We did not write much in 2021, the news remained about the same and was dominated by the continuing COVID-19 global pandemic, crisis, whatever your favorite name is.
For this first day of 2022, covid is still the prime word of news for the day in many parts of the US and the World. Here in north Idaho, blessedly not so much.
Here, the battle is for souls, and our weapon is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The key adversaries of Satan that we battle with are Government and those agents in society who seek to draw souls away from the Church, from Jesus, and from God. These agents primarily [although not exclusively] occupy the Left portion of the political spectrum. I only mention this to give some context for what I am going to present. A friend of mine published his set of resolutions for 2022. Although they come from a political context, they are useful here because they do point out where the battle points for the Gospel are. Many will contend with these antagonists in political terms. We must contend in their arena with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Here are his resolutions: To turn things around, we must be fearless about conveying the facts the leftists have made unpopular to say:
When I earn money from my hard work, nobody is entitled to my earnings except me. Passing a law that says I have to give my wealth to someone who hasn’t earned it is still armed robbery. Lowering or eliminating taxes is less about how much it will help the economy and more about correcting the injustice of legalized theft.
Government should not keep young people out of the workplace, nor should politicians set wages, determine work hours, steal from paychecks, or help special interests steal from paychecks.
My property is mine to do with as I please. If I want to paint my house a different color or uproot a tree, it’s my business. If you don’t like it, make me an offer, move away, or shut up.
The local public school is just a government taxing district with a mascot and a ball team. There’s no reason to love a school that graduates huge swaths of young people who can’t read, write, or do math with the proficiency they need to succeed in the workforce or college.
Government schools are also breeding grounds for leftist indoctrination. Government schools don’t teach much, but they do have a knack for teaching obedience and devotion to government and dividing us into a fictional world of oppressors and oppressed.
Governments push for kids to go to college because the government runs a lot of colleges. They want the revenue. Businesses push for pre-k and kindergarten because they want parents to be free to work without worrying about child care. The policies they promote are not about bettering your life or that of your kids. It’s about improving theirs.
Government charity programs only pretend to help people while displacing successful community, church, nonprofit, and for-profit programs that actually lift people out of poverty. Politicians vote to create and fund government programs because they’re too afraid to face the criticism of voting against a program that supposedly offers “help.”
There’s no law that mandates that states continue to support the socialist ideas and programs put in place by leftist national rulers. States do it because they get a bunch of federal money. State politicians rarely publicly complain about the impact of failed programs on society, not because they're obviously bad people (some are) but because they think it's political suicide; re-election is the most important thing to them.
Your government has a habit of lying to you. Government unemployment data, inflation calculations, budgetary information, healthcare stats, and program success rates are usually made up or spun, and the media will usually faithfully report these lies.
There's really no real good reason for conservatives to sit with legacy media reporters except to appease the special interest group that is the news media. Additionally there's no good reason why Republicans continue to allow leftist news organizations to run the party's debates.
For decades, a majority of Republicans have gotten away with voting and governing exactly the same as leftist Democrats. Those elected officials who hold fast to the idea that government should be limited, consistent with this country's founding principles, are the ones being labeled in the media and by special interest groups as “extremists,’ as a way to give cover to the extremists who are screwing with our freedoms.
The Left is running a big con game when it comes to pronouns and gender. No matter how many dresses I wear and no matter how much prettier I make myself, I’ll always be a man. Rachel Levine and Caitlyn Jenner are also men. Changing a name doesn’t alter facts. There is no such thing as a trans man or trans woman. My pronouns and yours are the ones we were born with.
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