OPINION:
This Fourth of July celebrate those intrepid American Founders whose signatures on the Declaration of Independence guaranteed their death by hanging should their cause (considered a long shot at the time) have failed. Truly, these Founders were the very embodiment of spirited, bold and prescient leadership that stands in stark contrast to today’s weak Republican Congress.
We have many feckless Republican legislators so paralyzed by the political correctness and emotional pandering of the media and congressional left that they are too intimidated to support current border-security laws, fund truly robust border security or even vote for the rational and orderly immigration reforms advocated by their Republican president. Indeed, what a study in contrasts between our nation’s bold and inspired Founders and the combined leaderless Republican congressional and gutless senatorial caucuses today.
But then there is the left side of the political aisle. Oy vey. Today’s Democratic leadership has wandered so far off the constitutional reservation that it openly disdains American founding cultural values (entrepreneurship, faith in God, self-reliance and individual excellence), proclaims our national anthem to be “divisive,” works to eliminate strong national borders, and advocates street-mob intimidation of political rivals, a coercive tactic commonly employed by left-wing, banana-republic dictators.
This July Fourth we are witnessing a colossal failure of American leadership so profound and consequential that the terrible prospect of another civil war is beginning to be envisaged by thoughtful observers. That is why this will be a melancholy Independence Day for many patriotic Americans, and why we are becoming very discerning voters.
KEN BECKERT
Abingdon, Md.
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