There is Krauthammer’s excellent essay, Decline is a Choice; there is also Pat Austin’s excellent build off the essay, Where Will We Be in a Year?. All very good stuff – but, also, all very gloom-and-doom. I went to get the antidote for such things – a bit of prayer in the chapel devoted to the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and out it came: the answer to, what are we to do?
Be just, be merciful, keep love in our hearts as we take the measure of events and people – and have so much faith in God that we’d be willing to walk blindfold, as He has our hand in His. Everything really is under control – we’re just having to pass through our troubles, as each generation has since Man was created. This, too, shall pass and out of it will come good – there is no other way for it to come out, even if we have to deal with quite a lot of evil along the way. It would be helpful, I think, to consider the why of it all – why is Obama, why are leftists, doing what they do?
They think they are doing good – bringing freedom, justice, prosperity and equity to a word wounded in body and soul by the evil, rapacious people of the right. Why do they think this? Because they don’t know what freedom is. They also don’t know what justice is. Most emphatically, they don’t understand what wealth is. It might be rather odd to think that people can be ignorant of these things even as they use the words all the time – but, ignorant they are…and thus they are hurtling down a path of destruction and all they see at the end is the bright, sunlit uplands of a Utopia. That it is a slave pen and a grave is something they just can’t recognize.
Liberals like Obama think that freedom is the freedom to be weird – to be tattoo’d; to be dressed freakishly; to have sex without consequences; to be free from any moral scruples and have, instead, “values”. They think that Justice is punishment – if there is injustice, the only way to set it right is to pay out the identified unjust in their own coin; its not enough that, say, a discriminatory law be repealed…those who allegedly benefited from the law must be made to pay. The think that wealth is money, and thus their whole concept is to divvy up piles of paper dollars and call that “wealth redistribution” or “spreading the wealth around”.
That freedom is the ability to freely choose to do the right thing is beyond their comprehension. They don’t understand that justice is the absence of injustice – you either have justice, or you don’t; you can’t force justice, you can only force injustice. They don’t realize that wealth is land, materials, labor and the ability of people to freely use their own to the best of their ability. Not knowing what is what, it is not surprise that they get everything wrong – and that they keep right at it no matter how many times we demonstrate their ideas to be idiocy. Unless we can impart to them understanding of true freedom, true justice and true wealth, we’ll never get anywhere with them.
Where does this leave us? To go back to square one – to be kind in our views. Forgive them, as they know not what they do…they are deceived. In an age of lies, they have swallowed them; hook, line and sinker.
Obama is not the doom of the United States; Pelosi and Reid only think they are epoch-making political leaders. They are the result of historical accidents, and these accidents will soon be set right – by an aroused electorate which does know what freedom is, what justice is, and what wealth is. An aroused electorate which has merely been awakened to its peril by the rise of Obama and his ignorant, foolish, pathetic fellow leftists.
