by Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D.
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We stand at the crossroads of liberty or despotism. Each day the news brings examples of assaults on life and liberty. These include:
- Hospitals and doctors being pushed into following government and third-party payer algorithms and “guidelines” for medical care, rather than what is best for an individual patient;
- Unions siphoning off Medicaid home care funds to pay union dues of members;
- Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) deciding what medications will be covered by insurance;
- Trump supporters attacked and beaten for wearing MAGA hats and T-shirts;
- Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters, openly calling for harassment and violence against administration leaders and supporters of President Trump;
- Democrats across the country openly defying our Immigration laws with “Sanctuary” Cities, calls for violence against police, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Border Patrol agents, and judges who enforce our laws;
- Twitter suppressing Republicans running for office, shadow banning, and limiting the full function of conservatives’ accounts;
- Facebook taking down conservative content;
- Pastors pushed into “politically correct” sermons;
- Ivanka Trump forced to close her clothing line as businesses cave to leftist pressure to shut down entrepreneurial opportunities for those with opposing views;
- Persecution of Christians and Jews escalating worldwide;
- Free speech under attack in England, Germany, Australia, Canada. and the U.S.;
- President Trump’s SCOTUS nomination, the respected Judge Kavanaugh, being called “complicit in evil” by Democrat Senator Cory Booker.
The multifaceted assault on individual freedom is by design, as outlined in the teachings of Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, and other radical leftists whose goal is to tear down the principles and institutions that made America the quantum leap in the history of humankind, based on the exceptional idea that Life and Liberty are natural rights that come from our Creator, not from government. More
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