Like most average Americans who follow the news of the day, I have been watching with mouth wide open and jaw dropped as the Far Left Democrat politicians, whom I have dubbed the Democrat Elite, continue to double down on stupid, championing political strategy and policies aimed at changing America from a Constitutional Republic to a Socialist Paradise.
It got me thinking about some of the obvious differences between the self-proclaimed “Smartest People in the Room” and Americans who actually have to work for a living.
The first difference is probably the most obvious.
The Democrat Elite care more about illegal aliens than they do about average Americans. This is no secret. They view those who have already broken our law as Angelic visitors whose vote will bring them back to the “Promised Land.”
The second difference was revealed to the entire world this week as Health and Human Services Director Robert F Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee.
That difference being, that the self-proclaimed protectors of our children care more about the gigantic pharmaceutical companies than they do about the actual health of our precious ones.
If you watched any of those committee members going after Bobby Kennedy like he was a free filet mignon from one of their pharmaceutical lobbyists, you saw a bunch of greedy politicians who get hundreds of thousands of dollars from these companies determined to keep that money flowing.
The third difference that has come to the attention of average Americans, is how the Democrat Elite have all these wonderful and marvelous ideas for enhancing the lives of those who live on society’s fringe and how they couldn’t give a rat’s rear about Americans living, working, and loving their country.
During the Presidential Administration of the dementia-riddled zombie known as Joe Biden, the Democrat Elite spent our money on plans and programs like transvestite comic books for foreign countries and training centers in cities like Chicago teaching illegals who cannot speak or read English to drive semi trucks,
Another difference is the fact that those who are supposed to be working for us in the Democrat Elite have been working for themselves, enriching themselves through insider trading, real estate deals, and out of control lobbyists.
Average Americans can’t do that. It is all they can do to live paycheck-to-paycheck because of the poor stewardship of the Biden Administration in those behind it.
Things are starting to get better under President Trump. However, it will take a while for him and those working in his administration to undo all the economic damage.
Finally, the one thing that really sticks out to me as a difference is the fact that the majority of average Americans believe in God and the majority of those who believe in a higher power are Christians who have been raised to believe in traditional American faith and values.
These Democrat Elite believe that THEY are the Higher Power, sitting on a modern Mount Olympus on Capitol Hill, able to foist their beliefs on the American people, even if it is Satan and his demons whispering in their ears.
I could go into a rant about the Hollywood/”Popular Music” Chapter of the Democrat Elite and their wearing of satanic jewelry and their practice of satanic live performances.
However, that would make this opinion piece way too long.
As evidenced in the 2024 presidential election, the Democrat Elite has completely lost touch with average Americans and their wants and needs for those whom they send to Capitol Hill to actually work FOR them instead of AGAINST them in this day-to-day struggle we call life.
Average Americans don’t want Democratic Socialism, AKA Communism. They want the opportunity for self achievement, achieving and living the American Dream.
For that to happen, unnecessary regulations and taxes have to be eliminated and our major cities that are suffering because crime is out of control have to be cleaned up by whatever means necessary, including sending in the National Guard, as President Trump has been doing.
All average Americans ask is to be left alone by big government and allowed to live their lives and raise their children and grandchildren as they see fit.
For that to happen, the Democrat Elites actually have to come down from Mount Olympus and start serving their constituents instead of trying to run their lives.
As President Donald J Trump continues to perform his duties as not only Commander-in-Chief but also Chief Executive Officer of the United States of America, the Democrat Elite in America are being exposed as not knowing what in the world they are doing.
Their unbridled blind hatred for the man and the traditional faith and values of the average Americans who elected him, is being revealed through a tanking of their political aspirations similar to the death plunge of a Japanese World War II kamikaze pilot.
They remain so hypnotized and deluded by their failed Marxist political ideology that they are willing to sacrifice everything in a misguided effort to radically change America into something that the majority of Americans do not want it to be.
For example, their failed effort to defund the police departments in major democrat-run cities resulted in more crime, including carjacking, assaults, rape, and murder.
Our nation’s capital became too dangerous for Americans to visit.
And, when President Trump decided to do something about it and bring the National Guard in to help out the beleaguered Police Department, the Democrat Mayor objected and the Democrat Elite and all their paid protesters and Media Minions accused Trump of being a fascist and a wannabe dictator, when in fact he is just fulfilling his campaign promise to the American people to fight crime in our cities.
