Anyone who has watched or read quotes from the Democratic Debates can be in little doubt as to what will happen to this country should one of them win the 2020 election.  Not one of these is the kind of Democrat that JFK was, or Tip O’Neill who was able to negotiate deals with President Reagan for the good of the country.  No, these candidates have all abonded the traditional Democratic Party for the socialistic ideas of the far left. All of the candidates are pro-choice, which really means pro-abortion.  All of the candidates support the Green New Deal of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  All Democrats promise to repeal the Tax Cut and Jobs Act which they claim helps the wealthy and hurts the average citizen. Beto O’Rourke promised to seize our guns despite the 2nd amendment and was seconded by Kamala Harris. All of the front runners support some sort of government-run healthcare despite the abysmal and scandalous job the Veteran’s Administration has done trying to provide healthcare for only our veterans.  From there the freebies multiply:  free college, free day care, free housing, free healthcare, forgiveness of college loans, amnesty for illegal aliens, open borders, reparations for descendants of former slaves or, as some suggest, reparations for all blacks for the struggles they have faced in a white majority society. And then, a guaranteed salary for every American, whether they work or not.

This indeed is a load of goodies designed to entice every American to cast their vote for a Democratic president.  But what are the realities behind these promises?  Not very good ones for the average American!  The pro-abortion stance, coupled with the left’s promotion of same sex marriage and transgenderism will mean more Christian groups being forced to participate in same sex weddings or face horrendous fines or even jail sentences.  Any man who claims that he self-identifies as a woman will be able to use the women’s bathrooms, and, if Joe Biden gets his way, former rapists who now self-identify as women will be housed in women’s prisons.  That has already happened in Great Britain where a rapist and murderer committed several rapes within the walls of a women’s prison after claiming he was transgendering to a woman. And can pedophilia be far behind?  One college already has had a class discussion as to whether sex between an adult and a “consenting” child isn’t just another sexual choice like homosexuality. There will be no end to this.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, now espoused by all Democratic presidential candidates, would not only cost the country trillions of dollars, it would literally return us to the 1800s.  We would no longer be allowed to fly since commercial airplanes send too much CO2 into the atmosphere.  Only the elite would fly their private jets.  The rest of us, even businessmen and women, would cross the country by the new, electric trains (as soon as they and their tracks are built). To go from New York City to San Francisco currently takes 6 hours and 20 minutes by plane.  By a fast train, like the French TGV,  which hits speeds of over 200 miles per hour, it takes nearly 4 hours to go from Paris, France to Lausanne, Switzerland, a distance of 337 miles.  The same trip by plane takes 1 hour 10 minutes.  Why the difference?  Because even a high speed train has to slow down for cities and towns and can only hit higher speeds in unpopulated areas.  So how long will it take for a high speed train to go the 2,902 miles from New York to San Francisco?  Using the Paris-Lausanne calculations, nearly 35 hours! Almost a day and a half.

Then we have the problem of electricity.  The Democratic candidates promise to stop fracking, which has made the U.S. energy independent for the first time in its history, and to shut down the coal industry.  Nuclear energy is a no-no for them, also.  That leaves us with solar panels and wind turbines which take up thousands upon thousands of acres of wildlife habitat and tillable ground.  The United States has lost about a third of its bird population, attributed mostly to solar panels and wind turbines.  Yahoo reported in 2014 that wind turbines alone kill on average 573,000 birds per year  and cause health issues in humans living close to them.  Solar panels literally incinerate any bird that flies over them, and the Ivanpah solar farm in California alone burns up 28,380 birds each year.  How is it environmentally okay to kill off the bird population in order to reduce the warming of the earth by maybe 1 degree in the next 100 years?  In addition, countries like China and India are continuing to build coal plants, plants which do not produce the low levels of CO2 that ours produce.  So will our extermination of birds and the resultant increase in insect pests really achieve any good at all?  It will not.  In addition, remember the electric trains?  Well, wind and solar electrical sources are intermittent sources.  The wind doesn’t always blow.  The sun doesn’t always shine. Some areas of the country seldom see the sun in winter for days or weeks on end.  Democratic presidential hopefuls have embraced an untenable plan that will only result in blackouts and greyouts, restrictions on temperature settings in the winter, the elimination of air-conditioning, and the deaths of Americans from heat and cold.  A return to the past.  The Grey New Deal!

Cows are also a problem, since they fart methane gas, another cause, the left tells us, of harm to the earth.  So, steaks and hamburgers will no longer be available to us and we will all have to drink almond milk.  The species of cows will go the way of the birds.  Does anyone see the irony here?  If not, here is more for you.  The presidential hopefuls from the Democratic party all gathered in Iowa. . . to grill steaks and hamburgers!  Some of them, like Mayor Pete of Indiana, no doubt arrived in their private jets.  

We will all need to trade in our current cars for electric cars, whose batteries, like the solar panels and wind turbines, require lots of unsustainable rare minerals to build. Those of us who can’t afford the electric cars will be walking or cycling to the store to buy our chicken (until someone finds out that chickens also fart methane!). 

