Can republic survive Biden?
“So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie.”
In the 1971 classic song “American Pie,” sung by Don McLean, you hear his sorrowful story in the lyrics and vocals. This song was written to memorialize the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson in the plane accident that devastated the music industry and rock ’n’ roll generation.
The botched Afghanistan withdrawal by President Joe Biden’s administration reminds Americans that elections have consequences. The 2020 general election conceivably portends the end of our great American experiment.
While Biden’s administration is blind to extremists abroad, it’s obsessed with extremists in America. By that, I’m not talking about Islamist extremists, who can stroll leisurely across our porous Southern border.
Our military leadership capitulated on keeping the strategic Bagram Air Base open, but it’s hard to fault them for their major blunder when they’ve been focused on their mission of driving MAGA extremists from the military. Every military service was ordered this year to conduct standdowns addressing extremism within the ranks following the weaponless protests on Jan. 6, falsely labeled as an insurrection.
The WOKENESS Department of Defense leadership repeated charges ad nauseam to ensure military members suffered through the standdown indignity.
Participants in those sessions complain that leadership’s idea of an extremist was anyone who questioned the corrupt and incompetent elites who are destroying our country. Americans who had the audacity to vote for President Donald Trump felt suddenly unwelcome in the military they swore an oath to serve.
The song’s refrain “So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie” as an allegory could describe the decline of the greatest republic in world history.
The republic can survive Biden, but it’s less likely to survive the droves of fools who elected him president. “So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie.”
Terry Payne, Marble
Don’t force upon others
Reading about medical personnel and the coronavirus vaccine, I was shock of how many people are wrong for demanding other people to get this shot.
I am not a medical doctor yet, but the study I have done reveals that even a strong person with good stamina still might have a unforeseen problem that can counteract and cause them death.
Medical personnel has misdiagnosed people before. I am living proof. I was told by a doctor when I was young I could not have kids; today, I have two.
Here comes the fun part of my research – products!
Bleach kills colds but not allergies. I hate to see what a swimmer’s lung looks like.
The products I am more concern with is masks and gloves. Some of these products contain latex. A latex-sensitive person can have the same reaction of a person with a peanut allergy or shellfish when another person who wears these products pull them off or touch someone else.
I learned even some food I never expected contains latex. I know we can’t get rid of all the latex; however, I hope some of us standsup and fight back from being stereotype by people who think they have a right to own our bodies.
If these people have this much fear about this disease, then they are not ready to meet their Master.
So please read the label of your next product and hope you haven’t killed someone already unintentionally by using a product that affected someone else.
Willena Helton, Murphy
Change the tax system
Tax the rich. When in control, the Democrats consistently say they are not paying their fair share and maybe not. This has been going on for decades.
Unless the present tax system is changed, it will continue. The loopholes are more numerous than a block of Swiss cheese and with very expensive lawyer teams the “have plenty” folks pay less taxes.
It’s politics as usual. Congress, along with the president, could change the tax system and help blue-collar workers, but don’t hold your breath. Many of those in Congress have friends in high places, including expensive lawyers, too.
President Joe Biden has said, many times, that those with incomes under $400,000 would not have an increase in their
income tax, but we are being taxed in other ways. Fuel prices are much higher, with strong possibilities of more increases. Going one day without touching something plastic (a petroleum byproduct) is almost impossible. There is more
financial pain when we need grocery products and other items daily.
Recent poles have shown that Biden’s policies, domestic and foreign, haven’t been received with open arms. His popularity has taken a hit in his first 9-10 months in office.
A reminder that on voting day, short memories leads to putting career politicians back in office. God bless America, again.
L.A. Moore, Morganton, Ga.