Yesterday (3 AUG 2021) I looked at the perhaps unexpected robustness of the Fifty States. Our society, economy, and political system have survived the last year and a half. Read that here.
BUT….
“The bad dream is over.” That is what we were told, wasn’t it? Back in January? All the rhetoric of Inauguration Day about how (to paraphrase) our national nightmare was. over. Despite the “flight” of The Donald into exile in Florida. Despite the massive witch hunt since then, of the “insurrectionists.” Despite the relative lack of mass violence in the Fifty States’ capitals and in DC. (Except for Seattle and Portland (which are NOT State capitals). Despite the apparent fact that AntiFa does NOT want Uncle Joe to be massa. (Who’d have thought it?) Despite the vomiting forth of imperial decrees. Not just from Uncle Joe, but from many of the tyrannical State rulers: Empresses and kings and more. Despite the failure of our economy and society to collapse.
But the nightmare is NOT over. Indeed, it is only just begun. However resilient our societies, our economy, even our “governmental” system seems to have been until now. There is MORE to come.
NONE of the factors that have stressed our nations have gone away: political and social and economic and medical and monetary problems are GROWING. Not shrinking, not bein solved. At best, they are being kicked down the street.
It is just going to get worse and worse, unless we stop it. And we can.
Yes, the Deep State is definitely in power – if they ever really were OUT of power. The thickness and strength of its tentacles are growing as we watch.
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The lonely and ultimately failed role of honest teachers
In writing the two recent commentaries on homeschooling, I was reminded of an incident recently in New Mexico, which dredged up some old and fond memories.
There is a lesson AND a moral to this tale, so bear with me.
Of all the various empresses and emperors (including the now-fallen Cuomo of New York, yea!) these Fifty States are saddled with during the last two years, the Empress of New Mexico ranks high up in odor and intolerance (and stupidity). Most recently, the New Mexico Public Department of Education has ordered ALL schools in the State to make everyone wear masks all the time: students, staff, teachers, administrators… and presumably schoolbus drivers, milk delivery workers, and parents.
At least ONE school district has rebelled.
It is a tiny one, on the edge of the vast Llano Estacado (Staked Plains): the town (a village in New Mexico law) has just 130 people: the school has 233 students.
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