RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM THE HEARTLAND

If we are going to survive as a nation, all Americans need to understand the fundamental beliefs that caused the formation of this country.

Sadly, as a result of the events of the past years, lawmakers across America have introduced legislation intended to erode our First Amendment rights of speech and assembly. Recently the Kentucky Senate introduced legislation which makes it a crime to verbally bully a law enforcement officer.

Once the dust has settled, and we return to a post Covid-19 world, it will be time to pay the piper for the arbitrary and harsh orders which have destroyed thousands of businesses in Kentucky and across America.

It is time to end the rhetoric intended to inflame the passions to defund the police, it is time to support real police reforms.

It is time to end the war on America's police officers and time to stand shoulder to shoulder in support of them.

A lack of civility has boiled over and political dissent has now reached a point where anachy controls the streets of our once peaceful cities.

Coming together through Victory Gardens as a way to know that we are all in the fight together.

Matt Bevin's decision to pardon several child molesters as he turned out the lights on his administration will be remembered as an unforgivable act which will silence hundreds of child victims.

After years of dissension in Frankfort, it is time to begin a new era of civility which will benefit all Kentuckians, not simply a handful of political insiders. Let the healing begin.

The recently announced Red River Gorge destination resort should remind all of us of those words for Joni Mitchell's song, Big Yellow Taxi when she wrote, "They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot..."

One is left to wonder how someone can proclaim to be pro-life and at the same time be anti-healthcare. The answer might just be in the motives of the carpetbaggers that are funding the Medicaid work requirements, carpetbaggers who have never been to Kentucky, let alone understand what it is like to be poor, unemployed and in need of basic healthcare.

Over the past years, months, weeks, and even days, the political discourse has charted a course which will eventually result in the destruction of our great nation.