Friends, Donald Trump's latest off the cuff remarks are inciting outrage, as per usual. He suggested on Air Force One that the people of the Gaza Strip ought to be relocated to Egypt and Jordan. Of course, there are practical reasons to do so, like the devastation of Gaza's residential areas, but removing people from their ancestral homeland is usually condemned as "ethnic cleansing". There's a long history of ethnic cleansing in world history, and the United States has been involved in quite a bit of it, but it's not an expedient that anyone should choose to embrace lightly. My two cents? Bringing peace and stability to Gaza and the West Bank can't realistically be achieved by expelling the people who live there. Even Israel -- no slouch when it comes to hardball tactics -- has been unwilling to go to those extremes. Likewise, a Palestinian state has not materialized, despite decades of efforts to create one. My view, therefore, is that the best outcome for the Palestinian people would be to give Gaza and the West Bank back to Egypt and Jordan, respectively, which controlled these areas before 1967. Granted, Egypt and Jordan want no part of policing and exercising responsibility over Gaza and Jordan, quite understandably, which is why a very considerable international investment (i.e. bribe) would be required to make it feasible. I believe, on balance, it would be money well spent, and it could give the Palestinians a considerably brighter future. And Israel, most importantly, can get along with Egypt and Jordan, as the last few decades have proven.
Who can lead the Democrats to a political renaissance in 2028? Here's a working list of potential presidential candidates, and, I must say, there are only a few that provoke anxiety in me. Of course, ANY Democrat could win in '28, if the economy tanks and wars proliferate and Americans are writhing in misery.
Presumably, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is on the cusp of approval as our new Secretary of Health and Human Services. Ergo, Democrats' and progressives' heart palpitations are almost guaranteed to spike. As this article suggests, however, there is good reason to hope that American truly will be healthier and happier when RFK's work is done.
Might Trump's second term be the trigger that leads to the breakup of our country into red and blue halves? Maybe. Agitation is already underway to withdraw California from the Union. Many Republicans are not necessarily opposed to this idea, but on the other hand there is growing speculation that the USA might grow under Trump, adding Canada, Greenland, Panama, and who knows what other territorial gems. Mexico? Care to join the party? The chances of almost all these things happening are not high, but what do you suppose the probability was that Trump would be reelected, calculated on, say, January 7th, 2021? Not great!
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Finally, the termination of DEI programs at the federal level has led lefties to conclude, as they are wont, that conservatives are trying to ban any and all positive mentions of women and racial minorities. Well, that's nonsense, but we should expect this adversarial spin. Kudos to the U.S. Air Force for beginning what will be a long and difficult process, but one which will hopefully result in a fair and even-handed telling of U.S. history, which would be a nice change of pace!
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ReplyDeleteAfter you get done reading "Earth's Last Empire, The Final Game of Thrones" by John Hagee, let me know what you think about Gaza, West Bank, and related subjects/issues.
I'm not asking you to believe what Hagee believes. My point is that the larger percentage of the U.S. support for Israel (politically) is based on the religious beliefs of the millions of Christians of numerous denominations (besides Hagee's) who generally accept what Hagee says. Anyone who does not believe this is generally branded as an antisemitic, even if they are not antisemitic.
Also "strange", is the FACT that Israel claims to be a secular state, but the defense of whatever Israel does is based on religion. Go figure! Anyway, read Hagee's book. Who knows, you might end up moving to San Antonio and joining his church.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Yours is a good idea. Negotiating directly with Jordan and Egypt and perhaps bypassing the anti Israel UN is a good tactic.
ReplyDeleteIsrael could no more shrink from what it has done than we could have from using the Abomb. The evil done the people of Gaza has been done them by Hamas and those who wish it well (and that includes vicious campus far leftists in the US; they have full as much blood on their hands as do the "HO, HO, HO CHI MINH types).
Egypt and Jordan would have to be certain that Israel has eviscerated Hamas. What additional positive incentives they could be offered can be well considered by our wheeler dealer President.
Israel would be taking a chance in that such an arrangement could bring the Egyptian military that much closer but Egypt and Jordan should know by now they cannot defeat Israel.
And of course, as much of the massive humanitarian aid we can afford to give to Gaza must be forthcoming as soon as the situation allows it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think the U.S. would benefit greatly from the departure of California from the Union. That state exercises a baleful influence on our civilization and shows no signs of reexamining its corrosive moral turpitude and its official America hatred.
