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High Noon in America: Will You Fight or Hide?

By Jeffrey Folks AmericanThinker.com

By coincidence, I was watching High Noon this week, just as polls showed President Trump trailing Biden by 9 to10 points nationally.  Like the hero of High Noon, the president sometimes seems to be fighting alone.  It's high noon in America, and after the election, only one man will be left standing.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, High Noon is the story of Will Kane (Gary Cooper) and his bride, Amy (Grace Kelly), who are married just as the vicious Miller gang returns to town seeking revenge against Kane for sending their leader to prison.  Though he is free to leave town, Marshall Kane decides that he must remain until the next day, when the new marshal takes over.  A devout Quaker, Amy declares that she will leave her husband if he decides to fight.

Though painful, Will Kane's position is not impossible.  His path is clear because he lives by an unwavering code of values.  He remains in town to defend his fellow citizens, even the many who don't appreciate his efforts.  When everyone abandons him, he faces overwhelming odds — four to one — with only the help of his wife, who returns without his knowledge and saves his life in the shootout.

President Trump faces the same overwhelming odds.  The political establishment, the Deep State, practically the entire media, academe, unions, minorities, environmentalists, foreign nations, and special interests of all stripes have piled on, outraged that the president would actually stand up for ordinary Americans.  They thought Trump's promise to "drain the swamp" was just words — the usual political rhetoric that would be forgotten as soon as the candidate took office.  That's what Joe Biden —" friend of the working man" — has been doing for 47 years.  But President Trump is not a typical politician, and the establishment hate him for it because he exposes what they are.

The question is whether the American people will back the president by getting out to vote.  In High Noon, a crucial point was that the citizenry of the fictional Hadleyville were too timid and afraid to join in the town's defense.  Now is the time to defend America, and the only way to do so is by casting a vote for President Trump. 

Believing itself to be so superior, the left now routinely resorts to tactics of suppressing news and opinion, lying, shoving, blocking access, rioting, and other actions of the mob.  These are the tactics of the brownshirts and the blackshirts of the 1930s.

Notice that nearly all the verbal abuse, lying, shoving, and rioting comes from the left.  Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor did not spark a bitter confirmation hearing or the period of rioting, confrontation of senators, and media barrage that the Kavanaugh hearing did — or the threat to delay the confirmation vote and subsequent boycott of the hearings that the Barrett nomination did.  Yet, in the judgement of many, Judge Kavanaugh and Judge Barrett were better qualified and less partisan than Judge Sotomayor.  Anyone who has read Sotomayor's autobiography, My Beloved World, knows that she applies an ideological perspective rooted in a sense of youthful victimization.  And yet conservatives did not resort to mob tactics in opposing Sotomayor's nomination.  In fact, nine Republicans voted to confirm her.    

Most Americans, and the Republicans who represent them, cling to the values of an older America in which political differences are resolved by democratic means and in which civility is still possible.  They believe in the Golden Rule — how many on the left even know what that is?  — and in patriotism, God, and family.  They believe that capitalism works, but they are not out to destroy those who don't.  They have never accepted the credo "by any means necessary," one that the left has long embraced.  They are a different kind of human being than what exists on the left in the coastal cities and the university towns.

Now the left is out to reverse the Trump victory of 2016 and erase the accomplishments of Trump's presidency, which they see as a minor setback on the relentless march toward collectivism.  Like the Miller gang, who believe they have a right to terrorize the sheepish citizenry of Hadleyville, the left believes that it has a right to permanent rule — because it is "better," more righteous, and more compassionate than the right.  In fact, the left is merely more ruthless, selfish, and power-hungry.

When Will Kane stepped out to face the Miller gang, everyone knew how it must end.  The 2020 election offers a similar choice between good and evil.  President Trump is running not to enrich himself or his family.  He is running not so that his son can earn huge "access" fees while performing no actual labor.  The president is not a career politician who wishes to add eight more damaging years to a record of 47 years of failure.  He does not seek permanent rule for his party by undermining his successor's administration.  He seeks to reduce the burden of government on ordinary Americans and to ensure the freedom of all citizens.

At the end of High Noon, those who abandoned him now gather round and praise Will Kane, but Kane tosses his badge in the dust, and he and Amy ride away in disgust.  His neighbors turned their backs on him at the crucial hour, and they've lost his respect.  

Today, it's time for Americans to come to the president's aid.  Don't abandon this extraordinary president, who has done so much to defend our national culture.  The citizens of Hadleyville sat in their houses with drapes pulled and doors locked until the contest was over.  Don't hide yourself away during this great presidential contest.  Your most important responsibility as a citizen is to vote.

It is high noon in America, and today one champion stands between us and socialism.  This time, we can't let our champion down.  Don't let President Trump fight this battle alone.  Stand by the president who's defending you.

