By Oregon Senator Dennis Linthicum
October 24, 2023
The dilapidation of Oregon’s Democrat controlled Metro areas has been compounded by disastrous policy decisions. Likewise, the subversion and unhinging of the American Dream is not accidental. Yet, there is nothing new under the sun. I provide the text below to emphasize my point. It comes directly from a newspaper dated, November 11, 1775:
“The WORST and most infamous of men
have been armed with powers,
for the purpose of destroying the BEST, and
reducing the people, by gradual steps,
from a state of PROSPERITY and FREEDOM,
to that of MISERY and SLAVERY.”
Powerful men and women have long used their money and influence to engineer their own success while seeking the demise of others through indoctrination, propaganda and corruption. In Oregon we face an onslaught of pre-ordained policy decisions coming from these players as they influence municipal leaders, county commissioners, state legislators and citizens, alike.
Most of the policy decisions don’t work but come well-funded with ghostly digits of debt. Piling debt onto future generations makes all of these programs overly costly. Typically, these programs grow government while subsidizing the chosen, penalizing the unfavored and needlessly regulating by-standers.
How does this happen? Is it caused by sunspots, too much unbridled sex, global cooling, global warming climate change, or is it something in the water?
No… it is none of these things.
To gain some insight, Watch this Epoch Times video – No Farmers, No Food.
The documentary exposes the alarming destruction of farming and food production throughout the nations of the world, California, and Oregon. This excellent documentary covers disruptions happening within the European Union and also focuses on the local Klamath River Dam removal to illustrate the enormous harm inflicted by the Left’s single-mindedness.
The Left has long enticed Moms and Dads through their endless claims about the need for “better education.” Yet, people are finally realizing that the “Teachers Union” advocates for teachers, not students. Now, the public is awakening.
After witnessing the COVID scam first-hand, Moms and Dads realize that so-called “value-neutral” education isn’t neutral. It is actually filled with destructive ideas and harmful rhetoric.
When a school board or a teacher asserts ambivalence about exposing young children to alternative sexual behaviors, gender confusion, bondage, or bestiality under the pretense of sex education they are not being neutral. They are placing this flawed, unreliable and inconsistent worldview above every other worldview and eventually these distortions fester into malevolence.
Therefore, “education” is not the key, rather what is being taught is key. This must be our focus.
We should be training, teaching, and promoting:
1- America’s history and our Founders aspirations for liberty combined with the virtues needed to sustain individual freedom.
2- Personal responsibility a necessity for free markets and the maintenance of personal property.
3- Moral virtue as conducive to self-government, community, and citizenship in the American republic.
4- Scientific truth, needed to live a free and fruitful life.
5- Mathematics as the basis quantifying the relationships needed to properly assess and manage our world.
The cultural tragedy exploding before our eyes is fostered by the state’s postmodern education philosophy. As more and more young people succumb to the state’s propaganda they grow in their confusion, inconsistent reason, cultural relativism, and hypocrisy.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, science was elevated as a great observational tool for understanding the natural world. Scientific efforts in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and biology became keys for understanding our world and objective truth was solidified.
Postmodernism – that there is no such thing as objective truth – is the heart of a broken worldview that is driving our cultural homelessness, crime, vandalism, our broken border, the arson in our forests and on our streets. This worldview is incapable of solving the problems because it has sacrificed the necessary tools – truth, logic, reason, math, and probability – for an errant ideology.
This is the same ideology driving Oregon’s IP-3 effort. Don’t mistake the local signature gathering effort for Oregon’s IP-3 (see, Unhinged) as an isolated vegan activity. IP-3’s signature gathering effort is too well funded to be local.
Yes-on-IP3 will pay workers $30 per hour to gather signatures with the explanation, “Applicants do not need to be registered to vote, or old enough to vote, but must be able to work within the Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, and Bend Metro Areas.”
This money will attract a ready workforce in the Democrat controlled metro areas to snag the necessary votes and petition signatures. No doubt it will also attract thousands of young, unmarried, military-aged men that the Biden administration has illegally allowed across the border.
IP-3 nicely follows the global and historical agenda set-forth by the big-moneyed cadre of collectivist progressives. Their views have been clearly documented since the mid-fifties suggesting government should restrain people, their liberty and productivity while using the law to ensure enforcement.
A national policy on population management was formalized in 1974, with The National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM) 200, and was followed, in 1976, by the National Security Council which called for the United States to use the control of food supplies to impose population control on the world. Further, it justified using dictatorial power and military force as a means to coerce the Least-Developed Countries (LDC)) into population control.
This isn’t a right-wing conspiracy theory it is a worldview. It is a mindset, an ideological perspective that has been pushed for decades and is littering the landscape with inept and disreputable policy decisions.
Cute kids thinking that socialism might be a better-way is only a musical prelude. When the orchestra strikes up their sheet music it will be the horrific sounds of socialism. The single-minded elites will continue on this path pursuing pre-born abortion, sterilization through gender confusion, re-wilding the land and destroying our food production infrastructure.
Despite the fact that totalitarianism, communism, socialism and Marxism have impoverished and killed millions, and have been responsible for the worst events recorded in world history, they still seek to swindle power from the people.
Today progressive destructionists have captured the administrative bureaucracy and elevated their academic henchmen in an effort to topple American values. Their ideology must be stopped or it will destroy what we know to be good, true and beautiful. They are promoting formerly unthinkable ideas. Ideas that don’t work and have no basis in science as viable solutions (i.e., men becoming women, supplanting fossil fuels with solar and wind energy or Battery Electric Vehicles for reducing air pollution).
As I said earlier, the Left’s ideas don’t work and therefore, I remain resolute that together, you and I, can end the power of the Democrat left during this next election cycle.
[Read “The Coming Battle” Written in the 1880’s. By reading this book you will better understand the events taking place today. Nothing new under the sun. History is repeating itself.]
© 2023 Dennis Linthicum – All Rights Reserved
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