Politics of Accommodation I - (the Anti-Christ)

L&G-

I just wanted to write a quick note on something that has been simmering in my mind for quite some time. I hear a lot of talk in general from political leaders on the right (such as pastors and bureaucrats) that there is an agenda in America that seeks to defy Christianity and that the worldview of people from this agenda is of moral relativism - i.e., anything can be considered 'truth' as long as [a majority of] people believe it. And this affronts God's absolute sovereignty. It is true that there is an agenda that seeks to undermine God and our biblical/literate tradition in the civilized world, but it is not necessarily one group of people seeking to 'relativize' the truth, as it were. There is no single culprit (e.g., homosexuals) seeking to destroy the foundations for God's perfect order and there is no single culprit seeking to wash away the sanctuary created for God on earth (i.e., the American dream).

America was borne, largely of Protestants seeking freedom from religious persecution - e.g., being jailed for insurrection in England, being crucified as well as burnt on stakes in Spain for heresy - in Europe where freedom of speech and the right to gather peacefully as well as freedom of the press were curtailed. This nation is great not due to compromising its values and its ethics but from staying true to its traditions and it has been blessed, through faith, in obedience to God. We are ascendant and set apart to glorify the name of Christ; we are as a city upon a hill for all to see - a holy example bright and shining for the world to acknowledge the works of his hands. I told you these emails were going to start getting steeped in Christianity - it is the only way for us to solve our problems. We are being encroached upon by the dreaded hand of private violence and the even more to be dreaded hand of legal oppression, not due to the worldviews of homosexuals or any specific target demographic, but due to our politics of accommodation. There is a saying that, "If you give Satan an inch, he'll be a ruler!" There is no specific demographic that threatens our nation's prosperity; rather it is accommodative politics which encroaches upon our liberties.

Let me explain something: civil society is based upon the rule of law and we, as citizens, are each engaged in a social contract of mutual shared sacrifice. We are limited in what we can do to one another by the law - that is what 'liberty' is. If you are running on a mountain pass and you see a hungry predator that wants to hunt you, it's not likely that screaming, "Stop - in the name of the law; I am protected by my human rights liberties!" is going to have any affect on that animals' behaviour. If it wants to eat you and if you are less than capable of defending yourself from an attack (and no act of providence protects you), then you will surely be eaten. In the case of civil society, however, people honor the power of the written word and objective standards govern our social mechanics (e.g., people stop at red lights in traffic; abate their respective inclinations toward murder, theft, etc.). When people invoke the sweet name of 'liberty', consider the cost and God's economy where there is no free lunch. People use [human] 'rights' struggles propaganda to take advantage of each other.

If one specific demographic group is to have [special] 'liberties', then another [specific] demographic group (or the remainder thereof) will have to pay for those liberties. When someone 'takes their liberties' with another person, that is a form of rape, murder, theft - it is really just one person taking advantage of another. Earlier I said that there is no specific demographic group that seeks to undermine God's biblical tradition, necessarily. And furthermore, it is not simply a will of one specific group that asserts a [morally relative] worldview, therefore, the moral/political leaders of America need to focus more broadly, in my opinion, on issues of accommodation rather than targeting specific groups as culprits in America's [ever-increasing] moral failings and ineptitude to defend itself from [foreign/domestic invasion], bankruptcy ( e.g. top-heavy entitlements such as pensions for being an American citizen analogous to the Airlines, all of whom are directly or indirectly subsidized by American citizens' tax dollars via Federal assistance and most of whom are nevertheless going bankrupt) and the like. Essentially, the issues we face are corporative - once people have citizenship (given they've reached the adult age of eighteen and are not convicted felons), they can vote and these enfranchised peoples have power to influence the direction of this society, as well as the way it functions.

Accomodative politics usurps American liberties because it takes away from those who are, as I've previously stated, hard-working and law-abiding - i.e., common people who love God and who love America and who love their families. Bureaucrats, merchant-elites, Hollywood media-elites, Manhattanite International Relations elites and the like, all gain power from having widespread influence. The bureaucrats pander to the widest constituencies possible in order to get the most votes. Merchants advertise in the most provocative manner and in the form that segregates populations into 'target demographics' to create the deepest possible penetration (for market share, brand loyalty, etc.). Hollywood media elites want the broadest appeal for sales, etc. And finally, the International Relations elites want power by association with world leaders for influence, etc. so their agenda is, as the aforementioned, accommodative.

Now the phenomenon of accommodation goes like this: once you give specific groups of people special status and accommodate them accordingly, you are importing trouble. People, unless they are a homogenous collective, bring with them various worldviews, perspectives, belief systems, et cetera, according to the normative traditions attending their respective nationalities*. Diverse perspectives and diverse intellectual thought can add to the creative genius of society and be very productive, if harnessed properly – i.e., if used toward moral ends. It's just as the proverbial encounter states: "Will [one] use power for good or for evil?" However, unrestrained 'diversity' is deviant and counterproductive because it subverts the common order and perverts the collective good (which can take many forms – e.g., economy, politics, military/police protection, culture, etc.).

Once you accommodate people by giving them special liberties, it takes [liberties] away from those who aren't special. And when people are given free reign to exercise liberties, they bring their culture and their traditions and their natural inclinations with them. So, essentially what occurs is we have many different nations in the United States of America that all have special privileges to, basically, act and believe in whatever manner they see fit. The universal rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' outlined in our frame of government include specific statutes declaring the ability [of every person] to speak out, gather peacefully, write and even criticize the government, among other things. These rights are good, but when combined with 'special privileges' for special demographic groups, we have an adverse affect which disallows those without special privileges to practice those same rights and enjoy those same liberties to the same extent (special status creates a supra-class and a sub-class partition with a concomitant order based on those status differences). In economic terms, the now underprivileged get 'crowded out', as it were. And with a loss of privileges comes a loss of moral and political status in society. When you gradually disenfranchise a specific class, you are, in effect, negating the traditions and the order of that specific class.

Back to the point I was making about accommodation: In the main, what we have here is an accommodation of specific people groups and their traditions at the expense of America's host society's liberties and, thereby, America's host society's traditions. So America is slipping into moral decrepitude due to the overindulgence of demographics that pull us away from God, the Bible, et cetera. By accommodating the will of pagans, as it were, we are allowing for the slippage, for lack of a better word, of our own morals, or own ethics, our own traditions, our own order, our own strength – which is God's will, God's traditions, Gods' order, God's ethics, God's morals and God's strength. To the extent we allow non-Christians to lead us astray, God will continue to let America fall into the pits of despair and hopelessness. However, upon a quickening and revival (i.e., enlightenment in the truth of our situation and responsibility to correct it), we can be surely turned around and set on solid ground.

*I say nationality specifically for the purpose of this argument which seeks to set [multiculturalism] in context of the multi-ethnic, multi-traditional realm in which we deal in our day-to-day realities in the civilized world.