After reading Dennis Taylor’s column, I’ll agree with him on one
thing he wrote, America is in a battle for its
”
soul.
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We disagree however, on exactly how America’s soul is
defined.
After reading Dennis Taylor’s column, I’ll agree with him on one thing he wrote, America is in a battle for its “soul.” We disagree however, on exactly how America’s soul is defined.
Now in setting the stage for his battle drama, poor ol’ Dennis would have us get out the Kleenex and wipe the tears from our eyes as he paints himself in the best of melodramatic style as a weary being, so burdened by the daily demands of a capitalistic job, and so overwhelmed and ready for a “timeout,” from among other things, the arduous demands of writing a Dispatch column every week, needing to devote more time to his family and ready for some “structured downtime.”
Well hey Dennis, there are lots of us in the same boat with you in that regard, but we’re not making ourselves martyrs over it.
But when just about to give in, wonder of wonders, a trip to the movies to see Michael Moore’s bigoted revisionist left-wing slanted Bush-bashing movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” gives Taylor, like a drink from the mythical fountain of youth, the power to walk from the movie into the crisp night air, with, as he says “an invigorated devotion to challenge (Gilroy’s) right-wingers when they try to float their barge of horse chips down Uvas Creek.”
And so we can imagine the scene ending with Taylor standing eyes upward towards the stars, and ripping open his shirt (like Superman) to display a big “L” (Liberal) on his chest, now rededicated to save Gilroy’s old ladies and kids from those nasty homegrown Fabulous Archie Bunker Boys always lurking in the shadows. Barf. No Academy Award performance here.
But let’s identify some issues for the “soul of America” battle that the liberals already have put forth as their battle plan:
• the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
• the same teacher who can’t teach 2nd graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
• that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese communists.
• there was no art before federal funding.
• global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth’s climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
• gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
• capital punishment is wrong but abortion on demand is fine.
• businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
• hunters don’t care about nature but loony activists who’ve never been outside of Seattle do.
• self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
• the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
• taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high.
• standardized tests are racist but racial quotas aren’t.
• the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.
• homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally-protected while manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
Taylor’s battleground for the soul of America is based upon the standard liberal philosophical foundation of relativistic morality, so it’s rather odd that he declares that “truth is a necessary casualty of the culture war” when liberals aren’t even sure what “truth” is or if there is such a thing as truth, or “truth is relative.”
Speaking of the truth hurting (to quote Taylor), and “Americans are losing their moral fiber”, Taylor conveniently forgets or refuses to acknowledge that many of our country’s Founding Fathers had some clear thoughts about morality and by implication truth. For example:
“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.”
~ George Washington, 1st President of the United States
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion … Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~ John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
“A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
And maybe best of all, another Washington quote:
“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.”
Disregarding those rules or fighting against those rules won’t result in a victory for America, no matter what the liberals believe. History has proven it to be true.
