New Year's Resolutions for 2022

Townhall.com ^ | December 28, 2021 | Oliver North

[Kaslin]

For many Americans -- perhaps most -- this week looks to a "Happy New Year" for our country, children and grandchildren.

Opportunity abounds in 2022. We see a resurgence of the character, strength and essential ideals for those of us who believe in the values of America's founders. Those seeking the destruction of our constitutional republic will howl if We the People reengage in governing our great nation at every level. We invite you to join us in taking full advantage of 2022's opportunities. Let us all resolve to do the following:

--Restore the Sovereignty and Integrity of the Constitution

The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land in America. It has been undermined by leftist ideologues who reject everything America stands for, particularly our individual liberties in the Bill of Rights.

The far left favors what they call a "living Constitution." This is semantic subterfuge for anything leftist judges and legislators want it to mean. Resolve to support only candidates for public office who support "original intent" in our most important seminal document.

--Choose Policies, Not Personalities

We must break free from electing personalities and look to reestablishing first-principle policies in every office from school boards to the White House. Many professing Christians openly opposed former President Donald Trump because they didn't like him, obviously overlooking his historic support of life, liberty, prosperity, Israel, national security, free and fair trade and so much more. They judged him by his flaws, not his policies; many now regret this mistake.

--Eliminate the COVID Mandates

resident Joe Biden campaigned and came to office promising to eliminate the COVID-19 virus and unite Americans. He has done neither. We need to pray the Supreme Court determines his "vaccinate or get fired" mandates to be unconstitutional and therefore illegal.

--Replace the Biden Administration's Socialist Agenda with Free-Market Policies

Big government is the mortal enemy of free enterprise. This is our fundamental opposition to socialism. Our founders were advocates of free markets, entrepreneurship, individual initiative, opportunity and personal responsibility.

America was never intended to be a nanny state where all in America, citizens or not, depend on the federal government for their welfare. Yet, the "Bidenistas" apparently want all who are here, legally or not, to be assured they can depend on our federal government to provide free housing, food, education, etc.

In our book, "We Didn't Fight for Socialism," we warned that the step from nanny state to socialist despotism is a small one. The Biden administration is fast taking a final, fatal step toward complete government control over our lives. It's time we recall our prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread," isn't a plea to a government agency.

--Stop the Southern Border Atrocities

Within hours of taking office, Biden used executive orders to eliminate border control measures approved by Congress and signed into law by his predecessor. The Biden administration's "open borders" rhetoric served to invite nearly two million illegal immigrants, including tens of thousands of untested and unvaccinated virus-carriers, and undocumented human and drug traffickers. Even known terrorists have been apprehended, and we don't know how many got through.

--Restore Military Preparedness and Morale

The Biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan this past summer resulted in immediate, long-term damage to U.S. global relationships and formal alliances.

Communist China, Russia, Iran and North Korea all pose serious threats to the U.S. and Israel, our closest Middle Eastern ally.

Biden's response to these congressional inquiries has been to ignore clear and present threats to our national security. Xi Jinping's Communist China already has more combatant vessels than the U.S Navy and is building faster weapon systems. Meanwhile, the focus of our military is social-justice training.

[HighSierra5]

I’m all for preserving the Constitution. But our other founding document, The Declaration of Independence, demands that if our government becomes oppressive again that it’s our duty to fight for Liberty.

[nagdt]

Good start!
Here’s we should all think about.
Volunteer to work the election at the polls.
Become involved in local politics in your town. Run or campaign.
Fight like hell. 22 is critical.

[hoagy62]

--Replace the Biden Administration's Socialist Agenda with Free-Market Policies

How about this instead?

[ken in texas]

That works for me.

[Don Corleone]

Fight like hell to preserve our republic.

[caww]

........” if our government becomes oppressive again that it’s our duty to fight for Liberty”..........

We have too many indoctrinated with leftists ideology who understand that statement or even want to. Duty is not in their vocabulary.

[Elsie]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.