This election, like previous elections, would seem to be a choice between Democrat candidate former vice-president Joe Biden and Republican candidate President Donald Trump.  But do not be deceived.  This election, even more than that of 2016, is a choice between a free America and an America enslaved. If that seems to be too farfetched a comment to be believed, then let us look at what each Party, and by extension, each candidate stands for.

  1. Democrats will not protect you or your property. There is no law but that which advances their agenda and no order but what they call order.

Democrat mayors of Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and countless other cities have stood idly by while hordes of “mostly peaceful” protestors have burned down their city centers and looted the stores, maimed and murdered both police and other citizens trying to protect property, blinded police and federal officers with lasers, thrown everything at federal officers protecting federal property from fireworks, to lit cups of kerosene, to acid, to rocks and bricks, and most recently to homemade bombs (IEDs such as the ones that the Taliban and ISIS used to maim and kill our soldiers in Afghanistan).  Democrat mayors and democrat-run city councils have voted to defund the police, taking money that would buy them non-lethal protection (such as tear gas and pepper spray) and protective gear or better training. Democrat Party leaders and their mainstream media ignore the violence and continue to refer to the “mostly peaceful demonstrations” which are anything but, and instead rail against the President when he offers federal help or sends more federal agents in to protect federal property which is, after all, his and their job. No mention and certainly no condemnation of the rioting, the burning, and the looting were made by a single speaker at the Democrat National Convention. 

Republicans believe in law and order.  

Republicans wish to have a well-trained police force to answer calls, catch criminals, protect property, and above all, protect the lives of innocents like the 2-year-old black child killed by Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs during a “protest.”  Republicans do not countenance the looting and burning of stores, nor would they release without charge those arrested for committing these crimes as the Democrats have repeatedly done.  Republicans will see that Americans of all colors are protected and their property kept safe.  Democrats have no intention of doing that, not even black Democrat mayors such as Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago who seems unmoved by the 1,676 shooting victims so far this year, 373 of whom died.  14 of the victims were shot leaving a funeral. Republicans find these numbers staggering and unacceptable.  They have plans to stop the deaths. Democrats do not.  What does dismay Mayor Lightfoot is the President’s offer to send federal officers to help her stop the carnage. She has no need of help.  All is under control!

2.Democrats will destroy your freedom of  speech.

We are already  seeing the  “cancel culture” which goes  after anyone who makes a statement that while true, is contrary to the  acceptable far left agenda.  For example, saying “All lives matter,” which should be a non-refutable statement of fact, will get you excoriated  on social  media, cost you  your job, and might  even get you killed.  Wearing a “MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat is now racist, since the left has deemed that America, the greatest, most free country in the world to which everyone wishes  to come, is neither great, nor has it ever been great.  Conservative videos are being taken down from YouTube.   Conservative tweets are removed from twitter and their authors’ accounts shut down, Google has erased conservative sites from their search engine so that if you google “climate change” you will find only articles telling you how  close  we are to disaster because of all the fossil fuels man is burning.  The myriads  of articles by thousands upon thousands of dissenting climatologists and scientists just don’t appear any more.  The mainstream media only show clips of President Trump’s speeches, carefully editing them to place  him in a bad light.  They also regularly flat out lie and only occasionally retract the lie when the proof  is put before them.  If you don’t listen  to talk radio or read conservative news and commentary  online, you do not know what  is really going on.  With Democrats controlling the presidency and congress, there  will be no one to pass laws requiring free speech   even  on  social media and other internet platforms.  We, like the beleaguered people of Communist North Korea, with never know the truth of what is going on.

Republicans believe in free speech.  

We may be offended by the profanity and hatefulness of some of the comments of the left, but we accept that in a  free society, free speech even when offensive, must be protected.  Otherwise, soon no speech will be protected and we will become a silent nation of fearful slaves.

3.Fracking and coal mines will be shut down at the cost of millions of jobs over the next five years.

By some estimates, this will also raise your fuel costs by double or triple what they  are now.  We may be required by law to retrofit our houses with solar panels of our own, at a tremendous cost to us.  Although, since politicians have no thought for the national debt which is in the trillions of dollars and growing by leaps and bounds already, perhaps the government will pay for a small  part of fixing our houses. The switch to all wind and solar power will  destroy millions of acres of farmland, filling them  with unsightly wind turbines which cause health problems in people living near them, and equally unsightly solar panels, both of which are killing off the birds in the U.S. already.  Birds pollinate plants and eat insects which destroy  crops and to lose more of them will be an ecological disaster.  Democrats will tell you that wind turbines, battery-powered cars, and solar panels are all sources of sustainable fuel, but they are lying. The wind does not blow all of the time nor does the sun shine every day.  Large cities will  no doubt see brownouts and maybe even blackouts as sufficient power will not be consistently available for all the lights, computers, appliances and air conditioners.  In addition, the car batteries, the wind turbines, and the solar panels are constructed with rare earth elements which will eventually run out.  In addition, most of them come from China, a nation that is not our friend, because the left’s extreme restrictions on mining which they have managed to put into place do not allow us to mine those elements in the U.S.

Republicans believe in using our natural resources for the benefit of Americans.            

Under President Trump, not only did the U.S. become energy independent for the first time in  decades because of fracking, but we also became an energy exporter, allowing our European allies to buy fuel from us rather than being held hostage to the whims of Putin because of their dependence on Russian oil. While our gas prices will never go back to what they were fifty years ago, they remain far below what Europeans pay for their gasoline.

4.  Democrats will change the number of justices on the Supreme Court in order to “pack” the court with left-leaning jurists who will dispense decisions based upon their political beliefs rather than upon the reading of the Constitution.  

This is how free speech will disappear officially.  “Hate speech”  will be exempted from the first amendment and Democrats will decide what is hate speech (anything that they disagree with).Thus, no conservative idea or constitutionally protected right will be preserved.  Reasons will be found to silence Fox News and News Max, and internet providers will continue to gradually eliminate conservative sites from their search engines.  The only news available will soon become the government’s news.  We will have become an authoritarian country.

Republicans  believe judges should follow the law and the Constitution.

President Trump has appointed countless federal judges and two Supreme Court Justices, all of whom follow the intent of the Constitution in their decisions.  Under his Republican administration, first and second amendment rights, specifically the right to practice religion and the right to bear arms, have been and will continue to be, protected.  Perhaps with a Republican Congress, a law might even be passed to forbid companies from firing or otherwise punishing employees for their political beliefs or comments.  This will certainly NEVER happen under a Biden administration!

The rest of my arguments will be discussed in part II of this blog.