But I’m fed up with this world around me. Not only that; I’m tired of political correctness. I’m tired of the lies and cruelties perpetrated in the name of not being offensive to anyone. I’m tired of people blindly following causes that look good on social media without investigating the true motivations of the people behind the cause. Today, so much that masquerades as good is unadulterated evil. Not just in my country; but, all over the world. There is a spirit of oppression and fear everywhere. While that’s sad, it’s even sadder that people like me who see what’s really going on aren’t lifting our voices to speak against the insanity around us. We don’t want to rock the boat.

Well, the boat needs rocking.

First, let me say, I’m all for very real social injustices being righted. There’s a lot of that all over the world. However, these injustices have to be righted in an orderly fashion. Not through organized bedlam orchestrated by avowed Marxists. As history has proven time and again, anarchy never ends well. Living in a world void of God and absolute right and wrong never ends well either. I’ve lived long enough to know that.

If you don’t believe me, read a truthful, historically accurate account of the French Revolution. Not a revisionist account that paints a ten year nightmare as a glorious revolution. Choose an account that tells the full story of both the event and the aftermath, warts and all including the nearly year long Reign of Terror. The whole uprising was a blood bath that didn’t just slaughter the Royal family, the aristocracy, and Catholic priests. Many innocents and moderates were guillotined for being voices of reason in an uprising gone mad. Even the leaders couldn’t agree on the path to take. Yes, I’ve oversimplified things greatly; but, this isn’t a history lesson. Revolutions that overthrow governments are complex subjects with more layers than I can address in a blog. Also, I didn’t pick the French Revolution for any reason other than some aspects of the mob mentality so prevalent then is being echoed today in my own country of America.

Moving on, it seems to me that we’re edging ever closer to a very dangerous precipice with worldwide movements that seek to remove statues and anything deemed personally offensive to whomever for whatever reason. That whole mindset is foolish to me because I’ve lived enough to know when you eradicate every memory of what should never have happened, you’re doomed to repeat those same sins again. Sorry kids, if you think slavery only happened in America, you need to study history. It’s been around since the beginning of time in every culture.

It’s still going on today all over the world to the tune of over 40 million people worldwide. It might shock you to discover where most of that slavery is. Again, do your research from reliable sources that have nothing to gain beyond letting the world know people of every race and color are still being trafficked into slavery of every kind including sexual. These people are suffering everywhere and little is being done about it. We’re too busy using anarchy for political and personal gain.

In closing, here’s the point of my whole post. We live in a world where people want no God, no sense of right and wrong, no rules, and no absolutes. People who hold such beliefs tell me I can’t hold my Christian opinions because my values and my absolutes offend them. Those same people would spit on me because I don’t agree with how they live their lives. Don’t deny it, I’ve seen it happen. But, the truth is, I don’t have to agree with how you live your life.

Your values are between you and God.

However, I do have to respect your humanity. To treat you with respect in spite of any difference of opinion. However, that respect doesn’t mean you get to disrespect or try to silence me. More important to me as a Christian, not just a “religious” person, is if I see you’re in need and I don’t help you because of the color of your skin or your sexual orientation or any other real discrimination, I’m in blatant disobedience to Jesus’s command to love everyone. That isn’t acceptable behavior.

However, joyfully helping out of love doesn’t mean I have a politically correct toleration of things that are blatantly wrong. What I “tolerate” I tolerate in the sense of the word as defined by the Oxford Dictionary: to allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference. I wish I was allowed the same courtesy.

Moving on, from my perspective, it’s time to do some deep soul searching and see where we’ve gone wrong as human beings. It’s time to reevaluate what really matters. It’s time to stop being pawns to people who use political office to enrich themselves. It’s time to stop being victimized by the Radical Leftists, Marxists, Socialist, and Communists trying to take over the US and destroy a freedom loving way of life. It’s time to get rid of our Senators and Representatives of both parties who care more about self-enrichment and/or political power than they do about their constituents and this country. I don’t want anything these people have to offer. Bluntly, I don’t want my government taking most of my income to pay for universal healthcare, free college, free vacation, and the like for “everyone”.

Again, I’m not saying we don’t help people in need or that we shouldn’t help them. We do and we should. Just in a sane manner. I’m reasonably sure, middle class American’s won’t continue to work when the government takes fifty percent or more of their income to pay for universal college, healthcare, and so on. I can also tell you by the time that happens the upper class and the truly wealthy will be long gone. They will have moved themselves and their wealth to some country that’s more asset friendly than we are.

You need to understand something else, a hundred million dollar donation to some charity is nothing to a person worth ten billion dollars. It’s like me thinking a $50 dollar gift to some charity is generous when I just received a check for ten thousand dollars. While the wealthy are willing to give what they want when they want and how they want even if it’s most of their declared income, I’m reasonably sure most of these people aren’t willing to transfer 75% of their worth to the federal government to take care of the indigent, pay for universal college, pay for universal healthcare, pay for two weeks of paid vacation for everyone and so on. If they are, they’re either unnaturally generous or there’s something we don’t know. The bottom line is someone has to pay for every government sponsored program and that “someone” is the taxpayer. That someone is me and you. Nothing is ever free. Just food for thought.

Until next time,

Calla