OPINION:
When in the course of human events, a “woke” partisan mob, in collaboration with Wall Street globalists, social media oligarchs, and a propagandist corporate media, seizes the reins of power, it becomes necessary for the people most victimized to throw these rascals out. To this end, we hold these truths to be self-evident:
American taxpayers are entitled to a fair return on the investments they make through tax payments and sound governance. They must not be treated as instruments of a Marxian redistribution of income to advance leftist causes. A country in which only a minority of its citizens pay income taxes is now inviting abuses of the “woke” mob.
The American economy is endowed with abundant natural resources, ample capital, and a superbly skilled workforce, and American citizens are entitled to high productivity, low inflation, rising real wages and prosperous growth. This can be achieved only through substantial investment on U.S. shores, secure domestic supply chains, strategic energy dominance, and fiscal responsibility.
Instead, the “woke” mob has delivered virulent stagflation, falling productivity and real wages, fragile supply chains, offshore production, and a crushing debt burden on future generations.
America’s borders must be secure for safety as well as economic and national security. Open borders such as those being delivered by the “woke” mob increase crime, catalyze drug and child trafficking by unscrupulous cartels, allow the penetration of our interior by enemies ranging from Islamic terrorists to Chinese agent provocateurs, and facilitate the entry of undocumented, illiterate aliens who will unfairly compete with Black and brown Americans for blue-collar jobs while driving down wages.
American citizens have the right to move about freely and choose their own forms of medical care. Instead, the “woke” mob has subjected the citizenry to unwarranted lockdowns and experimental medical injections under the false rubric of “safe and effective vaccines” while denying citizens access to alternative safe and effective therapeutics.
America’s schools must be dedicated to preparing our children for a fiercely competitive global environment with a laser focus on the modern-day version of reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, the “woke” mob and its teachers union cadres indoctrinate our children while exposing them to pornography, gender dogma and revisionist history.
American voters are entitled to fair elections in which only legal votes are counted. The “woke” mob’s elimination of even the most basic safeguards, such as signature match on ballots, combined with the shadowy use of practices such as illegal drop boxes and ballot harvesting, have made a mockery of what was once the most admired democracy in the world.
American citizens must have the full protection of the rights set forth in the Constitution. In violation of the First Amendment, the “woke” mob’s cancel culture, as enforced by employers, social media oligarchs and the corporate media, abridges free speech and denies the right of the American people to assemble in the digital square.
In violation of the Fourth Amendment, the FBI now regularly violates the rights of people to be secure in their homes. Under White House leadership, the Department of Justice and FBI use raids and coercion to silence American citizens who challenge “woke” dogma. Concerned parents are being unfairly branded as “domestic terrorists” simply for speaking up at school board meetings.
The American judicial system must blindly deliver equal justice under the law. Instead, the “woke” mob has weaponized our law enforcement agencies and courts to deny citizens the right to run for political office while burdening members of the minority party with unwarranted lawsuits, indictments, legal fees, and other such “lawfare” costs.
The U.S. military must focus on combat readiness to best protect this nation. The sons and daughters of America’s working classes asked to protect this country must not be used as cannon fodder in endless wars that position America as the world’s policeman.
Instead, a “woke” Pentagon is more interested in being politically correct than in protecting America from its enemies. After finally ending a seemingly endless war in Afghanistan in the most humiliating and dangerous of ways, the “woke” mob itself is now pushing this nation toward a new endless war in Ukraine, one already draining the American arsenal and making us easier prey for existential threats such as China and Iran.
Whenever any form of government becomes so destructive, it is the duty of each of us in the American nation to alter that government. In today’s America, the next best chance for voters to do so is in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections. On today’s Capitol Hill, the next best chance for a House Republican majority to right these wrongs is right now.
• Peter Navarro served as manufacturing czar and chief China strategist in the Trump White House. This column originally appeared at www.peternavarro.substack.com.
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