Ramblings to the Rescue

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Sarge sent out the subtle Bat-Signal with his "Nothing to Say" and rerun post, so I have come to the rescue. This reminds me of the line from The Dark Knight when Commissioner Gordon laments the vigilante. I will use it with extreme literary license: “This may be the blog post The Chant deserves, but not the one it needs right now.”

In a recent post, Sarge lamented how politics is very much "in your face," which is so true. Election season, which seems to be at a full boil as we near each November, is only turned down to a high simmer the rest of the year. I think that's because there's so much money in politics, and the fact that the current administration is trying to cut off that money. I'm not necessarily talking about just campaign money, but the fraud that seemingly funds all the protests, the left-wing media, the siphoning off of aid to Ukraine, and the financing of "Learning Centers," hospice clinics, Medicare fraud, and so on.

Sarge's exact line was: “The world has gone insane, everyone wants to howl in my face about politics.”

It's on full volume right now and stays at a relatively high pitch all the time because the left has severe Trump Derangement Syndrome.   They are fighting for their life—or at least their lifeblood: our tax dollars.  Therefore, nearly every media story is slanted to slander, which keeps politics on the front burner all the time.  It keeps people upset and voting for a side that has nothing going for it except that hate for their opponent.

I see the real-world consequences of this constant media fear-mongering right in my own home.   I've previously mentioned how my apolitical daughter went off to college and came back as a textbook "woke" liberal, completely hating my political views.  But reality has a funny way of breaking through that viewpoint, especially here in California.  We live in a state burdened with massive taxes and exploding local problems.  Lately, I think she’s finally starting to turn.  Our current ballot is packed with weak candidates and propositions that will raise our taxes even higher, and she is starting to feel the actual weight of the policies she was taught to cheer for. Is her heart and mind changing ever so slowly?  I think so, but nothing accelerates that shift like watching her hard-earned dollars get siphoned away to fund the very insanity she is trying to survive.

By the end of the movie The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent has gone insane, become the villain Two-Face, and died. If the public found out that their "White Knight" District Attorney had become a murderous criminal, Gotham's citizens would lose all hope, and the criminals Harvey locked up would be released back onto the streets.  Knowing that Gotham is a deeply corrupt, gritty city that regularly falls into chaos, Batman tells Gordon to place the blame for Dent's crimes on him.  With that, Batman becomes a hunted criminal in the eyes of the public. He isn't interested in praise or fame, and his reputation suffers because of it.  Yet, he disappears back into the shadows to continue keeping Gotham safe.

A violent, law-bending vigilante like Batman is exactly the kind of gritty hero a city like that "deserves."  However, Batman was not the hero it needed right then.  What Gotham needed at that specific moment was hope and faith in the official legal system.  It needed a symbol of pure, uncorrupted justice who worked within the law—and that symbol was the DA Harvey Dent.

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Bear with me now, but I'm going to loosely equate Batman to Trump.

Trump doesn't play nice. He deals with the stark, ugly realities of the world, and those on the other side of the aisle.  For years, we were led to believe that geopolitical threats like Iran were entirely contained by conventional diplomacy.  During the Obama and Biden administrations, we were told the situation was under control, pointing to international monitoring that legally capped Iran's uranium enrichment at a harmless 3.67% purity.  But this soft diplomacy was either ignorant, or subtly and intentionally hiding how fast things were actually moving beneath the literal surface of Iran.  Inaction on our part had led to 5% purity, with some stockpiles reaching 20%.   That led to the 2015 Iran Nuclear "Deal" which lifted sanctions capping them at the previous 3.67% enrichment.

Once Iran's fiscal constraints were off though, reality caught up with us quickly.  We now know that Iran managed to quietly blow past those old diplomatic baselines, pushing its uranium enrichment all the way up to 60% purity—a hair’s breadth away from weapons-grade material—and amassing hundreds of kilos of fissile stock capable of nuclear armament.  Meanwhile, they shattered their own self-imposed 2,000-kilometer missile range moratorium by launching intermediate-range ballistic missiles thousands of kilometers out toward the base at Diego Garcia.

The media and the political establishment - from Bush to Biden, tried to downplay just how close our adversaries were to a nuclear capability, using the illusion of past agreements to justify our inaction.  Trump recognizes the danger of the real world though and acts accordingly, regardless of the outcry and recent media leaps that claim he wants Iran to bomb San Diego as a small price to pay.

Trump is not the slick, good-looking, smooth-talking politician we think we want.  He is not perfect by any means, but his policies are strengthening our country, protecting the border, making us safer, putting more people to work, making us less reliant on foreign countries, and Making America Great Again.  Trump takes the slings and arrows of the media, fueling the cacophony from the left, and he simply doesn't care.  He doesn't step back from his policies. He doesn't chase the polls.  And he's equally good at choosing the right Lieutenants who are just as skilled, if not more, at pushing back at the media's attempts to hijack the narrative and slander his agenda.

Like Batman taking the fall for the peace of Gotham, Trump absorbs the endless hatred, the investigations, and the media vitriol because he can take it.  He isn't the polished, comforting, and passive symbol the media wants for us in Washington.  But because he stands as a shield between us and a chaotic world, pushing his policies without caring about his own elite reputation, he might just be the exact hero we need.  

And years from now, history might credit him as such.

For the rest of the month at least, the howling from the left will probably remain in Sarge's face.  But as long as the shield holds, the rest of us can continue to enjoy the fruits of Trump's labor.  Will it hold?  I'm voting with Juvat's rubric* to keep it in place.  If things shift a little more left, his agenda may stall, but the public, like my daughter, is slowly waking up.  As it does, maybe we'll start voting in our best interests, and the the politicians we deserve won't be so different from the ones we need. 

* And I'll add one more- no tax increases ever.  

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