I THINK I WOULD GO WITH THE ALPHA MALE

I saw an interesting item last week. A publication known as The Hollywood Reporter published a piece celebrating the rise of the “Beta Male”. The item was accompanied by pictures of several very feminine looking men with their hands in each other’s pockets. I have no idea what that was all about, but the point of the piece was that masculinity is passé and “metro-sexual” types are taking over. No more aggressive war-like men. From now on everybody will just get along. And we’ll all be “drinking free bubble up and eating rainbow stew.” I’m not making this up.

That got me thinking. President Trump is about to sit down with the dictator of North Korea and negotiate an end of that little country’s nuclear power. The goal of this meeting will be the complete denuclearization of the entire Korean peninsula. Why do you suppose little Kim decided to have a sit down with Trump? Is it because he thought Trump was a weak beta male? Or maybe he got the picture that if he didn’t, his entire country would be turned into radioactive rubble.

I recall the time when a particular alpha male, Ronald Reagan, was elected President. For 444 days before his election Iran had held as hostages 66 members of our consulate in Tehran. Reagan’s inauguration was January 20, 1981 and on that day the hostages were released. All the time they were held, beta male President Jimmy Carter tried to gain their release. He negotiated, begged, pleaded, and even tried a military rescue attempt. Nothing worked. But, on the day of Reagan’s inauguration they were released. Now, why do you suppose that happened? Do you think maybe Iran thought they would get a better deal from Reagan if they just gave us back our citizens? Or do you think maybe if they didn’t, they might be looking down the barrel of weaponry the likes of which the world had never seen? Seems pretty clear to me.

When President Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, do you suppose he did so because Reagan was a “beta male”? I think Gorbachev looked into his crystal ball and saw the complete annihilation of several of his cities and thought better of the whole wall thing. Let’s face it. The world respects power and strength and nothing else.

If you had to get into a foxhole, who would you rather have in there with you, John Wayne or Johnny Depp? If you had to get into that same foxhole and had a choice of Donald Trump or Barack Obama, who would you choose?

These scenarios offer a clear choice between alpha and beta males. Personally, I think I would go with the alpha male. How about you?

None of us know how these meetings with North Korea will turn out, but at least we are giving that little punk an opportunity to survive. He either sees the light or he will surely see the darkness.

Last week President Trump announced tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The main stream media had a fit. Many, some in his own party, screamed that he will just upset our trading partners. Maybe, just maybe, our trading partners will see the same light and come to the understanding that we will no longer be their floor mat. There is a new sheriff in town and he’s an alpha male whether liberal types like it or not. And like I said earlier, personally I think I will go with the alpha male.

Ron Scarbro