OCTOBER 7, 2025
VOLUME 66
STARTING OVER
I actually started writing this blog eight days ago, and wasn’t happy with the way it was progressing. I felt like I was repeating myself for the umpteenth time. So, l just parked it, and per my usual routine, kind of semi paid attention to what was going on in the news. While I’m watching people protesting, and demonstrating against law enforcement, I started wondering to myself why they have such blatant disregard for law and order, and a completely convoluted view of America.
When I start thinking about this subject, an incident from the past always comes to the forefront of my mind. The United States of America was once a much more righteous nation than it is today. Hollywood has been hanging on the edge of creating smut for the masses since the beginning. Enter Mae West. The character of Mae West is what you would imagine the madam of the local house of ill repute to be. Her performances didn’t sit well with the Christian leaders of the day. A delegation of Christian ministers visited the Hollywood studios and demanded they tone down the rhetoric. Hollywood caved, immediately. They got the message loud and clear. Imagine how quickly the smut mongers would have taken movies down to the pornography level if the Christian right had not stepped in. Hollywood eventually got there, because the Christian right didn’t follow up and keep the heat on.
You may think of it as a small thing, but trust me, it was not small thing. The people behind the curtailment of the Pledge of Allegiance and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in public schools knew exactly what they were doing. They were consciously disconnecting the youngsters from God and patriotism. They two biggest enemies of communism. And, once again, the Christian right did nothing. Not a single blow was thrown.
Good ol’ rock and roll music. Nobody likes it better than me. It was born when I was a teenager and holy smoke, what a ride. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, c’mon man, it was gooood times. Then came the sixties and the smut mongers know good thing when they see it. The music slowly digressed into glorifying drugs, sex, and lots of hidden messages. It has been going downhill ever since. Watching rock performers today is ugly. No other words to describe it. Smiley Virus makes me wanna puke. Black musicians are even worse. It’s not music, it’s soft porn. I’m not seeing any push back from anyone anymore, the Christian right has completely capitulated.
There has been a slow dwindling of the numbers of people attending Sunday services for years. A big part of the problem is the dwindling of two parent families. I would imagine that a single parent is pretty exhausted by the time Sunday comes around and getting everyone dressed and off to church is not a high priority. On the surface it seems like sort of a benign problem, but it’s far from it. Religion is one of the single most important things in a young person’s life for many reasons. It teaches humility, respect for others, respect for one’s self, and obedience to the laws of God and man. Religion is an essential building block for a strong society and nation. I’m not seeing too many Christians trying to sell God’s plan. (Charlie was hard at it, let’s see how many take up the baton)
Public school boards were infiltrated with left leaning folks years ago and started the transition from traditional education to what we are seeing today. The older teachers started retiring sometime around the 1960’s and were being replaced by the young progressives just out of college. It was the beginning of the perfect storm about to devastate education. All of the things I spoke about above combined with the progressive mindset of educators has not turned out well. We have a whole generation or two of entitled people who think they are special, and the rules don’t apply to them. So, once again, where were the conservative Christians that could have been raising hell and shouting, and putting up a good fight?
When you hear someone say; ” we have to have a two party system to maintain a balance.” My reply is, that’s true as long as both parties are willing to debate and fight for that balance. If one side is sitting on it’s collective behind and not paying attention (talking about Republicans here) they aren’t really that viable are they? I have personally witnessed the apathy on the conservative side. (Mitt Romney come to mind) In my opinion they deserve a damn good portion of blame when discussing the current state of our nation. You damn sure can’t say the Democrats have been sitting on their behinds, they had a plan and executed it pretty darn well. Right down to rigging the 2020 election in a spectacular fashion. They did it so well they were able to elect a person that was mentally unfit from day one, then covered it up for four years, while doing everything in their power to destroy the nation and the Republican party.
Thanks to Donald J. Trump and the MAGA Republicans we have awakened a force to be reckoned with. We are now giving Dems a taste of their own medicine, and they are having a very hard time swallowing it. It will take a very long time to undo the damage that two- and one-half terms of Obama has done to this nation and it’s good citizens. Let’s hope we can wrangle two more presidential terms with J.D. Vance and keep the momentum going. In the meantime, do whatever you’re able to do the further the cause, to break the backs of the leftist who have done so much damage to our beloved nation. God Bless all of you, stay safe, stay alert.
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