So I’m just spilling my guts here. I’m just throwing it all out. Yikes! Gonna touch on many topics – church, Cov-!d, B-L m, ri0ts, wh*te privilege, & politics. Yep, all the hot issues. I’m gonna be pretty raw with emotional intelligence (negative 100) for the start of a new endeavor here. Many that spend frequent time with me, are probably thinking, yeah, you usually are. Well, I try to keep it simple and factual with my conversation but It’s gonna be kinda hard to control myself this time because I’m concerned about the health of our country. BTW, there are misspellings, spaces, special characters, and dashes in my words. I just don’t trust the search engine and social media censoring bots.
The Sickness
Let’s start with the little illness that’s been going around since the beginning of the year. What a mess huh? We wear masks. We quarantined. We avoided going to Church for some time. We avoid the elderly. The finger-pointing, the GASPING, the virtue signaling, the cancel culture, and the blaming of deaths is hypocritical.
Not once in the last 40 years of my life has this country reacted even remotely close in a similar way with other threats. We’ve had the bat, bird, swine flu, and ebola. We’ve had more children die of the normal flu than this thing has killed children. Meningitis is spread the same way COVID is and is much more severe. 5% to 10% of patients die, typically within 24 to 48 hours after the onset of symptoms. Meningitis’ mortality rate is more severe than Cov-id. Up to 1,000 people each year in the US get Meningitis. Good luck buddy if you get it. If you don’t treat it quickly, you have about a 50% chance of making it out alive.
4,000 people die a day globally from Tuberculosis yet no one has forced laws and threatened to arrest anyone for failing to protect others from these pandemics. How many people pick up a cigarette each day? How many vapes are used? Yet, no one is yelling on social media or on TV to “put the d______ cigarette down”. All I’m saying is if you want to get on to people for not wearing a mask, then be consistent, be universal, be unbiased with all the other ways you can save people’s lives. I will respect that, but I haven’t seen that happen – I’ve only witnessed hypocrisy. So, call me a “Killer”, I’ll be happy to share that title along with you.
Too many have been so focused on this virus that very little attention has been said about mental health. We have totally healthy individuals that are destroying their mental health. I about cracked a few months ago. I broke down. I couldn’t take it anymore. This past year, I was laid off on January 10th because my employer dissolved a few positions. I tore my Achilles on January 12th. Six weeks later and boot off, I retore it again. I had been looking for jobs, found a couple of options for great jobs, and was at the final stages and about to sign on the line in March when suddenly the virus hits. back at square one. No prospects, no job, with a torn Achilles, couch-ridden, a completely healthy extrovert that was really depressed. I am fortunate. I actually found a position in May. One of the fortunate ones and grateful. But, I’m just one of many untold stories, and I consider my case mild because I don’t have personal history prone to mental illness.
The scientists were all over the place. They didn’t know what to expect. They all had theories and hypothesis, but listen to the “science” they said. What science? The science that’s backed by political motivation, or the science that’s backed by corporate profit, or the science that’s pushed by the spotlight seekers? Which science? Stories changed so many times, that we all lost track. That’s just a single scientist. Yet, there are thousands of other scientists with their own opinions. Masks apparently are so effective that many loved ones died alone in a hospital because their family couldn’t visit by their bed just for 5 minutes. Masks are so effective that you still need 6 feet apart. Masks are so effective that you can’t have large gatherings or go to church. I’m just showing you how much they actually believed in their ‘science’.
Let’s not forget the politicians who closed down indoor restaurants/salons and required masks and then later were recorded secretly sitting in restaurants/salons, and found without their masks. You also have politicians when they thought the cameras were off were then caught taking the mask off.
