BY ALMARIAM
PART ONE
“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just – a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.” First Republican President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
Remember; remember the 8th of November 2022- DD Day- Drive DemocRATS and DemocraTICK Party Outta Congress Day.
It is official. I am now a registered Republican. No, I did not jump to register. I was pushed. Beyond the limits!
By Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Antony Blinken, Linda Thomas Greene, Senators Robert Menendez, Chris Coons, Ed Markey and Cory Booker, Representatives Gregory Meeks, Karen Bass, Tom Malinowski and other congressional democRATs.
I’ll be damned! I found out there are boatloads of closet Ethiopian American Republicans everywhere! But they keep it on the down-low. I guess they are ashamed to admit it in public. You know, the scarlet letter “R” on their forehead.
Some of my longtime democratic friends gasp in consternation, bewilderment, and curiosity. Others freak out! “What happened? How could you?” How could I what?
“Don’t you know the Republicans Party is for white people? They pass laws to take away African Americans’ voting rights. They deny social services to families of people of color, turn a blind eye to police brutality…”
I hit back.
“Do you know Joe Biden passed the biggest crime bill in American history—the $30 billion Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 — which has resulted in the incarceration of hundreds of thousands of young African Americans, expansion of the application of the federal death penalty which disproportionately affects African Americans, imposition of harsher sentencing laws and three-strikes mandatory life sentences for conviction of three felonies, granting billions to states to build prison industrial complexes?”
Republicans keep African Americans from voting?
Well! What did Obama and his democrats in Congress do in 2013 after the US
Supreme Court struck down the formula at the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that required certain states and localities with a history of discrimination against minority voters to get changes cleared by the federal government before they went into effect?
Nothing! Did Obama democrats come up with a new formula for voting pre-clearance? Of course not;
Democrats use the voting canard as wedge issue to the present day to scare minority voters to keep voting for them blindly and mindlessly. I offer my stupefied friends a morsel from my intro to American Government course.
Southern Conservative Democrats (Dixiecrats) opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Northeastern Liberal Republicans supported it.
At the time, Republican Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois gave a powerful speech calling racial integration “an idea whose time has come.”
“But back then, there were moderate republicans who could work on a bipartisan basis,” they remind me.
“MAGA republicans have taken over the Republican Party today,” they lament.
“What kind of a Republican are you anyway?” they ask puzzled.
I chuckle. “I guess there are MAGA Republicans and MEGA Republicans. Guess which one I am?”
They are confused. “What is a MEGA Republican?”
I smile ear to ear. “A MEGA Republican believes in “Make Ethiopia Great Again.”
A slight befuddled pause followed by confused laughter.
“MEGA, MAGA, Same to me, two great countries in the world. Make America Great Again. Make Ethiopia Great Again. Two side of the same coin,” I proclaim
proudly, MEGA.
Ethiopia is the first country mentioned in the Old Testament. “And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. (Genesis 2:13, King James Version).
The “River Gihon” is none other than Abay River in Ethiopia, a/k/a “The Nile.” It is on the River Ghion that Ethiopia today is building its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the largest dam in Africa.
Ethiopia is mentioned at least 38 times in the Bible. In the Book of Psalms 68:31 is written, “Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.” God always lifts those who stretch their hands to Him.
During the First Hijra, the Prophet Muhammad directed his persecuted followers “to leave Makkah and seek sanctuary in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) ruled by a Christian king, well-known for being a just and God-fearing man.”
I tell them to read the fascinating story of the Civilization of Ethiopia.
MAGA Make America Great Again. America, the Last Great Hope of Humanity!
I agree with the 19th century British Prime Minister William Gladstone who proclaimed, “The Constitution of the United States of America is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man”.
After all, I spent my childhood and adult life studying, teaching, defending, practicing and proselyting the US Constitution.
But what is America to me?
Mother of Exiles, From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she
With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
So were the words of Emma Lazarus inscribed on the Statute of Liberty? They are mine too. So it is for the best hope of humanity, as I have oft written.
Pardon my digression. I have a million and one reasons to be pissed off at the Brandon administration and congressional democrats.
Nothing will give me greater pleasure than seeing them suffer a stinging and humiliating defeat on November 8, 2022.
Under the watch of the Brandon administration, inflation has been eating Americans out of house and home. Inflation today is at 40-year high with 9.1%. Over past two years, the crime rate has been rising to unprecedented levels.
The Brandon administration has approved $4.8 trillion of new borrowing (ballooning the national debt) on top of the 31 trillion already on the books.
It is a total disaster in foreign policy for the Brandon administration:
Humiliating cut and run withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Scamming France on an Indo-Pacific submarine deal;
Botching response to Haitian refugees at the southern border.
Incompetence in managing the America’s Summit 2022;
Exclusion of certain African countries from attending the African Summit 2021.
Inability to get African countries to support the US position on Russia at the UN,
Suffering humiliation in first meeting with Chinese diplomats.
Lack of effective diplomatic response to Russian military action in Ukraine,
Inability to bring Iran to the negotiating table.
Inability to persuade/push for North Korea to denuclearize and on and on.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald October 22/2022
