Jack of Harts

I have to give props to the Democrat Party for standing for their principles and fighting for them with all their might. They want to see men beating girls in girls sports and are resisting every effort to stop it. Watching a boy spike a volleyball into a girl’s face so hard it permanently disables her doesn’t stop them. Neither does watching men beating women in women’s boxing. Seeing men towering over the first women to cross the line, or watching men jump feet further or higher than the best women, none of it slows them down. They want to see boys in girls changing rooms, and will kick girls out of the girls changing room if they refuse to change in front of the boys. In at least one reported case, the school administrators actually took the girls into the changing room in front of the boy and forced the girls to disrobe in front of him. They want boys in spaces we have set aside for the protection of girls and will stop at nothing to see it happen. I think their principles are abusive of women and girls, but I have to give the Democrats props for sticking to them and refusing to give up. It tells us what they stand for, and that is good to know.

Back in the 1980s, when I was a teenager and just starting to see a world outside my home and school, a rich New York Democrat said that foreign trade was out of hand. Unfair. That other nations were stacking the deck to hurt us. That it had to be stopped. That we had to do something about it. I’ve lived my entire adult life watching what some have called the sucking sound of wealth being vacuumed out of our country and sent throughout the world. Others have been more targeted and said it was being sucked out of the American middle class.

I’m fifty now, and I’ve watched the factories and mines and refineries and power plants that fueled our economy closed, only to be reopened in other countries and the American workers now out of a job told to learn to code. I actually did learn to code, and though I don’t work in that industry, I did build a good job for myself. But I’ve watched President after President just not tackle that giant vacuum of wealth. But now, for the third election in a row, the American people have gone out to vote for the man who has talked about it all my adult life. Voted to tell him to do something about it.

I don’t know if it will work. But if we continue on the course we are on now, America will crumble and die. I’ve watched the looting in my lifetime and I want the next generations to have a chance at something better than what the looters left behind. I don’t know if we can, but we have to try. And if we’re the only country in the world not using tariffs to protect our homegrown industries, then we will always lose to those who use tariffs to protect their own.

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