Since at least 2006, there has been little of import in Congress upon which Republicans and Democrats have agreed. These divisions were one of the many reasons I chose to leave Congress. That was 2014. The divisions have only gotten worse.

When the Republican Caucus in the House (actually called the Republican Conference for reasons I never understood) would meet at least weekly, members would speak to the group at various times about various things. Several times when I stood up, I would repeat a phrase which explained my activity in that august body; “My ideology guides my thinking, but it does not replace my thinking.”

Sometime in the early 1990s, I remember hearing about a meeting of environmentalists in, where else, Northern California. They had a problem. They wanted to serve the group something to drink. Clearly Styrofoam or plastic cups were out. Paper cups were discussed but they involve the destruction of trees and so were a no go. Perhaps people could bring their own reusable cups. But, the reusable cups would have to be washed which uses water, a resource stored behind evil dams and needed by endangered fish.

If you are not a subscriber to Daily Wire, you should be. It is one of the few things I read and/or listen to every day. Shapiro’s opening line is as follows: “ Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather here tonight to mourn the state of our nation. Because, the state of our nation is pathetic. And it is pathetic, in the main, because of the president of the United States”. It gets better after that.

I began this website and blog in January with the title “look through the chaos”, because I believe that we are going to see tumult and chaos as the United States and to some degree in the whole world in the coming few years. This chaos will come as we all deal with the resolution of major schisms in 5 different dimensions. Those dimensions are Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and International.

If Google shut down tomorrow, you might not be able to instantly find out how old that actress is, but your life would not be noticeably different. If Amazon went away, you might pay a little more and have to go to the store to get things, but you’d be OK. If all the lawyers stopped working, well, some might think the world would be a better place.

In April 1865, a very popular and well-regarded actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth went to a theater he frequented in Washington DC. Twelve days later, he was hunted down and killed by federal cavalry troopers who lit the barn he was in on fire and then shot him. But it is not the whole truth.

On March 2nd, 2021, Reuters interviewed Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. She said in part “runaway inflation is not imminent…The bigger risk is too low inflation, and it will likely be some time before inflation is sustainably back to 2%.”

The photo with this post is a photo of a book from my bookshelf. I bought this book when it was newly published in 1971. Yes, I was 16. You were probably playing sports or something. I was reading things like this. Can you say “geek”?

The book is a scholarly analysis of the conflict laden relations between Russia and China over the last 600 years. Suffice it to say that these two countries have been at odds with each other much more often than friends over that period. So historically, they are not natural allies.

I have always been a deficit hawk. Fiscal conservatism was a defining element of my reputation as a politician. It has been a lonely place to stand recently. Fiscal conservatism probably reached its nadir in recent times during the Newt Gingrich years in the second half of the 90s, after Bill Clinton declared “the era of big government is over” and the federal government briefly ran an annual surplus.

There is a new cabal in America. It is comprised of Big Tech, Big Media and Big Government and their objective is the distribution of propaganda. Did you see the John’s Hopkins University study about how the lockdowns were at best ineffective and probably harmful taken in total? No? That’s because big media would not report it and big tech largely disappeared it.

As Joe Rogan has recently pointed out, even the CDC now admits that the vaccines do not prevent a person from contracting or spreading the new variants of the Chinese Virus. And cloth masks may make someone feel better, but even CNN admits that they are ineffective in preventing transmission of the disease. Yet, in spite of this general understanding, the Biden Regime and their Blue State allies, are continuing to force vaccine and mask mandates everywhere and at all times.

Why?

Inflation is eating into the disposable income of almost everyone. Crime is on the rise in cities across the country. The China Virus just won’t go away, no matter what medicines we seem to throw at it. Deaths from drug overdoses and suicides are reaching new highs. Our southern border has been left wide open by design allowing fentanyl, meth, criminals, terrorists and dependent people to flood in the country. Cancel culture is in full bloom. Your rights to speak freely and carry a firearm are being reduced everywhere you look. Education at all levels in the United States has deteriorated into places of politicized wokeness with little learning. Russia may invade Ukraine. China may invade Taiwan. North Korea is shooting missiles. Iran is back trying to destabilize the middle east.