A Clarification and Invitation
Take 2
I accidentally deleted this, so here it is again. I still have the comments from the last piece, however. If you already responded, then skip this. Thank you.
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Someone wrote to me to say that it was wrong to compare MAGA with the radicals in the anti-Vietnam movement of the 1960s because they’re nothing like the Weathermen, etc. That is true. In referencing that scene in Hair, I said it was a reminder of what it feels like to express freedom, whether back then or now and how different the Left of today is from that Left.
To me, the MAGA side is the side that feels like they are fighting for freedom. Perhaps it is anti-political correctness, and that is offensive to people, but freedom — well, that’s what makes us all uniquely American.
But I would also like to invite you to write to me about what you think happened to the Left and why. I will post your responses at some point.
Well the obvious thing to me seems to be that the farther you get from God, the more you can be convinced of crazy things, like people aren't born either male or female and you can have all the free sex you want and it won't do anything to your spirit, because you don't have one, and all cultures are equal and if you aren't happy you can blame someone else for it, and that'll do the trick. My parents were WWII kids who went to Cal Berkley (my dad on the new GI bill) and learned there to reject the religions of their youth so I was raised to be an atheist. If I had been a hippie they would have been happy with that. But I always knew there was a God and I just had to find him. I read all the books at the library in the "Why I am a (Catholic, Methodist, etc.....)" series. There had to be a purpose, there had to be a creator, even though my parents taught me that evolution was the answer and we came out of Darwin's warm pond because of a lucky lighting strike. And I did find Him. I went to whatever church was within walking distance when I was a kid. I prayed, "God, if you're there and you can hear me....." And finally he decided to answer and I had an experience I can't deny and that I know didn't come from me. I found God. People like Richard Dawkins say that all I have is faith and no evidence. But that's not true. What I have is experience My own experience. All these crazy people who are keying their neighbors cars and screaming on TikTok, they haven't found Him. They haven't had their own experience. with him. Once you do you can't deny it. And when you do find Him, he teaches you by his Spirit to stop blaming other people for what's wrong and start trusting him. This works. I wish more Democrats would start praying and then they could stop screaming and hating and destroying people's businesses and claiming that Trump is a monster who is destroying things. Maybe you have to believe in God to be willing to look in the mirror.
I'm a former 60s semi radical doper, and i still don't understand how or why I became a Churchillian conservative. I will hazard a guess that the Leftist tendency is basically about power. When in the minority, the Left harbors a strong desire for power, but that desire masquerades as something else, like a pretended love for freedom or free speech. We know what happens all over the world when the Left gets power, sadly...