Vote!   

Jeffrey Folks is the author of many books and articles on American culture including Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

 

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Cotton Warns of Massive Surge of Illegal Aliens If Biden and Amnesty Win in November

10/23/2020 - Bronson Stocking Townhall.com

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is forecasting a massive surge in illegal aliens if Joe Biden wins in November. And instead of keeping them in cages this time, Joe Biden is promising amnesty and other handouts to migrants.

In an interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily, Cotton told host Alex Marlow that Biden's comments during Thursday night's presidential debate show just how radical Biden and the Democrat Party have become on the issue of immigration. 

"If Joe Biden wins, there's going to be a massive surge of illegal aliens at our southern border," Cotton warned. "They got six months to get in ... until Joe Biden passes a massive amnesty, and Joe Biden will be responsible for every bit of that Biden surge at our border."

The senator also warned of Biden's plans to bring in millions of foreign workers to take American jobs at a time when many Americans are facing unemployment and economic loss due to the Wuhan coronavirus lockdowns. 

"This is now the party of open borders, mass migration, and blanket amnesty," said Cotton. "Joe Biden said he’s going to send, in his first hundred days, a pathway-to-citizenship bill."

Cotton also pushed back against Biden's notion that we owe something to illegal aliens. 

"We do not owe anything to these illegal aliens," Cotton said. "They should be grateful that they've been tolerated in this country all these years. ... We owe a duty to American citizens to help them get back on their feet and get back to work." 

Joe Biden's America Last policies will put China before the United States and illegal aliens before American workers. 

 

Just When You Thought 'It Could Not Get Any Worse', It Does

 

A Sordid Conspiracy to Deceive the American Electorate

10/23/2020 - David Limbaugh Townhall.com

Have we ever witnessed a stranger anomaly in modern presidential politics than the craven contempt the Biden campaign, the media and social media have shown for the American electorate in their disgraceful conspiracy to hide Joe Biden?

What bona fide presidential candidate would arrogantly hide in his basement during the heat of a campaign, especially in the last few weeks of an ever-tightening one?

If the liberal media weren't providing Biden cover, he couldn't get away with this. If they were even raising questions about his intentional invisibility, this campaign would look far different, and far less surreal.

As President Donald Trump has hopscotched the country, traveling thousands of miles to appear at vigorous, humongous campaign rallies, Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, are nowhere to be found. We've never had a presidential candidate virtually opt out of the campaign.

Please don't use the virus as an excuse, unless you're willing to point out that Trump has been fearlessly campaigning for reelection with a rigorous schedule that would exhaust most 30-year olds, while Biden is acting like an old man with no interest in engaging with the public or the media. And he seeks to be leader of the free world? Then again, when Biden has surfaced, he's failed to draw a Sunday school-sized crowd.

Never has a presidential candidate taken the voters for granted like this. Hillary Clinton declined to visit the swing state of Wisconsin after April 2016, but that is nothing compared with Biden's ghosting of the entire electorate throughout the campaign.

Even candidates who believed they were comfortably ahead have never hidden from view like this to run out the clock. They all believed enough in the superiority of their agenda that they wanted to make their case to the people.

Moreover, what other presidential candidate has refused to provide his position on key issues, including whether he would pack the Supreme Court? When has any other candidate haughtily waved off questions of debate moderators and reporters with the sophomoric dodge that, "Trump just wants you to focus on this issue (instead of what an SOB he is)"?

Adding insult to injury, when has the media ever let any candidate off the hook like this, which is a scandal of unprecedented proportions? Obviously, the media disrespects the electorate as much as the Biden campaign does.

If anything is indisputably the media's job, it is to bring out the candidates' positions on important issues, and packing the Supreme Court and the Biden scandals are exceedingly important -- and relevant -- issues. What would the media's reaction be if Trump refused to answer such questions?

The media dutifully promoted the canard that the Russians -- yes, the Russians again -- were behind the emails found on Hunter Biden's laptop. But how will these crooked conspirators explain away the bombshell revelation of Hunter's former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, that the "big guy" referred to in Hunter's email is Joe Biden himself? How will they handle Bobulinski's assertion that Joe Biden was offered 10% interest in a Chinese business deal?

But for my money, even these cover-ups don't hold a candle to the media's scandalous concealment of Joe Biden's declining mental acuity. In his current state, Biden clearly is not fit for office, yet the media ignores it while raising bogus questions about the uncannily vibrant Trump's capacity. Reality has finally trumped George Orwell's imagination.

Where is the perennial finger-wagger Bob Woodward when you need him?

The American public knows everything there is to know about Trump, as they've scrutinized every molecule of his being and business dealings and dug up every conceivably negative morsel about him during the last four years.

