We have all, at times I think, had this experience: We have been lectured to by someone who knows less than we do. It is frustrating, and it is often insulting. One such instance I remember vividly, was of someone explaining to me that the Crucifix was a rather unchristian symbol considering its connection to death and torture. Here was an example of the worst form of these presumptuous lectures, a critique coming from outside a group about a group. A non-Jew explaining Judaism to a Jew would be a rather silly and foolish spectacle. Yet, there is some honest sense in which a outside voice may indeed be welcomed, and what I am about to say is admittedly about a group I have never belonged to, one for which I have no desire to belong.
If you are of this group, I do not presume to know anything about what your group should or should not be. I only wish to say, in the most polite manner possible, that from an outside perspective the Democrat Party is crazy. So, speaking entirely as an outsider, and only as one particular outsider, not any other, I’d like to present my perspective and the why behind it. I do not intend to reform a group I am not a part of, nor do I presume the role of a critic: I merely set out to state a perspective, to describe the truth the best that I see it.
There are of course exact issues one can consider: abortion, transgender rights, and marriage. There are many more, but instead of trying to lecture, trying to take each of these points and argue for my own side, which is what I am striving not to do here, I want to lay my finger upon one aspect of all these debates: lies. In nearly ever major issue upon which I reject the Democrat Party, said rejection is based on the fact that the Democrat position does not describe the real world. Furthermore, and from the outside this seems rather insidious, there appears to be baked into the very premises presented by Democrats a rather shocking perspective on truth: Reality is subject to the will.
The Democrat position does not seem to care what an unborn child is. The unborn, and even the recently born, are declared by dictate to have no real worth. The simple declaration of someone’s sex, or gender, or whatever new word has been invented in the last minute, according to the Democrat, need have no basis in anything. The will has been expressed; it is for reality to bend. In this vein also, the question of what marriage is has been sidestepped into a question of how we can use the word marriage free of any reality.
On the issue of whether we should conform to reality or whether our wills should seek to bully reality into conforming, I side with the realists, and if I may take the time to apologize for my position, I do not thereby think it fair that women get pregnant, fair that a man should feel himself to be a woman (or vice versa), nor do I think it fair that homosexual unions are not the same as heterosexual ones. Reality isn’t fair, but marriage is a word describing a real thing, the word man and woman describe an aspect of reality, and no matter how inconvenient children are, they are.
Why am I saying all this? From the outside, the Democrat party seems to be a party of lies. I’m not saying that it lies, which it does, the Republican party lies also, but that it is centered upon lies. Rarely, I have found, in discussing politics with a Democrat, do I hear appeals to truth. If anything, I often hear, “Shouldn’t we be polite?” or “Wouldn’t it be kind?” or the imperative, “Don’t be mean,” all of which are unspoken admissions of deceit.
Let’s not lie; let’s speak truth.
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