Meanwhile, in the Corporate World, the poor stewardship of CEOs educated beyond their intelligence continues as the DEI Hire who assumed control of the venerable Cracker Barrel restaurants, is stripping them of all of of their nostalgic cultural memorabilia and personality which attracted customers to them in the first place.
In her deluded mind, she thinks that the same people who look down upon patriotic average Americans will somehow start flocking to these new politically correct shells of what Cracker Barrel Restaurants used to be.
These “Woke” Democrats like the CEO of Cracker Barrel and the Democrat Elite believe themselves to be the smartest people in any room they walk into, leading them to be extremely arrogant and condescending to average Americans whose belief system is believed by these self-proclaimed “super-geniuses” to be inferior of their own misguided beliefs.
In reality, the political ideology that the Far Left Democrat Party, which these “super-geniuses” belong to, has failed everywhere it has been tried.
Marxism, the political ideology which Democratic Socialism springs from, is a totalitarian ideology that views faith as being stupid and individual freedom and achievement as being detrimental to the good of “The State”.
“The State” becomes your parents, your guidance counselor, and your spiritual advisor, choosing a career path for you and telling you what to believe in and what is good.
In reality, the only people who have a good life under a Marxist political ideology are the bureaucrats running the government and the very wealthy oligarchs who run it with them. Average working people or “the proletariat” are considered to be nothing but sheep, working their lives away so the government and the bourgeoisie can be rich and enjoy the perks of being wealthy.
The Democrat Elite wanted this totalitarian governmental system to be installed as the government of the United States of America, replacing our Constitutional Republic.
They are still holding on to this dream like a snapping turtle on a broom handle.
The Democrat Elite never expected the American people to stand up in revolt against their political ideology by re-electing President Donald J Trump after they did everything they could keep that from happening.
The American people had had their fill of the Democrat Elites’ Socialist Paradise Dream.
This past week, Americans have been watching as the Woke CEO and Chief Marketing Officer have been defending the rebranding of Southern-born Cracker Barrel Restaurants into a bland cardboard cutout of a corporate restaurant with no identity at all except some stuff hanging on its walls that looks like it should be in a nouveau riche art gallery.
Why do Woke Democrats have this insatiable lust to fix American traditions and values that do not need fixing?
Just like Bud Light and comic book superheroes like Superman, Cracker Barrel did not need changing.
The restaurants were an enjoyable part of Americana that reminded everybody of visiting their Grandma’s house, serving up biscuits and gravy, pancakes, fried chicken, meatloaf, and comfort foods that Americans were raised on.
Woke Democrats, just like the ones in Washington DC like Senate Minority Leader Chuck “U.” Schumer, refuse to accept the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans have rejected their woke ideology and are racing back to embrace traditional American faith and values.
Attendance in churches is up, and public displays of patriotism have popped up all over the country.
Average Americans are actually smiling again because they have a Presidential Administration who listens to them.
Democrats, like the woke women in charge at Cracker Barrel, had probably never even been to a Cracker Barrel restaurant before they got their high-paid positions.
Just like the CEO of the NFL, Roger Goodell, who believes that football fans want to see effeminate guys in spandex prance around the field with the beautiful women cheerleaders, those in charge of Cracker Barrel are as out of touch as those Japanese soldiers were who were found living in caves after World War II.
The Democrat Elite know that only 19% of Americans approve of what they’re doing, and yet they plow ahead with their failed politically-driven strategies oblivious to what Americans actually want them to be championing.
As I have written, their self-aggrandizing purposeful obtuseness has corrupted not only politics, but sports and entertainment as well.
That’s why all the Marvel superhero movies that they have produced in this phase of production have bombed.
Americans don’t want to be lectured to about an ideology they don’t believe in.
They want to be entertained.
At this rate, the Democrats are going to keep on pushing ahead until they meet the same fate as the Whigs (Google it, kids).
Unless the smartest people in the room, reverse course and stop their Rebrand of the Americana-driven Cracker Barrel restaurants, they will close within a year because Americans aren’t going to put up with it and they sure aren’t going to go there to eat.
Heck, if Hollywood’s Woke Democrats were to reboot the classic Saturday morning cartoon, Jonny Quest, they would probably make Professor Quest and Race Bannon lovers.
I was watching Fox and Friends this morning when a Catholic priest said that the turning away from God that has been happening in America has slowed down now, and people seem to be turning toward him.
In the past couple of decades, Christian Americans have watched as our people have turned away from God.
