Looking back on the election of 2020, it felt as if the four years ahead were centuries away, for those of us who believed the once party of the people, the regular folks, would wreak havoc on our country and our lives. In our hearts, a good number of us recognized an evil, disguised as good, would steer our beloved nation into gehenna. In fact, in many ways the last four years gave evidence of that reality.
It wasn’t just the inflation, the open border, the takeover of the major newspapers and TV stations. More devastating still was the decay of our moral bearing: abortion increasing after the defeat of Roe V. Wade nationally, with states divided and those like NY and NJ advocating and inviting women from states with stricter laws to come and receive their right to abort up to and including nine months. In fact Governor Cuomo had the Empire State building lit up when the NY legislator voted for abortion unlimited even to the survivor of an abortion alive to be left to die.
I for one, will always vote on that issue alone. But there is so much more that occurred the past four years: transgender surgeries performed on children as well as gender confused adults, required sex-ed in NJ schools grades one to twelve, mandated by the state under Gov. Murphy. Laws protecting criminals rather than victims in certain states, that increase crime. The destruction of cities with ‘race riots’ seemingly quite organized with little recrimination and blaming crime on the police. And the list goes on and includes preventable wars, as our nation weakens and our economy deteriorates.
So on election night 2024, anxiety and hope tossed back and forth as votes came in and there were predictions of an election that would take perhaps days or weeks to verify the winners. Some said it would be ‘neck and neck’ and others predicted a landslide…
To be continued
DJ Pasternak, Author 