Showing posts with label society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label society. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Fabric of Society is Badly Frayed


“An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.” Proverbs 17:4.

The Corona virus which has originated in Wuhan, China, has fundamentally transformed the globe, and facilitated the last nails in the economic coffin of the West, particularly in the United States.

Whether it was a planned lockdown or one of opportunity to destroy a booming economy for the sake of political destruction of an opponent the Socialist left and its media lackeys hate so much that it has morphed into a Trump Derangement Syndrome, remains to be seen in the outcome when the volcanic ash settles on what is left of the economy. One thing is certain, if the lockdown continues, the middle class will be wiped out financially and so will small businesses.

Sadly, thousands of lives have been lost due to the “pandemic’ predicted by faulty computer modeling. The losses occurred because medical systems were inadequate in their response, overwhelmed because they did not know how to treat patients properly and lacked the resources.

The lock-step media fearmongering, panic, and hype which had reached global proportions, suffocated earnest attempts to deal with the novel corona virus. In addition to the innocents who have died from a virus that does not exist in nature, the global economy crashed, and it will take a long time to recover. In some states in the U.S., for every person who has died with the COVID-19 flu, 3,000 or more people have lost their jobs permanently. Unlike the U.S., most countries do not have the “luxury” of printing endless trillions, creating runaway or galloping inflation.

The dilemma remains, do we protect the medically weak and allow the healthy to become weak themselves in a prolonged and forced quarantine at state and local levels, or do we let “herd immunity” take over as it happened in Sweden?  

People are emerging scared of their shadow, hateful of others even more so than they were before, and living a virtual existence locked in their own homes and minds, fearful and resentful of their neighbors, snitching on them in case they are seen as a threat to their existence and survival, encouraged by their governments to turn in potential offenders to the Orwellian lockdown for the healthy masses. It would certainly make the Stasi quite proud. Nobody must pay them to become a Snitches-R-Us tyrannical society.

Unfortunately, the wealth that we once had, when ordinary people had access to culture, restaurants, entertainment, is gone. Many had already lost patriotic conscience to the indoctrination in schools and by the media. They’ve lost values and lived in total confusion, have lost the zest to live in harmony and peace, they’ve lost respect for humans with whom they disagreed, for moral values, for religion, and for the desire to respect their wiser elders, men of worth, and the history of their country. The moral role models were replaced by the scum of society with money and a nefarious agenda.

Who would have thought possible that the only Americans courageous enough to protest the infringement on our Constitutional rights to freedoms of assembly, religion, speech, and the right to make a living, would be cosmetologists and barbers?

The “never let a crisis go to waste” millionaire crowd in Hollywood is urging the government to end capitalism as they lecture us from their state-of-the art mansions built on the foundation of capitalism and free markets and telling us hypocritically that “we are in this together.”  When the masses are losing their jobs permanently and small businesses are devastated, the lefties could not care less, they’ve already made their millions and wealthy lives in Hollywood, let the rest suffer in their penury, waiting on government to give them $600 a week to survive on with printed inflationary money.

“CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza.” https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

Last year more than 34,200 people died of the flu but nobody was scared because the media and constant public service announcements (PSAs) did not tell us to panic, be scared, hide behind a mask, and wash our hands. We were not placed under quarantine, stores were not forced to close, the economy did not shut down, and the quarantine “breakers’ were not put in jail or on ankle monitors. Criminals were not let out of jail for fear that they might develop the corona flu and die in prison. They are now walking among us, waiting to pounce and commit new crimes.

We will eventually find out if this World Health Organization (WHO) declared “pandemic” was a Plan-demic, Panic-demic, Progressive-demic, Politic-demic, Pander-demic, Poverty-demic, a Psycho-demic, or a huge mistake. One thing is certain, as George Orwell said, “The people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves, and traitors, are not victims… but accomplices.”

Until then, stay in your homes, wear masks everywhere, even in the woods, and social distance from other humans. The lockdown will last until most small businesses will be unable to recover and the vultures will step in to pick the carrion.  Sick, broke, and dependent will be the easiest way to control the masses.

It is sad that the strong fabric of society is so badly frayed and tattered and in dire need of mending.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

The Breakdown of Family and the Degradation of Society

I was surprised by the statement made by former Florida governor Jeb Bush at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in 2013. “Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans. Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.” (Aaron Blake, Jeb Bush: U.S. Economy needs immigrants because they’re ‘more fertile,’ Washington Post, June 14, 2013)

Washington Post reported that, “for the first time, white deaths in the United States outnumbered White births. Population grew because of growth among Hispanics, African-Americans and immigrants.” The non-Hispanic whites as reported by the Census Bureau represent 63 percent of the population and the number of deaths vs. births was a paltry 12,400 when compared to the 198 million non-Hispanic whites.

Demographic suicide of the west is certainly proven by birth statistics. Few of the western nations are having 2.1 babies per family needed to replace the ageing population. The fertile explosion in the birth rate of legal and illegal immigrants brought into Europe from North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East will replace the senescent western population as early as 2025 in some countries.

