GOP convention reflected the true spirit of America
Regardless of your political beliefs, all Americans can agree 2020 has been a difficult year. Unlike any other time in our history these two political conventions have given the American people the ability to reflect on who we really are during these troubling times.
When President Donald Trump and the Republican Party spoke, they reminded America that “nothing is impossible” because no matter the hardship, strife or self-doubt, we will prove ourselves worthy of our American legacy. President Trump reminded all of us that America is too great to dream small dreams.
Yes, we may fight with each other, but like our ancestors before us we will answer the call because America does the right thing not for gain or reward, profit or interest, fame or fortune. Americans do the right thing for the right reasons.
Time and time again, we forget the decisions made in the places of power impact real people. Real people who will never be rich enough, never be famous enough, never be remembered enough besides being a good son or daughter, husband or wife. So it was meaningful the most impactful moments of the Republican Convention was when real Americans spoke to share their pains and gains, stories and souls as we dream this American Dream together.
Thursday night, we proved that we as the Republican Party are worthy of our legacy of having freed the slaves, saved the Union, amended the Constitution to give women and minorities the right to vote, defeated Communism and Socialism, defeated global terrorism and rebuilt our economy stronger over and over again.
Free of the filter of the media, the Republican Party was able to reclaim its rightful place as the American political party that has always fought for the people, always risen for the little guy, and always “charged into bullets and bayonets for American Liberties” no matter the cost
Meanwhile, after listening to the Democrats’ perspective, you would be left to believe America is a nightmare we need to wake up from. America is pitiful and pathetic, not patriotic and proud. Rather, Americans are a diminished and depleted people whose country has never learned from its mistakes, whose people have never even been great, let alone good, and whose time has come to surrender to another country, another dream and another way of life.
The Democrat Convention was light — light on choices to have freedom, to have opportunity, and to have a future that is not guided by government and a bureaucrat in a far off capital who thinks they are smarter than you are, better than you are, or more worthy of your freedom than you are.
We did not hear from allies of the America people. Instead, we heard from those who would prefer strife over success, pain over profit, and fear over freedom. As Biden spoke his final slick but empty words, it reminded me that the most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
It was not just that the Republican convention went so high because the Democrat convention simply sunk so low. Rather, the Republican Convention spoke to the best in all Americans.
The Republican Party spoke to the police officer who dons his uniform each night not knowing if he will see his loved ones again; to our soldiers at war who want to win and come home; to the workers trying to earn a living overburdened by taxes; to those unjustly and unfairly punished for minor offenses; to the parents who want a choice for their children to be educated at a good school and to have a future brighter and better than their parents ever dreamed; to those who do not want endless wars but seek peace; to those Americans who are tired of burning cities becoming the new normal and civil unrest becoming fashionable; and without using it as a political weapon, to those suffering from COVID19.
And as Floridians can appreciate, President Trump did not speak in political clichés about Hurricane Laura. Instead, he just did his job as he mobilized resources for our fellow Americans in this time of terrible disaster.