Our Country AND Our Industry Need Our Best Efforts
Steve Dittmer | AFF Sentinel
Colorado Springs, CO
Originally sent to subscribers 05/01/24
We’re not going to get too deep into the quite unbelievable “current events” front and center in our country right now. Some of us are old enough to remember the race riots and anti-war riots of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. They were quite a shock to the veterans of WWII who fought to save the free world. Fighting communists and their surrogates were not popular with some folks then, just as it is not now.
Full circle.
The race riots then were about blacks and whites, not that different from 2020’s BLM and Antifa riots.
Full circle.
But 2020’s street anarchy and today’s university takeovers are a new phase in the long-term effort of communists, Marxists and socialists to wreck the structure of America while we’re busy producing things and running a country. It is a more advanced stage of destroying our country from within, misusing the individual liberty and the associative freedom built into our Constitutional republic. And our politicians are not only helping them by not reining in illegal activities but allowing anyone through our border, even flying in illegal aliens to get round border strictures and data counts. And foreign policy allows funding terrorism worldwide with taxpayer dollars and the lack of international sanctions on global terrorist nations.
Not full circle. New, more frightening stages.
Ironically, this movement would never have been tolerated in the months and early years after 9/11. How far our governmental policy, the concern of citizens, has fallen in just 20 years.
The same politicians who have wrecked our economy, in general, by ridiculous spending are also trying to hollow out our manufacturing, our services sectors and basic, fundamental production functions like beef production. Federal agencies like EPA, Interior, FTC, FAA, DOJ and others are wrecking the production of energy, of electricity and, in general, making businesses inefficient, aiming them at cross purposes, if not choking them off and destroying whole industries long-term. While USDA is encouraging and funding the formation of new beef packing enterprises, EPA is trying to put small and medium packers out of business by imposing new wastewater requirements on operations.
We thought it was bad before when government imposed new requirements and restrictions on industries, not understanding that bigger operators have the best chance to survive a new set of rules. The smaller the operation, the less likely they will have the capital, the reserves and the margins to survive.
Now it is sometimes hard to discern whether the government is too dense, too blind or lacking in business to see the destruction of firms or industries -- or doing it intentionally. Ideology can be more important to government actors than the survival of an industry, our country, jobs of workers or the taxpayer/consumers served. More and more, the government is intentionally destroying capabilities or entire industries, to further their ideology with no vision of what is to take their place.
In the old days, May Day meant watching an endless parade of Soviet military might crossing through Red Square, trying to stir patriotism in communist citizens and fear into the free world. Lenin and Stalin did their best to make it a communist globe. Nikita Krushchev thought he was getting close. In fact, the major media today in this country remind us so much of Soviet era propaganda organs Tass and Pravda.
The combined might of communist Russia and China and the fanatic devotion and violence of Muslim nations and its followers are major forces threatening America’s future. The invitation this administration has issued to subversive and terrorist forces worldwide to come here is allowing the enemy within our borders.
While our industry fights to keep relevant agencies and Congress from destroying our ability to serve our consumers, preserve our natural resources and feed the world, we must also fight to preserve our system of government. The election this fall is not only about electing a leader but also electing Representatives and Senators who value the founding principles that have made our country and industries like ours the envy of some of the world.
The irony is, by allowing anyone through the border who wants to come here, the hordes include people looking for some of the liberty and freedom America has stood for, alongside the very agents of opposing forces who want to destroy that liberty and freedom.
The Republican National Committee, under new leadership, has deliberately put top emphasis on election integrity for this fall. Co-chairs Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, after election integrity efforts, are working on the mechanisms of getting out the vote. That includes dealing with ballot harvesting and early voting. Whether conservatives like those features or not, that is the hand we’re dealt this time and we have to use those tools to win, Trump said. Many citizens would like to go back to one Election Day and paper ballots but that is not going to happen without a Congress and an administration concerned about election integrity.
Elections are really conducted by the states, however, and the RNC has 81 lawsuits in 21 states trying to see that only verified U.S. citizens can vote once. “Easy to vote but hard to cheat” is what the party is aiming for. A new website, protectthevote.com, besides information on RNC efforts, offers a sign-up for those who would like to qualify to be Poll Workers, Poll Watchers and lawyers who want to help with election integrity processes.
Senior rock’n rollers among you will remember the rock band Chicago’s song about the chaos at the ’68 Democrat convention, that included the recorded chant from the demonstrators: “The whole world’s watching. The whole world’s watching.”
For different reasons, it’s true, again.
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