One of the worst aspects of an ever-expanding government is that it begins to become more significant in our daily lives. Political parties and the people who control them are becoming more significant than they should be. Their policies – especially when they are destructive – become more significant and effective than they should be. Disagreements over these policies become more repeated and fraught with tensions and consequences than they otherwise would be. These misunderstandings spill over into our relationships with colleagues, colleagues, friends and family members, poisoning them – sometimes permanently.
All of the above (not to mention that the government is doing so many things wrong at exorbitant and wasteful cost) make a robust case for reduction size of government. Yet even amid heated exchanges about the direction of our country, there is much to be grateful for.
No. 1: We are still free people.
No. 2: Americans are – finally – waking up to the reality that they have not paid enough attention to the corruption in our government, the bias in our press, the corrosion of our educational system, the rot in the entertainment industry, and the powerful propaganda machine at work in all of these institutions.
No. 3: Part and parcel of the American awakening is the demand for true freedom of speech. To give just one example, we have been made aware of the extent to which our federal, state and city governments, public health officials and pharmaceutical companies have lied to us over the past two years about the origins of Covid-19, the relative risk of the disease, the length of potential lockdowns and their economic impact, the effectiveness of readily available drugs in treating symptoms, the effectiveness of the injections (“vaccines”) that have been forced on tens of millions of Americans, and, most recently, the grave health risks of these injections to adolescent, otherwise vigorous people. The liars were greatly aided in their deception by social media companies – YouTube, Facebook, Twitter – which censored, shaded and terminated the accounts of doctors, immunologists, nurses, scientists, professors, researchers, coroners and others who tried, at great risk to personal and professional risk, make the truth public.
This building is falling down. There are now alternatives to left-dominated social media companies, including Gettr, Telegram, Rumble and Truth Social. And the purchase and deletion of Twitter by Tesla/Space X billionaire Elon Musk has caused the heads of the censorship classes to explode over the flow of information now possible on the platform. Truth is like water; always finds a way.
No. 4: If there was anything good that came out of school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was exposing the garbage that is being taught in our schools and the indoctrination that passes for education. Parents oppose policies that allow boys to employ girls in bathrooms and locker rooms and on their sports teams; fight to remove sexually explicit material from primary school curricula and libraries; they fight against teachers who believe that their personal sexual preferences are appropriate topics in the classroom, and against policies that encourage children to question their “gender” and “transition” without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Many of these policies have their roots in school boards, and parent advocates had great success in this year’s elections by kicking out school board members who promoted or tolerated such abuses. This is just the beginning.
No. 5: Woke-up corporations are suffering a long-awaited blow. Whistleblower videos recorded and released publicly revealed Disney’s “not-so-secret agenda” to promote LGBTQ issues in all children’s programming. The following quarter, Disney suffered a loss of $1.5 billion, and the board dismissed (now former) CEO Bob Chapek. This is also just the beginning.
No. 6: While 2022 wasn’t the “red wave” conservatives expected, it definitely reflects changes we’ll see more of in the coming months and years. Since the debacle of the 2020 presidential election, many states have tightened election integrity laws. Many citizens who had never been involved in anything political before ran for office: school boards, mayors, city councils, state legislatures, governors, and Congress. Even more joined the get-out-the-vote effort and volunteered as poll watchers. The only way we can keep our choices secure is to actively participate in every aspect of them.
No. 7: The conservative message wins hearts and minds, candidates and voters. More minorities ran for Republican office in 2022 than in any previous election year, and newly elected U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and re-elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appealed to Latino, Black and other working-class minorities. These successes prove once again that clear messages, competence and common sense resonate across all demographics. Americans are slowly but surely realizing that Democrat-run cities and states – Portland, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit – are being destroyed by policies that punish law-abiding citizens and put criminals back on the streets and let so that people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse problems can live and die there.
No. 8: This is not an exclusively American phenomenon. In the Netherlands, Italy, Brazil and Iran, people are fighting corruption and manipulation by the so-called “savior class” – elites who believe they are entitled to make decisions that enrich them beyond belief while leaving everyone else needy. defenseless and servile. These battles are also just beginning.
No. 9: Yes, we are still a free nation. We have taken this for granted for too long. Our gratitude for our unparalleled freedom and the prosperity it provides includes fighting to ensure that our children and their children can enjoy the same blessings. Our Founders fought a war for it. We cannot do less.
Happy Thanksgiving, America.
