What a difference a year makes. It seems like only yesterday that our border was secure, unemployment was at an all-time low, China was on the defensive and we were energy independent. Seems like yesterday “birthing people” were mothers and people burning cities were criminals.

Today, given the abandonment of the former president’s policy, our border is open to drug cartels, disease and sex traffickers, Chinese spies caught “red handed” are not prosecuted, and our Keystone XL pipeline is closed while we look the other way on Russia’s pipeline to Germany. You would almost think the current president was doing our adversaries a favor.

What’s more troubling is the media and Big Tech abandon journalistic integrity. Any challenge to their “truth” via our First Amendment right is labeled as “disinformation” and silenced.

We are told this is the new normal and to blame all our woes on the convenient virus. You remember the virus — where we were called xenophobic to suggest it came from China until the evidence suggested it actually did?

Yes, it’s the new normal, where we are told to blindly “follow the science,” which is constantly changing to fit any circumstances. What sense does it make to require vaccines and masks when we allow the infected to cross our borders with impunity?

It’s time to be “woke,” all right — awakened to how our way of life is being erased before our very eyes.

It’s time to wake up, America. Call your congressman, talk to your friends, write a letter. Stand up for your country while you still can, before it’s too late.

Richard Lafferty

Buffalo Township

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