American Ideals and Values

The American Ideals and Values category includes posts on freedom and liberty, equality and rights, the battle between liberals and conservatives and most important, what it means to be American.

Our ideals and values are defined as much by the mass media as politics. What happens in Washington, state legislatures, and in our cities is moderated online with the power to undermine, re-imagine, and destroy our fundamental beliefs about what is good, morally justifiable, and worth protecting at any cost.

The 2020 election drew the battle lines between left and right. Republican voters were threatened with socialism. Democrats frightened their base with racism and white supremacy. In the wake of a disputed election another unprecedented event, the January 6, 2021 storming of our nation’s Capitol, fed the Democrat propaganda machine and gave the party an excuse to militarize Washington and start to reimagine the First Amendment.

Two years have passed. We have a Democrats-only January 6 tribunal seeking out the party’s political enemies as part of an unprecedented overreach the likes of which we haven’t seen since Joe McCarthy.

The Biden administration threatened to impose a Disinformation Governance Board run by Nina Jankowicz, who claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story was disinformation. Merrick Garland’s Justice Department targeted parents who voiced their opinions at school board meetings. Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound was raided by the FBI in a historic move that further widened the growing divide between right and left.

The president entered the midterm campaign fray full force by labeling those he calls MAGA Republicans “semi-fascists” and making an address to the nation that will go down in American history as the most divisive speech ever made by a U.S. president.

This is not the America envisioned by the Founding Fathers. We are quickly evolving into a vicious, valueless nation ruled by partisan politics and all the riches absolute power provides to the winning party.