Don’t get me started on the HC -Q (hydroxych-lor……) thing. I’m not a scientist, and I’m not speaking for what the studies do or do not show, but man alive, many in the news and the other pandemic militant types were infuriated at how Trump endorsed it. They talked about how there is no real proof about it, and how the studies that have been done are biased. I am just completely laughing inside about how fooled people are here. We are pushing so hard about how very little research has been done on a $10 treatment that’s been around treating viral illnesses for decades that we are totally blind to Remdesivir being pushed onto patients at $3100! How much research for Remdesivir has been done to treat Co-vid? Probably equal to the $10 treatment, but, ya know – ‘profits’ and ‘the bottom line’. The formula for scientific breakthroughs is not solved with chemical compounds and the scientific method, it is solved with decimals and dollar signs.
If you want to quarantine and want to wear a mask, go ahead. I support you. I URGE you. Please wear a mask. Please stay at home. Work remote. Order curbside, contact-less whatever. I will respect your space and your life. There is plenty of help out there to assist you in staying safe, staying quarantined, or staying isolated from the world. Ask a neighbor for help. Ask your family. Find a charity. Ask a church. If you are willing to ask for help or pay for convenience, I can’t think of a reason to ever leave your house. There’s no reason to blame, yell, spit, or cough on others because it was your decision to step out of your house.
You have options to stay away so you have no reason to be offended at others’ choices. We bought groceries for our elderly neighbor. We can do the safe thing without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
So, here’s the recap: the science says:
– A mask will protect you
– Staying 6 feet apart will protect you
– Proper vitamin efficiencies will protect you
But, we believe in this science so much:
– We’re closing your business and taking jobs away
– Shooting up unemployment and risking your home and life savings
– Increasing depression and suicide rates
– Neglecting other healthcare and mental care issues
– Increasing drug overdoses
– Deferring education
– Closing churches and the right to worship
We’re not primates. We can send people to the moon, so we can figure out how to keep our neighbor safe without destroying jobs, homes, mental stability, and healthcare I finish off this part with this verse.
“When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. The Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal. (sound familiar?) Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.”
Burning Down the Plantation
The topic of science can be used as a great Segway into the topic of race. Much of the racial discrimination you see around the world today have scientific roots.
Charles Darwin’s theories attributed bl^cks to gorillas. Eventually, beliefs about racial superiority contributed to Hitler’s abuse of the Jews. You can read more here https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/History/Faculty/Weikart/Darwinism-in-Nazi-Racial-Thought.pdf
Science has been the main conduit for governments (as organized as the US to as small as an african tribe) to influence their subjects for millennia. The religion of science is not a modern construct. Let’s not forget, religions have used science for excuses to discriminate and abuse as well. This is not only true in Christianity in the US, as seen in the Salem Witch Trials and interracial marriage discrimination, but you see it across continents. For instance, a witch doctor in an African tribe can bestow fear through illness, astronomy, pestilence in their people to enforce collectivism.
Governments spread fear of the Jew, fear of the bl@ck man, and now, fear of the white man.
I filled out hundreds of job applications over the past couple of years and I’m reminded in Every. Single. One. Of. Them. that I’m a white, caucasian, non-minority, non-veteran, male, without a disability; which pretty much puts my resume at the bottom of the list from the get-go. I’m going to attempt some sensitivity but speak the truth the way I see it. Remember the story Jesus told where the person leaves the 99 to look for the 1 sheep? What is the message trying to say there? Does it tell you that the whole 100 sheep are important? Does it tell you that that sheep matter? I’m not sure how leaving 99 sheep to defend for themselves says that. So what does it tell us? It says, that one sheep and the one life mattered. It means that George Floyd’s life mattered. My life matters. Why does it matter? Because the shepherd cares about just one person – me. He doesn’t care for my race or my genetic code.
We should feel safe around cops, and I agree something needs to change and something isn’t right. I’ve been there on the one end with an egotistic, offensive cop escalating a very routine situation that needed not to be escalated. Not a single cop killing with an unarmed bl*ck man should happen. I hope that changes. If the day comes when not a single unarmed bl*ck person is killed by a cop, bl*ck Liv*s still will matter.
