Soap Box

First of all, I want to wish all of you a most happy and blessing-filled 2018.

I’m looking forward to it with new music, a new book and other new undertakings and projects we will be introducing throughout the year, God willing.

Now to the business at hand.

Donald Trump has been president for almost a year now and the country is still as shocked and divided as it was at midnight on November 8, 2017 when Hillary’s planned balloon extravaganza failed to take place and the cold light of reality dawned on the “progressive “faction of our nation that there would be no Hillary Clinton presidency, no continuation of the Obama policies no further march toward socialism, no more timid language when it came to terrorism, no more doormat diplomacy.

There could be no cover-up of all Hillary Clinton’s careless handling of American secrets and the fact that they paid for the creation of a dossier that supposedly linked the Trump campaign with the Russian government.

There could no longer be a way to conceal how corrupt the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service had become on Obama’s eight-year watch.

The ridiculous charade of a deal with Iran would be exposed for the ultra-expensive farce that it is.

The failure of Bill Clinton’s deal with North Korea would be back to bite America and the rest of the free world in the posterior as NK’s nuclear development, which Clinton told the world was over, has reached fruition and threatens the US mainland and our allies and could well be the spark to start of World War III, if not dealt with forthwith and properly.

This and many other things that rode below the water line on the Obama-Clinton ship of state are now coming to light.

This wasn’t supposed to happen, Hillary was a shew in, or at least she was for the power brokers and elite media who never cross the East River or go outside the Beltway where the hard-working people who keep this nation strong and vital, live and suffered under Obama’s economy and repressive and unnecessary regulations.

They never talked to the coal miners that Obama declared he’d put out of business. they never went to the voters who had watched their companies, in many cases the livelihood of whole towns for generations, move to foreign countries, taking their jobs and their dreams with them.

They never valued the opinions of people who wondered why, when America had enough fossil fuel to last for generations, we would continue to import oil from nations who hated our guts and would like nothing better than to destroy us.

They forgot middle America, read the polls, toasted each other and excitedly looked forward to the Utopian government of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a government of unfettered illegal immigration, expanded social programs, more subsidies and all the means it took to create a voting base that would keep them in office ad infinitum.

With more timid foreign policy and acquiescence to the will of the United Nations, a smaller military commanded by administration-friendly political hacks who would turn it, not into a fearless fighting force but a politically correct social experiment.

That’s was not how this was supposed to play out, the choice of the establishment, the darling of the left, the lady whose contempt for the rank and file citizens of this nation, its military, its time-honored traditions were barely concealed beneath a facade of drooling media coverage and selective public exposure, was supposed to take the oath of office and get on with the march toward global government.

And what happens, a brash billionaire, who had never held office on any level, who was hated and bashed by all mainstream media, who was laughed at by the establishment, not even uniformly supported by his own party won it all.

Why? Because what he said was easily understood by people who were sick and tired of seeing their country being turned into a sanctuary for anybody who could walk across an international border, a haven for unvetted refugees who posed a clear and present threat of violence to our families.

He spoke about the jobs, and not in the rhetorical, off-handed fashion that Hillary Clinton and her ilk talked about them, but went into the hurting areas and told the unemployed workforce, “Do you want to see these factories come back? Do you want to go back to work?” well vote for me and I’ll make it happen.

He appealed to people who wondered why a president would light the White House with a rainbow but refuse to allow the least semblance of the true meaning of Christmas to be displayed there.

He clicked with those who were tired of seeing the police who stood between them and the violence that stalks the streets being belittled, called stupid, their side never taken by the administration.

They were tired of knowing that drugs flowed freely and basically unabated across our southern border and the number of people who died from opioid addiction increased every year with not so much as an acknowledgement from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

They were appalled at seeing four of America’s most dangerous enemies traded for one soldier who walked off his post, went to the enemy side and cost the lives of brave men who went looking for him, thinking he’d been captured.

They could never understand why a president would agree to send $400 million dollars in cash to the biggest exporter of Radical Islamic Terrorism on the planet.

They could not understand a president who would bow to a king whose country suppresses the women’s rights he was supposed to support so vigorously.

And many Christians and Jews of America resented the shoddy way Obama treated our only ally in the Middle East, Israel.

To them, her untrustworthiness and her barely concealed arrogance notwithstanding, Hillary represented more of the same, and they’d just had enough.

And if it took a brash, egotistical nonpolitical New Yorker to break the chain, so be it, they went to the polls and voted their desire to make America respected, prosperous, safe, proud and great again.

Of course, the establishment, the liberals and mainstream media will never forgive Donald Trump for smashing their Utopian dream and are doing everything in their considerable power to bring him down in any way they can.

But here they go again, they are ignoring the common folks, the ones who like seeing all the new jobs being created, manufacturing coming back, a march to energy independence, the stock market soaring to uncharted heights, police being respected, the military being revitalized and somebody who is willing to step outside the protocol of diplomatic vernacular and call out a bully that should have been dealt with by every president for the last 40 years.

Going to be an interesting 2018 to say the least.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem

God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

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