Time & Context Clear Our Perception

Sometimes it's good to review where we came from to appreciate where we are today. This past spring one of my students came into class shaking her head and complaining how bad things had become. I asked her what was going on, and she said gas prices were way too high. She was right, of course, but considering the context of where we were ten years earlier, things weren't as bad as they seemed.

Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 race was a major blow to the LEFT's narrative, because his election disproved the narrative, enraging the LEFT and corporate media. Trump immediately became the number one target of the narrative. The LEFT's premise became: "Trump is evil." The corollary to this premise: "Everything Trump does is evil." The conclusion: "It's necessary to remove Trump from office and undo everything he has done." The number two target of the LEFT's narrative was to silence and vilify Trump's supporters.

Thus, the LEFT coordinated all its resources and partners to remove Trump from office as quickly as possible by any means possible, and to guarantee Trump would lose the 2020 election if he had not already been removed. The 2020 election for president was certainly filled with a lot of campaigning and action from the Trump side. The Biden side stayed inside behind a host of COVID-19 facades that took the place of policy statements. Another presidential election was decided under dubious circumstances.

Fast-forward to the spring of 2021. As promised, President Biden began cancelling Trump's policies that controlled the flow of immigrants coming across our southern border and eliminating tens of thousands of jobs in the oil and gas sector as his first order of business. Weeks later, tens of thousands followed by hundreds of thousands of migrants from every nation on earth began flowing across our southern border.

Gas prices and other commodities began rising sharply, and America lost its position as an energy independent nation. In fewer than seven months, President Biden effectively reversed Trump's policies on the border, cancelled jobs in our oil and gas sector and made us dependent on foreign sources of oil and created a worldwide spectacle of epic proportion endangering tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans inside the country while simultaneously trashing America's reputation with every nation on earth.

Remember the images of Afghans chasing military aircraft to escape from the Taliban. Many literally clung to the outsides of the planes as they ascended and then fell to their deaths. A suicide bombing at Abbey Gate during the evacuation killed 182 people, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of our own military, the first American military casualties in Afghanistan since February 2020.

President Biden had trashed Trump's plans for evacuating our troops despite concerns from his own military advisors that his changes would likely result in a Taliban takeover of the nation. Due to poor planning, Biden abandoned $85 billion in military arms including helicopters, airplanes, armored vehicles, drones, and all kinds of state-of-the-art weapons to the Taliban and al Qaeda. These terrorists became the envy of Islamic Jihadists worldwide overnight and partners with Russia, China, and Iran.

That's what was going on five years ago. Then Dr. Fauci led government and media forces to control citizens' actions and freedoms following the science.