The longer Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden remains in office, the closer the parallels become between Sleepy Joe and our 29th president, Warren G. Harding.  The two were elected to office exactly 100 years apart.  Both W.G.H. and J.R.B. became president after a pandemic; Harding the Influenza pandemic, and Biden, the Wuhan Virus.  Likewise, both took a “hands off” view of the presidency, permitting others to make important decisions, but for different reasons.  Harding was a dark horse candidate, a Senator, who never really sought the presidency.  On election, Harding felt overwhelmed by the office, and left the running of the government to his “Ohio Gang,” a group of cronies whose corruption proved his undoing.  On Biden’s part, he was a Senator who long sought the office.  Biden leaves the day to day decisions of the presidency to others due to advanced senility that limits his workday to 10 am to 4 pm.  Biden therefore relies on his own cronies, “The Obama Gang.”  When Harding punched out for the day, he enjoyed dinners, parties, poker games, and a number of cocktails.  When Sleepy Joe punches out, they feed him his oatmeal and put him to bed.  Despite these differences, Harding and Biden share a number of scandals.  Harding’s Teapot Dome scandal involved the transfer of leases on oil set aside for use by the Navy.  Biden cancelled oil leases, and depleted our strategic petroleum reserve, selling oil to China that was set aside for our national defense.   Both Harding and Biden were plagued by stories of an illegitimate child; for Harding, the daughter of his mistress, Nan Britton, and for Biden, the illegitimate daughter of his son, who coincidentally is named Navy.  Harding and Biden both had corrupt Justice Departments.  The Harding DOJ had a corrupt, thieving Attorney General who sold justice to the highest bidders.  Biden has a corrupt Attorney General who has sold justice to promote the Left and persecute all opposition.  Of course, Joe Biden perfectly complements and is the chief beneficiary of his corrupt Justice Department, which unlawfully stamps out dissent, while at the same time shielding the Biden Crime Family from prosecution.  Warren G. Harding was elected in 1920 on the promise of “normalcy.”  Turbulent times preceded his election.  World War I and the Spanish Flu had roiled society and business.  Harding summarized his appeal to normalcy in a speech he gave in Boston in May 1920, “America’s present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums, but normalcy.”  For Harding, normalcy meant less government regulation, more individual freedom, an expansion of business, a booming stock market, and the ascent of America on the world stage.  Ironically, Joe Biden also promised normalcy, following the twin turmoils of the Wuhan pandemic and the war against Donald Trump.  The difference has been that Biden’s normalcy means more government regulation, less personal freedom, higher taxes, recession, crippling debt, and an America in decline.  In a state of normalcy, laws are enforced, norms are acknowledged, standards are observed, and decorum is maintained.  Biden hasn’t given us that.  Instead of normalcy, Joe Biden has ushered in an era of abnormalcy.  Normalcy promotes order, while Biden abnormalcy promotes chaos, discontent, disrespect, and ruin.  The chief executive has a duty to enforce the laws.  The performance of this duty is hampered, of course, when the chief executive is himself a criminal, but Biden’s abnormalcy is beyond the pale.  Joe Biden is presiding over the complete reversal of all norms, standards, laws, and decorum.  And it’s not merely the acknowledgment or acceptance of what is abnormal, but the rejection of that which is normal, and the painting of the normal as racist, xenophobic, or whatever-phobic.  Abnormalcy turns everything upside down.  A normal nation has secure borders, and laws regarding immigration.  Biden has erased the borders and violated immigration laws.  Societies are formed and continue to exist only when there’s a consensus as to what’s right and what’s wrong.  Abnormalcy rejects that consensus.  In Biden-World, criminals are free to steal, maim, and kill, and the law exists only to punish those who refuse to surrender to the mob.  A world where a robber stabs a clerk and the clerk is arrested for protecting himself, and where a violent lunatic is free to prey on subway passengers, while the hero who acted in defense of others is charged with homicide.  We’ve gone beyond the absurd.  This week, two employees of a Georgia Lululemon store were fired for daring to tell a gang of thugs not to steal the merchandise.  In abnormal world, prosecutors overlook criminals who carry guns, while at the same time promoting the confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.  Biden decries gun violence, but he and his Party won’t speak out against teenage gangsters who use illegal guns.  The hypocrisy is pervasive.  This week, a meddlesome priest, Newark Archbishop Tobin, called upon his flock to forego their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to combat gun violence.  Apparently it hasn’t dawned on him that people who have gone to the trouble of legally obtaining a gun aren’t the problem.  Maybe His Eminence should get up off his cassock and start knocking on doors in Newark’s Central Ward, where illegal guns are being wielded by Bloods, Crips, and other criminals.  Then again, unless he’s gunning for martyrdom, that’s probably not a good idea, but such is the scope of abnormalcy.  Not convinced yet?  How about this one.  Not so long ago, drug addiction was widely considered an evil to be discouraged, but not anymore.  New York City has installed vending machines that dispense, free of charge, crack pipes, other drug paraphernalia, and Narcan, to revive those who overdose so they can keep using drugs.  It’s madness, but no madder than abnormalcy’s sacrifice of hard-won women’s rights to pander to transgender interlopers, no madder than a world where stores are forced to lock up the merchandise so the shoplifters can run free, and no madder than a world where we import millions of illegal aliens so that we can install them in luxury hotels at the expense of the overburdened and fast-vanishing American taxpayer.  100 years ago, Harding’s normalcy came to a bad end, and his scandals resulted in prosecutions and convictions.  Hopefully, Biden’s abnormalcy will fade away, sanity will return to our land, and the Biden Crime Family will finally be brought to justice.

