By Gary L. Wickert

There isn't much about the world today that doesn't seem upside down. Men competing in women's sports; children being indoctrinated with gender ideology, and lifelong criminals are given bail so they can murder innocent Americans. America's economy is shut down tighter than the Keystone XL pipeline because of rabid hysteria about getting a cold, but illegal immigrants, drug and human traffickers, and child predators are allowed to pour over the U.S. border unchecked, untested, and unmasked. Phantom presidential "collusion" with Russia by one president is investigated for years while top intelligence experts who denied the existence of Russian disinformation on the laptop of another president, and then just look the other way when proven wrong. The arrest of four Disney employees after a massive undercover operation targeting human trafficking, child predators, and prostitution was followed up by the land of Mickey Mouse voicing strong opposition to Florida's new law prohibiting elementary school teachers from indoctrinating young children—kindergarten through 3rd Grade—on sex and gender issues; a law overwhelmingly supported by Florida Republicans and Democrats.

Throngs of young planet-savers actually believe that 97% of climate scientists agree that human activity is significantly contributing to the warming of an entire planet's climateits actual global climate. Even worse, the misinformed and misguided believe that punishing ourselves with $6 per gallon gasoline will solve the problem and change the climate of an entire planet. There really isn't much that makes these days. The entire climate change fairy tale isn't about being good stewards of the environment. The target is capitalism; not global warming. As recently revealed by a United Nations official, "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution."

We are witnessing a titanic struggle between democracy and authoritarianism; between following real science and junk science; between responsible decision-making and technocracy; and between the rule of law and a complete unwillingness to punish those who violate it. Hybristophilia is the scientific name for women being attracted to and falling in love with those who commit crimes; especially prison inmates looking for "pen pals." That sort of lunacy is taking place on a grand scale with the American left embracing lawlessness. Liberal judges grant cheap bail to the most violent repeat offenders, only to have those hardened criminals commit murder or mow

 down innocent children at parades. By concocting phantom racism within the criminal justice system and cherry-picking stand-alone statistics with mean nothing. A police officer is nearly 20 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. Let that sink in as Democrats across the country reluctantly goose step to rallies actually supporting defunding the police.

Bobby Kennedy once said that every society gets the criminal it deserves. Nobody in their right mind would support defunding police, which would hurt the most vulnerable areas of our American cities. They support it because they are in their right mind—in fact, the actual goal is to tear down society and rebuild a "fairer" society fueled by a massive federal government which guarantees income to all Americans. The strategy is known as the "Cloward and Piven Strategy" and is the namesake of two professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The goal is to overwhelm our social programs through a strategy of calculated chaos, create division by race, sex, age, and social standing, tear down our police force in order to create a crisis of crime, and replace everything with a guaranteed income and government-mandated "equality" which would not eliminate poverty—it would expand it. Caught up in the strategy are millions of outright Socialists and Communists whose misguided ideas have failed every time they have been tried in human history.

Democrats have lost control of their own party as the mainstream faction of the party dismantles the English language, unable to identify any differences in men and women, pushing a panoply of pronouns which make no sense, supporting the sexual indoctrination of kindergartners, and labelling shoplifters, murderers, vandals and arsonists as "peaceful protesters." You can't make this stuff up.

Democrats have also declared war on the Judeo-Christian foundations of this nation. They clearly have a religion problem. While they protest loudly if conservatives accuse them of not being patriots, not respecting the Constitution, or attacking our religious institutions, they constantly and repeatedly justify our concerns with their hostility toward anything religious. The left lost what is left of their collective minds when President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Their toxic rumor was that she actually attended a Bible study.

Democrats have declared war on children with their support of the sexualization of kindergartners. They have declared war on women by abandoning all pretense of supporting women's rights by allowing men to compete against hard-working female athletes. They have declared war on African Americans by opposing all efforts to give inner city blacks a choice when it comes to failing public schools dominated by radical teachers' unions. They have declared war on inner city neighborhoods by attempting to leave the most violent and d a n g e r o u s neighborhoods in our country unpoliced. At the same time as they surrender our inner-city neighborhoods to criminals and murderers, their official party platform promises to keep more people out of prison, use counselors instead of armed police officers, give millions of violent criminals early release, and instead protect these vulnerable neighbors "by building trust." That'll work about as well as the counselors.

Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker make political careers out of preaching we should contribute to the overpopulation of prisons by imprisoning those convicted of drug offenses, their soft-on-crime platforms overlook three very important factors: One, drug crime is most frequently associated with other criminal behavior and activity. Two, drug convictions are not the driving force behind the population in American prisons. Prisoners convicted of drug crimes make up less than 15% of our state prison populations. The overwhelming majority of prisoners in state prisons have been convicted of violent crimes and 25% have been convicted of murder, manslaughter, or sexual assault. State prisons house 90% of nation’s 1.5 million prisoners, and virtually all prisoners serving long sentences are not in prison because of drugs. Three, the overpopulation of prisons is mainly a phenomenon of the post-COVID distancing nonsense. Before the pandemic, 41 states were operating at less than 75% capacity.

The truth is that there are too few people in prison; and if building more prisons is the price of safe communities for the families who live in them, then so be it. If you want to see criminals who deserve to be locked away forever, just turn on your television set. Yet far too many criminals do not get the sentence they deserve or are released far too early.

Republicans can't understand Democrats because they assume that the two ideologies share a common goal: a safe and prosperous America predominated by individual liberty and the ability of any person to get ahead and build the American Dream. They do not share that goal. One political party is attempting to tear down precisely what the other political party is attempting to build and strengthen. Perhaps that will put to rest any silly notion that the two political parties should just "get together, discuss their differences, and compromise." There is no compromise when one party's goal is to destroy the other party's goal.

There is no question that the left has embarked on a very dark agenda. As David Horowitz writes in his best-selling book, "Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America", Horowitz exposes not only the left's progressive war against Christianity, but also their covert war against America and its founding principles. Dark Agenda is about an embattled religion, but most of all, it is about our imperiled nation. Much like the Ukrainians whose homeland has been invaded and who are fighting for their very existence, America too is under attack by no less ruthless an enemy. No amount of conciliation is going to carry the day.