So how DO we keep from going, gently or otherwise, into that bad night of easy moral equivalence? Which seems to be popping up all over these days.
Maybe there needs to be more of Teddy Roosevelt’s speaking softly while carrying a big stick. And that we reach for a God perspective again, asking God to help us attain it. That kind of growing probably won’t happen overnight when before this all we wanted out of God was to keep our own isolated households safe and to prosper them, without a care about the rest. We are so used to small circles today.
“Making America Great Again” will require persuading cynics of the virtues of acting “greatly.” That means we ourselves, as a society (not as government agencies, which Thomas Paine long ago took pains to distinguish) must rise above acting little. Charity, both in attitude and in goods, can get a wise head and strong backbone again if it is rested upon God and not upon politicians.
>>So how DO we keep from going, gently or otherwise, into that bad night of easy moral equivalence? Which seems to be popping up all over these days.
We stop “agreeing to disagree”. When you get into an argument with a Progressive, they use a tactic to force you to admit that you could be partly wrong (with the implication that they will admit the same). But then they don’t. They take your admission of possibly being wrong or not fully informed, and they use that to say, “HAH! You know nothing!” and then they proceed to act as if their opinion is fact and your facts are in doubt.
So, we refuse to back down an inch in a argument. When they say, “Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree”, respond with, “Yeah...you do that pussy.”
Read Alinsky. Learn it. Use those same tactics and use them to more effect.
And when they get in your face, get in their face. When they push, push back. And when they move to strike, go nuclear!
But, of course, if this seems un-Christian, then we can choose to die as martyrs one day. If that is the right course, then let’s get on with that too. Eternity awaits the faithful.