As we enter our third year of the Biden Administration, I am struck by the speed with which Biden has been able to change the fabric of this country with little or no pushback from the American people. To be sure, the new House Republicans have voiced their opposition to what is happening and there have been some conservative organizations as well as prominent conservative officials and voices that have expressed their alarm. But fully half the country has simply accepted these changes as inevitable.
There could be little doubt that Biden would continue his assault on our Republic in the remaining time of his Administration, after what we witnessed in the first two years. Open borders, ending energy independence, green agenda, significant inflation, and a clear compromised position when it comes to our relations with China … our most significant competitor and threat on the world stage. A completely botched withdrawal from our country’s longest war …
… 13 service members killed after an eighteen-month period during which not a single service member was returned home in a box. Not to mention that we left $18B in advanced military equipment behind thereby creating the fourth largest Army in the world.
A proxy war with Russia in a place that holds no strategic advantage for the US, but has been very effective at emptying our treasury and our reserves of weapon systems that we might need for our own national defense. An obsession with the military defeat of Russia that has its genesis in the old Cold War mentality that seems to possess our Commander in Chief. Then there is the issue of Taiwan … Biden has declared publicly that American military power will be used in the defense of Taiwan --- a comment that has been walked back by his own staff, but one that he continues to state in the public square. The question then becomes WHY? Why would we engage in a war with the Chinese military over an island that they claim to have sovereignty over? Given the current performance of the military leadership currently in the Pentagon, I have to believe that this question has not been given the full analysis it deserves.
The weaponizing of our justice system requires mentioning here. While the FBI has been busy arresting pro-life preachers and tracking mothers and fathers who want to understand and approve what their children are learning in government schools, we have Chinese balloons floating over sensitive military installations in the continental US. And we are all being lied to about what was accomplished in the way of intelligence collection by that balloon. More recently, we have been informed via a leaked document that the FBI was preparing to monitor the activities of Catholics who want to practice the Latin Mass --- a clear and present danger to national security if there ever was one!
All of this FBI hubbub while a twenty-one-year-old National Guard Airman is sharing Top Secret information with his gaming buddies and the FBI does not have a clue --- that is, until the press tells them what is going on.
Fentanyl is flowing freely into our country and killing young Americans at an exponentially high rate --- just today, Texas law enforcement busted a driver with over three million doses of fentanyl --- enough to kill every man, woman, and child in America – and the Administration does nothing.
Teachers are suggesting that young people surgically remove their breasts and penis’ if they feel a little strange about who they might be --- clearly, Dr. Josef Mengele experimentation stuff – happening at your local government school!
The Catholic priests that served the service members at Walter Reed Hospital were withdrawn just before Holy Week this year.
It seems their contract with the Hospital to provide religious services to those who requested or required them had expired. A new contract was awarded to …. wait for it … a Woman Owned 8A (Minority Owned and Operated) low bidder who was not prepared to offer the religious services needed during Holy Week. It appears that the service members assigned or treated at Walter Reed have been victimized by this Administration’s constant need to make contract awards and fill jobs based on the color of one’s skin and not on the content of their character or their meritorious qualifications to perform the work. SHAMEFUL! And SHAME on the Generals and Admirals that are allowing this to happen.
And now we have the EPA Administrator issuing America a new mandate --- stricter emissions rules by 2027 for vehicles that burn gas and diesel fuel. The automotive industry is already saying the severity of this emission requirements cannot be met in that timeframe and possibly never. So, this is a clear mandate that the car industry will have to produce and Americans will HAVE TO BUY electric vehicles.
Vehicles for which the infrastructure currently does not exist. On an electric grid that cannot handle the increasing load. The warning alarms have been ringing, but the President of the United States is in Ireland chasing his family roots and taking questions from 6 graders … but not from the press. An international embarrassment for sure!
History tells us that great civilizations are not defeated by their enemies. They decay and rot from within. So, it was with the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire …
… and even the empires of England and France. Remember that Rome was a Republic before it was a dictatorship, as was France after their revolution; but it was soon taken over by a dictator who led it to ruin. America is still a Republic … but for how much longer? We see former presidents being indicted on the thinnest of charges while the Department of Justice focuses their attention on parents at school board meetings.
China and Russia are teaming up and the US dollar is under attack as the world reserve currency.
Saudi Arabia was once a reliable ally now being courted by China --- Colombia, Brazil and Argentina have all moved away from the US and into China’s orbit.
All were at one time reliable allies of the US. Egypt is in discussions to supply Russia with ammunition for its illegal invasion of Ukraine … Egypt, a country to which the US gives $1.3B in military aid every year.
The title of this essay is “THE END OF TIMES?” Perhaps it is not the end of times in the biblical sense, but it surely is the end of time for the country we all grew up in. Our Republic is slipping away. The election of a conservative in 2024 might be able to stop the bleeding. But if we are going to stop this long slow slide into darkness, we will need the White House and both houses of Congress in 2028 and 2032. It will take 12 years of conservative leadership and legislation, nonstop, to right this ship … nothing less will solve our End of Times.
You are correct on all the
subjects you addressed.
We are barely hanging on as
a Republic.Keep up the good
work.
Nancy Griffin