A Rant
"The whole world groaned," wrote Jerome, "and marvelled to find itself Arian."
I returned from vacation and marvelled to find the world gay.
And found the Supreme Court, led by conservative John Roberts, had again judiciously bent over backwards to save the Affordable Care Act.
Let's face it: The Left has won.
Socialism and sexual libertinism have swept all before it. None of the (laughable) Republican Party's (laughable) 13 candidates could even muster a slight protest about (laughable) Caitlyn Jenner. In its efforts to "achieve" (insipid verb) "gay marriage" (oxymoron), the modern gay rights movement has completely rejected its Stonewall Riots premise: the idea that the flamboyant and promiscuous gay lifestyle ought to be celebrated instead of repressed. The media has relentlessly pounded away on us that homosexuality is normal and healthy, even though its percentage numbers in the population (2-3%) put it, demographically, in the same range as other disorders, such as alcoholism. From Bruce to the relentlessly-expanding initials of the gay movement (it's now "LGBTQIA"--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual), the entire movement ought to be a punchline . . . but it's taken seriously. The paradigm has shifted, truths are no longer truth. Even the Catholic Church is teetering (as it has so often in the past), opting for gay-affirming statements rather than reaffirming moral truths held for the past 3,000 years.
And Socialism? Don't get me started. You're talking with a guy who is paying over $20,000 a year in health care premiums and deductibles . . . not counting dental and optical. You're talking with a guy who has to spend a week every year just sorting out Obamacare mistakes and tangles (though, truth be told, it's the guy's wife who deals with most of it; the guy just has to hear about it when he gets home from work). You're talking with a guy who knows Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are, by every ideological and historical measure, Socialistic programs . . . but also realizes they pale next to what has happened under Obama. You're talking with a guy who is spending nearly $8,000 a year on cellphone plans and suspects the prices are skyrocketing because the federal government is spraying money to the telcom industry by providing free phones and service to its constituents. You're talking with a guy whose kids qualify for no college aid because he has saved money in his IRA, even though college tuition is impossible to afford because the federal government has obscenely inflated tuition by throwing enormous sums to the universities . . . but meanwhile, government employees with defined pension plans and employer-provided health insurance don't have to count their pension or health care benefits, with the result that their kids are more likely to get college aid. Socialism doesn't work for many reasons, but even if it did work, it wouldn't change a fundamental fact: It's fundamentally unfair. Right out of the box, right away, someone gets screwed. Eventually, the whole system collapses (the USSR in 1991 was predictable in 1917), but immediately, people get screwed, and the non-government-employed middle class is getting screwed royally . . . and still voting for Democrats and liberal Republicans. It's a bigger joke than the LGBTQIA movement, but no one, it seems, sees the joke besides me.
Which obviously means the joke is on me.
Did I mention I have a garden? A quiet spot where no one (yet) bothers me and I await death with as much stoic calm as possible, exploded only occasionally when I let myself think.
