WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?

I was listening to a TV preacher today who made this statement: isn’t it amazing what we put up with today that in the very recent past we would never have allowed?

What have we become? Several states have legalized the “recreational” use of marijuana. New York forbids any employer from drug testing in order to get a job. Several states are trying to legalize infanticide. Many, many states now recognize as legal the marriage of persons of the same sex. Sanctuary cities and counties abound. Some states even call themselves a sanctuary state. In many states and cities across the country men who choose to live as women can use the bathroom facilities of women. The same is true in some public schools. Young children choose which bathroom to use based on how they feel on a particular day. This thinking also allows them to participate in whatever team sports they want without regard to their gender, which also includes the use of the showers, by the way. Truly, what have we become?

The left would have you believe that this is all new “progressive” thinking. They want me to think that the traditions and values of our history are passé. They believe our Constitution is old news and needs to be updated to include the “feelings” of the progressives. They want to open our borders letting anyone from anywhere in at will. Some of the more radical among them want to do away with cattle, airplanes, and fossil fueled automobiles. Where do these morons come from?

Many on the left now want socialism to be their form of government. Most are not old enough to know what so-called socialism has caused in the past. They don’t know about the USSR, or Red China, or even Cuba. They seem to refuse to even consider what is happening to Venezuela.

Most have never experienced anything but peace and prosperity. They don’t realize that the life they are now living was purchased for them by the blood of patriots, the sweat and intelligence of entrepreneurs, and insured by the very laws our Constitution provides. The colleges and universities which forbid any speech contrary to their leftist views forget that their very existence is paid for by the same people they so detest.

These people who want to change my country into something unrecognizable to me and all freedom-loving people better hope I never get to become Emperor. I would change the thinking of so many of them.  

My first official act would be to reinstate the draft. Now I know the military doesn’t like this idea because even now the vast majority of youngsters in America would not qualify to serve based on intellectual and physical deficiencies. How sad is that? I remember when the draft hung over the lives of every young man in this country. It forced everybody to work harder in school. It forced people to obey the law for fear of being moved up the list. But it also served to make America the strongest country on earth.

Next, I would institute term limits on elected offices. Seniority would be a thing of the past. Committee Chairpersons would earn that title, not just qualify by being there the longest. Political contributions, also known as bribes, would be illegal and punishable by prison. Besides, term limits would take care of a lot of that influence peddling.  

This is in my first day in office. I would also require the execution of anyone who killed a first responder doing their duty, and it wouldn’t take twenty years of appeals to get it done.

The so-called “progressives” are probably shuttering at these words, so be it. They shouldn’t be surprised to learn that I am not alone in my thinking. Not to worry. I sincerely doubt any progressive would ever read anything like this blog. It might cause them to “feel” bad.

Ron Scarbro