Let me hit you in the face

Did you ever get hit in the face? It hurts and gets your immediate attention. I hope to hit you square in the face and get your immediate attention.

I grew up being told Republicans are the party of the rich and big business. Democrats are the party of the laborer and poor. If that was true 60 years ago, it definitely is not true today - a myth.

Both parties have morphed into a more or less single party with major distinctions on "lesser" issues. To be sure there are differences on issues of gun control, abortion, education, etc. I don't minimize those issues, but that is not the "big picture." The issues that divide the parties are less critical than the issues that unite the parties in the "bigger picture."

The "big picture" issues uniting both parties is done by the commonly referred to "status quo." People in power are willing to do anything to maintain that power base, even when it subverts the will of the American people. The status quo currently undermines America and the working middle class in favor of a "bigger picture" idea.

The "big picture" is validated by both parties passing laws and executive orders contrary to the good of the people - laws on food labeling, vaccinations, religious suppression and more. They deceitfully use terms like "political correctness," which is code for taking away your civil rights or saying "evil doers" when it really means criminals.

The "sameness" of the two political parties is aptly illustrated and even more obvious over the past 16 years watching Obama and Bush. They typify the status quo.

Four critical "big picture" ideas that undermine the American way of life:

1. Collusion and corruption: Both Bush and Obama trumpeted the most transparent administrations ever - not. Bush and his secret meetings with oil executives resulting in a no bid contract for Halliburton, a Dicky Cheney run company, was surely not transparent. Obama's Affordable Care Act was never truly disclosed before being passed, surely not transparent. Each illustrates collusion and corruption. Other failures of disclosure like Fukushima, chem. trails and vaccinations illustrate the government working under the cloak of darkness. Collusion and corruption is the mechanism used by the status quo to rule "over the people" and not "for the people."

2. Immigration: Initial position of both parties was to control immigration. A mirage, neither party intended to control immigration. Bush made a feeble attempt to build a wall. The earlier version of Hillary wanted a "barrier" and Bill Clinton verbally committed to controlling immigration. All lies; initial polls revealed more than 90 percent of Americans wanted border control.

Dipwit political hacks invaded the sanity of people's thinking and now the "do-gooders" with scrambled intellect think immigration is necessary. Punch!

The U.S. can survive individual attacks like 9/11, but it cannot survive increasing numbers of immigrants who support Shariah and not democracy overflowing our borders.

The financial impact on schools, hospitals, welfare, housing and jobs is a cost no nation can sustain. Especially not a nation $20 trillion in debt.

3. National debt: Decades of failed monetary policy led to mountains of debt. Debt under Bush and Obama exploded. Bush added $5 trillion and Obama added $10 trillion to our current $20 trillion national debt.

This "unrepairable debt" has consequences for everyone. The government is forced to lie about inflation (collusion and corruption) and states it is three-tenths of 1 percent this year. By their calculations, that amounts to the price of a loaf of bread a month. Not one reader in a million believes that fabrication.

More critical to the world is the Federal Reserve printing money out of control and causing dollar rejection. International trade using the yuan, euro, yen and ruble increase while the international supremacy of the dollar dies. It is slowly for now but ever increasing each year. Dire consequences in our future; all done with intent by the status quo. Punch.

4. Nationalism versus globalism: This is the big enchilada. This issue ties it all together. This is why the status quo colludes and corrupts, encourages uncontrolled immigration, attacks the constitution and the middle-class worker and is slowly undermining the dollar. It is the long-term, planned destruction of a nation.

Our controversies and laws lead us down the path to globalism. Not kneeling for the national anthem and Black Lives Matter support rejection of America as a nation. Loss of jobs, increased immigration, attacks on the constitution, dollar devaluation and accepted obvious political collusion and corruption hasten America's downfall.

I know this "big picture" idea will be scoffed at and rejected by many. But as you look at each piece of the jigsaw puzzle as they interlock, the "big picture" becomes crystal clear.

Enough with the absurdities and atrocities of government gone wild. Enough of globalism over nationalism. In this "last chance election" we can have a golden opportunity. We can be a force for good and dismantle the corruption of everyday politics and turn back the clock on globalism.

The world awaits your decision. I pray you vote with an open mind. It's in your hands. It's your last chance.

Terrence Watto

CDR/USN/Retired, Lehighton