Few politicians are offering real words of wisdom today. It was Abraham Lincoln who told us, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” The following is a partial transcript of thoughts published on X from “The Executioner” podcast. It is worth repeating because it depicts progressive problems currently afflicting us. If we don’t start voting differently, Lincoln’s words will be prophetic. I have added some thoughts of my own.

All are the result of the progressive wing of the Democrat party, which is in power nationally and in New Mexico. I am stunned at how progressives stole power from mainstream moderate New Mexican Democrats. Below are statements and observations I have either heard or read but unattributed specifically. “If a guy pretends to be a woman, you must pretend with him. When biological males compete against women in women’s sports, we are told to accept the outcome as fair. It is un-American to take the census to count the number of Americans are in America Russians influencing our elections is bad, but illegals voting in our elections is good. • It is cool for Joe Biden to blackmail the president of Ukraine, but if President Trump inquirers about it, it is an impeachable offence. • People who have never owned slaves must pay reparations to people who have never been slaves. • People who have never been to college must pay the debt of college students who took out loans for their college. • Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you must be able to prove your dog is vaccinated. Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the United States must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gangbangers who jump the southern fence are welcome, given a cell phone, a loaded debit card and housed.

• Five billion dollars for border security are too expensive, but $1.25 trillion for healthcare is not.

• If you use the term “illegal alien,” you are slandering the undocumented alien who entered the country illegally. They must commit a crime before they are considered illegal.

• If you cheat to get into college, you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the United States, you can go to college for free.

• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding there be a female president.

• We see other countries going socialist and collapsing, but it seems to be a great plan for us. Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, but others are not held responsible for things they are doing right now.

• Criminals are caught and released but stopping them from hurting more people is bad and a violation of their rights.

• Nothing makes sense anymore. No morals, no values and no civility. People died from a Chinese virus, but it is racist to refer to it as Chinese, even though it began in China. Sorry if you contracted the German measles as a kid, your parents should have called it Rubella or the three-day measles. Pointing out this hypocrisy somehow makes us racist.

• We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral. Where good is evil and evil is good. Where truth becomes a lie, and a lie becomes the truth. Where executing murderers is evil, but killing babies is A-OK.”

If you are under 30, the above may sound normal. If you are under 30, I am amazed you are reading a newspaper. World politics are changing. More than ever before, this next election will be about our future. Only your vote can reverse this deceitfulness.

Tom Wright is a Santa Fe based columnist and an El Rito Media LLC., investor