Who would have thought we’d be in this state?

In 2020 who could have pictured truckers paying $1,000 and citizens $100 for vehicle fill-ups? Or, begging national enemies to increase oil supplies while capping our pipelines and wells with executive orders? Or, hyperinflation and a declining stock market? Or, opening border floodgates to illegal immigrants, sex trafficking, and killer drugs?

Or, how to reconcile constitutional rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” while killing and dismembering babies from the womb? Or deeming anti-abortion as racist when our 7 percent people of color experienced 40 percent, or 19 million, abortions? What about mobs who disrupt churches or threaten families of Supreme Court justices who want states to decide limits of abortion?

And who would have thought we needed a new government agency to monitor “disinformation” and what Big Tech and mainstream media already suppress, censor or distort? Patriots who question or critique the official party line are labeled “domestic terrorists” and targeted as “extreme MAGA threats.”

2022 and 2024 elections are supposed to fix this. Really? This won’t happen without election reforms. And not without a foreign policy transformation. The way D.C. hawks are pushing war, what would be left of the USA and Russia after unthinkable cyber warfare, EMP bombs and the nuclear dust settles? The clear winner would be China.

Tell DC leaders to stop this policy-driven destruction, before it’s too late.

Tim Bickel

Cedar Rapids