The black mayor of Richmond who vandalised Monument Avenue now wants to make Richmond into a “casino city.”

Did the globally mandated mask wearing save a single life?

Joe Biden is a museum quality specimen of a political hack.  He has fed at the federal trough for decades, representing a rotten borough, without ever having a real thought about what is right for his country.  He always says what he thinks  people want to hear.  True or false or concern for the consequences never  comes into it.  Founding Americans would weep with sorrow at such a place-holder ruling the people.

Politics is not the realm of doing good.  Millions of insipid, shallow Americans seem to believe that foolishness.  Politics is the realm of vanity, greed, and deceit.

The armed conflict now going on:  One side is led by a statesman and a patriot.  A statesman has a realistic and long term view  of the best interest of his people.  Putin is a statesman and a patriot.  Joe Biden and his accomplices are neither.  They have a puerile self-referential view of the world, are seriously shallow and ignorant of history.  What else explains a claim that “diversity” strengthens the armed forces, against all the evidence of history?  Putin is not a Communist---too smart and experienced for that.  Reverse of the Cold War, Biden and his henchmen are Communists.  They push Critical Race Theory, a form of Marxism.

​In general, one should not criticise and weaken one’s country in time of war.  However, the U.S. is not at war and no constitutional declaration has been passed.  The U.S. government is illegally making war through third parties, based in part on delusional theories of “global democracy.”  This calls for the opposition of every patriot who loves his real country and people. 

Is it not a little odd that people today are getting praise and profit from declaring themselves against slavery, which ended more than a century and a half and five or six generations ago?  Such people, of course, use “slavery” as a weaponised word.  They have no knowledge, understanding, or interest in what life was actually like for black and white Americans in past times.

Heaven knows, Donald Trump has his defects, but he is at least a recognisable American man. Joe Biden is---and always has been---a mannikin without any intellectual or moral substance.  Americans, lifelong victims of advertising, have only an adolescent aptitude for judging the character of potential leaders.  Else Biden would never have risen beyond city council.

Speaking of character, if Americans had any judgment Anthony Fauci would never have become a celebrity and a  guru.  Just a little observation reveals that he is a bad man, the kind of corrupt and self-serving official that historically always appears in degenerating governments.  Americans and our press never ask obvious questions.  What did this man ever do to deserve his high position?  Why is he still exercising power 15 years after retirement age?

Am I the only one who sees the futility of protesting the ongoing destruction of American history we are experiencing?  That is the history of a declining people.  A new people needs a new history to justify their rule.  We have had a President for eight years who had a foreign father.  We have a Vice-President with two foreign parents and many top people today have similar backgrounds.  Why should they care about the history of old Americans?  Their only use for  history, since they have no memorable accomplishments of their own, is as a weapon against the former ruling people because of their alleged past evils.  The America of Washington and Adams, even of Eisenhower and Reagan, no longer exists and its history is alien to our present rulers.  

Many, many years ago, in my callow and misspent youth, I had a lapel button that said:  “Don’t let them immanentize the eschaton.” This was a pretty good saying and conversation starter despite the fact, as I recall, that it was popularized by the intellectually shallow poseur William Buckley.

The saying was an  over-simplified reference to the vast, erudite, and dense writings of Eric Voegelin. Reduced shamefully to the simplest terms, immanentizing the eschaton is an attempt to bring Heaven to earth by the actions of men.  For Christian civilization the given universe is a divine design which includes the human soul.  Immanentising the eschaton  attempts to make men into gods who control history and create a perfect regime according to their ideological dreams. This is, of course, impossible.  Man cannot re-create himself and basic  human nature is a reality in all times and places.  The attempt violates the order of the universe and indicates disorder in the minds of men and in society.  In creating the future perfect world of which they dream, men reject reality in favour   of an imaginary, impossible  world.

This, according to Voegelin, is the characteristic condition of “modernity,”  the defects of which have brought us Communism, Nazism, progressivism, the rejection of traditional wisdom, moral dissolution, and a host of other ills.  The ultimate finish of an attempt to create a dream world is tyranny---the criminalization of dissent followed by  the firing squad.  Failure to create the “new man”  does not deter the progressive, it merely causes him to double down---the inevitable end of which is force against dissidents. We are seeing that now.

Our present American society with Cultural Marxism seems to be progressing toward that end, in some ways even more damaging than Bolshevism.   

The Dream World holds sway.   

The evidence is overwhelming.

Reckonin readers should be aware that our Webmaster, Anne Wilson Smith, has just published an important book,  Charlottesville Untold. It is a thoroughly researched and well-written account of what really happened at the famous Charlottesville event of August 2017.  Contrary to the media’s made-up story and the politicians’ bandwagon comments, it was not a “deadly white supremacist riot.”  It was a classic exercise of anarcho-tyranny in which city and state officials conspired with violent leftist mobs to prevent people who had come to honour General Lee’s monument from assembling and speaking.  It in some ways it anticipated January 6, except in this case it was a direct suppression of free speech.  The book is available at amazon and other places.  The work has already attracted considerable favourable attention and the author has been interviewed on Dissident Mama and Conversation that Matter.  Our webmaster has previously published a children’s  book on Robert E. Lee.

