I am a political masochist, so
I watched the president’s State of the Union
address. His crafty points contained just enough
truth to slip past casual consumers of political
spin. The speech was so perfectly choreographed, I
was surprised he didn’t run the
like-your-doctor-keep-your-doctor line because I
think his frenzied audience would have swallowed it
again. Several political think-tanks have already
addressed the president’s little white lies, so to
repeat their findings would be beating a dead horse.
Instead, I will focus on the president’s underlying
theme to advance progressivism, the cruelest of all
political ideologies.
There are two societal levels in a progressive
utopia, the ruling class and the unwashed. We
unwashed are divided into two subcategories, the
non-producers and the producers with the former
hopelessly enslaved in dependency and the later
enslaved in debt. Only the ruling class is free to
metaphorically move about the cabin. If you wonder
how the ruling class could possibly secure their
power while simultaneously ensnaring the unwashed in
bondage, study the president’s address. He spelled
out our imprisonment as plain as day.
The first step in accepting wealth redistribution as
a fitting and proper function of government requires
the non-producers to “covet thy neighbor’s house,
wife, manservant, maidservant, ox, ass and anything
that is thy neighbors.” Contrary to the teachings of
President Obama, just because someone has more than
you does not entitle you to take it. Frequently
disguised within terms such as income inequality,
minimum wage, social justice, Obamacare, climate
change, and free community college, every
progressive solution involves the transfer of bounty
from someone who has earned it to someone who has
not. It is not wise to covet your neighbor’s stuff.
Now to step two.
Government has no job, so they can only give you
things after stealing it from someone else. Theft is
theft whether done at night by a teenager wearing a
hoodie, or done by a majority vote of crooks wearing
a coat and tie. Once you accept covetousness,
governmental theft goes down the hatch as smooth as
chocolate milk. The wild and reckless printing of
money is universal governmental theft which is
easily hidden, but this does not change the
underlying truth that people should not steal. On to
step three.
Big government is the god of the ruling class. It is
promoted as the source of all goodness with the
solution to every societal problem being but one new
government program away. Establishing their own god
is why progressives have prohibited the free
exercise of religion in our schools and are laboring
to remove every reference to the true and living God
from the fabric of our lives. With covetousness and
theft universally accepted, the idolatrous worship
of big government completes the progressive holy
trinity. This is bad because God commands us to have
none other before Him and this brings me to my
point.
Astute believers have already recognized the
progressive holy trinity violates three of the Ten
Commandments. Come judgment day, I am unsure how
many of the Big Ten you can miss and still get a
passing grade, but I would hate to hedge my place in
eternity on the hope God grades on a curve.
Therefore, I default to the Judeo-Christian
principles of free-will, natural rights and limited
government as expressed in America’s founding
documents. I wholly reject covetousness, theft and
idolatry and I suggest you do the same.
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