ReplyDeleteThe article says the passage of the measure would constitute a vote of no confidence in the U.S. and the removal of the U.S. flag from official buildings. Knowing Calif. ,our flag's private display would be criminalized. But I doubt that those would be the the only consequences or actions directly attributable to those initial to this measure. There would be very much pressure from California's dominant far left to enact measures creating an ad hoc independent Cal. Eg. Closing their borders to all Americans except those who can obtain a Cal. visa. ; refusal to enact chosen Federal laws; economic sanctions like cutting off direct export of Cal. agricultural products to the U.S. (thus driving their prices up). I do not believe they would yet attempt any occupation of U. S. military bases or prevention of U.S. entrance to its existing CA. naval ports.
I expect that DJT's administration would cut off Federal funding to Cal and might deny their Congressional delegation their seats. It might also deny them electoral votes.
One GREAT misgiving: what about loyal Americans for whom Cal. is their home. Should Cal secede we may consider helping them resettle or pressuring "The People's Politically Equitable Entity of Pacifica" to refrain from abusing dissenters. A Fox commentator opined that if DJT denies funds to Cal for rebuilding and if CAL then relents and enacts common sense environmental measures then a GOP resurgence in Cal could result.
These are dramatic times: its not 1860 yet but it could be 1850. And what if states analogous to California decide to take similar action? We of pride in America here in NY might find ourselves even more of an unfavorably
occupied area than we are already. Of course I do support intent for Upstate to secede from NYC commanded NY state.
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ReplyDeleteCalifornia leaving the union talk is dangerous as can be! People like Newsom won't be in charge forever. Periodically, there is talk about Northern California becoming a separate state, and then it fades into the background. If California left the union, you know countries like the PRC would try to take advantage of the situation. Let's discourage any such moves, regardless of how much California is a damn pain in the ass politically! Oregon and Washington are also dark blue states, but their leaving the union would be equally as dangerous.
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. needs to take complete control of Panama, not just the canal.
Look at your map and tell me if gaining control of both sides of The Rio Grande River is not a good idea.
Take another look at your map. Having Baja California as part of the U.S. would probably be smart, and NOT as part of California, but as another state in itself.
Take another look at Greenland. Very strategic and all that, but it does have a high suicide rate.
Leave Canada be, but get British Colombia as part of the U.S. so we have a direct link with Alaska.
We also need COMPLETE control of The West Indies, with Cuba as a main goal. It could become a territory of the U.S. and the Cuban people would probably like living as Americans instead of that asshole Raul Castro.
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ReplyDeleteI'm sure you already see that my premise is: SECURING OUR HEMISPHERE should be our primary goal. Working with South American countries to do this will require a lot more attention, and should be integrated with securing our border with Mexico, which in many ways is an artificial one, and ever since 1848 to be concise.
We certainly need to start backing out of NATO and letting the Euro-Weenies solve their own problems. I hope Trump gets the ball rolling faster on that. Europe (the instigator of two world wars), and all their EU bullshit, is nothing but a huge drag on us.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Are we witnessing the first stages of the deliverance of America from the neomarxist curse? Way, way, too early to tell. But: I've always thought that this unremittingly , reflexively, counterintuitive far leftist fistula which has done American civilization such profound injustice since the disastrous '60s, will in time prove to have been an incalculably bizarre interlude only. With MAGA bustling along like it is now and with the good tidings possibly waiting for us during this Federal three branch tenure, a cultural rennaissance may be in the offing. 2024 is in the rear view now: what great good fortune we had of it!
ReplyDeleteThere is the fictional world of MAGA, where it is "morning in America" again, and then there is reality. In reality, Trump's birthright citizenship executive order has been halted by a Reagan judge. His attempt to freeze federal funding was halted as being unconstitutional (so now funds for Meals on Wheels and Head Start can resume). Trump embarrassed the country by punching down on Colombia. He has shown how petty he is by firing the career prosecutors who pursued the legal cases against him (those firings are likely to be reversed because most of the prosecutors have civil service protection). Trump lied that the military "turned on the water" in northern CA when no military appeared there. He has complained about the military not meeting its recruiting goals, and yet is getting rid of 15,000 transgender service members. President Bone Spurs also supports drunken veteran organization management failure Secretary Hegseth in attempting to demote four-time Bronze Medal winner General Mark Milley. Trump has managed, via Tom Homan, to deport a couple thousand undocumented individuals, but rather than focusing on criminals, many of the undocumented folks had no criminal records beyond entering the U.S. without permission. It's a far different record than what Daddy Issues Leavitt described yesterday in her first press briefing. Leavitt's arrogance and mendacity suggests that it is likely she will take the crown of worst ever press secretary from Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
DeleteIn reality, it's not a good start for Trump 2.0, who, BTW, believes that he may be able to run for a third term as evidenced by his recent remarks.
