Posted on 01/09/2024 5:24:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
The more things supposedly change, the more they really stay the same. That’s especially true when we try to talk about moral progress.
Barack Obama loved telling us that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Joe Biden always assures us that history is moving towards “progress,” which is why we’re lectured to be “on the right side of history” (which is usually the left side).
None of this is new. It all comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who claimed history is on auto-pilot towards greater moral progress, ever higher moral vistas—he said that right after dropping off his five kids from his mistress at an orphanage, on his way to writing Émile, his book about how to raise children.
Take last week: January 4th marked the 128th anniversary of Utah’s admission as the 45th state. Utah was an outlier, as most of the states around it (except Arizona and New Mexico) had joined the Union earlier, even though almost all of them were settled later. Brigham Young was in the Great Salt Desert by the late 1840s, and the “State of Deseret” was seeking admission before the Civil War. What took Utah so long?
One word: polygamy.
19th century Republicans, like some of their 20th and 21st century heirs, were into fighting culture wars. The 1856 platform—the GOP’s first presidential race—pledged to combat the “twin relics of barbarism,” slavery and polygamy. 1865 and the end of the Civil War resolved the former. (MEMO: send note to Nikki Haley). Republicans then turned to polygamy, not resting until federal laws punished polygamy and Utah was compelled to write its prohibition into its first state constitution. As Princeton Prof. Robert George observed, it was Republicans who fought the moral scourges of the nineteenth century.
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What the left is actually doing is circling the drain.
In answer to the headline, Nope. And Rush hit the nail on the head over 30 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pur18_UK4
We? Some individuals are, some individuals aren’t.
The problem with that statement is that when Obama says "justice," he means DEI.
But DEI doesn't mean justice, it means coddling Obama's preferred minority with the racism of soft expectations.
In other words, the children of Obama's preferred minority are never taught difficult subjects nor are they expected to achieve success based on merit.
Apparently Obama considers them inferior and incapable of achieving success without reparations/redistribution and government assistance.
There will always be evil......until there ain’t.
Absolutely NOT!
People have wholesale abandoned Scriptural principles and morality and substituted their own.
There is none but God’s. He sets the standard, our feelings don’t.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
We are sinking in a quagmire of moral confusion and depravity!
When I was a kid, blacks were not treated with the respect that they (generally) are now, but pretty much everything else is much, much worse, not better.
Part of the great divide in America today. Increasing bifurcation of values and ideals. The Left has only scorn for morality because it implies some overarching moral authority and they recognize only the power of the state. Also why the Left is solidly atheistic, btw
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