 But electric cars have other problems as well. They have to  be charged.  A town in California proudly bought a Tesla patrol car. This move certainly looked good to the leftists, but alas, the patrolman driving the car was involved in a high speed chase when suddenly — his battery ran out!  He had to call for reinforcements and no doubt the laughing criminal was long gone by the time they arrived.   

In addition to the  problems of batteries losing their charge, other problems will face us in this “new America.” Electric prices will skyrocket, and as the scarce electricity is rationed, we will be reduced to lanterns and candles at night. Heat will be a winter problem when the intermittent supply gives out since gas fireplaces and wood burning fireplaces both produce (gasp!) CO2 and will no doubt be banned.  We will have nothing but blankets and each to keep from freezing to death in the Minnesota blizzards and when the Nor’easters hit the east coast.  But hey, according to Bernie Sanders, there are too many of us already for the country to sustain so we should stop having children.  Losing a few thousand to the cold in the winter will  be a step in the right direction! Given this outlook, I find it illogical that he would support open borders that would let millions of non-Americans to waltz into our country at will, further straining what he sees as limited natural resources.  But then, who said Democrats are logical.

I have only touched on the problems of the Green New Deal, but as all Democratic presidential hopefuls promise to close down oil and coal industries, we have the problem of our pocket books as well.  Thousands upon thousands will be out of work –those who now work in fracking or other oil companies, those who work in the coal industry, those who work in the airline industry. In addition, the $1650 that the average American family got to keep through the Tax Cut bill will be immediately gone as the Tax Cut bill is repealed. New regulations will again stifle business as will high taxes on those “evil” corporations, and the steady increase in wages will disappear and unemployment will skyrocket. We will be truly plunged into another recessions.

 In addition, since free everything isn’t really free – someone has to pay for it—the cost of those trillions in expenditures will eventually come out of your pocket.  There are not enough wealthy to rob in order to cover the cost of those giveaways and many of those wealthy may simply leave the country in order to avoid being fleeced by the Democrats.  Don’t be fooled.  You, the average taxpayer, the average worker will pay for healthcare for illegals, college for the entitled, debts that foolish students have amassed by attending costly schools instead of state universities, and even that monthly salary for the able-bodied man or woman who would rather watch soaps all day than work. 

Then, of course, we will be taxed for reparations to all blacks, regardless of whether their ancestors were American slaves or not.  The inequities here are multitudinous:  How is it fair to punish someone for what their ancestor, several generations ago may have done?  According to the 1860 census, only 7.4% of all American families owned slaves.  The percentage in the South, naturally was much higher, around a fourth, but how is it fair to demand payment from 100% of white families for something that only 7.4% of SOME of their ancestors did?  Between 1880 and 1920 alone, 20 million European immigrants arrived in the U.S.  None of those immigrants’ ancestors or the legal immigrants who have arrived since then owned black slaves. Is it fair to demand payment from their descendants? 

And what of the Native Americans who held both black and white slaves?  Will they need to pay reparations to the blacks and also to white Americans?  And then we have the seldom mentioned 3,000 or so free blacks in the South who among them owned about 20,000 black slaves.  Will descendants of those black slave owners be tracked down and forced to pay reparations to the descendants of the slaves that they owned, or will they instead be rewarded with reparations from the whites who had nothing to do with slavery at all?  One bi-racial columnist wondered if the white part of him would have to pay reparations to the black part of him.  And if we are going this far, why not pay reparations to every surviving descendant of any Native American tribe for the theft of the lands on which they lived and hunted?  Will that be next?  It may well be if we elect a Democrat for president in 2020.

The most frightful aspect of the Democratic hopefuls is that they have all espoused socialism, which is in effect what their free things entail.  If the government provides it rather than you working for it yourself, that is socialism. But the young of our country, well trained in the benefits of free stuff, will find nothing wrong with socialism — until they actually have to live under its restrictions.  The return of massive regulations as we had under President Obama to govern every part of our lives along with the “necessary” restrictions on meat and milk consumption and the rationed electricity, these are all in our future if a Democrat becomes president in 2020.

Think it can’t happen?  Think I am a doomsday prophet? No doubt that would have been the reaction of most Venezuelans when socialist Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998.  They were the richest country in South America with huge oil reserves to keep them rich and enjoying the good life.  But Chavez started them down the socialist road to poverty and now, only 20 years later, Venezuelans are digging through the trash and killing zoo animals for food to keep from starving. Those who don’t starve to death are murdered for daring to speak out against the government, just as those who speak against the leftist agenda in the U.S. are silenced now through intimidation, loss of business, or physical harm.  

If things are bad now, when the left-controlled Democratic Party is out of power, what will it be like if they are in control?  What will happen to your constitutional right to free speech then?  To your right to bear arms? To your right to freely practice your religion, one of the basic reasons that many fled to the American shores to colonize it in the first place.  Socialism never ends well. Never! And no one who has every lived under socialism wants to live under it again. It has brought about the death of countless millions in Russia, in China, in Cambodia, in North Korea, in Cuba, in Eastern Block countries like East Germany during the Cold war, and in Venezuela..  Let’s pray that millions of Americans are not added to that number!