The Congressional Research Service, which has been informing Congress on various issues for 100 years, has released a report recently on non-marital births in the U.S. http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43667/pdf

Carmen Solomon-Fears, Specialist in Social Policy, reported that the percentage of non-marital births has remained steady at 41 percent for the past six years, a dramatic increase from 1940 when such births were a low 3.8 percent.  What changed?

Societal attitudes about fertility, contraception, abortion, and marriage driven by the “sexual revolution” made it acceptable and legal to use abortion as a contraceptive, while men evaded the responsibility of marrying the women they’ve impregnated.

More than half of non-marital births are of couples who live in a cohabiting relationship. The shame of producing offspring out of wedlock disappeared when churches started celebrating pregnant teens on Mother’s Day and the federal government became the Daddy and gave generous welfare and medical care to single mothers. According to Solomon, “Women ages 20-24 currently have the largest share of non-marital births.” (CRS R43667, July 30, 2014)

Solomon-Fears said, “The entry of more and more women into the paid labor force also made childbearing outside of marriage more economically feasible.” The belief that “parents should stay in unhappy marriage for the sake of the children” began to disappear after the 1960s.

Divorce became acceptable as adults centered on their happiness as opposed to the health and happiness of their children. “Marriage is now more likely to be viewed through a framework of adult fulfillment rather than through a framework of child well-being.” (Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage,” University of California Press, 2005, p. 136)

The typical age for first marriage in the U.S. is 27 for women and 29 for men.  Even though cohabiting relationships are less stable than marriage, lasting two years as opposed to 8 years for marriage, “cohabitation has now become a common method of family formation.”

Unwed mothers’ characteristics are:

-          Black women are more likely to have children outside of marriage than other racial or ethnic groups

-          Women in their twenties have highest percentage of births outside of marriage

-          Less educated women are more commonly single mothers

-          44 percent of out of wedlock births are to women who had already given birth to one or more children

-          Women who have non-marital birth are less likely to marry than other women

-          A large number of unwed mothers are in a cohabiting relationship (CRS, R43667, p. 12)

 

Statistics for 2013 show that:

-          40.6% of all U.S. births were to unmarried women

-          71.4% of births to black women were non-marital births

-          The percentage of non-marital births for American Indians or Alaska Natives was 66.4%

-          The non-marital birth percentage was 53.2% for Hispanic women

-          29.3% for non-Hispanic white women

-          17.0% for Asian or Pacific Islander women.

(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Vital Statistics Reports, vol. 63, no.2, “Births: Preliminary Data for 2013,” by Brady E. Hamilton, Joyce A. Martin, Michelle J.K. Osterman, and Sally C. Curtin, May 29, 2014)

 

Gary Cobb, the former NFL linebacker, who is now running for office in New Jersey, attributed the success of his siblings and his family to the fact that, no matter how poor, their father was always there to discipline them and give them proper guidance.

 

He described President Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ anti-poverty program as a destructive force in black families, encouraging many black fathers to leave their families when single mothers were given more aid than a married couple in a family unit.  “It was an incentive for the man to leave the home, and it’s destroyed African-American families throughout the country,” Cobb said in a recent interview. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/09/lbj-destroyed-african-american-families-former-nfl-player-reveals-what-led-him-to-the-gop/

 

There are many variables that contributed to the breakdown of family values, of family in general, and the degradation of society.

-          Atheist-based education under the excuse of separation of church and state unless it’s a religion that liberals promote

-          Political correctness forcing the depraved minority values on the entire society promoted as speech censorship

-          The welfare/nanny state engendering lack of personal responsibility

-          Political corruption from top to bottom

-          Big money and Big Labor run politics and they run our lives

-          Elitist/globalist thinking that they can tell us and dictate to us through regulatory environmentalist actions what is good for our families

-          Change in the definition and meaning of marriage

-          No moral compass

-          The MSM brainwashed young and old into moral equivalency, taking more often the side of the criminal, spending inordinate amounts of time, money, and energy trying to explain why a criminal has committed the crime and ignoring the victims

-          Cartel drug culture and prescription drugs for psychoses

-          Irrational mass hysteria over the cult of personality

-          Reality TV giving a false sense of life and its meaning

-          Pornography and other deviant means of entertainment

-          Dumbing down of education; nobody is allowed to fail; we are all equal and special; narcissism; the ME generation; overinflated self-esteem; rewards for non-existent accomplishments

-          Self-mutilation inside and out through horrid piercings and tattoos

-          Lack of character building, blaming society for one’s failures, not taking responsibility for one’s actions and choices in life

-          Illegal invasion of non-assimilating ethnic groups that dilute or obliterate our national identity and sovereignty, destroying our “borders, language, and culture”

-          The progressive revisionism of our history, portraying American families, heroes, and values as evil

-          Affirmative action and the race baiters who are dialing up their divisive rhetoric

-          A long-running depressed economy coupled with high unemployment that destroys the breadwinner’s self-esteem, hope for the future, and disrupts the family’s existence.



The family must now exist and function in a country that is no longer a constitutional republic but a crony system of third world banana republic corruption with 100 million Americans unemployed or on the dole. The family is looking up for salvation to a president who is a head fundraiser, in perennial community organizing mode, promising to fight for the middle class against the very policies he has implemented that are destroying the middle class economically and morally.