We are living in a time when many people shake their head about things going on in our country and ask, “how did we get here?” Ideas and policies that would have been laughed out of the room just a few short years ago, are now being promoted at all levels of government, academia, industry – even the military. To make matters worse, individuals in lofty positions of power seem to be going along with the most excruciatingly bizarre ideas as policy for mainstream America. To understand how we got here, it is important to look at those in power and their actions.
Who can forget Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement about the costly boondoggle Affordable Care Act that “we have to pass it to see what’s in it?” Here is a senior member of Congress actually admitting that she does not know what is in a bill that she would be voting for; a bill that impacts one-seventh of the entire U.S. economy. Imagine how much horrendous legislation gets passed simply because Rep. Pelosi and others like her do not know what they are voting on? Then there was one of the most mind-blowing statements of all time from Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson who, during a Congressional hearing about a military buildup in Guam stated that “my fear is that the whole island will become so overpopulated that it will tip over and capsize.”
It is only laughable until you realize that this individual must evaluate and vote on legislation that impacts the entire nation and its future.
A statement that is as ghoulish as it is insane was uttered by former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, while discussing abortion up to the moment of birth. He had this to say about a baby who survives an abortion, “The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
One can only imagine the twisted dialogue that would culminate in whether an infant lives or dies.
Another recent event that made headlines occurred during the hearings to confirm then Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. When asked if she could provide a definition for the word woman, she responded “no I can’t. Not in this context, I’m not a biologist.” Needless to say, the response from many in the public was mostly utter shock. Here we have someone appointed to the highest court in the land and could not, or at the very least, would not answer the most basic of questions.
Part of the reason that we are in the current state we are in is that make believe is now being treated as if it were reality and accorded the same consideration and accommodation, both socially and legislatively. One example is the fad of “furries” or people who identify as cats. Frankly, no one cares who or what one pretends to be, until demands begin to be made of the rest of the world to play along with the silliness. Numerous parents have relayed firsthand accounts of students wanting school officials to “meow’ at them, or students being led around on a leash during school hours. With test scores plummeting and learning loss at epidemic levels, the last thing our education system needs is to cater to these ridiculous distractions.
As incredibly outlandish as these statements and policies may be, there is a relatively easy solution to help the pendulum swing back to some semblance of sanity. If everyone who is fed up with what is going on would research the issues, learn about the candidates and their stance on the issues, and come out to vote in large numbers, we could immediately turn the tide against all of the flaws in the leadership that have befallen the country at every level of government and allowed the chaos we are currently seeing to take hold.
