Virginia’s Lt Gov is on a warpath calling out what she says is lawlessness in America that’s “coming from the highest levels”. Windsom Sears says that the corruption starts at the White House and trickles all the way down across America. Sears told host Maria Bartiromo of “Sunday Morning” that the “vacuum” in leadership can be seen in the rise of crime on the streets.
“That’s not going to work for anyone because the leader has to lead. That’s why they’re called leaders and they have to show the right way, the righteous way,” Sears told Bartiromo.
“There is right and wrong, and you can’t look at what’s happening in the streets and smash-and-grab and say, ‘Well, it’s just social justice.’ No, it’s theft, and it’s destroying our economy.”
Sears was referencing the high-end smash and grabs: more than half of retailers nationwide, 57%, said that there has been more organized retail crime since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to a survey conducted last year by the National Retail Federation.
Sears argued on Sunday that current leaders “follow the polls and they don’t have a righteous bone in their body.” She encouraged them to lead properly. New Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order in January banning mask mandates in schools. The order now faces multiple court challenges, but last week, a bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers moved to end mask mandates in the state’s schools.
A group of 10 State Senate Democrats voted with Republicans for an amendment that would allow parents to opt their children out of masking in schools, a rule that aligns with the Youngkin order, which was signed on his first day in office last month.
Several other states have also moved to eliminate mask requirements in the past few weeks, Fox noted.
“The governor fulfilled his campaign promise and he told everybody if you want to wear a mask, wear a mask, but allow the parents to make that decision for their own children because, as far as we can tell, the children still belong to their parents. They don’t belong to the state, not just yet, not if we can help it,” Sears said on Sunday.
“Some parents filed issues with it, and now we have a bill that’s going through and it looks like it will fully pass, and we’ll have a law here that parents will make that decision after all.”
Sears was sworn in as the first Black woman – and first woman in general– to hold her position, just days before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Sears, a Jamaican immigrant who came to the U.S. when she was six years old, hopes that children today can find inspiration from her own experiences.
“Here I am second in command of the former capital of the Confederacy,” she noted on Sunday, stressing that “no one can say then that we haven’t gotten a long way from where we started.”
“And furthermore I’m an immigrant. I wasn’t even born in America. And look, America has given me opportunities to succeed,” she continued.
Sear agreed that America has a long history of oppression and racism adding, “but here I sit to say we are not back in those days.”
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