Life can be much more uncomfortable for any group or faction, than its members, literally, never planned for, should the motivating ideologies that have activated the group politically, emotionally or intellectually be exposed as, essentially, incorrect. It is very upsetting, and more so if you are in the subset of that faction that is the last to realize that your beliefs really can’t apply to reality any longer. Those so impacted are quite likely to strike out against those who knew of the wrongness of the formers’ beliefs well in advance of the “new” awareness of those upset. In effect, a larger and larger majority of society appear to be becoming enemies of the newly “awakened” – a most unsettling environment.
This shift in “truths” can affect the powerful as well as the marginal. For those with political power, the reaction seems never to be an adjustment in action or belief, no admissions of error. Rather, the reaction is likely to be what is called “doubling down” on the old beliefs and supporting actions. To a degree, we can see this reaction in Congress, most particularly within and around the so-called “January Sixth Committee,” which has as its main purpose the proving of “White Supremacy” and “domestic terrorism” as the prime motivators of anyone who ever supported Donald Trump. As expected, evidence of the opposite being true is routinely ignored or denigrated as simply part of the “big lie” that the ever-smaller sub-group is sacrificing so mightily to expose. This concentrated cabal remains certain that all Americans will embrace their sacrifice once that premise is “proven.”
For many, the foolishness embodied in the January Sixth committee barely registers as a problem worthy of Congress’ attention, which helps to show the falseness of the premise noted above. The shrinking inner group of alternate believers seems to be more determined than ever to prove their case. Should that fail, hatred of the alternate believers will be the irreducible collapse of their dimming star: there will be no supernova.
So it is with abortion and “choice,” but on a much longer timeline and background of seeming success. This awakening will be one of the most wrenching that America has faced, certainly since the 2nd Civil War. That one, over slavery, finally, made America stronger. The collapse of Abortion, Incorporated, has the potential of doing the same, but only if churches wake up at the same time. America “works” only in a society of shared morality. Will a new understanding of life, itself, open people’s hearts? Not very quickly, Prudence fears.
Abortion “rights” distill the human conflict between spirituality and the worship of socialist government. This conflict has existed since the “Garden of Eden” when the “serpent” convinced “Eve” that surely she would not (actually) die if she ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but that she would become like the gods in knowing of good and evil. When God learned that Adam and Eve had eaten of the tree His love for them tempered his punishment: not death, but difficulty, and banishment from “the Garden.” The “thesis” was that Eve and Adam would die if a certain commandment were not observed; the “serpent” provided the “anti-thesis” that surely they would not die. God’s love for His “children” softened the punishment, as love does and should do, which was explained as the antithesis being slightly more true than the thesis. This is the same dialectic employed by Marx and Hegel and Engels.
For thousands of years, amidst phenomenal progress, prosperity and elevated standards of living, the lure of authoritarianism, Nazism, Soviet Communism and Fascism has clung to the human condition like a voracious parasite. Its only opponent is God and, as Christians believe, his son, the Christ. The story of Jesus Christ, whether one is a believer or not, is a dramatic departure from identity only as part of a religious group. Grouping is virtually automatic, but being FREE because of a personal connection to God, rewards faithful individuals with personal responsibility for individual decisions, choices and actions. There is no freedom without that responsibility; there is no freedom when “right” action is taken only in fear of some earthly authority.
Back to the future of our once-great nation.
Is there a source within society that can rebuild a common morality? Our collective conscience? We need two key elements… no, THREE: 1) Non-political churches; 2) Morally guided education; and, 3) Equal application of laws. Free individuals have the power to empower all three factors. Yet, our imperfect politics is what we tend to look to for salvation from problems created by, mostly, politicians. Do we have some reason to believe that, facing a wide replacement of those in Congressional power, that the new crop of “representatives” in either House is going to help us chart a more morally straight national course? There is almost no historical support for that outcome.
But there is opportunity for America, and it’s wrapped up in our ability to deal with the promised agitation from pro-abortionists. There is no greater moral imperative than to protect our children. There is no economic value that comes close to that of protecting our children. Supposedly economically or politically powerful people can issue drivel that tries to connect the destruction of the unborn with some sort of economic benefit. Obviously the economy exists because there are people, but it is a stretch beyond all reason that aborting new lives is good for everyone, let alone any one. Still, there is a good possibility that overreaction to the end of Roe v. Wade will awaken many who are rabidly in favor of abortion, now. It certainly will focus attention on the worst forms of butchery and profiteering. Prudence would indicate that there is still sufficient moral outrage in Americans’ hearts to overcome the allure of political/financial power. To those in Democrat power, abortion has been played for added power for 50 years – the destruction of 62 Million lives has been a small price to pay to keep re-electing Democrats. What a foul bargain.
