Puffs

 

October 7, 2021



Puffs

The more things change . . . the more they stay the same.

I wasn’t sure how to begin this week as I just came across a couple of items from different sources I would like to tie together that might just help explain some activities of our current political world.

First off, from Pope Francis himself: “Division and exclusion come from Satan.” His actual quote was: “Because the devil, who is the divider – this is what the word ‘devil’ means – always insinuates suspicions to divide and exclude.”

Keep that in mind as I’m going back in history about 73 years, to the presidential election of 1948. This was just after WWII and U. S. fear of the USSR and communism was at an all-time high.

Harry S. Truman was president and running for his second term at the time and he came up with the following to make clear his doctrine:

“Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself and therefore requires the rule of strong masters.”

Doesn’t that sound a lot like a division . . . the ‘strong masters’ and then the rest of us ‘weak and inadequate’ people?

Wait . . . what did the Pope just say about division?

In today’s political world who are the people trying to set up our society with laws so that the weak and inadequate people are taken care of.

If you said “the Liberals are trying to do this,” you would be correct.

The Liberals contend that a socialism type of economy is the only thing that will aid the poor and weak people from the rich and powerful.

The Liberals contend that a mere inconvenient time of pregnancy is reason enough to kill off unborn babies to protect the weak and inadequate women afraid of what lies ahead with a new-born baby in their lives. The weak and inadequate baby’s life is not as important as the woman’s.

The Liberals contend there are really more than two genders of human beings in this world. Yes, there are male and female genders, but us that know better also believe there are others as well.

The Liberals (strong masters that they are) know enough to severely limit people coming into the United States from every direction except the south. They have eliminated our southern border and have allowed millions of people to walk into the U. S. without any type of covid-19 test or vaccine.

The rest of us ‘weak and inadequate’ people are on the bottom half of the dividing line and must just accept whatever is decided for us.

President Truman also promoted the following description of a Democracy:

“Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and fairness. Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of those abilities.”

Now, not that it makes any difference, I don’t agree with everything President Truman wanted, however, his basic tenant for government as noted above is something I could follow. And, it seems not to be the path today’s Democrats are following.

Communism, socialism and today’s Democratic Party . . . they are all different, but sort of all the same, it could be argued.

Yes, there are times “division” is a necessary path of action. But, we have to remember what Pope Francis said about division.

President Truman did work for a number of items that caused ‘division’ but they were always decided upon only after they were run through the filter of what was “right” or “wrong.”

We certainly don’t need the strong masters from Washington telling us how to live our lives. We need them to operate a fair and honest government and protect our country. We don’t need them to tell us there are really more than two genders of humans, or that it is “right” to kill unborn babies in the womb, or that we really don’t need a southern border, or . . . etc.

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