When a cop goes out there and sees a person as opposed to a skin color is when things change. This isn’t just the responsibility of cops. As long as we sit here and make it about skin color instead of a cop seeing Ge*rge Fl*yd, then nothing is going to improve. It may get worse. Actually, it is, if you look at the hatred, burning, destroying of homes, businesses, rioting, looting, and killing going on.
We need to start treating people as individuals instead of collective bodies prone to stereotypes.
I’ve been in marketing for quite some time, so I get the slogans, hashtags, etc. The irony is I’ve never been the type get on the hype trains that make so much noise but carry no ideas on change behind it. I want real actionable change and solutions backed by factual conversation, innovation, and ideation. The time for noise is when there is little awareness, but who isn’t aware today?
Bl-ck lives aren’t the only ethnicity that’s been discriminated against in this country. In the 1940s when Japanese were in internment camps. After 9/11 when anyone looking remotely ar-ab was seen as a te-rrorist. Ironically enough, the two richest ethnic groups in America are….yep, you guessed it – Asian (1st) and Indian (2nd) [insert scratching head emoji here]. No one is talking about Asian or Indian privilege Even the Italians and Irish bullied each other around at one point.
Hispanics are questioned about whether they just swam across the border. Former drug addicts aren’t given the time of day. Ex-cons can barely get a job to support a family. People look at cops as some pigheaded maniacal human beings. White, middle-aged, Christian males are under the microscope for anything that can be twisted to sound homophobic, racist, or sexist. Millennials are considered snowflakes. Abused or abandoned children. Abused or single spouses. I could go on and on. The privileged ones are the ones who come from elite Hollywood or political family bloodlines.
The point is that your imperfections – your non-privileges are what make you the best candidate to outshine all the others. You have a chip on your shoulders. You have something to prove. You are an underdog. You have got more reason to succeed than anyone out there. This is what makes America awesome and inspiring. It doesn’t matter what background, color, race you are, you got what it takes to be “privileged” one day.
Every individual has their privileges. You can take your background, culture, talents, abilities, experience, or knowledge, and use it to your advantage. You have privilege because you were endowed by God with it. If there is any earthly privilege, it is being in a country that offers you the full freedom to do what you want, and if you have hardship, you even get help from the taxpayers. Talk about privilege. Go to any country in South America or Africa or go to the middle east. You’re not getting ANY help. So, pat yourself on the back if you live in America because you’re one of the elites of the world. Consider yourself privileged. Black, white, green, blue, brown. Yep. Point at yourself and say, “I am privileged”.
If you grew up without, then you know how to fight, claw, scrape for everything in your life – and trust me, that’s a privilege and an advantage.
I played sports a lot growing up. There was a team that walked on the court and I remember thinking to myself that they were bigger and we had no chance. We lost by just a couple of points. Now, I look back thinking, I wonder if I changed my mentality would that outcome have changed? If I’m going in feeling that my physical limitations and disadvantages were going to be a hindrance, how much of a chance do you think I am giving myself? The other team was privileged of course. They were taller, darker-skinned, streetball, playing boys that had way more experience than me. As soon as I believe others have a privilege, then I’ve already lost the game. Maybe I should have protested and complained at how disadvantaged I was not given the opportunities to play ball as much as the other team had or how the odds are stacked against white boys?
The whole “love wins” thing is just something I’ve gotta say something about. Once again, I get it. It’s a slogan and a hashtag, but really what kind of love are we talking about here? Define that for me please. Because I’m betting that the version of love is one thing in particular – Care and acceptance. Yeah. Love is a part of that. But love isn’t kneeling down at a toddler’s feet and telling him you love him while he’s throwing a temper tantrum on the ground for not getting what he wants. That’s detrimental and a blinded form of love. I am not comparing a child complaining about a toy at the store and reactions to the lives being taken. I am reflecting on the pro-active measures you have taken before and after that demonstrate real love. Godly love condemns burning, looting, and murdering your own brothers without also blaming the other political party and without using their social or demographic predicament as an excuse. We don’t need any more of the Love that stands up for physical well-being but sits out of spiritual well-being. That kind of love comes from a nurse, and I’ve got one of those…they’re great, just saying.
