The popular label has it wrong. Washington is not a Swamp. It is a Sewer.

Why do we have President’s Day? This is a sophomoric idea, though in keeping with America today. Holidays used to be for outstanding people, great contributors to the commonwealth. But “President” is just a category. Should we honour every mediocrity or bad man who our corrupt political parties got into the White House?

The same kind of thinking I recently saw in Three Historic American Documents for sale: The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation. The first two are foundational documents for the United States, agreed to by the people. The Emancipation Proclamation was merely an executive order, perhaps opposed by a majority and concerned only with a minority group. As an executive order it was expedient, dubious, and likely illegal. It does not belong with the foundational documents ratified by the people except in an all-too-common childish way of viewing our history.

Isn’t it strange that people with no accomplishment or merit are empowered to destroy historic monuments to better people than they will ever be? This is not a good sign of the condition of a civilisation.

Destroying memorials and plaques is an intrinsically barbaric act.

The leaders of Russia, China, and Iran are much wiser than the present American leaders. They also love their countries and are loved by their people more than current American national rulers.

Satan is active in our society today. He is never more successful than when people think he doesn’t exist.

Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Tulsi Gabbard, former Representative from Hawaii. She had many interesting things to say about her time in the House of Representatives. About how many Congressman are mainly interested in getting rich and are cowardly subservient to party bosses on the issues.

She is the only person in national politics in quite awhile who has real military experience - two tours in the Middle East. When she questioned the intention of the Syrian operation, she was called a “traitor” by both Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney - accusations which they of course could not back up and provided no answers to the questions she had asked. What is most interesting is that Presidential nominees of both the Democratic and Republican parties were in the same club in trying to defame opposition to official Deep State policy. There is no meaningful distinction between them on anything of importance.

​Gabbard is an interesting person, very intelligent and presentable, and indicating quiet integrity. Trump will miss a beat not to name her his Vice President instead of some “respectable,” empty-suit Republican hack like Pence. Yes, I know she is one-fourth American Samoan and practices a Hindu faith. But haven’t we had enough phony Christians in high office?

Having reached the annoying venerable age of 82, I was just thinking of common things I saw every day in my early years. I’ll bet you, dear readers, have not seen any of them.

Chewing tobacco and spittoons

Snuff, snuff boxes and sticks

Rumble seats.

Party line telephones.

Electric trolley cars

Lots of dirt roads in town, not to mention the country

Front door deliveries of milk, ice, rare telegrams. And mail twice a day.

Mules.

Cotton fields as far as you could see and out to the edge of the road.

Goats kept behind the house.

Nearly every grown man was a veteran of WW I or II.

Real biscuits.

Buttermilk.

30 cent gas; 5 cent soft drink; 3 cent postage stamp; 10 cent bus fare, hotdogs and movie admission. Soft drinks and beer in real bottles, not cans or plastic.

Christmas parades with lively marching bands from black schools.

Teachers who actually made you learn or else. Principals and fathers had applicable belts. Of course, they had real content to teach.

Nobody had ever seen or heard of a Volswagen, not to mention a Toyota. Likewise an exotic thing like pizza.

Prohibitively expensive long distance phone calls, usually only for announcing death.

Almost nobody I knew, except veterans, had ever been on an airplane.

People with polio and theories about its cause, leading us to hours of swatting flies.

Houses, churches, and schools without air conditioning, but with real windows you could open.

Only a few immigrants in town, refugees from Communism, which we knew was a bad thing.

Doctors who would do house visits.

A few politicians left who were genuine Southern orators.

Small black and white TVs, getting only one channel, on for only two hours a day in the evening.

Doubtless we are now better off in many ways than we were. I suspect there is spiritual decline, however---less personal integrity, work ethic, Christian faith, family loyalty, education quality, more government interference in private society.

​Better off? You tell me.

Where did people ever get the idea that the Republicans are or ever have been a conservative party?

