If the mid-term political campaign issues were ranked by importance based on the frequency of the ads related to each, it would appear that the most significant issue before voters this election is abortion.
The Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade has a lot of people spinning off their axis. Those people need a reality check.
Regardless of whether you believe climate change is caused and can therefore be controlled by humans or if you instead believe that it is part of a natural cycle that is at best minimally influenced by what humans do, we still have to figure out how to survive in the here-and-now.
It seems that we can expect more severe weather events going forward, but instead of putting our heads together and coming up with better ways to do what we need to adapt and prosper, we spend our time pointing fingers at those with whom we disagree and lining up where we think the moral high ground is while doing nothing to actually develop the technologies of survival.
A direct symptom of climate change is the issue of water availability. With the seemingly inexorable depletion of water reserves west of the Rocky Mountains, we need to elect leaders who have enough of the right skills to help set a course of adaptation if this trend continues.
California has made an art form out of mismanaging the symptoms of climate change.
As a recent example, the problems that will be created when they attempt to execute the executive order to end sales of hydrocarbon-fueled automobiles cannot be addressed in the time they have given themselves; they won’t be ready.
Ironically, those who think like the decision-makers in California government are the same who want to shut down mining, from which comes all the raw materials needed to create what they believe are their solutions to reverse climate change.
Electrifying California’s transportation needs requires copper and aluminum to utilize electricity – no matter how it is produced – and that has to be mined. California’s politicians’ committee votes won’t change this or any other reality.
Immigration is another urgent crisis. When President Biden was asked why the (southern) border crisis is so much more significant now than for any previous administration (especially the last one), his response was that he now is responsible for refugees from Venezuela and Honduras, which his predecessors had not been.
As was every other before him, this President is responsible for America’s border security, not the caravans of non-American diaspora.
No one has a right to cross our border or come onto our shores unless we want them here, nor are we obligated to take them in. This is the cornerstone of our security and should be defended by any means necessary.
Once this principle is secure then Americans can freely decide who we want to let come here and why we want them.
This is the sovereign right of the citizens of this or any other free nation and those elected leaders who are not willing to protect our citizen’s sovereign interests should be replaced.
Our economy has been decimated by government mismanagement.
The corrosive effect of “free” money on both economic and social systems may linger for decades. Many small businesses are closing up shop because people won’t work; often because they believe they are worth more than their skill or work ethic would reasonably justify.
For much of these effects we can thank people we elected who didn’t have the practical skills required to put out a dumpster fire, let alone navigate any crisis without turning everyone into government wards.
In spite of these and other urgent, complex problems we are offered a seemingly incessant stream of political ads warning that a “woman’s right to choose” is being single-mindedly assaulted by politicians who believe that the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade abortion protections was a good thing.
Could it be that this fearmongering is a smoke screen meant to disguise the fact that they have no solutions for these other problems except more of the same?
Roe v. Wade created abortion rights from the most tortured interpretation of the Constitution since Dred Scott.
Overturning this judicial travesty did not make abortion illegal. Citizens and their governments will, or won’t, do that.
If this debate was about a “woman’s right to choose” it would be focused on contraception, not the barbaric practice of killing the unborn. Believe whichever way you want about the subject but start by framing it honestly.
