When the government can suspend your rights anytime it deems something is a crisis, you don’t have rights. You have permissions. Crisis is the rallying cry of tyrants. They use fear to manipulate and control. In 2020, tyrants preached that we should trust unproven science, but in reality the science they were practicing was political science.

Classifying citizens as essential or non essential for the purposes of whether they can work or open their business was shockingly similar to sorting humans based on race or color — as was done during WWII and during our times of legal slavery.

Stay at home orders, sacrifice, lockdowns, shutter “non-essential” businesses, mask mandates and mandatory shots called vaccines, were the language of slaves and masters. Governors, mayors and health department directors became drunk with power. Too many in power chose to be masters.

Power corrupts, absolutely.

Even well meaning policies usually have unintended consequences. 2020s lock-down policies and fear mongering caused a spike in bankruptcies, depression and suicide. Drug overdoses in 2020 set new records. Economic devastation for many families led to an increase in hunger for a group of Americans who were doing well before the government stepped in, and canceled their jobs.

Tragically, trapping people at home was a recipe for domestic violence. Amid family tension and home confinement, increased domestic violence was been reported in the USA as well as India, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

When a business owner makes a mistake, they suffer the consequences. When an athlete loses a race, they don’t get the gold medal. When a bureaucrat or politician makes a mistake, we citizens suffer, but that government official continues to get paid and the consequences of their mistakes — the outcome of their decisions — do not affect their life or livelihood.

Preppers are no longer conspiracy theorists. Growing and storing your own food, cooking, purifying water, shooting and maintaining your firearms, providing for and protecting your family became newly appreciated skills.

The lessons of 2020 are the same lessons learned in 1774, when the American colonists sent a petition with a list of grievances, delivered by Benjamin Franklin directly to Parliament and King George. They were rejected. That rebuke of Americans, along with an attempt to seize some colonists firearms led to the Declaration of Independence and the 1776 revolution.

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance” Covid was a test to see who would obey. Fortunately, many questioned the official narrative and today we see much truth coming to light with RFK as the head of the Federal Department of Health.

Our rights come from God. Governments do not grant rights, but they can take them away. The U.S. Constitution was written specifically as a limitation on government, not on private individuals.

Please pray for our nation. We need strength and faith for the battles that lie ahead. Youth as this culture civil war goes to the next level.