Renee Hawkley In Joy!

January 20, 2021 I want to record a few thoughts before today's inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States. What is about to occur is a stunning blow to ". . . liberty and justice for all." Already, the concept of gender has been neutered in Congress by the removal of gender-related terms such as "mother, father, aunt and uncle." Already, freedom of speech that disturbs the desired narratives of "big tech" is censored and eliminated on their platforms and at their whim. Already, eugenics controls abortion, disposing of hundreds of thousands of "unsuitable and unwanted" human beings per year with taxpayer money and without a microbe of remorse. Already, socialism sympathizers, including many politicians who claim to honor the Constitution, have run for cover, scampering back into the loving arms of their wealth-driven donors and spineless constituents who may sit for civility, but stand for compliance to socialist agendas. Alr...

For Americans, the pandemic was a beginner's "real life" lesson in socialism. We sheltered in place, practiced isolation, went to only designated places at designated times, waited in line, hid our faces, and were unable to practice our Constitutional rights to peacefully assemble or to express our devotion to God at church. It became important for us, our friends and family members to be tracked. Our freedoms of independent life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, including the rights to think, speak, write and live as we choose, were corralled and challenged to their limits. Our very survival may have depended on decisions made by "those at the top." The choice of most Americans was to trust and to do what they could to just hold on. This was Not the United States of America I have loved and pledged allegiance to all my life. So what if those "at the top" didn't have all the facts and still don't and sometimes got things wrong? So ...