Each and every week we have a difficult time trying to decide what to discuss in our blog. We wish we could talk about the positive advances within our Nation, or about great innovations, or tremendous accomplishments of its citizens, but it is obvious to us that we are not living today in an environment conducive to always being able to highlight the glass half full and getting fuller. In fact, our Nation’s half glass is less than half full and diminishing to lower levels each and every day. Trying to pick a topic is like playing the kids birthday party game called “pin the tail on the donkey”. It’s that game where one child is blindfolded, spun around and then aimed at a wall with a paper cutout of a donkey. The object is for the child to move forward toward the wall, and using only the hand holding a pinned tail, to see how close the child is to placing the tail in the correct position on the donkey. In our game of selecting the proper topic of today’s blog, we would have no problem getting the tail in the correct position as the whole wall is one big donkey butt! You can’t help but get the tail in the right place, no matter where you stick the tail on the wall. Whatever we choose to discuss is both timely and apropos.
What we have chosen today is to focus on the teeter-totter of global power. When our Nation was once the envy of the world, or in the eyes of some, the object to overcome, we have ended up shooting ourselves in our proverbial foot while mishandling the powers we wield. Can we actually trace back the original source of our error? We believe we can. If you cannot see, or are unwilling to admit that our Nation is being supplanted as the preeminent global power, then you either live under a rock, or you spend all of your waking hours playing video games, streaming funny memes, or mesmerized by fictional movies or videos. If you are one of those people, let us be the first to let you know that “The Rise and Fall of Global Power” is reflected in how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Panda Bear is destroying our Nation. How has this happened? Why has this happened? Let’s take a quick look back at the source of our downfall.
The downfall actually began several decades ago, but we will attempt to focus on the more recent events causing our demise. We will start back in 2001 when China, represented as the Panda Bear, was allowed into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Why did we allow that to happen. How many ways can you spell “profit”? It was the greed of our Nation’s elites and those in power that saw ever-increasing dollars flowing into their pockets. They claimed it was an attempt to bring China out of poverty and into prosperity. That was not the truth. They saw over one-billion potential customers, and they saw a huge, cheap labor force prime to make stuff that our Nation could obtain and sell more cheaply, while still stuffing ever increasing dollars into their pockets and adding to their financial bottom lines. Once the vast majority of our manufacturing left our shores to find residence in China, to bring it back would mean a loss of profitability, and any corporation’s board of directors would not be pleased, nor would stockholders in those companies. While unleashing the Panda Bear, at the same time, we took off most of the chains holding the Panda Bear down. Our Nation let China function as a “third-world nation”, where there were few of the restrictions to production placed upon the more “evolved” nations, even those entities operating within our own shores. We do not need to go over again how dependent our Nation is upon China these days. Refer to our blog posted on December 4, 2022, titled, “The United States of China”. What we do need to do is remind all of us of the fact that China produces the vast majority of those items our Nation needs in order to full-fill our thirst for being “green”, going all-electric, at the expense of fossil fuels. Things like wind turbines, batteries, and medicines and their ingredients. and dare we even mention all that stuff we buy from China, and incidentally, made only with the help of fossil fuels. Which brings us to a more recent decision that has perpetrated a vast number of ills upon our Nation.
When the current occupant of the White House took office, one of the first actions taken was to take multiple steps to throttle-down the production of oil within our Nation. Please refer to our blog on March 20, 2022, titled, “Are You Prepared To Live Without Oil?” For those of you so enamored with electric cars, you would do well to understand that in owning and driving an electric vehicle, one cannot claim “zero emissions”. Refer to our blog on October 16, 2022, titled, “So, you want to drive an electric vehicle?” Fossil fuel drives our economy. Without it we could not produce food, because fossil fuels drive the tractors that plow and harvest our food products. The crop productivity is aided by fossil fuels giving us fertilizers. The vast majority of trucks bringing the food to processing plants are driven by fossil fuels. The majority of production plants are powered by fossil fuels. The trucks needed to bring the processed food to markets are also powered by fossil fuels. The stores housing the foods you buy use electricity predominantly powered by fossil fuels. So, you want to know why your grocery prices are higher? The restriction on fossil fuels means that the cost of a single unit of fossil fuel must of necessity rise. The scarcer an item, the higher the price. Our Strategic Oil Preserves, established as a hedge against kinetic global interruption, was drained to the lowest level in decades in a governmental attempt to lower gas prices prior to the last major election. Having given up our energy independence, our Nation no longer sets the price of a barrel of oil, and we have once again allowed the oil cartels to put the squeeze on us. Because of the change in focus brought about by the current administration, we are now spending more time re-arranging the chairs of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), pronouns and other “woke” agendas on our sinking U.S. of A. Titanic. Do you fear the potential restrictions coming on gas appliances? We have become victims of our own hubris. The Panda Bear is swinging wildly without resistance from our once proud, powerful, and leading Nation. In fact, the Panda Bear is sitting on us, restricting our ability to resist in geo-politics, economics, cyber-space, and military prowess.
The war on fossil fuels has taken a huge bite out of our ability to exercise and appreciate our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. “The Rise and Fall of Global Power” is at stake. The solution to putting the Panda Bear back in its cage lies in our ability to once again become energy independent. That means we need to unleash the potential of fossil fuels that lie beneath this land of ours. In order to do that, those who currently control the levers of authority within our Nation need to be replaced, and the only way to do that is to vote as if your life, your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, depended on it, because it does. If you want to get out from under the Panda Bear, you must do your part without fear, without compromise, without hesitation, and do not forget to make “An Appeal To Heaven”, (see our blog on August 15, 2022).