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When I was in school (back in the dark days of actual instruction, not leftist inculcation) we learned about Patrick Henry saying, to the Virginia Burgesses, "Give me liberty or give me death." I didn't quite understand that statement when I was young.
But since the beginning of 2020, when our rights began seriously eroding, slowly at first, but quickly when the Left started their plan to get the government under their thumbs, with the help of the cancel culture and the phony plandemic and mockdown after mockdown, to put their country-people in a state of fear (fear of dying from corona, fear of police, for example) I've started to understand what Mr. Henry meant.
I've been trying to do what I can to save my beloved country. I started writing this blog this year. I have several blogs with themes from Israel and Judaism, to my vegan cooking blog. But this year, I needed a pressure valve to express my frustration with the leftist views being espoused at every turn.
So one of my friends and I were talking about what we could do to help bring our freedom and liberty back to levels we need to feel safe in this country, to feel that we will have our rights to our opinions, we will have our rights to defend our homes, our families and ourselves, that we will have our rights to worship as we please, to use words we have used all our lives.
And I said that I think I'm beginning to understand Patrick Henry. I've stopped being afraid that someone will call me a racist (I've been called one so often by people who don't even know what the word means, they just use it as a cudgel to beat their "enemies" (another word they don't understand). I am no longer afraid because I've realized that if I don't get to live under the system I was born under, the system that all my European born grandparents came here for, life isn't worth living. And as the Georgia Senatorial election is still razor thin and if the Republican candidates both lose we will lose much of what makes this country so great and what makes millions of non-Americans want to move here I am worried that this will be a whole new country at the end of January 2021, that as Biden is phased out and Harris moves into the White House, the gains we have made against racism (true racism, not cudgel racism) will be lost, the gains woman have made will evaporate, the gains in gay rights we have made will vanish in the breeze of hot air from the left, that our small businesses and strong economy will never come back, thanks to mockdowns destroying small businesses and arresting and fining people who only want their jobs or businesses back.
So a comment made about 245 years ago is resounding in my ears, resonating with my heart and mind, reverberating through my soul and hoping, nay, praying that G-d will help us maintain our democracy and G-d will lead us to do what needs to be done. Keep America Great. Remember, G-d keeps his eyes on us all. And G-d never forgets.
