Every Issue is a Social Issue - Granite Grok

Every Issue is a Social Issue

The single greatest shortcoming among the secularists, the non-religious right, most of the left, the social justice “small ‘r’ religious left, and the mass of humans too confounded (or disinterested) by it all to be called anything but in the middle, is that humans are essentially selfish and immoral creatures whom–if left unchecked–will inevitably devolve into tyranny.

If given an opportunity to take advantage they do.  And more often than not, if there are obstacles, be they divine commandments or temporal statutes, people find a way to not just break them, but to justify breaking them.  We are lazy.  The lowest common denominator is not beyond a single one of us.  And not to put too fine a point on that but we currently live in a country where executing an infant at birth, simply because that child’s mother said they did not want them, is a major feature of one of the two current political parties in America, while most of the people in the other one, are afraid to bring that up.

This is what happens when you cede social issues to the irreligious radicals or their spineless fellow travelers in either party; government redefines morality into nothing more than a chess piece that should never be played until the government can simply remove it from the board entirely.  And when government defines morality, it also defines human rights, at which point they no longer exist except as codified by the police state a select few finance to define them for you.

And defined them they have.  They have defined for you what a social issue is and trained you to fear them.  And many of you have complied.  And the left could not be happier.

The left (the people who look forward to the police state), just happen to be the ones telling you what the social issues are.  They have already brain washed you.  They are defining your morality as we speak.  And they will continue to do so until either your children, or their children, or their children, forget the one true rule in any arrangement by which a government is crated for our mutual interests; that every act of government upon society, every mutual interest we cede to some measure of government control,  is a social issue.

Driving speed, drinking age, hours of operation, voting age, how much we must pay to build a road or arm a soldier, or care for the elderly.  No one person decides these things.  Society does that.  But the goal of the left–the people who like the police state–is to relieve us of those responsibilities, one at a time if they have to or in large chunks for best results, and to then give that decision making power to some small, powerful, central authority–preferably as far away from you as possible; to relive you of the unnecessary burden of defining your own morality, in particular that of productivity and work ethic by which all government must be financed, and inevitably your very humanity itself.

They started with religious expression in public, moved on to contraception (still an over-miked left wing sacred cow), then anything to do with sex and abortion (the reproductive rights), and have since moved on to assaulting marriage–which by the way has nothing to do with rights or marriage and everything to do with the continued use of our weakness for genital pleasure to transfer moral authority to the secular super-state.

And while these are some of the typical “social issues” we are not meant talk too much about, the left has been busily looking for others.   Health care?  Housing?  Child care? A College education?  Unemployment?  The 99%?  These are all progressive trial balloons looking to become the next topic of non-discussion.  The next great “social issue” of our time.  This of course means that the term “social issues,” as used by the progressive left, has nothing at all to do with social issues at all.  It is simply a code for things the pro-police-state movement no longer wishes you to debate openly.  We are never supposed to talk about social issues, even when everything the state does, technically, is one.  And a surprising number of small-government advocates have gone all in on this becasue they, themsleves, have bought into another big lie; that mankind without an external religious  morality can self regulate their behavior in the absence of a power greater than the state.

No they can’t.  The men who wrote the Constitution understood this. That the only “moral authority” walking on this earth is that of a tyrant and man is too weak to not eventually find his way there.

All “Social issues,”  once they are defined by the left, will become–like abortion–beyond discussion, even among people who value free speech.  This is a willful act of speech intimidation meant to manage public discourse so that the state can maintain control until there is no moral authority outside of that defined by the government.   And what is particularly sad is that more than a few of you will disagree with me still, to bitter end, where history will–as it always has in the past–prove me right.

 

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