Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and we won’t all agree on things.

We see things differently and with bias, but some facts are undeniable.

The sky is a shade of blue, the grass is made up of shades of green, water is wet and so on.

When bias causes you to adamantly proclaim that the sky is now a different color, and water is dry because a certain politician says so, and all your friends hate the guy who sees it as it is, then that is being delusional.

When your beliefs are imposed upon everyone and we no longer have the right to express a belief that goes against the mainstream, then that is a huge problem.

We now have a department whose job it is to police what they consider to be disinformation.

We have all seen what happened over the last few years when viewpoints went against the narrative. We have also seen those viewpoints be proven as facts with zero apologies.

Governmental censorship, while ignoring the will and wants of the people, sure sounds like the kind of authoritarianism that our country spent the last 50-plus years claiming to protect the rest of the world from. All the wars that were fought to protect freedom, and all the people who died under those pretexts, were for nothing.

Some writers still claim President Joe Biden is dignified and is not condescending. That is false, just like blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for gas prices and inflation.

Kapena Hill

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