This Election is Different

Polls aside, no one knows what’s going to happen on Nov. 8. As much as media personalities, writers, political pundits, and I pontificate, if any of them – myself included – could see the future, we’d already have won the Mega Million Jackpot and be sitting on a Caribbean beach drinking a margarita or a Fruit Cocktail for those who abstain from alcohol. Since we’re not playing the lottery, we have to make a best guess. Whatever happens, whoever wins, there will be an assemblage of people who will have a lot of explicating to do.

Every election has supporters; both teams have enthusiasts. Some devotees do and say senseless or foolish things. This is evidenced by some of the replies I receive from blog posts I have written. But rarely do the candidates say ludicrous or irrational things. This year has already proved to be different. This year, one candidate says whatever he wants, whether he means it or not, and isn’t afraid to say the exact opposite and move on. The other does whatever she wants, legal or not, then lies about it while posting herself atop a pile of evidence to the contrary. 

How can someone defend Hillary Clinton’s claims of having always been truthful about her secret, private email server when it’s unequivocally fallacious? How can someone recover from spending 24 hours defending Donald Trump’s statement that President Obama and Hillary “founded ISIS” when the next day he kneecapped them by claiming he was only being sarcastic? Then again, it is Donald Trump we are talking about and he can be rather sardonic.  These two characters securing the nominations of their parties have not only thrown the future of America into confusion, but their real and perspective supporters as well.  Whatever happens, whoever wins, there will be a horde of fervent keepers who will be in dire need of a reputation rehab. and many more crying in their beer.

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It’s time for hard questions. If Christians are alarmed by their faith’s waning influence, it’s time for a long look in the mirror. It’s time for religious leaders and professing Christians to ask, “Where do we go from here?” What can we do?

True Christianity is relevant—it’s meaningful, life-changing, and it gives sensible answers. But anything that poses as Christianity isn’t. The masqueraders have fooled millions of people for hundreds of years. It’s only the truth, Jesus said, that can make one free.

As Jesus told the Samaritan woman who was struggling to sort through conflicting religious views, the standard is truth. “The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him,” He said. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23-24).

Are you willing to swim against the rip tide and go on a quest for the truth? To “test all things; hold fast what is good,” as Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:21?

If you know God exists and know the Bible is His Word, start by searching out what it really says, not what religious spin specialists tell you. How did the people in the Church Jesus built worship God? What does the Bible say about what He, and His followers, believed and practiced?

Once that’s established, ask, “How did the plain, simple teachings of the Bible and the practices of His Church come to be changed?” “Why were the practices of His Church discarded and substituted, mostly with ideas and traditions borrowed from old pagan religions?”

Finally, A humble, sincere quest for truth—and then a willingness to live it—will make Christianity relevant in your life!

In conclusion, as Christianity fades away and the moral code and culture it generated recede into irrelevance, what will hold us together? Economically, we are dependent on aliens for the necessities of our national life. Our politics are toxic. Our racial divisions, once ameliorated by shared belief in the same God and Bible, are rarer than they were just a few years ago. As for equality, diversity and global democracy, who will march and die for that? Historian Arnold Toynbee said it well: “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

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Christianity’s real credibility is based on the truth of God, not ideas of man. The Bible’s testimony is that man’s ideas and ways have never ceased to fail. So if Christianity is failing today, a core reason is that so much of what masquerades as Christianity is man’s way, not God’s.

The foundation on which Christianity stands is the truth taught by Christ and the disciples as faithfully recorded in the New Testament. Humans cannot change the essence of something God created and expect success. False teachings may create an attractive building that looks great, but it sits on a foundation of sand that eventually will not stand the test of time.

God will not be mocked, and He does not suffer lies. Truth will eventually expose the many distortions about God and life that false doctrines have foisted off on people.

Fourth: (Now we get to my personal thoughts) High among the reasons of a de-Christianized America is the Supreme Court, which, since the Earl Warren era began, purged Christianity from all public schools and the public square – and has been met with a puzzling lack of resistance from Middle America to the secularist revolution being imposed upon it.

