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Tipping point — usually about the time one is paying the restaurant bill

Tipping Point

The major TV networks and most major print media have been the historic arbiters of what is and is not news. The Internet and talk radio have been gradually changing things until we may have reached a tipping point. Right after last November's election, whether or not it was orchestrated, headline news became that Hillary lost because of collusion between Trump and the Russians to rig the election.

Now, eight months later and despite the appointment of a special prosecutor, the evidence is scant to nonexistent that such collusion ever occurred. Attempts to keep this meme alive seem to feel like the fourth weak reverberation in an echo canyon. Yes, Robert Mueller and his dozen Democrat esquires are yet to speak ... and they are bound to come up with something to justify their existence. But, for the nonce, it appears that the strangle hold that these former media giants had on the American psyche has been greatly diminished. The true tipping point maybe yet to come ... but we are surely getting close.

How will we know if this inflection point has indeed occurred? Watch to see if the New York Times stops running as many hit pieces on Trump and the Republicans ... or if it folds its tent instead ...

Tipping Point

Was it Trumpism that caused not just conservative Americans but the average Joe and Jane here to throw open their windows and shout "Enough! I can't take it any more!"? There clearly is something happening to upset the progressive agenda in this country. Hampshire College has realized that it was a bad idea to get rid of the American flag. Colin Kaepernick looks like he has become persona non grata in San Francisco. Kellogg cereals are being boycotted because of the company's decision to stop advertising on conservative websites. Even Michael Moore seems to be straddling the political fence ... as difficult as that is for him to do. No longer does an "ist" accusation necessarily win the day. The "deplorables" have suddenly realized that, when they band together, they no longer need to be cowed by the race baiters and Soros-paid protesters.

This really feels like a sea change is happening not just in the United States ... but around the world. Obviously Brexit was symptomatic of this tsunami. Angela Merkel is booed in a German town-hall meeting and likely will lose her grip on the EU in the not too distant future. This weekend Italy may be joining Britain and the US in voting to reject globalism. The "new world order" that was destined to create an eternal [un]democratic world government and universal open boarders is fighting a rear guard action around Davos, Switzerland. Those arrogant globalists had been going balls out with their blitzkrieg progressive agenda ... unconcerned with the lives that they are leaving in their wake ... which now seems to be their undoing.

It sure looks like we are at a tipping point which will change the direction of world politics for at least a generation. Much of the justification for this globalism seems to have arisen out of the mayhem of the many wars of the last hundred years and the economic dislocation caused by the disparity between international labor costs. The latter differential is being diminished by automation and the former has been refocused into resisting the growing threat of a radical Islamic caliphate. Globalism of course is not dead but it is on life support. In the meantime I predict that nationalistic fervor will rule the day.