Week In Review: Feb 7th -- Feb12th
Greetings!
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Other News
In other news Congress is still in for a lame duck session ahead of the 2022 Midterm.
But even with Congress’ help the current president hasn’t been deterred from his path of destruction. His lack of strategic deterrence, and any projection of competence, is likely responsible for Russia invading Ukraine.
Likewise the current administration is converting the army into a group of weaponized green lobbyists. At this rate it won’t be long before they start shooting guns in the air to take aim at the invisible enemy known as climate change.
Lastly it appears that there’s speculation that Hillary Clinton could run for president. Now that will de-escalate political tensions won’t it?
Links:
Russia Invading Ukraine — https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/12/world/russia-ukraine-news
The Green Activist Military — https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/02/10/army-military-green-climate-strategy/
Hillary Clinton Re-Election? — https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/hillary-clinton-to-speak-at-ny-dem-convention-as-speculation-grows-over-a-run-at-biden/
Article Links
This week we covered a lot of interesting topics including: term limits, the politicization of love, Trump, and the story of American bureaucracy, and the idea of progress much of which goes against conventional wisdom.
In the term limits article I highlight how term limits help fast track former politicians to big paydays — which is why politicians advocate for them. Instead of having to serve the public if term limits were in place they’d be able to serve the private sector for much more money. That they tell you otherwise indicates how willing they are to deceive for profit.
And the main way, of course, politicians defraud the public is by insisting that they love them and using love as a cover for other nefarious actions. While Obama, for instance, was celebrating gay rights in his #LoveWins campaign he was preparing to bomb Syria. This loving facade that politicians put up allows them to get way with murder — often literally.
The Trump article makes the point that conservatives’ loyalty to Trump is a litmus test for how much people actually support our republic. For in a representative republic loyalty to a popular president usurps political representation in the House in a way the founders would not agree with.
When I was discussing the story of American bureaucracy I wanted to highlight that the bureaucracy like the CDC and FDA were once considered a “progressive” improvement on political representation in our republic.
Lastly in the last article I look at how progress in the early progressive era and what it has become today. Then progressive reforms did bring about progress — in protecting middle class labor, expanding access to quality schools in urban and rural areas, and granting women the right to vote. But all the progress of the progressive era became leftwing dogma that gave way to the regressive entitlement state by transforming the aforementioned values into extremism.
That’s all we have — please review the articles and join our broadcast this Sunday at 4PM! We’ll see you then!
Links:Feb 7th — Term Limits
https://www.zigmundereichenbach.com/p/term-limits-cruising-toward-disaster
Feb 8th — Politicization of Love
https://www.zigmundereichenbach.com/p/the-politicization-of-love
Feb 9th — Trump Litmus Test
https://www.zigmundereichenbach.com/p/trump-litmus-test
Feb 10th — The Story of American Bureaucracy
https://www.zigmundereichenbach.com/p/the-story-of-american-bureaucracy
Feb 11th — Progress Then and Now
Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University. You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1. Additionally you can find episodes of the weekly Sunday podcast (4PM) that airs via Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter at this link here.
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