In England, and early on in America, there were Debtor’s Prisons which incarcerated people who were unwilling, or unable, to repay their debts.  Unless you had friends with means to satisfy your debts, or friends in high places who could pull some strings, you could be locked up in The Clink (that’s where the term comes from, because the London Debtor’s Prison was called The Clink), in some cases for life.  The United States outlawed Debtor’s prisons in 1833.  We’re not allowed to lock up people simply because they lack the means to pay.  But what happens when the debtor isn’t the citizen but is the government itself?  We’ve almost always had a national debt.  Sovereign debt is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can become bad when it balloons out of control.  But how much debt is too much?  In 1929, just before the Stock Market Crash, our national debt was $17 billion.  Even with the New Deal social spending, by the start of World War II, the debt was $49 billion, and never was more than 50% of gross national product (GDP).  During World War II, the debt rose to $259 billion, and for the first time topped 100% of GDP.  There was good reason for this, as the War was a battle to decide if the world would be free or fascist.  The debt remained between $200 and $300 billion, and never more than 58% of GDP until the 1960’s and LBJ’s Great Society and Vietnam war spending double whammy.  The combination of war costs, the 1970’s stagflation and 11% unemployment increased the debt from $300 billion to $908 billion in 1980.  The debt hit $1 trillion for the first time in 1982.  It took 4 years for the debt to double to $2 trillion in 1986, and it doubled again to $4 trillion by 1992, but still was between 50 and 60% of GDP.  By 2005, the debt again doubled to $8 trillion, and doubled again to $16 trillion by 2012.  At this point, we were flirting with a debt at 100% of GDP.  In the 10 plus years since 2012, we again doubled the debt to nearly $32 trillion, and 125% of GDP.  Consider that.  The only other time in our history that our debt has exceeded 100% of GDP was World War II, when we were fighting for our very lives.  Now, we’re at 125% of GDP simply because we have lost the ability to stop ourselves from spending money we don’t have.  And we’re spending money, not to fight fascist enemies who threatened to take over the world, but to support illegal aliens, to subsidize electric cars that people don’t want and that our power grid can’t support, and for every whacky Leftist fever dream the Woke imbeciles can think of to expand entitlement spending to the point where they reach their goal, the collapse of the capitalist system, and the installation of their Socialist Workers’ Paradise, which worked great in the Soviet Union.  I didn’t make this up.  It’s the plan of sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, to fundamentally transform America.  Sound familiar?  The 8 step plan – Control healthcare and you control the people; Increase the debt to an unsustainable level; Use gun control to remove the people’s ability to defend themselves from the Government; Take control of every aspect of people’s lives, including food, housing, and income; Take control of what people read;  Take control of what children learn in school; Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools; and Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor to create class warfare.  Democrats are pushing all of the above.  The objective is to collapse the system, create panic, and install a socialist tyranny to redistribute wealth until, as Venezuela found out, no wealth remains and we are fundamentally transformed into a Third World shithole.  It’s ironic.  In the 1940’s we went deep in debt to keep fascists from taking over.  Now, we’re deep in debt so that the Woke fascists can take over.  Ballooning the debt is just one part of the scheme, and it’s reaching a dangerous level.  The World Bank says that the tipping point between sustainable debt and collapse is 77% of GDP for a prolonged period.  As detailed above, we blew the doors off that level of debt some 11 years ago.  The battle over raising the debt ceiling now going on in the Congress has become an issue for two reasons.  First, we have a Republican majority in the House, which is insisting on some check, even if it’s just a slowing of new spending, and because Biden inflation has caused the interest rates to be raised so high that servicing the debt is costing us $640 billion this year and $739 billion next year, nearly as much as we spend on defense and Medicare.  Interest on the debt could be hidden before, with the Fed keeping interest rates near zero.  For instance, in 2018, debt service was $263 billion.  Now, it’s becoming the creature that ate the budget.  And in the face of this, Democrats just want to keep spending.  They were shocked, shocked that Speaker McCarthy insisted on spending caps in return for an increase of the debt ceiling.  How dare House Republicans “hold the government hostage” by doing something as controversial as demanding input into spending, which the Constitution says is their job?  Some may question whether the Democrats are really planning the collapse of the country, but ask yourselves what else could be driving them?  