File this post under the category of history repeats itself, all life is cyclical and eventually all things come full circle.
Brutal crackdowns by Australian authorities on those who would dare to exercise freedom and oppose mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns have taken on the look of authoritarian oppression. Treatment of the protesters has been violent.
It has all the earmarks of a police state, bringing to mind the historical fact that Australia originally was populated as a penal colony for criminals from Great Britain.
Someone forgot to tell the current government that this no longer is the case.
We are seeing similar protesting pushback in the United States, from those who would argue that the government branding them as lepers, losers and criminals for refusing the questionable COVID-19 vaccinations is not in keeping with minor concepts of freedom such as those promoted in our Constitution.
Historians will note that this country was born in revolution over governmental repression from England that pales in comparison to what we now must endure if we opt not to join the flocks of sheep with their blind obedience to the government needle.
Could history repeat with another revolution? Or, more correctly, could we have another civil war? That possibility, once remote, gains credence with each additional governmental overreach.
Still on the subject of history repeating, with each passing day the Biden regime is looking more and more like the same exercise in incompetence on daily display as when Jimmy Carter bumbled his way through a single term as president.
Biden, who has been branded the Kabul Fool for his ham-handed Afghanistan pullout, seems to be attempting to emulate Carter.
Carter presided over a period of national and military embarrassment (recall the embassy hostages in Iran and our failed attempt to rescue them).
Carter’s term was marked by ramping inflation (have you bought anything lately that hasn’t gone up in price?)
Carter also saw the economy break into recession on his watch, gold and silver prices skyrocket along with interest rates, and the public mood turn into one of despair.
Carter’s administration was remarkable for its lack of polished professionals, which fully describes the Biden regime with its vacations-during-crises staffers and general inability to coordinate messages to push the same propaganda agenda.
The good news is the U.S. recovered quite nicely from the Carter debacle when a God-fearing conservative, Ronald Reagan, was swept into office by a tidal wave of revulsion from those in Middle America for Carter and the political left.
It’s arguable that such a potent political base that reveres traditional values might no longer exist in this Balkanized nation. More to the point, even if it does still exist, can it count on electing its candidates considering the bastardized election system we now have?
Yes, I still think Trump won the past election if you strip out all the fraudulent ballots.
Ideally, the nation could be put back on course with ballots. If that fails, the alternatives are not pretty, either way.
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