{"id":534,"date":"2023-04-26T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americaschallenges.wordpress.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:53:00","slug":"things-i-would-change-in-america-if-i-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Things I would change in America if I could"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>OPINION<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Things I Never Thought Would Happen:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Drag queens performing in schools.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Men pretending to be young girls in videos and getting corporate sponsorships.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Teachers promoting the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The military lowering entry standards to accommodate people identifying as a different sex than they were born with.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>People recording videos of themselves talking in their car and posting them online for attention.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The idea that having an open border is a good thing in any country, especially in the USA.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The intentional push to remove petroleum-based fuel for autos, trucks, tractors, and boats in an attempt to impact &#8220;global warming.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Our government pushing to eliminate gas-powered vehicles and make everyone drive an electric one.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The notion that people in some cities can now walk into stores and steal things on video without anyone stopping them.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>A beer company putting a &#8220;pretend girl&#8221; on a can of beer and expecting a favorable marketing outcome!<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Teaching our children that race (CRT) must be taught in schools without parental input.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Americans with good credit being forced to pay higher interest rates to support those with poor credit so they can buy a house.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Men participating in women\u2019s sports as &#8220;equals&#8221; and, in many cases, winning.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Men now being allowed in women\u2019s locker rooms and restrooms.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Cities putting feminine products in men\u2019s bathrooms because &#8220;men can have periods.&#8221; How absurd is that?<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Being told to trust NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC about the Hunter Biden laptop, despite FBI findings that contradict previous information.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Being expected to trust our government\u2019s election process, even though thousands of people were tracked using geolocation, making multiple mail drops of questionable ballots.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Having to believe that the entire Biden family had nothing to do with leveraging Vice Presidential influence for payments or favors.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Organizations, schools, and officials advocating for gender changes for children as young as 11, without parental permission.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The creation of &#8220;special&#8221; pronouns to describe males and females so others won\u2019t be offended.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Providing &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; books to children in public libraries.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The world bowing to anyone identifying with the LGBTQ+ community, disregarding the sex they were born with.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Allowing China to buy up hundreds of acres of land without questioning it.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Subsidizing Chinese companies to invest in America without considering the long-term impacts on the country.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Young people becoming so entangled with their devices that they can\u2019t go a day without posting on social media for attention.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Companies afraid to &#8220;offend&#8221; employees by expecting a full week\u2019s work, with some avoiding comments on unconventional hair colors or multiple piercings.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Allowing crowds of young people to vandalize cities with little or no penalties, sometimes even providing shelters in the areas they take over.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Our country\u2019s failure to produce a yearly budget, relying instead on emergency funding without sticking to a consistent budget.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Labeling the far right as &#8220;domestic terrorists&#8221; while allowing the far left to riot in cities, burn police cars, and call it &#8220;freedom fighting.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The government dictating the type of vehicle we must buy to appease environmentalists.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The impending shift toward a cashless society, where the government could control access to our funds\u2014and 99% of people seem oblivious to this.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Electing officials who appear to dislike America as it is and seek to remake it into a socialist form of government.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Reducing our oil production, shifting from being an exporter to an importer again, all in the name of going green.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The government forcing us to wear masks for over a year, bringing the economy to its knees, only to later reveal masks didn\u2019t protect anyone\u2014it was about government control.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Funding labs in China to develop viruses we wouldn\u2019t allow on U.S. soil, leading to millions of deaths worldwide without accountability.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Outsourcing American production to countries with lower labor costs, leaving us vulnerable when these unstable countries face conflict, disrupting our supply lines.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Idolizing Hollywood entertainers, only to realize they have their own flaws.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Paying professional athletes more than the soldiers who defend our country, or our police, EMS, and firefighters.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Many young people today lacking repair skills, relying on the internet for solutions or discarding items.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>America seemingly losing its sense of value and hope for a brighter future. Until we return to basics, it\u2019s hard to see things improving.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION Things I Never Thought Would Happen: &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidens-follies","category-bidne-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}