Or we lapse into Hillary's coma

Sometime in the night - in the long, tense night of Barrack Obama's administration - the "land of the free" exchanged its freedom for freebies.

As a nation, we said to the government: "Please take our liberty, and pursue our dreams for us." Spending $10 trillion over eight years, Obama showered the country with subsidies and giveaways and entitlements. Yet in the end we wound up with less economic growth, more racial violence, and more private and public debt. Our freedom is diminished, while the freebies have disappeared, buried in a landfill of government waste.

Sometime during the night, the "home of the brave" became a "safe place," to which young adults can run in the face of "trigger warnings" and "hate speech." How are we to combat Islamic terrorism and Russian adventurism and Chinese hegemony when our youth cannot even bear to hear "micro-aggressions" on the street?

Some folks are painted as being "anti-science" for believing that nature, based on the evidence of cell biology, operates according to a design. And what today passes for science? When a man, properly endowed with XY chromosomes, "self-identifies" as a woman - that's science. When computer models predicting climate change fly in the face of fifteen years of contrary data, and yet are defended as accurate - that is "settled" science.

Our toxic dependence on government has made us unfree There are no iron bars before us because, residing in a nursery, no bars need restrict us. Our people are polarized: red states versus blue; white race versus black; black lives versus blue lives; the one percent against the 99 percent. On election day, we will either wake from this bad dream, our hair as frightful as Trump's, but our hearts hopeful again, or else we will lapse into Hillary's coma.

Think hard.

Alexander Lee

West Chicago