My Manifesto

 

The obligatory mass-shooter manifesto has been recovered in the wake of the recent San Diego mosque shooting that was allegedly carried out by two teenage “incels.” The teens, Cain Clark and Caleb Vasquez, identified Jews as “the Universal Enemy,” and noted that they hate women, Islam, and President Trump-- and his MAGA supporters. Ironically, in hating women, they have much in common with Islam’s practitioners.

 

Cole Allen, the would-be White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin, put out a manifesto detailing his justification and even his “rules of engagement” before he attempted to storm the dinner and take out Trump and/or his cabinet members and supporters. It is remarkable how often killers, especially mass shooters, leave behind manifestos.

Now I don’t plan to shoot anyone, but I have also noticed that many literary and artistic types pen manifestos, as do those immersed in certain social and political movements. In fact, it sometimes seems that as many folks have “manifestos” as have podcasts.

So, it recently dawned on me that I haven’t written or put forth a “manifesto” of my own. And that, by the looks of things, I might be the only one over the age of 14 who hasn’t. This embarrassing oversight needed to be rectified at once. So…

Understand that manifestos are, by definition, bold statements of personal belief. Therefore, please indulge me in this endeavor… and consider the following to be my official manifesto:

 

*Today’s Democrats are dead set on destroying the United States and therefore must be stopped…and held accountable. This should be obvious, but apparently isn’t to somewhat more than half the electorate…or perhaps significantly less if cheating is as rampant in our recent elections as I fervently believe to be the case.

*I despise bullies of any sort. Always have. Today’s biggest bullies are “progressive” Democrats as well as governments in general. The bigger the government the greater the bullying. The corollary is: the more pro-big government a politician is, the bigger the bully he or she is likely to be. I am singularly and inextricably drawn to fight these tyrannical behemoths…even if there is no real chance of prevailing.

*Today’s Republicans, save for a relatively few MAGA types, are utterly uninterested in stopping Democrats…or holding them accountable. For anything. Some may be daft. Some may be pathological liars. Some may be closet Democrats. Most are likely bought and paid for…and /or threatened.

*Democrats literally foster and celebrate sloth, degeneracy, crime, abortion, and other evils…and far too many Republicans are kinda okay with that. (See above.) I am not. Feel free to call me intolerant, unwelcoming, Islamophobic, and anti-crime. Our standards have not just slipped, but collapsed. To everyone’s detriment. Don’t think so? Compare air travel today to that of the 1950s and 1960s. Or even the 1980s and 1990s. In days of yore, stewardesses were attractive and attentive. Passengers were generally well-dressed, many men in suits and ties, many women in dresses. There were no pajamas, no butt cracks showing, no support animals, no loud swearing, etc., etc. Respect, manners, and dignity were valued and therefore folks felt more comfortable, not less. People felt safer because some behaviors were not tolerated, let alone celebrated.

*Intelligent people typically realize how little they know, dumb folks often think they know everything. That is a universal truism. I don’t know what I could add to that assertion.

*Islam is utterly, inarguably, diametrically opposed to—and incompatible with-- a free democratic republic. Period. End of story. Full stop. (See also Sharia Law.)

*All cultures aren’t the same. Or even nearly so. Some are clearly better, more advanced, more just. As Ben Shapiro might say, facts don’t care about one’s feelings.

*It is one thing to welcome folks from nations that share your values and work ethic, who only want a chance to succeed, and whose most cherished wish is to become an American citizen, with all that should entail. It is quite another to usher in low-IQ and highly aggressive folks from nations that have no history of liberty or just government-- of the people with the rule of law-- and who simply want to come to the US to take advantage of its ridiculously generous social programs. This is a recipe for societal disaster and must be stopped.

*Tragically, the vast majority of public schools-- and the teachers’ unions that effectively control them-- are utterly uninterested in facts, the truth, and unbiased instruction. Quite the opposite. For all their espoused openness, tolerance, and inclusion, they are the least tolerant people on planet Earth. They are all about indoctrination…and worse. If it doesn’t fit their narrative and advance their power it doesn’t get mentioned, let alone taught. Public schools, particularly those in “higher education,” are the most destructive entities in our society today. Deliberately so. Leftists don’t build. Most are incapable of doing so. They destroy. And a great many revel in that destruction.

*Speaking of destructive entities, you can never disdain the mainstream media enough. All the words recently written about this fall short. The legacy media is the Enemy of the People because it gaslights them, lies to them, mocks them, belittles them and hides the important things from them. Today’s “press” does the opposite of what a free press was intended to do. It is a figurative cancer infecting America…and the West in general. Most of today’s “journalists” are faux people. Like many in Hollywood, there is no there there. They are controlled by a few large corporations and possessed by an insane hatred of the truth, decency, honesty, and America.

*Words matter. Eloquent ones arranged properly can be powerful. Some can spur action. Some can change minds. Some can even move others to tears. Myself included. But they aren’t, and can never be, violence. Conversely, violence for violence’s sake can never be “free speech.” Burning down a business or shooting up a synagogue is never comparable to Shakespeare’s “Othello” or the Declaration of Independence. We used to know this in our marrow. Schoolchildren used to mockingly (but accurately) state, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” In that sense, children of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were wiser than many adults today.

*Isaiah 5:20 states: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Yet that is precisely what is happening today. And the elites-- and many of their white, liberal, ignorant, self-hating sycophants—continue to mock Christianity and cheer on the devil. Madness.

So, there you have it. My manifesto. Make of it what you will.