By admitting 7.5 million illegals, ignoring the concept of equal justice, encouraging predators to turn cities into Hellholes, refusing to enforce the law, purposely destroying our energy industries, and seeking to gain federal control of local zoning, they are carrying out the Cloward & Piven model to a tee.  Either their goal is a complete collapse, or else they are just too crazy or stupid to be left in charge.  And you and I know they’re not stupid.  Crazy and evil maybe, but never stupid.  If the Left succeeds, it will make no difference that Debtor’s Prison was abolished.  For hardworking taxpayers, the entire country will be our prison.  We’ll be prisoners of our debt just as though we were behind bars in The Clink.  All merit ignored.  All incentive killed.  All freedoms denied, and all hope fundamentally transformed into despair.  We’ll finally reach Equity, a state in which all are equally destitute, ignorant, and miserable.  But rest assured, as we all disappear beneath that massive tsunami of debt, our Woke masters will keep telling us how they preserved our democracy.

This coming Monday is Memorial Day.  Because our schools are producing generations of historical illiterates, as with most holidays, for most people Memorial Day is just an excuse for another long weekend.  However, there’s a lot more to it.  The first Memorial Day, then called Decoration Day, was held May 30, 1868, to commemorate the sacrifices made by veterans of the Civil War.  Traditionally on Memorial Day, either the President or Vice-President appears at Arlington National Cemetery and lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.  I doubt that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden will leave his Delaware beach house for such an intrusion on his vacation time, so I guess Kamala, The Unqualified Vice-President, will visit the Unknown Soldier.  At the 1868 event, former Union General and then Congressman, James A. Garfield spoke at Arlington of those who had lost their lives in the Civil War.  Garfield went on to be elected President in 1880.  In July 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged supporter who thought Garfield should have given him a diplomatic post.  I guess our politics have always been violent.  Garfield died two months later in Long Branch, New Jersey, a victim of both the gunman and poor medical care.  But I digress.  Part of what Garfield said at Arlington was, “For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” I have to wonder, if the Civil War veterans had known then what we know now, would they have been willing to make the sacrifice?  For love of country?  Which country?  The country created under the Constitution, which existed after the Civil War, and which inspired men to sacrifice their lives to defend freedom in the First and Second World Wars is hardly recognizable, and is teetering on the edge of extinction.  We must ask whether it really is a “country” anymore.  A “country” is a sovereign state which is independent of other nations, has a permanent population, and a defined territory, that is, borders.  Since the arrival of the Biden wrecking ball, we no longer have a defined territory with borders.  We have no borders, and our population isn’t what could be called “permanent,” because we have ceased to be aware of who or how many people make up our population.  It’s estimated that by the end of this year, Biden will have admitted some 7.5 million illegal aliens.  We don’t know who they are, we don’t know where they are, and we don’t know what they’re going to do.  We know only that they’re here, they’re never going home, and it’s the responsibility of American citizens, already $32 trillion in debt, to support these people with money, housing, education, and health care, no questions asked.  Sovereign nations may be destroyed by outside forces, through military force, but this isn’t that.  This is an inside job.  Would the honored dead have made the supreme sacrifice if they knew they were doing it for this country?  Our veterans fought for freedom; freedom for slaves, to preserve the Union, and for the personal freedoms that made America the Shining City on the Hill that drew millions of legal immigrants to her shores.  Yet today we have a political Party that’s sowing disunion and is bent on cancelling our freedoms in favor of a socialist dictatorship.  Was that worth dying for?  What have we become?  Remember the opening to the TV show The Adventures of Superman?  “Truth, justice and the American way.”  Today, truth is only an irrelevant talking point.  Justice, the certainty of consequences for bad acts, doesn’t exist for Leftist rioters, thieves and homicidal maniacs.  And the American Way is considered by the Left to be racist and xenophobic.  Who would willingly sacrifice his life for that?  America was once considered a Melting Pot, where a diverse group of immigrants from all over the world came to be assimilated, and recast as Americans.  Pride in their former heritage was expected, but in the end, they were Americans first and foremost.  Then we changed the calculus from Melting Pot to Salad Bowl.  