Even though I’m fully an adult as a post 50 year old, I’m still evolving as as a person, as are my political beliefs. I would define myself politically as a democratic socialist liberal who believe in traditional Christian values. My being Christian as well as an activist defines my morality and they both play a big part my political beliefs and activism. I’m also a socialist and non partisan supporters of issues on both sides of the political fence. I still call and consider myself a leftist, but these days also belong to the wide middle, a new political location that encompasses issue on both sides, stopping only at far side issues and beliefs. I am secure in my political beliefs and that has allowed me to hold them despite often vile and hateful attacks by members of both the far right and left.
As I basically and literally have the beliefs, values and politics that made the western world great, first and superior in many practical ways, and the First World, I understandably have problems trying to understand those today who revile me because of them.
Life is about evolving to perfect, as Jesus said, to bring heaven to earth which is God’s promise. You need to be, as he taught us, as humble as a child and as fully mighty and perfect as God to do so, so it all just makes sense to be good, strive for perfection and obey Christian God given values, which are the same for all religion and spirituality as well.
The God or good and smart based value system was, is and remains the only path forward, and the only path that can promise and provides peace, pleasantness and pleasure, prosperity, justice and progress.
Both far sides fight against what they call unfair limitations. They don’t understand limitations allow freedom, they don’t take it away. Limitations are needed. A parent will let their child stay out to midnight but not three o’clock in the morning, and that’s just wise and it’s fair. The west has always had limitations and also been very liberal in our allowances. Today many, including myself believe we have gone and are going too far. We should reimpose sane and sound limits as they don’t infringing on anyone’s freedom and rights as good, law abiding members of society and protect us all from harm, and harmful excess. A limitless society awards only the far, low and criminal, can only lead to decline and we are definitely seeing that occur. Activists who support far and low attitudes and actions with their demands for no limitations, wonder why things don’t get better or better fast enough. The truth is this is because limitless freedom doesn’t empower a just, good and free society and progress, its delays, perverts, exploits and obstructs it.
Limits are good and necessary, as they enable freedom, the goodness, quality and greatness of life, and protect us against evil and our foes. There is nothing wrong and boring with what limits empowers: virtue, niceness, wholesomeness, common sense, progress, maturity and truth. As these all seem these days to infringe on some people’s and group’s freedom they are quickly declining values in our world. We must say no to this decline, the reviling and banning of the good, nice and normal, civility and real culture, and welcome back a brand of politics, a status quo that reflects our greatness, goodness, spirit and humanity. That is not happening and unless we care and have the courage to speak up, it never will.