Delta Blue: Dispatch 4

Republicans Vs. Democrats in the past

I come from a time when Republicans wanted less government and lower taxes, and Democrats wanted more government and more taxes. We didn’t agree, but we respected each other. We understood where the other side was coming from. The arguments were honest, even if we thought they were wrong.

Republicans push for more government

The party that used to scream about “less government” now wants to control women’s bodies, override doctors, dictate what universities can teach, and tell us when and how we can protest. They can’t pass legislation to fix healthcare, but they sure as hell think they can legislate a woman’s uterus.

These same “less government” types now want to send the National Guard into cities, ban books, muzzle teachers, and hand-pick which history gets told. They used to say government should stay out of people’s lives. Now they want them to crawl into our bedrooms and classrooms.

And while they’ve got everyone fighting over things like “men in women’s sports”—something that is so rare it affects maybe a handful of people in a whole state—They blow this up to a national crisis just to distract us. Classic bait-and-switch.  

There are actual governing bodies in sports already, like the CIF in California, they should handle those issues. Not politicians. 

People are struggling while a small few build generational empires

People are working two jobs and still can’t afford rent. Families are going bankrupt over medical bills. Kids are hungry. And the same crowd who used to chant “less government” is just fine with the government being a weapon against its own people—as long as they keep their tax breaks and generational wealth flowing.

And I keep asking myself: how much is enough? How many homes, how many yachts, how many zeroes in a bank account does one person need? Is it worth it to step over starving people in the streets just so your family gets a bigger inheritance?

Everybody should have a problem with that.  98% of us are two paychecks short of being homeless, but none of us are two paychecks short of being billionaires.   

Fairness and Democracy

This isn’t the America I grew up in. This isn’t “small government, big freedom.” This is government overreach on steroids, designed to keep us fighting each other while the rich laugh all the way to the bank.

That’s why I write Delta Blue. To cut through the noise. To remind us that fairness, respect, and democracy aren’t partisan talking points—they’re the bedrock of who we are. And if we lose sight of that, we lose everything.