Immigrants came to America and became Americans, but maintained their hyphenated identities.  No problem there, a bit more focus on our origins highlighted our diversity and added to our strength.  But now, America is neither a Melting Pot nor a Salad Bowl, it’s turning into a commode.  We are fast becoming the dumping ground for everyone and anyone all over the world who decides that being fed from the teat of Uncle Sucker is preferable to their current situation.  It’s a recipe for disaster.  Would our honored dead have given their lives for the prospect of an America which lacks a commitment to equal justice, depending on the political affiliation of the accused; for an America in which the chosen group is permitted to lie, cheat, and steal without consequence, while others are persecuted for the slightest real or imagined fault?  Would they have lain down their lives for an America in which the insane homeless are free to befoul the streets and terrorize innocent taxpayers, turning the Land of the Free into a real-life version of The Walking Dead?  The heroes who inspired Memorial Day were brought up in a world where they believed anyone could get ahead by obeying the rules, working hard, and persevering.  They died to give their descendants the right to that same opportunity.  I don’t think they died so that ignorant, spoiled Americans, and illegal aliens could just show up, do nothing, know nothing, and yell, “Where’s my check?”  I’m no Pollyanna.  I know America has never been perfect.  No nation has been.  But it’s head and shoulders above anyplace else on Earth.  The point is that, if we continue down the path we’re on, the concept of Memorial Day is just a cruel joke.  Unless our heroes fell to preserve the America they fought for, then they died in vain.  Let’s just consider it another meaningless day off for the ignorant, entitled, lazy rabble we’ve spawned.  Let the Unknown Soldiers rest in peace.  Associating them with this mess is an insult they don’t deserve.

I’m a fan of the Clive Cussler Oregon Files franchise of books.  The latest installment involves a plot to draw the U.S. into a war between the NATO forces and Russia.  There was a line in the story that hit quite close to home and inspired this piece.  “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.”  Unfortunately, that line aptly describes our current circumstances.  In the Biden Administration in particular, and the United States in general, statements of the truth have been labelled as treason, while a tissue of lies is foisted on an unsuspecting public.  I always thought that the American people were too smart to fall for such chicanery, but now, I’m not so sure.  The late Rush Limbaugh used to talk about people he called “low information voters,” who could be shielded from the truth and convinced to vote for Democrats despite the fact that their votes were not in their own best interests.  Thanks to the Leftist hijacking of the educational system and the mainstream media outlets, and the manipulation of mail-in ballots after the Wuhan plague, I’m afraid that a majority of the voting public now falls into that category.  The current system permits the Biden Administration and its Leftist minions to lie with impunity.  You really can’t blame them for lying, when they know that they can say anything they want, secure in the knowledge that whatever the lie, no matter how blatant, and no matter how divorced it may be from reality, the media moguls will swear to it, while at the same time, suppressing the truth as “misinformation” that “puts our democracy at risk.”  Just look around.  Take corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden personally.  He says he graduated at the top of his law school class.  It’s a lie.  He graduated 76th out of 85 students.  Depending on his audience, Joe either was raised Greek, Puerto Rican, African-American, Irish, or whatever.  He says he was a truck driver.  All lies, covered up by the media Empire of Lies.  Any contradiction is treason.  Joe says he’s reduced the deficit by over $1 trillion.  He’s actually raised it more than that, but the truth isn’t permitted.  Take Hunter Biden.  There is indisputable evidence that he took millions of dollars from foreign governmental interests, and transferred millions to family members, including Old Joe.  If there were bank records showing such payments to people named Trump, they would all already be in Leavenworth.  But anyone who might mention this is branded a liar, and we are told there’s really no evidence because it’s never been investigated and proven.  At the same time, no investigation is permitted.  Look at the border.  Joe let in over 4 million illegal alien invaders, then transported them all over the country at our expense.  They’re called “migrants” but they’re never leaving.  We’re told they’re only here to seek asylum, and that over 95% of asylum seekers are rejected.  But none of them are ever deported, nor will they ever be deported.  Democrats took pride in predicting that U.S. demographics were replacing caucasions with minorities.  Mention that now and you’re a traitor spreading unproven replacement theories.  The southern border has been erased.  Mexican drug cartel members are coming in to set up shop north of the border.  