Today took the cake. It was the last straw. People whom we considered friends and neighbors said: "If you continue to support Donald Trump, we will not support you. Your views are ‘too conservative.’”
What does that mean, "too conservative?" Anyone ever hear of the Constitution? Anyone ever read it?
And then, these mushrooms turned and treated us as if we had the plague. So, what are you going to do next, gag us and shoot us? Burn our books and torture us? Send us to re-education camps?
I cannot describe the feelings I had when this was said to us. It really indicates to what low levels the left has sunk. The left wingnuts have become socialists; communists, in reality. It has finally happened in our lifetime. Take the party line or get ostracized. No room for debate or discussion. What happened to the civil society? What, are we living in Nazi Germany in 1934? Someone please clarify where I live. Was Massachusetts not the cradle of liberty, along with Pennsylvania and the other 13 colonies?
Do you want to be ruled as a subject by an overwhelming government tyranny? Are you a statist (read: communist)? Or do you want to govern this nation as a citizen, as a member of the civil society, living with the Constitution as your guide? Ruled by the law and not emotional and collective psychosis?
This republic cannot survive if this idiotic attitude and ideology of political correctness continues. It cannot survive if the media or the educational system is infected with a dogma that ignores the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and American history. A seditious media which continues to preach and sponsor the idea that Donald Trump is not the president. Eighty-five percent of the counties in the United States voted for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did its job. Get over it. The Constitution did its work. Trump is the boss. Or, would you really rather have the soviet socialist republics of California, New York and other east and west coast progressive enclaves be the ones who do all the electing in this country, not unlike single party countries like Russia, China, Venezuela and Cuba? Los Angeles County in California has a population of 10 million or so; its population is greater than 10 other states, combined. You want national elections to be decided by that crowd every time?
So, to all my so-called friends and neighbors who don’t like President Donald Trump: Tough! Get over it. I got over Barack Obama. I also took an oath as a naval officer to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I took that oath seriously. I still do. We are all Americans. As Benjamin Franklin once said: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Bernard P. Giroux
South Dartmouth