WHY WE CANNOT COMPROMISE OUR RIGHTS TO COME TOGETHER

WHY WE CANNOT COMPROMISE OUR RIGHTS TO COME TOGETHER

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

There is no way we can continue to deny the United States is in a moral, cultural and political civil war of ideas. The battle lines have been clearly drawn by progressives. They want to change our government from a Constitutional Republic into a more bureaucratically controlled nation, not one controlled by the citizens. On the other side there are many citizens who want to keep their rights endowed by our creator and be free people. This means freedom to say what we want, assemble with people of our choice, possess weapons to protect ourselves, keep the assets we have earned and vote to elect our representatives that shall carry out our wishes by lawful elections.

The progressives believe the government officials should directly control our lives. They have openly argued for radical revamping or eliminating practically all of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. They have finagled as much as they can and demanded a living interpretation of our Founding Father’s wise and enduring Constitutional Republic. The progressives are no longer disguising their objectives or strategies. Most progressives are in lock step, openly saying they want socialistic/communist style of government to replace our Constitution and capitalism.

The “Squad”, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the other progressives who were candidates for the 2020 presidential election have firmly confirmed these ideas.  These progressive leaders are blatantly calling for the abolishment of our second amendment right to own firearms, the electoral college, even terminating the right that a person is innocent until proven guilty, the sanctity of life, freedom of religious expression and limiting freedom of speech through political correctness and hate-speech laws.

Progressive ideals are unworkable pipedreams that have consistently ended in totalitarian regimes that have enslaved their citizens. Many remember the slaughter of 40 million citizens by Josef Stalin in Russia, in Cuba- Fidel Castro’s confiscation of private property, killing the opposition and the boatlifts to rid the nation of opposing citizens. Chairman Mao was infamous for the killing of tens of millions of people to obtain supreme power in China. Ho Chi Min in Vietnam and Pol Pot in Cambodia killed many millions of citizens to attain communist domination. In 1999 Hugo Chavez dismantled a prosperous Venezuela into a disastrous, dysfunctional and chaotic Communist nation.

Most of our progressively indoctrinated university students are almost entirely ignorant of these recent historical events. Many adults who had first-hand knowledge of these horrific occurrences but have not taught their children about them. This is more than sad, it is reprehensible.

If we continue to eliminate the underpinnings of our Constitutional Republic we will be transformed into a socialistic/communist government without a shot fired. We are at a precipice of losing all the rights of the people to control their own freedoms and destiny. The First Amendment states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress. Under the guise of Covid-19 the progressives have begun to tighten their grip on the levers of power to crush all these citizen rights. They declared churches non-essential and forced them to close, they denied the right to people to assemble in groups larger than 10, and speech contrary to the World Health Organization was removed.

Conservative Americans need to continue to have their voice heard loud and clear. 

Patriotic citizens are standing up, expressing their opinions and love for the greatness of America. In the Tea Party movement and through President Trump’s leadership we are reviving traditional ideas and institutions. The attendance at patriotic gatherings for traditional ways of governance, rational discussions with citizens of the opposite viewpoint and better use of the Internet to spread these ideas is inspiring Americans to action.

They have to move from the silent majority to an active majority to save our nation. It will take courage to speak up to preserve our Constitutional Republic. Our forefathers fought with their lives, their families and all their financial assets for the freedom of citizens at that time and for the future.  The least we can do is express that we have no intention of surrendering our liberty and freedom for tyranny.

There should be no compromise of our rights and freedoms. The USA is the last nation on Earth to allow its citizens to have freedom. As an immigrant from Cuba said today, “If America buys into socialism where would I go? There would be no freedom anywhere.”

Compromising our rights will be the dagger in the heart of the First Amendment and freedom loving people from all across the world.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.