By Dave Merrick ——Bio and Archives--January 16, 2024
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Most socialists are too dumb to know this; and all socialism/communism is too smart to call attention to the FACT that socialism/communism CANNOT TOLERATE REAL VARIETY. "Different Strokes...' might have once made a good name for a sitcom .... But 'individuality', no matter how you package it, will find no home in Marxism.
Today, politically, the term/concept is occasionally implemented in a purely dishonest, rhetorical drama intended to placate the serfs and promote the power of the dictatorial state. Individuality is most apparent when there is free speech - not only among the citizens but in the media. Free speech is eroding fast - any opinions that do not fall inline with what the government and the elite want us to state and believe are labelled "misinformation" or "hate speech". Legitimate criticism of any member of the inner circle or a preferred group is "politically motivated", "racism", "islamaphobia" or "xenophobia".
There are strong movements to make as much of these valid expressions or opinions as possible criminal acts! And our newly minted "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI) banner is part of a continuum of Marxist doubletalk eroding what remains of our 'United States'. So many of our people have been hoodwinked into believing that leftist leadership is just on the cusp of unveiling the dawning of a new (Woke) Age! That notion is a fatal lie that has been promoted and believed past the point of no return.
On Wednesday, in Las Vegas, Nevada, a defensive-tackle-size man was being pronounced 'guilty' of the charge of 'attempted battery' against yet another of Vegas' innocent bystanders. As the verdict was being announced, the defendant interrupted the judge in clumsily declaring his insistence that he is actually a very tolerant man who is always straining to do the right thing (words to that effect). The judge politely heard the man out, but then, at the end of his lie, did not award him with the cigar he had expected. I have included the video of that man's rude awakening and subsequent disappointment
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For those of you who may not be able to view the video, suffice it to say that he, in his totally unbridled fit of anger, did a world-class broad jump past the bailiff and other potential blockers - AND LITERALLY FLEW OVER THE JUDGE'S BENCH IN A VERY OBVIOUS ATTEMPT TO PHYSICALLY DESTROY HER. The entire outburst was quite unbelievable. [Many of you are regular TV watchers, so maybe you won't be so impressed. I've only seen occasional clips of such weirdness on YouTube. So the whole deal totally freaked me out.]
But that's where we are today in our entire America: Talk and real performance are daily shown to be completely incongruent. Today, for every lie that is told, some partner in that deception will stand and swear to its veracity. And many adults are having tantrums that put undisciplined two-year-olds to shame.
Joe Biden talks a great game (I guess, mostly, when he is sufficiently medicated). Nevertheless the country he has obviously seized control of is now in a complete and total shambles. Currently, with the unprecedented steady violation of our immigration laws and southern border, he has unashamedly and effectively invited a 51st, 52nd and maybe even a 53rd state into our previously 50-state union. I understand that there are serious efforts to register these non-citizens as voters. Biden and his Homeland Security czar, Alejandro Mayorkas, have talked circles around an inquiring nation of disillusioned citizens in telling us huge lies while continuing to press forward in horrifying lawlessness.
The glaringly implied qualification for American residency is no longer a merit-based effort to demonstrate any appreciation for our precious freedoms. The only appreciation noticeable is for the things they can get for free (at the expense of the taxpayer). No, today the only unspoken requirement given to these intruders is that they remember to keep their benefactors empowered (whenever or however they may find that opportunity).
Very few today will openly admit the shock that we felt as this president threw away billions and billions in our country's defense machinery and ordinance to a people committed to our total destruction. And his record of such insanity has become a continuum of an advancing nightmare that precious few even seem to want to recognize. It is more of what a wholly exasperated America feels as continuing billions from our already bankrupt purse are poured out to a little nation on the other side of the globe whose people couldn't care less whether we lived or died. Much of the rest is handed to the people who are invading us.
Most frightening is that the burgeoning list of this exec's cancerous non-leadership stunts doesn't, in the least, faze so many of the kids who (technically) now qualify as adult Americans. They are too busy playing video games. "quietly quitting", and absorbing government bennies to be bothered by the fact that a VERY REAL TROJAN HORSE is currently taking over what used to be, "... the land of the free and the home of the brave". That quoted verse now only earns harsh ridicule and the charge of being a 'bigoted, white supremacist Nationalist,' etc. ... and whatever else will serve in silencing our former hard-earned pride.
As I write this piece, I am reminded that there is a precious benefit that most all Americans over 40 now possess. That benefit (if it is so recognized) is the contrast we older Americans know from a time when this nation was not totally out of its mind-- as it is today. Most all of sane America must admit the horrifying loss of the peace and general security our country once enjoyed.
Most of the world was quietly jealous of the unmatched confidence we went to sleep with every night. We were far from perfect. Nevertheless our citizenry carried the protection of our stars and stripes anywhere we may have been on this globe. Today, the man who should be the most concerned with the preservation of our confidence doesn't appear to be very concerned about much of anything beyond the bottom line of his own comfort and family.
2000 years ago, as Jesus was walking the last steps toward His crucifixion, the women bystanders were sadly watching and weeping that One who had done no wrong was being treated as the worst of all criminals. Jesus lamented in return to His sympathizers, "... don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children" (Luke 23:28). And He essentially warned them--and the world--that if that sort of insanity could happen in those earlier times ("... when the tree is green") how terrible things would eventually progress to after years and years of that culminating spiritual madness ("... when the tree is dry"). Truly, we are almost in the jaws of a crisis which very easily could cost us everything we once took for granted as this world's greatest nation. Today America and the world are comparable to a pile of dry firewood ready to be set off by the tiniest spark.
It was Barack Obama who so loved the words of his dear friend, Rahm Emanuel ... "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." And just as real vultures watch for a limping animal to make its final fall, there are some powerfully connected 'vultures' out there who see our approaching tragedy as precisely the perfect opportunity for unimagined gain. But once they have reaped the power and riches they anticipate from their betrayal they will find that they have reaped the whirlwind.
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Dave Merrick, Davemerrick.us is an internationally known and published artist whose works reach into the greatest diversity of audiences. Known primarily for his astoundingly lifelike portraiture, Merrick’s drawings and paintings grace the walls of an impressive array of well-known corporate and private clientele. Many of his published wildlife pieces have become some of America’s most popular animal imagery.
He has more original work in the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame than any other artist. His wildlife and Southwestern-theme work is distributed internationally through Joan Cawley Galleries of Scottsdale AZ.