The Guardian Goes Off The Deep End
Brock,
I am seeing red from that Guardian article today. So much garbage and where to begin. Then, I remembered this article I excerpted from Unz Review by Ilana Mercer. The whole thing is worth a read but I sent you this condensed version which I will include in my church newsletter in the future.
Thanks for all you do.
Deo Vindice,
Deo Vindice,
Bryan+
The Rev. Bryan Dabney
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Modern-day Americans... don’t share the same core values, morals or mannerisms. We don’t revere the same heroes. We tear down other countrymen’s historic monuments...We display different regalia.
Our attachment to one language, English, is tenuous at best, and waning. Surveys suggest Americans today would rather avoid one another... what unites us most is our passion for, and patterns of, consumption. America is an economy, not a nation. Unite we... do over the state of our sovereign debt ... But not over what it means to be a sovereign people. For half the country, sovereignty entails hordes of defiant scofflaws breaking the border. For the other half, sovereignty means borders. (And some respite, maybe even a moratorium on the incessant influx.) People become rightfully resentful of others when forced into relationships against their will. Signs of the attendant, endemic civil unrest are already evident. Don’t knock the cliché. Good fences (or walls) do indeed make good neighbors, within countries and between them. A sense of security and sovereignty are essential to the health of individuals and nations alike. Developmental health in kids is predicated on respecting their bodies and their boundaries. Wait a sec: Kids need boundaries but the communities in which they reside don’t? Why do boundaries or borders become cardinal (racist) sins when staked out by communities?
And why is trespass a praiseworthy creed? A peaceful society is one founded on voluntary associations, not forced integration. By extension, if the Christian pastry man doesn’t care to bake a cake for a gay wedding; leave him be... Where’s the morality and munificence in compelling a service from an unwilling service provider?... People are harming nobody when they withhold their wares. It’s their right. The baker owns his labor and his property. Leave him alone. Currently, our overlords in Deep State D.C. insist that because we’re so rich and innately mean, they should decide what to do with the lion’s share of our earnings (including to distribute it to the world.) No need. Americans are terribly generous—and most generous when left to choose their charities. We are most generous to strangers in need when they, in return, don’t encroach on our space, and respect the natural rights we have in our person and property... An uneasy co-existence, not coerced unity, is the only hope for calm in our country. Respectful disunity is the only way forward.
-- Ilana Mercer– 20th and 21st century American author and columnist (excerpt from an article in www.unzreview.com , 11-1-18 entitled, If The Disunited States Is To Survive...).
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