Sunday, March 17, 2024

Words Matter

As human beings we all have the opportunity to pick our life yardsticks, to choose how we want to live our lives. Well, maybe not.  In most of the world, the picking is not the choice of the individual.  In most of the world, the wishes or demands of the government is the only real choice.  Yours and my wishes are irrelevant and laughable, you and I must plug into the system to survive.  Freedom is dead.   

America has historically been the rare exception, the America of our fathers has the yardstick of God, Family and Country.  The order of this yardstick is all important, God first, family second and country third. Most of the world turns this yardstick around to be country first, family second and God third. This means that the government is Godlike in our lives and can best make decisions for the individual.  This politics is the politics of personal destruction for we become like cattle to be herded.

The sad truth is that the Biden administration and the radical left of the Democratic party are at war with our national exceptionalism.  They are governing with the yardstick of country first and the people, primarily the American people are last.  How does it feel America?  Is the change not crystal clear?   When you voted for Grand paw Joe, did you vote for all his stuff?  Stuff like the chaos of our supermarket inflation, the chaos of an open border immigration policy and our failed international standing.

Entering this election season, it would seem that the Biden voters would only be those who are unaffected by this chaos in their personal lives.  Maybe they are rich, they must have job security and for the moment, they must feel our national space is irrelevant.  You know, those rich and powerful folk in charge of the herd.  Yet these folk, who are not the majority in America seem to be in a virtual tie with the Republican challenger, former president Trump.  Why? 

The only conclusion that can be drawn from this divide in America is that some of us are not thinking and being easily herded.  The political advisors to President Biden must be saying, keep punching those cows, it seems to be working.  Are the American people so easily manipulated and if so, how?  The answer to that question is the age old “bait and switch”.  Throw a couple of familiar positive terms out there in the conversation and then switch gears, silently redefining the meaning. 

The standard “bait and switch” has always been the word democracy.  Every communist or socialist country in our world uses the word democratic to identify itself but the word has a queer meaning to the political left.  Their definition of democratic is government first. The definition makes no sense but the new meaning has won the day worldwide over the last 200 years.

The Joe Biden “bait and switch” is the familiar positive word soul. Our president says that the election in November is a supposed battle for the soul of America, then comes the switch.  The leftist definition has nothing to do with our traditional understanding of life in America. The Biden definition has nothing to do with God or our destiny beyond the grave.  The battle Biden means is the competition between two, on the ground, political realities. A true democratic system that works for the people and his recently preferred government first system that works for the politically connected, the rich and the powerful.

Mr. President, define your words.

G, Goslaw

Landers, Ca.