Although there was still a silent majority who believed in God, the vocal minority stepped forward and start proclaiming that wrong was right, morality was unnecessary, ethics were situational, and Satan wasn’t such a bad guy after all.
Sexual perversion and Satan worship became accepted as Hollywood trends and fashion statements. And, the traditional roles of men and women and the raising and building of a family and their effect on society have become viewed as passe when in fact they have always been the backbone of America.
So, why are people starting to turn toward the One who created them?
As one of my brothers in Christ reminds me all the time, it’s not politicians who are going to get us out of all of this.
It is God.
Politicians come and go.
Total power corrupts totally, as we have seen in recent days.
American have been struggling in their day-to-day lives for quite a while now trying to make ends meet.
Who do you think they turn to in these situations?
Family can help sometimes, but a lot of times nowadays, they are in the same situation that those seeking help are in.
Politicians come and go, but God is eternal.
When we take the step of repentance of our sins and start relying on God, he listens to our prayers and gets us through.
As we try to turn the corner in our country and make America great again, as President Trump showed in having a prayer before his cabinet meeting, faith in God is the Cornerstone of our progress.
While watching clips from Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards, it struck me that Americans are actually becoming optimistic again.
After 4 years of failed leadership, the emphasizing of weakness instead of strength, and, quite frankly, perversion, instead of the things which made America the greatest country on the face of the Earth, Americans are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not, for a change, an oncoming train.
Americans across the country are doing the dance that President-elect Donald J Trump does to the song “YMCA”.
Meanwhile, when they’re not blaming Biden for the political tsunami, which reelected Trump, the Democrat Elites are running around proclaiming that the sky is falling like Henny Penny in the children’s story.
The Democrats seem particularly upset that Trump is already working to fulfill the promises that he’s made to the American people.
That is to be expected because the Democrat Elite and Biden’s handlers did nothing for the American people except to make everybody more miserable.
Speaking of miserable, these Democrats and certain Establishment Republican Warhawks seem intent on fighting against Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense.
The reason for that is because Pete is an outsider, a straight shooter who doesn’t hobknob with the Democrat Elite and their, shall we say, “fellow travelers.”
Pete is not a warhawk.
He is a warrior.
A lot of Americans have come to Pete’s defense and have spoken about his faith in Jesus Christ.
I’m pretty sure that fact has gone straight over the heads of the Democrat Elite.
They don’t understand salvation and being born again.
Encased in a self-imposed bubble of political power in Washington, DC, these professional politicians and bureaucrats remain oblivious to the things that matter to average Americans.
All of the Democrat Elite, Establishment Republicans, and Deep State Bureaucrats need to understand and accept the fact that Trump was given a mandate by the American voters.
It’s time for them to work for the American people and not against them.
It’s a little over a month before President Trump will be inaugurated again.
Americans can see the sun beginning to come up over the horizon.
When children are growing up, they are told by their parents that they are judged by the company they keep.
Presidential Candidates should be no different.
During the 2024 Presidential Campaign, we have watched the two presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and former president Donald J Trump, reach out to two very different voting groups.
Current Vice-President Kamala Harris hobnobs among the rich and famous, using Hollywood stars to plead to American voters to vote for her.
This is probably one of the worst strategies I’ve ever seen in a depressed economy such as ours.
The American people, average Americans who are working hard just to try to make ends meet under by Bidenomics, could care less what the Hollywood Elite thinks.
In fact, judging from the actions of people like P Diddy and others, it’s a toss-up question as to whether they think or not.
But, I digress…
Hollywood is its own society, with its own culture, just as Washington DC lives in a bubble, so do those who believe themselves to be stars.
The Harris Campaign has presented themselves as imperious by hobnobbing with this bogus aristocracy.
Former President and current Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J Trump has focused his campaign on the working men and women of America.
He has been everywhere, campaigning relentlessly to show the American people that he cares about them and wants to make things better.
I’m not saying that he’s perfect.
There was only one Perfect Man, and he hung from a cross seeking His Father’s forgiveness of our sins.
Trump and his campaign staff mounted a spot on campaign strategy of going to the American people where they are.
Whether it be a college football game or a barber shop in the Bronx, Trump has been there.
While Harris has only done interviews with people who fawned over her ( except for Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier, which backed spectacularly), Trump has done interviews with everybody, whether it is a hostile situation or not, and has done very well.
The fact that we are seeing an upturn here at the 9th hour in terms of the polls for Donald J Trump show that the American people do not want another four years of an aristocracy in the White House.
