I wasn’t able to write a Newswithviews column this week. But since leftids have stolen our country out from under us and are trying to kill it before we can get it back, I thought this 2019 essay worth revisiting.
Make no mistake about it: theirs is a country-destroying ideology that littered the 20th century with the corpses of the innocent. Leftist governments create poverty, fear, mendacity, crime, and violence.
As we’ll shortly see for ourselves. It’s already happening.
The most tragic thing of all would be if America were to emerge from the coronavirus scare without having learned anything from it.
This column only begins to scratch the surface. There are lots of lessons here, all of them important. Socialism’s like this all the time–do we really want socialism? How badly do we need the transgender movement? Do we want to be governed, and told the “news” by, persons who fervently admire Red China and want us to be more like them? Do we let liberals get away with blatantly trying to make political capital out of this mess?
And just how badly do we want to keep the ruling class we’ve got?
Today in New Jersey it’s almost impossible to own a gun legally. That, of course, doesn’t stop criminals and psychos who don’t obey the gun laws from committing crimes with guns. But just try telling that to a liberal.
When I was a boy, if you wanted a gun, you just walked into a store and bought one. You could even mail-order one from Sears Roebuck. I remember the gun displays in the sporting goods sections of several big department stores–E.J. Korvett’s, W.T. Grant, 2 Guys From Harrison. My Uncle Ferdie bought his .22 rifle at Korvett’s. Set up a target range in his basement and sometimes let us, his nephews, have a go at it.
You just bought the gun if you wanted one, and nobody felt threatened, nobody expected you to shoot anyone. There was literally no such thing as a “school shooting.” People would have had no idea what you were talking about.
Then along came the 1960s, when the Left took control of our society and corrupted it. Today that corruption is in full bloom. And one of the things we have to show for it is mindless violence. Like school shootings. But Democrats see this as their ideal opportunity to accomplish something they’ve long desired–the total disarmament of law-abiding American citizens. So they swear to us that if we just let them take away the guns, everything will be peaches ‘n’ cream.
It’s the moral corruption, the unfocused rage, and the sheer Godlessness of it all that really does the killing. But don’t ask liberals to get rid of those things, because they’re the ones that have put them there.