The illegal “leak” of Justice Alito’s draft opinion on “Roe,” has unleashed a rash of law-breaking by proponents of unfettered abortion. Within that is the possibility of exposing the utter lawlessness of our own Department of Justice under AG, Merrick Garland. Not only has he lied to Congress in sworn testimony, but he has employed the FBI to investigate parents who are upset about improper educational curricula and ideological indoctrination of their children. The FBI was instructed by Garland to open cases under “domestic terrorism” titles regarding parents who broke no laws.
Now, as proto-criminals harass Supreme Court Justices in direct violation of federal law, America’s AG ignores them and refuses to direct the FBI to apprehend and charge those breaking 18 U. S. Code Section 1512. Unfortunately, with Garland’s apparent political agreement with demonstrators who are in contravention of that section of federal law, and with his established willingness to break federal laws, himself, and to lie about it, no apprehensions or prosecutions appear likely. Perhaps stopping illegal demonstrations is a threat to Democratcy. (spelling intended)
As Prudence has noted before, contracts, including covenants with a free people, are only as good as the integrity of the parties to them. Changing the meaning of words is a common and corrupt means of sidestepping truths, a major cornerstone of integrity. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence says, in English, that our unalienable rights include Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The abortion travesty of 1973’s Roe versus Wade decision tried to codify the redefinition of “Life.” There no longer was a question of life or death of a fetus, provided that the pro-death faction was allowed to define when life began to exist. The court did not rule on that, although it tried to “split the baby,” so to speak, by stating that States could limit abortion to the first one or two trimesters of, well, LIFE, perhaps, for lack of a better name. But, in the Blackmun opinion, abortion was allowed throughout pregnancy.
The floodgates were thus opened to dozens of interpretations of “when life begins,” largely coming down to “when the pregnant woman decides it does,” largely on the basis of convenience, not on the life or health of the mother or of the baby. Needless to say, this open-ended death warrant included, and has been argued to include, “abortion” up to the moment of birth. In effect, a woman who decides at the very day of birth that she does not “want” the baby, for it certainly is such, can deny its right to live beyond a point of starvation or dehydration after birth. It seems Prudent that a live baby is a citizen of the United States and causing it to die is murder, no matter the reason or logic for the act. The pro-death faction has been allowed, in some jurisdictions, to redefine the meaning of “murder,” too.
Perhaps there will arrive a national awakening to the horrors of abortion, the cruelty, the pain, the denigration of humanity and even the anti-God aspects thereof. Perhaps morality will win out. Perhaps this 5th Civil War will begin the process of restoring America and erasing our ability to believe one of the worst aspects of socialism: that a fetus can be both a person and not a person at the same time.
Socialism depends on large numbers of people acting as though two diametrically opposed ideas are true. Such mental incongruities are all around us, today. That so many young people can believe, in the midst of unparalleled freedoms, that socialist central governance will make them more free, is one such incongruity. Believing that men and women can change their genders with enough determined willpower, is another. People will fight to hold these opposing ideas simultaneously. In order to do so, of course, requires constant reinforcement by immersion among groups who are also determined to believe two incongruous ideas. They have to redefine a lot of words to support their beliefs.
They ought to be made to answer some obvious questions as, for example, when the somewhat confused mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, was asked if there should be any limits on abortion, and his answer was “No, no limits. It is a woman’s right.” Any reporter with enough courage to ask a public figure a question without prior clearance, should have then asked, “Are there any limits on what procedures may be used to stop the heart of a baby who survives the abortion process?”
As an alternative, should no one with that much courage be within earshot, would be, “Mr. Mayor… if the baby survives the abortion, is it a citizen of the United States?” Surely there would be an answer to one of those queries. At least one of the “abortion activists” shouting slogans in recent days opined that a mother could decide up to the age of two years, or even later, whether the living, growing fetus actually had a right to live and grow any longer. When pressed, it all came down, FOR HER, to “… it’s the mother’s right.” That outlook seems imprudent, at least, and blatantly murderous. How did a female of the species arrive at such a belief?
Prudence indicates that truth will overcome evil, whether EVIL agrees with it or not. The subgroup that likes rubbing shoulders with evil or Satanism, itself, will be come smaller as those farther out from the pit are able to be revulsed by what they’ve been instructed to ignore. At the same time, those who never bought the pro-death lies will gain the courage to resist, if not fight, the proponents of eliminating children. In fact, here are a couple of protester signs that might help: Babies are a pain in the vagina: Get rid of them! Or, if that point is misunderstood, All unwanted children should be killed! Convenience über alles, God forbid.