The Democrats have separated themselves from the American people, trying to turn our country by means of illegal immigrants into something that it was never meant to be.
Trump, through his words and actions, has shown Americans that he cares about them and about our country.
In 17 days, Americans will make the most important decision they have ever made: whether to continue this March to Marxism or to restore our Constitutional Republic.
“Former President Donald Trump called the mother of Rachel Morin, who was ruthlessly raped and murdered by an illegal migrant from El Salvador, on Thursday — with the grieving mom saying she was “deeply touched” by his “honest compassion.”
The condolences from the presumptive GOP nominee came after Patty Morin flammed President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security chief for referring to her daughter as an “individual” killed by a suspected gang member.
Trump talked at length with Patty about Rachel, a 37-year-old mother-of-five who was senselessly slaughtered last August while on a hiking trail in Harford County, Md.
“I am deeply touched by President Trump’s kindness and concern,” Patty said in a statement about the call.” (Courtesy nypost.com)
So, what is my point by posting the above quote?
This November, we will make a very important decision as to who will become the next president of the United States of America.
That decision will affect not only our present, but the future of our children, their children, and their children’s children.
You can view the difference in not only the two presidential candidates but their political parties by their strategy in campaigning during the upcoming election.
This strategy has a lot to do with what President Trump normally does without even thinking about it.
You will notice that it was former President Trump and not the current resident of the White House, “Bedpan” Joe Biden, who called that grieving mother.
That is because Joe Biden and the Democrat Elite care more about the residents of Hollywood and New York, the hoi polloi as they used to be called, and illegal immigrants than they do about average Americans.
That is why they are going to washed up actors and the far left leaders in order to try to raise money for Biden, who does not even know how to walk off a stage.
Former President Trump has always been a people person.
From the moment he came down that escalator to announce his candidacy in the 2016 Presidential Election, President Trump aimed his message at average Americans, instead of hobnobbing among the “Rich and Famous”.
President Trump speaks directly to his audience. He’s not does not speak in platitudes. He speaks in words that are clearly understood because he means everything that he says.
Trump cares about Americans and about this country.
Ronald Reagan, when he was running for president, would ask, “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?”
If people were honest, they would answer that question “NO!” today.
We have runaway inflation and a wide open Southern Border, over which thugs and terrorists who want to rob, rape, and kill have entered our Sovereign Nation.
And, they are still pouring over that border, regardless of what the Democrat Elite and their minions in the Corporate Media tell us.
The Democrat Elite and Biden will say anything in order to try to convince Americans that they know what’s best for them.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of useful idiots out there who are listening to them.
However, I believe that there are more Americans who are not.
President Trump needs to be commended for calling that grieving family and spending time on the phone with them.
The thing is, this is not a one-time thing. He does this type of thing a lot.
I would rather have a president who cares about America and average Americans than I would a president who cares more about other countries, those who live in a bubble like the hoi polloi, and those who hate our country.
After the events of this past week, I thought that I might take a moment to talk about where this nation stands in terms of selecting who will win the 2024 Presidential Election being held in November of this year.
I chose Real Clear Politics because, as a dear friend of mine always points out, it is the most accurate of any of the political websites.
As you can see by the electoral map above, it’s looking pretty good for Trump to once again be elected the President of the United States of America.
Make no mistake, the Republicans have a lot of work to do.
The Democrats always have a good ground game because they are not afraid to take any shortcut they can or to downright cheat.
From stuffing the Ballot Box to bringing buses up to facilities housing the elderly in order to “escort” them to voting booths, the Democrats will do whatever it takes to win and maintain political power.
And, there’s the rub…
Before the 2020 Presidential Election, Americans did not realize the extent that the Democrats would go to in order to win the presidency.
Now they do.
The fact is, Republicans have had to reassess the effectiveness of their National Committee and make a change in their management.
American voters no longer want business as usual in Washington DC.
The Old Guard, like Mitch McConnell, is going to be shown the door.
Americans are ready for someone who talks like them and thinks like them. That’s why you see the sea of red above on that map.
Donald J Trump speaks to the American voter and not down to them.
Americans are fed up with what has happened to this country in the last 3 years. They see it every time they fill up their gas tank and go to the grocery store. They’re not worried about the number of chips in a bag of potato chips. They’re worried about how they can afford to live their lives the way they want to. They’re worried about providing for their families.
And, they are worried about their safety and well-being with crime in major cities at all time high and illegal immigrants robbing, raping, assaulting, and killing Americans.
Yeah, I said it.
