What is next

This is kind of like the storm. You are riding out the storm right now. A view of the news results in only madness. The madness is the storm.

It is also like a ship. A ship without a captain is doomed. A ship with a bad captain is like a ship without a captain. The captain has to be strong and sure. Without steady leadership, the ship will be lost.

All of this sounds like defeatism. Or a clamoring for dictatorship. But it isn't. I won't join the madness.

Basically you have to keep your own head within the madness. If the ship sinks, and it surely will, then you have to find a way to survive.

The US is going to lose its leadership role in the world. That is almost a certainty now. There is a lot of de-dollarization happening with the BRICS countries leading the way. Because of poor leadership in DC, this unfortunate event is going to go down. That will mean worsening economic conditions here in the US. Inflation will get worse. The Federal Reserve has already lost control. It will be powerless to end inflation and powerless to spur economic growth. There will be "stagflation". Stagflation is the combination of inflation and recession. There's really nothing to prevent it, because of the failed policies this administration has taken has made it all but inevitable.

This government will be forced to live within its means if there's any hope of gaining control over the worsening situation. Congress should do this NOW, but it looks like they are refusing to take the lead. Again, there's no leadership. Neither party is up to the task. The madness is everywhere it seems.

The final blow may be a war with China. This country is not prepared for such a war, and likely will not prevent the Chinese from taking over Taiwan. This will be the death blow for USA leadership. The dollar will collapse. Those holding dollar valued assets will see their wealth dissolve into nothing. We will be a poor nation. There will be a brain drain. The miscalled Education Establishment has been hard at work destroying what good that there still exists. Recovery will difficult, if not impossible.

If we are lucky, we won't be nuked into the Stone Age. Or worse.

What could prevent all of this? Maybe a miracle, but I wouldn't count on it. A possibility exists, but it is only a possibility. The possibility is that people will come to their senses. It doesn't look good at the moment. You can only come out of the storm of madness if you come to your senses. All of what the madness means is that things will fall apart in a very big way. The cure is a return to sanity. That to me looks like the miracle needed.

Checking in, 4-6-23

Not many posts lately. It seems to be another dry period, so to speak. Not that there isn't anything going on, mind you. Of course there is. There always is.

Time moves on. Things happen, and the world is always in a state of flux. People are born, people die. They live their lives in the midst of this maelstrom of constant change.

For those of the Christian faith, this post is written on the eve of Good Friday. It is the holiest of days on the calendar, if I am not mistaken. There have been times when I thought I was Christian. But I'm not so sure that I really fit this bill. But I am not alone. Perhaps most people don't really fit that bill even though they may claim otherwise. Our self opinions may not square with the facts, as it so often happens with a fallen world.

Death is our lot, and no one is immune from this destiny. The question that has always been whether or not our span on this earth is all that there is, or if there is something beyond this time?

A sister in law has died in the last few days. I'd rather not discuss this on a somewhat public sphere. Only to give a personal note on what is universal to us all. My father died on the eve of Easter many years ago. Now my sister in law has died on the eve of Easter. Quite the coincidence. It is only a thought. I wouldn't want to be irreverent in mentioning it, though.

How do we spend our time on this sphere with what little time that we all have? It goes by so quickly. Eventually the realites will catch up to you, and you must ponder on what your own time, and what will it all mean when it is said and done?

Most of this blog has been about current events. One of the things that all could take note of is the politics of this period of time. Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, has been indicted for a crime. I've written about this from time to time. It is not that Donald Trump is perfectly innocent man or anything. But I do think that his critics are quite unjust, and this latest act is especially unjust. But this is a fallen world. This kind of thing is to be expected. And so it goes.

There are those who may well believe that the end is near. That this world will finally destroy itself in an agony of self inflicted wounds. And for what?

So much for what I think. For everyone has their own opinion. There are as many of those as there are of people. My only thought is the hope that in spite of all this, it may be possible that something better can come of it. But it doesn't look that way, sadly.