January 22, 2023
# 297 “Semantics? Hardly!”
It has been over a month since my last column. Some of you readers may chalk it up to my age – pushing eighty (Yikes!), yet it is not so subtle. Disgust falls far short of my mood over the last two years, one month and two days. Yes, sadly, Inauguration Day of 2021.
What was analogized to the plight of a frog in cool water as someone turned up the heat ever so slowly is precisely the situation in which the United States finds itself today. Ever so slowly and patiently the socialists, masked as “progressives,” have driven the agenda in our institutions of higher education until collegians graduate with more than a degree in a given vocation, they graduate with attitudes and positions diametrically opposed to what our Founding Fathers fought so hard to design in forming “a more perfect union.” What I see is a strange amalgam of guilt and gullibility. Guilt for what they have been taught that this nation –purportedly — has done to its people and gullibility for accepting the teachings without researching history to disprove them.
From “Woka Cola” to the demise of Disney, now the crosshairs are on our children. Excuse me, but all those pushing for abortion have already been born. All those trying to push transgender (And just where did THAT term originate?) had a female mother and a male father. The animal world, should it have cognition of man’s current thought process, is laughing out loud. When do you see a male animal go after another male animal unless it over a female?
The Coca Cola Company, using a concoction developed by a pharmacist, has certainly lost its way. Years ago, we had a neighbor who collected Coca Cola memorabilia. It was a joy to have coffee in her front room that was bounded on three sides with windows and scan all the items displayed. From toy semi-trucks and trailers to trays, clothing and toys, her collection was expansive. She died. God rest her soul. All this disintegration of “Coke” would break her heart. Memories of the children’s faces as they sang the song on a famous ad come to mind. Heed the words. “I wish that I could teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.” Well, that message is dead, unless the harmony mentioned is globalism. Egad. I can remember plunging my arm down into a cooler of icy water to grab a bottle of Coke. If you are my age, you can, too. “Go out for a Coke” was so common that it held over to any carbonated beverage, akin to the term Kleenex for a facial tissue.
Back to Disney. Walt Disney, that delightful talented man who brought children all over the world such joy, must be rolling over is his grave at what has happened to his wonderful company. Banning the term “mother and father” on Disney grounds… no pronouns… no he or she, him or her… closing down rides that based on “Song of the South” in fear of offending someone…. The Well, folks, every nation has a history of making mistakes. The successful ones learn from them. Good and bad, history is a teacher.
The joy Disney brought since its first park in the 1950s is immeasurable. Its wholesome, family-oriented movies have morphed into something Walt Disney would not recognize. Yet, the park attractions and movies are only a bit of the high reputation galvanized in the minds and hearts of Americans over decades. Yes, all that is on the chopping block because of those claiming to be “woke.” A rhyme of sorts, the “woke” are a joke, and they deserve to go broke. American values, through her companies and her movies, spread across the world and they deserve to continue as influences for good.
As for the destruction of history as experienced and written, touching on that would only underscore the depravity of those who seek to mold this country into a link in the globalist chain that has as its goal a one world government. That works about as well as a dysfunctional family dinner.
Hardship and challenge forge character. And, oh how we need character and resilience! Unchallenged authority is our enemy. Alas, the devil is very busy these days. As he gleefully watched our colleges and universities corrupt untold numbers of students, so now does he revel as his minions push an agenda upon our little kids that defies logic and basic laws of medical science.
The whole crux of the situation across the board is that the 1960s radicals who were reared without a major conflict and who were dismissed as a group that would fade out are now in positions of power — not only in business, but also in government. Like that proverbial frog, we have just begun to simmer. The question is do we have the stomach to fight this house to house and take down what threatens our very way of life.
In 2001, this nation rallied to its churches in the wake of 9-11. Young men stepped forward to serve in the military to defend their country. What once was the heart and soul of military service is also under attack. What better way to defeat a country than to dissuade enlistment and push those with solid values from its ranks by insisting on absurd rules that have no other motivation than to water down its defense capability? Sensitivity training on the battlefield is as useful as a gun without bullets. Can you not see the pattern here?
It’s now become a state to state, city to city, town to town, house to house, and family to family battle. Do not let your voices be silenced. Go to school board meetings. Refuse to accept the insistent whining of those who seek to take down this nation. Now, more than ever, we need strong leadership.
Many in this nation have turned against God. That’s a dangerous position for a people. It’s Biblical. Pick up The Bible and read what happened when a nation turned its back on its Creator. It’s not pretty and we’re headed there on steroids. Complacency is a perilous attitude and there’s too much of it out there.
Think about it.