State of Tuesday: THE SOLUTIONS ARE QUITE SIMPLE
Don’t let them tell you it’s complicated. It isn’t.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
We are bombarded every day with news of continued decline.
The most frustrating part of it, at least for me, is …
THE SOLUTIONS ARE QUITE SIMPLE
Most of you have likely heard this phrase: Decline is a choice.
Folks younger than me (I’m 44) likely don’t know it was popularized most recently by the late Charles Krauthammer. He applied it to everything from foreign policy and American hegemony to domestic policies, like the welfare state and a “renewable energy”-related explosion in consumer costs.
On the latter, the solution is very clear, especially if you are extremely concerned about the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. The only sustainable, “carbon neutral” way to power modern, highly advanced cities is nuclear. Sure we can retain fossil fuels. We must maintain them. You can’t make tires or medical supplies without them. (I always find it funny counting up the petroleum-based products on wild-eyed climate activists. Honey, thank an oil worker for sourcing half the shit you’ve painted on your hideous face.)
In the end, however, the energy industry has widely known for decades now that nuclear is far and away the most probable outcome. (Do we really think Bill Gates bought Three Mile Island to turn it into a museum?)
There lies the rub, however. While the solution is simple, enacting it is not.
The “Mississippi Miracle” has been making headlines lately. The question is how did students in Mississippi public schools – decidedly not renowned for producing scholars – become the most literate in the Union?
Simple: Teach kids phonics. It’s a learning method that dates back almost 450 years. It’s also highly effective at producing literacy at nearly all IQ levels.
The problem is modern teachers hate using it. It makes them feel powerless, supposedly, since phonics is rote and mechanical learning.
When Donald Trump took office, illegal immigration streaming over the border basically stopped overnight. From Jan. 20, Trump’s inauguration, to Jan. 31, Border Patrol apprehensions dropped 85%. Encounters at ports of entry dropped 93%.
I have to admit, I expected results, but didn’t expect them to be so precipitous.
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One X user just this morning noted that, by the FBI’s own numbers, black children ages 5-14 are more likely to murder someone than any white male 35-64.
“Genuinely, how do we even fix this?”
Well …
There lies the real problem, the one that is orders of magnitude more complicated than the solution.
Sitting at the nexus of every buzzing engine of American decline are vicious, sprawling left-wing power centers.
Why can’t NYC or LA adopt phonics to boost literacy rates in their public schools? The teachers unions in LA and NYC control massive political machines that elect only Democrats. Education is barely an afterthought. Good luck getting over that obstacle to actually educate kids.
By the way, did you know that most GOP governors could simply line edit the budgets of the state universities they believe to be primarily dedicated to training left-wing activists? It’s true. Virtually every blazingly liberal state university in every red state could be purged of bullsh*t majors, DEI bureaucracy, and overtly left-wing indoctrination by the end of the week.
The solution isn’t difficult to conjure up. Why they don’t just go ahead and do it is a mystery to me. Laziness, political expediency, call it what you will, but it’s a choice.
What about energy? Are you familiar with the trillion dollar renewable energy political cartel system? It also only funds and elects Democrats.
News just this week out of California’s DOGE team found that $925 million of a billion dollar grant to a solar group ended up funding left-wing groups. Good luck getting California, home of Silicon Valley and thus the AI revolution, to adopt a solution as simple as a pro nuclear regulatory environment.
And if you think that’s nuts, the NGO illegal immigration industrial complex runs on a multi-billion per year budget, most of it coming from taxpayers (like ~97%). Do you think the people running those NGOs are bundling donations for Republicans or Democrats?
Cleaning up crime, educating the youth, pulling marginalized black communities out of the vicious cycle, powering the future, maintaining American hegemony both technologically and geopolitically, none of these are terribly complicated problems to solve.
You want kids to pay attention in school? Take away their cell phones. Arrest the criminals. Institutionalize the insane. Deport the illegals. Let builders build.
Unfortunately, the people standing in our way derive their political power from keeping these problems intact. Decline is how they maintain a grip on politics.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for how to solve that problem.
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Ah, great piece! I'm with you, especially on nuclear energy and phonics! While we're at it, teach these kids cursive again and how to read a clock, an analog clock. I've had real-life encounters with young people who see cursive writing like we'd see Japanese and who are utterly clueless about how to tell time on a regular clock or watch. What DO they teach these kids all day. Don't answer that.