Speaking of Joe Biden, the man was as bright as a 25-watt bulb when he had all of his mental faculties.
Now that his dementia is nearing its final stages, he’s not even allowed by his staff to answer questions from reporters anymore.
They usher him off the stage like they’re afraid he’s about to poop in his pants, which considering his history and what happened in front of the Pope, could happen at any time.
But, I digress.
Americans are looking for a leader, not somebody who’s worried about the ice cream he’s going to get for reading a speech off of a teleprompter.
The Democrats know that Biden is way past his prime and that Kamala Harris is not up to being a President of the United States.
Heck, I wouldn’t trust her to run a Wendy’s.
The Democrats are in a desperate position.
They have catered to special interest groups for so long that the special interest groups believe that they run the country and the Democratic Party.
The Democrat Elite’s arrogance and their narrow vision are going to cost the Democrats the upcoming presidential election.
They are not taking the hint that their Political Lawfare is just making Trump more popular.
They will not take the hint that the American people support Israel and not the murdering Islamic Terrorists that are known as Hamas.
Just like a drunk guy at a bar picking up an ugly woman and living to regret it in the morning, so have the Democrats been wooing the wrong people.
Their poor decisions are going to cost them the 2024 Presidential Election.
“Former President Donald Trump met with the family of Laken Riley backstage before speaking at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
“I met her beautiful mother and family backstage,” Trump told the crowd in Rome. “They said she was like the best. She was always the best to us. They admit that she was the best, and she was the first in her class. She was going to be the best nurse. She was the best nursing student. She was always the best. She was the brightest light in every room, they told me.”
He added, “She was the whole world to her parents and to her sister and just to the whole family.”
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia, was allegedly killed by a Venezuelan migrant in the country illegally while she was on a jog on Feb. 22.
Trump laid the blame for Riley’s death on President Biden.
“Biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the United States are granted immunity from deportation,” Trump said. “Thus, when this monster showed up at our border, he was set free immediately under the program. That crooked Joe created it.”
He added that they were “profoundly honored” to have Riley’s family and friends at the rally.
“They’re so incredible,” he continued. “The hearts of hundreds of thousands and indeed millions and millions of Americans and people worldwide, they’re shattered alongside of your beautiful hearts. We share your grief. We share your grief. Thank you, darling. Thank you. Thank you very much. We appreciate it.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)
There’s been a lot of discussion that Trump did what he did yesterday purely out of political purposes.
That simply isn’t the case.
Trump has always been a charitable person.
Just ask singer/actress Jennifer Hudson and her family.
After a family member was shot and killed, Trump took her and her family under his wing, giving them rooms in one of his hotels and provided security staff for some members of the family.
There are also stories about him saving a family farm, of flying a little boy who was very, very sick to the hospital, of him showing up unexpectedly to a firehouse and handing out pizzas.
Trump is a people person.
He didn’t have to run for President.
He was motivated out of a sense of patriotism and a love for the American people. Trump was taught by his father to feel this way.
On his summers home from military school, Trump’s father had him work as a gopher on construction sites, taking blueprints to supervisors or anything else they might need.
It was during this time that Trump gained an appreciation for hard-working Americans and learned how to talk to us and not down to us.
I was privileged to have been at one of his rallies before the 2016 Presidential Election. My wife and I marveled at the way he kept everyone’s attention and talked to us like no other politician we’d ever seen or heard before.
Trump’s affinity for the American people shines through. His concern for the economic plight and safety of average Americans does as well.
He puts America and Americans FIRST.
The mother of Laken Riley has already publicly let President Biden know how she feels about him and his callousness toward the Illegal Immigrant Invasion, which led to the murder of her daughter.
It is President Joe Biden’s fault that this young lady is dead.
This is not the first time that former President Donald J Trump has been more like a president than Joe Biden.
And, as an American, that should tell you all you need to know.
Simply saying the words to myself brings back a flood of precious memories…memories of Thanksgivings past, as a child, surrounded by aunts, uncles, cousins, my sisters, and my Mother and Daddy…smells of sage dressing and oven-roasted turkey…followed by the feeling of having an over-stuffed stomach…all topped by the sounds of laughter and the sight of my aunts and uncles, all members of America’s Greatest Generation, being led in a penny-ante poker game after the Thanksgiving meal by my Daddy, the finest man I have ever known…all of them enjoying each other’s company as they reveled in the wonderful completeness of being a family.
