Don't Panic - Get Out and Vote

Don't Panic
Friends,  for the last 2+ years I've been saying "DON'T PANIC".

I know that things seem dire.  Escalating crime, violent protests and looting in our cities, crippling inflation.  There are days when it seems we are on the eve of destruction.

A Bit of History
The World was on its knees following WWI and the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918.  The stock market crash in '29 was just a fitting end to a decade of post-war indulgence.

There are few still alive who can remember the Great Depression and the horrific environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl ... the worst heat wave and drought in American history.   And a second  World War just 20 years after the "War To End All Wars".

The Democrats don't want you to know or remember that this has all happened before.

The Dust Bowl

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Berlin

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The whole cycle of animosity and despair repeated just one generation later.  Let us recall that in 1960 the United States was filled with hope and energy under President Kennedy.  From his inaugural address:
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.


And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country"


Then Lyndon Johnson took over.  Through the 60's and 70's we had the Vietnam War, racial unrest,  riots, burning cities, massive unemployment, crushing inflation and official corruption.  Lyndon Johnson managed to destroy America's spirit and its global prestige in just six years.

Many believed the American era had ended only 20 years after it began ... and the entire world was on the eve of destruction.

     The Eastern world, it is explodin'
     Violence flarin and bullets loadin'
     Your old enough to kill, but not for votin'
      ...
 
      But ya tell me over and over and over again,
      my friend
      Ya don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

The Fall of Saigon -  April 30th, 1975

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Chicago Burning

Renewal
Ironically, it was Ronald Reagan, a Republican, who brought down the Soviet Union in 1991 (without firing a shot) and brought us back from the eve of destruction. 

For the first time in all of human history there was a single, global hegemony.  An era of global peace and prosperity created by a free people born in a New World.   Pax Americana, which began with the victories of WW2, was restored and has continued into the present.

I should acknowledge that there have been eras of peace and prosperity under previous empires:

•   The Pax Romana lasted 200 years.  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana

•    Millennia later, the Pax Britannica lasted only 100.   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Britannica

Today
After just four years of the Harris-Biden administration, we again find our nation demoralized, deeply divided and questioning our core values.

It's like the worst of the 60's and 70's all over again.  War, humiliation on the world stage, rampant inflation, civil unrest, spiraling violent crime.

In some respects it's even worse than 50 years ago.

• We now have over 35 TRILLION in national debt.
• Under DEI, competency is no longer a job requirement.  Aircraft fall apart in flight, weekly food recalls for contamination,  continuing shortages being dishonestly blamed on supply chain issues.
• An unchecked invasion at our southern border.

The Fall of Kabul

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Minneapolis Burning - Tim Walz Governor

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Ballots are Better Than Bullets
Friends, our Nation has seen worse days than these. In two weeks we have the ability to restore sanity and balance.  GET OUT AND VOTE!