It is perhaps worth noting that we Southerners are not totally defamed and excluded everywhere. Brit superstar Daniel Craig (the latest 007) in a recent film, “Knives Out,” plays his part with a cultured Southern accent.  He is a highly intelligent lead character and does the accent pretty well.  There seems no particular reason for the admirable character to be a Southerner. 

​Our Founding Fathers in their deliberations often referred to “the genius of the people.”  It was a concept long familiar in Western civilizational  discussions of society and government.  What did they mean?

They referred to the particular characteristics of a people that made them an identifiable reality and often a polity.  Ways of life, customs, habits, attitudes, economic pursuits, religion, shared values and concepts of government---a  common sense of their identity as a people. This was always a factor to be considered by statesmen and philosophers.  The “genius of the people” referred to a social reality before government that always had to be taken into account.

The Founders knew that Americans shared something of a common genius, still in formation after the Revolution.  They understood that the  differences between the people of Massachusetts and South Carolina were significant. They even understood there were differences between Massachusetts and New Hampshire and North and South Carolina.  No problem in a confederal union of sovereign states as long as good faith dominated.

By the 20th century a common sense of the genius of the American people had developed.  Just think of the Americans of World War II.  At home and abroad people had a clear sense of what “American” meant. That is now long gone.  There is no genius of a people in Blue America---only a chaos of manners, values, identities, covered by an evil ideology designed to suppress Western civilization at the roots. No real society at all.  Some remnants of an American character as we have known it can be found surviving across Red America, but they are besieged by an aggressive Blue State, leaderless, and no longer fully conscious of their identity as a people.  Any potential leaders of these people are destroyed by the media or the federal police. There is effectively no real freedom of speech, press, and assembly for them. Walking through the Capitol that is supposed to belong to the people is now insurrection. Leftist mobs suppress others as they please.

What do Americans any longer share? Consumerism, debt, television shows, commercial athletics, a fake and evil idea of the purpose of government, and a completely unresponsive ruling class. Two Presidential candidates, Obama and Madame Clinton, have declared in public that a vast part of the population are hopeless “deplorables.” And these are representatives of what used to be the party of the common man. If Americans had any identity, such insults would have driven their authors into hiding.  

But, in fact, such insults go down well with millions of pseudo-intellectuals who like to think of themselves as nobly above the Deplorables.  Future historians, if there are any, are likely to attribute the fall of America to a vast proliferation of shallow learning that is puffed up but disguises a lack of knowledge and wisdom.  A product of the Great Society’s universalization of higher education. This shallow learning is rife among politicians, journalists, professors.  Just listen to their ignorant assertions about history and absurd notions of American omnipotence and virtue in foreign affairs.

What Americans believe and are taught about their history is not bad interpretation. It is a juggernaut of malicious lies.  But  there can be no history where there is no people.  How could we expect immigrant masses from the Third World to know or care anything about the achievements of Americans in founding free institutions and settling a continental wilderness.  We no longer have an American history because there is no American people in effective being.  

Politicians until recently were seldom statesman, and they were often cynical, deceptive, and corrupt.  But they had a tough understanding of how the world really works.  Our leaders, congressmen,  governors and ranking bureaucrats,  now are rich boys without firm character.  They lack the life experience that used to be the lot of even affluent youth. Politics is a matter of posturing to the media and vocal interests.  Many of them have never worked up a sweat at any real work or been acquainted with any real workers.  They have gone to exclusive schools and never had to pinch pennies like most normal folk.  They enjoy, unearned, lavish offices and benefits that they assume is their due.

Such people cannot lead a society that expects to survive.

Our intrepid phantom reporter (see “Joe-Biden: Questions the Press Should Ask. . .,”  posted last August 9)   has managed to   get into the Presidential press conference again.  He surprises the President with some real questions.  (Of course, this could only be true if we had an honest government and an honest media.) I understand the FBI has a warrant out for him for treason and insurrection.

Q.  Mr. President, we were all highly concerned about the fate of George Floyd who died in police custody.  At the January 6 event in the Capitol a federal policeman shot and killed an unarmed woman in cold blood.  Should this policeman be prosecuted like those in the Floyd case?

Q.  Mr. President,  the Afghan refugees and illegal  immigrants at the Southern border are being released into the country.  Can we be assured that these people have had the vaccination for Covid that you are requiring for American citizens? 

Q.  Mr. President, 3 of the 13 American soldiers killed in the Kabul Airport disaster were women.  Do you think non-discrimination and equality requires us to send women into war zones?

