Time to Stand Up, Pick Your Side, and Speak Up

It is becoming fully apparent that the Democrats won’t rest until they have not only destroyed President Trump but have completely torn the Country apart as well.

We know why they have this need to destroy the President:  First, he won the election which they were “supposed to” win in 2016.  Now they are concerned that with his many promises kept, the booming economy, improved standing in the world, etc., that they will not be able to beat him in 2020, so they must destroy him one way or another before then.  And, of course, they just don’t like him – he is not like them, he is real, he says what he thinks, rather than play political games he’d rather just get things done.  His successes prove how ineffective the Democrats have been and how little they really care about the American people and their country.

So, the Democrats are willing to tear the country apart, destroy it perhaps beyond repair, just to regain their power and finish off the man whom they irrationally hate.

They are already well on their way to success.  The most obvious display of their irrationality is in their continuing obsession with the Mueller report.  They refuse to give up on their debunked Russia collusion story.  They defy well established law as they hold the Attorney General in contempt for following laws that prohibit the release of confidential grand jury testimony.   They would hold hearings after hearings after hearings for no legitimate purpose while the real business of the country, the business they were elected to attend to, goes unattended and ignored.

But there is more.  They have put the Constitution itself under attack.  They find several ways to silence those whose views do not agree with their own.  Conservative speakers are often excluded from a variety of events; those who support the President are shamed and attacked, both verbally and physically; those who serve the president are the subject of not only verbal and sometimes physical assault, but also of every possible legal assault as well.  Lawsuit upon lawsuit upon lawsuit is filed for any action with which the Democrats do not concur – no matter that it reflects the will of the people, thus slowing down action after action that would benefit this Country and its people.  Political correctness silences views and opinions that are not those which the Democrats approve – no matter that those opinions or observations may be necessary to have a full and objective discussion of an issue. 

Like little angry children who can’t accept compromise, the Democrats in essence keep yelling “It’s my way or the highway!”  They cannot accept the will of the people when it isn’t what they want.  This is not what our Constitution envisions; it is not the way our Democratic Republic works!

Democrats are trying to change the way our president is elected.  The loss of the electoral college would put far more power in the Democratic strongholds – large cities and liberal coastal states – leaving those in fly-over country with no real reason to even cast a vote. 

Their lack of understanding of the Constitution is startling at times.  Nancy Pelosi recently stated that Congress is the “superior branch” of government when she should know that all 3 branches are equal.  Democrats, in their goal to eliminate guns, compare them to cars which are licensed, ignoring the fact that while there is a Constitutional right to bear arms, there is no constitutional right to own or drive a car. 

Democrats have lost respect for the protections that our Constitution provides against unreasonable search and seizure.  They disregard such concepts as “innocent until proven guilty.”  Rather, if they approve a narrative that proclaims someone guilty, they will ignore any and all evidence to the contrary.  The Constitution strives to treat all citizens equally; the Democrats would divide us based on a variety of identity characteristics as they pick favorites and those whom they condemn in their continuing games of identity politics.

In the same vein, the Democrats have forgotten that the Constitution protects our right to hold our own beliefs and be free to exercise them.  We hear anti-Christian and anti-Semetic sentiments, as well as anti-white and anti-other disfavored identity groups daily from the mouths of Democrats who should know better.  And, they further seek to rewrite history, eliminating what they don’t like, eliminating unpleasant aspects that we may not be proud of but from which we learned and evolved.  That is, they would eliminate part of what in the end makes us great.  And, what they do not seek to eliminate, they would rewrite to serve their own ends.

I do not mean to imply that Constitutional rights cannot be limited; they can when there is a compelling need to do so, but such restrictions are as narrow as possible.  The Constitution is the core of our Country.  It gives us our representative form of Democracy which allows every citizen to have a voice and in so doing protects us from mob rule of a pure Democracy or State control by a Socialist or Communistic structure.  The Democrats seemingly do not want us to have that protection. 

The Democrats are not going to give up in this war that they are waging on the President, our Country, and our way of life.  No one can stand on the side any longer.

