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Election Day and The Bridge at Selma

Published November 4, 2024 / by Lee Kessler / Leave a Comment

Today is election day, and when the podcast drops tomorrow, we will likely have the winner of this presidential election. I don’t know, but if it feels like you have been suspended in time waiting for today to come, I understand. Personally, the last two weeks have felt like a slow-motion movie. Suspense is intense. Anxiety is real. And uncertainty about a future unknown is present everywhere.

Today, the ball drops so to speak. We will know in the next few hours who has prevailed in this unfathomably bizarre election. You all know the stakes couldn’t be higher. You all have worked hard to reset this country on the path we were on until 2020. Yet, who amongst us could have foretold all the twists and turns and sheer reversals of fortune that have marked this unique moment in American history.

I write suspense novels, and I could not have scripted this. I always wondered what Eisenhower was thinking and feeling as the D-Day invasion commenced. He had made the decision that would determine whether Man could live free, or whether Man would be controlled by authoritarian tyrants, and he had given the order. The men were ready. The citizens waited, praying. And he gave the order. No one knew the outcome for sure. Each person prayed the Almighty would touch us with a saving grace, and that our lives could go on. All he could do was wait and watch. The fate of the world hinged at that moment on the young men who went by air and sea to invade Normandy. It rested with “the people.”

Today is one such day. You have decided. You have “given the order” with your vote. And now we wait and pray that the outcome is what we desire. So, take a moment. Take a deep breath. For we do not in fact know what lies ahead in the next few days, weeks, and months. This month’s webcast at https://theclearviewwithleekessler has prepared you for that unknown and offered some guidance on what to watch out for, and how to conduct yourself.

I want to reiterate that message and expand upon it a bit. As I said in the webcast, you can expect the Democrats to contest every Senate seat they lose, every Congressional seat they lose. They will attempt to prevent the Congress from being seated on Jan. 3, 2025, and Lord only knows what they may dream up for Jan. 6, 2025. Constitutional scholars, be standing by! We are going to need you I fear.

Yet, one story calms me—a story from my teen-age years. It is a distinctly American story, and it offers hope for us today I believe. That is the story of Sunday, March 7, 1965, and the Bridge at Selma. Officially known as the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, our American history changed that day. We did not know it initially. Perhaps the participants didn’t even know it, but standing on faith, and on what was right, they persevered.

Before I tell you what happened that day and how it relates to us today—literally today—let me first say that I have an abiding faith in the goodness of my fellow countrymen. We are not perfect. But there is a basic goodness in the American people; a basic sense of fairness—even if we are sometimes tardy in delivering it.

I am standing on that today. Those two traits by the way have been identified by our real enemies I write about in my prophetic fiction as two American strengths they intend to turn into weaknesses. They know how to punch our psychological buttons, and in that we can be manipulated.

In 1964 The Civil Rights Act was passed. However, individual states in the south and individual governors were not in compliance when it came to the voting rights of African-Americans. Martin Luther King and various coalitions were organizing protest marches to ensure that Voting Rights were there, and not to be interfered with.

Though King was away on March 7, John Lewis and about 600 protestors began a march from Selma to Montgomery. At the beginning of the march, however, they had to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Governor Wallace had ordered that they were not to be allowed to cross, and that they had to disperse. Apparently forgetting that our Constitution allows for peaceable assembly, and for your right to petition your government, he ordered the State Troopers, local Sheriffs, and their deputized citizen-posse’s to stop the marchers.

So as the marchers approached the Bridge, on the other side men waited with clubs, whips, horseback riders and tear gas. John Lewis and Hosea Williams had a choice to make. Not knowing the outcome, they proceeded. First, they attempted to talk with the Sheriff in charge. He refused. Deciding not to turn around, they chose to march forward—straight into the punishing clubs, tear gas, and whips. And straight into history!

Fifty or so were hospitalized. Lewis’s skull was cracked, but the Press—which had some semblance of understanding of its role under the First Amendment at that time—covered the bloody march and the brutal injuries. None of the protestors were armed. None fought. They simply kept marching into the attack. And cameras were filming. By that night the major news agencies showed the peaceful protestors, and the brutality of the forces attacking them. The American people watched, for the first time seeing the reality of the situation in the South. Within 48 hours there were protest marches in over 80 cities.

Revulsed by what they saw, and wanting to fix this, the American citizens from all walks of life, all races, all religions put pressure on their Congress and, shortly after, the Voting Rights Act was created and passed.

Remember today that you are “we the people” and we have a responsibility to ensure the Constitution is followed, that the Rule of Law is adhered to, and that the Great Experiment continues. We have our own Bridge to cross right now.