FIFTH, an anti-Christian elite captured the cultural heights – the arts, elite universities, popular culture, the media – and began, through movies, books, magazines and now games, an assault on Christian beliefs and morality.

SIXTH was the social revolution of the 1960s, which began with the arrival of the baby boomers on campus in 1964. Five years later, Woodstock Nation was wallowing in the mud and rocking out to Jimi Hendrix, Joan Bias, and Country Joe & the Fish.

With the counterculture of the 60's would come its 60’s opinions and standards, that were embraced by the elites and came to dominate the culture in the time of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Given his baggage, “Wild Bill” would have been a comic figure in the 1950s. Today he is the Democratic Party’s “beau ideal of a statesman.”

Many churches came out to meet the cultural revolution halfway. The results were irrelevance and scandal – too many Elmer Gantrys in televangelist pulpits and too many predators in priestly cassocks.

What are the consequences of a de-Christianized America and West? Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. (If you would seek its monuments, look around you.)

Half of marriages end in divorce. Fewer children are being born, and of these, over 40 percent are out of wedlock. Record drug use rates, dropout rates, soaring crime and incarceration rates that rivals most of the world’s civilized societies. Despite astonishing advances in medicine, we have far more and far more varied and deadly STDs.

As Christianity dies, individualism, materialism and hedonism or self-indulgence replace it. “Selfies” could be the name for the current adult generation for whom Easter Sunday long ago took a back seat to Super Bowl Sunday. More than a million abortions a year, assisted suicide and euthanasia are seen as the milestones of social progress in the new America.

“Panem et circenses,” bread and circuses, were what the late Roman Empire was all about. With us, it is sex, drugs, and rock, with variations on all three. Historically, as the faith dies, the culture and civilization to which it gave birth die, and then the people die. And a new tribe with its own gods comes to occupy the emptying land.

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So, while studies are pretty consistent in describing the changing landscape of Christianity, what is inconsistent are the analyses of why. At the risk of stepping on a lot of religious toes, what follows are three simple, but scripturally based truths. Following the first three truths are three verifiable realities. These actualities are based on historical data, observation, personal interaction from within the Church, study and much deliberation.

One: Christianity immediately started becoming irrelevant when irrelevancy started becoming Christian. What does that mean? First, a little biblical history: We humans have always had trouble doing even the simple things God asks of us. The Old Testament story of Israel and Judah reveals repeated cycles of their following God for a while but inevitably being drawn away.

Have we not been doing the same ever since Christianity came on the scene? From its inception, did not people quickly start altering nearly everything about it?

For humans to try to “improve” on God is not only arrogant and presumptuous, it also renders our religions irrelevant. The legitimacy of Christianity is totally dependent on whether its creator—Jesus the Christ, who was God incarnate -- is involved and active in it. If He isn’t, it’s irrelevant.

Wouldn’t it seem logical that whatever Jesus and His apostles did, we should do; what they said, we should say? When churches desperately try to reinvent themselves to appeal to what people want, as so many are doing today, they abandon what’s relevant to God. True Christianity is about changing to find our relevance in God—not God finding His relevance in us. And if Christianity isn’t changing people, it is not relevant.

Jesus’ own words remain a devastating indictment of Christianity today: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven,” He said. “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:21-23).

He wasn’t talking about any other religion. He was targeting those who claim to represent Him—modern Christianity. Labeling oneself “Christian” doesn’t necessarily make you so.

If God says something is irrelevant—meaningless to Him—then it is irrelevant. And what’s more, sooner or later, human religious inventions will fail to satisfactorily explain the spiritual questions for which we seek answers. Human explanations cannot satisfy spiritual voids, and people will eventually start looking elsewhere for relevancy. Like they are today.

