Lessons we had better learn or they will recur with a vengeance.

The past eight years have exposed a multitude of troubling and dangerous internal threats to the freedom and security of the American people.  Left uncorrected, these risks are guaranteed to resurface and cause onerous and expensive difficulties for all of us.  Donald Trump was elected president because our federal government had become hopelessly corrupt, requiring a complete overhaul.  Liberals will disagree, but successful businessmen like Trump are exactly the kind and caliber of people America’s founders intended to become our leaders--not career lawyers, politicians and bureaucrats. 

The primary reason we are in this position is because too few informed people have been fully engaged in the operation of their government.  We must never again, for example, permit a presidential candidate who is not legally eligible to hold the office, to become a candidate for that office. 

In addition, we must never again permit a candidate who has violated federal espionage laws or any other criminal code or who has recklessly put U.S. national security at risk, to achieve the nomination of a national political party.  For far too long, we have accepted the double-standard that exists in Washington, where Republicans who are accused of any offense, real or imagined, are run out of office, but Democrats who commit crimes are defended by their party and constituents.

In 2008, despite the fact that Barack Hussein Obama had no qualifications for the presidency, no leadership ability and no birth certificate, the media and Democrats hid these facts from the public.  Obama had never led an organization or built a business.  He had no federal government experience of any kind, but did have a number of terrible skeletons in his closet.  In fact, he had only bothered even to show up for his duties in the U.S. Senate, 130 days before he decided to run for president.  American deserves better than this--much better.  

With every new administration, enormous changes are imposed upon the military.  The way that the U.S. Armed Forces have routinely been abused by liberal politicians is unacceptable.  Americans cannot afford to allow Democrat politicians to use the armed services as a petri dish for social experimentation, especially when the trials compel the injection of sexual deviance and perversion.  The mission of the military services is far too dangerous and difficult to be further complicated by political exploitation. 

There must be established a minimum funding level for each branch of the military services.  If the consequences were known in advance, no one would chose to serve in the U.S. armed forces under a Democrat president.  Defense Department budget cuts are often used by liberals to pay for the vote-purchasing policies that they use to keep themselves and their party in office.  All Americans suffer when this inane practice is permitted.

One branch of the federal government that citizens can never again be permit to be corrupted by politics is the Justice Department.  We have seen countless examples of the Obama administration circumventing justice for political advantage.  Attorney General Eric Holder’s illegal Operation Fast and Furious and his corrupt abuse of the department to attack Virginia’s Republican Governor, Bob McDonnell on specious charges cannot be repeated.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s refusal to prosecute crimes such as voter fraud, rioting, espionage laws as well as her crooked secret meeting with former president Bill Clinton while the F.B.I. was investigating his wife, Hillary, can be tolerated no more.  A Justice Department that becomes a political weapon, is incapable of administering justice and it loses crucial public credibility. 

No longer can any sensible person pretend that the mainstream media is a reliable news reporting industry.  They have jettisoned all efforts to conceal their blatant advocacy for the Democrat party, and for this reason, they cannot be trusted as a source of credible information.  Fortunately, technology is pushing them into obsolescence.  Anyone with a smart phone, internet access or even a radio can get the truth about the most important issues that Americans must confront.  An informed electorate is crucial to proper governing of a free people. 

Finally, we must do a better job of educating young people about how American government is supposed to work.  The protests, rioting and threats to electors that  followed the presidential election were, in part, a result of massive public ignorance. 

Many of those involved in the post-election hysteria and protests believed that America’s president should to be chosen by the popular vote.  Why?  Because they erroneously believe that America is a democracy.  This is understandable since Democrat politicians and mainstream media hacks constantly refer to the government as “our democracy,” when, in fact, we are a representative republic. 

The media’s phony pre-election polls, their refusal to report the widespread corruption perpetrated by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, as well as the media’s constant implication of Clinton campaign mischaracterizations of Donald Trump as worthy of merit, are to blame for their total lack of credibility.  However, it appears that the disgraced media partisans still intend to proliferate the campaign of public deceit and delusion. 

Watching any Sunday morning network political program, provides ample evidence that the crooked media networks intend to continue fomenting fear and anxiety about the Trump presidency primarily, because Donald Trump vows to reestablish enforcement of our laws. 

British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill once quipped, “The best argument against democracy, is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”  An uninformed voter with a ballot is far more dangerous to himself and his nation than anyone holding a gun.