[Note: this was published to my Facebook, X, and LinkedIn accounts in October 2024]
Hold your nose if you have to, but vote for the Presidential candidate who will try to undo some of the current madness.
- The insane policy of wide-open borders, bringing in millions of people, and with them more crime, drugs, and sex trafficking
- The preposterously named Inflation Reduction Act, which did the opposite by funding an orgy of spending on everything Congress could think of. That and COVID-inspired spending gave us dramatically higher prices
- Toleration of lawlessness: homeless encampments in cities, riots, and organized looting of stores
- Opposition to fossil fuels in pursuit of NetZero, an unnecessary and impossible goal which can only result in higher energy costs and turning off the electricity and heat for millions
- Pressuring social media companies to suppress the speech of those who oppose government policies, or reveal wrongdoing
- Promotion of gender confusion which results in males in female spaces and sports, and encourages vulnerable young people to take puberty blockers and mutilate their bodies
- Enforcing pointless COVID policies like masks on planes and mandatory shots to stay employed (fortunately these have already been overturned by courts)
- Endless funding of the war in Ukraine, bringing us closer to direct conflict with Russia, and resulting in constant deaths to move a border half a kilometer here and there.
Is anything - anything at all - better than it was in [pre-COVID] 2020??
Maybe with help from Elon Musk some progress can be made about government spending and inefficiency. Maybe with help from RFK Jr. some progress can be made about the obesity and poor health of Americans.
Our current path is nothing short of insanity.