Two: Bad produce at the fruit stand. Most people eventually stop eating bad fruit. They may move on to other bad fruit, but move on they will. Jesus had a lot to say about fruit when He began His ministry some 2,000 years ago. The mainstream religious institutions and teachers of the day smugly assumed they were leading people to God, but to Jesus they had long ago become irrelevant.

“By their fruits you will know them,” He said, and He was unsparing and withering in His assessments. Jesus’ harshest words were not aimed at the pagan Romans, but at the religious leaders claiming to follow God! Their carefully crafted religious practices made them appear pious, but He cut through their facade, calling them hypocrites, “whitewashed tombs” that are beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones” (Matthew 23:27). They marketed their religion well, but their spiritual lives were reprehensible!

What would Jesus say if He was observing the fruit stand of Christianity today? A big reason people cite for walking away is the bad fruit of its leaders/members—abuse of people and power, scandals and immorality, cover-ups, confusion and opposition over moral and social issues, hypocrisy, greed and opulence, doctrinal disunity, embarrassing extremists, open bickering among church members and…you fill in the blanks.

Bad fruit doesn’t just bring shame and embarrassment on churches. It makes Christianity appear irrelevant as a genuine, life-changing entity.

Three: Counterfeit Christianity. Counterfeit money works only if it’s fooling people. Once everyone knows it’s fake, it’s irrelevant. But until then, a lot of people can be deceived. The same is true with counterfeit Christianity. Here are Jesus’ own words of warning: “Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many” (Matthew 24:5).

He established Christianity with two strong assertions: It would never die, He promised, but it would be corrupted. It didn’t take long for the “many” deceivers to come. Within just a few years, they began creeping into the Church; and in only a matter of decades, “Christianity” began to morph into something resembling little of His original church. It wasn’t long before the counterfeiters overwhelmed—both in numbers and popularity—the remaining “flock.” Their primary tools of deceit—false doctrines—are now the unquestioned norm.

But Jesus’ words then are just as true today: “You have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’” (Matthew 15:6-9).

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The evidence is substantial and indisputable -- Western Christian religion is disintegrating, its authority and influence is fading, its adherents are disengaging. The attrition started slowly, but has enhanced rapidly. Christianity as we know it is becoming irrelevant. That raises an obvious question: How come? Why is the West in general and America in particular, losing their faith?”

Dozens of similar reports, essays and studies are basically saying the same thing—Christianity in its traditional power base of Europe and America is in decline. Fewer people are claiming it, and even fewer of those who claim it are actually seriously practicing it.

This is a Christian nation,” said the Supreme Court in 1892. “America was born a Christian nation,” echoed our Founding Fathers. Wilson, Truman and Reagan affirmed it: “This is a Christian nation.” But in 2009, Barack Hussein Obama begged to differ: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” Now before we begin throwing stones at Mr. Obama, let us examine some telling statistics.

After researching many Research Center surveys (Pew, Barna, Family Alliance, SBC, Gallup and others) I can reveal, based on that research, the United States is “de-Christianizing” at an accelerated rate.

Whereas 86 percent of Americans in 1990 identified as Christians, by 2014, that was down to 70 percent. Today less than 7 in 10 say they are Christians. But the percentage of those describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or nonbelievers has risen to 23. That exceeds the Catholic population and is only slightly below evangelicals.

Those in the mainline Protestant churches – Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians – have plummeted from 50 percent of the U.S. population in 1958 to 14 percent today. By accommodating the social revolution of the 1960s to stay relevant, mainline churches appear to have made themselves irrelevant to many Americans, especially the young.

The decline in Christian identity is greatest among the young. While 85 percent of Americans born before 1945 still call themselves Christians, only 53 percent of those born after 1980 do. As for the younger Millennials the percentage is under 50 percent.

We are in the midst of both a happy and sad conundrum. Happy? Because the silent voice of the masses walking away may finally grab the attention of those who have been ignoring the few voices crying out, “Something’s wrong!” Maybe the “church is irrelevant” message will be the “hello, it’s not working!” wake-up call we desperately need to hear.