Rod
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Certainly there are people of good will on the left who believe that ending mandatory DEI is simply a rationale for putting "uppity" groups in "their place". They are sadly, sadly wrong.
ReplyDeleteBut the hard core left? Nah, their purpose in DEI has always been to help create and exacerbate the social "contradictions" and resulting conflict which, Marx taught them, are the necessary preparation for dictatorship. It's a game they play and their always hyperbolic and emotionally captured protestations are this time as always, a tactic to discredit those who know them for what they are: incipient totalitarians who will cynically patronize and then subjugate, any group they hold useful (as in "useful idiots").
Dr. Waddy from Jack : I see DJT's Dept. of Ed has already shortcircuited some efforts to condemn demands for removal of age inappropriate materials from school libraries as "civil rights violations". It's a good start but as a retired librarian who scorned the American Library Association for most of my career for its leftist biases in a profession which should be nonpartisan, I say you can take this to the bank: the ALA's now openly very radical leadership will launch a campaign to simply transfer the garbage to public libraries, even in Childrens' sections (that is, if some public libraries don't already do such presumptuous outrages). Many professional librarians and very many public library boards would not do this willingly but for professional and reputational reasons the librarians especially are hesitant to buck the ALA, membership in which is close to being considered a moral necessity in the profession.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for the Trump administration to confront the ALA for its radical biases. Federal funding should be dependent upon public library policy, resolutely confirmed and carried out, assuring strict nonpartisan library expenditures and services in areas including but not limited to: reference, selection, acquisition, discard and programming. And no, radicals, that does not mean ignoring the needs of minority groups!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: BTW, the Biden administration apparently supported and even enacted resistance to public and especially parental demands for removal of pornographic and extreme left wing political advocacy materials from school libraries. Figures. Good riddance!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy and Ray from Jack: U. S. territorial expansion: let us first of all learn from our experiences of the 19th century. Yes, I think all of the U.S. benefits very much from being American now and is better off now than it would have been under any nationality except perhaps Great Britain. But "Manifest Destiny" also manifested terrible injustices which we should RESOLVE never to repeat.
ReplyDeleteFirst, let there be no consideration of incorporating Canada ,unless certain Canadian provinces ask for it and then only in our close cooperation with our Canadian friends and allies. Second, our superlative Navy dominates the the Gulf of America and the South American littoral. Our Special Forces are very effectively mobile and experienced. It's enough.
Would any benefit we might see in obtaining Baja, be worth the opprobrium of taking it especially by force? Greenland: I can see it being a great benefit for the US, both strategically and economically but for the luvva, let us attempt to obtain it by good will and good faith negotiation between civilized nations like us and like Denmark as long as actual war with another great power does not compel our temporary presence there.
We are the United States, an imperfect nation which has nonetheless demonstrated , often at great domestic cost in upheaval and unintended consequences - despite all that - a visceral resolve to work
steadily toward justice both within and without our country. Our proven record on that endorses our present civilization and excuses us from the comprehensive condemnation directed at us by a domestic rump and certain nations. ACCORDINGLY, let us resolve never again to repeat the evil we wrought in the 19th century by our forceful investment of the lands of others. We are better than that now.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: If it becomes absolutely necessary, after intense , needfully summary negotiation with the nominal government of Mexico , to enter Mexico to destroy the cartels and stop the poisoning of our country with Fentanyl, then it must be. Investment of Mexican territory should last only as long as to guarantee the accomplishment of this regretable mission and help for the blameless Mexican people should be afforded by us as much as is effective and not misappropriated by sociopathic thugs.
