I will never forget a statement made by an Air Force Major to his ROTC class.  “Anyone can demand respect.”  He said.  “But only a true leader can command respect”.  As I look at the current political landscape from the viewpoint of a child of the “Greatest Generation”, I find very few individuals on either side of the political aisle in Washington who typify the latter.  I can name none in the Democratic Party who do.

From the time in the mid 1980s when the Democrats began their seemingly inexorable slide to the left, that party has become a pale shadow of what it was in my youth.  Politics is a dirty business, and George Washington warned against giving unquestioning allegiance to a single political party or group. Unfortunately too many future generations failed to follow that advice.  The catastrophic events of the First World War, followed shortly thereafter by the Great Depression of the 1930s, allowed a charismatic individual in the form of Franklin D. Roosevelt to build a power base which has threatened our country ever since.  He is venerated as the person who saved this country, not only from the events of the Depression, but also from the threats of the Axis Powers in World War Two.  He was elected for an unprecedented fours terms as President, the last cut short by a fatal illness which thrust a little known politician from Missouri, namely Harry Truman, into the Oval Office and the annals of history.  He was perhaps the last truly great Democrat to hold that office with dignity and humility.  After the inauguration of his successor, he made his own way home to Missouri, and a life of relative obscurity in retirement.

Contrast that with the Democrats to follow.  If it were not for the bullets fired by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy might have gone down in history as a womanizing philanderer.  Lyndon Johnson was worse, trying to micro-manage a jungle war from the White House, he engineered the first major defeat of United States Forces in history, and ushered in the radical left element of the Democratic Party, who have inexorably grown in power ever since.  Jimmy Carter was a bumbling fool.  The “Co-Presidency” of Bill and Hillary Clinton was marked by unbelievable corruption, a fact which could only be denied by individuals who refused to examine the facts, and allowed a willing mass media to distort the actions of the Clinton Administration into being wildly successful.  The country was saved from a disastrous Al Gore presidency by the unlikely victory of George W. Bush in 2000.  I can’t imagine what would have happened if Gore had occupied the Oval Office on September 11, 2001.

Then came the “Anointed One”, Barrack Hussein Obama, our first minority President.  To the lapdog media, he could do no wrong, although the laundry list of ignorant, possibly even treasonous actions on the part of his administration is lengthy to say the least.  Then, the unthinkable happened.  A crude, rude, hyper-egotistical businessman named Donald Trump stole the Presidency from its rightful heir, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  At least that’s what the pundits in the media would have you believe.  In order to correct this awful mistake, the outgoing President formed the “Resistance Movement” which has plagued the Trump Administration from the very beginning.

The Democratic Party has gone so far left that it probably never will be able to move back to the center.  They have burned those bridges behind them.  All the remaining Democrats running for the Presidential Candidate Nomination of their party have gone mad.  They want open borders and national healthcare (in the form of universal Medicare) for everyone, including illegal immigrants.  They want the abolishment of student loan debt, thereby absolving responsibility for stupid choices made in the form of college degrees by the students, frequently validated by their parents.  They want a guaranteed “Living Wage” for everyone, whether they choose to actually work or not!  They want to do away with the Second Amendment, and allow “Free Speech” only if it doesn’t offend them in some way or other.  They want equal results, not equal opportunity.  They are living in a fantasyland which does not exist and never will.  If they succeed in selling this concept to the voters in 2020, they will bankrupt the country and precipitate our Second Civil War. Those of us on the right will not be bludgeoned into submitting willingly to the destruction of the country we love.

In every society since the dawn of civilization there has been a ruling class.  They sometimes maintained that status by their good deeds, and sometimes by brute force.  So I return to my opening paragraph.  Do Americans want leaders who demand our respect, like Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama or the current field of Democrats?  Or instead do we want someone like Donald Trump, perhaps sometimes a little rough around the edges, but who commands our respect by getting things done, even when a seemingly endless stream of roadblocks are thrown in his way?  November 3, 2020 will give us the answer to that question, and God help us if it isn’t the right one.