At the heart and core of Christ’s teaching is the need for change—deep, personal, relevant, transformation into a better person and society—and the path to it. So, connect the dots: The turning away from Christianity is telling us that what its proponents are offering is not motivating people, not producing relevant change, not satisfactorily explaining life’s biggest questions.

Ah! But, there is light at the end of the tunnel. One may rightly wonder why is there luminosity when it’s not working? Because it’s only in seeing the reasons for Christianity’s problems that we are going to see the solutions and the need for the reemergence of what God originally intended Christianity to be. But it’s also, sadly unfortunate, because the “tossing out the baby with the bathwater” disorder means many, while tossing out the bathwater of religion, assume the relevance of God should go with it.

And what takes religion’s place? How about the current chant “I’m spiritual, just not religious.” The mentioned mantra is leading many to opt for creating their own belief systems, which inevitably leads to Hell’s gates. So they are going to the cafeteria of religious ideology and saying, “I’ll have some of this, a little of that.” In other words, they’re becoming their own god, creating their own religious universe.

Are We or They Unreformed Simpletons

Have you the reader, like me, ever assumed that too many presidential candidates were unreformed simpletons and that as soon as they opened their mouths, we might as well close our ears? Have you ever thought we might actually gain some insight into the mind of a presidential candidate by examining their inconsistent actions? I have, and have suffered PTSD like symptoms in doing so. It is sometimes difficult to journey on someone else’s imaginings or at least ponder their conception of a “New America.” Being the person I am, I attempted to visit their “New America.” My vehicle of choice was my mind’s eye. Using it, I began to see the world as they envisioned it. The end result of the ride; I was frightened, befuddled, angry and dejected. Like one of the current presidential nominees, I'd blamed large businesses for closing up shop and moving overseas. and then reality hit home. I'd wonder if I might have done the same thing. I'd curse our government for not helping enough, and then I'd wonder if, in its attempts to help, it actually made the problems worse. Then again, that's me just thinking outside the lines and doing so out loud.

Wow, Am I Ever in Trouble....

Wow, am I ever in trouble…. 

It seems that lately my life has been getting more complicated, and I want to thank those of you who are brave enough to still associate with me regardless of what I have become.

The following is a recap of my current identity:

I was born white, which makes me a racist; I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which makes me a fascist; I am heterosexual, which makes me a homophobe; I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business; I am a Christian, which makes me an infidel; I am older than 60 which makes me a useless old person; I think and I reason, therefore, I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which makes me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which makes me a xenophobe; I value my safety and that of my family, therefore, I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which makes me anti-social; I, and my friends, acquired a good education without student loans and no debt at graduation, which makes me some kind of odd underachiever; I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland by all citizens, which makes me a militarist.

Please help me come to terms with this, because I am not sure who I am anymore!

Newest problem – I'm not sure which bathroom I should use.

We Are Rapidly Approaching a Point...

I’m telling you as sure as I am sitting here writing this post that the day is coming when every American will lose his or her God-given right to make choices that they believe are in the best interest of their well-being, safety measures, possessions and sources of income. Is it not already happening? I believe, even now, it is taking place.

Can you not feel the tension rising?  Are we not losing the right to follow our own consciences and common sense in determining our own destinies? It appears to me, that politicians, who represent the government apparently knows what’s best for you and me – and that includes inexplicable, unaccountable judges and perplexing decisions. Have we not already seen florists, bakers, caterers, photographers, videographers and others told they must accept clientele and jobs that violate their own sense of religious freedom?

Is there no end to this tyranny? Where does this end? Is all “discrimination” bad? The word simply means “an act or instance of discriminating or making a distinction.” Is it wrong for people to make dissimilarities? Have we lost our individual right to choose what we think is right and what is wrong? If so, who is wise enough to make our collective decisions for everyone?