So getting back to the B-LM thing. I sympathize with the movement and support it on principle, but I also support Blue liv*s mat-ter and childrens’ l-ves mat-ter. Reparations are not gonna bring back true long-term, lasting success. That can only be possessed through knowledge and experience. Do you know that 70% of lottery winners end up bankrupt in just a few years? Ask yourself why? It’s because money without the knowledge and power to know what to do with it is worth nothing. Having a culture that possesses the experience, role models, successful homes, and businesses is where the bl@ck community is not privileged.
The systemic problem isn’t white people, political parties, or cops. Much of the systemic problems can be attributed to the government teat that keeps the carrot dangling just enough to get by and encourages fatherless homes. Children living in a female-headed home with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6%. Maybe you are part of the group that believes all of these negative outcomes are a result of white man. I hate to break it to you but signing over the deeds to white people’s houses may give minorities a house, but it won’t offer a home with a father, structure, love, hard work, and entrepreneurship.
There are a few practical things that you can do and should not do to guarantee success in this country.
- Don’t break the law
- Enter college, the military, or just start a business
- Don’t get pregnant before starting a career
Parents, one practical thing you can do to help your kids become successful
- Have a successful marriage
That’s it. That’s all, and it will guarantee success.
Defunding or reducing police funding isn’t a solution either. All these things that seem like some clever way to fast track success or bring justice in the bla©k community only acts as a fever-reducing Tylenol that masks the symptoms (no pun intended on the mask reference).
Bl-ck people are hurting. My opinion is that they have more options available to them through the state and private companies than wh!te people do. As I stated, In my own limited observation, minorities with equal or slightly fewer traits are eagerly lifted in the ranks (from my experience in modern, corporate America). Can you name one program, one charity, or one cause that is established to give support to middle-aged white men? So the opportunities and support are there for minorities, but where I see the problem is that history and culture have an effect that is still hindering advancement. The past and present culture has not incubated many examples of what it takes to get out of their situation. A culture going from being a slave, to being discriminated against and segregated, to finally given an equal playing field today is going to have unfair delays in advancement – but not due to the current system
But the answer isn’t a reparation or the discrimination of wh!tes to pay for past sins. Doing that will stunt advancement. Achieving success is best learned so it can be passed to your generations rather than success being handed to and once destroyed you lack experience on how to resurrect it again. During your time in life, you will fail many times. So, it’s imperative to know how to pick yourself up and dust off and sometimes start from scratch again. If the bla©k culture rises from where they are now with the support that is already in place, in fifty years they would be more successful than whites.
Whites are mostly spoiled little rotten brats from privileged backgrounds and have very few examples of what it takes to keep successes. We whine about our cappuccino foam being too frothy. Our skin is too soft to sustain the amount of success we’ve had over the years. Time has come, but only if others have learned what it takes to come from nowhere into something. Right now, the Indian and Asian races have already become more successful regardless of the discriminations against them.
Fear Leads to Doubt and Doubt Leads to Oppression
Another thing that blows my mind is the riots in our country. These riots are 100% political. The last riots began four years ago. Yes, right before elections. See the trend? The odd thing is that I’m seeing a bunch of white younger adults out there destroying homes and businesses. They are organized and funded. This is not an organic movement. This is not about B-LM either. Please, connect the dots. They want upheaval. They want anarchy because they want a revolution. Fair enough.
But the problem I see here is that it seems they want a form of government that hardly allows opposing views. They are protesting against a current form of government which actually allows them to complain about the form of government without threat or prosecution and it’s also a form of government that offers an opportunity to exercise democracy every 2-4 years with an election.
