I don’t hate.
I do feel the emotion, but it is temporary. I guess I am too pragmatic for true hate. In my personal moral code, hate is a useless and wasted emotion. What I do feel is disgust, derision and ultimately, sorrow for the person.
I can honestly say that I hold hate for no person – but that doesn’t mean I don’t keep score, or I won’t fight. I have always been of the mind that if you strike me, you better put me down because if you let me up, I’ll do everything within my power to put you down.
In my lexicon, that is simply Old Testament pragmatism.
I don’t hate progressives, Democrats, or leftists – I make allowances for the ignorant and mentally ill – but they are stepping on every nerve in my body, and their toes are right on the edge of my last good nerve.
A significant part of the animus I have come to feel toward Democrats rests in their doctrinal claims to be democracy personified, the infallible repositories of all correct knowledge, the ultimate arbiters of good and evil, the scions of true justice and the possessors of a Divine right to rule.
More succinctly, they are just better than us in every way.
I guess twisting election laws, getting most things provably wrong, supporting evil policies like abortion, embracing arbitrary and capricious lawlessness, and questioning every election they do not win doesn’t count.
Their delusions about themselves are what make the entire masking controversy so illustrative. The mask issue boils down to this: Progressives believe they are righteously saving humanity by wearing a face covering (statistically proven to be useless against the coronavirus) and that by not wearing one, you are trying to kill them and are committing crimes against humanity.
This controversy perfectly illustrates how right Charles Krauthammer was when he opined:
“To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”
I have noted how the progressive “revolution” is a revolution of cowardice and subversion. The “revolution” didn’t come with force of arms, explosions, civil war, or an invasion (at least not in the sense of a D-Day style clash of Allied bodies against the Nazi wall on the shores of France), it came quietly, clandestinely, camouflaged and under the cover of night. It came unnoticed, on little cat’s feet and in the dark of night
It was as unseeable as a ghost and as quiet as a lover’s whisper.
The average citizen would be excused for not noticing – but there was a minority that did notice and were rewarded for their awareness by being called conspiracy theorists, right-wing nutjobs, bigots, racists – or worse.
And yet, and seemingly overnight, there is not one single institution - from the entertainment industry (the NFL or the music world) to your local government - that either isn’t pushing some aspect of the progressive agenda or is already governed by it.
Many have asked reasonable questions – how did we get here without noticing? How did so much power get in progressive hands? How did government become so powerful, co-opting the power of the individual?
Again, from the “Noting New Under the Sun” files, such a revolution has happened before.
America has transformed into a culture equivalent to that of the ancient Pharisees of the Bible. The Pharisees were an “ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity.” In other words, a legalistic society where “good” and “right” was determined by how well the laws (as interpreted by the Pharisees) were followed (in the biblical sense, that is an oversimplification but for these purposes, it will have to suffice).
“Pharisee” comes from the Aramaic word perishayya meaning “separated, separatist” and the Pharisees of Jesus’ time saw themselves that way, separate from the people, a cut above the rest – but they weren’t. They were corrupt.
In Matthew 23, Jesus called them out by saying:
“The teachers of the law (Scribes) and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.”
The similarity between Democrats and the bureaucrats in Washington and the Pharisees of Jesus’ time should be readily apparent. Remember how, when the Pharisees saw Jesus as a threat, they accused him of performing miracles as an agent of Satan.
America gradually became a Pharisaic culture as its citizens turned to law and the government to be the arbiter of what is right and wrong, what is good and evil. The common idea of such a culture is that if it is legal (or not specifically illegal) it is “right” – at least until some Pharisee in government says it isn’t.
Over time, we lost trust in ourselves and our fellow citizens to do the right thing when dealing with our fellow man – and as many sought ways around natural laws (and God’s as well) with which they disagreed or saw as an impediment to what they defined as “progress”, power to decide those matters were left to the government (and I include all three branches in that definition). When one gives the power to another entity decide one’s fate, one cedes one’s own power to decide.
When a man’s word is no longer his bond and it takes more than a handshake to seal a deal, we all lose individual liberty.
As John Adams famously wrote, “we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.”
When government is called upon to decide anything, it will eventually decide everything.
And when they try to put me down and miss the opportunity, you better believe I’ll try to return the favor.
I think the progressive leaders are EVIL and that they know exactly what they are doing.
I believe we are in a war of Good and Evil .... and the progressive position is being led by pure EVIL
When you mentioned the NFL-(even though I am a die-hard Packer fan-I refuse to watch any NFL game). I read an article today about the Super Bowl’s half-time entertainment starring Snoop Dogg-how can they revere this POS who chants about killing cops? What is wrong with our country?