In the United States we have lived smugly and naively in a “free” society, our freedoms protected by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. If we were Jewish, we freely attended our Synagogues. If we were Christians, our churches. If we were discriminated against because of our skin color or our religion, we had recourse through the courts. Criminals were arrested and imprisoned for lawbreaking and the innocent were judged not guilty by juries of their peers and released to live their lives. But such is no longer the case. Things are different now.
During the riots in the summer of 2020 in Democrat controlled cities, businesses were first looted and then set ablaze, people beaten and some killed, all to protest the death of a black criminal at the hands of a white police officer. Problem is, of course, that almost all of the businesses that were destroyed were owned or run by blacks or other minorities, not by whites. This was not a protest. It was an excuse for violence and theft. The few who were caught and arrested had their bail paid by Democrats, often by Democrat members of Congress including our now “vice president.” Things are different now.
In places in California, you won’t be bothered for shoplifting unless you walk out with over $950 worth of goods. It is only a misdemeanor unless you can be proven to be part of an organized shoplifting gang. So, individuals regularly help themselves. Stores do nothing, because the police have more important crimes to attend to than misdemeanors and usually won’t bother to come when stores call them. Things are different now.
Also, in California and elsewhere, criminals are often released from custody without bail pending trial. Sadly, some of them offend again during that time. Often, a D.A. will simply drop the charges as was the case when a police officer was assaulted by a young black man. No charges. Kid let go. Yet, one of the protestors at the January 6 Capitol Building was just sentenced to ten years in prison. The man, a retired New York police officer himself, was charged with having assaulted a Capitol Policeman. According to 18 US Code 111 “Whoever forcibly assaults [a federal officer] while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.” But a Democrat judge in D.C. gave him TEN YEARS! Assault a police officer, a Democrat D.A. lets you go if you are black. Be a Trump supporter, a former police officer yourself, who is accused of assaulting a police officer and you get 7 years beyond the maximum sentence provided by law! Things are different now.
During the pandemic, although it was almost totally unnecessary, churches, synagogues, and mosques as well as businesses were forced to close “to slow the spread of the virus.” We were forced into useless masks and told to stand or sit six feet apart, both of which the CDC along with numerous doctors have now admitted had absolutely no effect on the spread of COVID-19. Yet even today, many go about wearing flimsy paper masks, even outdoors, conditioned through fear by the government into doing something they would otherwise not choose to do.
Things are different now.
After 9/11, in our fear and shock at that devastating attack on American soil, we silently acquiesced to allowing Homeland Security to be formed to protect us from terrorism. Yet, while this organization quietly spies on American citizens, terrorists still have managed to commit 8 more attacks in which people died. Things are different now.
In the lead up to the 2012 election, nearly 500 Tea Party organizations had filed with the IRS for tax exempt status to allow them to campaign for the Republican candidate for the presidency. All of the applications were put on hold until after the election, effectively muting their voices. In 2017, in two separate court cases the IRS settled with the Tea Party groups and issued an official apology. Too little, too late because things are different now.
In 2016 Donald J. Trump beat Hillary Clinton and became the 45th president of the United States. Since then, the Democratic Party and the Democrat-leaning media has done everything they could to destroy President Trump, from the Russian/Collusion Hoax through two impeachments, one AFTER he had left office, a January 6 Tribunal that contains only Democrats and two Trump-hating Republicans as judges and allows no cross-examination of witnesses or presentation of a defense, to an unprecedented and appalling raid of President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago to retrieve documents that the DOJ had told him in a letter two months before the raid to keep indefinitely. But then, things are different now.
The FBI apparently told Facebook to censor “Russian propaganda” including the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election. Media outlets quoted “former intelligence officers” who had never seen the laptop as saying it was Russian disinformation, and the FBI who knew it was real and had had it in their possession for months kept silent. And many voted for Biden who would not have had they known of the implications of international corruption on that computer. So, the FBI interfered with a presidential election. Things are different now.
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter censor conservative voices. Conservative organizations and even President Trump are not welcome on these websites. Freedom of speech is also limited on college campuses where saying anything that might hurt someone’s feelings is considered “hate speech” even if it is true, and can lose a professor his/her job. Things are different now.
The Biden administration attempted to create its own “Ministry of Truth” but had to back off because of the horrendous negative reaction. However, they are working with the social media companies to tell them what they should not allow to be posted, which is, of course, anything that disagrees with Democrats’ policies. This is pure propaganda but then, things are different now.
An executive was just passed by the Democrats and without a single Republican vote, adding trillions of dollars to the deficit and costing at least a trillion to taxpayers, middle class wage earners. This order pays off up to $20,000 in college loans per individual to former students, almost all of whom are east and west coast elites and who will end up as doctors, lawyers, business CEOs making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But as they have not yet entered their profession, or are just starting out, a young married couple could have $40,000 worth of loans paid off by the teachers, plumbers, and factory workers in Indiana and Ohio so they can afford that vacation on Cape Cod next spring! The bill also provides for the hiring of 87,000 new ARMED IRS agents to collect those taxes from the teachers, plumbers and factory workers of the Midwest. So, IRS agents will carry guns to audits? Things are different now!
Parents became alarmed when they discovered that their children were being taught Critical Race Theory, which is a distorted view of American history, and provided with sexually explicit books in their classrooms and libraries. When they began protesting at school board meetings, the Attorney General called them “domestic terrorists” and sent the FBI out to spy on them. Things are different now.
The current sometime resident of the White House, Joe Biden, has called those who voted for Trump (who garnered more votes than any president running for a second term in the history of the United States, pulled countless down-ballot Republicans into office, and yet lost to the man who never left his basement to campaign?) semi-fascists, steeped in anger, lovers of chaos and violence, destroyers of Democracy, and a clear and present danger to the Republic. What president thus demonizes half of the electorate? No, more than half, because many moderate Democrats were sickened by his words and by the Nazi imagery of the blood red lighting and the Marines standing behind him. It could have been Hitler denouncing the Jews to the Germans, declaring open season on them, as Biden declared open season on “MAGA Republicans.” No American president has ever so maligned half of the country he purports to lead, but then, things are different now.
And what is a MAGA Republican? We are those who see the country sliding silently into socialism in the same manner as did Nazi Germany, bit by bit, lie by lie, slander by slander, hate speech by hate speech. We see the Democrats demeaning and segregating whites much as years ago they demeaned and segregated blacks. We see them dividing the country, turning neighbor against neighbor just as Hitler turned German neighbor against Jewish neighbor until all the woes of the country could be blamed upon them and the people were so riled up that they would countenance any violence against the Jews. Democrats so fear MAGA Republicans because we are for small government. We are for the people to have the power to make decisions, not some bureaucrat in Washington who has not been elected and is accountable to no one. We are for freedom of speech. So what if someone says something that hurts you? We are hurt a thousand times a day when Democrats hurl the words “homophobe, racist, white supremacist, fascist” at us. We are none of those things. But you Democrats don’t recognize them as hate speech because YOU are the one saying them! Get over it! Freedom is messy, but it is far better that living in chains!
We MAGA Republicans love America. We know she has had her faults, still has faults, but we also know she is the best country in the world and has citizens who can and will do whatever needs to be done to make things great again. We are for America first and we support the Constitution and our laws. And that frightens the Left. And the Left, the new Democrat Party, should frighten us, because they are destroying America before our eyes. They are attempting to subjugate a free people and they are well on the way to succeeding, little by little. Yes, things are different now. And only we can change things back! But not if we remain smugly naive and silent. VOTE!