It’s Hard To Resolve The Actions Of Our Fellow Americans With The Facts
Another election day just flashed by and the analysis of the results can’t be sugar coated anymore. There seem to be hordes of lemmings in America who seem incapable of independent judgement and puzzlingly hell bent on self-destruction, undermining their own best interests for specious reasons.
This has been ongoing for a number of cycles now but seems to get more nonsensical with the passing years. Defying logic, man’s basic survival instincts and common sense: which obviously ain’t so common anymore.
Well before we followed politics-while in the Army-where it was somewhat of a tradition that many officers didn’t vote because you don’t get to pick your Commander-In-Chief, my unit in Germany received a short notice that New York Representative Stephen Solarz was going to visit and wanted to meet with leaders and receive the unit mission briefing.
Leadership narrowed it down to the threat briefing from our operations plan and the details of our stevedore mission to receive III Corps from Ft. Hood, Tx at the Staging Site Crafty Fox. This was our wartime mission rehearsed at scale every few years as part of the Return of Forces to Germany-REFORGER-where we assisted with the draw of military equipment from POMCUS sites (Prepositioning of Materiel Configured in Unit Sets.)
I led off with a threat briefing that was largely a run down of the enemy forces in our northern sector, Group of Soviet Forces Germany, 3d Shock Army. Not 4 minutes in Rep Solarz asked me, “What is the threat condition that would trigger use of nuclear weapons?” I almost laughed but looked to our Commanding General-BG Thomas H. Tait to respond-which he did-and the room was soon necked down to our CG, our Assistant Division Commander, our G-3 Operations Officer, the acting G-2 (me) and the congressman.
I learned later from my OCS buddy-who was the CG’s Aide De Camp-that Solarz was a New York Democrat and most of the democrats seemed to be drinking their own bath water that President Reagan had plans to wage nuclear war in Europe. Which I found hysterical, but made sense given Solarz’ question.
Was there anyone less inclined to lob nuclear rounds than front line soldiers? I don thin so…
The tactical version we had in 1984 could barely reach beyond our lines-it would be like firing over your house into your back yard and then ducking.
I didn’t give the incident much thought. Not even when the Dutch Parliament passed a law that the Dutch Army-which was already unionized and would often leave their combat vehicles in the field at night to be watched by contractors-could not deploy until parliament approved it. Which seemed somewhat logical.
Unless you consider that the 1st NL-Dutch-Corps was on the hook to provide the Northern Army Group covering force. Which you have to do with somewhat of a sense of urgency.
I-again-did not consider this a problem related to US politics-but many did. All I knew at the time was that we would now take on the cover force mission with the 7th German Panzer Division and it would pull troops away from our staging mission for III Corps.
We may not think our political battles matter overseas, but they are listening and they pay attention to what many in the US see as routine back and forth business-politics-as usual.
When we came back from Germany we lived in Arizona (again,) just in time to live through the non-sensical act of Governor Babich signing a Martin Luther King holiday into law after the voters rejected the “take it or leave it” ballot issue that gave us a singular choice to replace Columbus Day with MLK Day: voters said no. The same feckless body that gave us this Hobson’s choice thought it a good idea to cast the rejection in racist terms which played very well across the nation.
This was in 1987-1988: it was a first heard for us that “people” hated Columbus because of what he did to indigenous people. It was not clear to many of us what that even meant. Who were these people like Janet Napolitano?
Babich said “I don’t care” and just pencil whipped the MLK Holiday into law after it was rejected by voters. Newly elected Governor Meacham was barely sworn in when he nullified this last act of Babich and directed the legislature to reconsider the issue without eliminating Columbus Day: provide an alternative.
With all the bad press you would have thought that Meacham was responsible for illegal acts. It wasn’t long before he was railroaded, impeached and thrown out of office.
Along the way the legislature passed a rule that state-wide offices would have to be won by 50.1% of the vote or else the top two candidates would have a subsequent election to determine the winner. That “dumb butt” piece of legislation has probably cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 3 decades for no good reason. There was also a referendum to declare English the official language of Arizona which barely passed at a little over 50%.
I don’t know anybody who thought we had a problem that would be saved by such a referendum.
Arizona has always been a spotty, political place. Way back in the day when Tucson was the capital-although it switched a number of times over the years-law makers in Phoenix made a deal to trade the establishment of the state college-the University of Arizona-in exchange to make Phoenix the capital.
A scant few years after this agreement Phoenix lawmakers passed legislation to establish Arizona State in Phoenix.
When we were in Virginia a very popular and successful Governor Robert McDonnell was indicted in January 2014 upon leaving office after a smear campaign of several years eventually gained momentum. Subsequently found guilty, his judgement was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2016 who found that if he was guilty of these charges then every politician in America could suffer the same fate. The intervening years killed his political career.
His indictment somewhat started the trend toward the “bluing” of Virginia when he was succeeded by Hillary Clinton’s bagman, carpet bagger Terri McAuliffe.
Democrats took over the legislature, and we began to see all manner of progressive policies that were out of step with Virginia, but in step with where she was leaning politically. This was a time characterized by the largely unheralded integration of illegal aliens into Northern Virginia that I’ve written about as a poster child for Replacement Theory.