So, no matter what happens in the next few hours and days, stay calm. Hold the line. But do not take the bait. Do not allow yourself to be provoked into violence. That is what the other side wants, for you to degenerate into violence and justify their intended brutal actions.

Will we all come through this unscathed, you ask? I don’t know. There is no guarantee of that. There is a price to be paid for freedom. And it may be painful for some. Know this: there are millions of eyes watching, all over the world, just as millions watched the Selma Bridge. And even if today’s Press is corrupt, the people will see all of this through other Media. And their innate sense of goodness and fairness will be stimulated. Just as it was in 1965.

We are a good people. We will get this right. And by the way, Governor George Wallace, in his later years reversed his position on the whole Civil Rights issue, went to a black church and asked for forgiveness. He was forgiven, and I believe attended that church until his passing.

People can change. Hold the line. Study the Bridge at Selma. Study Ghandhi and how his approach eventually broke apart the entire British Empire.

Make America Great Again. It is in our hands.

The Trophy Generation Grew Up

Published December 4, 2022 / by Lee Kessler / Leave a Comment

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Over a decade ago I remember having a conversation with a friend who was befuddled by the idea of everyone getting a trophy, just for showing up–not for excelling. My friend was lamenting the horrible lack of values and success principles that represented, and he asked, “what’s it going to be like when this ‘trophy generation’ grows up?” Looking back I am sure he was considering what it would be like for the Millennials when they came of age and had neither the emotional maturity, the drive, the pursuit of excellence mindset, or even skill sets to encounter life. In his mind, I am sure he felt life would give them a beating.

Instead, the Trophy Generation is giving us a beating. They have grown up–in years at least–and the entire generation is now voting. That generation is defined as those born between 1981 and 1996. They are now between 25 and 41. They are your doctors, your teachers, members of city councils, your ministers, middle to senior management in corporations, founders of technology companies, your district attorneys, your mayors, and members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. They have done what every young person of every generation has done. They have started into life, and are making their way into positions of senior authority.

The difference is we now know the consequences of a generation where significant numbers are still living at home even into their 30s, where they have been educated into the anti-American woke culture, are driven by their emotions rather than logic, where they can repeat rote slogans, but lack the intellectual curiosity or integrity to even scratch the surface of analysis to think for themselves. We know they run in packs, supporting each other’s viewpoints and neuroses.

And they are in charge now–including in the political arena! Following what I considered to be a lamentable, yet predictable, outcome of the 2022 elections in many arenas, there is a lot of head scratching going on as to how we could have two elections in a row where the margin of victory for either candidate was razor thin, and how our country, whose electoral system was the envy of the world, has descended into distrust and uncertainty.

I believe the answer lies here. The Baby Boomers were once the largest generation in the US, and controlled almost all of business, education, and government. However the US Census Bureau reported that the Millennials have now become the largest generation, as of 2019. And that the Millennial Generation, and younger, now comprise more than half of the US population–166 million.

In my opinion, that means that politics as we knew it is over. This group is now voting. And they are voting based upon their world view and life view–basically influenced by what they experienced in their education, good or bad. And if they grew up expecting to be rewarded for just being there, and not contributing to excellence, they will be takers more than givers, and they outnumber the US voter who was raised with a fierce work ethic and sense of personal responsibility.

Where I think we missed this lies with us spending time wondering how the “JFK Democrats” and moderate neighbors we grew up with and competed with–who are patriots too–suddenly became radicalized and joined the “Woke.” I hear pundits asking how these regular Democrats could possibly have sold out to the extreme wing of that party. They didn’t. They are now outnumbered, voter-wise. Many may have secretly voted Republican, hoping to bring things back to the normal political game they were accustomed to. Their constituency is something they never saw coming.

But an energized, organized, and mobilized new generation of voters are registering and voting. They are of all backgrounds, races, ethnicity. They have a couple of things in common though. They were educated in the US education system over the last decades, and they bullied their parents into letting them coast because they are so “special.”

Having coached this generation in business for more than 20 years, that is why I wrote the political fiction series known as the “White King Series.” It was written for Millennials. The heroes Andy Weir and Brian Washington Carver represent the best that generation has to offer. They represent courage, commitment, intelligence, imagination, character, and a relentless pursuit of freedom. And they defeat our real-life, real-threat global enemies, and stop The Great Reset that is occurring right now.

