Dear Editor:

Thank you for expressing your concerns about politics and inviting us to express our opinions, a wonderful part of our Bill of Rights.

My opinion is that this coming mid-term election is not about personalities or even about high prices. It is about what form of government we the people want to live under. Do we want to keep our current Constitutional government or do we want to scrap it and write a new constitution?

Our Constitutional principles have helped us become the freest nation in the world. Our founders established a republic where we vote on representatives. They wanted the government to be responsive to the will of the people while remaining stable. 

They wrote in a power of amendment. Because men in power tend to increase their power, they established checks and balances — the executive, judicial, legislative within the federal government and states and federal to balance  local and non-local. They incorporated the Bill of Rights, to preserve liberty.

The Democratic Socialists of America, which has taken over the former Democrat Party, calls for drafting a new U.S. constitution. They wish to abolish the Senate and Supreme Court and just have a House of Representatives, which would then choose the U.S. president and the judiciary. 

That means the most populist states would control our politics. That would jeopardize minority rights, the Bill of Rights, American citizenship and local control. They wish to establish public ownership and nationalization of the largest corporations and essential industries. 

Sounds like Venezuela. They wish to enact aggressive wealth taxes. That means the loss of family farms and the enriching of public officials. They wish to guarantee healthcare, public education pre-K through college, child care, student debt cancellation, and housing. That sounds like loss of control over our very lives.

In our country’s Founding years, we were a Bible carrying, God-fearing nation. We placed the 10 commandments on the U.S. Supreme Court building. We believed that we should love God and love our neighbors. Communities saw needs, came out to help each other and organized charities. 

God blessed our nation. Then people started thinking only of themselves and what they wanted. Everything went out of control. If individually and as a nation we will turn back to God and serve our neighbors, we can help each other through any crisis, natural or man-made.

Jeannette Johnson

Monett