George Rebane
Division is caused by Trump’s speeches is now the steady narrative from the national propaganda outlets. Specifically, it’s the speeches in which he mentions the protests cum riots that result in death and destruction that have now emerged as the daily visible signs that divide our country. Were they not of evil intent, then one would have to ascribe to them ignorance of how primitive causality works.
‘Settled science’ is the fools’ errand on which the Dems have sent the country’s light thinkers. Evidence abounds from countless sources that even the basics of ‘standard of care’ for C19 is an item of lively debate among health workers. This was detailed in the 1jul20 WSJ in the report ‘Months Into Coronavirus Pandemic ICU Doctors are Split on Best Treatment’. In these parts I wrote a Union piece in the attempt to enlighten the local leftwing loonies about settled science (here), and was lambasted by the know-nothings as therefore being against science.
“Invest in Black America” is another movement inviting more monies be spent on enterprises for racist reasons. Their rallying organization is on gatheringforjustice.org. Originally founded by Harry Belafonte aggrieved by hearing of an unruly black girl being taken out of a classroom by police, and now operating with renewed purpose on the streets across America. Today the organization demands that both public and private funding be funneled into black holes (double entendre intended) with an equal likelihood of getting any return or benefitting African-American communities. That for the simple reason that billions have already been spent for no visible benefit (according to their own assessments), and there has been no change in the recipient communities to support any reasonable expectation that this time it will be different. It was then a recalcitrant culture which prevented progress, a culture which has now grown even more hostile to self-reliance, enterprise, and capitalism.
America’s dumbth – in these pages a perennial paean to our dysfunctional education system – is now being reported on by so many authors, analysts, and observers of the national scene. One of the most recent pieces appeared in the NYT (gasp!) book review reporting on a just published book by Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. From there we read, “If only Americans knew more about the world. It’s a common refrain among many foreign policy intellectuals, and Richard Haass joins the chorus in The World: A Brief Introduction. Young Americans suffer from poor educations, he contends, while older people find it hard to keep up with profound changes that have unfolded since the Cold War order crumbled three decades ago. The consequences of ignorance, Haass warns, are serious: American disengagement from the wider world and poor decision-making at a moment of mounting global dysfunction.” Our country’s wholesale ignorance is so pervasive that it can be seen in daily interviews with the rioters who have no clue about the basics of Americana, deficits also corroborated by our local leftwing loonies who frequent here and our community’s media. The latter have no concept of the intellectual state of our nation, let alone their own abysmal deficit as can be seen by their desperate denials of this state of affairs, and baseless accusations of people (e.g. me) who attempt to enlighten them. Again, is it evil or simply profound ignorance?
[6jul20 update] First black Fed president Raphael Bostic writes that “systemic racism is a yoke that drags on the American economy.” In his recent paper Dr Bostic states that the pandemic “has coincided with a rethink inside the Fed of how it should evaluate the impacts of its policy decisions on those at the margins instead of focusing on broad aggregates”. His Fed colleagues agree with this shift of priorities, perhaps because of the central bank’s poor overall record of dealing with the country’s economic aggregates and now with the Left ascendant, it would be an excellent time to instead give minding the margins a try. There’s gotta be a prudent policy pony in there somewhere. (more here)
President Trump’s Mr Rushmore speech was judged by most (not burdened by TDS) to be his best since inauguration. However, and in lockstep, the hate Trump chorus immediately broke out with the same song – “At Mt. Rushmore, Trump uses Fourth of July celebration to stoke a culture war.”, LA Times; “Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message.”, NYT; “Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at Rushmore”, AP; “At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day.”, WaPo. A less hate-filled reading would reveal that the speech contained an accurate assessment of the state of the nation, and nothing divisive nor racist, save that today’s thought police consider any mention of the riots and turmoil in the streets to be prima facie evidence of divisive racism. It is people like me, and those who counsel the inevitable Great Divide as an alternative to tyranny, who may be accused of being judiciously divisive. (more here)
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