By Steve Woodward
There is a much more pervasive disease infecting Pinehurst and southern Moore County than the cabal-led assault on residential property rights and the so-called Short-Term Rental (STR). The real menace in our midst is Stop-Trump Memory Loss (STML).
STML afflicts deranged, mask-wearing, mRNA-injected Democrats. They cannot remember daily life as a citizen before mid-March 2020. It is not a condition readily detected by standard MRI scans. It is ideological dementia for which there is no known cure. Its victims continue to dispatch communications from their hidden bunkers, mirroring Japanese soldiers on remote islands who manned their posts long after VJ Day in 1945.
“I’ve switched my registration from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party,” writes Neil Olson in a letter published on January 13, 2024, by The Pilot. His tactic is motivated by “the opportunity to vote against Donald J. Trump at least one time and, God forbid, twice in 2024. … If DJT somehow wins the nomination of the Republican Party, I get to vote against him again in November. How great is that?”
“If Trump is elected, it may be the last time anybody is ever allowed to vote in the U.S.,” writes Roger Davis in a similarly STML-addled letter published on the same date by The Pilot. “Vote for (Joe) Biden and be unhappy or vote for Trump and your children and grandchildren may never again be living in a democracy.”
Apparently, the January 13 Pilot was dedicated entirely to STML authors; they’ve been assigned their own mailbag.
Wrote Larry Moubry: “How about abstaining this time around and save (sic) our democracy?”
Wrote Greta Nintzel: “What strange world do you live in where your own Republican Party bears no responsibility for the dangerous antidemocratic forces that drive too many opinions in the GOP today? … The divisive, mean-spirited, careless former president you are conveniently pushing off on Democrats is in actuality the Republican Party’s fault.”
In Ms. Nintzel’s case, apparently thanks to MSNBC, she seems not to have observed a White House occupied by a really divisive, mean-spirited, careless (and clueless) current president. She is perplexed by trending dissatisfaction, bordering on revolt, with the Biden regime that is driving longtime Democrats to serious consideration of Trump’s campaign and its promise of a return to prosperity. This is reflected by numerous polls, including a new ABC News/Ipsos poll assigning Biden a 33% job approval rating, the lowest “achieved” by a POTUS in the last 15 years (since Bush 43 and WMDs).
Her letter dismisses the 45th President as an “extremist demagogue” while praising the Biden regime for “steering” the nation through the pandemic. In fact, a tyrant named Anthony Fauci was at the wheel, driving under the influence of fellow Chinese scientists. Ms. Nintzel cannot understand that voters with functional brains reject an economy deliberately stagnated by Biden’s Marxist inner circle, reject a deliberately open U.S.-Mexico border across which hundreds of thousands of undocumented people from around the world have entered the homeland, and reject America’s energy dependence on terrorist-backing nations that underwrite Hamas atrocities in Israel, and cells initiating Houthi and Hezbollah Red Sea air strikes against U.S. ships.
This is what we get when style trumps substance, a doddering Joe instead of a dominating Donald. The incompetence extends to those guiding the Biden regime. Look no further than feckless Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who thinks Israel should act with restraint against Hamas terrorists, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who was hospitalized for days without the knowledge of the White House. When not incapacitated, Austin is busy prioritizing climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion over American military strength.
Worse than what has been forgotten about an ascending United States of five years ago, when economic engines were humming and our enemies were running, is the reality that so many Americans never truly understood our nation’s greatness, or did not wish to understand. The 20th century’s greatest champion of this, our Constitutional Republic, President Ronald Reagan, said it so well in 1989.
The memory loss part of this affliction is that these empty souls do not remember a time as recently as the outset of 2020 when none of the aforementioned was going on. They’ve also forgotten a not-so-bygone era of historically low unemployment among black males, overall unemployment at a half-century low, ultra-low interest rates, affordable (actually, downright cheap) energy, and a Ukrainian people unthreatened by their bordering neighbor, Russia. Zero recall.
The other perturbed typists enabled by The Pilot parrot the siege on America’s “democracy” that Trump’s existence all but assures. In their haste to stoke hysteria, they fail to ask even one pertinent question. Is the United States a democracy? No. Not now, not ever. Try to find references to democracy in our Declaration of Independence or our Constitution. You will not. There are none.
In Federalist No. 10, founder James Madison observed that democracies “have in truth been the mortal disease under which popular governments everywhere perished.” Why? Madison continued: “It is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
The United States is a Constitutional Republic. This is not semantic hair splitting. There are, in fact, functioning democracies in the world. How many American citizens would willingly take up permanent residence in Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland and Finland? These are the top five democracies on the planet according to a 2023 index. All nice places to visit. But think back to the darkest days of the pandemic. Australia imposed brutally draconian restrictions on its citizens, treating them as prisoners of their homes subject to arrest if daring to escape. Germany was not far behind. Canada, also a democracy, jailed citizens (including pastors), arrested truckers and froze their bank assets during the COVID siege.
But, again, the Stop Trump Memory Loss patients, cowering in bathrobes, a computer screen their only source of light, remember none of this. They only remember that they hated Trump. Meanwhile, their Obama-compliant sock puppet leader, Biden, sees to it they are perpetually miserable. In his recent January 6 commemoration speech (delivered January 5 because the Biden White House is afraid of snowfall), Biden droned on about how “we nearly lost America” on January 6, 2021, when Americans were given free rein inside an unsecured U.S. Capitol until Capitol police turned on them. Who fomented violence that day? Most were uniformed and heavily armed with government-issued weapons. Grannies from small towns became collateral damage.
California Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-5), in a January 13, 2024, op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, insists on calling 01-06-21 “a national disgrace” in his essay but makes the excellent point that “once these yahoos (Trump voters) were kicked out of the building (most of them walked out on their own), Congress calmly affirmed Mr. Biden’s election.”
McClintock, a Republican, fears that what is actually being “lost” is confidence in the integrity of our elections. “Democrats have rigged election laws”, championed “mail-in ballots with no chain of custody” while standing by as “left-leaning bureaucracies colluded to influence elections by intimidating political opponents” and by “pressuring social-media platforms to censor political dialogue”.
If the U.S. was a mere democracy, these activities would long have been commonplace for decades before 2020.
We are living in a moment when citizens have forgotten, perhaps deliberately, about the ascending United States of five years ago when economic engines were humming and our enemies were running. In reality, many Americans never have truly understood our nation’s greatness, or did not wish to understand. The 20th century’s greatest champion of our Constitutional Republic, President Ronald Reagan, said it so well in 1989.
“If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are,” he said as his presidency concluded. “I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit.”
Instead of repeating an empty talking point — the end of democracy! – informed Americans just might wish to focus on what our nation becomes if and when our indomitable spirit suddenly evaporates. Finland?
Trump detractors, and those who despise Trump voters, are more than likely part of the “Protected class”, those living permanently at the taxpayer feed trough and terrified that we might one day have a leader in The Swamp willing to end deficit spending, pay down the national debt, reduce the size of government and cut government employee and government retiree benefits, which must happen. The same elites do not want the average Joe in the private sector to get ahead, after all, that would make them less dependent on government and they might amass an honest fortune through real wealth creation and surpass those who have do-nothing, tenured government jobs. The results from the Iowa caucus must have some jumping from rooftops and increasing their intake of adult beverages. Same goes for the RINOs.