“We the People.”
As the first three words of our Constitution, they became the basis for the greatest political experiment in the history of the world, and 235 years later, are unquestionably more important than ever. As we enter our third year with COVID-19, it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to believe the words of our politicians and those in the scientific community.
The politicization of this disease has left a lot of us with a burning desire for consistency concerning which rules and regulations to follow. More importantly, by politicizing COVID-19, it has become very easy for our leaders to delay the return to normalcy. I believe COVID-19 rules and regulations are based on the Democrats’ political ideology versus the true science of the disease and its real ramifications. One example is a national teachers’ union document that is said to have influenced COVID-19 guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When President Joe Biden gave his inaugural speech, he promised to unify this country. Sadly, his policies, actions and words, embraced and implemented by Cabinet secretaries and political appointees along with the news and social media, are taking us back to the turbulent ’60s. The chasm he is creating is based on a socialistic political philosophy embraced by some Democrats to fundamentally change and transform our society. Looking closely at the Build Back Better Act, the Green New Deal and the Democrats’ version of a voting rights act, I find they are based on huge government programs designed specifically to give big government more control of our lives versus relying on our individual abilities, aptitudes and desires.
What scares me even more is that the Democrat philosophy and narrative seems to be all that matters, regardless of what we are seeing today with respect to COVID-19 guidance and mandates, lawlessness, a historic inflation rate, the supply chain crisis, our Southern border crisis, an alarming increase in fentanyl deaths, the consequences of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and future economic and social consequences.
Democrat philosophy using the politics of fear regarding COVID-19 keeps us off balance. The policies of our government, as enacted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, change daily based on the Dems’ political ideology of transforming (their word) our society versus using actual hard data of who COVID-19 is attacking and why. Sadly, our president’s words vilify many of those who have chosen not to be vaccinated versus those who have. He is our leader, but a leader who has to use fear and intimidation to lead is not a true leader. If you truly believe President Biden is a true leader, please explain to me what a “minor” incursion means.
If you listen very closely to our president, many Cabinet members, news and social media platforms, you’ll understand that they mean to change the economic and political systems we currently live under and transform the country into something they believe is more equitable for all of us. Many Democrats believe this equity can be attained by enacting enormous government programs (such as the Green New Deal and the Build Back Better Act) that are nothing more than a transfer of wealth, which I believe will eventually bankrupt this country.
So why are those three little words, “We the People,” so important now?
The midterms are in November, and unless Republicans take back the House and Senate, the votes of our sole congressional representative, Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester, and the other members of Congress who I consider to be socialistic will come back to haunt us.
Here in Delaware, the Republican Party is fractured and only recognizable by county. Unless the Republicans coalesce to defeat Blunt Rochester and break the yearslong stranglehold the Democrats have on Delaware, I see our state declining, and our nation, under Democrat control, will teeter on the brink of totalitarianism.
The midterms are more important than ever, and unless “We the People” act, especially here in Delaware, our nation will never be the same.
Retired U.S. Army Reserve Col. Frank Daniels
Dover