The left’s political dogma is principled upon fear while using scientific theory as gospel to convert followers into a poligion. We are prepped by the power hungry individuals to live in a permanent state of crisis. As long as it is their crisis, they can determine the rules of how we must behave..
In the US, the obvious scientific example that is used to manipulate and re-educate their followers is acid rain depleted ozone melting ice rising sea levels global cooling dying polar bears global warming “climate change”. They’ve realized that their scientific claims have holes, so we’ve finally settled on “Climate Change”, because…who can refute that the weather doesn’t change and it can also be backed by numbers from thousands of years of scientific and archaeological data – which if you have two sides to your brain discredits their theories. The amount of attention that climate change gets is not a result of concern over the environment.
Climate change is a conduit to bring fear and delusion to the minds of those listening, so eventually, their social and political policies can get some traction. But let’s see how pseudo-science and race have intertwined in the past.
The political right and the left each have their own unique philosophy. I am speaking in generalities here, but on the right, the message is: “You can have success without us”. In contrast, the left’s message is: “You can’t have success without us”. My question is, which message sounds more oppressive? Maybe an even better question could be – which one sounds as if there are two classes of people – provider and a dependent or a m*ster and a servant? One platform injects self doubt and fear in your independence. The other platform encourages faith in yourself and your interdependence.
In the 1800s, as opposition to slavery grew, masters needed to find ways to keep the loyalty of their slaves. So to keep their support, they warned the slaves that the provisions meeting their basic necessities could be stripped away if things were to change. The general message hasn’t changed today as power-hungry politicians prey on the subservient with promises including basic welfare, minimum wages, public transportation, housing projects, and so on and so on. If masters could convince their slaves into believing that the alternative – 100% self-sufficiency, was worse, and that dependence on their master was actually for their best interest; then they knew they could get their voting support and even more importantly use bla©ks to actually fight for their continued slavery! Although there was terrible abuse, It was actually in the master’s best interest to treat slaves as humanely as possible and provide them with just enough provisions to make it a difficult vote to leave.
The two-class system of the democrats including the powerful and powerless never left the party. Faith in dependence and fear of independence planted by these manipulative masters continued to cultivate roots through the bl@ck lineage. As we all know, the sl@ve masters lost the war, but unfortunately, the battle for indoctrination of mental enslavement turned out to be victorious.
What better way to keep the support of your subjects than to keep them dependent upon you and powerless to be independent? It was the democrat congress that voted for slavery. The Democrats voted for segregation. The Democrats voted against suffrage. The democrats founded the Klu Klux Klan. The supreme court case that decided that slaves were not citizens because they were property was supported by 7 justices, who were democrats, and opposed by two justices, who were Republicans. Twenty-two black republicans were elected to congress before a single bla©k democrat was in 1935.
Because of black suffrage and the growing population of bla©ks in the 1960s, the Democrats needed to change their strategy if they did not want to become extinct. So, It was Democratic President Lyndon Johnson that enacted his Great Society welfare program to enroll minorities in entitlement programs once again convincing blacks of their need and dependency on their new master. All that transpired, it’s no surprise close sources quoted Lyndon Johnson saying, “I’ll have those n—-rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” The democrat party of 1860 is still the same old democrat party of 2020.
It was a larger majority of Republicans supported the Civil rights act of 1964, and it was the republican party that was founded to oppose the spread of slavery. Even though the evidence is glaring, the Democrats tragically get a majority of the black vote.
The establishment of a provider and dependent as two separate classes of people is not a southern identity. This bigoted culture is tied to a political identity, not a geographic one. Follow the history to just before the civil war leading up to the Lyndon B. Johnson era. Overnight, the Democrats transformed from the party to openly opposing bla©k progress into a party that disgustingly lured them into dependency for the sake of votes. They wanted to maintain control of the D.C. plantation, and from historical example, they knew just how to do it.
