We the People—or the Pack?
A sobering look at liberty, responsibility, and the role of citizens.
Whenever I see the sign on the Sheboygan Democrat Party HQ “We the People,” I feel like a sheep sighting a pack of wolves. It doesn’t help that at our last State of the Union address, every Democrat lawmaker refused to stand for the principle that the chief role of government is to protect its citizens.
It wasn’t that long ago that The People’s Republic of China, because they feared the loyalty of people to their faith, family, land, and culture, starved or shot more than fifty million of its own citizens to benefit The People and still sell body parts of useless citizens on the world market. Murder by and for The People has become so routine that few even noticed when The People’s government of Iran shot 40,000 of its own citizens and, to make a point, gang raped nurses who came to their aid.
Closer to home, even while the People’s paradise island of Cuba circles the drain, having squeezed their citizens dry and run out of other people’s money, giddy Democrats isolated from history on an island in New York harbor cheer the second coming of Fidel Castro in the form of Zohran Mamdani.
We really need the down-home wisdom of our founders, one, probably Ben Franklin, who dryly observed, “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.” Fortunately for us, he continued, “Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.” By arming citizens, not with guns but with a system of limited law and a hard-core bill of rights, these clear-eyed colonials gave us a chance to defend our lives, liberty, and property from packs of we the people, both foreign and domestic.
When citizens don’t bother to vote or trot mindlessly off to the polls to put wolves on the judicial bench, sheep become mutton. Pray that our Good Shepherd not give us what we so richly deserve.
— Art DeJong, Sheboygan
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