by Dana Gentry, Corvallis
The divisiveness in our current political scene is undeniably disconcerting. At the root is a very powerful minority of Americans that reject the core principles upon which our Constitution and our society rest: principles of Western civilization, republican government, and the Christian heritage.
In the view of this minority, the American founding was a crime, people should be judged largely on race and gender, elections should be manipulated (to protect “our democracy”), the traditional family structure should be abandoned, sexual morals should be perverted, and government should be nearly sovereign.
These ideas resemble a variant of fascism in which everyone serves the state and in which individual rights (economic and political) are exercised only with the elites’ permission. This minority not only believes these things themselves, but they want to force you to accept them also. They’re authoritarian.
Can we stop this train wreck happening in America? By all means. Push back against their agenda; it isn’t “divisiveness.” It’s self-defense.