We Won’t Forgive or Forget
By Erin Spellman
As we approach Election Day, the Left is panicking about the potential red wave. This is not surprising. Since Biden took office, the average American’s quality of life has declined dramatically. Inflation is at a record high, crime is rampant, and our constitutional rights are still under siege by the Covid-19 regime.
To distract from inflation and crime, Democratic elites are attempting to backtrack on their tyrannical pandemic policies. One such elite, Brown University professor Emily Oster, in a recent Atlantic piece urged Americans to “declare a pandemic amnesty.” But we cannot forgive and forget what they’ve done to us these past few years. We need accountability.
Covid-19 is behind us and Americans understand that life must go on. For two-and-a-half years, we lived with the repercussions of lockdowns and other draconian measures imposed by politicians. They toyed with our freedom and exploited the pandemic to tighten their grip on our lives, whether that be gathering sizes at Thanksgiving, places of worship, or schools. Democrats now ask for grace for the policy failures that are about to cost them election. Their rules and restrictions cost us our jobs and businesses, our children’s education, and our social fabric. We will not pretend as though it never happened.
Ostner argues that our leaders didn’t know any better when they gave their decrees.
Many Americans knew these policies were immoral and would yield serious consequences. They were silenced, deplatformed, and smeared as conspiracy theorists. Without issuing a formal apology for their bad decisions, Democrats think they can keep calm and carry on.
They neglected our elderly family members, canceling their medical appointments for over a year and barring us from visiting them. We won’t forget the thousands of seniors who passed away after progressive governors flooded their nursing homes with infected patients. We won’t forget those who died alone without their loved ones because of hospital room capacity limits. We won’t forget the funerals we were blocked from attending while hundreds attended George Floyd’s funeral.
We won’t forget when churches were fined for holding services during a time when people yearned for the comfort of their faith.
We won’t forget that deaths of despair also fueled the rising U.S. mortality rate.
We won’t forget the vaccine mandates, which treated those who refused the shot as second-class citizens and ostracized them from society. We won’t forget those who suffered bodily injuries as a result of the mandated vaccines.
We won’t forget our children who lost two years of schooling and experienced historic declines in test scores and devastating delays in early academic development.
We won’t forget that President Biden wished those who opposed lockdowns a “winter of severe illness and death.” We won’t forget that journalists argued for mocking the deaths of anti-vaxxers.
Typically, one asks for forgiveness following an apology. That apology is then followed by repentance. The Left has done neither.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently declared that she “would do it all again” when asked during a debate about the state’s firing of unvaccinated health care workers.
Not amnesty, but a reckoning. No more of the usual: Democrats scrubbing the part they played in bad history and moving on without facing consequences.
We won’t let Democrats get away with the havoc they’ve wreaked on Americans, as they scramble for votes at the last minute. Next week, the voting booth is where accountability will begin.
