Why can’t we see people as just folks???
Throughout the world people are defining folks with adjectives as folks identity. Racist, sexist, ANTIFA, orange face, fascist, and the list goes on. Too many people are using these adjectives to judge folks motive, and pigeon hole them into a group!!!
First and foremost, I’m a human being, and to extend this idea, every man women and child in the world are human beings. We are created in the image of God, that is we have a soul and spirit that animates us. Anything we do and believe in life is just that something we do and believe. Some of these things that we do or believe identifies choices we make in live and makes up what people see.
The problem is when folks start trying to tell folks who we are. They don’t know us personally and are just trying to get an advantage over us, by pigeon holing us into a group they think we identify with. This ideology has led to all sorts of problems in the world. By not seeing folks as just folks, and letting them identify themselves, people can justify all sorts of evils on each other!!!
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Is violence the answer for change?
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. “
Very powerful words from our Declaration of Independence. Sometimes that does call for a violent revolution, but it should never be taken lightly. “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; “
Today in America and else where in the world folks are fighting for their individual freedom and liberties, and they have a right to do so. But there are those who are committing violence not to enhance folks freedoms and liberties, but to restrict them and put themselves in the place of authority!!!
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Why do Americans want to federalize everything!!!
There has been a growing trend for the past 100 years or so the federalize everything in the country. From schools, banks, food, drugs, the environment, transportation, elections and the list goes on and on. Regressive socialist in America have been trying to have the federal government control as much as possible leaving no control for the states or we the People!!!
What ever happened to Federalism? What ever happened to the states protecting for themselves a republican form of government? Why are we letting thuggish groups in America dictate to us how we should act and think!!!
The founding fathers realized that people always come before governments. The people set up communities, which in turn organized states. In America it wasn’t until the states had won our independence from England that they even turned to the debate of a central government!!!
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To change America, we have to change the individual!!!
As we look around the globe, we see all sorts of groups who are trying to change the world through mass movements. These movements try to sway public opinion through any means at their disposal. Groups like ANTIFA, BLM, the Muslim Brotherhood, and George Soros’s Open Society are try to change societies and cultures on a massive scale, by any means necessary!!!
I think back on the carpenter from Galilee, and read how he wanted his message spread. There isn’t a grandiose plan to convert governments to his message. Jesus never spoke about converting the masses in huge cathedral style buildings. Jesus talked about how we are to change folks minds and hearts in the Great Commission (Matthew 28: 19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.) In order to truly change someone, we need to sit down with folks one on one and reason things out. Only then, through individuals can we change a nation!!!
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In matters of opinion
In matters of opinion who should prevail, individuals or the state? Does or can the state know more about an individual’s life then the individual themselves? When it comes to family matters who’s opinion should carry more weight, the individual or the state?
Opinions should always be part of a larger discussion when decisions or policy involve more than one person. In order for opinions to be taken seriously, they must be bolstered with facts. My opinion about what color to paint a wall is very subjective. My opinion on more weightier matters, needs to be objective and bolstered by facts, truth and information.
When individuals make choices in their lives, they can use whatever information they want, knowing that their choices are their own. When a society or country makes choices those choices affect almost every one. The affects can be positive or negative, but those choices need to be based on facts and truth, not on any false premise including unbolstered opinions!!!
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Happy Independence Day!!!
I think we should stop celebrating the 4th of July, and get back to celebrating Independence Day!!! You say that I’m splitting hairs, but let me explain what I mean.
When we use just a date and say we are celebrating that date, we miss the significance of the date. It becomes routine to and just another holiday weekend. Our independence from tyranny is so important to America. It started America on a long road to all kinds of liberty and freedom!!!
Today we see that our independence is being threatened, not just by political forces but by apathy!!! Anti-freedom social democrats are eating away at our freedoms and liberties everyday with legislation to control their idea of Democracy. Apathy is allowing the anti-freedom forces in America to rewrite our history so Americans don’t know what was sacrificed to allow us to exercise or freedoms and liberties!!!
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Why do we fuss and fight?
Why do we fuss and fight? Why do we make mountains out of mole hills? Why do we want to die on every ideological hills that we fight? Why do we take offense at every little slight that comes our way? Why are we seldom able to be corrected?
Far to many things in our lives are a facade, and not real. Far too many times in our lives we never show the real us, and so we put on airs, or an act. Far too many times we have been living a lie for so long it becomes who we are, and if there is a chance of our lies being found out, we lash out to prevent it.
Politics and ideologies can be like this. We start out with good intentions that the greater good is at stack, so we accept a lie and live with it. After a while that lie becomes truth to us, it becomes who we are and how we conduct our lives. The problem is when the lie is exposed, it tears at our very being and we will fight, sometimes to the death to prevent the lie from falling apart. If we are not willing to change for the truth and facts that may come our way to challenge the status quo of our lives, then we will die along with the lies we hold so dear!!!
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Free-4-All-Friday!!! Argybargy!!!
Argybargy, is a lively discussion, argument, dispute. This is what we are all about at The Dan Clements Show!!! As always I look at life through a Christian perspective, and base my commentary on that perspective. No political correctness here, just the facts and truth as they are, not as I see them of want them to be.
Most of the topics I discuss on the show are not popular with mainstream opinion, or the regressive left in America. I will not shy away from difficult topics or criticism. If you have a different point of view than mine, I welcome a frank and honest discussion based on the merits of your argument, not your feelings.
I’m not always right and I do stand to be corrected when I’m wrong. Life is a growing process and we must never stop growing. We must never live our lives in an echo chamber, doing that will make us deaf, dumb and blind to the truth and facts we seek.
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The fake news just keeps rolling!!!
Whenever you tell a lie, sooner or later you will be found out. Whenever you share a lie, you become part of the lie and it cast you in a negative light. When you or a group use lies to attack someone and try to bring them down a notch, you destroy your credibility and reputation.
In order to be a credible news service, you would think that getting stories right, and factual would be paramount for your continued existence. Also claiming to be protected under the 1st amendment, should give folks in the news extra incentive to get stories right and factual.
There is a reason why the lamestream media is loosing to the new mainstreet media, credibility!!! The new mainstreet seems to take great care to get stories right and factual because they know if they don’t they will become the new lamestream media.
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Does the Constitution, freedom and liberty matter today?
Time and time again I have folks tell me they want what they want from the government regardless if the government has the authority to give it too them. Folks have a wrong definition on what rights are and how they work. I hear most folks tell me that if they want it then it’s there right to have it.
The SCOTUS is doing a good job going through their cases and making rulings mostly in accordance with the US Constitution. But as Americans we can’t get lulled into a false sense of security that SCOTUS will all do the right thing and make correct rulings. We the People have the final say in what is or is not constitutional!!!
We need to go back to the basics of the Declaration of Independence and all the other founding documents to understand what this Republic is all about. We need to see what rights are according to the founders. And in my opinion the most important thing to see is how the founders viewed governance in view of Christian morality!!!
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