“Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words: “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.” – Proverbs 1:20-22 (NKJV)
Ever notice that one political party in the U.S. seems to never pay attention to what has worked or failed throughout history when it comes to the basic philosophies of governing while the other major political party never learns from history when it comes to strategy and messaging? Ever wonder why we keep repeating the same mistakes of the past over and over again, departing from what works to what feels better?
Have people fundamentally changed over the last ten millennia? No. Do people still want all the same things from government they have wanted throughout history? Yes.
There will always be a dangerously large part of every population that hears what it wants to hear. They see what they want to see. Combine this with the fact that most people find it in their base human nature to want to be in power or be on the side of lopsided power and you have what we’ve always had – beloved governments that last a very short time until moral depravity, debt, or both does them in.
As long as we have one party fighting against Judeo-Christian values at every opportunity, spending and taxing its people into oblivion and another party so motivated by fear of the next election that they can’t speak the truth that a majority of active American voters will resonate with; we are screwed.
Until we decide as a nation that empowering bad behavior, subsidizing sub-standard living situations, catering to entitlement mentalities, and punishing productivity is not a good idea…we are screwed.
Until we recognize that a hand-up by charitable people is superior to a hand-out by administrations that benefit from their dependence…we are screwed.
Until we recognize that perceived “rights” at the expense of another’s inalienable rights are merely misguided preferences…we are screwed.
Just my observation for the day