We are rapidly approaching a point at which anti-discrimination mania or lunacy if you will, becomes tyranny. Someone has to make decisions about right and wrong. That’s ultimately what laws are all about. But, we are making so many, and, in the process, micro-managing the lives of Americans to such an extent, that individual conscience and choice is falling by the wayside. Do you suppose it’s a consequence of people becoming too easily offended? So why can’t people just make choices that conform with their own life choices? Why do they insist on seeing themselves as victims of “discrimination” only because business people set some common-sense standards in what they determine to be their own best interest? Why must people seek redress by claiming discrimination?

Everyone acknowledges today that racial discrimination in hiring is wrong. It’s arbitrary and immoral. Is it really progress to equate every lifestyle with race? Is it wise? Doesn’t it diminish what people have been forced to endure in terms of racial prejudice?

The Gender Unicorn is Coming

It is coming. No! It has arrived. It being the revolutionary, anti-values sensual revolution. Just last week, the Charlotte Mecklenburg (CMS), North Carolina School Board acted on Obama’s high-pressured, open bathroom initiative by taking it to a broad new level. Now, in addition to gender neutral bathrooms, CMS has embraced gender neutral lockers and showers. To assist in the reprogramming or brainwashing of CMS students, it has introduced “The Gender Unicorn.” This cartoon like character is the Charlotte school system’s new teacher’s assistant. He’s, or is it she’s, or it, is going to help our children explore and discover who they “go to bed as,” and who they like to “go to bed with.” Yet this creation of a secular educrat’s aberrant mind is geared to seize the imagination of our progenies and inculcate –and even coerce – them in partaking in the sexual transformation. Even the confusing gender symbol is placed over its private area! Is this not nonsense? Is this not sanctioned degeneracy?

And it only goes downhill. Because the purple unicorn was accompanied by an entire CMS Training presentation, where parent’s rights, teacher’s classroom gender references and even school activities have been completely redefined. If the reader doubts what I state, I suggest they research it on social media. I will focus on but a few CMS gender neutral values adopted by the mentioned school system.

1) Parental involvement dependent on student’s permission: “Involvement of parents in the plan is determined in working with the student, considering the student’s age and health, wellbeing and safety concerns” (Page 34).

2) Students can choose their bathrooms and changing facilities: “Students must have access to the restroom/changing facilities that correspond to their gender identity” (Page 42).

3) CMS will remove some gender-based activities: “CMS will evaluate all gender-based activities; maintain only those that have clear and sound pedagogical purpose” (Page 46).

4) Students can choose their gender-based activities (intramural sports, dress codes, classes, ceremonies, photos, extracurricular activities, etc.). This includes choosing which gender they participate with during overnight field trips: “Students are permitted to participate in gender-based activities consistent with their gender identity” (Page 46).

5) Students shall not be referred to as “boys and girls” in classrooms, but “scholars” or “students”: “Avoid gender specific classroom management techniques” (Page 46).

It is hard for this North Carolina resident, Retired Army Officer and retired high school instructor to envision what America will look like in 2 or 3 decades – when good, decent, values loving, moral people fail to stand up, measure up and act now. When we fail to do things we can do, but choose not to, then when bad things happen, they happen because we chose to do nothing.

Is it not time that Americans of virtue, regardless of faith, seek the common good of our nation and start speaking out against nonsense like what CMS is advancing? Is it not time for professing Christians to start running for local offices – especially school boards – to protect our children and common-sense civility?

It becomes obvious to even me that those CMS members who voted in favor of the newly adopted guidelines are the same ones whom the Apostle Paul spoke of in Romans 1:22-23. “… their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals …” Do you not see the same heretical ethos pattern today?

