Much for which to be thankful!

This has been a difficult year in America and for most of the world. In spite of all the bitter rhetoric on both sides, the 2016 presidential campaign was not so much about a choice between two candidates but was substantially about the fundamental differences in the worldviews of the voters they represented. Some (including myself) believed that the presidential election would determine the trajectory of the nation for decades to come. Given the outcome of the election, it appears that those identifying with the Judeo-Christian worldview have been given another chance to make the necessary course corrections to save the nation from cultural disintegration.

For many, the election is not over as can be seen on college campuses throughout America, in Hollywood, academia, establishment media, and the remainder of the self-anointed intelligentsia of America who try to guide the political, artistic, and social development of society. Most of the jabbering classes are either largely clueless about or remarkably disdainful of the nation’s original values, principles, and the Judeo-Christian worldview upon which it was founded. Much of their secular-humanistic chatter is nothing more than a lot of noise wrapped in false egalitarian definitions of multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion. Their post-election sophistry has evolved into a mass tantrum orchestrated and paid for in part by their puppet masters including George Soros and Planned Parenthood. Instead of hot cocoa and grief counseling to mollify their loss of power in the White House and other government offices around the nation, they should be sent to time-out which would be the normal consequence for most three-year-olds that exhibited similar behaviors. The same should happen to the tiny fraction of society who celebrated the election by property destruction, racist rants, and hateful rhetoric because their actions are totally foreign to the substantive positions of the vast majority of those who voted against a humanistic and socialistic future for America.

In spite of all of this present foolishness, Americans have a multitude of reasons to be thankful for our heritage and blessings that surpass even the deep divisions and failings of American culture. If one doubts this, pick a spot on the globe that would be a better place to live than America…New Zealand perhaps?

During the special seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas, I suggest that both sides of the culture wars take a break, chill out, unplug from the 24-7 news cycle, and reflect on what once made America great and what can do so again. I will be the first to set the example. There will be no more articles published on culturewarrior.net until January 2017. Come January 1, 2017, the engines of what passes for civil discourse can be fired up again. And if they behave during our self-imposed hiatus, perhaps we can release the mindless protesters and malicious celebrants from time-out.

Larry G. Johnson