I am reminded of the words of Pastor Niemoller, regarding his failure to speak up in Nazi Germany.  Beginning with the Jews he lists several groups that were subsequently and incremental purged, group after group. After stating each group, he confesses he did not speak up because he was not one of them.  The statement ends with the words “Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

We are all in the shoes of Pastor Niemoller in the face of the Democrats.  Don’t let their double-speak and projections of their behavior onto that of their enemy fool you.  It is not Donald Trump or the Republicans who would destroy the Constitution and our Country; it is the Democrats who are doing so even as I write, and you read this.

A time comes when one must choose sides.  If not now, that time is fast approaching.  In choosing one must not be swayed by what is popular or pretty or immediately gratifying.  One must truly understand with whom they are choosing to stand and what their victory would mean, not just in the short term, but in the long view of the individual, our Constitution, our Country, and our way of life.

This is serious business.  And it demands a serious review of who we are and what our Nation stands for, and what will be lost if we do not stop the Democrats’ march to destroy it all.  The Democrats would prefer that no one take notice, that like blind sheep we ignore the wolf they have become in our midst.  Those who choose to do that, to simply sit back and assume all will be fine, must consider that when they have lost all that was, there will be no one left to speak for them.

The Mueller Report and the Barr Summary

This is an example for America.  This is how the rule of law, not the rule of political angst or mob rule work.  This is the culmination of a very thorough investigation with decisions based on law, not emotion.  And now, for those who are bemoaning that the objective law did not satisfy their grief, it is time to grow up.

Here are some further thoughts.

The Democrats Show Their True Colors

Two years ago the Democrats were not able to face the fact that they lost the election.  Rather than try to understand what it was about Donald Trump and his policies that appeals to much of America, rather than examine their own policies to see what they were lacking, the Democrats simply chose to assume they were right, that they should have won, and that the only way they could have lost was if the other side had cheated.  (No space here to go into the psychological concepts about seeing others through one’s own eyes, assuming they behave like you, and how the Democrats generally and Hillary in particular seemed to approach rules and law as something to get around and perhaps even cheat against)

So, rather than accept defeat and work with the new president for the good of the country, the Democrats spent their time focused on finding ways to remove President Trump from office: fake dossier, lies to FISA court, lies to the public, and 25 million of tax payer money on an investigation that realistically all knew would not find collusion and without collusion could not find obstruction.  (That is, all who were not completely deluded by jealousy or hate or what has come to be know as Trump Derangement Syndrome)

The Democrats have shown us that they care not at all for our country or our laws or our constitution or our people.  They have made it perfectly clear with their monomaniacal focus on destroying Trump that all they care about is themselves and their own power.

Beyond that, their followers have shown us how ignorant they are of the law and how our country works.  They have been content to scream for what they want without evidence but with the passion of a mob.  The main stream media has joined in as each anti-Trump network and reporter sought to outdo the others with excessive opinion couched in the guise of reportable news.

And the Democrats are still angry.  Any American should be overjoyed that the duly elected president did not collude with a foreign power to sway the election.  They should understand that under the law the Attorney General properly made a decision about obstruction.  Yet, many Democrats are voicing their anger that our president was not found guilty.  And so, the report that they have touted as thorough and objective they now dismiss as incomplete or biased.  They will continue their hate parade as they claw and grasp at anything they can in the hopes of destroying this president, a subject that is far more important to them than the country and people that they allegedly serve.

Yet Think What Could and Should Have Been

Just imagine if all these Trump haters had, instead of pursuing their own angst, decided to be Americans who care about their country.  We have some of the lowest unemployment figures ever.  We have made progress towards peace on the international stage.  The economy is growing.  Our country is thriving again, and all this despite the fact that the President and his administration has been under constant attack every hour of every day since he was elected.   Imagine the even greater accomplishments if the Democrats had not been focused on trying to prohibit any accomplishment for America and Americans that the current administration put forth.