Q.  Mr. President, many people have crticised how the Afghanistan withdrawal was handled.  Do you think in hindsight things might have been handled better?

​Q.  Mr. President, what is your considered opinion about what is happening right now at Del Rio?  

It is reported that the yearly median household income in Loudon County, Virginia, full of federal bureaucrats, is about $118,000.  It is the richest county in the U.S.  The comparable figure for South Carolina is less than $49,000.  This explains arrogant talk in high quarters  about “deplorables” and tells us a lot of what we need to know about the Evil  Empire quartered in Washington.

The rabble cheered and cavorted as General Lee’s monument was destroyed in Richmond.  Rabble is the right word.  Across this broad land many of us shed tears or gritted our teeth.  We are far more numerous than the rabble and a far better class of human beings. Rabble can build nothing. They can only destroy.

It is a simple fact that most White people, from the discovery of Black Africa in the 1500s until well into the 20th century, were “racists” and “White supremacists.”  They were simply responding to history and a common sense view of the world around them.  It is also true that the leaders and soldiers of the North in the War Between the States were just as “racist” as the Southerners they conquered.  The whole business of attacking “racism” by wiping out memory of the Confederacy is a fraud.  It is really an attack on Western Civilisation.  That is becoming more evident every day. At bottom it has little do with African Americans opposing “racism.”  It is a product of the arrogant and dishonest virtue signalling of  a certain type of American, which itself is a cover for a radicals’ campaign of social destruction. 

​Some people seem to be counting on a Republican resurgence in next year’s elections to save the country.  It is hard to imagine anything so short-sighted and historically ignorant.  The only hope for reform is that the Republicans disappear and are replaced by a genuine opposition party.

It seems our new Chief of Staff of  all the armed forces, one Milley, has come out in favour of teaching Critical Race Theory at West Point and has endorsed other “woke” opinions and initiatives.

Who is this disgrace  to every person who has ever died or suffered in arms for America in the last two centuries?  He is from (you guessed it!) Massachusetts. He did not go to West Point, but to Princeton.  It seems his resume' includes every imaginable staff and non-combat command.  Never heard a shot fired in anger,  was  never truly in harm’s way, despite a chest heavy with medals.

Look at that weak, smug  face.  Compare it  with the face of  MacArthur or Patton, Grant or Lee.  This is no soldier. This is a consummate paper-shuffling, boot-licking, back-stabbing bureaucrat.

Can you imagine Russia, China, or Japan entrusting supreme command to such a creature?  I do not think even Britain, France, or Germany are that “woke” as yet.  Do you think any potential enemies are shaking in their boots about facing American “rainbow” divisions?

Think about this.  When is the last time you heard a press or political discussion of the armed forces’ duty to defend the American homeland and people?  What we hear is the insane and criminal babble that we are “defending” Americans by dropping bombs on people on the other side of the world who cannot possibly do us any harm if we are prudent about who enters the homeland.  This is incompetence and foolishness at the highest level.  And now they have invented a duty of the armed forces to change America into a woke society, while purging all real patriots from the ranks. 

Yes, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster.  But so were the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.  It could not have ended any other way.  A competent and patriotic government would have carried out a skilled action to find and  punish those who had done us harm.  Instead we invaded two countries under the illusion of bringing “democracy” to a Muslim people.  This was a crazy criminal  act carried out by most of the ruling elite and supported by a frightening percentage of the people.

This could never have happened in a country whose rulers were motivated by  patriotism, facts,  and common sense and  had any familiarity with history.

​One of the big generals recently affirmed that “Robert E. Lee was a traitor.”  I forget which one, but one of the top generals that Trump stupidly appointed who then jumped on him with both feet.  Where did he learn that business about “treason”?  At West Point? I hope not.  But any body who has such a simple-minded view of  great issues of history and of human affairs is very certainly not qualified to command an army.  What if Churchill or Eisenhower and their lieutenants had been that ignorant?  We would all be goose-stepping, which is probably what this general would prefer anyway.

Mr. President, isn’t there a disconnect between urging law- abiding citizens to be vaccinated and wear masks and admitting hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated illegal immigrants and dispersing them into the population?
 
Mr. President, there is a lot of talk these days about Critical Race Theory.  I am sure a lot of people, maybe most Americans, do not understand what this is.  Could you give us your definition of Critical Race Theory and why it is being required.
 
Mr. President, should a war break out with Iran, as many seem to expect or want, what do you see as the result?  Will it help democracy in the Middle East?
 
Mr. President, you have said the events of January 6 were as big a threat to democracy as the Civil War.  Setting aside that the Confederacy did not want to take over or destroy the U.S. but only wanted to be let alone,  how can citizens walking through the Capitol that belongs to the People, be such a terrible threat?
 
Mr. President, millions of Americans believe that you were not legitimately elected.  Why do they think this?  What can you say to them?