1942 VERSUS 2023

My father, born in 1901, was too young to be in WWI and too old to be in WWII. Living on the Atlantic coast during WWII he was involved in coastal watch efforts, but as far as I know that was the extent of his participation. In the late 40s and early 50s I don’t recall my father talking much about the war, with the exception of one comment that I retained. That was his observation that we didn’t out fight the enemy in WWII as much as we out produced them. In retrospect this was almost an understatement.

The war materials production effort in the U.S. during WWII was literally incredible. In addition to a large manufacturing base that was totally re-purposed for the war effort, we enjoyed the fact that the enemy could not get to us because of the two oceans that separated us from the two theaters of war. We bombed the enemy’s production facilities into oblivion but ours remained untouched. Our enemies were never able to establish bases from which they could attack us.

The difference between the situation in the U.S. in 1942 and the U.S. in 2023 is night and day. In 1942 our economy was slowly recovering from the depression of the 30s, but our industrial base was sound, we were not dependent on others to any real extent, and our citizens were patriotic. Today we are on the verge of either a government default on its debts or a currency collapse due to runaway inflation; a large percentage of our industrial base has been moved to other countries, mostly because of stupid tax laws; we are dangerously dependent on others including those that should be considered enemies; and our citizenry have been turned against the country to an extent that may in fact be fatal. To make the situation much worse, modern weapons can reach us from anywhere in the world, so we're a lot more vulnerable to attack on our soil.

The point of all this is that the U.S. is in no condition to fight any wars or even fund and support others in wars that we have no direct interest, and certainly would not be the untouchable powerhouse that it was in WWII. The stupidity and greed of too many Americans that has permitted the political Left to destroy our country from within may be irreversible, but identifying and correcting the problems that have brought us to this state of affairs is our only hope. Continuing to concentrate the National focus on the Woke insanity, the Green Energy stupidity, the fiscal debacle of the Welfare State, maintaining a world wide military presence when we can't afford it, trying to export democracy which doesn’t even work at home and a myriad of other distractions will guarantee an early and complete collapse of the U.S. nation.

Many in the chattering classes like to refer to the United States as an ‘experiment in democracy’. Although the founders never envisioned the Republic they created as a democracy, the more democratic it has become the faster it has headed toward complete failure. The ‘experiment’ has been run, and the unvarnished reality is that it has failed. Democracy is basically allowing the inmates to run the asylum, and is just not a workable concept.

 

GENDER STUPIDITIES

Finally! A lady on the Fox News program Special Report, presumably speaking on behalf of a national sorority that had been forced to accept a 'trans' male as a sister, noted that there is little to no ambiguity in determining one's sex: every cell in your body knows the answer. If your 23rd chromosome pair of your DNA has two X chromosomes then you are a female. If you have one X and one Y then you are a male. Period.

However, to give some credence to the claims of many individuals that they 'feel' like they are in the wrong body, it is true that in the development of the person from a fertilized egg to an adult human, many things can go wrong. As the initial fertilized egg splits again and again cells in various parts of the body begin taking on specific characteristics to form the many parts of the finished body. This process is known as differentiation, and depends on the chemical signals from adjacent cells. In a contaminated environment errors in development may result from interference in the signaling from cell to cell. This seems to be particularly critical in the later development of the brain, where external influence from the wrong sex hormone, estrogen or testosterone, can affect the wiring of instinctive behavior for the sex of the individual. It is interesting to note that the brain cells that may be improperly wired still have or don't have the Y-DNA that fundamentally determines the sex.

Given the realities of the last paragraph and any other errors in development that might occur, it is more than reasonable to cut some slack for the affected persons. This can easily be overdone, and certainly does not give those persons the right to demand that society as a whole conform to their peculiarities. Accommodation must be limited to restraint from harassment and persecution. As long as such individuals lead their lives in a manner that does not negatively affect others in the society in an unreasonable way they should not run afoul of the law.

Legally, it is obvious that rather than a criteria such as 'sex assigned at birth' determining compliance with privileges and constraints in a society, it would make much more sense in the modern world to use DNA to answer once and for all what is a man or a woman. This is especially true now that such a test can be made with something as unobtrusive as giving a sample of saliva. Surely the Legislative bodies of a society can use something as simple as that to write meaningful laws on the subject.

Lastly, it is obviously insane to think that one can 'transition' from one sex to another by cutting and pasting body parts or intentionally interfering with proper development of a child with chemicals. The degree to which this stupidity has permeated our society does not provide much hope for the survival of America. As Mark Stein observed, "[America has become] too stupid to survive".