Opus 2026-141: Picking Your Shade of Grey

Evil exists.  Evil has consequences.  Evil triumphs if we ignore it.  It is like the fungus in the Petri dish.  It can grow overnight.

There is a quotation that I believe is attributed to Lord Action, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.”  I am afraid we are in one of those times where action is required.

If you watched the State of the Union Address you saw the grandstanding and verbal traps that kept bringing up expected situations and the Democrats kept falling into the obvious trap.  It was a no win situation.  Remaining seated in the face of manipulation was theater.  That was not the evil of the moment.  The evil was in the hearts of those who did not want to stand because they seriously disagreed with the statements.  That inner direction is laying the tracks that are forcing the country toward a socialist paradise like Venezuela.

At one time we had some agreement on what evil looked like.  No more.  There is a famous quote from John Adams in a 1789 letter,

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

When he said this he meant basic morality as described in the Bible.  He meant the religion of Christianity, not Satanism.  Everyone understood that.  They may not have lived by those standards but there was no mystery about what they meant.

We have moved beyond that.  We have choices to make about how we will deal with the future.  One choice would involve millions of people making the choice to repent of their sins and follow Jesus.  Along with that others would acknowledge that such a life is a plus factor and change their way of doing things.  The other choice is to realize that we don’t want to live according to the Constitution as written and redo it.

What actions might we consider because of the potential products of ignored evil?

We might consider expelling Muslims as a group.  This would seem to be expelling a religion but that would not be the motive.  Islam is a religion, yes, but it is also a political system based on Sharia law.  This is a civic legal code that is totally antithetical to our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  Such a step would be similar to the laws that we once enforced against Communism because it was committed to the violent overthrow of our government.  Sharia law has the same result, thus it must go.  Muslims must go because they are required to introduce it.

A similar action should be implemented for socialists and Communists.  The law would need to be written in such a way that it involved the philosophies no matter what cute titles they adopted.  These are political systems that bring nothing but poverty and death

On a milder lever but just as hard to implement would be establishing qualifications to vote.  The problem here would be establishing honest requirements, not the kind of targeted nonsense that was in place under Jim Crow.  When I was running the gauntlet in California to become a teacher they required something called the CBEST.  It was something any high school sophomore should have been able to pass.  Should someone be allowed to vote if they can’t read a simple sentence?  Should they be required to name their congressman before given a ballot?  Should they be allowed to vote on economic issues if they don’t pay taxes or can’t balance a check book?

These are serious questions that no one wants to deal with.

We need to talk.  Of course that means we have to be able to communicate in English.

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