America's Conflicting Ideological Goals

Why America Seems So Crazy Now...

Consider a few recent news items: 

• The ongoing invasion of America's southern border, abetted by Biden's Border Patrol.

  EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Migrants Fist Bump Border Patrol After They Cut Through Abbott’s Border Wirehttps://t.co/hjfo3uzi9q@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/te7NF8cczr

  — Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) September 28, 2023

• The looting spree in Philadelphia.

  Here’s what the Apple Store in Philly looked like tonight. pic.twitter.com/pf0ILFPZlZ

  — Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) September 27, 2023

• Looters targeting retail logistics hubs.

  It’s begun. https://t.co/XSUHPXaE8b

  — Review the News (@reviewnews1000) September 28, 2023

• Congressman Mike Waltz demanding a National Maritime Strategy to counter China.
• Teens joyriding busses at America's largest shipyard.

  Meanwhile at the largest shipyard in the United States (Huntington Ingalls in Newport News), vibrant youth are running amok. No wonder we’re so far behind China. https://t.co/5N1bwt9Nd4 pic.twitter.com/dHGuFCsVrV

  — Dr. Benjamin Braddock (@GraduatedBen) September 28, 2023

• The revelation that the murderer of the tech CEO in Baltimore had previously raped another woman, slashed her and her companion's throats, and set them on fire.

  Turns out before that black guy murdered the BLM-supporting tech CEO, he raped another woman, after handcuffing and duct taping her and her boyfriend, then slashed their throats and set them on fire.https://t.co/8Wf3yGTlsF

  — David Pinsen (@dpinsen) September 28, 2023

• The shameless defense of Biden corruption by Congresswoman Crockett.

  Visions of rolling blackouts, surging industrial accidents, looting and Non-potable water hit me all at once.
  
  pic.twitter.com/2VTQ6Vujw8

  — Battle Beagle (@HarmlessYardDog) September 28, 2023

• The "Sarah" (Michael) Cirillo saga of America's transgender spokesman for the Ukraine's Territorial Defense Force.

  After threatening to "hunt down" so-called "Russian propagandists" around the world, Kiev's infamous spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo was fired, then rehired. Now Cirillo is likely to fired once again after being fooled by Russian pranksters posing as former Ukrainian President… pic.twitter.com/qUAH2jOneK

  — Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) September 27, 2023

• The poor girl getting sucker punched and beaten by a boy pretending to be a girl in an Oregon middle school.

  A transgender, biological male student sneaks up on a female student at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin, Oregon. He SLAMS her to the floor before pulling her hair and punching her in the face multiple times.
  
  While crying, the distraught victim says, "I can't breath."
  
  Not a… pic.twitter.com/VUCgVOKeFg

  — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 28, 2023

...Because It Is

It's crazy that our government lets the chaos at our border and in our cities and schools happen, but it's especially crazy it lets it happen while provoking Russia and China in their front yards, after decades of outsourcing our manufacturing capability to China. 

The problem is that America has several conflicting ideological goals: 

• To perennially remain the world’s sole superpower.
• To be an asset-light economic zone where heavy industry is outsourced to geopolitical competitors.
• To import poverty via open borders. 
• To prioritize antiracism over law & order. 
• To promote the latest paraphilia (transgenderism). 

Most of these goals are destructive in and of themselves, but when combined, they are a recipe for disaster. That's why everything seems so crazy right now. 

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