From Soft Justice To Generational Welfare: Why America’s Moral Collapse Can Only Be Fixed With Brutal Common Sense

 Last year when Iryna Zarutska was murdered on the train by DeCarlos Brown Jr., I (and countless others) wrote about the scourge of violent criminals being released to prey on innocent civilians.  But I recently started looking at it from a different angle, particularly when I saw the contrast between the way the Knicks fans behaved after their team won and the Japanese did after their team’s game.  It occurred to me that something bigger is going on.  Not that the scourge of violent crime isn’t real, because it is and we see it play itself out on our screens every day.

No, I started to look at it differently in that this whole soft on the bad guys problem is a symptom, not the cause, per se.  It’s like focusing on the rope or the gun someone uses to commit suicide rather than recognizing that a lot went on before they ever got to that point.  As such, the problem is much deeper than a broken justice system.  America is in the middle of a moral crisis.

We see it every day, almost everywhere.  In Minnesota, we see immigrants defrauding taxpayers out of millions via fake childcare and healthcare scams.  After the Karmelo Anthony verdict, black supporters were saying that the “poor boy” should be set free while others were calling for the murder of whites.  Across the country we see “teens” ruin stores, community activities, and sporting events with virtual impunity.  In LA we saw an election be stolen with everyone watching.  In cities from Baltimore to Chicago and beyond, we see schools that graduate kids who can’t even read.

I could go on with an encyclopedia length list of examples of moral problems showing themselves in America every day.

It’s one thing to have a moral crisis as an individual.  You handle that by going to see your priest, talking with friends or family, or finding a support group.  But what does a nation do when it has such a crisis?  Sadly, usually nothing.  But not always, as we’ve seen in El Salvador.

From a third of Americans on the government dole to drunk drivers with multiple arrests to the owners of vicious dogs getting slaps on the wrist when their dogs attack, the signs of the moral crisis are seemingly everywhere.

The reality is, in America in 2026, we have a crisis of responsibility.  More precisely, we have a crisis of consequences.  Simply put, almost no one is ever held responsible for anything and most feel like they have the right to… everything and anything.  In a country of 350 million people, there are over 100 million of them living off the taxes of others.  From welfare to food stamps to housing assistance and more, America has become a place where not working and living off taxpayers is not only normal, but a right.  There are families who have lived on welfare for generations, and no one feels any responsibility to work to provide for their family.

America could easily become the vanguard of Western civilization once again by simply acting morally, with common sense:  Make America a place where people are forced to take responsibility for their actions again.

But politically, the challenge with that is… women.  Not to put a too-fine point on it, but much of what’s wrong with America began when women gained the right to vote… and even before:  Who do you think began the Prohibition movement?  Where do you think gold stars in schools and participation trophies come from?  Women are naturally empathetic to a far higher degree than men.  How many times have you seen when a brute attacks a couple and the man, defending them, begins to beat the hell out of the bad guy, only for the woman to try to restrain her man, and as a consequence, they both get beaten to a pulp?  Think of that on a civilizational scale.  It’s no wonder that three women, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and Ursula von der Leyen, are most responsible for the West being overrun by third-world invaders.

Whether it’s women (and to be honest, it’s really liberal women…) or eunuchs or professional victims, the reality is, America’s moral compass is off.  The traditional nuclear family is disappearing.  Individual responsibility is a quaint footnote in history.  The notion of working hard to take care of your family is disappearing.

So what would a moral America run with common sense look like?  The first thing would be a justice system that worked to protect citizens.  An across the board 3-strikes you’re out rule for violent criminals. (1% of the criminals are responsible for 63% of the violent crime.)  Employ the death penalty for crimes which are appropriate, like murder and the rape of children.  Drunk drivers should spend a minimum of a decade in prison and if they kill someone, they should get the death penalty. If a vicious dog kills a person and the owner is responsible, they should spend decades in prison.

For “teens” involved in street takeovers and rampaging through stores, not only should they be arrested and jailed, but their parents should also be held responsible.  Eliminate any welfare benefits they’re receiving.  Arrest them for multiple infractions.

For those involved in fleecing taxpayers, while capital punishment may be a bridge too far, their sentences should number in decades, not just years.

