An Appeal for the Mutual Defense of Our Inherited Freedom
Gerry Godfrey, Marydel, August 15, 2024
Many of you find yourself in an uncomfortable position. The standard bearers of the party you traditionally vote for have been selected by party powerbrokers without and against your input in a primary election. Others are unaccustomed to voting at all in national elections. The reasons are many: theology; betrayed trust; avoiding untimely jury obligations; or simply the feeling that your vote does not matter.
This 2024 national election is of profound impact. Due to the polarization of the parties, we are at a fork in the road. This is not simply a lane change on the American highway. The Democrat party is no longer the party of JFK or Scoop Jackson. It is the party of the “Squad,” marked by rioting, overspending, socialism, and support for the massacre of Israelis last October.
Republicans have contributed to the mess we have now by compromising on the excessive growth of government regulation and spending, when a firm no was the correct answer. We now have a government so large that young adults need multiple jobs to bear the load. They put off marriage, childrearing, buying a home or starting a business. It is wrong. It is time to stop and reverse this march to Socialism.
The limited government proposed by the founders of our Constitution, and by William Buckley, Ronald Regan, and Donald Trump must be supported this November if we are to remain free.
Many of us saw the horrible things done to their own people by the Soviet Union and Mainland China, They had bread lines that made COVID shelves look like a cornucopia. Yet we have also seen Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung t-shirts worn in the White House by Democrat leaders. It is time to change direction.
Look at our Bill of Rights, a codified list of protected God given rights. Rightward leaning online speech was censored at the behest of leftist government officials. Grandmothers have been jailed for praying. Firearms purchases are denied. Our money is deliberately devalued through inflation. People are jailed, uncharged and untried, held as political prisoners. FISA courts have been defrauded by the Justice Department. Trials are brought after the statute of limitations has expired. The commerce clause is used to justify any Federal government overreach. Worst of all, equal treatment under the Law has been abandoned as the Justice Department and other Cabinet powers have been weaponized against political enemies.
The forces for freedom and constitutionally limited government find themselves fighting against an unholy alliance of the traditional press, Ivy League schools, even many land grant universities, entrenched bureaucracies wanting to maintain their power, teachers unions indoctrinating our children, and a judiciary that condones government excess.
The presumptive Democrat Vice President nominee said, “One man’s Socialism is another’s neighborliness.” This statement should trouble all freedom loving Americans. Socialism, communism, collectivism, progressivism; These are all systems that deny freedom, establish a ruling elite, push those in the middle toward poverty, and tell those in poverty that neither they nor their children will climb the ladder of success. They will tell you your rights come from their benevolent government, not from God. We must restore respect for freedom, our posterity deserves nothing less.