ReplyDeleteA HUMANLY imperfect nation . . . . Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy and Ray from Jack : Panama: If China attempts military control of the canal then we must do whatever is necessary (perhaps another "quarantine" ; it worked last time). But permanent investment of Panama shouldn't be necessary for a nation as well equipped for power projection as we are.
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DeleteThe U.S. needs PERMANENT CONTROL of the Panama Canal at all times. Nothing complicated about this issue. Again, the key words are PERMANENT CONTROL. This also means a close watch on Panama as a nation, since Panama is a major center for drug money banking and laundering.
The U.S. should never have relinquished control of the canal in the first place. China has already attempted control of the canal, which makes it even more imperative to control the canal. Also, the U.S. planned and built the canal in the first place, not the fucking Chinese!
Actually, most of the people who built the canal (and who died or were maimed in the effort) were Panamanians.
DeletePanama has permanent control over the canal. China has interests in a port at the entry of the canal and one at the exit of the canal, but both can be avoided by ships. There is no current legitimate threat against the canal by China or any other party.
Rod
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Addendum on DEI: DEI is a cynical power play. Its advancement is led by people who fear the obvious successes and great benefits already accrued to the courageous civil rights movement. They have prospered personally from promoting the idea that the civil rights movement has not been successful. Yes there are people who sincerely believe, with good will, that DEI is necessary still. With respect I disagree.
ReplyDeleteWith opportunity unhampered by purposeful barriers and a reemphasis on demonstrated MERIT, success and well being is available to most Americans (as demonstrated already in the Armed Services, though DEI has done it much damage recently). DJT's immediate confrontation of DEI is just and necessary and America was right to give him the power to do so.
Ray and Rod from Jack: Ray, I agree. We should exercise a very close watch on the canal with the capability of immediate direct control at any time. Our superlative Navy can maintain at sea a Panama Station and can defeat any swarm of Chinese frigates (that's the most numerous ship type in their "vaunted" , "multitudinous" and untested Navy).
ReplyDeleteRod: China's most important foreign policy consideration is its national integrity and security. They have never forgotten the evil done them in their period of weakness from 1820 - 1945 by Western powers and Japan. It is still unclear perhaps in just what they think such security inheres. Could it include complete domination of the Pacific, or all the seas? Does it necessitate world wide hegemony? In both considerations the Panama Canal is very important. They sure have been doing a lot of world "travel"lately.
In our defense we must make it unmistakeable that we will do whatever is necessary at any time to protect our access to the canal. That starts with intolerance of any apparent Chinese nickel and diming. We no longer have a spineless administration and China would do well to recognize that, as I think they will.
Rod from Jack: A modern port is very complex establishment capable of military supply and consequent eventual force threat or projection. As such I do not think these new havens avoidable. China is already pushing it by building such strategically placed ports.
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ReplyDeleteFor a man with a doctorate, you don't do very good research. The majority of the workers on the Panama Canal project were from the West Indies. Basic research would have showed you that. They sure as hell were not from China! If anything, Columbia could claim rights to Panama. Check that out after you get your "turn the pages" finger out of your ass.
However, as a Leftist (and probably a lover of the PRC) you probably don't see the PRC as a threat to the canal anyway, no matter what they do.
When you post in the future, take the time to get your facts straight.
You have a great day, Numb Nuts.
Anonymous, your first post is misleading. I said Panamanians made up the vast majority of the Canal-related casualties, which is true. Most casualties were Afro-Panamanians, who had settled in Panama during the first wave of colonialism in the mid-1800s. Many came to help harvest bananas, for example, and they stayed. Their descendants worked on the Canal. The second group of Afro-Panamanians were recruited to work on the canal, of whom at least 20,000 settled in Panama. So while some of those working only did so for a year or two and then returned to their home country, most were or became Panamanian.
DeleteAs for the second post, Balboa first had the dream of a canal. So did folks from Scotland and Germany. But it was France who really started the project (1881), before being slowed by money woes and the working conditions. Teddy Roosevelt bought out the French interests and was able to manipulate Panama and Colombia to cede the Canal Zone to the U.S. Roosevelt is to be congratulated for following through, but it wasn't a U.S. dream.
So, before critiquing me on my historical research skills, maybe you ought to polish yours up.
Rod
Thanks for the history lesson.
