We on the....'Right....as we defend the constitution....as we have always done....and stand on the principle that a man will be able to keep what he has earned....we need to look further and deeper than this most noble principle. We live the life that was afforded to us....and whatever we may have been born into....we improved....but there are multitudes of others who did not have our opportunities....particularly the minority Black population....but also indigenous Americans and the Appalachian-type communities. I've probably already turned you off....for we have been programmed to recoil from anyone telling us that we in any way may be privileged. This programming is the opposite that God's Word teaches us in the question....'what do we have that God has not given us'....but it is part of our default thinking....the factory settings of man so to speak....so it really doesn't take much to get us to embrace it.
I came from an early life where we did not have money....and I would not have had opportunities had my mother not found a place to rent on a street where everyone else owned their house....and were encouraged by their surroundings....by merely living in a community that was on the high side of middle class. In other words....I was fortunate. It is not the same to be born deep into an urban community where financial problems are everywhere and every day....and encouragement is rare. Encouragement and hope are as important as material opportunity....yet this culture which we are indeed responsible for.....makes many people ultra-rich....at the expense of the poorer of us being lured into spending their limited money on toys and entertainments.....that we....who don't even miss the money that we spend on the same things....partake of and therefore are complicit in the problems of society.
We constructed these communities over the centuries....and now we somehow just want to tell them to live and improve their own situation! We like it how the cards were dealt. There are no complete answers to this national problem....certainly not in the horror of communist thinking....but we should know this....the starting point is not thinking ourselves as to having been wise and hard working....and others not to have been.....whether they be minorities or not.
Democrats....this new Democrat....by their radical words and actions....drives us to this reactionary stance....of releasing ourselves from all responsibility. We go way too far in this. There is little to no love left in us....not for Blacks or indigenous Americans or Appalachian poor or families crossing our southwestern border. Ayn Rand dominates our thinking today.....even though we may not even know of her. We in the Republican Party need reformed. We need to retake the high ground. We need to humble ourselves. We need to repair to God's Word....to renew our minds....to come to conclusions....not go to some talk show for answers....or a political leader whose very existence arose out of our failure to go to God for His counsel.
We do not have to compromise conservative policies that we know to benefit society....but we have to bring them in line with God's commands to us. The other side is going to continue to act as they want....our correcting our own failures is what we have to do....not responding in kind to what the other side does....which makes us no better than them.