But it’s not just the justice system.  It’s more than that.  The government should not be in the income redistribution business at all.  Individual responsibility starts in the home, and that starts with working to support a family.  With a job.  To be clear, much of this problem was created when government programs made fathers expendable.  The cancer of unwed motherhood is very much at the core of America’s responsibility problem, particularly in black America.

The government should phase out all welfare programs and should simultaneously roll back regulations and taxes so that entrepreneurship can rescue the country.

Eliminate NGOs.  It’s not that private organizations shouldn’t help.  They should.  It’s just that the tax system should not be used to create fake charities that fund leftist agendas and rarely help anyone.

Eviscerate DEI.  No organization that receives $1 of taxpayers money should have DEI as any element of its program.  This is particularly true of schools.  Schools should admit and grade on one metric, merit.  Merit is the measure that gives a person dignity and is the basis for pride of accomplishment, both of which are lacking tremendously.

Deport every illegal.  With upwards of 50 million illegals in the United States, from jobs to homes to hospital beds, Americans find themselves underpaid and overcharged for practically everything in the economy.  It’s a lot easier to get a job and work for a paycheck to support your family when there aren’t millions of illegals able to work for lower wages.

Draconian, maybe, but big problems require big solutions.  You can suggest this is pie in the sky thinking, and that may indeed be true.  What’s the likelihood of all of these things and more in the same vein coming to pass?  A snowball’s chance in Hell I’d say.  Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean they don’t need to be said. Movements start out with ideas, even if they take a while.  And besides, government can sometimes fix things, even its mistakes. See the 21st Amendment.

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From Crassus and Caesar to BLM and ‘Gays for Palestine’: How History Shows The Left’s Alliance Will Fail

Roman history can be quite illuminating.  The First Triumvirate lasted from 60 BC to approximately 53 BC. It was an informal — and largely secret — agreement between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus to basically run the Roman Republic.  Although ostensibly a Triumvirate, it was, for all intents and purposes, a duopoly between the two great generals.  Crassus, by far the richest man in Rome, was mostly indulged because of his wealth.  Among other things, he became rich by forming a band of firefighters who would show up at a burning house and offer to buy it for pennies on the dollar.  If the owner refused, they’d just leave, while if he agreed, they’d go ahead and put out the fire. Nice guy.

Caesar and Pompey were adversaries but their partnership in the Triumvirate was sealed when Caesar forced his 17-year-old daughter Julia to marry the 47-year-old Pompey.  The marriage was reportedly a happy one, but when Julia died in childbirth in 54 BC, it was the beginning of the end of the Triumvirate.  The final stake came with the death of Crassus in 53.  The collapse of the pact led to years of civil war which ended with a triumphant Caesar being appointed dictator for life in February 44 BC.  And we all know how that turned out.

Caesar’s murder was followed by the Second Triumvirate with Mark Antony, Lepidus and Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son.  Once again, made up of adversaries and relatives, this Triumvirate had a similar trajectory and again ended with a Caesar in total control.

But you might ask… what does this have to do with America in the 21st century?  Well, let me tell you.  Both of the Triumvirates were a circumstance where men who basically disliked/hated one another worked together to defeat a common enemy, and then turned on one another.

I can’t but help thinking about this when I see images of leftists holding up signs that say “Gays for Palestine” or blue hair white liberals holding up BLM signs.  Don’t these people know that they basically hate one another and once they defeat “The Man” they’re not going to usher in some paradise with Kumbaya playing over the loudspeaker?

The left is made up of factions that, if left to their own devices, wouldn’t have anything to do with one another, or worse, would be at one another’s throats.

LGBTQXYZ and Muslims.  Hispanics and blacks.  Jews and blacks.  Feminists and Muslims. Liberal Jews and Muslims….  They are taking the adage “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” to the extreme.

This is of course the entire constituency of the Democrat party.  The funny thing, or not so funny, about all of this is that these “victim” groups are only able to work together to fight against white/Christian/heterosexual/capitalist oppression because they live in a country that was largely built by whites, Christians, heterosexuals, and capitalists. Remove those and you have absolute chaos and an utter lack of freedom with which to speak one’s mind.  Remove them and you have a lack of prosperity that allows one to focus on being a professional victim.  Remove them and you have a tyranny ruled by whoever has the biggest stick or least amount of morals.

