NO FEAR
FEAR seems to be the pervading emotion for these days. Every word I read, every word people speak, and every media highlight is tainted with FEAR. The “Green” movement FEAR the end of the world due to the greenhouse effect and increasing carbon emissions. Hillary Clinton and most Democrats FEAR a Trump administration because it will be the end to democracy while most Republicans FEAR that Biden’s Democratic Socialistic Party will end democracy. Patriots and those who love their country FEAR that far-left will destroy our Constitutional rights. Some of us live in FEAR of the next virus, FEAR we can’t pay our bills, FEAR we are being invaded by terrorists, FEAR, FEAR, FEAR.
These things, without a doubt, are real concerns for our time, and yet this country has lived through fearful times before. In modern history we have experienced numerous wars; WWI, WWII, Vietnam and Korea, and have rebounded. We have been through epidemics such as smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, H1N1 flu, diphtheria, polio, H2N2 flu, measles, whooping cough, and HIV. The 1918 H1N1 flu took 500,000 lives and yet the U.S. recovered and continued to lead productive lives with positive attitudes for the future.
These things, without a doubt, are real concerns for our time, and yet this country has lived through fearful times before. In modern history we have experienced numerous wars; WWI, WWII, Vietnam and Korea, and have rebounded. We have been through epidemics such as smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, H1N1 flu, diphtheria, polio, H2N2 flu, measles, whooping cough, and HIV. The 1918 H1N1 flu took 500,000 lives and yet the U.S. recovered and continued to lead productive lives with positive attitudes for the future.
With COVID, the U.S. lost 100,000 lives, yet continues to be surrounded by FEAR. Why is that? Where is our rebound? Could it be the rhetoric and actions of the Democratic Party that keeps us in fear? Democrat Rahm Emanuel, the Biden appointed Ambassador to Japan, used the now famous Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Pres. Biden used this in justifying his administration’s college debt cancellation plan. This statement is also used in Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals.
What is this telling us? That in order for the Democratic Party to get things they want done, they are willing to use or even make up a crisis in which to do it. Let’s say, the world is getting hotter so we cancel cows, cancel gas and oil and the cars that need them, cancel stoves, and buy dirty oil from socialist Venezuela. Let’s say they mandate wearing masks, taking vax, taking boosters, cancel opposition, ban from social media to anyone who doesn’t agree, threaten the military of expulsion if they don’t vax, ban loved ones from hospital rooms and deny needed operations because they haven’t submitted to Democratic mandates. This is called government control or overreach.
What is this telling us? That in order for the Democratic Party to get things they want done, they are willing to use or even make up a crisis in which to do it. Let’s say, the world is getting hotter so we cancel cows, cancel gas and oil and the cars that need them, cancel stoves, and buy dirty oil from socialist Venezuela. Let’s say they mandate wearing masks, taking vax, taking boosters, cancel opposition, ban from social media to anyone who doesn’t agree, threaten the military of expulsion if they don’t vax, ban loved ones from hospital rooms and deny needed operations because they haven’t submitted to Democratic mandates. This is called government control or overreach.
I believe that the government is supposed to protect its people and its people’s rights, but when I see ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS crossing our border in the millions and obtaining free rights that many Americans do not have and depleting the finances of cities and states and the numbers of homeless citizens, I wonder how that translates into compassion for residents or immigrants. When the government does not protect the border and threatens the state that tries to do so and when crime is rampant in most major cities, I wonder if the government is concerned with our safety.
This is why people are fearful. Nothing is being done to correct the situation, just a bunch of promises, lies and excuses. It’s like living with an alcoholic or drug addict, they take your money, use your car, make big promises how things will change, but you know they are going to do it again. We are being abused and just like most abused people we don’t want to recognize that we have been fooled, but most victims of abuse must come to understand that they have to run away or fight back.
This is why people are fearful. Nothing is being done to correct the situation, just a bunch of promises, lies and excuses. It’s like living with an alcoholic or drug addict, they take your money, use your car, make big promises how things will change, but you know they are going to do it again. We are being abused and just like most abused people we don’t want to recognize that we have been fooled, but most victims of abuse must come to understand that they have to run away or fight back.
Most conservatives in my belief have an honor code and morality that comes from God. So, our answers come from our understanding of the scriptures. Proverbs 29:2-12 has a lot to say about leadership and governments. “Show me a righteous ruler and I will show you a happy people. Show me a wicked ruler and I will show you a miserable people.” “When the king is concerned with justice, the nation will be strong, but when he is only concerned with money, he will ruin his country.” “A good person knows the rights of the poor, but wicked people cannot understand such things.” “People with no regard for others can throw whole cities into turmoil. Those who are wise keep things calm.”
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God encourages us to NOT FEAR, but to be strong and courageous. The root word for courage is cor which in Latin means heart. In the earliest form this meant “to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” It takes courage to speak up, do the right thing, and a willingness to engage with challenging ideas, to question our thinking and risk making mistakes. And yet, we must break free of FEAR and imagine and envision our country being great again. It is up to you!
KLN
KLN
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV
2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV