Memorial Day has come and gone.  As each day passes, I’m more and more convinced that, if we don’t get rid of Joe Biden and and the rest of his merry band of Democrat Progressive wrecking balls pretty soon our epitaph will be “In memorium, the United States of America.”  Ronald Reagan was prophetic when he issued this warning:  “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”  When Reagan spoke those words in 1964 they may have seemed like no more than political hyperbole.  Not anymore.   The day Reagan warned us about is here.  Our plight has ceased to be merely about which Party controls the Congress or the presidency.  The fortunes of Republicans and Democrats or of conservatives and liberals have ceased to be important.  What’s at stake now is our survival, plain and simple.  You may have noticed that, until the Chinese Wuhan virus plague was set loose on us in late 2019, we were doing fine.  For the first time in recent memory, we had a president who was as good as his word.  He told us what he planned to do, and then he did it.  Amazing.  Politicians were promising us energy independence since the 1970’s without effect.  Trump did it, and that’s not all.  He secured the borders, lowered taxes, created millions of new jobs, brought companies back to our shores, slapped tariffs on China, revamped our trade agreements, strengthened our military, and kept us out of needless wars.  Everything was moving in the right direction.  But Trump had embarrassed the political hacks on both sides.  They had to protect their phony-baloney jobs, and their access to graft, so Trump had to go.  The Chinese plague made that possible.  Was it a coincidence that it hit just in time for the 2020 election?  Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans sold their souls to put Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden in the White House.  Politicians like to throw the word “democracy” around, but they wouldn’t dare let their fortunes be decided by mere voters.  There’s too much money to be made, too much power to be wielded, and too many foreign interests who need lobbyists.  None of the foregoing is surprising, and it really wouldn’t be so bad if the recent change in Administrations was only about the elites getting their hands back on the levers of power.  It’s worse.  I’ve noted before that everything the Democrats are doing seems to be designed to do the most damage and piss off the greatest number of people.  They’re not making mistakes.  They have planned each and every disaster that we now face.  They don’t like the America we grew up in, and they’re determined to tear it all down.  There’s no other explanation for why Biden and company are doing everything ass backward.  Think gas prices are too high because of the war in Ukraine.  Think again.  That’s a small part of it, of course, but Democrats want $7 gasoline.  They’ve been planning for that since Obama.  Don’t doubt me.  When the Secretary of Energy says oil should be left in the ground, you should listen.  In quick succession, Biden blamed the oil companies, Putin, everyone except himself.  Recently, Biden uttered a rare truth.  Just get used to high prices.  They’re not going down ever again, but it’s alright, because it’s all part of a wonderful transition to alternative renewable energy.  What alternative?  He didn’t say, because there isn’t one.  So Biden didn’t blunder into high prices.  It’s part of their bizarro Woke fantasyland.  Wokesters don’t like fossil fuels, so you’ll just have to suffer.  Hence, cancelled oil pipelines, cancelled oil leases, and a Federal Reserve that plans to deny oil and gas producers access to loans.  More than 500,000 illegal aliens are pouring over the southern border every month.  This is not negligence, misfeasance or mistake.  It’s deliberate.  The Woke are against borders, so you’ll just have to suffer.  Woke imbeciles hate the police, so they want to cancel them and make the police the enemy.  Woke prosecutors refuse to prosecute criminals.  They don’t even recognize criminal behavior as crimes.  Gangs of smash and grab thieves have run every Walgreen’s drug store in San Francisco out of business.  Democrats don’t mind.  They’re in favor of taking legally owned guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens, but are unconcerned that more than 9,000 black citizens a year are killed by illegally possessed guns in the hands of criminals.  Ass backward.  If we allow them to get their way, we’ll all be at the mercy of armed criminals and we’ll be powerless to defend ourselves.  This is not politics, it’s armageddon.  It’s the breakdown of the fabric of society.  When I got out of law school and became a judge’s clerk, Judge Baime put it very simply, “the first duty of government is to keep people safe on the streets and in their homes.”  A government that can’t do that has failed.  Failed governments are the hallmark of Third World banana republics, not the United States.  Not America, the land of the free.  Joe Biden and company have to go.  Biden could get oil prices down by permitting U.S. producers to produce all the oil and gas we need, but he won’t do it.  Biden is a prisoner of the Left.  The perverted Woketards have us on the path to destruction.  If they’re not stopped, we will be telling our grandchildren about the time when we were free.