A LETTER TO JOE

As a conservative citizen of the United States of America, I feel that you need to hear my voice, too.  It corrupts the soul to be silent when the world around you condemns the truth and bullies those of us that question your “accepted doctrine”.  The engine of cancel culture and “wokeness” with its implicit moral threat to our well-being, including the real possibility of losing our jobs, has infiltrated your party’s platform and will erode the definition of what it is to be an American.  And the purging of conservative opinions is as anti-American as anything in the history of the Republic.  You cannot expect me or almost half of your potential electorate to just be quiet, especially when your proposed legislation is demonstrably more virtue-posturing than helpful.

For instance, why should I be condemned if I feel that your party’s response to climate change is wrong-headed and destructive to the economy.  I was warned that the coming Ice Age was a threat to the world on the cover of Time Magazine in 1977.  Al Gore told us in 2001 that New York City would be underwater by 2015 because of Global Warming.  Emasculating a 23 trillion-dollar economy by punitive taxation, crippling the fossil fuel industry, and investing in poorly efficient green energy technology is not a path that reasonable people can support.  While wind turbines are busy chopping up birds in the name of saving the environment, we avoid turning to nuclear energy as an answer.  Patriots like me are not Luddites to think that your proposals are dumb and will hurt the most economically fragile families as a result.

In addition, the idea of reparations for the descendants of slaves sounds more like a vote-buying scheme rather than a reasonable means to aid the disadvantaged black and poor.  Shelby Steele refers to something that he calls “white terror”, the neurotic and over-reactive concern among white elites that they may be partially responsible for the current plight of this population of Americans.  Rather than relying on evaluation of historical facts and recognizing bad decisions in the past, they are willing to suspend truth and logic and parrot the policy desires of the very politicians that profit off of the problems of the poor not being solved.  We’ve managed to convince Blacks that they can get more self-worth screaming about being victims than learning how best to assimilate as everyday Americans.  One-hundred and fifty years after the slave culture imported to the Americas by the British, Spanish, and Portuguese was overthrown by our Christian nation and its white citizens, all of us that had no historical relation to slavery or even may have lost relatives freeing the slaves are asked to “pay up”?  If the United States is inherently racist, why are Nigerian immigrants performing so well in our economy when compared to white Americans?  Paying reparations is not logically feasible and is another dumb idea.  Besides, the idea of instilling identification as a victim as the primary idea of self-worth erodes happiness and subverts the future.

Your party’s proposal to make every illegal immigrant a citizen makes chumps and fools of people who obeyed the law and put in the time and effort to come to our country legally.  Writing off student loans likewise makes those of us whose hard work and sacrifice payed for our children’s education look stupid in hindsight.  Our lives are a product of our choices and it seems that your party only rewards those who make bad ones, taxing those of us that succeed. They say that you get what you pay for, and you seem to be encouraging more people to make  bad choices.  

Your party tells me that my patriotism is founded on lies.  The disgusting “1619 Project” with its disrespectful, ahistorical, race-theory politics and warped conclusions alienates not only conservatives, but many people in your party as well.  Christian Americans are the ones that abolished slavery, not cancel culture and “wokeness”.  Cancel culture is a cancer, robbing us of joy and silencing anything but “group-think”.  Only a neurotic, diseased culture cannot laugh at one another.  The mainstream media, the lifeline for liberal approval and affirmation, has become so “woke” that it is unwatchable.  Sports broadcasts, the biggest of the “bread and circuses” distractions keeping us mollified, are also unwatchable for all of the black lives matter inculcation.

Finally, the Democratic Platform encouraging us to consider abortions up to and possibly including birth is a signal that we have lost our ties to Judeo-Christian, Western civilization.  Our magnificent country was gifted at its birth with a Constitution that reflects these roots.  Without them, we are just another collection of self-serving primates without morals.  You cannot justify the murder of a newborn.  Our founding fathers recognized that we could not have a country if we were not believers.  I am not a deplorable to think that way, but infanticide is what being deplorable really means.