STANDING FOR SOMETHING

Whenever a tragedy in America arises regarding gun violence the first thing the Democrats and their propaganda arm(main stream media) do is to blame Trump, deplorables and guns, usually in that order. 

In Australia we intone 'thank goodness for John Howard' forgetting of course that the entire Australian population numbers less than California...but that's an issue for another time.

The automatic default position of the Global/left/elite(GLE) is to project responsibility on everyone else without even considering the possibility that the worldview they have been pushing for decades might have some part to play.

The obvious question then is; what might be the philosophy that the GLE in America and the West are pushing?

J H Kunstler, social commentator and cultural sage offers some opinions on the matter:

"This is exactly what you get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. Extract all the meaning and purpose from being here on earth, and erase as many boundaries as you can from custom and behavior, and watch what happens, especially among young men trained on video slaughter games."

He's right. Young men are the problem. Many of our boys are living in what Kunstler describes as an "abyss of missing social relations" with "no communities, no fathers, no mentors, no initiations into personal responsibility, no daily organizing principles, no instruction in useful trades, no productive activities, no opportunities for love and affection, and no way out."

Our leaders are too cowardly to say so, but the signs are everywhere. Mass shootings are just the final manifestation. Suicide rates for young Americans are the highest ever measured. So are drug-related deaths. Fifteen percent of millennials still live with their parents. Fifty years ago, more than 80% of American adults ages 25 to 34 were already married and living with a spouse. Today, less than half of adults in that age range are married. A huge portion of American young people isn't in any kind of relationship at all. It's no wonder millions of young people feel helpless, miserable and alone. They lack friends or parents or religious organizations to give their lives purpose and moral coherence. They live in a suffocating culture they feel no control over: Local identity and local institutions are the weakest they've ever been in this country.

Most people think our democracy is fake. The policies they live under, the jobs they hold and even their personal opinions are controlled by tech monopolists, media scolds and Washington bureaucrats. America is supposed to be a free country, but millions of young people look around and feel like they're trapped in a stagnant dystopia. In such an environment, a few people will lash out in violence. Millions of others will simply fade away, from suicide or overdose or diabetes. This is the real crisis, the one that produced those horrifying scenes on TV over the weekend. Washington is happy to pretend it isn't happening. But it is. You can't ignore it forever.[Carlson/Patel]

Unfortunately anybody with half a brain and a social antenna attuned to real news as opposed to fake news has been able to observe this phenomena developing for a long time. What can we do?

I believe people are beginning to wake up. The populist leaders emerging around the world in America, the UK, Brazil, Greece and Australia are signifying a changing of the guard, and the GLE hate it! That is why there is the appearance of chaos (in some cases real chaos) in the Western democracies and even in some of the dictatorships of the world.

If one takes the time to dig a little deeper and look behind the scenes almost all of the turmoil is being fostered by ideologues and their foot-soldiers.

A new freedom is on the march and it behooves those of us who value freedom and the values of the West to stand up in whatever way we can.