ON THE BRINK OF AN UN-CIVIL WAR?
I ONCE HEARD THAT IF YOU ARE UNDER THIRTY AND NOT A LIBERAL, YOU DON’T HAVE A HEART AND IF YOU ARE OVER THIRTY AND NOT A CONSERVATIVE, YOU DON’T HAVE A BRAIN.
IN “WIZARD OF OZ” TERMS, ONE WOULD BE THE TIN MAN AND THE OTHER WOULD BE THE SCARCROW.
It is my view that neither Liberals or Conservatives are inherently and intentionally evil. In my later years of life I have even considered myself to be something of a “Closet” Liberal. I keep wishing that Liberal ideas would work but I have been around long enough to know that they do not.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT NECESSARILY EVIL, IT IS JUST BY NATURE HORRIBLY INEFFICENT! THE MOST EFFECTIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS LOCAL, ACCOUNTABLE AND CONCENTRATES ON DOING JUST A FEW THINGS WELL AND DOING THOSE WITHIN VERY SPECIFIC PARAMETERS AND ON A LIMITED BUDGET.
I am thinking that we may be on the “cusp” of a very Un-Civil War as a Nation. Not a war of guns and battles (I hope) but a War that would see our culture degenerate into “Unarmed Camps” of non-negotiable demands that are at polar opposition to one another.
THE TRUTH IS THAT NOT EVERTHING CAN BE NEGOTIATED. I REMEMBER THAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME THAT YOU CANNOT BE A LITTLE BIT DIS-HONEST ANYMORE THAN YOU CAN BE A LITTLE BIT PREGNANT.
As just one example, how does a person who believes that life is sacred and begins at conception negotiate with another person who believes that it is all about a womans right to choose and its not a baby till after its born? There is no middle ground here. And this is only one example.
Its sort of like being at war with an enemy who has only one non-negotiable demand. That you and yours be dead. Whats to negotiate?
TRUTH IS TRUTH. SOME THINGS ARE SIMPLY RIGHT OR WRONG. NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE FIXED. SO WHAT DO WE DO? – Bob
