Old Guy Rant: The last one?

A Political Column by Larry Wiwi, a Franklin County resident

I have been writing political columns for about a decade and it occurred to me just now this may be the last one I write, or at least the last one where I have great hope for America’s future.  Like you I am bombarded by requests for money, and campaign ads and all that is expected, but this strange election year really does bring us to a fork in the road called “The Future.”  One path leads to our slow demise and suffering which is where Socialism always ends and one path lead to the continued greatest experiment in human self-governance called the United States.

To be clear, the path keeping with our representative republic under the Constitution will not lead us to utopia or perfection – you won’t find that as long as humans, not angels rule this earth, but you will find the best that human kind knows how to do.  The only bragging claim for socialism is it is the closest way to get nearly equal outcomes for nearly all of the population – everyone is equally miserable, poor and hopeless – except those in power of course.

The United States became the wealthiest nation on earth before it was even 130 years old, far surpassing those that were centuries or even tens of centuries old, and it did that by making the government as subservient as possible to the individual, which unleashed the boundless creativity and ambition hard wired in the human soul.  Socialism is the antithesis of individualism, it makes the individual subservient to the State under the guise of “the common good” or “public safety” and other high sounding phrases used to enslave populations.

I have closely watched every election since Humphrey-Nixon in 1968 and in most of those contests, there were differences in policy and approach between the Democrats and Republicans but they at least shared a vision of promoting and protecting the Unites States and its citizens.  That is clearly no longer true.  Today you have a party with a platform scarcely different than anything proposed by Marx or Lenin and it is using fear (riots, covid), class division (race, wealth, religion) and propaganda (NYT, CNN) as effectively as those two icons of suffering ever could.  

I am a conservative, not a Republican and the Republican(s) on the ballot you may soon hold in your hands may not have actually earned your vote, but at least they don’t have a plan that steals your freedom, your wealth and ruins your country.  The Democrat/socialist party has become the enemy of our Republic and must be defeated…the choice really is that simple.

Larry Wiwi