Georgia’s senate contests earn ‘historic’ description

There is no word more overused in political life than “historic.”

But considering the runoff races for the two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, “historic” is the right word.

There is little of what we once thought of as middle ground left in the nation. Today, we’ve got the left, the right and not much in the center.

With the far left now controlling the White House and the House of Representatives, only a Republican-controlled Senate stands in the way of what these two far-left centers of power want to do and will be able to do.

If Republicans do not win at least one of the two Georgia Senate races — leaving them a 51-seat Senate majority — stand by for the most sweeping left-wing rewrite of our national script ever.

Think about the Equality Act, which President-elect Joe Biden has set as a legislative priority for his first 100 days.

The Equality Act pretends to protect rights of LGBTQ individuals. But, like all left-wing rhetoric about protecting rights, it is really about forcing a given agenda on all of us, in violation of the rights of those with competing values.

Biden has committed to appointing LGBTQ individuals to an array of federal government positions. This has nothing to do with protecting rights, it’s about using political power to advance LGBTQ.

Can anyone imagine the fallout if any president were to announce a priority of appointing evangelical Christian Americans to federal positions?

For sure, I will receive threats and hate mail from those who allegedly care about freedom, because they think freedom means advancing their values at the expense of mine.

Sex and gender are far from the only areas where the Biden left is totally detached from what was once known as reality.

As the nation swims in red ink — with a mind-boggling $3 trillion deficit for the 2020 fiscal year and national debt equal to the size of our entire economy — Biden’s economic team thinks government should be spending much more and be financed by trillions more debt bequeathed to our children and grandchildren. As capsulized by the Wall Street Journal, Biden’s “advisers are also known for advocating expanded government spending they say would boost the economy’s longterm potential, in areas that are liberal priorities such as education, infrastructure and the green economy, and policy changes aimed at narrowing racial disparities in the economy.”

Because ideology, not facts, is what interests liberals. They ignore the historically low black unemployment rates and a historically low gap in black unemployment against the national average that resulted from President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation.

There is a long record showing freedom and limited government maximize economic growth and opportunity.

Sympathy is high in black communities to empower parents to choose the school where their children learn. The left-wing crowd now in power is hostile to this idea, including the economist who will be head of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.

For sure, Democrats will spend tens of millions in Georgia, much of it targeted at Georgia’s sizable black population to get large turnout.

But Blacks, or any other Georgians, who think their personal future or the future of the country lies with moral and fiscal bankruptcy should think again.