Way, way back in 1957, this country was stunned when the Russians launched the first satellite called Sputnik into space. What a shock!
We had been the leader of the world on all things ever since the end of World War II, and in our smug hubris, we just assumed we would be the first to space.
But here was this tiny Russian ball orbiting the earth with its beep-beep-beep. We watched in amazement as it crossed our night sky.
It precipitated a national crisis in decrying the degeneration of our education system. How could the Russians have beaten us?
It was our Sputnik moment.
That moment totally changed the way we approached almost everything in this country. It officially launched the Cold War. It was a time when the country made a U-turn from how things had been.
It culminated in our astronauts landing on the moon just 12 years later.
And Now Today
Is it possible that we are now seeing a new Sputnik moment where folks want to see change in the direction the country is going?
Like millions of others on both sides of the political aisle, I am still in shock with the result of last November’s presidential election.
It has taken a while to digest just what this could mean to our country’s present and future. That election changed the trajectory of the USA immensely.
With all the change involved in the result of this election, is this a Sputnik moment?
It could be argued that it was more important that Kamala Harris was defeated than it was for Donald Trump to be elected.
How could the country have survived another four years of the craziness engendered by her, President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama — and all the other puppet masters creating havoc and crazy off-the-rails directions for a once-powerful country?
Yes, Trump will get things back on track. He has signaled that he plans to issue more than 100 executive orders as soon as he is president again.
This will be a sea change.
We will all be living witnesses as a once-great country makes an important U-turn and returns to its senses.
Headed The Wrong Way
Over the past four years, we have been bombarded by harebrained narratives on climate, race, gender, borders, education and a host of other topics that were promulgated onto the American public as a new consensus of how we were supposed to live.
President Biden’s new rules and laws were posed as the future pushing aside the past as we headed to this brave new world of open borders, unlimited government spending, crazy pronouns, 72 different genders, abortion expansion and a host of other cultural shifts that were going to transform society as we know it.
How lucky we were that Biden and Harris were the leaders who needed to be defeated.
By the time the dust settled from the November election, pundits on both sides of the political aisle knew that the Democrat Party had committed a huge mistake with its choice of leaders.
Maybe I am missing what really went on here. Perhaps it was the far left who viewed the result of the 2020 presidential election as their Sputnik moment.
They wanted to change American society and were on their way after eight years of a Obama presidency from 2008 to 2016. Then they were shocked when Hillary Clinton was beaten by Trump in 2016.
When they got the presidency back by electing Joe Biden in 2020, it gave them the opportunity to pull out all stops in changing our society, so they launched all these crazy ideas.
Thank God the people of America saw through this silliness and voted against Harris in 2024.
The irony of that 2020 Biden election was that he was marketed as the safe bet — as the unifier. Certainly no one thought he was going to be a change agent.
Obviously, his handlers knew what they wanted as they quickly put into place climate change rules, transgender laws, DEI, racism claims and other crazy notions immediately after he took office.
Times Of Great Change
I have lived long enough to see many of these Sputnik moments.
• When President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
• The end of the Vietnam War in the late 1975.
• When the terrorists toppled the World Trade Center in 2001.
These were times when a country’s citizens looked at themselves in a mirror and realized that change was necessary.
The next four years will celebrate the return to sanity.