Democrats do nothing.  Tons of drugs are coming in, drugs that are killing more than 100,000 Americans a year.  Democrats do nothing, and Biden says the border is secure.  When even Eric Adams complains that Biden is destroying the country, that’s not reported.  Biden says the border is secure, despite videos of thousands of people from more than 100 countries back-stroking across the Rio Grande.  We’re not shown that, so it isn’t really happening.  Except it is happening.  Donald Trump tried to tell the truth.  Look what happened to him.  He said he was being framed by the Democrats, illegally investigated by the FBI and CIA, and wrongfully impeached … twice.  All those things are true.  This week, John Durham finally released a report proving that.  I told you that in these pages in 2017.  What’s the official message?  Trump lies, he’s a fascist, and he incited an insurrection that … wait for it … is an imminent threat to “our democracy.”  Seeing a pattern here?  It’s pervasive.  Take the environment.  Leftists used to be fond on saying “Save the whales.”  Now they’re embarked on a stupid drive for green energy.  Their off-shore wind turbines are killing dozens of whales every week.  We know this because dead whales keep washing up on our shores.  They won’t turn off the turbines, though, so now it’s “Screw the whales” we have to plug in our electric cars.  More lies there.  All cars must be electric by 2030.  That’s a bald-faced lie.  It will never  happen and physically cannot happen.  Anybody in touch with reality knows this.  Only reality no longer matters.  In truth, reality no longer exists.  Reality is what is true, and truth is treason.  Need I go on?  The Leftist orthodoxy all around us is a total disregard for reality and a rejection of the truth.  This weekend, Joe Biden said again that the greatest threat facing America is from white supremecists.  It’s an obvious lie, and a provable lie.  If we had an honest media, someone might well ask, “If white supremecists are a threat, what is the Biden Administration doing about it?”  When was the last indictment brought against a white supremecist group?  If charges haven’t been brought, why not?  If Biden isn’t lying, then doesn’t that mean his Justice Department is inept?  It’s all a function of the reality that America has become an Empire of Lies.  How else could a group like the bastards of Antifa conduct itself like Nazi Brownshirts and still be referred to as anti-fascist?  How else could they attack courthouses, burn down police stations, destroy property, and commit murder and aggravated assault and still escape prosecution, or at least condemnation?  If we permit a corrupt, out of control government to be the arbiter of truth, that is an imminent threat to “our democracy.” When it’s time for you to vote, forget about the political labels, and choose reality and your own survival over the Empire of Lies.

Everything seems more important, or at least more pretentious, when it’s in Latin, don’t you think?  The title of this week’s work refers to the Woke, so-called Progressive movement that’s plaguing our country, and it asks the question, “Where’s the progress?”  Another question which might be posed by someone like Cato the Elder could be, Hoc profectum vocas?  “You call this progress?”  These are questions that should be asked of the Woke imbeciles who are speeding the United States down the road to ruin.  The Woke mob proceeds full speed ahead, regardless of budget deficits, national debt, election results, or the wishes of the American people.  They do this because they’re convinced they’re always right, and they think they should be able to indulge all of their Leftist fever dreams, so long as they keep insisting that their only motivations are compassion and democracy, and that any opposition is a hateful threat to democracy.  But what are so-called Progressives doing in the names of compassion and democracy?  The first thing you need to understand is that Progressives (liberals, Leftists, or whatever you want to call them), exist in a world in which they pretend, or at least hope that you’re not intelligent enough to realize, that enormous advances have been made in the last 100 years.  Simply put, when Progressives emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century, they were fighting to bring about much needed improvements to our society to remedy urgent needs.  Anyone who has read these pages over the years knows how far I am from a bleeding heart liberal, but the early Progressives at least worked on real problems like child labor, health and safety standards, access to education, and unemployment insurance.  Then as now, early Progressives in the so-called Gilded Age, attacked the rich, and decried income inequality.  In an article in The Wall Street Journal this week, Phil Gramm and historian Amity Shlaes make a good argument for the proposition that the Gilded Age wasn’t a heartless time when robber barons got rich on the backs of the poor, but actually was a time of great economic gains for all Americans.  In 1892, Progressives railed against the 4,050 millionaires in America.  Today they rail against the 400 billionaires in America.  