If you want to start to influence the minds of this huge generation, I suggest you let them travel with the story and emotion of the “White King.” Let them experience the current events of the last two decades through the eyes and minds of peer patriots who bring about change with grace. Let them be entertained and, in the process, start to use their own creative imagination to solve the real-world threats, not just regurgitate the propaganda they have been force fed. For the story of the White King is the story of America’s decline in the 21st Century. It is also the story of how to reverse it–not by fighting this largest generation, but by tapping into the strengths of the individuals who comprise that generation. Let them “earn” the trophy that the final victory in “White King and the Seat at the Table” offers.

Our enemies are betting that the Millennials’ weaknesses will prevail, and America will be removed from the world stage. I, however, am not!

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THE MAN WHO REPRESENTED AMERICA

Published April 25, 2022 / by Lee Kessler / 5 Comments on THE MAN WHO REPRESENTED AMERICA

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By now, the brainwashed partisans are criticizing and carping—blaming someone for the policies that led to his death, or shirking the responsibility for his death by saying it was a matter for the military in that state. In other words, no responsibility for anything, just carping and criticizing, and point scoring. And the incessant and desperate determination of partisans to make themselves right, and everyone else wrong.

Lost in all the vitriolic swamp is the simple fact that Bishop Evans, when he jumped into the river to save two struggling illegal immigrants from drowning, represented the true America. I don’t know the man. I know nothing of his religion, his personal beliefs, or his opinions about absent borders and lawlessness. I do not even know his race..

Bishop Evans lost his life in that river. The two he was trying to save survived. As it turns out, both are suspected drug smugglers, and are now in Federal custody I believe. So, this young man lost his life trying to rescue two already-criminals who were crossing illegally, and who turned out to potentially be drug smugglers and likely part of the crisis that cost 100,000 Americans their lives last year.

Here is what I do know about Bishop Evans, however. In the moment he chose to dive in, I doubt he was reprimanding them in his mind for being illegals. I doubt he was considering whether or not they were Al Qaeda, or drug traffickers, or human traffickers. I doubt he was concerned about their race, their nationality, or their political opinions. I doubt if he even thought of his own mortality.

In that moment, they were two people who needed help. That is all. They needed help. And he chose to take full responsibility. He died in the process. But, in that single act, he showed us once again our own humanity. He showed us what America truly is, and what it has produced.

Shut out all the “noise” and simply know that he was a human being helping other human beings. That is what America—however flawed you may think it is—has always been, is still, and, if we are willing, will always be.

Bishop Evans represented humanity that day. And, in so doing, represented America.

Dyslexia–the Progressives’ Learning Disability

Published January 9, 2022 / by Lee Kessler / 2 Comments on Dyslexia–the Progressives’ Learning Disability

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Progressives, if you wonder why we aren’t listening to you, it’s because you—in my opinion—suffer from what I call “Progressive Dyslexia.” In case you don’t know what I mean by that, I am focusing on this: your approach to any problem in our society, and the policies you create to handle the issue, are habitually backasswards!

For years now, myself and over 100 million other Americans have had to listen to to you. Webster’s should add a new phrase into its hallowed pages. “Progressive Dyslexia: A learning disorder characterized by juvenile emotions, coupled with sophomoric at best analyses, devoid of intellectual curiosity, leading to habitually reversing the sequence of solutions and to disastrous consequences.”

Let me just illustrate what I mean. Almost all of us have taken a cooking class of some kind, or learned how to read a recipe book. Always, there are not only ingredients, but also the sequence to put them in to get the desired result. If you do things in the wrong sequence, you ruin the dish.

The same is true in chemistry. Before I switched my major to acting and directing I was a science major and took a serious chemistry class my first year of college. I aced that class. But, I learned very quickly that when combining substances, there is a sequence to adding things together, so that you form the desired compound you want without blowing up the lab. Make no mistake, the right ingredients put together in the wrong sequence can create a disaster.

And that is exactly what you Progressives are doing to America. You are blowing up the lab of the “Great Experiment.” We have learned from our mistakes and warts through the centuries. That is because, if we suffered an adverse effect, we reasoned our way through it to a better solution, and then sequenced the solution so that it would produce a result.

So, here is what is so blatantly obvious that you, again in my opinion, deserve to be scorned! Developing alternative energy sources is a positive idea, and one which most people would agree with, as it represents our continued understanding of resources, and development of those resources, to not only maintain a standard of living, but to enhance it. Here’s the rub. Any Middle Schooler would be able to figure out that if you want to move away from gas and oil for example, and eventually replace it with electric energy for industry and home, you would not substitute electric for gas when you don’t have the electric ready in sufficient quantity and with distribution systems in place to effect the change. To stop the gas and oil without the replacement—actual replacement, not a pipe dream high school science project theory—will cost lives, and risk our security. You don’t need an engineering degree to understand this stuff.

