Dear Heartland Newsletter Subscriber:
Thank you for being a follower of our newsletter. This journey began in 1992 with the election of Bill Clinton. Clinton allowed China to advance with the use of American technology, both transferred and stolen. That was when China discovered that American leadership could be purchased.
Then America was distracted by the events of 9/11. The distraction revolved around the mismanagement of the organizations that were supposed to be working together to help protect American interests. The Clinton and previous administrations had set up progressive roadblocks that kept intelligence and law enforcement from working together. After 9/11 these roadblocks were eliminated by the Patriot Act but the pendulum would swing too far.
Government swelled under the new zeal of self-protection from radical Islam and the anti-fossil fuel tilt initiated by Al Gore. Even the Bush administration deemed it necessary to wean America from fossil fuels and advanced the notion that bio-fuels (switch grass) and hydrogen would be the answer. This was utter nonsense, but it set up the next administration’s push to eliminate coal. That administration under Obama decided to make coal non-competitive by using extreme regulatory action, even to the point of labeling carbon dioxide a pollutant. The government funded universities and provided grants to those embracing the Gore cult of global warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels and other visible effects that never took place.
The Trump administration sought to reverse course on this path of self-destruction but the entrenched progressives, climate alarmists and closet Marxists used treachery to de-fang the Trump agenda. They were helped by a China-caused global pandemic that allowed the Democrat party to use mail-in ballots to win an election through voter fraud. A weak puppet was installed as the President. The non-cognitive, perhaps demented Joe Biden would be managed by the Obama holdovers. All critical government leadership positions would be filled with incompetents that filled the diversity, inclusivity, equity check boxes. Advancement by merit was deemed to be racist.
But low cost, available energy from fossil fuels, primarily coal and natural gas from fracking, kept America out of trouble. But Joe Biden promised to eliminate fossil fuels and so he implemented a plan, likely written by others (The Green New Deal), to shut down America’s energy economy. And he has succeeded in doing just that. He even got the energy executives and banking industry (ESG) to help him achieve his insane goal. And that is where we are today. America is on the decline while China, N. Korea, Iran, India and Russia are using fossil fuels to advance.
Of course, Energy policy is just one of the Biden administration’s anti-American tools. The others are southern Border illegal immigration idiocy, Critical Race theory incursion into public schools, government and military, and financial mismanagement. It will take an All-of-America approach to fix these problems. It may begin with the mid-term election results. But it will take more than that to salvage the heritage of America defined by the Preamble to the Constitution.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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