The South are a proud people, and in being like so they get a stigma of being bigoted towards others. When I moved to Florida, I was surprised to experience the anti-Yankee sentiment. This had nothing to do with the color of my skin or race. I simply crossed the Mason-Dixon line at the age of 24 and found out the Civil War was kinda still going on. Although I witnessed some cultural bigotry in the South, my personal experience is that when I lived in the north for 23 years, I witnessed more racial bigotry up there. I also was a recipient of more racism up there as well while being targeted for being white in the inner city where I grew up.
Sometimes we get lost in our own little bubble think America is the only bigoted country. I visited Canada as a teenager and was mocked for being American. Yes. That is just one isolated example, but there are other proud cultures. Look at Latinos and the Irish – both very proud cultures that are protective of their heritage and have gone to war in the past to protect it.
There’s a quote from someone named Ezra Taft Benson – “The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment.”
Oh Say Can you See!
Speaking of heritage. Let’s talk about monuments, statues, and the US flag. First, my opinion is that I could really care less about symbols and symbolic gestures. It’s a symbol. It’s not eternal and it’s not meant to be. It’s not actionable or proactive in any way. Knowledge is eternal and that’s where the power lies. Sure, there’s an argument that “those who fail to remember their past are condemned to repeat it”. These statues were placed to honor generals who fought for the right of states to keep slavery. I’m sure they were valiant leaders but unfortunately were morally dishonorable. I could care less whether they stay and continue to collect pigeon poop or melted down and forged into heroes of freedom.
Now in saying that, I do feel there is a movement rooted in Marxist philosophy that would like to erase US culture, heritage, and pride for revolutionary purposes. I am not ignorant of that and their ulterior motives, but I don’t think the whole confederate statue thing is a mountain worth dying on. If you want to preserve our culture, then erect statues of WW1 & WW2 heroes. Erect heroes who fought to free slaves or for our independence. After all, replacing dishonorable men with honorable isn’t forgetting the past. It’s honoring the right past.
Now, In regards to kneeling for the flag, I’m against that. Why you ask? You thought I didn’t care about symbols. Well, Yes. But standing for the flag isn’t about honoring our country, it’s about not dishonoring people. If these athletes protested by sitting out of the game, then I’d be proud of them, but they sit at the expense of others – the heroes that feel the anthem is a time that represents their own sacrifice. Athletes that are taking at the expense of others and not of oneself is cowardice, not heroism.
This is not Rosa Parks that literally disobeyed segregation laws and threatened with arrest for performing a morally correct action. This kneeling is a demonstration that is purely symbolic but is at the expense of the feelings of those who sacrificed more than a football career. Whether the ones kneeling feel that way about it or not, the ones who sacrificed feel that way about it. So, respect the people. Not the flag. So, in saying that, as you can see, I still care less about symbolic gestures and care even less when they are at the expense of others.
It’s obvious that evil is at work now that those who stand are being vilified. Goes to show how quickly evil turns light into darkness and tries to quench the flames.
I had a conversation with a leader in HR with about 25 years of experience in multiple high-profile corporations. He said that “White Males” are having the hardest time finding work right now because corporations have benchmarks they are aiming to fulfill for other races and genders. This just blew me away at the time, but honestly, it shouldn’t have. I knew this was there. I knew every time I fill out an application online with ethnographic questions. I am a white, middle-aged, non-minority, non-veteran, male with no-disabilities. My application automatically goes to the bottom. It is not even considered in the initial pool of candidates due to the quotes that corporations are seeking to meet.
One of the things that are a kicker to me is that many of these corporations are hiring foreign workers to fulfill their quotas and appear as a “diverse” organization. Blacks and Hispanics are not taking these positions. The Indians are taking them all. I personally don’t care that they are, but I wanted to point out the hypocrisy and game that is being played here by corporate America. Corporate America doesn’t just need the h1-b visas in order to higher cheaper labor and to have skilled workers, they need them to fill their diversity quotas. So, yeah. Don’t get fooled by their marketing and PR notifications on how diverse they are. It’s just convenient and cheaper for them right now.
