There is ignorance and hate running loose in our streets, yet America is a success. There’s nothing new in that. Free society gives vent to tremendous ignorance; we tolerate it, up to a point. Tolerance is required in melding divergent groups into a new, stronger whole.
When we are tolerant we tend to learn from the mistakes of others as well as our own. The Marxists are tearing down statues left and right. That makes them disrespectful, destructive and hateful. It does not make them wise, kind or capable leaders. And maybe we have been tolerant enough.
This week we celebrate our national birthday. But this year the Fourth of July doesn’t feel like a celebration.
Harvard professors such as Cornel West assert, “… the history of black people for over 200 and some years in America has been looking at America’s failure. Its capitalist economy could not generate and deliver in such a way that people can live lives of decency. The nation-state, its criminal justice system, its legal system could not generate protection of rights and liberties.”
Wow. Can you say get your head out of your rectum professor?
Aspirational America
America has a motto E Pluribus Unum which describes an action: Many uniting into one. Some applications are, from many states comes one nation or from many different peoples comes one nationality. E pluribus unum is the goal. Martin Luther King makes a great point: America has not lived up to its creed that all men are created equal. But the creed itself is good.
America is an aspirational nation. It always has been. We always have and will continue to make mistakes. America and Americans do not sit complacently in one place. Achievers do not do that. We do, we try, sometimes succeeding and sometimes making mistakes. But when we do make a mistake or fail we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again toward our creed that all men are created equal. Our tenacity means America is a Success.
Dr. King’s work was based on a godly foundation. It requires a Judeo-Christian value structure. It depends on truth and morality. Take away God, and America crumbles. People require a belief structure. Americans, self governing, free people which requires self discipline. BLM, Antifa, RAM; these Marxist groups lack the ability for self governance. Don’t believe it, look to CHAZ or Venezuela. For everyone, all Americans, black or white there remains a truth: No God, no rights.
If we lose religious freedom, we will lose all our freedoms. Think about that. The first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution keeps government out of religion. Why? Because when you wipe away the foundation of God, you remove human rights with it.
Should we know what we are going to before getting rid of what we have?
Do you want to live in some future “utopia” where God-given rights no longer prevail? Look to the fate of millions of people living in Marxist countries. They were falsely promised foundationless ill defined “equality.” Imagine living in fear all the time of the notorious knock on the door at night. Remember the atrocities perpetrated in Marxist countries. There is a reason Marxists want to erase history.
For all its faults and shortcomings, America stands for three things: First, we are one nation under God. Second, the rule of law based on the laws of nature and of nature’s God, i.e., natural law. And third, the consent of the governed.
America is not perfect. However, it has provided a secure home for freedom. Freedom has allowed individuals to do those things and follow those dreams as they see fit respecting the rights of other individuals in society. This has brought about more innovation than has taken place anywhere, ever, in the history of the world. It has raised the standard of living of not just Americans but all people worldwide. America, simply put, is the most egalitarian nation in the history of the world.
So as we approach the 4th of July, as we deal with the issues of the day. America is a Success. Maybe, just maybe we can take a day and to stop and consider: Are we ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater? Do we really believe ending the American experiment will make things better? What was the world like before America? Why did America come about at all? Why has it stuck around for nearly two and a half centuries? God bless America.