To complete the trifecta, we've watched the leftist social media giants conspire with the Biden campaign and the media to stack the deck in Biden's favor. When the New York Post first reported on the Hunter Biden emails that implicated Joe Biden, Facebook and Twitter actively buried the story -- preventing users from sharing it with other users, invoking the specious excuses that the story violated a hacked-materials policy and was unsubstantiated. Nice try.

So, here we are, less than two weeks from the most important election of our lifetimes -- and millions of voters have been shielded from the agenda of this Democratic duo to radically transform America into a socialist hellhole with 70 genders, major tax increases on most taxpayers, a federally engineered war on law enforcement and law and order, open borders, increased regulations, the horrors of the Green New Deal (including a gutted domestic energy industry), and scores of other policies the majority of Americans would reject if the Democrats' positions were made known to them.

Don't fool yourselves. This liberal trio knows the American electorate is still basically conservative and would never knowingly elect someone with such a radical agenda, which is why it will continue trying to deceive voters until Nov. 3.

David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is "Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.

 

 

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Will Changes to American Life Become Permanent?

10/22/2020 - Victor Davis Hanson Townhall.com

The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting, and protesting -- all in a presidential election year -- are radically disrupting American habits and behavior.

Rents, home prices, and office occupancy rates in major cities, especially on the two coasts, are dropping fast. Techies and young professionals have discovered that they can work from home without paying sky-high housing costs in order to be close to the office.

Those more fortunate wonder why they should get bogged down with commutes and urban traffic -- or navigate city sidewalks amid homelessness, crime, racial tensions, and urban unrest -- when they can make as much money while staying distant in quieter landscapes.

Some react by moving to quieter, low-tax states such as Idaho, Tennessee, or Utah. Others flee New York City or the Bay Area/Silicon Valley corridor to upstate New York or California's Central Valley. Who would have ever believed that housing prices in picturesque San Francisco would be falling while housing prices in pedestrian Sacramento and Fresno are soaring?

During the recent urban renaissance, young people had flocked to cities to be where the action was. Now, do they want to deactivate and find some independence and peace from the relentless chaos?

Worries about COVID-19 in high-density cities, and unreliable city services add to the unhappiness. Residents want less dependence on mass transit and elevator living. Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.

Gun sales are at record highs. When some cities take steps to defund police and some soften bail laws, citizens quietly go to the local gun store and stock up on ammunition. Many of the people who have never before owned firearms are no longer clamoring for gun control. A "man's home" is now becoming his armed castle.

As a general rule, any business or activity that does not bother, judge, or lecture Americans and instead allows them to work or relax in peace is preferred. That may explain why Zoom and Skype use is soaring while TV ratings for the woke NBA and NFL are down.

Why are Amazon and Walmart booming while smaller businesses are going broke? Largely because home delivery better serves those who are barricaded at home, terrified both of the virus and government reaction to it.

Family businesses are not vertically integrated. They have few cash reserves and no special insider exemptions from government officials. How ironic that in our quest to become safe and in control of our own destinies, we empower the anonymity of huge conglomerates and erode the viability of reliable, service-friendly, mom-and-pop stores.

For the first time in their careers, many teachers and professors are careful not to go off-topic and rant to their high school and college students. Their video streams are not only seen by captive classroom audiences but occasionally peeked in on by the parents and taxpayers who pay their salaries.

This is the first autumn in memory that a huge percentage of college students are staying home. And no one is sure of the ensuing consequences.

Will students revolt over borrowing money simply to watch lectures on their basement computers? Will they be less likely to vote in November when they are isolated at home, rather than congregating on campus near polling places and subject to constant peer pressures to vote -- and to do so in predictable ways?

With college revenues dropping, will ambitious promises to hire more diversity administrators, build more self-segregated racial theme houses, and increase campus social services be seen as just more costly overhead that shorts classroom teaching?

During the pandemic, government has become more intrusive and yet seemingly more impotent and incompetent. Pick a month and some government official issues yet more contradictory orders on mask wearing, social distancing, and lockdowns -- all to be soon reversed.

Taxes stayed high and yet urban services got worse. Increasingly, American city dwellers don't always count on the power going on when they flip the switch, or the bus or train always showing up, or the police always answering 911 calls.

We still do not know the full consequences of these radical changes in American life, especially whether they will continue after the COVID-19 virus abates and quarantines end.

The cultural currents are often contradictory. They defy easy political analysis and seem at times counterintuitive.

But there is one historical constant.

When institutions and politicians cannot accommodate radically changed circumstances, people will no longer value institutions and politicians. In their place, citizens will seek to ensure their own livelihoods, leisure, and safety in ways that are more reliable and affordable -- with their circumstances in their own hands rather than in those of distant others.

And their adjustments won't always be calm or polite.