Commonsense and Reason

By Fred Bates - October 2024   MAGA (Make America Great Again) is a fool's errand - MAAA (Make America America Again) is a more realistic goal Don't get me wrong. I am in support of the goal of the MAGA movement of Donald Trump. Who could possibly be against making America a great nation again? However, trying to make America great again is a fool's errand. A more realistic goal would be to make America America again by getting back to basic norms such as border security, sound foreign policy focused on national security backed by a strong military, eliminating waste and corruption in government, protecting voting rights and election integrity, respecting the other rights of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution, supporting law enforcement to ensure safe communities, and having respect for our economic system that is based on capitalism. Getting back to these norms will make America America again, but this alone will not make America great again. For America to be great a...

 By Fred Bates - August 2024 Democrats' hypocrisy has no bounds when it comes to their defense of democracy Donald Trump was accused by Democrats of election interference for making a phone call to President Zelensky in July 2019, during which, Trump was accused of pressuring Zelensky to dig up dirt on his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden. At that time, Biden hadn't declared himself a candidate for president. Trump was impeached by the Democrat led House of Representatives in December 2019, even though, the constitutional requirement for impeachment of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors was not met. Undeterred by the failure of the first impeachment, Trump was impeached a second time for his actions following the 2020 presidential election. Trump made claims that the election was stolen from him because of fraud. On January 6, 2021, the day of the certification of the election of Joe Biden as President, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in protest. De...