Letter to the editor: American greatness disappearing

America today is a fractured nation. Some would frame this as a civil war between two political and ideological extremes, with the majority of people somewhere in the middle. I believe the war has been waged by leftist extremists intent on demolishing traditional America and replacing it with a new America. If they win, there will be no tolerance for opposition, only obeisance.

After setting the stage for all-out war over the past several decades, the left began their full offensive during 2020, resulting in the following lunacies:

• Denying the biological differences between men and women. We can now choose our gender. Men compete against women in sports. Whatever happened to “following the science?” In the new America, politics trump science.

• Denigrating and smearing our police. The early results of this asinine thinking are not good. Violent crime is near or at record levels. Police are targeted for assassination and are leaving the profession. New recruits are scarce. Violent criminals are released back to the streets in the name of “equity.” Welcome to criminal justice in the new America.

• Allowing the Bill of Rights to be open to interpretation. Eventually it will disappear altogether. We see our free speech being threatened by requirements of “non-offensive” pronouns, and citizens who question government narratives are accused of spreading “misinformation.” In the new America dissent will not be tolerated.

Think I’m being conspiratorial? We are at this point in history because many people allow their political loyalties to trump facts. When traditional American values disappear, so does American greatness. Not a joke, folks.

Richard Byers

Mt. Pleasant