“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Happy Independence Day.
As the calendar rolls over to July 4, 2020, America finds itself more divided and doubtful of its future than any time in decades.
While elderly people are locked down in nursing homes, raging mobs tear through America’s concrete jungles. Politicians threaten to jail people who want to reopen their stores and restaurants after the government charts and models failed—but they bail out rioters who are burning buildings, looting shops, and throwing Molotov cocktails at policemen.
Hundreds of people at a time invade private homes and threaten the residents—and then the homeowners get in trouble with the law.
There’s a lower level of respect for America’s history, coming from higher levels of the U.S. government, than ever before.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said America “was never that great.”
The most famous freshman congresswoman alive – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. – has said that America is “garbage” and “where [Americans] are is not a good thing.”
“The America that we’re living in today is so dystopian,” she claimed, “with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without health care.”
Even one of the two people that hopes to become president this fall says the fact that he’s not president has done “damage…to the soul of our nation.”
Joe Biden said President Trump has remade America according to his “dark, petty, angry vision.” Trump’s presidency done noting but deliver “a slap in the face to working people” and pressure “foreign nations to interfere in our elections,” he said.
All of this is enough to make patriotic Americans want to throw in the towel and cede the fight to Antifa and the Democratic Socialists of America—or to make the ultimate mistake and hate them as much as they hate you.
The answer to hatred of America isn’t more hatred. It’s love for America.
At a time when members of the two political parties have burning animosity for their neighbors, it’s more important than ever to bring to mind all the beneficial, positive, and uniquely American blessings we share this Independence Day.
Imagine, for a minute, that you weren’t looking at America based on partisan lenses of Republican or Democrat. Imagine you were a foreigner looking at the U.S. for the first time. What would you think about the United States?
How about this: We’re better off and more prosperous than any nation in the history of the world.
“The United States ranks at the top in housing, and ranks above the average in income and wealth, health status, jobs and earnings, education and skills, personal security, subjective well-being, environmental quality, social connections, and civic engage according to a collection of the wealthiest countries in the world known as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD.
How can you measure this? You can try to put a number on it: The average American has $45,284 a year in disposable income—$11,680 more than the average citizen of any other very wealthy country in the OECD.
More than nine out of 10 Americans have completed high school, compared to 78 percent of other rich countries.
Americans are more likely to say they’re satisfied with their lives than the typical person in other well-off, First World countries.
Life expectancy, air quality, close ties to family and friends—all are better in the USA than any other country on the globe.
Americans may get “cancelled” because they refuse to bow the knee to PC nonsense—but nobody will be thrown in jail or hauled before a firing squad, like in so many other countries.
The USA is the freest country in the world, while 57 percent of countries around the world are not free or only partly free, according to a study from Freedom House.
Compare that with the country that AOC wants to see America turn into: Venezuela.
In that socialist hellhole, 86 percent of the population doesn’t always have running water—and 11 percent never have water indoors.
In the University Hospital in Maracaibo, “rats, cockroaches, cats and dogs all can be found regularly in the hospital complex,” according to the Associated Press.
And the president can have his political enemies rounded up, arrested, or beaten by crazed street mobs at the drop of a hat.
Even in its darkest moments, America has never given into the temptation to tear up our Constitution or cash in the American way of life—and we never will.
The roots of our current greatness—yes, greatness, even in 2020—go back to the original Fourth of July.
The United States was founded on an original idea, the belief that the government exists to serve the people, not the other way around.
The government’s most important service is to respect the freedoms, liberties, and privileges that belong to every American. America’s Founding Fathers—who weren’t perfect, but were light-years wiser than any politician walking the earth today—said that these rights don’t come from the government; they come from Heaven and can never be taken away by any king, power, prince, or potentate.
“God who gave us life, gave us liberty,” said Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence that started the great idea of the United States 244 years ago today. “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are a gift of God?”
That common-sense and respect makes America great—and so does one more thing.
You.
America is great because you are here. If we’ve made a mistake, our system gives you the chance to fix it. Voters, like you, can amend laws, elect patriots, and spread the word about what’s happening in the world around us.
You make a difference. Our Founders placed the privilege, and burden, of keeping America great on your shoulders. Never let the angry mob get you down, dear patriot. Too much is at stake.
From The Horn and everyone here on the home front, God bless you.
Happy Fourth of July!
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”