Choosing Life, Liberty, Security and Common Sense

Parents, your decision on Tuesday is uniquely critical — your children’s future will be directly impacted for years by the lever you pull in the privacy of the voting booth on Tuesday. It’s time to tune out the noise and focus sharply on your family’s future.

Momentous issues are at stake. In a nutshell, a vote for Hillary Clinton will be catastrophic for our kids. Here are Clinton’s stances on the issues that affect your children:

All children are at risk because of this ill-advised program — and kids of color were not taught that actions have consequences.

Education
Clinton says on her website that a primary goal of her presidency is to “dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.”

“In too many communities, student discipline is overly harsh — and these harsh measures disproportionately affect African-American students and those with the greatest economic, social, and academic needs,” the candidate says on her site.

This plan both on its face and as the layers are peeled back is utter chaos for schoolchildren. This initiative that the Obama administration pushed held children unaccountable for their behavior based on their skin color — in an effort to “even out” disciplinary actions among the races.

But the end result? Documented instances of teachers physically and verbally abused in the classroom, helpless to restore order through detentions or suspensions. All children were at risk thanks to this ill-advised program, and kids of color were not taught that actions have consequences. This will continue under a President Clinton. Disastrous and dangerous.

Immigration
Again, from Clinton’s own website: One of her goals is to “defend President Obama’s executive actions — known as DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] and DAPA [Deferred Action for Parents of Americans] — against partisan attacks. The Supreme Court’s deadlocked decision on DAPA was a heartbreaking reminder of how high the stakes are in this election. Hillary believes DAPA is squarely within the president’s authority and won’t stop fighting until we see it through.”

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Unpacking this statement: “Defending DAPA against partisan attacks” means a closed door to any ideas or proposed legislation contrary to DAPA, and essentially a full-throttle legal pursuit of the program (which has been returned back to U.S. District Court for the 5th District of Southern Texas, after the Supreme Court failed to grant a re-hearing of the issue in October).

DAPA would provide approximately 5 million illegal aliens to obtain both work permits and Social Security cards, which would qualify them for other state and federal benefits, including welfare — and basically grant them legal status.

So how does this affect American kids? Illegals would take precious classroom seats, job opportunities, and emergency waiting room and doctor’s offices spaces. Remember what this means: With a finite amount of resources, your child’s spot could be taken. Disastrous and dangerous.

Abortion
On her website, Clinton asserts her emphatic support for the killing of unborn babies, stating, “Politicians have no business interfering with women’s personal health decisions. I will oppose efforts to roll back women’s access to reproductive health care, including Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.”

What she doesn’t say — because it would be too problematic politically — is that she doesn’t believe babies in utero have any rights. As she noted on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”

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Pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood took issue with their candidate’s response — because she referred to a child pre-birth as an “unborn person.”

Diana Arellano, manager of community engagement for Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, said Clinton’s comments undermined the cause for abortion rights, tweeting that it “further stigmatizes #abortion.”

Is this the culture of darkness and death that we want to raise our children in — one devoid of compassion or consideration for our most vulnerable citizens? Parents would be wise to remember that this kind of intellectualized darkness spreads quickly: The disabled, the elderly, and anyone considered by the legislative elite to be of little value could be next. Dangerous and disastrous.

The Second Amendment
It would serve parents well to remember that up until 2008, Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital, had a complete handgun ban. It was a felony to even put a bullet in the chamber of a gun.

In the Supreme Court case “District of Columbia v. Heller,” the highest court in the land (which now-deceased conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia was, at the time ,serving on) corrected this — and struck down these dangerous, ill-advised laws.

Is this the culture of darkness we want to raise our children in — one devoid of compassion or consideration for our most vulnerable citizens?

Clinton told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” in June, “I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice Scalia, and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation.”

The problem is with the term “reasonable regulation.” Do we trust Clinton’s definition of “reasonable”? In her parsing of the language, Clinton leaves a deep and wide chasm of future regulations that she would push the Second Amendment into, ending families’ rights to protect themselves — our constitutional right.

Like others on the Left, Clinton believes taking away guns from everyone — even law-abiding citizens — will lower murder and violent crime rates. Throwing out the baby with the bath water will not solve what ails society. A hard look at an America in decline socially, economically, and culturally will, and Donald Trump stands ready to do this.

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The stakes have never been higher for parents — indeed, for all. The decision we make Tuesday can either provide a bright new future full of restored hope and opportunity to our children — or send us hurtling down the path of ruin.

Putting party loyalty aside, it in incumbent upon all parents to make a choice that saves the future for the children we love.