LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Socialism is on the rise

If anybody has noticed in the last couple of years, Socialism is coming. Gee, what a surprise!

The Socialist Party of America was actually founded in 1901, thus meaning that the Socialists have been working to overthrow the U.S. for about 120 years. It has become blatantly obvious since Obama was president.

It has become in-your-face blatant since the Corona virus hit in 2020. Has it not occurred to anyone that the governmental attempts to force everyone to wear a mask all the time, and trying to force everybody to stay home and not travel are nothing but a means of controlling the population? That is one of the indications of a Socialistic regime, because a population that can’t move around is easier to control. And, requiring a vaccination certificate to travel or go out in public sounds suspiciously like the Nazis saying, “Show me your papers.”

The vaccination mandates are another example of trying to control people, and are not legal. The government has no authority by law, nor by the Constitution, to force anyone to take any kind of medicine, for any reason. That is an individual decision. One of the eight steps in converting Capitalism to Socialism is letting the government take charge of the healthcare system.

Another manifestation of Socialism is the government takeover of the public school system. Ninety-nine percent of the schools do not teach anything about the Constitution, or if they do, they teach an incorrect version of what the Constitution actually says. I saw a picture of a page in a Social Studies textbook used in some school system, which showed the first 10 Amendments, which are the Bill of Rights. A concerned parent had circled the Second Amendment, which, according to that textbook, said only that the Second Amendment meant the people could carry arms in the National Guard. Anyone with an IQ higher than an ice cube knows that is not correct, but that type of thing is what students are being taught today. After all, if a person does not know what their rights are, it is easier to take them away!

The First Amendment has also been perverted by liberals (Socialists) who say that, of course, you have the right to freedom of speech, except you can’t say things that hurt people’s feelings. They try to say that ‘hate speech’ is not protected under the First Amendment, but, in actuality, it is. People have the right to say absolutely anything they want to. They also have the responsibility of accepting the consequences of what they say, but that is part of our freedoms. I may say something that makes you want to punch me in the mouth, but I still have the right to say it!

If people do not wake up and start resisting this Socialism encroachment, we will not be America much longer. We need to start by electing conservative politicians, whether Democrat or Republican; voting out all of the liberal, far-left wing incumbents, whether Democrat or Republican, (most of them are Democrats); and trying to get America back to the principles on which it was founded. Civics should start to being taught in schools again; a course on the Constitution should be required for a high school diploma; and any teachers or professors who indoctrinate, instead of just teaching, should be summarily fired!

Unfortunately, I don’t hold out much hope of any of this happening, because I am afraid it has gone too far to stop it. But, we can only hope!

Sandy Milner

Odessa