It’s important to remember we are all created in God’s image – male and female. Though some truly struggle with gender confusion, for which there is abundant help and healing in Christ, we cannot exchange the image of God for four-footed animals like “The Gender Unicorn.” It’s disturbing we’ve fallen this far as a society. I close this post with an Abraham Lincoln bit of advice: “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

The "Don't Tread on Me" Conflict

Think about this for a moment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, thinks the "Don't Tread on Me" flag/emblem is xenophobic. That's right, you heard me, the representation is racist. The iconic yellow/emblem has become the subject of an EEOC investigation. What brought this  EEOC investigation to the forefront was not a heinous act nor was it an act of overt racism. A Black government employee filed an official complaint against a coworker. who wore a hat depicting the flag's famous yellow color, snake emblem, and the words: "Don't Tread on Me."    

From what information I have been able to gather, an official complaint was filed by a Black coworker. The coworker claimed that the flag was offensive for two reasons. First, because the flag had been designed by a slave owner. And second, because the flag in his opinion, is an "historical indicator of white resentment against blacks, stemming largely from the Tea Party."

The symbol in question, the Gadsden Flag has been around for more than two centuries, since 1775. It was initially used in the Revolutionary War as a symbol of American independence. Since then, it’s been a potent symbol of freedom. Most recently, it has been used symbolically by the Tea Party movement—which also fought for freedom, and used a number of symbols from the American Revolution.

The complaint itself is void of allegations of any racist action/behavior perpetrated by the coworker—it lists only the clothing choice as evidence of offensive behavior. If the EEOC decides that the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag/emblem is “offensive” and “racist,” it would be banned in places of work across the country. Private employers who allow their employees to wear clothing depicting the flag would be subject to federal fines and legal corollaries.

Details, though vague would lead this writer to believe this is yet another instance of multiculturalism and political correctness being used to heretofore, subvert individual freedoms, all for the benefit of an individual who feels aggrieved. I actually liken this action by both EEOC and the distressed employee to stone throwing anarchists running amok. What's next? The Eagle as our National symbol or maybe our Founding Constitution. 

Dignity in Work and Despair in Welfare

Is not the welfare/entitlement state of mind spiraling out of control in America? Is anyone, lifting a finger of resistance to counter this state of mind way of thinking? The cost of welfare is now well over $1 trillion a year. From what I am able to glean from public information sources, Food Stamps are so ubiquitous or pervasive that they have, for all practical purposes become the new standard currency in many urban cities in America.

Has not the current administration and one presidential nominee tacitly implied that we as a nation are in the midst of a so-called recovery? Yet, facts reveal that 45 million Americans depend on taxpayers to put food in their cupboards. Is not roughly 5 million more than when President Barack Obama took office? Has not Medicaid rolls increased by more than 10 million? Has not Obama, openly boasted about how many people he's moved into the program. To his credit or in spite of him, the number of unemployment insurance beneficiaries has fallen, and that’s a good thing. But then again, the number of Americans collecting disability insurance has continued to climb. Yes, indeed, this is some recovery. It is apparent, no one wants to admit that the ease of entry into the welfare state and the liberality of the benefits are big reasons labor force participation has nosedived to the point of collapsing. Why work?

As a result, the Census Bureau tells us that most families that are in poverty have no one working. Poverty is still widespread in America not because wages are too low but because fewer poor people have a job. If there are no wages earned at all, it is impossible to get out of the poverty trap. This is the sad part of this narrative.

Democrats in Congress have vociferously opposed putting even minor revisions back into work-for-welfare requirements. Even modest workfare requirements are denounced as anti-poor. So even a proposed federal law mandating work for food stamp recipients who are non-disabled adults without children gets shot down.

We know that changing welfare laws can have a positive impact on getting recipients back into the workforce and off welfare. In North Carolina (my state of residence) and Maine, when unemployment benefits were reduced and the number of weeks of benefits was limited, entry into the workforce increased.

So why aren't Republicans pushing workfare for all federal welfare recipients? Some are afraid that they would be looked at as insensitive or even pitiless. But getting people off welfare and into a productive job is not just a way to reduce costs but also a demonstrated way to restore broken and dispirited lives and move people into the mainstream. There is dignity in work. There is despair in welfare. After three generations of the failed entitlement state, has not welfare done enough harm to the very people it was supposed to help?