How can a country solve racial discrimination by adding even more racial discrimination? The virtues of the world are not defined by any morals or eternal values. “all men are created equal” does not exist. That mantra may be used to convince you of their good intentions, but the true moral compass of the world can be summed up by the famous Orwellian statement – “all are equal but some are more equal than others”. This creates a very fluid foundation that is necessary to mold a people into acceptance of an evolving foundation where the newest virtue placed on our pedestal is for their own good of all mankind. Good and evil are defined by financial and political expedience. The boundaries of good and evil are as volatile as the stock market.
How Dare You Ignore Politics
This is a nice transition to politics because I’m kinda dabbling in it anyway (probably an understatement). Now, wait before you non-political folk snore off, just hear me out for a sec. Many do not like politics and there are a number of reasons for it. One thing I want to address is this notion in the Christian circles is that preaching a little more Jesus would solve all the political problems of the world. Yeah, um. Sorry, but does that work for your job? Does it work for your basketball team? No. You’re not going to make your team better on the court by painting John 3:16 under your eyes. You need game plans, practices, captains, strategy, rules, referees, coaches, stadiums, etc to meet team goals. This notion that all the world’s problems are just solved with a little more Jesus is short-sighted.
Adam didn’t just frolic around the forest all day with baby fawns and Jesus singing “Jesus Loves Me This I know”. There was a job to do which required organization and logistics and without it, the job wasn’t gonna get done. King David and Solomon had political decisions to make. Bowing out of politics as a Christian is laziness.
Many of us waste countless hours in sports. I love sports. I played in high school and college and had fun then and enjoy watching them today, but let’s be honest here if there’s a more important topic to devout your time to would you say it’s sports or politics? I’m sure there are arguments here, but for the very rare times the bible talks about sports, there is an overwhelming conversation about politics.
Understanding politics is a pathway to understanding the movements of God. You could look back at empires rising and falling and seeing the hand of God. God is not putting much time or thought into who is winning the Superbowl this year. The entire book of revelation is a chess match of global politics.
The Magi who came to Jesus at a young age heard of a king that would come to the Jews. They knew this because they did not ignore politics. They were able to witness the first coming of Jesus because they did not claim ignorance. They were learned, prepared, and observant.
Last thing I’ll say before stepping off this one soapbox. Yes, you should be all things to all people, but that philosophy isn’t a discouragement from having a political philosophy – especially one that you feel is rooted in biblical principles. In life, there are things you can be ignorant about, but In my opinion, I don’t feel that politics should be one of them.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I just want to say I LOVE POLITICS. Why? I guess it’s a combo of a few things. I love philosophy. I love the debate. I love theory. I love problem-solving. I love strategy. Most important of all, I want measures to be in a place that encourage the world to improve spiritually, economically, & culturally.
If you haven’t figured out by now, I’m considered, in the general sense, a “conservative”. Although, I’d like to consider myself leaning towards libertarian side of conservatism. I say this more and more as the days go by as I see the conservative movement move more towards the center and introduce measures of fascism that marry government and corporate America offering kickbacks to one another.
If you think the United States offers pure, unadulterated capitalism, you’re mistaken. Capitalism is driven by hard work and pursuit of economic status that is independent from government influence. It’s not a bad thing to want success. Capitalism can be great because it places the power in the hands of the consumer because we can choose which company is more deserving of our dollars. Capitalism works well and stays honest if you have a government that keeps their hands off of corporate profits while corporations keep their hands out of policies. Unfortunately, when the lust for money and the lust for political power get in bed with one another, then the consumer loses their choice and their power.
