As a new denizen of the Hubverse, I would like to introduce myself. I chose my user name because I am a conservative who is as angry as I have ever been about the way our government appears to be setting itself up to dominate our lives. Our President has referred to me and others like me as Mobsters because we show up at meetings with our congressional representatives and don‘t disguise our anger. We have also been accused of intolerance. So be it. Personally, I feel quite justified in my anger. Since when is anger a bad thing? Do not confused it with hateful anger or inappropriate intolerance . As Solomon wrote, “there is a time and a place for everything.”
In the Bible, there are accounts of Jesus being quite angry. On one occasion, he ran people out of the Temple at Jerusalem because they were disrespecting the sacredness of that place. On another, he challenged the Pharisees because they were set to criticize him for offering to heal a man on the Sabbath. Actually, this came up more than once. Jesus stood up here because he clearly saw intolerance on the part of those who would have withheld good health from that man because he offered healing on the wrong day of the week. If it was reasonable for Jesus to be angry there must be times when we too should have a bit of righteous indignation about things we see happening. After all we are told to be imitators of Jesus are we not? The God-given capacity for emotions also includes anger. I think we were given them to control, rather than exclude any of them entirely. If that were the case, we would be Vulcans, not humans.
When we look at what is taking place in our Government (and it is OUR government), we see an emerging pattern that should leave us quite unsettled yet many people actually seem to favor what is developing. They welcome these changes . What are they thinking? Are we ready to turn so much of our lives over to the control of others? The more I see, the more I think this is actually happening. People seem to want government to be responsible for them rather than for themselves. This is very disconcerting but it was never more telling than when a co-worker, an immigrant from the Chezck Republic, came to me and said he was thinking about returning there. “ Why?” I asked. He said he saw America’s government doing the very things he had fled the Checzk Republic to escape. I got goose bumps when I heard that. A former Rumainian also said something similar.
This country was never intended to be a land where Government was a provider for every human need. It was intended to provide only one thing for its citizens, an environment where they could provide for themselves as well and as abundantly as they were pleased to do without getting in anyone else’s way. It was to be a civil society with only those restrictions required to keep people from intruding on each other’s rights while exercising their own. We have not always done this well but when and where we have seen the error of our way; we have made the needed changes.
Not all change is good. Ask a German, Checzk, Russian, or Cuban. They have seen certain changes in their countries. They would be quick to tell you they meant well but looking back, they would not have done what they did. We in America should be willing to look at these examples, take careful thought about our present course, and not get too far along before we stop. We may need certain changes, but are we choosing the correct ones? We should not be changing things at the expense of our liberties. America’s liberties are what has enabled us to liberate other lands after wars and by the way, we are the only nation in the history of the world that has ever done that. Changes that reduce or eliminate those liberties are to be resisted. Those liberties are what has made America strong.
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