DeleteHI AGAIN ROD CARVETH
ReplyDeleteThe people who did the physical work on the Panama Canal were NOT the ones who dreamed of it, and then put the idea on paper, and then designed it, etc. etc. If those "dreamers" had not put the plan into action, those workers sure as hell did not have the resources to do it, and would not have collected the wages to build it, which indirectly improved their lives.
I doubt whether Leftists like yourself could ever understand this, or ever will. In any event, the Chinese sure as hell didn't have anything to do with the dream or the building of the canal. If you think they have good intentions in the area now, you have shit for brains.
Rod from Jack: You termed a recent commentary I posted "a rant" and "not to be taken seriously". Though I do not agree with the latter quote I do think it is reasonable to fault some of my wording with the term "rant" Your Jan. 29, 4:29am posting has much of rant in it too, though it has some good points. I agree the new Press Secretary is not as graceful as the previous one but all people in that office theses days must be wary of "gotchas ". That apparent leftist thug in Colombia was probing for weakness in DJT and he found out. Result? Some Colombian victimizers out of our hair and alot more on the way. Entering the US illegally is by definition a criminal act. 'Nuff said. DJT and Homan say the deportees have criminal records. What evidence do you have that they have perhaps sought merely to build body counts b y going after otherwise sterling individuals ? How would the deportees have drawn the special attention of law enforcement , among the millions who have invaded, once they got past the border, without having committed serious crimes within or without the US? General Milley received a pardon ; from what, nothing? SecDef Hegseth is decorated too and how many times need one's life be hazarded to put one in a highly respected position. One half of the Senate plus the elected VP and the President chose to put Mr. Hegseth five steps from the Presidency and in Executive charge of the most powerful military in the world. General Grant was often called a drunk. Nuff said there too.
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DeleteKnow matter what you say, Rod will label it as a rant. Rod is a Leftist and is mightily pissed that Trump is President again. He enjoys heckling people such as yourself, and this site is one of the ways he can let off steam. Also, I'm sure you already know that Rod will automatically hate whatever the Trump administration does.
Rod from Jack: The redoubtable Mr. Smith (who is a joke to much of the legal profession) and some of his staff are prime exemplars of the Bidenesque weaponization of justice functions of the Executive Branch. Where, pray, is the pettiness in firing them now?
ReplyDeleteRay, I'm not so sure I agree that most U.S. support of Israel is based on religion. Most of it on the right may be, but most of it on the Left is based on fear of Jewish donors, who have a tendency to cut off any Democrat who defies "The Lobby". Another key asset of the pro-Israel faction in the U.S. is the Holocaust, which can be and is used to silence any and all critics.
ReplyDeleteJack, you have put your finger on the obvious downside of a People's Republic of California (outside the Union), as has Ray: it would give encouragement to other blue states to secede and could thus precipitate the disintegration of the country. If I were Trump, I would look askance at any and all efforts to break up the USA. I would make it clear that, if any such thing were allowed, the terms would be freakishly punitive. My guess is that, unless Trump really does turn out to be a dictator, no state will attempt secession, although, if Vance wins in '28, he might have to deal with this issue, because the lefties would be reaching (or beyond) the end of their tether.
Ray, I like your grand strategy of establishing an American imperium! A closer relationship between the U.S. and Latin America has always made good sense. Our irrational focus on Europe has led us astray for far too long. Whether any of your suggestions will be implemented remains to be seen, but Panama is the natural place to start...
Rod, the problem with your uncharitable perspective on Trump's first week is, not only is it wrong, but there's no evidence that the American people share it. Trump's poll numbers remain historically high. You think the way he handled Colombia was an embarrassment? Go ahead, Rod -- ask your pals at CNN to run a poll on that. See what you get!
Jack, I don't mean to sound defeatist, but do you really think that school libraries and public libraries can be salvaged, i.e. can become a net plus to the culture rather than a stagnant swamp of wokeness?
Rod is right that there's no imminent danger that China will militarily control the Panama Canal, but as the hegemonic power in the Americas it is up to us to decide what degree of Chinese influence over the Canal we can tolerate. Frankly, matters never should have come to a head as they have. Previous U.S. administrations, including Trump's, should have made it clear to the Panamanians that empowering the Chinese to direct or supervise anything in, near, or related to the Canal would be viewed by us as a hostile act. I personally don't view the presence of the U.S. Navy on both "ends" of the Canal as sufficient, because, as we've discussed, Chinese hypersonic missiles could potentially make quick work of those mighty ships. There's no substitute for boots on the ground. I personally couldn't care less who died building the Canal. I want us to exercise our residual rights to the Canal ASAP so that more Americans don't have to die retaking it in future, and so the Chinese gain a new respect for us as masters in our own house (the Western Hemisphere).
