social justice crusaders live in upscale gated communities; billionaire elites pose as victims of sexism, racism and homophobia. The elite need these titles to help others. People care about how they advertise themselves as living, not how they in fact live.
7) Ignoring or letting the homeless go is preferable to curing the problem. Allowing thousands of homeless people to eat, drink, smoke and do drugs on public streets and sidewalks is more humane than opening up the construction of affordable housing, forcing the mentally ill to be hospitalized and creating adequate public shelter areas.
8) McCarthyism is a good thing. Throwing away lives and careers due to incorrect thinking can save more lives and careers. The culture of abolition and the Twitter reign of terror provide sufficient deterrence.
Because Americans understand that they can lose their livelihoods by saying one wrong word, making one wrong gesture, or getting one wrong expression, they learn to be more careful and behave more compliantly. The guillotine of social media is a prop for the so-called “woke” (woke) to show their humanity and science.
9) Ignorance is better than knowledge. No evidence or historical knowledge is required to topple a statue, to change a face, or to make a 1619 project. The heroes and heroines of history are simply conjectures. Undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees reflect mere education, not knowledge. It is the brand that attracts the eye, while quality goes unnoticed.
10) “Awakeningism” (wokeness) is a new type of religion that is growing more rapidly and on a larger scale than Christianity. This religion has a larger number of clergy and more power. Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter are the new evangelicals.
Americans fear these rules in private and accept these ideas in disguise in public. These claims may be as fleeting as the morning dew and alert the world to the flak; more likely, they have long been ingrained and deeply rooted in the marrow.
Thinking about these questions will determine whether the future of the constitutional republic will follow the vision of the founding fathers or go astray and fall into the abyss.
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