To the editor:

During Obama’s presidency I submitted several editorials warning of the Left’s socialist trending policies and the potential impact on our democracy if not curtailed. I provided insights into some of my family’s experiences under Nazi and Soviet occupation in the former Czechoslovakia in the 30s and 40s. Now we are witnessing history repeat itself on our soil with Biden’s policies.

Recent government mandates, inflation, attacks on free speech, indoctrination of our youth, complicity with big tech and corporations all designed to undermine the values that made us the country we are in the name of social justice and “equity.”

I have not been surprised by the Democrats in all of this. It’s part of their playbook. What is a surprise and disappointment, is the lack of resistance on the part of the Republican leadership (a few exceptions) and the American population as a whole with the recent exception of parents (mostly women) pushing back on the garbage being taught in our classrooms. I have to wonder what has happened to the American male?

Eighty years ago 18 year-olds stormed the beaches of Normandy and in the 60’s our young men fought and died in sweltering jungles and rice paddies. In Canada we witnessed an impressive display of organized resistance to Trudeau’s oppressive measures while we for the most part remained silent.

I assume many are afraid to speak up for fear of reprisals however the door is closing on efforts to stop further damage to our democracy. Our youth is disconnected from reality and obsessed with their devices and lack an understanding of history and what values led to the freedom they now have to behave as they do. Our universities are inundated with socialist professors who are polluting the brains of our children. University of Michigan, a prime example, that produced Bill Ayers (activist in the Weather Underground) who left his conservative family in Chicago to attend Ann Arbor.

We can’t afford three more years of these policies. Why aren’t we reopening Keystone and drilling in Alaska instead of purchasing energy from Russia and other unfriendly nations? We should be in the streets demanding change and not depending on the November elections. We are running out of time and options people and we can’t afford to wait for politicians to act…they work for us.

Our Founding Fathers fought for our freedom…..we must fight to keep it!

Editor’s note: President Joe Biden has actually issued more drilling permits on public lands than President Donald Trump did. His issuing actually led to multiple articles of ire from The Washington Post, among others.

The Keystone Pipeline was built by TransCanada. Its intent was to pipe tar sands crude oil from Alberta to processing hubs in Texas. From there, however, that oil was then to be sent overseas, rather than to pumps in the U.S., so the U.S. would not have sees significant benefit from the oil traveling from Canada to Texas.