Nonetheless, that’s where Democrats are, holding hands and singing Kumbaya, certain that they are going to overthrow the system.  But they’re wrong.  They’re not going to.

Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony et al. could, because they held all the power.  Between them they basically controlled or were aligned with every legion in the Roman Republic. They weren’t really fighting the power.  They were the power.  They were fighting against one another to split the Republic they already controlled.

Democrats don’t have such control.  Sure, they have some statehouses and sometimes the White House or Congress, but they don’t have a coherent message that would allow them to cobble together an actual ruling coalition.

But let’s imagine this coalition of victims did somehow triumph over the white, Christian, heterosexual, capitalist patriarchy, what would come next?

Who would be in charge?  How would they decide?  Would Muslims and women and gays rule equally together?  Would Jews and blacks come together to create a prosperous multicultural nation of freedom and equal opportunity?  Would blacks and Hispanics and Asians decide that they should have a society based on merit or color?  If color, whose would dominate?

None of those things are particularly likely, because the Western civilization (America) the left hates so much is the only one in history where they could have formed their coalition.  Indeed, in an Islamic civilization, gays would be far more likely to be thrown from buildings than be marching in gay pride parades.  This Democrat coalition is a paper tiger.

But here’s the thing the Democrats never want to admit, every one of those groups of victims that make up the party, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, LBGTQ blah, blah, blah, feminists, etc., have lives filled with more freedom, more opportunity, and more prosperity here in America than their compatriots have any place in the world.  Not sure?  Ask yourself, is there a Muslim nation where a Muslim could have more freedom, opportunity and prosperity than here?  Blacks in Africa?  Hispanics in a central or South American nation?  Gays anywhere?  Feminists anywhere?  No, of course not.

So somehow these geniuses have gotten it into their heads that they can somehow align themselves in a coalition to try and take down the white, Christian, heterosexual, capitalist patriarchy and create something even better.

They can’t.  But then they don’t really care about that.  With their tunnel vision, all they can see is the clan of victimization that binds them.  Democrats have no realistic vision for what a world will look like when they’ve destroyed the single most free and prosperous nation in human history.  Well, the Muslim wing of their coalition does, but that’s a different story.

And that is the hallmark of the left.  They create nothing.  They build nothing.  All they do is destroy things that others built.  From Marx to today, the left has never built a successful nation that values freedom and prosperity.  They have however cost the lives of tens of millions and kept billions more in abject poverty, in most cases with little or no freedom along the way.  When the left comes to power, it’s always the same… tyranny and a police state.

We almost had that under Biden, remember the Disinformation Governance Board and the J6 persecutions?  Say what you will about the Republicans, and there’s a lot to be said, but for the most part they don’t seek to destroy America for their own narrow self-interests.  They might want to change some things, but they generally don’t want to “fundamentally transform America” into a Victimization Industrial Complex.

Democrats, for all their focus on issues of victimization, never have a plan for fixing the country that doesn’t involve destroying or taking what others have built.  And that’s how you know the Democrats aren’t a serious party.  The only thing that unifies them is the hatred for the white/Christian/heterosexual/capitalists of the patriarchy. They have nothing else to offer.  Republicans should start shining a light on that truth now that we’re in the run up to November.

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Trump Should Make Senators Lives A Living Hell Until They Pass The Save America Act

It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.

It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat.  Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there was one.

We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time.  Two weeks ago in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote. I asked Grok for the odds and it was somewhere over 1 over infinity... basically, zero. In a city where only 43% of students can read, believing those vote totals would require you to think that when half the voters are practically illiterate, not a single one accidentally voted for Pratt. And now thanks to mail in voting, Pratt has lost the lead for qualifying for the runoff to someone who was polling 4 points behind him when voting started.

All of this makes me think of a quote by Elena Gorokhova when characterizing life in the Soviet Union: “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”  The Russians even have a word for it: Vranyo, a lie that everyone knows is a lie but pretends otherwise.

That’s exactly what’s been going on in America for decades. The Democrats have been using mail-in ballots, voting machines, and endless “recounts” to steal elections right in front of us.  It’s the theft that everyone is supposed to pretend is not happening. Christine Gregoire in 2004. Al Franken in 2008.  Joe Biden in 2020.