I suppose the idea came about because of their tepid opposition to the New Deal. But the Republican party began in revolution - fanaticism and greed, destroying the Union in favour of a consolidated irresistible government. It was a weird combination of fanaticism and greed. The purpose of the Republican party has always been to use the government for the benefit of the very wealthy. To keep power it has relied on the “respectable,” unthinking middle class Northern population.

Aside from fostering Big Business, when in the course of history has the Republican party ever conserved anything?

Aside from the Goldwater episode and Trump the party has never nominated a “conservative” for President. Republican Presidents have increased spending, acquiesced in government-enforced social revolution, and given us Supreme Court appointments that with very few exceptions have disappointed conservatives.

Through most of the later 19th and earlier 20 century, the real conservatives in national position were Southern Democrats and an occasional populist from the rural Midwest. In fact, the Democrats are now what the Republicans used to be---the party of the Northern elites. Now the Republicans are “conservative” only to the extent they have absorbed former Southern Democrats. That acquisition was a completely cynical move---gathering in voters that never had any intention of listening to.

The Republicans remained firmly in the Establishment, which is “progressive” when it wants to be. Reagan made many people feel better, but in domestic affairs his position was tacit submission to the left. Just as the Republican Establishment is now tacitly submitting to the Biden revolution.

Every bad thing that we complain of about Biden’s regime was fully precedented by the Republicans under Lincoln and Grant. Everything the Biden Democrats are doing was invented by Republicans: punishment of individuals for criticizing the government, kangaroo courts, marshaling of minority voters while arming and inciting them, government financial corruption at every level, control of communication, the attempt to make a one-party state, enabling indentured foreign labour to keep American wages down, looking out for the interests of Wall Street and the big banks.

I could go on. That was what “Reconstruction” was all about.

The Democratic Senator from Massachusetts recently pushed through a law to destroy ever trace of Confederate memory from the government. (She even argued for digging up several hundred Confederate graves from Arlington, too shallow to know that a great many sons and grandsons of Confederates are buried at Arlington for their service for the U.S.)

​President Trump vetoed the bill. Congress passed it over his veto with 109 Republicans voting against their President. Some of them Southern, the shallow, empty-suit politicians who have been groomed by the Republicans for public office. The new Republican speaker of the House is one of them, already solidifying his place in the Deep State Uniparty.

For decades under both parties the U.S. government has engaged in catastrophic spending and debt.

For decades under both parties the U.S. government has engaged in failed, illegal, counterproductive wars. It is now under both parties bankrolling two criminal states in war and interfering in the internal affairs of numerous other countries.

Under the present Biden regime:

Borders have been abolished and the American people are being replaced.

Unelected judges and bureaucrats are in a concerted campaign to eliminate freedom of speech by punishing individuals who have spoken against government policy.

The same powers are interfering in private life to impose conditions that are opposed by the people, counter to civilisation, and repugnant to common sense.

Can you name one thing that any Republican in national office other than Trump has done to oppose the Biden revolution?

It looks like Trump, due to uprising at the grassroots, has the Republican presidential nomination. Of course, the future is open. In a society where millions of people want to put a former President in prison and will do anything to prevent his reelection, assassination is a next step.

What do you suppose the mainstream Republican leaders are doing now that Trump has the nomination? Are they studying how to support their incoming President and the policies demanded by his supporters?

Don’t count on it. When Romney, Johnson, Rubio, Cotton, the Bushes, and such ilk get together, they are studying how far they can pretend to support Trump without endangering their flattering and profitable places in the Establishment. They will do nothing to support the reform agenda. It is not in their character. Their world is posturing and posing on the advice of advertising experts. It never occurs to them to consider the welfare of the people and the commonwealth. Their only idea of competition is maneuvering for place in within a meaningless party machine.

They will be the biggest obstacle to achieving any change under a Trump administration.

​The new Republican Speaker of the House was elected as a pretend conservative. He is nothing of the sort. He strives to be a member of the Establishment not a leader of reform. His every spontaneous statement reveals him to be a standard liberal.