Regardless of what the White House Staff posted yesterday, it is not about sharing a bunch of Talking Points about what a “great” job Dementia-riddled octogenarian Joe Biden is doing as President.
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American Holiday…as unique as the nation which celebrates it.
In 1621, a small group of Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a feast celebrating the autumn harvest. This is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.
However, Thanksgiving is much more than this.
Thanksgiving is a day when Americans thank their Creator for the blessings they have received during the year, while holding hope and expectation in their hearts for the blessings yet to come.
The Father of Our Country expressed his thankfulness concerning God and America, when he announced this holiday in 1789:
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor – and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be – That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks – for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation – for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war –for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed – for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions – to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually – to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed – to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord – To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us – and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789. – United States President George Washington.
On November 15, 1985, in the first year of his second term, President Ronald Reagan issued the following proclamation…
Although the time and date of the first American thanksgiving observance may be uncertain, there is no question but that this treasured custom derives from our Judeo-Christian heritage. “Unto Three, O God, do we give thanks,” the Psalmist sang, praising God not only for the “wondrous works” of His creation, but for loving guidance and deliverance from dangers.
A band of settlers arriving in Maine in 1607 held a service of thanks for their safe journey, and twelve years later settlers in Virginia set aside a day of thanksgiving for their survival. In 1621 Governor William Bradford created the most famous of all such observances at Plymouth Colony when a bounteous harvest prompted him to proclaim a special day “to render thanksgiving to the Almighty God for all His blessings.” The Spaniards in California and the Dutch in New Amsterdam also held services to give public thanks to God.
In 1777, during our War of Independence, the Continental Congress set aside a day for thanksgiving and praise for our victory at the battle of Saratoga. It was the first time all the colonies took part in such an event on the same day. The following year, upon news that France was coming to our aid, George Washington at Valley Forge prescribed a special day of thanksgiving. Later, as our first President, he responded to a Congressional petition by declaring Thursday, November 26, 1789, the first Thanksgiving Day of the United States of America.
Although there were many state and national thanksgiving days proclaimed in the ensuing years, it was the tireless crusade of one woman, Sarah Josepha Hale, that finally led to the establishment of this beautiful feast as an annual nationwide observance. Her editorials so touched the heart of Abraham Lincoln that in 1863 – even in the midst of the civil War – he enjoined his countrymen to be mindful of their many blessings, cautioning them not to forget “the source from which they come,” that they are “the gracious gifts of the Most High God…” Who ought to be thanked “with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.”
It is in that spirit that I now invite all Americans to take part again in this beautiful tradition with its roots deep in our history and deeper still in our hearts. We manifest our gratitude to God for the many blessings he has showered upon our land and upon its people.
In this season of Thanksgiving we are grateful for our abundant harvests and the productivity of our industries; for the discoveries of our laboratories; for the researches of our scientists and scholars; for the achievements of our artists, musicians, writers, clergy, teachers, physicians, businessmen, engineers, public servants, farmers, mechanics, artisans, and workers of every sort whose honest toil of mind and body in a free land rewards them and their families and enriches our entire Nation.
Let us thank God for our families, friends, and neighbors, and for the joy of this very festival we celebrate in His name. Let every house of worship in the land and every home and every heart be filled with the spirit of gratitude and praise and love on this Thanksgiving Day.
On this Thanksgiving Day 2023, I’m thankful for Americans who are still making a difference: “Average Americans” who still love God and country and stand on principle with their feet planted on a Solid Rock, and not on shifting sands.
The “Average American”, the 9 to 5′er, working himself into the grave to try to provide for his family.
It was this same “Average American”, who fired the shot heard around the world and began the War for American Independence, who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II, who waded through rice paddies in Vietnam, and who swallowed sand in Desert Storm and Desert Shield.
The same “Average American” who, as a New York City Policeman or Fireman, ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, instead of running down them.
The same “Average American”, who simply wants things to be easier in this life for his children and grandchildren, than he had it.
It is this same “Average American”, who takes family and friends in, when they are in the midst of a life-altering tragedy.
The same “Average American”, who volunteers on a soup line or at a Senior Citizens Home, or, who begins a successful business in his basement.
They are the reason we remain, in spite of all that has befallen us as a nation, the Greatest Country on the Face of the Earth, despite those who are presently trying to to “radically change” our Constitutional Republic” and take away our right as Americans to live and raise our children and grandchildren as we see fit.
And, the One who gave us this country and endowed us with certain “inalienable rights” is the Rock upon which America was built.
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