When Did We Vote to Have Our World Turned Upside Down

If you are as old as I am, or older, you probably don't recognize your country any more. When I was a youngster, a postage stamp cost 4 cents and had Abraham Lincoln on it. We wrote letters to people, because it was cheaper than making a long distance call. Boys all carried a pocket knife to school, and nobody cared. Of course, boys did not go around stabbing each other either. Hard work paid off, slackers became gas station attendents. You get the idea. Many of us are asking what happened?

Some clues are contained in a book I am reading from Paul Kengor and Mary Nicholas entitled The Devil and Bella Dodd that indicates that the Left has been working to establish a different culture from the one defined by the Constitution since the early 1800s by people you never heard of. And while we went about living our lives, the Left contantly sought to undermine our churches, our industrial power, our economic power, our military power, indeed, they sought to turn us into a nation of serfs.

As Victor Davis Hanson at Townhall.com notes in his article The Coup We Never Knew that we never had a debate on these issues, or were given a chance to vote on them. They just suddenly were.

Did someone or something seize control of the United States?

What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?

Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?

When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent of dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America's wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, and which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?

Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas - furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices' homes, with placards declaring "Off with their d--s"?

Hanson goes on and on with pointing to things being done to our culture or our laws that we didn't have a say in, indeed were not even asked if we wanted these things. He concluding with this:

We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare of a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup, we never knew.

Of course there are more things that can be added. When did we decide to groom our children with drag queen story hours or drag queen fashion shows? Indeed, when did we decide that Genesis is wrong and that there are actually 72 or whatever number of genders? But enough. The point is when did the majority of us agree to have our world turned upside down?