 

Here's Why I and People Like Me...

I don't know who wrote this, but it is an interesting point of view!  I took some liberties with the original in order to personalize it. I also believe this is why Trump, if he can keep his mouth in check, has a large enough following to possibly become America’s next president.

If you really want to know how the majority of people feel? And this applies to both Democrats and Republicans, read the paragraph below, it says it all. 

“You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately… You call the city, four different exterminators but nobody could handle the job… But there is this one guy and he guarantees you to get rid of them, so you hire him. You don't care if the guy smells, you don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoons gone!  You want your problem fixed!  He's the guy. He's the best. Period.”

Now for the liberties: Here’s why I and others like me want Trump. Yes, he's a bit of an ass. Yes, he's an egomaniac, but I and others like me don't care. The country is a mess because politicians on both sides of the isle are found lacking, as I have heard some millennials say: they suck. The Republican Party is two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere. I and people like me want it fixed. I and people like me don't care that Trump is crude. I and people like me don't care that he insults people. I and people like me don't care that he had in times past been friendly with Hillary. I and people like me don't care that he has changed positions. I and people like me are willing to overlook the fact that he has been married multiple times. I and people like me don't care that he fights with Megan Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell. I and people like me don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist. For that matter, are there many who do? 

This country is weak, bankrupt, and our enemies are making fun of us. We are being invaded by illegal's and Middle Eastern refugees. We are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Jose and Muhammed is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; and we just want it fixed and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.  I and people like me are sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and sick of illegal immigrants. We just want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but doesn't have lobbyist money holding him, he doesn't have political correctness restraining him, what I and people like me know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also not a cowardly politician. And he says he'll fix it. And I and people like me believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.

Furthermore, I and people like me don’t care if the guy has bad hair. We don’t care if his wife did a pin up pose that was leaked. We just want "those raccoons gone."

Do People Really Think...

Do people really think that there is a far-reaching epidemic of Law Enforcement Officers killing blacks in America? Do people really think transgender people are the victims of widespread acts of murder Do people really think Planned Parenthood is the only healthcare option for women? We would know if we just bothered to do our own research. We could sidestep much of the emotional propaganda and get to the heart of today’s issues if people chose to distinguish between opinion, hearsay and objectivity.

For instance, more black babies are aborted in NYC than born alive. In “2014, there were 1,100 aborted for every 1,000 born alive. Among whites, 228 were aborted for every 1,000 born alive. Among Hispanics, 557 were aborted for every 1,000 born alive.” The black community is the only demographic in NYC where there are more deaths than births, yet no “social justice warriors” are talking about this systemic racism. No one is talking about innocent black lives being ravaged by the abortion industry. There are few marches, less demonstrations and no die-ins. Activism says women have no health options but Planned Parenthood. Facts say otherwise. See “GetYourCare.org” and you will find many better taxpayer-funded comprehensive options.

Have you, the reader, not heard the rhetoric being bandied about by the progressive left that vulnerable communities are targets of the more powerful? Is there any group more vulnerable and less powerful than the unborn? But our society has shown that nonsensical violence is okay if we only attire it in egalitarian euphemisms so we can conceal the dismembered trafficked aborted body parts, right Hillary? Reasonably stated Barack?

Nowhere is victimhood more parroted than in the pro-abortion LGBT activist community. In the debate about binary biological gender, our nation is enmeshed in a deceptive debate about access to bathrooms. Does not everyone have access to bathrooms?  LGBT organizations promote the myth that there is an epidemic of homicides of "transgenders", blaming it on “hate”. All homicides are heartbreaking, but we're talking about 11 people in one year according to FBI stats from 2015. Just like pro-abortion militants, it's never about the truth. It's about advancing an agenda, no matter the lie.