The Biden Presidency is a shambles in its infancy. While the new president should have found a bird’s nest on the ground when he took over, he destroyed that opportunity by enacting a string of executive orders undoing the good that former President Donald Trump had created.

But it gets worse and likely will continue to worsen. Consider the following:

• The U.S. southern border is in crisis – for Americans anyway.

The Mexican cartels are having a field day, it is reported, because they can make millions, probably billions, by controlling the Mexican side of the border while having little or no opposition on the northern side due to the Biden administration policies, bringing across drugs and illegal immigrants at big prices.

• The Middle East, which had been stabilized under Trump policies, has erupted.

•The economy – While the nation is coming back to life with the quelling of the Chinese virus pandemic, thanks to President Trump’s determined efforts to make vaccines available, the jobs that businesses have available as they come out from under the Covid shutdown are not being taken because the Biden profligate spending policies are making it more profitable for potential workers to stay home.

The Heritage Foundation recently featured Mexican immigrant Humberto Lopez, who became a CPA, investor and wealthy in a recent podcast related to this topic. Lopez explained the situation succinctly:

“Big government; it’s getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And I think that’s going to take away the opportunities for a lot of the dreams [that] a lot of us would have had 50, 60 years ago. It’s making it harder and harder. I got a video the other day, it’s called ‘The Great Reset,’ where you won’t own anything, but you’ll be happy. Well, sure you’d be happy if they give you a home, free education, universal pay, college tuition free, and you stay home and don’t do anything. Yeah, you’re going to be very happy. But those of us that want to work hard for the American dream, it’s going to make it harder and harder. We’re going to be working for the government.”

When asked by interviewer Rachel del Guidice if he thought the American dream was still possible, Lopez commented:

The American dream is still attainable in as long as we have capitalism.

Regarding the current “open borders” policy, Lopez remarked:

“I think there’s got to be a process. There was a process in the ’20s when [his] parents were coming to this country. And there was a process making sure that the people that were coming were people that we want them to be citizens of this country and not open borders as we have today.”

• Team Biden’s “Build Back Better” so far appears to sacrifice American jobs while enriching enemies of the United States. (From Free Press Service)

On Jan. 20, Biden issued an executive order which halted construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, putting thousands of Americans out of work and angering key ally Canada.

Last week, however, Team Biden paved the way for the completion of a major gas pipeline that will greatly benefit ... Russia. Let that sink in.

The Biden administration has waived sanctions on both the Russian company behind the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and its top executive, Matthias Warnig, a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin.

An even more serious indication (The Daily Signal):

Woke Takeover of US Military Endangers Us All

Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was fired this month as commander of a U.S. Space Force unit. His “offense”? Speaking the truth about critical race theory’s rapid inroads among America’s armed forces.

The woke left views the military as a crucial ideological battlefield. And much of the brass and civilian leadership at the Pentagon are prepared to fight—on behalf of the woke cause. Lohmeier, it seems, was an early casualty in this ideological offensive, but likely not the last.

Imposing anti-American racial ideologies on our troops directly threatens our national security, by spreading ideas that undermine confidence in the principles underpinning our Constitution, trust in our system of government, and traditional values that promote unity, cohesion, and equality among service members. That’s classic critical race theory.

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and space guardians take an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution and all that it stands for. Instructing them that our Constitution and the beliefs incorporated into it by the Founders were meant to perpetuate white supremacy is reprehensible; it cries for urgent congressional examination and pushback. Yet that’s precisely what troops are being taught, according to Lohmeier.

As a reward for blowing the whistle, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of Space Operations Command, reportedly removed Lohmeier as commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron.

Lohmeier described to radio host Steve Gruber the “intensive teaching that I heard at my base—that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified white supremacy as the law of the land. If you want to disagree with that, then you start [being] labeled all manner of things, including racist.”

Lohmeier felt called to write a book about the crisis, because he worried that military leaders are inculcating the troops in fundamentally contradictory and distorted narratives about the nation, its history, and identity. He “recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.”

On another show, Lohmeier shared more concerns that motivated him to speak out, saying that “the diversity, inclusion, and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military” are further examples of Marxist ideas that included critical race theory.

A Pentagon official told CNN that Lohmeier had been relieved of his duties “due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead.” Officials are also investigating whether his comments amount to proscribed partisan commentary.

But what, exactly, did the Pentagon find objectionable in what Lohmeier said? His concerns seem entirely warranted. One of us (Dakota Wood) served two decades in the Marine Corps and can find nothing Lohmeier said in either interview that could be considered political, insubordinate, or disrespectful.

The firing has served one useful purpose, however: It has drawn attention to the administration’s apparent intent to introduce wrong-headed and highly inflammatory Marxist ideologies into military ranks.

Lohmeier’s exposé jibes with ideological indoctrination under way in other branches. Consider the Navy’s Professional Reading Program. It includes books that portray America as systemically racist and promotes the view that the Constitution was written to perpetuate white supremacy.

That the Space Force has now relieved a unit commander for expressing his concerns about this type of education and training material within his service suggests this is no isolated case.

The Defense Department is now reportedly considering hiring a private company to monitor the free speech of military personnel on social media, using key words or algorithms that by their very nature reflect the perspective of those who select the words and write the algorithms.

The relentless drive to enforce conformity within the military with a preferred leftist narrative is troubling, especially as it reinforces the Marxist tendency Lohmeier warned about.

The American people and our elected representatives should not only be aware of what is going on within the Department of Defense, but speak out as boldly and courageously as has Loh meier.

As a nation, we call upon our military to defend what is best of America. Efforts to undermine and disparage that are unconscionable, harmful not only to our security, but also to the very essence of what the United States represents. It should not be tolerated.

Originally published by the New York Post