It’s always a treat to be able to sub for Dave! Thanks for the opportunity!
For this last post, I chose to reprint my response to a question on Quora pertaining to the current administration. The question was: “If Trump is so bad, why does he still have so many supporters?
Enjoy!
Go God, boo devil!
In the mind of the person who sees themselves as their own absolute, they justify replacing principles with preferences by saying that they have the right to be happy.
They insist that they can change their gender with their pronouns, they believe they have the right to give away other people’s money, and when it’s time to defend their argument, because they lack reasons and results, they respond with distractions and excuses, and assault the character of those who disagree with them.
Your party was not merely defeated in the last election, they were revealed. Their problem is not their message or their messenger, it’s their motive. They don’t want to improve America, they want to erase it and because they can’t champion that purpose directly, they try to conceal it by using words that are designed to illicit an emotional response.
Hitler, Separation of Church and State, Constitutional Crisis, You Can’t Force Your Beliefs on Me, That’s Your Opinion, Not Everyone Feels that Way…
It works in the short term, but after a while, the perversion, the waste, the entitlement, and the unsustainable irresponsibility accumulates to the point where “truth” is no longer seen as something that can be edited according to one’s manufactured reality as much as it’s something that can only be pursued and enjoyed when you’re willing to answer to something greater
than yourself.
No human being is beyond reproach, but the border is closed, inflation is down, foreign investments are up, conversations are happening, and this from a candidate that is simply doing what he promised to do.
Your rhetoric, your insults, your accusations, are all now being processed for what they are:
Outbursts from a demographic that wants to replace “In God We Trust” with, “You Can’t Tell Me What to Do.”