There were a surprising number of anti-gun laws. Many HOAs began drives to identify homeowners with guns similar to NYC which used FOIA requests to find out and post maps of homes with guns. There was talk of insurance ramifications, the need to post warnings for Halloween, a spate of radical ideas.
We had already seen the introduction of Muslim friendly curricula in grade and middle schools with prayer rugs, conversation language handouts and history “fun facts,” at a time when schools were eliminating morning prayer (separation of church and state issue,) the Pledge of Allegiance, stopped playing the Star Spangled Banner at sporting events, started to put LGBTQ flags in classrooms-replacing the American flag which “made people uncomfortable,” and advising parents and children that military uniforms “intimidated” many students and parents.
Democrats passed a metro extension gas tax bill during these years. When I received my renewal for my Honda Civic Hybrid, the registration cost was $146 dollars, up from $48 dollars the year before: I thought it was for three years. It turns out the geniuses in the legislature figured out that Hybrids got much better gas mileage and could use the HOV, so they added the tax up front on those owners to recoup the perceived loss of revenue.
But they were big on those green incentives: total hypocrites!
When we arrived in Colorado in 2017, we had a decent year before this place started going to hell in a hand basket because Trump. Our first experience was getting a Colorado Driver’s License, a poster child example of malicious compliance. I had my Virginia Drivers License, my retired military ID, my VA medical card, my government civilian service ID, and my Senior Executive ID: all picture IDs. The DMV would not take any of them.
I thought it was a joke. We need your social security card, birth certificate or your passport. I asked to see the manager: it was ridiculous. Nope-they wouldn’t take any of my documents and security escorted me out of line: I was furious.
I eventually got my drivers license but this was an introduction to a Colorado I didn’t remember from my military time in the 1970s.
Colorado was now actively engaged in countering Trump and treating citizens like crap while actively supporting illegals by accepting flimsy social security cards with no pictures, as well as utility bills or library cards. A new law was passed that completed a voter registration for anybody who got a driver’s license, fishing license, or wildlife park pass.
In 2018 with the Dominion Voting Machines in 99% of the counties and 100% mail in ballots the legislators blew past purple straight to blue and it has stayed there ever since. The laws coming out of the legislators have gotten more ridiculous and insane every year, particularly this year where the democrats rigged votes on LGBTQMOUSE issues by lecturing that “they would not let the KKK debate anti-racist legislation,” equating their colleagues with KKK and stopping them from representing their constituent’s input.
Several years ago, a magazine restriction was passed limiting them to 10 rounds. A three-day waiting period was passed, effectively ending Gun Shows in Colorado because of the wait time. Lawmakers proposed a serial number scheme for bullets, a tax on bullets, a ban on magazines and a tax on pets. They recently passed a ban on certain semi-auto weapons. We now have weapons lock up regulations.
Downtown Denver became a needle ridden, homeless encampment. We found out recently that a needle exchange program had been implemented but the public was not notified until 3 years into the program. They spent tax dollars on this program and never told the public about it.
The city had a budget shortfall of 240M in 2024 and had to reduce city worker hours to zero among the austerity measures undertaken. Why not just lay them off? Because they would qualify for unemployment that the city did not want to pay.
The city closed down shelters created for illegals and homeless and sent 40K illegals on their way to other places, creating the problem in Denver and then shipping it to other states. In 2025 they did announce layoffs.
Colorado Springs has become a big city and not in a good way. In 2024 there were some >50 smash and grab crimes where thieves stole vehicles and drove them into liquor stores, vape shops, pawn shops, gun dealers and jewelry stores. There is a shooting every few days now when before it was a rarity. You can’t drive anywhere in town without seeing pan handlers.
People are likely well aware of the Aurora gang issues mentioned by the President and Vice President, which the governor denied as overexaggerated. But as Vance pointed out, downplaying the taking over of an apartment by foreign gangs who terrorize the residents as “one incident” says a lot about the politics.
I’m not the only one who loves but is about done with Colorado. A friend writes:
“I just voted yesterday in probably my very last-ever election–period! I no longer believe in voting or elections as a means to resist or change the bad and the evil perpetrated by corrupt communist politicians and radical Bolshevik activists.
I am sick of hearing commentators on cable TV news propound that “the American voters are smart, cannot be fooled, and will set things right!” That is an outright monumental lie–the vast majority of voters are stupid, ignorant, easily swayed by false propaganda, and whatever they actually think can be easily altered or denied by the pervasive corrupt machine politics, millions of illegal non-citizen, non-existent and dead registered voters, and especially by the corrupted technology of the electronic machines that mark and tabulate the votes–which can be altered any way desired by the DemonRats.
H.L. Mencken’s aphorism of the 1930s–which stands as true or more true today!–actually said that “No one in this world…has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people” in his column in the September 19, 1926, Chicago Daily Tribune. This is often paraphrased as “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” though his original wording was more specific. He was commenting on the rise of “tabloid newspapers” aimed at less-educated readers–which is accurate enough at how stupidly gullible people today swallow the grotesque propaganda of cable TV (e.g., MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS, NPR) and Internet Social Media (e.g., TikTok), and yes–tabloid newspapers and magazines…
To be continued.
6 November 2025
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