Editorial
Ever-increasing knee jerk reaction
David A. Lombardo
Earlier this week one of our On Target Newsletter subscribers opted out. We don't get very many opt outs, so when we do, I go into the program and see if they've given a reason. He wrote, "I disagree with your increasingly knee jerk political stances." He was apparently reacting to my OpEd piece last week about voter fraud in which I came out very hard on the need for every conservative to vote in the midterm election.
In that editorial I wrote, "Let's face it: the liberals have declared war on the very fabric of American life as we know it. Can anyone doubt that there is a concerted, orchestrated effort to undermine and eradicate the very philosophy of what made this country great? The concepts of personal independence, self-reliance, responsibility, honesty and morals are anathema to the liberal agenda to implement a new world order where a chosen few will dictate what's best for John Q."
A strong sentiment, without a doubt, but anyone that has followed my weekly editorials or listened to On Target Radio with any regularity knows that was not a knee-jerk reaction. Quite the contrary: it was a gradual metamorphosis over the past two years.
My grown-up job, as I like to refer to it, is as a journalist for a family of international publications which, when bolstered by research for On Target Newsletter and On Target Radio, exposes me to an enormous amount of news from many sources all over the world on a daily basis. When you add to the equation my recent foray into the world of politics as I helped Gretchen in her successful bid for Will County Board, a very clear picture emerged about just how bad things have gotten.
I didn't come to that way of thinking quickly but rather it was more like connecting the dots. I'd report on one subject, then another, then another, until a picture of what liberal progressives are doing began to emerge. Each egregious act is part of a progressive machination. Marginalizing Christianity and Judaism, increasingly Draconian gun control, monitoring telephone calls and emails, using the IRS against your political enemies, the militarization of law enforcement and widespread voter fraud, along with many others, are individual threads in what has become a work-in-progress tapestry depicting a new world order. These aren't ghosts dreamt up by an over-imaginative paranoid mind but rather events straight out of the mainstream media for all to see. Everything I wrote in that editorial and more are true and getting worse.
The midterm elections have sent a message. The last time I checked, Republicans will have control of 54 seats in the U.S. Senate and up to 250 seats in the House of Representatives. Additionally, Republicans scored huge gains on the state level as well, winning the governor's mansions and control of the legislatures in even traditionally blue states.
Having control of both houses bodes well for the Second Amendment, and considering many, many Democrats lost their seats both locally and nationally to 2A-friendly opponents, I doubt anyone is going to even consider trying to pass more gun control legislation.
Hopefully there will be a slew of repeals of progressive agenda laws and policies as the midterm elections will no doubt have some effect, but the question is "how much?" Liberals have yet to recover from Tuesday's shock but make no mistake: they will, and they're not going to bend to the will of the people. Those who have been ousted still have some time left to do plenty of damage before they have to pack their bags.
The time for vigilance is not over; truth be told, it never will be. We must stand guard and hold government accountable, and if that's a knee jerk reaction, then there's something in the water because millions of voters responded to a similar knee jerk last Tuesday.
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