IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN

By now everybody has heard the Democrat’s platform for the coming Presidential Election. When you brush all the colorful language out of it, their message is clear. America is not good enough for us anymore and must be changed. Personal responsibility can’t be tolerated. Free enterprise is so yesterday. Working and earning your living just doesn’t cut it anymore. Free choice of your medical care is just not possible and somebody else should have to pay for it. Oh, and that Constitution you think so highly of, well it has to be rewritten and updated to include today’s issues. And those ugly borders that surround America have to be disposed of. They are just keeping too many people out who want to live here and participate in the good fortune we have all enjoyed for so many years. 

Paying for this new America is not a problem. We are just going to take all the money we need away from those people who have worked all their lives to earn it. Not only will we take their incomes, we will also confiscate their wealth. If they own vast acreage where they produce food for the rest of us, we will just take it away and break up their enterprise and share it with all those who haven’t been so fortunate. America has just had it too good for too long and we Democrats are going to fix that.

What the Democrats are proposing for this country is totally changing our way of life. Totally changing our form of government. Instituting socialism as the replacement for capitalism. 

They are not kidding. They are serious. And the real problem is that some of them actually believe in what they are selling. Even more frightening is that some citizens in this country would vote for this crap.

I hope you’re as unimpressed as I am by this nonsense. I intend to take this opportunity to tell you and any Democrat who might happen upon this writing, the real truth. 

As President Trump recently announced, “America will never be a socialist country.” Socialism hasn’t worked in Europe, or Venezuela, Cuba, or anywhere it has been tried for obvious reasons. For socialism to even be instituted, there must first be the confiscation of all guns. An armed citizenry would never allow socialism. Well, no one is going to get my guns and I’m pretty sure I am not alone in my thinking. 

I stand on the authority of the Second Amendment to our Constitution. Gun confiscation is never going to happen. That amendment guarantees to you and to me the absolute right to bear arms. The amendment was originally written to guarantee citizens the right to protect themselves from all evils including their own government. Our Founding Fathers escaped from governments who didn’t allow free thinking or free expression. The idea that one could use weaponry to protect themselves from an oppressive government was essential to the formulation of a new government.

You may remember the infamous Japanese Admiral, Isoroku Yamamoto, who is credited with the statement back in WWII that an attack on America was impossible because there was a gun behind every blade of grass. Well it was true then and it is even truer today because the gun numbers have dramatically increased. Are you paying attention Democrats? Your master plan to take over this country with socialism ain’t gonna happen.

In the final analysis America doesn’t need to be fundamentally changed. What we need is a rededication to the principles that created this great country. We need politicians to quit pandering to get votes. Quit raiding the treasury of this country to fund giveaways. We, the people, are self-reliant, freedom loving citizens of the greatest country on earth and we are not going to give it away. Are you listening Democrats? It ain’t gonna happen.

Ron Scarbro