What a World

We should have been more careful what we wished for.

There is so much confusion about what America was supposed to be and who was supposed to decide what it was and would become.

If you really dig into what the founding documents of our nation, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, really mean you come to understand that those documents guarantee that America could be what every individual wanted their life to be.

I know that seems an impossibility in a nation with a current population of about the same size as the total population of the world when Chis Columbus ventured over this way, but the very essence of Americanism is living a life we choose to live.

I am not ignoring the externalities, the forces that limit choice, tries to strangle individuality and blocks economic advancement, but I know of no system ever conceived that did not have more of those in the way of living free than how ours began. It is obvious to most people that America’s leadership, both political and social, has betrayed our original ideal and gradually inclined toward authoritarianism and tyranny.

One wonders if the only difference between a representative republic and a totalitarian communist state is the speed at which we arrive at the same destination. To paraphrase Hemingway, representative republics go broke slowly and then all at once where communist regimes just skip the foreplay and go right to the main event.

What a terrible spot of bother we find ourselves in.

I truly loathe the environment in which we must rear our children and they must rear theirs – and I loathe the people who brought us to this point.

The sad fact is that our slide down the slippery slope has happened so fast, we of a certain age (say forty and older) can remember safer, saner, more wholesome, more rewarding times – because we lived them.

Can you just imagine what a child born in the year 2000 is going to remember?

My kids grew up on Disney movies that were true to Walt Disney’s mission. Kids today are assaulted by Disney Grooming Inc.’s social engineered anti-parent anti-family messaging. Streaming services are a vast wasteland of soft-core porn and moralizing vehicles created by people with no morals. True pornography is a mere couple of clicks of a mouse away – for any age. TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram fill the kids heads with trash as it poisons their immortal souls and teaches them their parents, if they have two of them who pay any attention, are morons, racists, and thieves.

Some will point to the unrest of the 1960’s as the turning point, and except for the prosperity of the 1980’s and 1990’s, I might agree, but I think it began with the globalism push in the late 1990’s.

Globalism is an interesting animal.

It features businesses chasing the lowest acquisition cost while world wages fall (productivity gains eventually plateau). In my life, that LCR (low-cost region) has moved from Japan (remember the cheap transistor radios), to Mexico, to China, to Southeast Asia (Vietnam) and for the past several years, it has been moving into India. Who knows, after the putrefaction of the American economy under Biden, we might be our own LCR faster than one might think.

In turn, as each of these countries rise to compete directly with America and their standard of living increases, America loses ground.

It is not unusual these days to find a complex product, like a car, which has parts from every single one of these regions.

But it is not just economies that are sacrificed, doing business overseas requires compromise in many things, morality being just one of them. For example, Disney, Hollywood studios, and large even corporations adapt their products and look the other way when the purchase labor or products from China.

And those “compromises” boomerang on Americans as well.

And I just wanted the same world in which I grew up for my kids.

What a world we have created.