President Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, was at the pinnacle of power. Biden won the 2020 election, but everyone knew he was in cognitive decline. A shell of his former self who his wife, Jill, protected from most human contact. Klain was in charge and assessed the administrations plight. They’d done all they could with the black vote. Donald Trump’s economy drove minority unemployment to the lowest point on record and Black voters started to realize opportunity and jobs were the formula for a better life. A death blow to their dependency on government, which for decades had insured the election of Democrat politicians. For the Biden administration, it was fortuitous George Floyd died, and the virus came. The black vote was back on the Democrat’s plantation.

But the Hispanic vote was worrisome for Mr. Klain. Something was changing. The last polls showed the Republicans had 50% of Hispanic support. They weren’t following the Black model of welfare and dependency for votes. A catastrophe!! No wonder Puppet Master Klain is worried.

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The Opportunity Maker Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of The Job Creator

Network

Born into an immigrant Hispanic family Alfredo Ortiz worked his way to being the President and CEO of the very influential, Job Creator Network. A former member of President Trump’s Hispanic Prosperity Initiative, he represents everything that is great about the American Dream. He believes in the power of Capitalism and the marketplace. America gives the opportunity and American’s create their own future. He is especially proud of his Latino brothers and sisters. Latinos believe in God, the nuclear family and are rejecting the progressives attempt to make them dependent on government. Latinos want to work, so their children can have a better life. Latinos have figured out if they fall for the progressive’s life of dependency, their family’s future will be no better than the life they left behind. The Hispanic population is catching the American Spirit and people like Alfredo Ortiz are leading the way. Puppet Master Klain’s worries are well founded.

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Portsmouth – July 2021, Route 1 Gas station

The doctor stops to pick up his morning Pepsi. Landscaping trucks are gassing up and he notes all of the workers are Hispanic. The Doctor remembers a conversation with a patient who owned a lawn service. He needed summer help and offered $15/hr. No locals applied, but the Hispanic boys lined up. The doctor remembers his hard-working immigrant grandfather speaking Italian and when the future doctor asked if he could learn Italian his grandfather responded, no, you are an American. As the doctor looks at the hard-working Hispanics, he thinks there might be hope for this great land.

Driving home the NH doctor reflects on how illegal immigrants can never be rewarded for breaking America’s laws. If massive illegal immigration wasn’t stopped it would destroy the country; But it was clear the Spirit that made America great lived in the legal immigrants. As depicted in Clint Eastwood’s classic movie Gran Torino, Clint’s character is, bigoted Korean veteran Walt Kowalski, a widowed retired auto worker trying to maintain his Detroit homestead. Detroit’s jobs dried up and the neighborhood was no longer a bastion of blue-collar America. Hmong {Southeast Asia immigrants} were the main inhabitants and the streets were overrun with drug dealing thugs. After Kowalski catches a Hmong boy trying to steal his prized Gran Torino car, he befriends the boy and his family. He soon realizes he has more in common with these hard-working immigrants than his own kin. He sees in them the Spirit of America, the same Spirit that burns away his own prejudice. As the story unfolds, Kowalski “man’s up” the boy and protects the family from the inner-city gang. Diagnosed with terminal cancer and facing no viable way to stop the gang, Kowalski decides to leverage the ultimate sacrifice. Multiple witnesses watch as an unarmed Kowalski tricks the gang into gunning him down. The Hmong people stand up, the police arrest the ghetto thugs, and the neighborhood was freed.

Today, American natives can sense America’s Spirit in legal immigrants. The same Spirit that can overcome prejudices and open the door to the American Dream. Could it be that legal Hispanic immigrants were going to be the next great wave that epitomized the American Dream? The doctor smiled to himself because he knew the American Spirit would find its way to the willing, and the Hispanics were hungry for the American Dream. The doctor sadly mused, those such as BLM, who were caught up in bitterness and thought they could fix the future by destroying relics of the past, were missing their chance to catch the American Spirit. They were on the road to oblivion.

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The 2020 election might be the best thing For America’s Future

Just like in the late 70’s (President Jimmy Carter), progressive policies have been unleashed on the nation with catastrophic effect. Out of control inflation, open borders, drug overdoses, spiking crime, energy shortages, world weakness and out of control spending have descended on our nation.

To regain prosperity, America needs to recapture the American Spirit, rise up and remove the woke progressives from power. And just like in the decades following Jimmy Carter, progressives will be forced underground, having to wait for the next generation to forget the painful lessons of Biden’s Presidency. Until once again, America’s spoiled, impressionable youth can be seduced by the fake promises of a socialistic utopia.

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It won’t happen by itself

The Alfredo Ortiz’s of America are leading the legal Hispanic immigrant revival of the American Spirit, but no matter the race or creed we must come together as a nation to stop the pernicious effects of woke divisive identity politics. It will not be easy. The woke progressives control academia, Hollywood, elite social media and the mainstream media. These forces are incredibly powerful, but they are no match for the fully engaged American Spirit.

The forces of division were able to fool America in 2020. Shame on them!

If it happens again in 2022 and 2024, Shame on Us!

Will the American Spirit shine bright or will the Progressive Puppet Master be allowed to plunge our nation into darkness? The choice is ours to make.

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Vote!!!

Gran Torino is the highest grossing movie in which Clint Eastwood starred and directed. The 2007 movie was far and away the best movie of that year. It was snubbed by the Hollywood elites and was not nominated for any Academy Awards. Its message of redemption and self-sacrifice while simultaneously depicting the crime ridden city of Detroit was like Holy water to the Vampire Hollywood elite. If any of these elites internalized the message the pain would be unbearable, and their very existence would have to be questioned.

James A. Betti is a New Hampshire resident. Read additional material by Betti at Jamesabetti.substack.com.