Well, I'll be

 Okay, I've had this blog going for years now, and I've had about half a dozen or so comments and perhaps a few more views. So, today I searched "how to get more viewers on my blog". The first suggestion was to make comments on other popular blogs with links to mine. Sounded good. So, I searched "most popular blogs". The first list I came to had the top 50 in the world, then I found a list of the top 100, and a couple more lists after that.

To my amazement, it seems the world is more concerned about lifestyles, fitness, celebrities, and cooking than anything of any real importance. Nowhere on any of the lists was there anything about current events, politics, BLM, or even the pandemic.

So much for that idea.

WTF

The only thing I keep thinking of lately, in the wake of all the controversy over Corona virus, and the killing of a couple of black men by police officers, is a quote from Steve McQueen in the movie, "Sand Pebbles". Right at the end, before he is fatally shot, he says, "What the hell happened?"

That is exactly what I'm thinking. What the hell happened? I'm having surgery in a couple of days, and it is a fairly routine operation, but as with all surgeries, there is always that slim chance something will go wrong and you will die. I can't have picked a better time to have it, because if it does kill me, I may actually be thankful that I don't have to witness any more of the destruction of my country, the land of the free, the home of the brave.

MAGA

That title is there because of what has happened slowly and subtly to our country over the last several decades, but also because of what has happened suddenly in the wake of George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis.

We now belong in the ranks of the shithole countries Trump talked about and for which he was highly criticized. Enough of our citizens have joined the ranks of the extreme left that rioting, looting, anarchy are now the rule rather than the exception.

For years, I watched the news with videos of those in third world countries marching, chanting, rioting in the streets of their cities, and thought what kind of animals are these people. Don't they have a job, something better to do than standing around, shoulder to shoulder, screaming and crying, waving signs, and throwing rocks and bottles and Molotov cocktails? Well, that's what we have here now in America, the home of the free and the brave.

Seattle has actually given in to radical leftists and allowed part of their city to be claimed as a new country within the boundaries of the United States. Not only have they accepted this anarchy, but they are doing things to help the anarchists, by bringing in food and toilet facilities and ignoring these terrorists' extortion of the private property owners in the Capitol Hill area.

We have literally come to the point where law-abiding citizens must choose between using lethal force to protect their property (and likely being prosecuted for it) or simply abandoning their property and everything they have worked so hard for.

I can tell you my choice without a second thought. Anyone tries to take or damage anything of mine will be dead, or I will be. There is no other option.

INSANITY

That is the only way I can describe what is happening in the United States these days.

A number of black men (and maybe some women) have been killed by police in the last few decades. (Anything beyond that is pretty much ancient history.) We're talking 13 black men in the last 15 years. In that time, hundreds, if not thousands of black people have been murdered, mostly by black people. Last year alone, 55 police officers were murdered during the performance of their jobs.

It is insane, to take the death of one black man, a man who had a lengthy criminal record, a man who participated in a home invasion robbery armed with a pistol who pointed it at the belly of a pregnant black woman, who committed other crimes and spent several terms in prison, and who supposedly was turning his life around but tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, was killed by a cop, and make that the focus of a national riot. That cop may, or may not have been racially motivated, but regardless used excessive force that resulted in George Floyd's death. Virtually everyone agrees with that. Blacks, whites, politicians, even the police, agree that this should not have happened. The officer and his fellow officers who stood by and did nothing are up on charges. Yet America is burning because BLM says it needs to. Protesters are blocking our streets and highways and bridges, and even those who don't condone violence are essentially aiding and abetting the arsonists, the looters, and those who assault police who are trying to maintain peace.

They are now calling for the abolishment of police departments! Where is most of the crime? In black neighborhoods. Who will suffer the most if there are no police to try and control this crime? Black people.

They obviously don't realize it, but BLM is nothing more than a political arm of the democratic party seeking the donations and support of both blacks, and the whites who have been brainwashed into thinking they have some blame for the poverty and other ills of the black community.

I'm nearly 70 years old now. I don't expect to live a great deal longer, and there is some comfort in that given the way our society has and is failing. I can only hope that there are enough people who believe in the things I believe in and be able to save us from this insanity.

Those beliefs are: don't prejudge people; treat everyone with respect until you have some reason not to; don't take shit off of anyone; stand your ground; work hard because you will feel better about having done so; don't take charity unless you have no other choice if you want to survive; don't depend on others for your welfare or security; teach your children how to take care of themselves and their families; pass on the knowledge you have acquired in your lifetime; die knowing you might have made some mistakes but you tried to do what was right as best you could.

THE NEW AMERICA

You know, a few years ago, the thought of a civil war here in the USA would have been the last thing on my mind. However, since the election of Trump for President, things have really changed (or at least I became more aware of the changes).

Liberals no longer hide their desire to turn the USA into a socialist country where government not only takes our hard-earned money to use as they see fit, but limits or completely denies many of the freedoms and rights that we built into the Constitution.

I am simply dumbfounded at some of the things I've seen happen in these last few years. The democrats want to impeach Trump for investigating criminal activities of Joe Biden and his family, and then elect Joe as our President. They don't even care if he's guilty, or want to know.

New York banned the use of the word illegal to describe undocumented immigrants.

California passed a law to dictate how much time we should spend sleeping.

San Francisco not only declared NRA members to be domestic terrorists, but also to ban any form of commerce between their city and any state that did not have liberal abortion laws.

I don't know if it was intentional on their part, or just dumb luck, but I blame the current state of unrest on the fact that liberals infiltrated our educational system and have been brainwashing people to their agenda for quite a few years. Now, they are continuing to build on that voting base by trying to include those convicted of felonies, and illegal aliens.

Without some other drastic change in the way things are heading, the leftists, led by the extreme left activists (progressives) are soon going to be an unstoppable majority.

This is not because they are right, it is because they have convinced a lot of people they are right.

I'm afraid it won't be long before the true "right" will have literally no say in running this country, at least not through voting in candidates that are conservative.

The idea of a second civil war here in the USA is appalling to me, but I fear it may be coming. People like me, who thrive on liberty, who fend for themselves and don't expect government to take care of them, who believe in freedom, free speech, the right to defend themselves and their families by whatever means are available to them, the right to overthrow a tyrannical government, and the responsibility of people to take care of themselves, will soon be left no choice but to surrender to the socialists and give government control of every aspect of their lives, or to react with a new civil war.

I have a hard time envisioning what that might look like, but given the geographic relationships of conservative states and liberal states, I think it might split the county into three sections. The middle of America will become a conservative, freedom loving, capitalistic, democratic country, while the two coasts will become havens for socialists, people dependent on government for every aspect of their lives, and those who relinquish freedom for security.

Sadly, for them, they cannot exist without the hard-working people in the middle of the continent supporting them. They will not have the weapons needed to fight a civil war, and even if they control the military, they will face mass desertions due to the fact that most of those in the military recognize and promote the values of the right.

This can only end one way. The coastal states will either deteriorate into poverty-stricken third-world-type, shithole countries, or they will submit to the will of the hard-working, freedom loving middle class conservatives.