Democrat leaders nationwide are in meltdown, losing their minds, or at least their compass. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Maine. Who in their right mind would vote for a party that?
Passed a bill to allow the kidnapping of a child in another state, conveyance of the child to the State of Maine, there to have their reproductive and sexual organs permanently mutilated?
Passed a bill to allow a fully viable baby, capable of living outside the womb – the way millions get delivered every year from viability on – to be summarily killed in the third trimester?
Passed bills that put hundreds of mandates on poor counties, cities, and towns, making Maine the highest property tax state in the nation?
Passed bills making affordability for seniors nearly impossible, always unpredictable, unfunded healthcare obligations, rising taxes, unsustainable energy and housing costs, subsidies for the rich who buy solar panels and summer homes, and throttling seniors with higher prescription drug taxes?
Undercut parents, families, and kids. Passed bills giving illegal aliens two years of housing, free electronic benefit transfer (EBT) credit cards (often used for illegal drugs), and advocated bills – including by a former House Speaker – pushing to allow illegals to vote? In what universe…does any of that help Maine citizens?
Passed bills trying to pull Maine out of the electoral college, yanking the state from that constitutionally created institution, which was specifically created to protect small states?
Passed bills creating an anti-democratic, two-bites-at-the-apple, non-constitutional, anti-majority rule institution called “rank choice voting”?
Passed bills lowering felon prosecutions and sentences, reducing crimes, time, and bail, and pushing early release of these violent felons back into the Maine society?
Undercut federal, state, and local law enforcement with policies that strong encouraged highly dangerous international drug trafficking groups – Dominican, Mexican, Chinese, and others – to come into the state and deal in mass distribution of fentanyl, meth, heroin, and crack-cocaine, to the point where a state has 10,000 overdoses?
Undercut education, in a dozen ways, with intention – from stripping girls of civil rights in schools to taking Maine from top in the country for public education to 49 of 50, crippling trades in the schools, jobs in the state?
Undercut Christian education institutions by suing to block them from resources that the US Supreme Court indicated they must receive?
Regulated individuals and businesses to suffocation, record bankruptcies, hundreds closing up or leaving the state annually, driven under or out?
Punished parents for speaking at school boards against gender ideology, faith-based opinions in classrooms, indoctrination in critical race theory, reverse racism, non-disclosure to parents, failures academically, attacks on girls’ dignity, privacy, and safety, electric bus failures that put kids at risk of electrocution, and claimed unions and administrators know better than parents?
Refused to take down 300 illegal Chinese marijuana grow houses, which take housing from Mainers, are bought for cash (from relatives of the Democrat governor), threaten public safety, are linked to fentanyl distributors via illegal ties, and lace their drugs with other drugs?
Diminished and refused to fund law enforcement at all levels, to the point of seeking to have state officials resist ICE, and when federal, state, and local law enforcement make sound cases, favoring criminal gangs over the victims of crime?
Refused to get effective drug treatment in place statewide, 315 beds for 1.4 million people, refused to leverage federal reservoirs like SAMHSA, DOJ, OJP, and OJJDP, instead accepting 70 young overdose deaths a month, just dishing 20,000 units of Naloxone, and calling that success?
Refused to understand the thousands of Maine parents who have lost children to Democrats’ negligence and uncaring policies?
Tried to bury, with the help of Democrat-funded media, a major CPA-driven audit which revealed more than $2.1 billion in questionable contracts, sole-sourced, papered after, to friends and family?
In what world is any of this high integrity, honest, worthy of trust, or consistent with safeguarding of the public safety, public money, affordable living, or genuine care for Maine’s citizens and children?
Bottom line: Maine’s Democrat leaders, this governor and legislature, are an objective disgrace. Too many Mainers do not know it. These leaders are not caring, competent, or worth trust. They are objectively dirty, corrupt to the core, defying laws, rules, precedents, and will of the people.
Who in their right mind would call that…leadership? Worthy of power? Time to reclaim Maine. Democrats nationwide, to speak frankly, have lost the bubble, lost the compass, and need to go.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
Again RBC, nothing unexpected from a Democrat run and controlled state. The Democrat Party may have lost the last Presidential election, but they have NO INTENTION of ever changing their agenda, their goals or the means by which they operate in general.
The Democrat Party is America’s Socialist / Marxist Party in all but name and that is intentional on their part. The ill-informed of our society have been conditioned to flock to anything promising “democracy”, even if they don’t fully understand what means or what the Democrat Party truly represents. The sheep merely cheer, or protest and riot based on the instructions conveyed by the Democrat Party or their propaganda arm, the MSM.
