Point/Counterpoint: Strong, forceful leadership is key to our future

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Frank Daniels is a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel. He lives in Dover.

While I am generally an optimistic person, given the venomous language used against people who disagree with Democrat policies, the outrageous woke ideas and thoughts being expressed daily, and the extreme political policies we see playing out in our country today, I do not know if our current leaders and citizens will find a way to come together and end the staggering polarization sweeping across and destroying our country.

Having political differences is nothing new. While I think all would agree that politics has always caused us to be a bit polarized, Americans have always found a way to reconcile those differences and move forward for the betterment of our nation. God knows we have our faults; however, we’ve always, at least in my lifetime, striven for equality for all, in the hope that each of us could realize the American dream.

From my perspective, there are three major reasons why we are living through the appalling polarization we see today. They are the colossal failure of our educational system, the eight years of President Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, where politicization of everything and anything became the norm, and the abysmal failure of our print and news media to report the news versus becoming a political action committee for a political party.

The question now becomes, can we find the strong, effective leadership this country needs to bring us back to thinking about the betterment of our nation versus continuing the power of an individual political party? Without that leadership, our Constitution becomes meaningless, and our democratic republic degenerates into a pure democracy. If that happens, the voters of Delaware will have no voice in how our president is elected.

Finding and electing strong leadership at the national level is only the beginning. We need to find the same type of individuals at the state and local level. There must be a balance of leadership at the state level, not one party rule, as we currently have in Delaware. Unless one party rule is broken in Delaware, we will continue to have laws like House Bill 198 passed, codifying the teaching of critical race theory and the “1619 project.” We also need individuals to run and win election to local school boards who will stop the craziness currently prevailing in our secondary educational system.

Unless the Republicans get their act together and push for the necessary changes, diversity, equity and inclusion, as being implemented by the Democrats, will rule the day. Given the current policies being implemented by the Democratic Party, we are experiencing: being taken over by the climate change fanatics, spending trillions of dollars we don’t have, teachers unions continuing the ruin our secondary education system, the destruction of our oil and gas industry, our legal system being destroyed by outlandishly liberal districts of attorneys and attorneys general, the number of illegal aliens in this country to potentially double under Joe’s presidency, and tens of thousands more youngsters dying of Chinese fentanyl poisoning.

Woke ideas currently in vogue are trying to change our language and how we speak. If you can change how people think and speak, you can control their minds. We no longer get the news, but rather the talking points designed to try and make us not believe what we are seeing with our eyes and feeling with our wallets.

I fear for the future of my children and grandchildren unless change happens and happens quickly.

In my mind, the solution to our polarization starts with incredibly strong and forceful leaders at the federal, state and local level who believe in God, family, country and the inherent goodness of our country and its people, not in the party. It is painfully obvious that we do not have that now.

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