Saturday, July 15, 2023

D.L. Gardner: We're All Part of the Problem

America as a nation is in desperate straits. We have excelled in the “E pluribus” part of our national motto, but we have spectacularly failed in forming the “unum.” Perhaps the only thing Americans agree with today is we are a divided nation. 

Politics has become our national religion, replacing the faith of our founding fathers. Were they unified in a faith? Their beliefs were close enough to recognize a single Creator. That’s a good starting point on which to build a nation. Unfortunately Americans no longer share any singular uniting point of view. National politics has too many moving parts to count. We’re living in an existential culture in which people believe everyone’s views are equally valid and true, i.e. there is no absolute truth. As Buffalo Springfield sang back in the day, “Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.”


That no one person, political party, or organization is responsible for the mess we’re in is a good thing. If one entity were responsible for this mess, then we could focus our attention and will to fight against that entity. Hundreds and thousands of political entities in America are fighting other entities they believe are not only wrong, but are destroying the foundation of America. Believe me, that ship sailed a long time ago. 


So, when presidents Biden, Trump, or Obama promised to unify the nation, they found themselves fighting on too many fronts. The vast majority of political entities are fighting against things, and those that are fighting for things don’t realize that what they’re fighting for is against rights others believe and defend. 


Politics is the lifeblood of government. Government is all about control and power over individuals as well as the masses. We’re just now coming out of a time when “emergency powers” superseded all laws. The Constitution? It doesn’t cover emergencies! Riiiiiight…. God save us from governing authorities who mandate rules based on their own politics and feelings. 


It’s bad enough that governing authorities continue to grow more comfortable exercising powers they believe they have. It’s even worse when media censor and oppress dissenting opinions. Where can one find the facts, or the truth if you will, about a government that has been politicized and weaponized to defeat any opposition?


Those on the LEFT have religiously followed Karl Marx’s political views of how to form a government that’s fair and equitable for everyone. Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” has been the primary textbook for the movement. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama rigorously studied these rules and applied them in their governing practices. “What difference at this point does it make?” 


Americans will face many more challenges from foreign and domestic enemies over the next six or seven years, and we don’t have a unified or common defense against our own government and complicit media.


Walt Kelly’s character Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” It’s way past time, again, for all of us to admit we’re all responsible for dragging our nation into the utter depths of degradation and corruption. We would be insane to continue pursuing anti-God woke philosophies while expecting utopia to bloom any minute. 


Believers should confess our sins, pray for our nation, speak out against corruption and perversion, and defend the freedoms our founders rightly believed come only from our Creator God.

 

 

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.




 

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glimmers of hope keep appearing. There are still many die-hard patriots who love God and family and want to keep our Constitution and Liberty. The problem is, we cannot communicate very well. Since tech has chosen to pitch-in with a corrupted press and the government controls so much of our methods of communication, we cannot organize very well or share our feelings and beliefs. The corrupted press is dedicated to says we are a dying breed as they abet anyone who wants to ruin the future of our children. I rejoice that even a hint of wokeness causes a spontaneous boycott of a product or company. It reassures me we are still viable. What is impossible to overcome with our pocketbooks is the voting machines and those willing to corrupt the whole voting process. True traitors who do not deserve to live free are ruining America.

Anonymous said...

enlighten me DL when did Hillary govern? who do the Right worshiper at the altar of politics? trump?

Anonymous said...

4:13pm
Hildebeast was Sec of St, instigated fake Steele dossier, hiding and wiping government emails, hiding State secrets on server in a commercial bathroom, blood in Benghazi all on her, to name but a few of her unprosecuted felonies.

Anonymous said...

Democracy can be ugly, but it beats any alternative.

Anonymous said...

Just Say No To Drugs

Anonymous said...

@6:13 let’s just look at the indictments of Trump, lost lawsuits and convictions for fraud. These don’t even compare to Nixon. Bill Barr says it would a miscarriage of Justice if he isn’t prosecuted for the current charges and believes that he and others will be indicted for Jan6.

Anonymous said...

If our species was a rational one rather than being simply intelligent relative to the other creatures on the planet, it would be simple enough to recognize, without rancor, that the society that created the federal government in the late 18th Century disappeared a long time ago. What's more, the government it created disappeared once and for all in the Franklin Roosevelt administration. The country has become too diverse socially and politically to continue as one country, except perhaps under the heel of a fully authoritarian government. The reasonable thing to do would be to separate. Not secession, but simply an agreement to dissolve the compact among the States. They could then begin forming new arrangements that are more consistent with the views of the majority of their citizens. Would allow a free and unencumbered way of letting individuals who would not want to live under those new political entities to leave for more hospitable ones. But that just isn't how we are, so we will ride this dump truck all the way to the dump, because that's just how our species rolls.

Anonymous said...

@8:51 Mississippi could not survive a week without federal dollars much less govern. just look at what we have now lying Tater, Lmumba etc.

Anonymous said...

8:51
Tate Reeves has been a fair, well reasoned, economically successful governor, a vast improvement over his predecessor and does not belong in the same sentence with the Mayor. We should move the Capitol to Madison so the governor could escape the mayor's stinking, shrinking city as well.

Anonymous said...

"Tate Reeves has been a fair, well reasoned, economically successful governor..."

Uh-huh. If you are gonna troll, learn to do it a little bit better...


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