America, 2022
Published in Marietta Daily Journal (GA), Oct. 29, 2022
Today
chaos and uncertainty lie everywhere. Nations, governments, economies, and
families are wavering throughout the world. The U.K., the world’s 6th
largest economy, is in political shambles. War still rages in Ukraine where
Russian troops are gathering up orphaned children, carrying them to Russia.
Russia and China are still the bad boys they’ve always been. Neither North
America nor the continent of Europe currently has a ruling Churchill, a
Thatcher, a Truman, or a Reagan who can look dark clouds in the face and still
be lighthearted and inspiring. In the recent words of Reagan’s speechwriter
Peggy Noonan, “Today America is a Worried Land.”
As
for the land that birthed America, the United Kingdom may still be strong
economically but she is no longer the exporter of civilization that she once
was to many areas of the earth. Before uniting with Scotland and Ireland to
become the U.K., little England, about the size of the state of Alabama, via
her small ships and large spread her culture and language throughout the world.
One would be hard pressed to argue that the English language and English
culture did not improve every land where English ships docked. Before rightly
giving her empire away, England also abolished slavery 32 years before America
did.
In
regard to governance, the U.K. and the USA are wading through what England’s
John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim’s Progress, called “the slough of despond.” After
serving 44 days, the recently elected Prime Minister resigned only to be
replaced by a globalist of all globalists, 42-year-old multimillionaire Rishi
Sunak, a former Goldman Sachs banker. Welcome back to Number 10 Downing Street,
globalists of the world, as well as those of you who fought Brexit and still
want to be governed from Brussels. Feel free to walk on by, you Conservative
Party members who wanted to make the U.K. great again. Globalism is back.
Sovereign nations are passé.
America’s
governing situation is similarly shaky. One wonders if President Biden will be
able to serve another full year. Standing straight up this past week during an
interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, the president closed his eyes and
absolutely dozed for a few seconds. Seeing what was happening, Capehart
forcefully said, “Mr. President!” and the president woke up. How unsettling is
that?
But who would be
president if Biden resigns? We know the answer and that answer is equally
unsettling. Throughout the western free world, leadership is in crisis. Turmoil
in American is like none since the War Between the States. Not all of the
turmoil is purely political. It’s also social and moral. Consider the following
factoid that’s more than a factoid: “The U.S. Social Security Administration
said it is allowing people to select their gender in its records, a move the
agency said would give more options to
transgender and gender diverse people” (Wall Street Journal, 10/21/22).
Try one more: A June
Gallup poll revealed that 72% of Americans have lost confidence in public
schools because schools “are focused more on how race and gender should be
taught than on helping students get back on track” (National Review, 9/12/22).
Yes, gender, gender,
gender; race, race, race; honoring homosexuality; transgender sexual mutilation
of children; the President sitting and hobnobbing with a silly man posing as a
woman, all going on with background music from the nation’s corporations,
celebrities, most universities, the NFL, liberal media stars, and you name it.
Lost in it all is broad daylight crime to which a few Democrat mayors and
governors have begun – wonder why, November 8th ? – to pay a little
attention.
Our turmoil is also
related to morality. Time was when the Super Bowl halftime show was the supreme
display of licentiousness. No more. The recent regular season NFL
Raiders-Texans game, featuring that unclad paragon of sexiness, Iggy Azalea,
reset the norm even lower. So that’s why the Raiders left Oakland for Vegas.
Anyone who doesn’t think public morality, ever increasing nudity, pervasive
porn, and filthy language doesn’t take a negative toll on high school and
college students needs to teach at one or the other for one year. The point
here is what kind of climate do we need for producing quality, visionary
leaders of rectitude in the first place? How is America’s moral climate doing
now?
But hope springs
eternal in the human breast, someone wrote. There are many men and women in the
nation who could make things better and many are ready and willing to lead. The
question is will we choose the right ones to lead or continue to be swept away
by the social/moral hurricane that now swirls around us?
Roger Hines
October 27, 2022
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