Rite of Passage

by Henry Schulte

When I turned eighteen there was one thing I really looked forward to.

Voting.

I saw it as a rite of passage to adulthood. I was now part of the decision process.

Being young and ill-informed and easily persuaded, my first vote for a president was Jimmy Carter. Why not? A likable guy. Peanut farmer. Happy little smile. Democrat. What could go wrong?

Four years later, despite how he had destroyed the country, much as our current resident in the White House has done, I was going to vote for Carter again. When I told my father who my choice was, he looked at me and shook his head. “You do realize,” he said,” that interest rates are at seventeen percent, the economy is in the toilet, and it’s the worst it has ever been?”

I didn’t. I was just “going with the flow.”

Then something happened. For whatever reason, I found myself watching Ronald Reagan give his acceptance speech as the Republican nominee. I became enthralled. I was shocked at how much impact his words, his delivery, had on me. How much sense he made. I teared up upon hearing his powerful message. I switched parties then and there and became a Republican. I’ve been one ever since.

It’s always intriguing in election years to watch politicians who suddenly, after years in office, have discovered how to fix things and promise to do so if they’re-elected. They advertise how they’re the man or woman right for the job but don’t remind you that they’ve already had the job and blew it.

Basically, they’re lying. But that’s not surprising; they all lie.

Let’s start with the top liar.

After three years of flooding America with illegals, Biden goes to the border nine months before the election and with a straight – albeit blank – face, blames Trump and Republicans for the chaos. Biden touts a bipartisan bill that Republicans refused to go along with as the answer to solve the problem he created at the border. It’s a bill that allows 5,000 illegals in every day.

And it’s all just election year BS.

And, speaking of BS, Governor Useless of California apparently experienced an “epiphany” and decided he’d better make his own appearance at the border.

Too late.

His sanctuary state has been an illegal alien magnet for years. He’s been indirectly responsible and complicit in human trafficking, the deaths of thousands who’ve overdosed on drugs, the raping of women and children, and the destruction of our schools and health system.

But who does he blame?

You guessed it, Trump, and the Republicans. Gavin Newsom makes no attempt to learn from a governor with some guts, such as Greg Abbott of Texas, and close the California border.

Nope.

No can do.

When it comes to lying through the teeth, as they say, I’ll admit Republican George Santos was a doozy. But Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate Adam Schiff is not only a first-class liar, he’s also the King of Misinformation. For years, Schiff boasted he’d seen and had all the documents that would prove Trump’s Russian collusion. He never had a damned thing, never proved anything, and was never called out for his deceitful ways. He never showed a bit of shame for being a corrupt moron. And now he’s portrayed as a sweet guy who really cares about California. He chose Steve Garvey as his opponent by spending millions on TV ads claiming that “Garvey is too conservative for California,” thinking Garvey would be easiest to beat.

That’s probably the only true thing he’s ever said.

Schiff, like most Democrats, are out to “save our democracy” by corrupting and trashing it. The Mai Lai episode comes to mind; you remember, the Vietnamese village that had to be destroyed in order “to save it.”

Salud Carbajal, running for his fourth term in Congress has become another long-term liberal California politician. He rests smugly and comfortably because Democrats have locked up his district; no conservatives allowed. An immigrant from Mexico, how come he hasn’t made closing the border his priority to protect all those Chinese, Venezuelans, Africans, and MS 13 gang members from our fires and storms? Already in Congress for six years, approving this bill or that bill to reduce carbon pollution does squat.

Biden’s new California ads finish up by asking if you want to go back to the Trump years. My answer to that question is a resounding “Hell yes!” Nearly every man on the street, from minorities to elite liberals who may be quietly waffling, would certainly welcome zero inflation, lower gas prices, energy independence, an end to the illegal human invasion, bringing jobs back to America, putting a stop to the financial invasion of China, rejecting massive spending bills, reining government in, lower interest rates, safer streets, putting the brakes on wars overseas, along with stopping Iraq from building nuclear weapons.

Middle-class income increased five times again more than it had during Obama’s eight-year reign; jobless claims had hit a 50-year low; unemployment rates from African Americans to veterans reached all-time lows; poverty rates for the same reached record lows; 1.2 million manufacturing jobs had been created and in the third quarter of 2020, the economy had grown by over 33%, the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.

Truth is, I’m running out of space to list it all.

Yes, bring Trump back. Today! We can’t wait another seven months.

President Biden and his lemming Democrats have only one thing to run on: killing babies. That’s it. Abortion.

I’m forever grateful to Ronald Reagan for letting me see the light. And I’ll continue to exercise my privilege to vote even though it’s become more apparent that my vote no longer counts. Cheating does.

The only way, as I see it, for Republicans to win is to beat their opponents so badly that even if they’ve cheated, there wouldn’t be enough phony votes to put them over the top.

If Democrats have their way and continue to crap on what made America what it is, there goes 250 years down the toilet.

We can’t let them flush it away.

Hold your tears and your heart, get out there and vote, and do it safely and as early as allowed.

The nation is counting on you.