The killing heart                      

The last decade or so has witnessed a heartwarming resurgence of American pride. Tens of millions of common men -- laborers, policemen, honest journalists, and regular Joes from numerous walks of life -- have hefted high the glorious stars and stripes to which generations pledged allegiance.

But recent years also brought into distinct aspect this horrible truth: Millions of our lesser national brethren hunger so mightily for governmental and cultural dominance, they've seized up ugliness with relish.

Their smiley-face, peace sign masks lie on the floor. Visible now are the grotesque visages of those who exalt lawbreaking, treasonous ambitions, and sundry immoralities.

Badness is the ideal. Consider foul phenomena presently poisoning our great nation, at the calculation of Democrat leaders and other sinsister actors:

Openly socialist and communistic notions and candidates populate national conversation. Illegal immigrant crimes -- including murders, rapes, and child predations -- occur alongside celebrations of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk's broad daylight murder, as well as that of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the attempts to assassinate President Trump. 

Furthermore, backroom-plotted, barely legal lawfare machinations to sabotage democracy and foil the people's will have seen animation. Cashless bail allows offenders with numerous criminal convictions to lurk anew in American neighborhoods and perpetrate additional offenses, while state and local officials ensure area police are barred from cooperating with federal law enforcement. 

City streets teem with (possibly bankrolled) protesters, assaulting law enforcement with concrete chunks, explosives, and bricks from pallet-stacks mysteriously situated for comfortable access.

Sadly, that list-- to which other vile efforts could easily be appended -- has been joined by a large-scale and despicable outpouring of sympathy for three-time toddler-strangler Lyndsay Clancy.

A sickening push to allow baby-murdering mothers to dance free -- citing mental dishevelment, resulting from the God-given wonder of childbirth -- has begun. Iowa retired columnist Rekha Basu, of the Gannett Corporation-owned, obdurately liberal Des Moines Register, penned an entire missive endorsing such wicked crackpottery.

New 'progressive' exhortations to grant mothers child-killing rights are a logical, albeit horrendous, extension of the dire philosophy undergirding the abortion of millions of babies each year. (Perhaps garroting disquieting husbands will soon also become a woke cause.)

Do not doubt that the same reprobates who promote the above will continue bannering themselves the 'good guys,' virtuous believers in love, peace, and tolerance. 

Of course, no intelligent observer will be fooled, and honest ones will raise the finger of contempt.

Immoral is not moral, nor wrong right, or unfair fair, any more than down is up. 

November's election results will show whether the America of noble tradition will endure as its founders intended, or if moral rot and ideological pestilence settle behind the wheel.

God help us all.

Americans' patriotic hearts allow hate no space

"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The bible tells us 'How good and pleasant it is, when God's people live together in unity.'" - President Donald Trump

It's impossible to imagine anything more conflictive with the noble American ideal of equality than judging a man by the color of his skin. Opportunities for mobility, entreprenurial activity, and political participation must be open to all.

President Trump, like Jefferson and Reagan before him, knows bigotry is antithetical to our exceptional nation's grand disposition.

"Racism is evil," Trump declared, following 2016's Charlottesville rally tragedy. ""And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups who are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."

Speaking before the 1981 NAACP convention, then-President Ronald Reagan also stated the matter with bracing solidity: "A few isolated groups in the back order of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about. Recently, in some places in the nation, there's been a disturbing reoccurence of bigotry and violence. To those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior...You are the ones who are out of step with our society. You are the ones who willfully violate the meaning of the dream that is America. And this country, because it does what it stands for, will not stand for your conduct."

Jefferson's immortal words also bear recollection: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

(Jefferson's is a complicated case. Possessed of an intellect of superior quality, he also was a slaveholder. We celebrate him for his immense philosophical contributions, involvement in the authorship of our country's founding documents, and service as vice-president and third president. Honest men acknowledge Jefferson's egregious wrong. But we pay due respect to his far greater salutary attributes and accomplishments. The awful was impermanent, whereas the wonderful has endured.)

By standing in foursquare opposition to hate, and defending America's rightful sovereignty against enemies foreign and domestic, we can make Jefferson's grand values as meaningful as when he took up quill and inscribed them on parchment.

"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag,"  President Trump once said.

Longtime Democrat voters deserve no pity  

                                          

Among wackdoodlisms promoted by pompous and avowedly socialistic nimrods are Islamic supremacy, government ownership of industries, 'sex-change' mutilizations for toddlers, destruction of the nuclear family unit, contempt for Christianity, and automatic American citizenship for all the world's peoples.

Those howlingly horrible notions are not endorsed by MAGA patriots, it goes without saying. But they are also not personally supported by many aging Democrat voters, who wistfully recall "Together with McGovern" and believe their contemporary partisan resoluteness amounts to carrying forward the torch they took up so very long ago.

Still, veterans of donkey persuasion might as well believe woke imbecilities; by uncritically grasping the D lever, they aid deviants in odious offensives.

For that reason, I feel no sympathy for lifelong Democrat Party supporters. The party to which they pledged allegiance in past decades is gone. And it will never return.

On another hand, career politicians who obediantly cut jigs to whatever tune is played the loudest are whores, and no one respects whores.

Satire turns serious

In a recent public event, 65 year-old Barack Obama stated "80 percent of the world's problems involve [congressional] old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go." 

66 year-old Former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel endorses mandatory retirement age at 75 for members of Congress, presidents, cabinet officials, and federal judges. 

The bigotry articulated by those influential Democrats is harbored by a mestastisizing woke bloc. But it falls to pieces when subjected to evaluation.

Contentions advanced from that quarter are that 'old' men necessarily hold passe ideas, and their intellectual capacities to comprehend, reason, and exercise sound judgement are uniformly of dubious status.

That's obviously a generalization. Elon Musk hardly deserves the same negative ranking with Joe Biden in the smarts department.

Individuals should be graded on their own merits - not uncritically dismissed wholesale as guilty, based on immutable-characteristic group membership. That's a standard no more applicable to age than to sex, skin color, nationality, or (to point up the foolishness of the proposition) height or hair color.

The next logical step would be banning 'old' men from voting - participating in decisions as to who is elected to office. If the aged are ruled universally inadequate to devise laws, it would follow that they are identically unfit to choose lawmakers.

The 1968 satiric movie Wild in the Streets depicted song "Fourteen or Fight" and the callow, revolutionary crusade it inspired. Voters above 30 were derided as "stiffs" ("stiff with age").

Later, the singer whose song had rallied subversive youth campaigned for president. He cited the group most dangerous to America's national interest.

"Who, after all then, has caused all our troubles? Those who are stiff, baby! Not with love, but with age!"

Decades later, the satire has become serious.

Iowa's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous heartland newspapers. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.