Rhode Island has been a one-party state for quite some time. Democrats hold every statewide office and have overwhelming majorities in the state legislature. The state has not had a Republican member of Congress since 1995, nor has it had a Republican United States Senator since 2007.

Can Rhode Island turn from a deep blue state politically into a purple state? Not necessarily in this election cycle but in time?  Will the midterms be the beginning of a political sea change for our state?

The prevailing zeitgeist in this nation is favorable for such a conversion which would have been unthinkable prior to the election of Biden and a Democrat party that has lost its way and is catering to a small, radical fringe of its constituency, while abandoning cultural, social and geopolitical solutions that are time honored and have proven effective. A poll conducted by WPRI and Roger Williams University on October 5 has Republican Alan Fung ahead of Seth Magaziner by 6 points.

In a state where Republicans make up only 13.92% of the voting public, one might ask what is taking place in the second congressional election? Will “traditional” Democrats and Independents reject a Democrat party that has abandoned them?

Clearly, this administration has adopted policies that are inimical to the interests of our nation and has demonstrated an unprecedented level of incompetence coupled with a penchant for lawless weaponizing of governmental agencies against its political adversaries. A poll conducted by Rasmussen on September 29 of this year found that 79% of likely voters think the nation is “on the wrong track.”

And here are just some of the reasons why:

• The disastrous exit from Afghanistan; the cultish infatuation with climate change resulting in the cessation of fossil fuel energy exploration and production without a viable alternative which threatens our economy and national security;
• an open border enabling the influx of millions of unvetted undocumented migrants which has ushered in sex trafficking and fentanyl, killing thousands of our youth;
• the enormous increase in crime in our cities and suburbs due to prosecutors who are more sympathetic with criminals than victims;
• an economy in recession and decline; the highest levels of inflation we have seen in decades due to unfettered federal spending and a destructive energy policy;
• a plunging stock market;
• cultural degradation;
• the most political Department of Justice in this nation’s history.

This version of the DOJ refuses to prosecute pro-abortion advocates who are violating a federal criminal statute by attempting to intimidate Supreme Court Justices at their homes or even to investigate hundreds of attacks against churches and faith-based crisis pregnancy centers while staging pre-dawn raids by SWAT teams into the homes of political adversaries including former President Donald Trump over a document dispute with the National Archives Administration, into the homes of several Trump associates for alleged process crimes and into the home of a pro-life advocate by 20+ SWAT team members with rifles drawn, terrifying the advocate’s seven young children and wife.

And what did he do to warrant this outrageous violation of civil rights and affront to human dignity? One year ago, while demonstrating near an abortion clinic, a pro-abortion male began to berate his child. In reaction, he pushed the man who sustained no injuries. A lawsuit brought in a Pennsylvania court was dismissed but the hyper-political Attorney General Garland decided to send a message and brought charges under a federal statute which is not even applicable because there was no interference with someone trying to obtain an abortion. This administration is at war with pro-life people just for being against terminating the lives of unborn babies. Recently, the D.O.J. has indicted eight pro-life advocates for actions that occurred some 18 months ago, alleging they blocked access to an abortion clinic.  These are national issues, but they affect our collective psyche, and the economic issues affect our pocketbooks. However, there is another, more enduring issue that deeply resonates with parents-the sexualizing and indoctrination of their children which provokes a powerful visceral reaction and commitment to protect their children from a relentless attack by a powerful axis of government, educational institutions, the entertainment industry, and the media. This constituency of parents can be the key to turning a blue state purple.

Witness what happened in Virginia, for example, where the governorship had been in Democrat hands from 2014 through 2021. In 2020 and 2021, Democrats controlled not only the Governor’s office, but both chambers of the legislature. Virginia voted for Barak Obama in 2008 and 2012, for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and for Biden in 2020. Then Lauden County, Virginia, which is part of one of the most liberal enclaves in our nation-metropolitan Arlington, Alexandria and D.C.-erupted. What occurred in the public schools in that County is well publicized and documented. Woke policies were implemented that incorporated critical race theory into curricula, pornographic material was featured in school libraries, LGBTQ indoctrination was promoted, including efforts to convince children to question their sexual identity. Students were forced to state their pronouns during class time and female students were required to use the same bathrooms and locker rooms as biological males.  A biological male, who was allowed to use the girls’ bathrooms raped a female student. He was surreptitiously transferred to another school where he raped another girl whose father was arrested at a School Board meeting for vociferously protesting the policies and the handling of the rape incidents. In November of last year, Virginia voters manifest their collective disdain by electing Republican Glen Younkin as Governor on a platform of reforming the public school system and eradicating the leftist agenda which was destroying one of the best school systems in the nation.  Not only did Younkin win, but the voters also elected a Republican Attorney General and Secretary of State and the G.O.P. now controls the House of Delegates.

In June of this year, some of the parents sued the Loudon County Public Schools “for the district’s systemic and egregious moral corruption of children and its deliberate violations of parental rights to control the upbringing of their children.” The lawsuit targets state regulations which “compels student speech, forces young children to use bathrooms and locker rooms with members of the opposite sex and keeps parents in the dark when their children lead a double life as a different gender during school hours.” In September, Virginia enacted a law requiring that parents must be notified if their child will be exposed to sexually explicit content in public school. The Virginia Department of Education issued a statement saying that the policies are guided by the fact that parents have rights to decide what their child is exposed to.

Some of the issues that have arisen in Virginia are palpable in Rhode Island and, for that matter, nationwide. We need to look no further than our own Town. The question is whether parents are informed enough and sufficiently motivated to vote for Republicans who have traditional values and the courage to push back against the usurpation of parental rights in a blatant attempt to indoctrinate and sexualize school children, sometimes without the knowledge of, and sometimes despite the objections of parents. Please check out our candidates whose biographies are detailed on this website and then go out and vote to reverse the destructive policies of the Biden Administration and end the lunacy that is infecting our schools.