(#4938) Too many think our democracy is free to keep

      I have been slowly removing too many people on my Facebook page who keep telling me that standing up to tyrants is not the job of America. It makes me cringe with disgust! The tyrants of the world will never stop trying to destroy democracy because democracy is a direct threat to their authoritarian form of governments. They like be the sole rulers of their nations and would love nothing more than to be the ruler of ours. So why is it so important to stop tyrants from attacking other nations and sovereign classifications? Because once the tyrants see that they can absorb other cultures and societies into their sphere they are emboldened to go after more.
     Tyrants are like a virus. Unless you stop them they keep growing on the body politic. So we help Ukraine from the Russian invasion to dominate and what now seems to be liquidate them from existence. Same with China and it's obsession to absorb Taiwan. Taiwan is about 100 miles from the Chinese coast. As an example, Cuba, who is a sovereign nation, is only 90 miles from the coast of America. So the idea that China would think that Taiwan is theirs is even worse than if we Americans said that Cuba was ours. That alone should be enough for all Americans to be alarmed at the Chinese provocation.
     Despite the facts of tyrannical obsession, we here in a democratic nation must never lose sight that our democracy is not ordained nor immune from overthrow. Just look to the insurrection by trumps last year. So fighting for our democracy is not some outlandish concept, it is mainstream. So anyone standing back in a democracy and it's values while saying that fighting to keep it is not their concern is naive, foolish, and undemocratic. I can think of more piercing adjectives but I will refrain. Something is amiss when our citizenry are not united in defending democracy. I suppose the entitlement of deserves is much too prominent among too many of us in this current era of not sacrificing anything for the good of all.