Letter to the Editor: U.S.A. on the Wrong Track

Letter to the Editor: U.S.A. on the Wrong Track

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Dear Editor:

The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgendered males.  Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But it is considered racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime.  Major U.S.A. downtowns, almost overnight, went from mostly safe and clean to terrifying and toxic and we tolerate these medieval conditions.

The Pentagon and CIA put out recruitment videos that sound like kindergarten diversity, equity, and inclusion programming.  Yet the military is less eager to explain why the United States met utter humiliation in Afghanistan or why the army only has met about 50 percent of its scheduled recruitment targets.  Few dare to attribute declining morale, inept strategic thinking, and anemic recruitment to the targeting of middle-class white males with diversity, equity, and inclusion mind conditioning.

The Biden Administration in its first 18 months warred on the U.S. oil and gas industry. Radical cutbacks in fossil fuels supposedly would “transition” the world to a greener future.  Biden expressed little worry about the resulting economic damage to the middle class or the lack of commensurate efforts in India and China to curb emissions.

During COVID, American popular culture collectively demonized any who were lax on masking and social distancing as “super spreaders.”  Federal employees and military personnel, who skipped the new mRNA COVID-19 inoculations on grounds the shots were not fully evaluated, were stereotyped as red-state, conspiracist super-spreaders. They were accused of endangering all Americans by their supposedly selfish behavior.  Yet there has been no such judgmental criticism of individual conduct during the current monkeypox outbreak.  Given the loud woke media, few would dare suggest that social distancing, or avoiding areas where promiscuous sex is frequent, might slow down the dangerous epidemic, 95 percent of whose cases so far have been sexually transmitted between men with recent multiple partners.

The daily stuff of tabloids is cancel-culturing, virtue signaling, and suing over race and gender.  Recently, a family filed a $25 million lawsuit against Sesame Place Philadelphia. One of the guilty theme park’s costume character actors apparently missed seeing a young African-American girl in the crowd reaching out for a hug.

The American middle class is learning just how much poorer they are after suffering a collective $3 trillion stock loss in retirement accounts.  For some reason, their stocks pummeled despite Wall Street’s past loud commitment to politically correct Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment. That new woke idea puts green, racial, and gender issues ahead of profit and loss investment calculations, at least for the declining middle class.  

The new “anti-inflation” budget bill manages to increase federal spending in times of inflation, while upping taxes and regulation during a recession.  Interest rates must climb far higher to slow down spiking prices. Forget about the gargantuan $30 trillion and climbing national debt,

Our enemies abroad, particularly China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, are watching all this woke, comic madness with absolute glee.  They are delighted the U.S.A.is diverting trillions of dollars and man-hours away from production to ideological witch hunts, woke cannibalism, green virtue-signaling, spendthrift consumption, racial and gender fixations, warped science, suicidal surveillance, and commissariat indoctrination.

Woke means that Americans have less money, labor, and time to hone their military readiness. They will produce less competitive energy; but more pseudo-science, non-meritocratic advancement, and unsound investment, all the reasons why America will no longer dominate the world.

Most analysts abroad do not believe that being woke translates into more accurate missiles; more lethal infantrymen; more efficient industrial production; better medicine; cheaper, more plentiful energy; a more united, cohesive population; and a higher standard of living.

So, our adversaries certainly want us to stay woke.  Russia already has hypersonic missiles and nuclear warheads.  China can likely sink any $12 billion American aircraft carrier and its 5,000 diverse “they/them” crew that dares to venture into the Taiwan Strait.

China already produces 90 percent of U.S.A. antibiotics, nearly as large a percentage of our key vitamins and painkillers, and owns thousands of acres of U.S.A land.  India and Brazil detest U.S.A. lectures on their need for better elections and racial relations.

While we war on our past, our competitors abroad prepare for the future.  They are more likely to erect than tear down statues. We spend what we borrow; they invest what they earn.  How odd U.S.A. once taught the world what works only now to mock its own lessons.  

Aldon Maleckas

Custer