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It is one thing being “anti-establishment” when politicians are fearful of confrontational media. It is a complete other thing if the establishment is leftist and showing their teeth!
How many old “liberals” just were “anti-establishment”, anti-business, anti-other-party, the faithful opposition?

When the current “establishment” comes after you because they are truly bad, how strong are you? Are you willing to stand for what you believe? You may not have any other opinion than what is deemed acceptable? How well can a human stand that? (Most humans are too naturally disobedient to stand for that!)

Political establishments and towns tend to corruption. But, as you are finding out, leftist establishments do not like contrarians! You must sing their songs, or they will come after you. Corruption in the political class is never good for regular, more law-abiding and peaceful citizens. There is always a need to expose and limit the excesses. The problem today is that it is all out of control.

America needs a political reset with the founding flavor. Just changing party does not do much of anything. The people and bureaucracies are what must be changed. The added problem today is that much of the media is in the establishment! We do not need “Pravda” in America! Their job is calling out the corruption. The news organizations have always been for confrontation and exposés! Today they have just been “carrying water” for the Democratic Party. This is even more corrupt than their historic normal.

While it is humanly fun to stick needles in the party balloons, we need something different today. The leftists and their teeth are out of place in America. The experts in all fields have bought the “cool-aid”. Many of them could be forcibly retired. Some of the media could be fired. Some of the politicians could lose their next election. It takes effort to rework something that is broke! There is a disenfranchised, silent majority in America today that could make a great difference. Who silenced them/us? Why have they/we accepted it?

The current system is not on the Constitutional plan. We have the “best” government that money can buy! Excuse my sarcasm! It is not the founders’ plan. They assumed too much for humans and their political capitols! Politicians tend to corruption. Statesmen fight it more. We have had few statesmen in the last hundred years. (Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt took us off the proper American rails. Several other presidents since have just added to the problem.)

Trump has been a “loose cannon” in some parts of this establishment. He has been right on in other parts of it. But he does not sing their songs, so he has to go, or that is, not come back to their private sandbox! He is a bundle of mixed metaphors! While much of his accomplishments were good for America, several of them were not. “Operation Warp Speed” was bad. It did what was promised. The bad part was that good vaccines require testing for efficacy. It was tested on the population. That almost falls into the evil class. Some people made huge amounts of money, and many died waiting for it. Why was it immediately bad for the doctors actually treating Covid with existing medicines? We only heard that they were supposedly charlatans! (Those words were suggested but not used!)

While the Trump Administration accomplished more good American things than Reagan’s, all we hear is the establishment’s hate. This is what fuels Trumps’ adamant base’s support. The problem with that is today’s situations will not be fixed by another single Trump Administration, no matter how good it is. Our citizens must fix the political parties, Congress, the Washington, D.C. bureaucracy, America’s schools and the media. It will take much longer than one term. It took 100 years or more for all that to get out of control, it’ll take some years to fix it.

America’s voters and then Congress have the responsibility to work at fixing it. For all Christians and Jews, America needs your prayers. A historical note: If the founding generation could do it with a foreign army on the ground, warring political parties, somewhat disconnected colonies, often hostile indigent tribes and a confrontational media, today ought to be a cakewalk! It cost many of them their lives! Today is getting to that point!

One of the greatest problems today is that a majority of our citizens do not see the picture of all that is going on. They see only parts of it. The repairs must start at the bottom. The school boards, the city governments (especially)! The state governments generate many of the people that could serve well in Congress. The political parties are supposed to be helping us do this. They have been focused only on their own continuous total political power!

Impossible? It is possible, but we must be determined to invest the effort and information necessary to get more people paying attention to it all. We do need prayers and a more reasonable, truthful information to do this. It is HIM-possible! The question is: Are we willing to do the necessary work?

GOD can fix it today! But humans learn little when HE fixes things. We must be more responsible and active in every generation. America was originally built to do that. We are not using that system well today, if at all.

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