{"id":1178,"date":"2021-02-07T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allred10.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:02:15","slug":"imagine-one-nation-under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/allred10.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Imagine One Nation Under God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The United States of America has always tried to lift the poor and care for the weak.\u00a0 Billions of tax dollars have been spent on aid and assistance.\u00a0 The citizens of the US also donate more to charity than any other people.\u00a0 Almost all Americans support being charitable. It is part of our Judeo-Christian heritage.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Our collective desire to help others has created fertile ground for the rise of so-called Social Justice Warriors (SJWs). These SJWs include some who are truly trying to help, even if some solutions are worse than the problems.\u00a0 Sadly, many SJWs have been exploited by those who only want political power or to be part of a fashionable cause.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">SJWs have always been around but, with the rise of social media in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, they have been given a more powerful voice.\u00a0 The typical methodology of these SJWs is to advocate for a more socialist government with increased government control over all aspects of our lives.\u00a0 These solutions kill the goose that laid the golden egg, thus undermining the mechanism that allows the poor and needy to be helped, and robbing us all of the rights and freedoms we enjoy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">John Lennon and Yoko Ono penned the very popular song, <em>Imagine<\/em>, in 1971.\u00a0 They were two of the SJWs of their day.\u00a0 As SJWs in all ages, they thought they had the answers to all of the world\u2019s problems.\u00a0 They were wrong.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lennon and Ono want us to \u201cimagine\u201d no heaven, no hell and above us only sky \u2013 a not so veiled attempt to reject God and his justice. They would have us believe that peace comes from ignoring God in favor of whimsical societal norms.\u00a0 We are also to imagine no countries, no religion and no possessions.\u00a0 We would have no allegiance, no rights, no anchors.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>We must not be deceived to believe in a world without evil and\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"><b>tyrants<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0who would demand our all. In contrast, history has proven that the capitalist, Constitutional republic of the United States of America has been the most charitable, just and wealthy nation in the history of mankind.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Over three centuries before Lennon and Ono, Miguel de Cervantes clearly illustrated the folly of the SJW. In 1615, he wrote\u00a0<em>Don Quixote<\/em>, which many consider to be one of the greatest works of fiction ever written.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This is how Miguel de Cervantes described Don Quixote, the SJW of his novel &#8211; \u201cIt now appeared to him fitting and necessary, in order to win a greater amount of honor for himself and serve his country at the same time, to become a knight-errant and roam the world \u2026he would right every manner of wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The similarities to the modern SJWs are obvious.\u00a0 \u201cTo dream the impossible dream, that is my quest,\u201d Don Quixote said.\u00a0 And, Sancho Panza, a laborer, who was promised great wealth and power, was a devoted follower.\u00a0 In every age, there are always a host of followers who anticipate a great, unearned, reward.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Just as Don Quixote tilted at windmills who he imagined to be evil giants and attacked sheep who he imagined were soldiers, modern SJWs are pursuing\u00a0quixotic causes that are creating a <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"><b>schism<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0that is <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"><b>unprecedented<\/b><\/span><b style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0since the Civil War.\u00a0 This is no longer a matter of how to best address societal issues.\u00a0 Half of the country believes that the other half is undermining the very foundation of the USA.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>These are just some of ideas that create <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"><b>divisiveness<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Black Lives Matter \u2013 Accusing police of rampant abuse of minorities when statistics do not support these racist claims.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Feminist Extremism \u2013 Claims that women are victims of pervasive discrimination, from which they have been specifically protected since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and before.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Gender fluidity \u2013 This silly notion is perpetuated by those who derive satisfaction from appearing more enlightened than others. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Undocumented workers \u2013 A politically-motivated euphemism for illegal aliens, including non-workers and criminals.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Killing viable unborn children in the name of women\u2019s rights \u2013 As if human life is valueless if the rhetoric is properly framed.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Diversity quotas \u2013 University tuitions have skyrocketed, in part, because of the bureaucracies created to monitor and promote diversity. Any rational person will choose competency over diversity. Diversity quotas are clearly discriminatory.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">And the list goes on and on and on. \u00a0The citizens of the US are not getting dumber, which begs the question as to why these SJW causes get traction.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Richard Nisbett and two colleagues at the University of Michigan published \u201cInsensitivity to Sample Bias\u201d in October 1980.\u00a0 In that study, Nisbett showed conclusively that emotion trumps facts.\u00a0 The test subjects routinely ignored the facts given them in favor of a single story that illustrated the opposite of the facts.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">When feelings trump facts, terrible things happen. When the media assists politicians in distorting facts and playing to the electorate\u2019s emotions, nations become uncivilized, immoral and savage.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The bottom-line is this \u2013 SJWs use heart-wrenching stories, manipulated data and deceptive euphemisms to promote their causes, in spite of the facts.\u00a0 In addition, they advocate banning so-called \u201chate speech\u201d in favor of political correctness which is frighteningly similar to the \u201cnewspeak\u201d defined by George Orwell in his book <em>1984.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>This classic novel describes how a totalitarian state is controlled by the \u201cthought police.\u201d\u00a0 In the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, the thought police have been replaced by social media, late night TV comedians, self-serving educators and power-hungry politicians.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">SJWs have been given license by our society to \u201cright the unrightable wrong,\u201d as they imagine it to be.\u00a0 As a result, SJWs breed mistrust and hatred among races, genders, religions, cultures and social classes.\u00a0 The \u201csocial justice\u201d of SJWs would reduce our free nation to a fractionalized populace under an unprincipled ruling elite.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Helping others means actually working to do something meaningful for the poor and needy.\u00a0 It is not to fabricate, celebrate and exploit victimhood. \u00a0Our nation needs to rationally discuss the legitimate needs of our citizens without hyperbole and self-interest.\u00a0 History has proven that our country can address the needs of our citizens without the hype and duplicity of most social justice warriors.\u00a0 Instead, we need thoughtful, honorable and equitable patriots who will return us to \u201cone nation under God.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States of America has always tried to lift the poor and care for the weak.\u00a0 Billions of tax dollars have been spent on aid and assistance.\u00a0 The citizens of the US also donate more to charity than any other people.\u00a0 Almost all Americans support being charitable. 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