The thinking person would naturally continue the gas and oil, and gradually phase in the electric over time. At a point, the preponderance shifts to the new energy sources, and you can phase out or down the old. That is not what you did. Driven by the emotions of fear and hate, you stopped the oil, and started the puny electric. It will be years before electric is ready to fuel all our needs—if ever. Yet, that choice leaves us cold, stranded, and risks our national security as well.

Any of us with pets would know better than that. Just remember what happened when you changed your dog’s food suddenly from dry to wet! You learned real quick that the sequence is keep the dry dog food, and phase in a little wet. Then a little more wet, then more. Eventually, you can end the dry.

Another example that has us scoffing at you. Even a child in elementary school would have known—since all children play some kind of war or combat games—that if you need or want to withdraw, you take your military out last, not first. In the case of Afghanistan, the Joint Chiefs and the Administration should perhaps have brought in outside child consultants. They would have been told for sure to take the citizens and their allies out first, then all equipment the enemy might benefit from, and last the military. The military role is understandable by even a small child. You protect the evacuation, and you leave last.

Any of us who fly on airplanes, or who have needed emergency personnel such as firefighters or police know very well that those people leave last, and get you out first. That is the right sequence. Gen. Milley and cohorts, yours was the wrong sequence. Progressive Dyslexia at the highest levels of leadership.

Also, when confronted with an illness, any of us who has had a cold or flu—or something more serious like a cancer or multiple sclerosis–knows immediately to go to therapeutics first, while seeking a vaccine or a cure. Yet, during this pandemic, and continuing to this very day, if one seeks out old, tested therapeutics that might lesson symptoms and aid recovery, they are pilloried, vilified, and denied. Vaccines which are a good idea, but which have not withstood the test of time relevant to their effectiveness and side effects, should not be given first, at the expense of the other.

We don’t need a science degree to know that if our child has a fever of 106 degrees, the doctors will lower that temperature as fast as possible, even while they are testing to identify the cause. To continue diagnostically searching for a cause and then debating the best therapy may be a good idea in some “bar discussion,” but if the patient suffers brain damage from the intensity of the fever because no one treated that first, the point is moot. Parents, you know the truth of what I am saying. If you call the doctor with that emergency, the first thing they will tell you to do is get the kid into an ice bath, or get ice packs, apply them, and get him to the ER.

Common sense my friends. You all have it. But the Progressives seem to be controlled by an obsessive, compulsive disorder that demands they go in the wrong sequence to solve problems. Any idiot can see the problem needs to be solved. Reversing the sequence of the approach however has “ruined the dish.”

If someone is demanding that you do something illogical, which flies in the face of your life experiences to date, take heed, for Progressive Dyslexia regrettably is a contagious disease.

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Hate Kills

Published February 4, 2021 / by Lee Kessler / 2 Comments on Hate Kills

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Webster’s defines “hate” as: an intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury.

At this point in my life, one of the saddest things for me to watch is what I predicted would be the outcome of a true Fifth Column attack upon the great American people–ALL Americans. The purpose of the Fifth Column in military terms is to sabotage and to break the solidarity of the group it is attacking. It is where subterfuge, and disinformation, and exploitation lies. It is always an inside job.

You can read my books. They have proven prophetic. But, today I only want to say something about that one word–hate.

Hate does kill others, if it is acted upon. That is obvious and sophomoric. Hate does kill the hated. It even kills the innocent.

But, mostly, hate kills the hater.

It kills the body actually with depository illnesses and the like. It weakens the body.

It kills the mind by destroying reason, intellectual curiosity, rational clear thought, fairness, compassion and the other things we hold as desirable in a workable society. It drives one to psychosis and insanity. Nothing prospers in the stimulus-response world of hatred.

But, worst of all, it kills the soul. It quashes all the higher, enlightened, spiritual aspirations of you. And as you or I cease to be good, we cease to do good.

Hate also blinds the hater. One who hates can not see truth, will not examine factual data, and will not ask questions that probe further. ( One such question is “why?”) Regrettably, the hater can not see who or what he hates. He can not even see himself.

Hate opens the door to the “exploiter.” It always has.

The way out? Decide to stop hating. Decide to slow down and learn how to ask the questions that will help you come to understanding. You can do it. Understanding one’s fellows and their intentions can dissolve quickly the hard residue of hatred. And, it defeats automatically the “exploiter.”

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