They ignore the fact these entrepreneurs create jobs that feed and clothe millions of people, and they ignore the fact that the top 1% of earners pay more than 40% of the taxes.  In New York City, about 1,400 taxpayers account for 50% of the tax revenue.  If half of them moved to Florida, the City would collapse.  No matter.  To Progressives they’re villains, because, “uh, income inequality,” “uh, you didn’t build that,” and “uh, you know … the thing.”  Gramm and Shlaes show that, when you add up all the transfer payments like food stamps and refundable tax credits, income inequality was worse in 1947 than it is today.  Facts mean nothing to Progressives, but the point is that Progressives are never satisfied.  Food safety, unemployment insurance, and building codes were good things.  That was progress.  These early successes ballooned during the Great Depression, resulting in Social Security, a myriad of alphabet soup agencies imposing regulations, and later welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, and tax credits that redistribute revenue to people who already pay no income taxes.  The thing is that so-called Progressives pretend that all these government welfare programs don’t already exist.  They pretend that we haven’t already spent $25 trillion on the War on Poverty, and we’re not spending trillions more today.  For Freud every dream was a wish.  For Progressives, every wish is an existential crisis, which can be met only by doing exactly what they demand, regardless of cost and regardless of reality.  Progressives operate in a make-believe world.  There are but two explanations for this phenomenon.  Either Progressives are imbued with a religious fervor that prevents them from seeing reality, or they are purposely attempting to bring about the destruction of the United States.  Review with me the issues driving Progressives, and ask yourselves, “Where’s the progress?”  Take the environment.  Environmentalists in the 1970’s faced cities obscured by smog, rivers so tainted with chemicals that one actually caught fire, smokestack industries causing acid rain to fall, and leaded gasoline that poisoned the air.  Through their efforts, all these blights were cleaned up.  That was progress.  Today’s climate alarmists insist we end the use of cheap, abundant, and safe fossil fuels which will greatly increase costs, close industries, and eliminate jobs, and all to no end other than “we say so.”  Is that progress?  Look at the border.  No one lacks compassion for foreigners who are abused by their governments, but does that entitle the entire world to come here?  It’s ironic that Progressives, preach that America isn’t exceptional, yet don’t understand that the fact that the whole world wants to come here proves we are better than anyplace else.  So in the name of compassion, they erase the border, admit millions of illiterates, new dependents, suspected terrorists, criminals, the victims of human trafficking, and tons of illegal drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.  Is that progress?  Progressives oppose the institutionalization of the mentally ill, and say that all drugs should be legalized.  These policies have resulted in an explosion of homeless people living, crapping, and ingesting drugs in the streets.  Progressives consider this the height of compassion, but is it progress?  Our streets have been turned into war zones because crime is out of control, police are prevented from doing their jobs, and Soros-backed prosecutors refuse to enforce the law.  In some places, looters are free to steal up to $1,000 without fear of arrest.  Hundreds of stores have closed, and some have locked up all their products, making shopping more difficult.  The store closures mostly impact people in “underserved communities,” the same people Progressives claim they want to help.  You call that progress?  The latest Progressive craze is transgender rights.  Trans people are estimated to be 0.03% of the population, three hundreths of one percent, or less than 100,000 in a nation of 330 million.  Progressives are willing to destroy all our culture, norms, and morals, and the right to privacy of every actual female to cater to a group that deserves toleration but not celebration.  Is that progress?  Progressives have taken us from welfare, to workfare, and now are supporting the payment of guaranteed incomes to discourage work and bankrupt already struggling governments.  Rather than progress, this is a wrecking ball, designed to collapse our society, in favor of what?  And that’s the point.   It’s increasingly  apparent that Progressives are not simply misguided, but are purposely attempting to bring about the destruction of the United States.  Our enemies, principally China, are behind this.  George Soros’ One World scheme doesn’t seek to bring the rest of the world up to our standards, but to pull the United States down to the level of the rabble.  Once we’re overrun with illegal aliens, bankrupt, stoned, destitute, and as hopeless as everyone else on Earth, we’ll be much easier to defeat, and the Progressive invocations of the word “democracy” will be merely a sick joke.  Progressives don’t bring about progress, only destruction, and it’s not a mistake, it’s been well planned.