It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

There is almost nothing good to say about world or national or local events in 2023.  Nothing.  Locally, the woke morons who control Minnesota ran amok with a massive spending increase that will bankrupt the state within a few years and does nothing to stop the flight of our most productive residents to lower tax, more rational states.  Among the many other lunacies enacted are policies to ensure that education in the state continues its rapid decline, unless you consider political indoctrination education.  Crime is out of control, infrastructure decaying, the economy, other than the government sector, shrinking, but the Dems and their media arm, the Star Tribune, think everything is just hunky-dory.

Nationally, the Bidementia administration ran up our deficit by another $2 trillion plus and interest rates soared in response.  Most people, somewhat understandably given the state of our education system, are blissfully unaware of the dangers of the pile of debt we have accumulated and the impact of that debt on annual federal spending.  Much of the spending is wasted on frivolous items like renewable energy or paid out to slackers as vote-buying money in the form of government freebies.  Sooner rather than later this will all come crashing down.  The Dem party is now officially the party of totalitarianism–you can’t run for office unless they say so, if they don’t like your politics they will find some pretext to prosecute you criminally, you must think, say and act exactly as they wish or you will be pilloried in their bought-off media arms, including social media and you may lose your job, your friends, your social connections.  We are past the tipping point of being finished as a society that actually makes people’s lives better.

And internationally, more than ever, the basic barbarity of much of humanity was revealed, with only the meagerest of responses from the supposedly civilized West.  Russia continues its delusional war in Ukraine, I don’t even want to think about what happened in Israel and China essentially genocided the Uighurs, while Apple and other US companies said nothing for fear of losing money in the country.  When will we learn that the only response to evil is to wipe out those who commit it.  And I mean wipe out.  They are irredeemable, they are not humans in any sense that we want to humanity to represent.  But who has the courage of Churchill or Roosevelt today, to see that plainly and act accordingly?  No one I can see.

So while I wish you all a Happy New Year, I don’t think it will be anything but a continuation of the depressing, sordid affair that 2023 was.