Losing Our Freedom

A big theme of the left is that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are "threatening democracy." America is a constitutional Republic, by the way, not a democracy. Is our Republic or democracy in America in trouble?

A recent poll finds that most voters -- 53% -- believe that "democracy in America will end in the next generation or so." Eleven percent think it already has ended. 

So, is the left's message resonating? Not really. 

A deeper look into the poll finds that 42% of Republicans are worried that we're going to lose our freedom, but only 28% of Democrats are worried about that. Asked which party voters see as the biggest threat to democracy, 37% said the Democrat Party, while 26% said the GOP.

The reason is that voters have seen with their own eyes the threats to freedom from the left.

It was the left that weaponized our intelligence agencies to destroy Donald Trump and Mike Pence. It's the left's allies who are censoring us on social media. 

It's their left-wing groups that are attacking our freedom of speech, religious liberty and Second Amendment rights. It's left-wing politicians who so eagerly locked down their states and communities during the pandemic, while conservatives fought to remain open and free.

It's the left that is shutting down dissenting opinions on university campuses, that is resorting to violence in the streets and using the courts to overturn the will of the people. The list goes on and on.

Even when the left says they're trying to "protect voting rights," they're actually trying to make cheating easier, making it more likely we will lose our freedom. Their so-called "voting rights" bill actually threatens voting rights. 

For example:

• 82% of Americans support laws requiring all ballots to be received by Election Day to be counted. Late votes should not be counted.
• 85% of Americans support voter ID laws. 
• 88% support requiring their states to clean up the voter rolls by removing dead people and those who have moved out of state. 

In a deeply divided America, there is a clear consensus across party lines when it comes to commonsense election reforms. But the left's "voting rights" legislation prohibits all three of those reforms. 

So, yes people are worried about losing their liberty. And they're worried that the progressive, socialist left are the ones who will take it away from us.