"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." Bob Marley
November 20, 2024, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Chck out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
There’s something in the air. Everyone can feel it.
It was in the air in Philadelphia in 1776.
Some think it is Divine Intervention. Some say it’s the Winds of Change.
Leading up to 1776, there came a time when some people in the colonies had finally had enough. But there were others who were content to remain "Englishmen," and preferred not to break ties with England, even though the king was treating the colonists shabbily.
As time went on King George III and Parliament meted out punishments to the colonists to keep them in line.
Taxation, confiscation of guns, regulations designed to strangle commerce, prosecution, and use of the colonists as nothing more than cash cows for the King’s debts -- people soon remembered why they came to the colonies in the first place. They realized they had to fight to change the relationship with an elitist England.
And they wrote “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.”
In time an extraordinary group of patriots fashioned a Constitution that was basically “negative,” in that it told whatever government there was, what it could not do.
That’s the part Barack Obama didn’t like.
In his book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama wrote that he “couldn’t entirely reject the school of thought that sees the Founding Fathers only as hypocrites and the Constitution only as a betrayal of the grand ideals set forth by the Declaration of Independence.”
He wrote that in 2006.
It doesn’t sound much like a man who should be elected president of the United States, but he was.
Because of the U.S. Constitution.
For a while people of Obama’s ilk had the upper hand, much like the English elitist monarchy of old.
It was a nightmare. Clown Cars were everywhere, loaded with transvestites, drag queens and gays, demanding everyone allow them to dominate the social discussion.
The Rule of Law that said, “Don’t Do That” in our cities, was ignored.
Government persecuted citizens for holding opinions different from that of the ruling class. And an Alice in Wonderland country emerged.
But now the worm has turned.
It must be the way it feels when a hob-nailed boot is removed from one’s neck.
Suddenly Too Big to Rig became the name of the election game.
We the People elected a candidate with common sense, qualities Progressive elitists and the media hate.
The Trump team came in all shapes and sizes without benefit of enforced DEI.
Male and female. Democrat and Republican. Young and old.
All were smart. All loved their country. And they had a loyalty to Trump that the Progressive Elites couldn’t understand.
Elitists were puzzled to see a man who had qualities that mimicked those of the Founding Fathers. Their indominable spirit, and his sense of humor.
“Even though I was suing him,” Robert Kennedy, Jr. told a campaign crowd, “he gave me a ride on his plane.”
He said he told Trump he had a lawsuit against him.
Trump said he knew, and jokingly said, “If I didn’t talk to all the people that sued me, I’d have no one to talk to.”
It’s the same reasoning, intelligence and kindness Trump showed to an old, feeble man, the president, Joe Biden, when he didn’t have to.
The same largesse of spirit he showed this week when Mika and Joe Scarborough asked if they could come to Mar-a-Lago this week.
He welcomed them, even though the MSNBC Morning Joe hosts have broadcasted the most vile comments and lies about him to their viewers for seven years.
But in the end, they came to him.
It’s because there is something in the air.
Hold the line, America.
Stay the course, Patriots.