Daily Verse | Joshua 14:8
I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.

It’s Tuesday and there will never be another one like it. I think I’ll try goldfish racing.

In yesterday’s Daily Broadside I listed a number of things that I consider irrational as examples of why I don’t see us getting to common ground with the Left. There are plenty more where those came from and I should probably start keeping a running list of them. Here are two more:

• It is not rational to force lockdowns, masks, social distancing and vaccinations on the American people while doing no testing on illegal aliens streaming across the border and into the inner country.
• It is not rational to force the Catholic charity Little Sisters of the Poor to provide contraceptive coverage to employees in violation of their religious beliefs.

The full list includes examples of what might also be called instances of hypocrisy or lawlessness, both of which largely define the progressive Democrats.

Part of what makes something irrational is that it departs from what is considered the “norm.” When a culture creates new norms (which is what is happening in our country), it also creates new ideas of what is “rational” or “reasonable.”

To put it in the most stark terms possible, take a culture that considers murder a crime. Their “norms” consist of believing it is wrong to take a life, then investigating, pursuing, arresting, prosecuting and sentencing a killer to prison—or to death in the worst cases. They are acting reasonably within their cultural and legal framework on facts and and evidence when they follow that process. It is “rational.”

Now imagine that a segment of that culture begins to redefine murder not as a crime, but as a right for certain people. Their “norms” consist of protecting not the victim, but the killer. They believe that murder is justified, so they ignore the murder’s impact on the victim or the victim’s family. Not only that, but they might vilify the victims as members of a privileged class which provoked the murder, thereby justifying the killer’s actions. For the victims of the killing, there is no justice.

Those who live according to the former cultural norms would be appalled by the “reasoning” of those who live according to the latter and consider such a view “irrational,” while those who live according to the latter are cynical of the former and insist they are the ones who know the Truth.

Something like this is not far removed from what is going on in our culture. Those who grew up with the rule of law and respect for authority see the output of the current milieu and think they’ve lost their ever-loving minds.

And they have, because they’ve ingested a philosophy that is hostile to our capitalist society governed by the people. It’s called Critical Theory and it pits against each other groups defined by sex, race, religion, net worth and any number of other characteristics.

This is a zero-sum game. Only one philosophy can rule a society at any given time, and the Critical Theory activists are ascendant. We are experiencing the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our society being destroyed by a cabal of politicians, jurists, journalists, educators, businesses, activists and sometimes churches, who have drunk from the well of woke.

We often hear politicians and activists on both sides of the aisle call for “taking back our country.” This zero-sum game is what they’re referring to.

Eventually one side will prevail. The only question is, which side?