CAN WE KEEP IT?

I am looking forward to Wednesday. That will be the day after the runoff election here in Georgia to determine the balance of power in the Senate. It is hard to believe how much money has been spent on ads, phone calls, and mailings. Most Georgians are sick of all of it. I certainly am.

 

If the Democrats win these two seats, they will secure an advantage because the Vice President votes in the event of a tie. Harris, like most Dems, will do as she is told. Schumer has already said that if they take Georgia, they plan to change this country completely. From what I have seen and heard, it won't be pretty. 

 

Well, there is good news. If they do as they have warned, it will not last long. Sane people all over the world know socialism doesn't work. It never has and it never will. At best they will have two years until the next election where the people can unwind the mess.

 

Well, it is now Wednesday morning and some things are quite clear. The Democrats have won at least one seat and they lead in the other. Georgia has been a red state for as long as I can remember but that seems to be changing. Must be a lot of yankees moving down here.

 

Another matter is also clear. Money talks and quite loudly for sure. Millions were sent to Georgia to buy the votes. Most of that money came from Silicon Valley. It has been impossible to turn on the television without seeing ad after ad pushing these candidates. My mailbox has been stuffed with slick mailers in an attempt to try to affect the vote.

 

And, speaking of money, the Democrat candidates virtually guaranteed $2000 checks to everyone if they were elected. Schumer parroted that idea. Majority Leader McConnell pretty much gave the race to the Dems by refusing to go forward with those same $2000 checks for Covid relief. President Trump rightfully said that McConnell was committing suicide by refusing to offer the plan for a vote. Turns out that's exactly what happened.

 

So, where do we go from here? Will we become a socialist state? Has everything we have worked and sacrificed for been destroyed? Ben Franklin famously said we have a Republic, if we can keep it. Now I ask, can we keep it? 

 

Last evening I was having a discussion/debate with my son-in-law about the future of this country. He believes our guns will be confiscated and the military will be responsible for that confiscation. My position is that there is no way the gun owners of this country will allow this. Also, the military would not follow any such order. We all should remember this country was born out of revolution. If there was ever an effort to take our guns away, there would be another serious revolt.

 

Here is the reality. Our country is split now between the producers and the dependents. The Republicans are the producers. If they don't produce, the dependents don't eat. That's not going to change just because of some politician or some media organized attempt to subvert our Constitution. 

 

The next few months are going to be interesting to say the least, but we will not turn our country over to slug politicians. We have a vaccine for the virus, and we have an upcoming election to cure socialism. Get your shot and be sure to vote.

 

Ron Scarbro January 5, 2021