January 18, 2023

Where has our national passion gone? 

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On the left, our children and many adults no longer seem to possess great passion for America. 

On the right, their emotions seem to be little more than rage and impotence masquerading as passion.  Depression has set in on the right, but so-called ‘wilding’ has become the norm on the left. 

Both conditions are equally irrelevant and going nowhere fast.

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In the past, the Passion of the People meant a positive passion for democracy.  Democracy is a gift from God.  From our Declaration of Independence come phrases like “which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,” and “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Within these words is an unarticulated thought that a belief in God is a shared attribute that needs no discussion.  Yet, Pledge-of-Allegiance phrases such as “One Nation under God” is now being discussed in our schools and large companies as White Privilege, relics of a colonial past, or simply passe.  Prayer in school has already been banished in many educational institutions, and the dogma that signifies our devotion to America and its beliefs is being systematically eliminated.  We have allowed others to win on vital matters, which traditionally define us and help us maintain our identity.

Detractors write garbage like “The Trouble with Passion,” of but a single example of the redefinition of our culture, and our passion under attack.  This book attempts to explain “how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race.  It suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships….” 

We will likely lose these defining tenets of real Americanism if we fail to fight back.  They are:

  • Liberty
  • Freedom
  • The power of free markets to create prosperity out of little or nothing
  • Sacrifice
  • The value of understanding history

In 1215, the world changed forever with the British monarchy’s acceptance of the Magna Carta.  In this historic document, King John acknowledged that ruling powers were not absolute.  It took another 561 years to codify what the American colonists ultimately brought forward to a world thirsty for our exquisite words and ideas.  The concept that man was superior to his government with no overseers to preempt such rights was not just novel; it was world-changing.  That day marks man’s major transformation from serf to free person.  

People cannot be free unless they are responsible for their own lives.  That is what liberty must mean.  A government that provides a “safety net” thus becomes an overseer and can become an oppressive force.  Benevolence never lasts.  Throughout our world, the destroyers still hold sway in many places.  Are we immune from their reach?