Trump's efforts to clean house at the DOJ may or may not be the right thing to do, but the LAST thing they are is petty. Trump aims to remake the whole U.S. government in his image, which is music to the ears of some, and America's death knell to others, but one thing it ain't is unimportant.
No evidence that the American public shares my perspective on Trump's first week. The Reuters/Ipsos poll from Jan 20-21 showed Trump's approval to be 47% and disapproval to be 39%. A week later, the poll showed Trump's approval to be 45% and disapproval to be 46%. Trump's disapproval rating went up 7% in a week.
DeleteThere's evidence.
Rod
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Maybe I look at it this way because I grew up in a community with many Jewish people and had much favorable exposure to some Jewish culture. But I think alot of Americans greatly admire Israel, perhaps because of its pioneer history and its astonishing ability and determination to defend itself . Israel took a pitiful shred of land and made it highly liveable and that is to its unending credit. Its alliance with us is also much appreciated as is its paramount importance in our Judaeo-Christian tradition.
ReplyDeleteAs I've expressed to you, after having read more about the Zionist movement I do have some misgivings about Israel. But Israel is a living reality and I thinkin its present manifestation a very high civilization - "an island of civilization in a sea of barbarism".
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Can school and public libraries be salvaged? Back in the '80s I thought libraries would be overwhelmed by impending technological, informational and publishing advances. and that taxpayers would refuse to pay for them.by now. I figured information would become a household utility and that most fiction would be published in cheap forms useful only for lining litter boxes . But its not quite so, at least not yet.
ReplyDeleteBut the library profession has been gravely infected by the far left, which sees libraries, in the words of the present president of the American Library Association, "as having THE prime purpose of advancing 'social justice 'and change."
In library school in the '70s we were taught that libraries are of right unbiased repositories of information in many forms and that librarians are professional stewards devoted to acquiring,arranging, preserving and helping everyone access, information. Public and school libraries also have a traditional function as sources of entertaining and redeeming fiction and media. Librarians are not there to tell people what to think but to aid them in locating information to freely think and benefit as they wish.
But of course the presumptuous activist far left has had fully as onerous an effect on school and public libraries as it has had on our civilization as a whole and leftist bias is almost socially and professionally de riguer in the library profession. (Of course some librarians go along to get along.) That's why such heretofore unthinkablely bizarre fringe and still highly controversial materials are to be found blithely available in so many of today's public and school libraries. Those libraries are taxpayer supported and its time tax payers mounted a decisive effort to defund libraries which insist on sneering at the standards shared by most people of common sense. (Oh and many convinced leftist librarians will reflexively bristle refusal to accept "censorship". This is disingenuity on their part because they know that SELECTION , which naturally means discriminating for and against ,in collection development, is a standard duty exercised by most librarians. Can't afford to buy everything.)
The increasingly apparent sea change Maga has brought to our culture makes it a prime time to confront all haughty misuse of tax payer funds for such contemptuous and contemptible purposes.
First, our new Federal Administration and Congress and the legislatures of common sense states should confront the militantly far left American Library Association and deny it any possible public funding. Let it play marxist games on its own dime. Second public school and public library administrations must have it made completely clear to them that tax payer funding will be withheld from any of their libraries which display left wing bias (eg. predominance of sources expressing only left wing views, acquisition spending reflecting such inappropriate ideological slant, veiled efforts to "enlighten" philistine rustics, presentation of such as "drag shows" with children specially invited ) It must also be emphasized that public castigation by library administrators of citizens and especially parents who object to their libraries being used to readily afford and promote materials which
reflexively denigrate commonly held and very popular standards in our culture, especially for that aimed at our children, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED and librarians engaging nonetheless in such unprofessional behavior will be fired! Also, those state supported professional library schools , which typically award the Master of Library Science degree but which require left wing indoctrination of their students, should be defunded if they persist.
I think most librarians would respond favorably or would at least acquiesce to such "consciousness raising" and would get with the program.
". . .would respond dutifully rather . . . ." Jack
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