Time, age and magnitude dictate that most of us can only remember a handful of true watershed moments for our country, like the one that will ceremonially define itself this coming Monday with the presidential inauguration of President Donald Trump 2.0.
The Tet Offensive; Watergate; the Iran hostage crisis and its disastrous rescue attempt, and the terrorists’ monumental scurrying to release those hostages on the day of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration; the 9/11 attacks and everything that followed, the national pandemic shutdown and the BLM riots that burned American cities. They were all red-letter events in American politics and culture, but there is solid evidence that no other pivot in the past 50 years has been as politically and culturally abrupt, crucial and far-reaching as the one we’ve witnessed in recent years.
Through that time we’ve seen the utter acceptance and proliferation of leftist dogma distinctly counter to American culture and even in some cases reality itself. It was signified by the domestic embrace and influence of terrorist groups like Black Lives Matter and Hamas. It was executed by peer groups against the population, its institutions and the government by the extortive introduction and acceptance of diversity, equity and inclusion.
This period chronicled the rise and fall of the transgender power movement, revelations of the barbarity in chemical and surgical sex changes practiced on children, and the eventual organic reawakening of masculinity as a social, cultural and personal value. It witnessed first the embrace, then repudiation, of mob mentality “cancel culture” and social media “fact checkers” who sought to steer reality – and public discourse – the direction they selected.
This short era going back a half dozen years or so both witnessed and revealed levels of governmental corruption unequaled in the previous 50 years. This cabal fabricated bogus civil and criminal prosecutions aimed at ending the political career of its rival and the eventual president-elect. Its elements in law enforcement and the courts purposefully ignored damning evidence linking the sitting President and his son to past influence peddling, all electronically captured on a wayward laptop and cell phones.
While this dark movement sought to radically capsize American culture and thwart its only possible political redemption, Biden as the Leftist puppet seemed to specifically target the American people for hardship. The untenable consumer inflation initiated by freewheeling government spending; a mothball policy for the nation’s former energy independence and national serfdom to Arab petroleum lords that kept energy prices high; draconian measures attempted – sometimes successfully – under the guise of pandemic control; the adoption of failure and incompetence presented as noble humanitarian success in Afghanistan; the literal laying down of the nation’s southern border as invitation for massive populations of illegal immigrants into the country, many of them criminals; the “gaslighting” of America through the insistence that some men are actually women – one which demoted the fairer sex to be termed “birthing/menstruating persons” and subjugated them to the men seeking to steal their athletic honors and accolades and invade their bathrooms and private spaces.
/Mirzahussain Sadid –Alive in Afghanistan
While we’re inventorying cliches, why not offer up “the darkest night brings about the brightest day?” What better way to define this sunrise, four years after the beginning of the Biden presidency and its irredeemable ladening of American society, economics and culture?
Like the toppling of the germ-defeated alien machines in H.G. Wells’ “The War of The Worlds,” this sinister plot against America seems now to be unraveling faster every day. DEI policies once heralded by American companies are dying on the vine due to their expense, counter productivity and likely illegality – even Mark Zuckerberg has changed his stripes. Failed leadership like Justin Trudeau in Canada is surrendering amid changing international political winds brought about by this American reversal. A ceasefire deal struck between Israel and murderous Hamas just this week is promises a beginning to the end of violence and the return of hostages. The spotlight on transgender culture’s assault on youth is revealing “drag queen story hours” and the like for openly grooming children toward aberrant sexual lifestyles, and a counter movement against men in women’s sports and private spaces is growing daily. Trump’s Day One agenda is said to mass some 100 executive orders to change policy in keeping with his majority voter mandate to move the country back toward strength and normalcy.
The term may sound cliche and melodramatic, but all indicators point to the emergence of a new era of American and even world history. And not a moment too soon.
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
