The question of who is really in charge in the White House has been a lingering one throughout the three and a half years of the current administration. Anyone with reasonably functioning eyes and ears and who isn’t sold out either to what can safely be called the state media or is so ideologically impaired that they can’t see the truth knows it can’t possibly be Joe Biden. His mental impairment, already visible even prior to his election in 2020, grows more evident by the day, almost by the minute (though his handlers are sure that his exposure to public view is limited to just minutes a week, not a day).

Speculation has focused on Joe’s former boss, Barrack Obama, and clearly many of the same incompetents who were part of Obama’s administration, such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, haunt the current White House. Biden’s time in office has been called Obama’s Third Term, many of the similarities are so striking. Other speculation has focused on the power-hungry First Lady, Doctah Jill Biden, who has been so willing to engage in elder abuse of her own husband for the sake of power. And of course there is the cadre of faceless handlers who prop up Biden, write his speeches which he still manages to garble up, get him to wear shoes less likely to cause him to trip and fall, and surround him on walks out to Marine One so his stilted gait is less visible to the White House Press Corps.

Any of these explanations are plausible enough, but I think there is something larger and more sinister in play. I think there is a kind of ideological force, what I would term a kind of hive mind, that pervades the administration and has spread like a plague across the country. It has occupied college campuses for many years and increasingly has filtered down to the K-12 level, and it has found its way into the so-called justice system, into the military, into sports, and even into corporate board rooms.  It is this hive mind that thinks men can be women, women can be men, that the citizenry is too simple-minded to make its own decisions on everything from whether to own a gas-powered or electric vehicle, what kind of bulbs to screw into their lamps, to what kind of stove or dishwasher they put in their kitchen.

It is this same hive mind that believes open borders, allowing a dozen million unvetted aliens into the country and turning them lose on society, is a positive thing, and which will only further the objectives of the hive mind (the last part undoubtedly true). It is the hive mind that leads the administration to favor our natural enemies, such as Iran. And it is this hive mind that says criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens and need to be treated with deference to undo centuries of supposed injustice, regardless the cost and injury to the rest of us.

Like bees in a hive, the hive mind governs everything these people think, do, and impose on the rest of us. It is a kind of mental affliction that puts its governing ideology above all else, which would accept having a doddering old fool who scares us domestically whenever he appears and who embarrasses us on the international stage, as Biden did recently at the G-7 gathering in Italy, and which would destroy our democracy on the false premise that it is saving it. It counts on the lack of awareness and good information, fostered by a corrupt media and the deaf-and-drunk show that is social media, to fend off questions about its premises. And we’re told to believe the fictions the bees weave and not our lying eyes.

As has been evident, and as I’ve said for a long time, the systematic destruction of the country and society cannot be explained by mere incompetence. It is clear that it is deliberate, and the seemingly benign phrase “to transform the country” embodies this hive mind’s intent to turn everything upside down and inside out. A more correct reading of that phrase would be “to destroy the country,” and that is embedded in the basic belief system behind the hive mind. Essentially stemming from a Marxist/leftist ideology, its intents and methodology mirror cultural and political revolutions from Russia to Cambodia, and stretching back to the French Revolution. We see it on the streets, in the courtrooms, on college campuses, and in the White House.

It is the blind ideology of the hive mind, further afflicted with the mental illness known as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), that prevents the bees in the hive from seeing, much less understanding, why so many ordinary people want no part of the bogus honey it produces and does its utmost to peddle.

Saddled with a Chief Executive you wouldn’t trust to drive your kid’s school bus, much less fly your airliner, I keep returning to the point I’ve been at for some years now: We are soooo fucked. We really are. We have one chance and one chance only to turn this ship around before it grounds hopelessly on the rocks this hive mind has set its course for, and that is the election coming up in less than five months (and actually, due to the perversion known as early voting many states have adopted, in as little as three months). If we don’t make a firm statement that the goals of this hive mind are simply unacceptable for the country, the society, and our future, I see little hope. I think we all need to do what little or much as we can to grab hold of the wheel and change course. This is my small contribution to that effort.

Featured Image: Bee Hive, Mostafa Eissa, Pexels, used with permission.

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