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The Only Thing We Have to Fear is...

There is so much hope if we have the eyes, heart, and mind to see it.

> “The NRA and Domestic Abuse”

“States struggle to replace Planned Parenthood as Trump rules loom”

“LGBTQ Millennials: American Dream is Harder”

“1 in 5 Women will be Sexually Assaulted on College Campuses in America”

“Police Brutality on the Rise in Minority Communities”

“(Insert illness here) epidemics continue to climb as cities crack down on vaccine mandates”

“The World is Going to End in 12 Years and People Need to Stop Having Kids”

“(Famous Celebrity) Condemned for Hoax Hate Crime, Calls His Haters Racists”

The list of headlines grows daily over issues of race, gun violence, hate speech, sexual abuse, LGBTQ rights, and women’s rights. What is the common theme in all these headlines we’re inundated with on a daily basis?

Fear. A twisting and warping of the definition of “crisis.”

Journalistic integrity has tanked, and it is nearly impossible to find a journalist who is both intellectually honest and keeps his/her bias to themselves.

The news is no longer a place to state the facts, give the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of the story without prejudice or personal opinion.

What was once relegated to the opinion columns, letters to the editor, and Dear Abby sections of the newspaper is now splashed across our headlines as absolute truth with a capital T.

It’s no wonder the common citizens in America no longer know which end is up and have cornered themselves into their own echo chambers to digest and regurgitate what their favorite celebrities, news media stations, or political comedians have to say.

After all, it’s easier to listen to the “experts” than it is to wade through the cesspool to discover truth for oneself. It’s easier to hear the Constitution summarized by freshmen legislators, rather than reading the Constitution for ourselves.

It’s no wonder the American people seem to be in a constant state of panic. It’s also the perfect and dangerous breeding ground for a different sort of chaos.

Enter mob rule and the destruction of the reasoned, ordered standards of a constitutional republic. We’ve seen it happen in other governments throughout history.

France sent their aristocratic class to satisfy the bloodlust of Madame Guillotine.

Hitler worked the mob into a frenzy of political fervor until millions died and even the churches remained silent.

The Red Scare had most US citizens putting up not one protest as the fourth amendment was thrown out the door in favor of “rooting out” the alleged communists in society.

On even the faint whiff of liberal tendencies, homes were looted, private mail searched, offices and telephones tapped. For 10 years American citizens lived in fear of losing their liberties, because the mob bosses (aka the government) decided the Constitution was irrelevant in the face of conspiracy theories and paranoia.

Throughout history, mob rule has wreaked havoc on the rights and liberties of free peoples, and the free peoples have fought back. And yet, time and again, the mob keeps coming back to instill fear and mistrust and division.

The mob is at it again, tearing into our liberties and attacking our personal rights. And the media and the government are cool with it, even openly promoting it at times. It's past time we start fighting back.

Abraham Lincoln prophetically said,

> “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

And he was right. But he was not the first to say these words. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus issued this dire warning,

> “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.”

There is so much hope if we have the eyes, heart, and mind to see it. Alexander Hamilton stated in the very first Federalist Paper that,

> It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.

This is not the first crossroads we’ve come to in the United States of America, nor is it the first mob we’ve faced as a country. The American Revolution itself was in danger of falling to mob rule as Alexander Hamilton warned his fellow countrymen against.

But America was founded on the crazy idea that perhaps the government could protect and defend our liberties with the use of reason, logic, and high adherence to the Judeo-Christian values the Founders believed would preserve them.

America was built on a Constitution formed by the principles of reason and reflection. The Founders believed in a coherent marriage of Enlightenment and Judeo-Christian values. Those values still hold true today, even if all the world seems to run mad with power and mob fury. Even if our nation’s leaders encourage the mob.

So what it is going to be? Are we to be a people ruled by the chaos and violence of the mobs, while the government continues to chip away at our freedoms?

Or will we unite together under the banners of Reason and Reflection, choosing to engage in constructive dialogue and rational solutions that will not only return the power to govern to the American people but will preserve and protect their God-given rights?

If the second choice, I’ve got a really good Article for you to read.

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