Opinion: Lets Leave the Left

Over the next several weeks we will be featuring various opinion pieces written in Mr. Rutter’s 10th grade English classes.

Opinion: Lets Leave the Left

Let us review what the left-wing political ideologies have given us in recent years. The left has supported infanticide. The left has created false racism. The left has allowed the intake of drugs and illegal immigrants including deadly MS-13 gang members. The left-wing political agenda is trying to destroy America.

Liberals have allowed and even embraced the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of babies. Planned Parenthood alone kills 310,000 unborn babies every year. According to The New American, the total is much more astounding as approximately 42 million abortions took place last year, worldwide; thereby, making it the leading cause of death in 2018. Rather than accepting it as murder, the left has called it a woman’s right to choose whether she has a child or not. I am a firm believer that your actions have consequences, and I think it is simple as this: The choice is made when two individuals choose to have a relationship resulting in a child. This may bring some tough consequences in some cases, but that does not give you the right to kill this unplanned, pre-born baby. The fifth amendment of our constitution says, “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” Clearly, abortion doesn’t allow due process of law, but allows the parents to decide if they are “ready for kids.”

Now more than any time in the past, we are getting ideas like free healthcare, free college, welfare for all, and many other socialist policies. For 243 years our country has thrived and prospered as a free market, capitalist country, so why would we change?

That is not the only thing leftists have done either. All too often we hear the left refer to anyone who disagrees with them “racist” or “white supremacists” as they often do to President Trump. This is far from true!. President Trump has done a lot to help the minorities in our country during the first two years of his term. According to the government facts sheet, Trump has raised black employment by 976,000 jobs, this puts the black unemployment rate at the lowest it has ever been, 5.9%. Trump also passed “The First Step Act.” The goal of this act is to keep African Americans out of life-long prison sentences for non-violent drug crimes and allow our taxpayer dollars to go towards something else. In a speech, President Trump says, “We’re fighting to give every American — all over the country, every single American — a future of dignity and purpose and of pride.” Does this sound like the “racist Nazi” the left-wing media tries to make Trump appear to be? Obviously, not.

Does the liberal movement have any idea to the number of illegal drugs and narcotic smuggled into the United States each year? Approximately, 1,555,552 pounds of drugs crossed the United States- Mexico border in 2015. Heroin, fentanyl, marijuana, and many other drugs are just pouring endlessly into America. These drugs kill hundreds of Americans every single day. In addition, there are 56,000 illegal immigrants populating our federal prison system with even more residing in state and local prisons. The left, however, doesn’t seem to care. Just this year, the left shut down a spending bill that put less than one percent of the federal budget towards building a wall along the southern border to help border patrol agents control, monitor, and inhibit the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented immigrants. Liberals argue that walls are immoral or ineffective, but in reality, this is bogus. If you build walls to keep people in that’s tyranny, but if you build walls to keep people out, that’s an expression of sovereignty and love for the people on the inside. Trump has also received a lot of criticism for calling MS-13 gang members who cross the border “animals.” The truth is, however, that is exactly what they are. “Kill, rape and control.” This is the actual motto of the MS-13 gang that the left is choosing to defend, but yet, they still refuse to defend law-abiding American citizens from the drugs, gangs, and corruption of Mexico.

Now more than any time in the past, we are getting ideas like free healthcare, free college, welfare for all, and many other socialist policies. For 243 years our country has thrived and prospered as a free market, capitalist country, so why would we change? We have allowed capitalism to bring us to the top and personally I want to stay there. The 70% tax rate and free everything these democratic socialists are suggesting is not the way to stay there. We have watched Venezuela be destroyed by this same issue over the last few years. Venezuela was trapped in the promises of fairness and economic equality after it was adopted they found out that it doesn’t make everyone equally rich, but rather equally poor. We have seen leftist ideology destroy other countries and if something isn’t done we will be next on the hit list.