Imagine if instead of constant focus on a bogus allegation brought forth based on partisan lies, that the media had chosen to focus on the many other important stories and had chosen to present them without the ever-present anti-Trump bias.  Imagine, for example, if we saw objective reporting about the border crisis and if the Democrats had realistically sought to address the problem, if not with a wall then with some other form of security that would protect the daily invasion of hundreds of illegals into our country. 

Imagine if the Democrats and their media had chosen to include in their news feeds many of this administration’s accomplishments, instead of focusing attacks daily on Trump’s character.  Imagine if they had chosen to present anything about Trump without at the same time throwing shade on even achievements that did nothing but good for our country.

Imagine if the Democrats had taken the time to listen and hear voices from the other side of the political debate instead of simply trying to condemn and silence them at every turn.  If, instead of spreading hatred and its cohort identity politics, that the Democrats, instead of trying to divide us at every turn, had chosen to follow the words of another President, Bill Clinton: “For any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as ONE America.”

In America, we follow rules.  We have elections.  When our candidate loses, we must face our defeat with joy that the system works, and we must all support those who have been elected by our fellow Americans.  The phrase “loyal opposition” includes two, not one word; with the opposition to a policy or position comes also the understanding and responsibility of loyalty to our country and its elected leaders, even those for whom we as individuals did not vote. 

Had the Democrats understood how this, our Democracy works, we would have had 2 years of even more good news for our country both domestically and abroad.  We would have had less anger and less hate.

What Next?

So now the Democrats can grow up and show us that they have finally learned how to maturely handle adversity, or they can continue in their childish quest to destroy the man who hurt them by winning an election. 

They can try to change the election process and eliminate the electoral college so that they will perhaps have their way next time (and will most certainly have an unfair mob rule rather than the representative government that makes our country great).  They can try to stack the Supreme Court with 15 or more justices hoping that someone will rule in their favor.  They can continue to challenge and demean every action and word of the President and his followers, they can block even those actions and words that would benefit America.  They can continue their investigatory witch hunts costing the country millions of dollars as well as essentially destroying our system of government and law. They can refuse to accept Mueller’s conclusions and that the Attorney General was fulfilling his obligation under the law in reviewing the report and concluding that the evidence did not support obstruction charges. That is, they can continue to act like jealous and spiteful children, not giving up when they get news they don’t like, then changing the goal posts and trying to find some other way to get what they want.

Or, the Democrats can just buck up and face reality.  They lost the election.  They had a man they respected until yesterday do a thorough prosecutorial investigation and find nothing supportive of the charges they sought.  They do not like the President.  He is the President.  He has done many good things for the country and for the people of the country.  Many people support his policies.  The Democrats can seek to temper some of what they don’t like by listening to the people of this country and by reaching across the aisle achieving something that used to be fairly common in the halls of Congress – compromise.

The media can and should take a time out from their anti-Trump reporting and do some self-examination.  They need to ask themselves if they are fulfilling their important role of informing the people of this democratic republic, or have they abandoned that important task to become entertainers and purveyors of propaganda?

Republicans must be careful not to gloat.  It is easy, having been under attack for two years while stating the obvious – that the investigation was a witch hunt – to gloat when proven right.  But, if the Democrats should finally stop their infantile behavior and investigations and decide to do the work of the country that they were elected to do, then the Republicans must reach out with open arms to accept this.  On the other hand, if the Democrats have learned nothing from these 2 years, if they seek to continue their campaign of hate, then every Republican should stand in opposition to what is nothing less than assaults upon our very democracy itself.

I hope that the Mueller report brings an ugly 2 years to a close and we can now move forward to other stories and issues that are far more important.  I hope that the Mueller report reminds people that in the end we are a country of laws and that if we expect to preserve all the wonders and benefits that this country has to offer that we must support that rule of law and live by it rather than emotion and political hate.  

Each and every one of us has the personal responsibility to support all that this great nation stands for.  We have allowed the disgruntled left to act out their angst for 2 years.  Now, all of us who truly care about America must say “It is time to move on, to move forward, to work always to make America great” and we must demand that our elected officials put their country and constituents before themselves and their own power.  With this commitment American will flourish.