A little bit about corporations and the lockdown. Another adverse effect this lockdown has had is made the local companies weaker and the mega-corporations more powerful. I’ve heard so many “anti-capitalists” complain about the power of large corporations such as Googel, faceb**k, Twitter, Microsoft, and Amazon Well… hate to break the news to you but the whole lockdown just gave them the keys to the country by giving our small businesses no chance to compete. During your inhale you can’t complain about evil corporations and in your exhale punish the small, local businesses.
I Didn’t Vote for DT
I understand why Christians do not want to vote for Donald Trump. He has a filthy mouth and his character is certainly questionable. I get that we want to elect a moral leader. But let’s consider something here, is your boss a Christian? Is your CEO a Christian? You probably have no beef electively choosing to work for a company that has a personal belief you do not align with. Please don’t get self-righteous on me and say, ‘well that’s different’. Just stop. Either you believe Christian beliefs are a pre-requisite to leadership or you don’t. Choose.
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but you betcha I’m voting for him in 2020. Why you ask? There are lots of reasons.
- He is an economic leader
- He follows through on his word
- He cares about the military and is bringing them home
- He wants to protect us from bad actors entering the country
- He speaks against trafficking
- He had record low unemployment numbers for bl@cks and hispanics
- He doesn’t want to lock down our country and our businesses.
- He understands the media is not news
- He doesn’t care what people think. He does what he thinks is right
- He’s not a politician
- He is positive about America and their people
- He is not a socialist
- He’s gotten us out of some bad foreign deals
- He exposes Ch!na for their atrocities, theft, manipulation, and threats
- He is pro-life
- He has appointed constitutionalists to the supreme court and lower courts
What else do you need here? Yes. I wish Trump would delete his twitter account. Yes. I wish he would quit the name-calling. I’m sick of that too. But you know what else I’m sick of more? Republicans not having the guts to stand up for what is right. Republicans letting the Democrats blatantly break the law.
The Democrats get down and dirty. They smash their phones, wipe their computers, get foreign governments to spy on you, trade 20% of uranium for millions in speaking fees, sicking the IRS after you, wiretapping your conversations. I wish I had time to go into the details of all of this because it is completely mind boggling to me. The democrats have provided enough material for Hollywood to write a dozen scripts for. They are dirty and have gone low.
Speaking of Hollywood. Donald Trump has all the elites against him. The news media, Hollywood, celebrities, big tech, academia, and billionaires are all actively campaigning against him with not only their personal power and purse but with their corporate influence as well. Not to mention all these elites have the money to outraise the republicans significantly. What does he have going for him? The backbone of America. That should speak volumes to you.
Yet, through all of the challenges, money, hatred, rioting, and pouting, Donald Trump will probably still win.
Religiously Political / Politically Religious
The world isn’t full of all bad news though. Generally speaking there is goodwill in people’s hearts. I can wake up the next day after the election and realize that I am still here and God is still the king. My world isn’t going to explode if Joe Biden or Donald Trump becomes president. Even if my world did explode, I have a greater hope in me than the currently political climate. I love the philosophy of politics and religion, but it’s just a passion. It’s not where my faith lies. If your faith lies in who becomes president next, then you’re going to be miserable for the rest of your life. Politics is a deep dark place, and if you don’t have the right perspective, it can really tear you down.
When the end of the day comes, the ultimate answer is Jesus. Yes. Yes. I am oversimplifying it after discrediting it earlier. But I’m not saying this out of ignorance, I’m saying it well knowing that we have a job to do. There is a country to run. There are laws and governments ordained by God that need to function. It is our duty to do the best we can, but not lose focus on the ultimate goal. Just like we do with sports. The ultimate goal isn’t the scoreboard but the scoreboard cannot be ignored just like we cannot ignore politics. Politics are the scoreboard and can be the best litmus test for understanding how God is moving. You can’t divorce religion and politics. They are so intertwined. Hence why this site is called: “POLIGIOUS”.
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