I couldn’t sleep last night.
Granted, at 67, my sleeping habits are leaning toward the 4-6 hours a night routine, interspersed with numerous bathroom calls, but there was something else going on. I don’t recognize this country anymore.
I watch the news in the evening with my wife, and I just get totally discouraged. Rampant crime, unbelievable government overreach, inept leadership (alright, that may have happened before!) and a constant torrent of lies coming from the White House (Biden is truly leading the stats in this category, but he is a professional at it).
That’s not the main problem I have with the good ol’ USA. No, it’s the inability to have a public conversation and express differences any longer. The political divide is unbreachable today. Free speech is truly being destroyed, and it’s not because those MAGA Republicans are on the loose. It is clear to anyone who will open their eyes that Liberals have closed down the public debate on COVID-19, the ability of Biden to be rational, the sanctity of life, the binary reality of gender, and the validity of a conservative political party, to name a few topics.
I grew up in the 60s, and liberals at that time demanded free speech in the public forum and could have it. You could protest the Vietnam war - and I did; you could hate the military - and I didn’t (in fact, I joined in 1973). Yes, you were called names for holding these positions, but you weren’t excluded from the public debate. Whether your opinions were welcome or not, they were allowed - and they were important.
Is there a danger in closing the public forum on ideas? Of course. The greatest example today is whether COVID was properly handled, and whether the vaccines are safe or even warranted. There are very few social platforms that allow you to have an opinion other than the government narrative.
And yes, it is a government narrative, not a scientific one. All voices that held a different view of the “science” of COVID were utterly squashed. Thousands of doctors and plenty of scientists did not agree there was 1) a pandemic; 2) The vaccine was safe; and 3) that we needed to close society and destroy thousands of small businesses in the process.
In fact, the proof that COVID was a power grab is evidenced today by the fact that Biden says the pandemic is over one week and next week says it’s back on. In California, if you are a doctor and disagree with the narrative, you can have your medical license revoked. All this, despite the fact that we are daily receiving proof that the vaccines are harmful, that children don’t need them, that masks are useless in fighting a virus, and that the lock-downs are unnecessary.
What about the border? I’m not going to say the border is an issue that came up in 2020 with Joe Biden, but I am going to say that he has totally ignored the issue and exacerbated the problem more than any of his predecessors. Worse, he and his cabinet of professional liars continue to say in public that there is no problem; the border is secure.
Yes, it is securely OPEN. We are working on a record-breaking number of illegal immigrants in this year alone. Who is paying for all the freebies being given out? Where will they live? How will they afford medical treatment? Of course, government money from our taxes. Money the government doesn’t have and never will.
Inflation? It doesn’t exist. Ask Joe Biden. He’ll tell you.
The price of gas? Who cares. Joe Biden will hook everyone up with solar power. Just ask him.
Hunter Biden? No problem. He and the Big Guy are doing business as usual. But of course, that’s just tin hat conspiracy theory. All that stuff on the laptop was put there by the Russians. They even photo-shopped Hunter’s head in all those sordid sex and drug videos to make it look like he was participating. He wasn’t. Just ask Joe!
Let me finish this piece by saying November 8th is close at hand. If you are a conservative, you must pull every red lever in the booth. Not that Republicans have all the answers - they don’t. In fact, they have fought very little against Biden and his group of misfits. But they can at least slow down the transfer of our nation to Venezuela.
Biden needs to go. He and his entire “woke” team. Vote Republican. Now!!