It turns and churns.
Here we are — whoever “we” are — at the end of another year. But what’s another year, anyway? Earth has made another circuit (more or less) around the Sun, and has revolved on its axis about 365.25 times.
Then there are many types of recurring event on Earth:
birth
childhood
adolescence
schooling
work
marriage
child-bearing
child-rearing
aging
death
And much more that is the common lot of too many humans: political discord, hate, crime, and war, for example.
At the end of 2022, I must add to those lists an encroaching fact of life: political repression, which has spread from East to West at the speed of an unchecked wildfire. It operates in different ways and for ostensibly different reasons in various nations and reasons, but the end is the some: strong (if not always absolute) control of the expression of ideas and the outcomes of political processes. I have called it, elsewhere, the Sovietization of America (not to mention Canada and most of Europe).
I have been saying for years that the United States is only an election away from total domination by the left. That remains true, unfortunately, because large swaths of the populace seem indifferent to what is happening to their liberty and prosperity.
If (or when) America falls fully into the grip of the left, there is one thing that Americans will no longer have to fear: war. Despite the anti-Russian posturing that is fashionable (and foolish), the future path of a leftist-controlled America is clear: accommodation with its enemies. That this can only lead to more oppression and economic deprivation is of no consequence to the left in America, just as it was of no consequence to Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Politics and Prosperity 