I find it interesting that as President Trump celebrates his First 100 days, his detractors in the media and those progressive politicians on the left have nothing of substance to offer in the political debate. As President Trump takes actions, secures the boarder, strengthens our military, engages magistrates and mayors who fail to obey the law, tries to level the playing field regarding trade with foreign countries so that American manufacturing and workers can compete on a level playing field, all the left has to offer is—HATE.
They offer no solutions. They have no new ideas, as the progressive socialist ideas that have been foisted on the American people since the end of Viet Nam have proven to not benefit anyone except the politicians and the media themselves. Socialist-totalitarian political and economic systems always fail within two generations. They always end in misery for the people, as the politicians and the top 1% run away from their countries and park their riches in Switzerland or London
Their problems today stem from the simple fact that progressives have no moral predicates upon which to base their political philosophy. Humanistic thought requires that each problem be addressed from a moralistic void of pure empiricism utilizing a mumbo jumbo of situational ethics many times based on pure emotionalism. That is why so many progressive legal scholars and judges rely so little on legal precedent and established law.
They can make up their own law de jour that has no precedent and that can change with the whim of a judge or the majority. Property rights and contracts have no bases in history, only what a judge says today to be true. Societies, families and businesses cannot thrive in such an environment. When government becomes not only the repository for secular rules, but when the rules have no Biblical or Natural Law moral predicates, the law today can be very different than the law tomorrow. Judge Scalia has written volumes in the lay literature on the subject.
In our society today we have forgotten the difference between principles and policy. The mission of a parent, a teacher, business leader, or a politician is to preserve and pass on the moral principles that define our Providential dependence and existence. Leaders in all walks of life should be confident and able to identify and defend the fundamental principles that underpin our faith. From families to the halls of government there are both Providential and prudential issues that need to be attended to. Most of the prudential issues, up until the turn of this century have been able to be resolved for the most part by common sense.
Today because of the lack of Natural Right and Biblical underpinnings even simple issues like “what is a man or a woman” or is the unborn child one of those “least amongst us”, are being adjudicated without the moral underpinnings that have historically informed and defined what it is to be a person, what it is to inherit the blessings earned by those who came before us, and most of all what it is to be an American Christian of any denomination.
A Christian leader in any walk of life serves all the people—those of faith, and those who embrace humanistic theories that always lead to totalitarianism. Our leaders today need to continue to lay out the schema of principles rooted in Western Natural and Biblical Law. Those issues of a Providential nature can be only defined by those moral predicates that for over 4000 years have informed our Western Civilization’s march from Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Magna Carta and our own Great Declaration. When people of faith use their own faith to try to influence prudential arguments, they only lose their own credibility. Building a road—unless it involves the moral legal predicate of eminent domain, seldom requires prayerful contemplation . The value of convenience for the mother of an unborn child verses the value of the child’s life itself, is only best informed by prayer and consulting first principles grounded in our moral law.
When I look at the evolution of Donald Trump I think of King David and King Cyrus. Both lived amoral lives when they were young. We can never know what is in the heart of a person, we never even know how they connect with their loved ones or most importantly how they connect with their Creator. I have come to believe by his actions two things:
- I believe the DJT’s faith journey though not complete is grounded in repentance and gratitude. Most importantly I believe that he appropriately loves his country only almost as much as he loves God. That is just my opinion.
- I finally believe as was stated earlier, that the progressive movement has lost its way precisely because its policies—if they ever offer any up, are never grounded in those traditional Western ideas.
