This last week has had all of us analyzing the results of the election. Most of us are doing so with glee and gratitude, but the Left is left scrounging up excuse after excuse, explanation after explanation, trying to avoid the truth. The Left didn’t lose because their “messaging” was ineffective. They didn’t lose because of the Kamala cackle, or her phantom policies, or her linguistic malfeasance. The Left lost because the very base of her stance, of the Left’s philosophy, is evil.
At the core of the progressive worldview is the idea that there is no absolute truth. I’ll grant that there’s no one walking the earth today that has a perfect grasp on what that truth might be, but to deny its existence is to open the door and offer the devil a seat at the table. Of course, there is the obvious problem that the statement, “there is no absolute truth” is self-refuting, but if a person deludes himself enough, he won’t care. Meanwhile, the postmodern position allows a looseness of thought that has nearly done us in as a nation. There is no difference between absolute truth and God, and it was Dostoyevsky who pointed out that “without God all things are permissible.”
What the Left doesn’t understand is that, despite their declarations to the contrary, despite their locking God out of our public discourse, God IS. And His standards haven’t changed, and most of us know that.
America is unique in many ways — our self-governance, our economic system, our generosity, our innovative, pioneering spirit — but most important is the fact that we have always been a moral country. Not perfectly so; we have paid dearly for the breaches of God’s divine moral code (see Exodus 20), but “We hold these truths to be self-evident” has always been America’s backbone — self-evident truth. God.
This election displayed our national revulsion to untruth; we don’t like to be lied to. We were told that the economy is just fine, but the truth was staring us all in the face every time we bought gas or groceries or paid the rent. We can tell that the “education” we’re spending a fortune on has produced students who can’t read or compute and know nothing about the configuration of our government. It’s obvious to any breathing person that our crime rate is soaring, that our nation is being invaded, and yet the left smiled in our faces and told us everything is hunky-dory. No change in “messaging” is going to pretty-up the pig enough to make us vote for it.
One of the Ten Commandments (a perfect blueprint for a successful society) warns us not to “bear false witness” against our fellow man, but the Harris campaign repeatedly, heatedly accused Donald Trump, and all of us who supported him, of being Nazis — largely because he held a rally in a building where real Nazis had never gathered. What?! They indicted him for things weren’t even crimes until they said they were, and then called him a felon. They warned women that Trump’s policies would kill them. When he was shot, they even accused him of rigging the assassination attempt. Politics are always ugly, but this level of hyperbolic lying is off the charts. Did the left think we’d all just believe the nonsense? We were gobsmacked that people could so calmly lie to our faces and then expect us to vote for them.
Shttps://pacificbible.edu in southern Oregon. She teaches writing, logic, and literature. She can be contacted at 1window45@gmail.com
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