What do the fires in New Mexico, the baby formula shortage, and Canadian euthanasia Bill C-17 have in common? They are all situations that touched me personally and were made life-threatening thanks to behemoth bureaucracies.

You may have heard that the largest fire in New Mexico-Hermit’s Peak-started as a prescribed burn. It turns out that prescribed burns are overseen by thick layers of bureaucracy, at the top of which is the Democrat land commissioner. The burns are scheduled a year in advance to allow time for the bureaucracy to churn. Apparently, the commissioner approved the burn just before it was scheduled. Angry New Mexicans are incredulous she approved it when the high winds meant certain disaster. But ask yourself: Even if she understood firefighting and knew the weather, if she didn’t sign, what would’ve been the push back from the chain of bureaucrats below her? And, if the Forest Service and the firefighters had refused to do the burn after the signature, what might have happened to them, their careers and their pensions? Below is a YouTube link to a local man who lost his land. He attacks the federal and state bureaucracies, demanding local authorities stop depending on the feds and take responsibility for the friends and neighbors they serve. He said federal fire fighters told him the fire will last until the end of July and that, as federal contractors grow rich, local folk will lose all. My daughter is working for one of those contractors. She’s making a pile, and they told her she has work through August. How did they know that in April?

The shortage of baby formula is probably one of the biggest scandals to erupt in the post-Covid political climate. Two links below explain how federal bureaucracy and regulatory capture created a situation in which there are only three baby food manufacturers and illegal aliens get formula before stores do. That one year ago the Biden administration knowingly shut down one of the only suppliers, when they could have simply recalled the product, is a criminal attack on families. There are some who ignorantly think that baby formula is unnecessary when women can just breast feed. Many women don’t produce enough milk and supplement with formula. Many babies have allergies or other needs that make formula essential for survival. Back in 1927, my grandmother didn’t produce breast milk so she hired a wet nurse for the first of her four children. Once formula became available, she fed her children herself. I inherited that trait. Without formula, my son would have starved…because, guess what, women no longer work as wet nurses. One thing I learned back then: my friends who had illegal “nannies” got free formula. I used to wonder how illegals could get formula for free. Now I know. And, since the bureaucracy frowns on the unborn, their callousness toward the just born is almost expected.

If you didn’t know that Canada has been a “right to die” country since 2015, now you do. Last year, however, Bill C-17 ensured that as “long as someone is suffering from an illness or disability which ‘cannot be relieved under conditions that you might consider acceptable’, they can take advantage of what is now known euphemistically as ‘medical assistance in dying’ (MAID for short) for free.” It’s officially cheaper for the Canadian government to kill people in a desperate situation than to help them live through it. In fact, they have recently euthanized two women for poverty. A Canadian client of mine is in a desperate situation because her daughter has custody of an emotionally disturbed teen abandoned by his parents. My client said it took her two weeks to fill out forms to get help for this boy, who appears to be a danger to those around him. It will be more than two years before he will get help. Canadians don’t need a terminal illness to request MAID, and in 2023, anyone diagnosed with mental illness alone can request MAID. My client is the first Canadian I’ve met who sees the holes in their system. I pointed out to my client that she has unique abilities-that she knew how to fill out the forms correctly. She responded, “Few people do.” So, the bureaucrats created a system in which the isolated, uneducated, and uninitiated get some care —like birth control—effortlessly, but are left floundering for more crucial care, incentivizing self-suicide.

Massive bureaucracies exist to feed themselves. Members along the food chain care about pensions and benefits. They don’t know the people they serve…and hence lack empathy for them. So when Donald Trump began shrinking the size of bureaucracy and expecting it to act like a business, he had to go. He aroused a great monster that defends itself by blindly serving its masters. And now we know to what extent. Even if it means losing a home, a child or a less fortunate loved one, the behemoth will kill to survive.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying.html

https://invesbrain.com/big-bottle-breaking-down-the-babyformula-nightmare/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor

https://therightscoop.com/hhs-sec-admits-he-knew-about-baby-formula-crisis-since-last-year/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canadacases-right-to-die-laws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7pxNzfFBEY

Anne Doherty, NRWF Editor at Large

California Gov. Gavin Newsom used the mass elementary school shooting to attack Republicans over gun control, though violent crime and homicides have increased dramatically in CA.

