PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

(messed up blogger situation - 'won't let me create paragraphs or refine the script to any degree) I find it curious that what was a bifurcated politics of discourse in America has taken on further fragmentations. Each side of the divide is currently undergoing further divisions. In the past, it was relatively easy to define Republican/Democrat or conservative/liberal but currently each side of those old dichotomies is simultaneously undergoing their own rebellions from within. Within the Republican/conservative side of the political spectrum a virtual war is errupting. The Trump/MAGA forces have gained influence while the old Neocon corpratist elements look on helplessly. A new catalyst to division has erupted — the position America should take regarding the state of Israel. Some of the biggest voices in what was a fairly unified conservative movement have taken to some pretty passionate positions. Conservative luminaries like Tucker Carlson, Candice Owen, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro et al. Have become noted adversaries over American allegiance to Israel. On one side, legitimate questions as to how much America should be involved in the affairs of what is essentially an old land dispute. People like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene are asking why American citizens should be allowing excessive influence from what is essentially a powerful lobby. If one says, “the Israeli lobby” it’s seen as inching towards anti-Semitism. Say, “the Jewish lobby” and your fate is sealed as an ally of Adolf Hitler. Take the position of people like Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro and one's belief in patriotism to America is somehow closely mingled with patriotism to Israel. Raising questions is forbidden. One shouldn’t dare imply that Ben Shapiro’s being Jewish in anyway colors his take on the issue. Adding to the Israel debate, other issues have come to bring conflict to conservatives. Just recently, Donald Trump, MAGA’s figurehead, has decided to favor the use of H-1B visas to bring thousands of immigrants into the country to supply cheap labor into the — primarily — tech industry. All of these detailed points of conflict aside, conservatism in America is witnessing other turbulent struggles. Among the Democrats, another chasm. For them, the conflict has risen from an active socialist/communist sympathy at odds with a tired liberalism that is clearly fading as an identifying feature of the center-left. The new New York mayor and a host of other foot-in-the-door socialists have pretty much tainted the Democrat party with an image that is decidedly anti-capitalist, anti-American culture and history, anti-middle America (farmers and workers), elitist, and authoritarian (if one accurately notes their top-down centralized command style of governing). It’s difficult to say where things will ultimately settle in these philosophical upheavals. Trump is certainly a major factor. Brash as he is, he’s probably the only one capable of pushing an America first program to the finish line. Aside from an uncertain Trump future, a genuine danger is looming in the mid-term elections. If Democrats (now largely controlled by their rabid socialist wing) successfully flip the House of Representatives, there will be nonstop impeachment number three (they’ll conjure something), subpoenas, massive lawfare campaigns, and their wish list (a packed Supreme Court, statehood for Puerto Rico, and D.C., entrenched election corruptions, etc.) that will solidify their position as the unopposed rulers of America. Add to this the very real possibility that the Supreme Court will void Trump’s Tarriff actions, which will put the nation back into the hands of America-last globalists. We stand balanced on a very sharp edge. It’s said that republics don’t last much beyond 250 years, making it strangely ironic that we’ll be actually celebrating that milestone this coming year.