Over the past 20 years (we could go back a little further, but it really has been incited mostly since the Bush\/Gore and Obama elections), the political class has fomented division in the country in order to further its own agenda(s). After all, \u201cAny kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against itself falls\u201d (Luke 11:17). Of course, one need not read the Bible to understand this basic principle. We have all heard the phrase, \u201ctogether we stand; divided we fall.\u201d So long as we allow our\u00a0best and brightest<\/em>\u00a0to divide us, we stand no chance against\u00a0them<\/em>.<\/p>\n Yet most are so obtuse, and so uneducated regarding the concepts that drove America\u2019s founding fathers to establish a new form of limited government deriving its power from the people, that both sides scream and shout about what the government \u201cshould do,\u201d when in reality, most of that about which they clamor should not involve the federal government at all.<\/p>\n This leads to the unfortunate tone deafness of\u00a0both<\/em>\u00a0sides. Though I\u2019ve seen many instances in my short stint on X, I saw one truly glaring example this morning. As I was skimming, I came across the following:<\/p>\n First, and most glaringly,\u00a0both sides<\/em>\u00a0use fear to sell their positions. Yes, Republicans scream about communism and socialism (not completely unwarranted), about moral decline (they\u2019re not wrong there), and about illegal immigration overburdening the system (sanctuary cities are now evincing the legitimacy of that \u201cfear\u201d); but Democrats scream about \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d (falsely), the end of \u201cOur Democracy\u2122\u201d (wrongly), and \u201cfascism\u201d (mistakenly, since\u00a0fascism is a\u00a0<\/a>leftist<\/a><\/em>\u00a0ideology<\/a>), and promulgating the idea that this will be \u201cour last election\u201d if you don\u2019t vote for a Democrat. The Democrats are just as addicted to fear porn as are the Republicans.<\/p>\n Claiming that \u201cMAGA\u201d believes there is nothing good about America is about as blind as blind can be. People who claim to be \u201cMAGA\u201d believe America has\u00a0always<\/em>\u00a0been great, but it has faltered over the past couple of (few?) decades and want to return it to all its glory. It was a Democrat who said that his goal was to \u201cfundamentally change America.\u201d You don\u2019t \u201cfundamentally change\u201d something that you believe is good. And as for \u201cputting us down,\u201d was it not a Democrat President who went on an apology tour? Is it not Democrats who tell us daily of our wretchedness, having built a country on racism and continuing this day to be systemically racist? What good are they claiming to see in people when they excoriate those on the right as \u201cphobes\u201d of all flavors, as fascists, as Nazis, as white supremacists? But this is what blinders do – they restrict the view of the one wearing them.<\/p>\n This is not just true of the left. Those on the right are just as self-unaware. Many suffer a form of\u00a0Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/a>\u00a0just as slavish as those on the left, and are just as guilty of demonizing (often literally) their political opponents. As misguided as those on the left may at times be, it helps no one for those on the right to lump them all in one basket (just as those on the right did not particularly enjoy being lumped into one \u201cbasket of deplorables<\/a>\u201d). Those on the left with the loudest voices may deserve derision, but not everyone on the left embraces all that the Democrat party propounds.<\/p>\n Further, despite the outcry from the right against anything unconstitutional of which the left may be guilty, the right does much the same. Hypocrisy is often the deal of the day when it comes to Republicans. They rail and cry over illegal immigration, yet in the past (if not now), many used those illegals as cheap labor. They lament that Social Security is an entitlement – it is not, not when people are forced to pay under the pretense that they are paying in for their future retirement. Yet the right is just as guilty as the left of using Social Security as a slush fund to finance their ostentatious spending, and just as shameless in using Social Security as a bargaining chip at election time. In reality, neither party benefits from solving problems – they only find gain in histrionics, hand-wringing, and pearl-clutching.<\/p>\n Most of what politicians in Congress, both on the left and the right, try to convince the American people that the federal government should do, is unconstitutional. That the American people are utterly oblivious to\u00a0this country\u2019s founding principles<\/a>, the content of the\u00a0Constitution<\/a>, and the\u00a0very limited powers and responsibilities granted therein to the federal government<\/a>, allows those in office and their parties to manipulate their constituents into voting the way\u00a0the parties<\/em>\u00a0want. They have the masses convinced that there are \u201cConstitutional rights<\/a>\u201d to which they are entitled, and that the other side wishes to take away those rights, but most of what they claim are \u201crights\u201d are not rights at all (healthcare is a prime example).<\/p>\n The fact is, if everyone would remove their blinders, Americans would find that most want the same things: a robust economy, a strong job market, low taxes, and liberty. That so\u00a0many look to government to provide<\/a>\u00a0these (and more) is problematic because: 1) the government\u00a0can\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0control any of these (though they can manipulate and interfere with them); and 2) the government\u00a0isn\u2019t responsible<\/em>\u00a0for any of these, aside from\u00a0protecting and ensuring<\/em>\u00a0our liberty (with which, again, they more often interfere). Is it any wonder we\u2019re so divided? Take off the blinders and open your eyes to what the politicians are doing. There is nothing\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0fear more than the people united.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/995ed90f-1cc9-47b7-8a8e-3c40ae48f4ee_1062x1026-300x290.png\")
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