"There are four overarching problems facing our country that neither candidate wants even to talk about, much less solve. Two of them are domestic and two concern America’s safety and its place in the world. The domestic problems are (1) massive and growing debt abetted by the death of frugality and a childishly indulged, gimme-now culture, and (2) an educational system that has thrown away standards in favor of “equity” and/or mush, and therefore produces ignorant children unready and often unable to meet even the basic challenges of adult life. The international problems are (1) the failure, borne of stupidity and cowardice, to confront and defeat Iran and its soon-to-be nuclear terror, and (2) a degraded military whose willingness and ability to defeat advancing and emboldened enemies (e.g., China) is more seriously in question than at any time since the end of WWII."
I see them as connected, and a result of The Long March though the institution. ie Progressive Ideology (as its called today.)
Outstanding piece. This should be required reading for every taxpayer in the USA. ( the non-taxpayers don’t care about the debt disaster). Re: foreign policy, you correctly say “the failure, borne of stupidity and cowardice, to confront and defeat Iran and its soon-to-be nuclear terror”. May I suggest a Minor / major revision/addition: the criminality of the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal, which enabled Iran to enrich itself with oil sales and thereby enrich its uranium reserves and fund its proxies: the barbarian terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, et al.
The problem is we are not governed by serious people. The serious Republicans are pretty much gone or have no voice replaced by Maga Populists. And the Democrats haven't truly been serious since probably the 50s. In order to take the unpopular steps necessary to cure these problems there has to be an agreement between the parties not to use said steps as a political weapon. That ended during the Bush years.
"There are four overarching problems facing our country that neither candidate wants even to talk about, much less solve. Two of them are domestic and two concern America’s safety and its place in the world. The domestic problems are (1) massive and growing debt abetted by the death of frugality and a childishly indulged, gimme-now culture, and (2) an educational system that has thrown away standards in favor of “equity” and/or mush, and therefore produces ignorant children unready and often unable to meet even the basic challenges of adult life. The international problems are (1) the failure, borne of stupidity and cowardice, to confront and defeat Iran and its soon-to-be nuclear terror, and (2) a degraded military whose willingness and ability to defeat advancing and emboldened enemies (e.g., China) is more seriously in question than at any time since the end of WWII."
I see them as connected, and a result of The Long March though the institution. ie Progressive Ideology (as its called today.)
I am looking forward to your future posts. We need to correct this trajectory - yesterday!
Outstanding piece. This should be required reading for every taxpayer in the USA. ( the non-taxpayers don’t care about the debt disaster). Re: foreign policy, you correctly say “the failure, borne of stupidity and cowardice, to confront and defeat Iran and its soon-to-be nuclear terror”. May I suggest a Minor / major revision/addition: the criminality of the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal, which enabled Iran to enrich itself with oil sales and thereby enrich its uranium reserves and fund its proxies: the barbarian terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, et al.
The problem is we are not governed by serious people. The serious Republicans are pretty much gone or have no voice replaced by Maga Populists. And the Democrats haven't truly been serious since probably the 50s. In order to take the unpopular steps necessary to cure these problems there has to be an agreement between the parties not to use said steps as a political weapon. That ended during the Bush years.