How We Are Now

Dear Reader of Reckonin: You may have suffered through my long series of lamentations about the American condition called “The Way We Are Now.” So ain't it nice these days to wake up, tap on the computer, and actually hear some good news for the first time in 50 years? Trump seems to be working on his promises. When was the last time you ever heard of a President doing what he said he was going to do?


Of course, I am not giving a thumb’s up until the Reconciliation monument is back where it belongs on General Lee’s stolen property, and the forts and warships get their right names back. I know it will upset Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren. Somebody may have to take out her fangs before she hurts herself.


The 1960s saw the creation of the irresponsible leviathan government in Washington. Happening, not coincidentally, at the same time as a sharp decline in morality. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was supposed to help the poor. Its actual purpose and accomplishment was to provide comfortable non-work, six-figure employment for legions of Yankee pseudo-intellectuals who consider themselves too important to do any real work. That is the Deep State.


One of the most important of Trump’s initiatives may be curtailing federal grant programs. Having had dealings with federal money-dispensing agencies and academic administrators I know whereof I speak. That is the base of Deep State allegiance for hundreds of thousands if not millions.


Remember that Republicans in Congress, sometimes a majority of them, voted for most of the federal expansion as well as the immigrant flood that has transformed American society. As I have said before, Trump’s real opposition will come from Republicans embedded in the Establishment. They are already blocking his most reform-minded nominees.
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There are large number of Trump’s own voters who don’t understand the real nature of the evils he is trying to do something about. Not surprising. The media have long been a tool of the Establishment, since the people of the media are exactly like the second level people of the Deep State.


Trump needs his own television station to tell the public facts about the evils he is fighting. This should be manageable. Such a broadcast need only be two hours in the evening. It could do completely without advertising. Such an outlet must avoid hiring any “reporters” from mainstream media who are already hopelessly corrupted. It should do what Tucker Carlson and others have been doing but aimed at a larger audience.


This suggestion is simply patriotism. I do not expect any government grant for it.