Companies are starting to drill for lithium in the Salton Sea in Southern California, although that may not be enough to supply the growing demand for the mineral, which is crucial for the development of “green energy.”

By Anne Doherty ~~

Generations, the landmark work by William Strauss and Neil Howe, theorizes a generation cycle in American and global history. The 1992 book accurately predicted 9/11 and other major events, plus coined now commonplace terms: “millennials,” “the social war,” and others. The authors predicted that by 2020, if social pressures in the U.S. didn’t lead to civil war, some outside force or conflict would bring the country together. Remember WW II.

The assumption is that around 2020 the so-called idealist generation (the Baby Boomers) would peak in power and want to see their ideals made reality. This prediction manifested itself in the 2020 election when leftist idealists pulled every trick necessary to take the election from Donald Trump, who represented their worst nightmare—power in the hands of Conservatives—people of faith and others who believe in the American Dream.

The trouble with idealists is that they can’t be satisfied. Nothing is perfect or ever will be, so long as human beings are in charge, yet idealists demand perfection. So, it’s worth looking at what the idealists want in order to guess what it would take to end the battle.

What conservatives want is simple: the right to work, raise a family, and pray as they see fit. Underpinning these ideals is respect for life, as espoused by the Right to Life movement and found in the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution. Respect for life does not guarantee a comfortable life. Respect acknowledges that life can be a challenge, that meeting the challenge is part of the joy of living, and that each person has his own vision of success. I remember when Donald Trump visited a natural disaster site. He showed empathy to a man who had lost a home, then urged, with a twinkle, “Of course, you’re going to rebuild!” That comment epitomizes the Right’s approach to living: embrace the challenge.

Liberals, on the other hand, want no suffering. At least, that’s what they promise. No one should be offended. No one should endure pain. No one should go without healthcare. No matter what you do or whom you do it to—even if you murder someone— you should only experience comfort and ease. This idealism causes them to hate religion because they see it as a set of rules hypocrites use to cause suffering.

Idealists hate hypocrites because it’s a glimpse in the mirror. Since nothing can be perfect, all idealists engage in hypocrisy. The Right think the Left are hypocrites for promising utopia. The liberals thinks the conservatives are hypocrites for believing in a God that lets people suffer.

Conservatives acknowledge that not everyone can lift himself up by his bootstraps. That’s what neighbors, charities and churches are for—or were before Government crept into all aspects of life.

In their quest to steer the masses toward their utopian goal, liberals utilize the latest buzzwords “equity” and “justice” (racial, gender, financial, etc.). They then veer off to focus on climate change. To Bill Gates, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and members of his World Economic Forum, “Climate Crisis” is the world’s most pressing issue and is so vast and essential that the ends justify any means.

In a recent speech to the Danish parliament, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky ended by saying “Europe must give up Russian oil, give up as soon as possible because it is the crazy income from energy resources that allows the Russian leadership to . . . promote hatred against other nations, against us, and destroy the lives of neighboring countries.” He tacked on the climate meme to his 2020 Davos speech as well. In short, green energy equals peace on earth.

The Strauss-Howe theory that 2020 would be a time for a unifying crisis is widely known in marketing and political circles. Therefore, the objective of the powerful would be to create a crisis or manipulate one for their idealistic aims. Thus, the amplification of competing, terrifying phenomena that prime the public to be “saved” by a unifying force: Global warming/global cooling, a “stolen”/“fair” election, Antifa “rallies”/January 6 “insurrectionism”, a Covid “pandemic”/viral outbreak, even an attack on human sexual nature.

How will it end? Despite censorship, it seems as if our technological ability to communicate quickly and broadly has allowed reality to intrude somewhat. People are speaking up. Mandates are falling. Parents have begun to defend their children. Even the threat of World War III seems less likely. NATO leaders may sense their citizens won’t die for ideals no one is sure are real. After all, perfection does not belong to any one of us, but to that which is greater than all of us. The liberals can seek utopia all they like; the only constant human reality is change.