TheWiseOldFart

        In the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers laid the groundwork for what would be the Constitution of the United States of America. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-“ The men who created the United States of America were in denial, ignoring their own failures to “put their money where their mouths were.” Most of them owned slaves, and obviously did not consider them equal to white men and women. When framing the Constitution between 1787 and 1789 during the Constitutional Convention, an agreement was made to protect the practice of owning slaves, primarily in the southern states. The Second Amendment was written for two reasons. First, to guarantee the availability of organizing an a...

    There are four men who share one quality other than claiming to be billionaires. Not one of them has done anything for another human being in their hollow lives. Not one of them deserves admiration, respect, or trust. They care only for themselves. For me, Trump, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk share other base qualities: their only gods are money, they believe that wealth makes them intelligent, and they reject everything which could make America a great country. It is no secret for any informed American, Trump’s loyalty never was and never will be to the American people. He constantly praises Vladimir Putin and his admiration of Adolf Hitler has been well documented. It is no secret that between 2021 and 2024, Trump and Putin were in constant communication, planning the old, orange buffoon’s return to the White House. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and owner of Facebook/Meta. All social media networks are the enemies of truth, facts, and reality. To...

In a recent article, I discussed the fact that Trump and his party were apparently paying homage to Elon Musk; accepting him as their “co-president.” Today, the failures on the right side of the aisle confirmed by assumption. "It's kind of interesting, we have a president, we have a vice president, we have a speaker. It feels like Elon Musk is our prime minister," Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said in a CBS "Face the Nation" hit. This comment by another fake Republican confirms my many and frequent allegations that Trump’s party does not understand how America’s government functions, and there are reasons the men and women who take up space in Washington are elected by the people, not chosen by a dictator or Fuhrer. Very soon our country’s people will experience the most incompetent and untrustworthy government in American history.. Musk succeeded with Tesla, although recent problems with his vehicles question their reliability, but he displayed a narrow and limi...

When you grow up in post WWII America, you are covered in patriotism. When the United States entered the war on December 7, 1941, the fate of the entire planet was reversed. I am not claiming that America was responsible for the defeat of fascism; that would be far from the truth. However the allies were united and the axis of evil would be defeated. The world was focused on one man and his perverse ambitions. His goals were twofold: eliminate all Jews, and world domination. Born in 1946, an original baby boomer, I understood the necessity of fighting a war thousands of miles from our shores. In elementary school, I admit to shedding a few tears as we recited the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of every school day. I attended a parochial school. Of course we were taught about Jesus Christ, and had enormous respect for the nuns who taught us and our priests. We were also taught about our nation’s ideals and principles, and why it was mandatory that fascism was defeated. Over my 78...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fascism and the current plutocracy. America’s dirty, little secret. Thanks to today’s fake Republican Party, the United States of America is in the control of less than one percent of our nation’s population: billionaires. A country controlled by the rich is called a plutocracy. The dirty little secret is that a plutocracy cannot be maintained without complete control over a nation’s future: this is called fascism. A large percentage of Americans hate billionaires. They have many good reasons to feel such strong emotions. They created greedflation, and support the worst, least-qualified, obese, old man in the world and his return to the White House. Three of these depraved, greedy men choose to place themselves in positions of notoriety, and therefore scrutiny, are Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. All social media sites are more harmful than beneficial. What was once the era of information has become the era of misinformation thanks to...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Between 2017 and 2021, Trump accomplished only one verifiable success: tax cuts for the super-rich. This is the only reason why most of America’s 81 3 billionaires support Trump in 2024. Republicans support the current plutocracy. Without their money, the right-wing would lose every election and fade away into the place where bad memories are kept.   Fact: most elections are won by the candidate with the biggest war chest. However, in 2024, the party on the right side of the aisle is making it difficult. They adopted a platform which has been described as a “ dystopian, fake-masculine, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant vision of America .” It’s called Project 2025, or as Trump calls it, “Agenda47.” I’m not sure that even the super-rich can support such horrible list of fascist ideas.   This 920 - page document, compiled by the Heritage Foundation with the assistance of more than 200 former employees of Donald Trump, is entirely contradictory ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Every politician’s biggest lie: “America is the greatest country in the world.” A study including 15 nations places the United States in 15 th place when studying the quality of life for the average citizen. Politician’s second biggest lie is: “America is the richest nation in the world.” I have no idea which of our American people they are speaking about. One-half of all Americans live in the low-income level or below the poverty line. More than 500,000 Americans are homeless. However, Republicans on the Supreme Court just told us, “it’s not our problem.” COMPASSION HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH AVARICE AND A DESIRE FOR CONTROL OVER ANYONE WHO IS NOT EXTREMELY WEALTHY The number of Americans having no permanent place to live is on the rise. Very few cities have a sufficient number of buildings which offer low-income housing. As home prices continue to increase nationwide, and apartment rents skyrocket, the only choice for many of our nation’s people is to sleep in pa...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   If you choose to be ignorant and Trump is elected in November, you will “get what you paid for.” He will not be a president who ser ves our nation and its people, he will use his powers to pardon himself from his own crimes, including treason and espionage, and exact revenge on every true American who would like to see his humungous derriere behind bars for the remainder of his disgusting life , where it belongs.   “America isn’t easy.” This was a line from “The American President,” spoken by actor Michael Douglas.   Think about what this means, because it is very true .   WHETHER AMERICA SURVIVES OR CEASES TO EXIST IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY AMERICAN   The United States of America is a lazy nation in the 21 st century. Everyone wants the easy wa y , the quick way. No one wants to work long and hard for what they want. Produce farmers in California will confirm that younger, American citizens refuse to work in their fields...