DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: While no one thinks it could happen in the US, you didn’t believe the insanity over the past five years could happen either – IT DID!

With politics being at the forefront of most “thinking” people’s minds these days it seems there is much to lose if we are not paying attention.

While there are still people heavily sleeping for whatever the reason may be, there are also many red and blue people who have woken up and can see the greed, power and ego that has taken over both sides of the aisle.

A friend of mine reminded me, “Every politician wears three faces. The face they show you so you will vote for them, the face of what they will really do when elected and the face of who they really are when they look in the mirror. There are a lot of politicians walking around who have removed the mirrors from their life or covered the mirrors with a black mourning cloth due to the loss of their soul.”

Every time you see a big fancy ad from a sitting politician, think about where that money came from and the blood on the hands of that money if certain lobbyist groups engaged in the campaign donations.

While we don’t know if the challengers attempting to win against the incumbents will do any better, looking at those who take lobbyist money such as AIPAC you know they can’t do any worse.

I’ll go a step further – if you’re okay with genocide, the industrial military complex and the military’s black budget in the United States (to name a few), you certainly have the right to vote for that. Keep in mind however – it is always a clever idea to know what you are voting for when you are making your decision at the poll.

It is here I must say either way that no matter who you vote for, just take the time to vote.

Many people might not realize there are still countries in the world (some I have actually visited) where voting is a dangerous action and can cost you your life. While no one thinks that could happen in the United States, think back to the many things that have happened in just the past five years that you didn’t think could happen.

For example, in Texas did anyone ever believe Gov. Abbott would have to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations in the state?

While I love to go down these rabbit holes, I will not dive too far this week. I will say do your research and take a listen to the many videos people have posted around the country in which Muslims in the U.S. are declaring they’re in the country to take over – not integrate (to put it nicely).

That’s not really the purpose of coming to America. Many people have said why don’t Muslims or Jews or any America-hater in general just stay in their own country if they don’t like America. Indeed, we should all be able to cohabit on planet Earth. That’s not really what it’s about though.

FBI agent John Guandolo said in an interview ,“The entire purpose of Islamic doctrine is to insure there is an Islamic state throughout the entire world called a caliphate and under that Sharia law is the law of the land.”

Add to that the fact I have visited Muslim countries and while I’m not going say any religion or way of life is wrong in this world, I can say with certainty the United States and the majority of its citizens do not understand and would not want the Islamic way of life.

It will not work here. In the case of America, I suggest, “do not poke the bear.”

I also want to remind before you start name calling, which has become so popular these days, “Islamophobic,” or “bigot” is simply a word. In this case, it means you haven’t taken a very educated look at the bigger picture.

Did you know the Muslim Brotherhood has already been declared a terrorist organization by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Russia, Syria, Kazakhstan, Austria, Jordan, Kenya, and Egypt?

In Egypt where the brotherhood was founded, it was outlawed in 2013 after years of violence and political manipulation.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE banned it in 2014 calling it a threat to national security. Russia banned it in 2003, and Syria introduced the death penalty for membership. Jordan shut it down in 2025, and Kenya added it to its terrorism list a few months ago.

In a FOX News interview, Abbott reminded that one of the founders of the Texas division of CAIR was sent to prison for 65 years for financing terrorism.

A former training Sgt. for the Plano Police Department, Douglas Beaton, spoke at a city council meeting on the matter and explained how one homeowner affiliated with the EPIC neighborhood was the confounder of the Yaquine Institute for Islamic Research and took part in building what he called a command post just next to the Plano Police Academy. The house strategically overlooked the restricted access parking lot where the PD stores specialized vehicles such as bomb trucks, bomb disposal equipment and the SWAT teams armored vehicle.

Whatever the case may be, it’s time extreme Muslims, Christians, Zionists, and any other group who believes they must shove their beliefs down an entire country’s throat realize it’s not going to work.

It appears at this point there is too much dirt on too many people in too many places from too many different religions for anyone to get away with anything anymore.

Why? Because too many Americans have taken up their shovels to do their own digging to find the truth.

Let’s talk about that digging that has U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota furious that Trump has decided to put her in the spotlight. Perhaps her and her posse could have taken the time to figure out how to work with the new administration, because like it or not it’s not going anywhere.

Thanks to her shortsighted view she said, “We do not blame the lawlessness of an individual on a whole community,” regarding the Minnesota human services fraud cases. These cases involved a large number of Somali-Americans taking thousands of dollars from government programs, which resulted in more digging being done. It turns out thousands of dollars meant for children with autism and people who needed housing turned into what blew up in her face when federal prosecutors discovered the money went to buying luxury vehicles, and real estate in Minnesota, Ohio, Kentucky, Kenya, and Turkey, and to fund international travel.

This discovery was then tracked back to Omar.

I will say that fraud discoveries such as this are not just the result of one religion’s lack of integrity. Over the years have we not seen all world’s religions have at some point produced someone who played the same game for GREED (look at what has been uncovered about a variety of NGOs).

And the list goes on, and Americans are just expected to stomach the hate, accept the division and stay mad and angry at their neighbor instead of the actual culprits.

Either way, I’m sure as people keep digging, they’ll find a plethora of issues that at least one side of the aisle or the other continually says never happened.

Let me close this week by referring to my opening – about the blood money. Do your research on the politicians you plan to vote back into office if you’re not going to give the challenger a chance.

Ask yourself one more question – why is this group in DC not quite able to stomach the idea of term limits?

Perhaps Americans need to implement their own term limits and vote the grifters out if they’re not staying there for obvious good being done for “we the people.”

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.