Then there’s the Senate. The same week the Senate took a shot at the SAVE America Act and it was defeated.  Voting with the Democrats were the four most despicable vermin in the Senate, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Thom Tillis. Even if they had voted with the GOP, it would have failed because the TDS afflicted John Thune refuses to get rid of the filibuster.

Congress’s failure to provide for secure elections has been a disaster for Republicans and the Republic. Not only is California an economic and cultural trainwreck, but a Republican hasn’t won a statewide race in 20 years — the year Democrat-in-RINO-clothing Arnold Schwarzenegger won reelection. But at least they have 7 House seats, out of 52 in a state with 25% GOP electorate. In New England the GOP’s 24% of the electorate gets them exactly zero of the region’s 21 House seats, and the one Senator out of twelve is another Democrat-in-RINO-clothing, Susan Collins.  She has a Liberty Score of 20, which is even with AOC and below Ilhan Omar at 22!  (That’s out of 100… while Thomas Massie had a 96!)

This failure is at the core of everything that is going wrong in America right now.  There is literally nothing more important in 2026 than getting the SAVE America Act passed. Donald Trump came to power promising to take on the establishment. In his first term he played by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, and much of his agenda was stonewalled.  Then the election was what it was, and Joe Biden rolled back most of the little he did accomplish.

Then in 2024 Trump ran again, and we expected that after years of being targeted, both literally and figuratively, he would take a wrecking ball to the Swamp.  But he hasn’t. Deficits have continued to grow, it’s practically impossible to eliminate even the most egregious of programs, and federal judges usurp Executive powers like kids in a candy store. From deportations to Pentagon decisions to the 1776 Fund, there’s barely an initiative that some leftist judge hasn’t stopped.  In the Senate, Republicans have actively stopped him from making recess appointments by gaveling in faux sessions so they never technically go on recess.  That’s never happened before. No president has ever had recess appointments blocked by a Senate controlled by his own party.

All of this is happening because Congress has shirked its constitutional responsibility.  Fair and free elections are not speed limits or property taxes or any of the other things that are constitutionally in the purview of states. Fair and free elections are core to the rights of every single American regardless of where they live. Yet we have 14 states, representing almost 40% of the population with no Voter ID, representing 73% of the Electoral College votes necessary to win the White House.  Add in the issues with voting rolls, machines, and chain of custody, and it’s clear cheating is the rule of the day when it comes to voting in Democrat cities and states.

The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution reads:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

This is not Congress spending billions on redistribution because someone discovered the power to do so hidden in the penumbra of the General Welfare Clause. This is not Congress deciding out of thin air that they could legislate “right turn on red” nationally because they controlled highway funds. No, this is explicitly in the Constitution and Congress has failed to utilize its power to provide Americans with free, fair, and timely elections.  All of the other problems in America today stem from that.

President Trump, if he wants to have even a chance of a successful legacy, needs to knock out the Swamp with the SAVE America Act. Force Congress’s hand. He needs to make a speech to the nation and perhaps do a modern version of FDR’s Fireside Chats chronicling its progress. He needs to name names of Senators obstructing it.  He needs to use every legal tool available to pressure those intransigent grifters to support it. How? By sending JD Vance to preside over the Senate and firing the Parliamentarian. By refusing to sign another bill until SAVE is on his desk. By influencing where the GOP spends its campaign cash. By deciding where the next military logistics depot goes. By calling Congress into special session every single time they seek to go home for a holiday or campaign for reelection. He should make their lives a living hell until they do what 85% of the American people want and which the Constitution empowers them to do, which is nothing more than force free and fair elections.

This is not business as usual. We’re at a tipping point and honest elections are the only peaceful way to fix it. Americans have historically used the ballot box to guide government. The last time that was taken away was in 1774 when Parliament passed the Massachusetts Government Act.  That didn’t end well for the tyrants in London, and it won’t end well for the Swamp in Washington. Americans — or at least 85% of them — demand their votes count, and want their elections to be honest. Standing in the way of the SAVE America Act while states openly manipulate their elections and lie while doing so is simply a step too far.  The Russians have a word for that too:  Poslednyaya kaplya. The last straw.

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