Volume 6, Issue 33
Democrats around the country at the same time broke new ground by nominating the first transgender candidate for statewide office. New faces standing on a socialistic platform will head the Democratic ticket this fall in several congressional campaigns.
Both sides are doubling down into philosophical policies that are intractable. And, it’s not just about politics.
This weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville demonstration protesting the removal of Confederate monuments. White supremacists marched in Washington, DC. They were greatly outnumbered by Black Lives Matter who marched in protest of the supremacists. Thankfully, this year there was no violence and no casualties.
White supremacists are an abomination to society. Their ideology is vile and reprehensible. They must be suppressed, quartered, and sequestered behind their own closed doors. Their right to free speech and their message of racism and bigotry must be met on every street corner with a resounding call that all peoples are equal. Freedom is not conditional. Individual liberty is an unalienable right for all of God’s children.
What is missing in the rhetoric of the protests is, where is the common space for all races, creeds, colors, and sexes? Whites marched with the Black Lives Matter movement last year and this year. The one casualty last year, Heather Meyer, was, by chance, white. Yet certain activist leaders define the objective of cause and circumstance to be a matter of cultural, ethnic, or gender purity.
In a recent Time magazine interview, Spike Lee, a respected African-American intellect, cautions the Black community about becoming comfortable in a White common place. “People become delusional and think they are not black anymore because they are accepted. It’s the okey-doke.”
What he said he meant by this is that successful African-Americans should never forget where they came from. Society does not respect them for who they are.
If, in fact, being successful, through free enterprise, freedom and a person’s individual talents and commitment to excellence, is not a common destination for all races, then what is the destination of a unified common space?
Certainly, socialism is a failure in producing universal economic prosperity. Total government control is proven to infringe upon freedom. Part of progressives’ mantra is relying upon science. Science is based on fact. The case study of world history concerning communism and socialism illustrates the fact that both are bankrupt visions.
Editorial writers in the New York Times and Washington Post have recently warned the United States about global debt and deficits. According to Robert Samuelson, total world debt now stands at $247 trillion. He is concerned that rising interest rates will make the debt impossible to repay. The ongoing currency crisis in Turkey is directly related to that sovereign’s dollar-denominated debt. Any negative impact on world financial markets and stock exchanges will affect all Americans equally, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, or sexual orientation. Economic factors are equal opportunity disrupters. We face international forces and challenges together as Americans.
Current Supreme Court cases addressing the conflict of gender, gay rights, and religious rights have recognized that these liberties are fundamental in the Constitution of the United States. When in conflict, such as the cake baker’s case in Colorado, government is required to act equally judicially in the protection of each citizen’s constitutional rights. Common space will certainly partially be defined by live-and-let-live. Again, certain activists define objectives intractably as to their own philosophical disposition.
This past Sunday on a national news broadcast, a respected black leader lamented, “I find it very hard to meet a bigot halfway.” In the case of white supremacists, he shouldn’t have to. Consubstantially, a person of religious conviction finds it very hard to meet a disdainful atheist halfway. The Constitution embodies the principle that religious rights are equal to all other rights of liberty.
To avoid the consequence of driving America over a cliff, society must come to the realization of a definition of a common space for all citizens, regardless of race, creed, color or sex. A safe harbor sought for the ultimate development of one’s God-given talents and individual pursuit of happiness. This definition of such national purpose and objective can only be determined from one of two basic founts of wisdom. One is the humanist atheistic point of view that, in the inherent common sense of mankind, true egalitarianism can be achieved. The other is that an eternal loving God, through the given Word of the bible, and, in part, memorialized by His only begotten Son, has laid the foundation of guiding principles for abundant life. There is no in-between. Yes, there are many religions that render many interpretations. And yes, humanism through political movements come to many different conclusions about government policy. But, at the genesis point of philosophical embarkation, you stake your life and the life of your children on the judgment of man or the judgment of God.
Upon whichever foundation one bases the definition of objective, such principle destination of life must include a common space for all divisions and factions of society, regardless of politics, race, gender or sexual orientation. Otherwise, all political debate and admonition results in intractable identity politics. Uncurbed invective in this discordance will lead to the destruction of our society and its death by suicidal intractability.
In the coming mid-term election cycle, it is incumbent on every citizen to determine for themselves the common space they envision for a unified society. Such a path to unity may encompass a rocky road. Peaceful coexistence has never in the history of the world been manifested without enduring sacrifice.
Nor has the eternal commitment to binding principles.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?