By REY FLORES
No, I am not writing about the 1970s television show nor am I writing about the number of children Catholic families should have. I am writing about eight years being enough of a president who has done exactly what he promised — to fundamentally change the United States of America.
For this 2016 election, let’s not blow it again. It’s been a torturous eight years, waking up every morning knowing that Barack Obama was occupying the White House, armed with his pen and phone, surrounded by an equally corrupt gang of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
In the fall of 2008, I was working as a new and used car salesman in Oak Lawn, Ill. My co-workers, managers, and even the owner were hardcore conservatives who were totally averse to the possibility of an Obama presidency.
Everyone in the showroom was biting their nails and wringing their ties, just watching and waiting for the election numbers to come in. It wasn’t long before we knew we were facing a whole new America. This night of Obama’s victory was as life-changing as September 11, 2001 had been for our nation.
While many people may have voted against him because of his skin color, I certainly did not. I voted against the socialist red of his agenda. Obama had laid out a plan as the figurehead of the radical progressive left which would, in his words, “fundamentally change the United States of America.”
I tried in vain to convince my co-workers early on Election Day that Obama would not win. I still had a small bit of optimism in me as I fervently prayed that an Obama presidency was not to be. I assured my managers and even the dealership owner that they had nothing to worry about.
Nine o’clock in the evening rolled around and we closed up shop with our heads hanging low. We all knew the inevitability of an Obama victory. The men I had tried so hard to lift up with whatever hope I had left in me turned away from me in disgust. It was almost as if it had been my fault that Obama had won.
Sure enough, on my 25-plus-mile ride home, I drove quietly, listening to an old Bob Seger tune on the classic rock station. It was much better than listening to the depressing news reports.
As I lit up what was probably my third cigarette on the ride home, I looked up at the sky and, pray tell, what did I see? I saw a perfectly positioned crescent moon and star, there mockingly lighting up the otherwise blackest night sky.
Since Obama took office in January of 2009, the rise of Islamic fanaticism and terrorism has literally blown up. Christian persecution across the globe has increased dramatically and actual acts of terror targeting non-Muslims have become a part of life.
Also, for anyone under the age of 50, we have never experienced racial divisions that are this bad. The Obama administration had brought hope that we had finally reached a point where America could prove that it was no longer mired in racism, but the opposite of that has happened. Not because Obama is black, but because he is a socialist, and racism is a social construct of socialist design to divide and conquer a nation.
Homosexuality and so-called “gay marriage” are now the law of the land. The White House itself was lit up in rainbow colors when the Supreme Court of the United States in one fell swoop struck the sacred institution of marriage between one man and one woman.
Christian business owners are now under the homosexual fascist laws which deny them their religious freedoms, yet homosexuals have become a protected class under our system.
If that wasn’t enough, now schools may face federal defunding if they do not adhere to totalitarian transgender bathroom and locker-room laws that leave our daughters and sons vulnerable to perverts and predators who are now free to enter whatever restroom with which supposedly identify.
Marijuana laws are being passed in the name of medicine, but in effect this is just another way to keep the American public stoned and stupid. Why do you think the pharmaceutical industry is such a powerful player in Washington D.C.?
Then we have illegal immigrants running amok, some of whom burn our American flag and tell us that we have no right to oppress them. Why weren’t they telling their own corrupt governments back in their homelands the same thing?
As I said, eight is enough and if any of you are thinking of voting for anyone but Trump, I feel sorry for the level of unreality you exist in.
I wanted to close by saying that I do not want to be writing a similar, but much worse, article eight years from today, but then I thought about it more and realized that if Hillary Clinton steals the White House and the presidency, there will no longer be an America. Let that sink in for a while.
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(Rey Flores is a Catholic registered voter and insists you register as well and vote early if possible. Rey can be reached at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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