This is No Time for Unity
Published in Marietta (GA) Marietta Daily Journal,2/6/21
The
dumbing down of words is both misleading and dangerous. Consult any reputable
dictionary (a watered down collegiate dictionary won’t do) and you’ll find that
insurrection has a very serious definition. It is much more serious and far-reaching
than a bunch of thugs dressed in stupid costumes, breaking into a government
building and bashing everything in sight.
The Oxford English Dictionary, still the
principal historical dictionary of the English language, reads “an organized
attempt to seize a government and take control of a nation; a violent,
organized revolt against a sitting government.”
Yeah,
the January 6th caper in Washington, D.C. was exquisitely organized
and executed, wasn’t it. One could tell that like Oliver Cromwell and George
Washington the rioters were people of high purpose, discipline, and reasoned
intent. Did everybody see on television the well stationed brigades out away
from the Capitol awaiting signals from their leader? Did anybody see anything
other than bad boys and girls acting up stupidly and illegally? Neither did I.
No,
this was no Cromwellian seizure of the British throne, and no legitimately
aroused colonists telling the British what they could do with their tea. This
caper was goons who, as it turned out, supplied Democrats and their fawning
media with a gleeful last jab at Donald Trump.
Changing
the definitions of words is a political art. Tolerance is a word that is
changing also. How ironic that those who have typically preached tolerance have
become absolutely intolerant calling for “de-programming,” suppression of free
speech, and for silencing those who disagree. Since the January 6th “insurrection,” members of Congress and the
media have called for the examining of emails of any National Guard members who
might have engaged in “hate speech,” another un-American concoction. Peter,
Paul, and Mary probably don’t recognize today’s political left, so different is
today’s left from their long ago 1960s ancestors.
Conservatives
had better wake up. Liberals are not what they used to be. In decades past
liberalism actually practiced liberality. Liberals broke the back of slavery.
They brought attention to the plight of the poor. If their tactics were
wrongheaded or bore error, their hearts were right. But that was then and this is
now.
The
most recent egregious change in liberal thought and the most serious definition
change in the liberal lexicon is that of the word unity. President Biden has
called several times for unity, even as he takes snipes at his predecessor.
Senators and other political and business leaders have called for unity. But
unity centered on what?
When
progressives speak of unity they are actually thinking and in effect saying, “Think
as I think.” Unity in the eyes of the
nation’s political left means you must accept their argument of systemic racism
even if you can name hundreds of well known and not so well known Blacks who
have succeeded and who reject the progressive argument that America is a racist
nation.
Unity
no longer means “Come, let us reason together.” It means come and embrace my
ideology or you are a cad. It means you must approve of open borders, of Big
Tech’s censorship of conservative commentary, of abortion, and of undeclared
wars that have drained our treasury for half a century. And if you won’t, you
are not willing to come together to heal the nation’s wounds. And you’re
probably from rural America and uneducated.
The
government, corporations, and public schools can help you, though, if you can’t
accept their new definition of unity. To cure you of your bias there are videos
you can (and in many cases must) watch, videos akin to the one by Magic Johnson
which I refused to watch since I didn’t think he was exactly qualified to talk
to teens about sexuality.
Unity
means getting used to transgender talk with its new pronouns such as now
required at several universities, all because not everybody likes their gender
and should be respected if they view themselves as something other than what
they are. It means opposing Donald Trump’s alleged enticement to riot at the
Capitol on January 6th while dismissing Chuck Schumer’s threats
(search them out) to Judges Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme
Court.
You
get the drift. But calling a cabbage a king doesn’t make it so. Instead of
unity, our times now call for fighting for what we believe. The problem is
Americans have always done our “fighting” in our deliberative halls with
debate. That debate is what Democrats want to stop and that’s why they want new
voters from Central America, two senators from D.C., popular elections for
president, and a packed Supreme Court.
That kind of unity will kill America and it
must be opposed and stopped.
Roger Hines
2/4/21
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