Don’t expect any rational, clear thought or any sort deep-thinking from your typical Democrat voter. They are governed by emotional queues, not fundamental analysis of hard facts and empirical data. Take the time to sit down and try to have a rational, calm conversion about almost any major issue and you’ll find you’re dealing with the equivalent of a 5-year-old in terms of understanding the complexities surrounding any issue. This is the modern Left in this country today. Understand your opposition and how they think, and you’ll understand what is necessary to defeat them. Fail to do so and you’re simply running yourself in circles, with the situation only getting worse over time.
Thomas Sowell has written a number of excellent books and given dozens of lectures on the subject of the Democrat Party, their voter base and the underlying mix of socialism / Marxism ideology that the Party is preaching to their flock of sheep. Read some of it.
The democrats are the nazis, communist, socialist and the true threat to democracy of this Republic
Maine (rhymes with Pain) — prime example of a Charter Member of the “180º Club” (i.e., whatever position they espouse or embrace, the exact opposite is usually true or an eminently more optimal, reasonable, efficacious and productive solution). In Maine, every day is “Liberal Lunacy Day” for the politicians. But then again, Mainers (like most of the Blue States) are getting exactly what they voted for.
Much of the same demoCRAP agenda is being pushed in Calirado, but we don’t have a firebrand conservative running for governor like Maine does. CO’s Republican Party is divided, and the “old guard” RINOs are prevailing while the demoncrats are strongly united.
There should be a nationwide boycott against Maine. Don’t go there or spend any monies there! And if you happen to live there LEAVE!
it is against the law but dems dont care about the law
We must admit that where the democrats band together and stay the course no matter how wrong headed their policies the republicans will scatter, attack one another and look for every opportunity to turn victory into defeat.
It is very good, in the interest of safe navigation ,that the sources of magnetic interference are found so that compasses can be adjusted properly. So, it is very good that you have identified the sources of corruption in Maine ( the magnetic interference in this case being one corrupt situation ,followed by another) RBC. You will have plenty to do when you are Governor that’s for sure. ! This is some history involving how these various matters got to be in Maine. I reckon that the opportunists ( political opportunists ) just saw situations that presented no resistance to evil intentions and made multiple attacks. It is good to know that good people care about doing what is right and things have a good, solid chance of improving – real soon ! The soul and Spirit of making things right again – it is powerful stuff !
Maine is on the same track as WA, CA, OR, CO. Are these states trying to commit suicide? And if they succeed, who will pick up the pieces? I feel bad for conservative citizens who have no choice in this, because I’m one of them and can’t afford to move.
A MILLION AMEN’S!
Who needs drugs to get on a horrible trip, just move to Maine, that does not mean the rest of the country is in much better shape, isn’t there even the tiniest corner of the tiniest department that is not corrupt?
And Minnesota too!
You may be Maine’s last chance! Here’s praying they take it!
Absolutely, they need to go ASAP! However, it’s my firm belief that this Democrat party, has for years been doing everything in their collective power to bring down this republic! They desperately want their socialist regime and cannot achieve that under our current constitutional order! (very difficult) so the next best thing is to destroy that order! Think about it; if you wanted to destroy America, how would you go about doing it? Frankly, you would do exactly what this party has been doing now for the better part of about 17 years. “Hope and change”, “change you can believe in”, “We’re going to fundamentally change this country”!!! Those were slogans from the Obama era. Then we get Biden’s four-year tear on our constitution! If you look at everything the Democrats have been doing through the lens of bringing down this constitutional order to replace it with a new socialist regime, then it all makes perfect sense!
Thank you for this highly informational article. I had no idea things had progressed, no, the correct word is “regressed”, so far in Maine.
I have been trying to get a read on the Pacific Northwest since I recently moved back. That does not mean I shouldn’t know what is going on across the county also.
From several other news reports, it appears most, if not all of New England has lost it’s collective mind.
IF YOUR LOOKING AT A GETTO , YOU MUST BE IN A BLUE STATE .
Good comment — The situation here in the U.S.A. with these truly despicable, evil individuals and groups attacking this Nation — everything that can be done to achieve victory needs to be called upon
The December 1941 song ” We Did it Before and we can do it again” –makes for a good spirit lifter. RBC up for Governor of Maine is good , and what right thinking people here on this AMAC Newsline forum are doing expressing opinions and putting forth ideas to defend the United States of America is good .
Like that fellow with the Sore-Ass!
True, they do have the “very wealthy and powerful people behind them.” BUT, whether you choose to believe or not, we DO have God on our side! He is even now working to expose the evil (I shudder to think of what hasn’t been exposed yet!) so we will see and know what is going on. AND, to rise up and fight back to save our United States of America. There has been too much patriot blood shed through the years for us to give up. Look what we did for the 2024 Election! Like John Paul Jones, we must each declare: “I have not yet begun to fight.” – And then get busy and start fighting back. (Hint: the best place to start is on our knees, with the open Bible before us!)