Dakota Beacon

“You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.”  (Steven Adler)

Maybe America is in a triage situation as we approach 2024’s election.  What I mean is, maybe we need to discern the most - the most - critical issue that faces America and choose a leader based on his policies on that issue and what is the most sensible and likely to save our country.  It really is approaching an existential state now.  

Is it the economy?  The border?  Foreign wars?  Energy?  Security and privacy of individuals?  Education?  Surely all of these are critical matters that need our focused attention.  But what would it matter to us if we are all too sick to function?  I would suggest that two items are of overriding importance to us now:  a seemingly permanent malaise which is bordering on genocide, if not already genocide, and the First Amendment freedoms which allow for open discussion and debate and sharing of information in search of truth to solve these problems.  

Many are eager to re-instate Donald Trump in the presidency, and it’s tempting, especially when we take a look at what replaced him in the Oval Office.  Calling the current office holder a ventriloquist’s dummy would be an insult to the dummy.  And our nation’s plight reflects this.  Many believe that Biden was not fairly elected.  Indeed, it is difficult to make the case that he was.  So Trump makes a polar attraction for those who cannot see another term for this administration.  

But Trump has other issues.  Firstly, he will not step away from promotion of “his” “vaccine”, which is one of the key issues.  “HIs” “vaccine” is killing us.  It’s not just opinion and it’s not “anti-science”.  It is provable by every scientific convention - we were the “experiment” here.  No other preceded the foisting of this off on Americans - there was no other test.  We were “it”.  And it has been proven a disaster.  It does nothing but kill and harm us.  It is making us sick.  America has suffered more than nearly any other nation from this “pandemic” and it is obviously due largely to this vaccine and its distribution.  Nations too poor to get the damn vaccine have fared much better.  Nigeria and Haiti have been mentioned.  And they are better off by a LOT.  Africa, on the whole, pretty much escaped excess deaths and, coincidentally, did not use much of the covid “vaccine”.  Pointing this out is not “anti-science”.  In fact, it is entirely scientific.  Trump refuses to acknowledge this.  His only response to those who confront him is something like, “Some people like the vaccine.”  What?  Some people apparently also like fentanyl.  It’s not legal, though, because it kills people.  So Trump has that baggage plus an almost complete ignorance of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.  That, to some, is a major problem.  Trump has conspicuously neglected those patriots who answered his call to come to Washington to politely demonstrate on January 6, 2021.  They are literally dying in prison, some not even charged yet.  It’s 2023.  Where is Trump?  He has been largely silent.  Of course, there are those who don’t realize this because they are caught in the glare of the “bigger-than-life” persona.  

It is entirely likely that should Trump capture the Republican nomination despite his myriad legal struggles - and I note here that these are politically-driven and he is being singled out for abuse - that the Party will not do anything to help elect him.  In all likelihood, it will do all it possibly can to scuttle his campaign.  He’d be better off as an Independent.  It couldn’t cost him anything.  

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is similarly situated.  He is crushing Biden in the polls and he has a very important message.   He quite rightly sees that we are losing - totally losing - our legacy of freedom.  He understands that strong words and strong measures will be needed, as well as strong resolve and courage, to take this challenge on and hopefully prevail.  He, too, will be betrayed by his party.  Democrats (the Party Democrats, that is) want to continue down the road to serfdom for the American people and global elitism for their own.  They have become the party of globalism, the WHO, the UN, even NATO, even the Ukraine war.  They are the ones who want to shut down our First Amendment.  They have more in common with, say, Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell than they will ever have with RFK, Jr.  

I grew up in an America of distinct differences of political parties.  Republicans and Democrats, very different in their approaches to governing and legislating, still seemed to share a patriotism and a theme of Americanism.  We might have disagreed with policies pursued by a Harry Truman, but we would not have considered him unpatriotic or un-American.  Richard Nixon was certainly not everyone’s favorite (although he was, surprisingly to many, one of our most successful and popular presidents in his own time), but he could not be construed as an anti-American.  Today we really need to question the leaders in office.  In fact, they are no longer really “leaders” - they are, in a very real way, dictators.  They don’t really think they need to lead.  We’ve all heard Biden tell us, “We’ve been patient but our patience is wearing thin.”  Sounds like a threat.  From a dangerous bully.  

Maybe the days of these two super, major-league political parties have come to an end.  When that “R” means nothing regarding principles, when it signifies only a hierarchy led by Mitt Romney’s niece, Ronna McDaniel, when that “D” means you must pay your obeisance to a man that is clearly no longer in his right mind, a mere puppet of manipulators from behind the screen, and the most thoroughly corrupt gang of criminals at the helm (Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, et al) and the convention of a wayward son to use as a bagman in Hunter Biden, what does that “D” stand for?  Not America.  

George Washington warned the American people against party factions in his Farewell Address in 1796.  We thought, back in the 1950s and 1960s, that he was perhaps naive, that maybe he lived in simpler times.  Well, he did not live in “simpler times”.  His times were turbulent, exposing all of the best and the worst in human nature.  He led the Continental Army to victory over the British, he was there to witness the monumental work of creating the Constitution which has successfully stood the test of time (until now) and is perhaps the greatest masterpiece of mankind.  He served as the first president of an untested, unproven fledgling nation with all the cards stacked against it.  He observed the in-fighting among the member states, the clashing of Titans and the meanness of villains.  He did this while managing his own business, his plantation, he sacrificed, as did many, for the forging of a union of disparate states bound together by a single document, a single idea - the idea of a free republic governed by the principles of freedom and self-direction,  an unprecedented formula.   So, what did Washington say when he saw the omens of “party faction”?  Here are his words:

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

So, it just might be time to leave the Republicans and the Democrats behind.  I have said many times never, ever, ever contribute to a political party, but rather to the campaign of a candidate whose values and principles you share.  The less influence we leave in the hands of the Ronna McDaniels and the unknown quantities of the Democrat Party leadership, the better.  

If I were to advise RFK, Jr., I would say, follow the lead of Tulsi Gabbard.  She went from forgettable “also-ran” candidate for president to an influential commentator whose views on the military and foreign policy are valued by the American people, she contributes a great deal to what limited discussion we are still allowed.  RFK, Jr., has a lot to share with us, he is devoted to the First Amendment and the rest of our Bill of Rights and the less he is associated with the party of John Kerry, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, John Fetterman, Kamala Harris and the rest of their lot, the more traction he will enjoy and the more influence he can  exert on our public conversation.  Perhaps these two “front-runners” for the public vote would both benefit from shedding party ties.  

Growing up in a conservative household, I often heard that the “two-party system” was essential and no third party candidate would ever prevail.  Well, we have come close, and that was while we still had some semblance of party distinctions and platforms.  Today we know that to be a sham.  It is probably time now to vote “for the candidate and not for the party”.  It seems shocking to hear myself say this, but there it is.  Our parties have rendered themselves worthless and irrelevant to the people.  It’s time to move on.  Maybe other parties will develop in time, maybe not.  But it is a certainty that today’s Republican and Democrat parties are meaningless.

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