JCoug,
You hit the mark on everything. The only thing I object to is referring to the far left, and then only mildly, and only because the terms right and left when referring to governing philosophy are a deception because conservatives are often referred to as being on the far right and that is not the case when people on the so called left refer to outspoken conservatives as being on the far right. I use the terms loosely myself because it seems everybody understands them, but it puts many conservatives in the same category as Nazis, Fascists, the KKK etc. The right/left dichotomy is a ridiculous dichotomy when applied to movements like the Tea Party lumping them in with Fascist type movements. In the current left/right.dichotomy Communists are viewed as being on the far left and Nazis etc on the far right. An accurate spectrum puts representative Republics exactly in the middle and there is really no right and left as the terms are commonly used. Republics are in the middle, oligarchies are just to the left, and totalitarian governments to the left of oligarchies, or maybe to the right, it makes no difference. Totalitarians include Communists, Nazis, Fascists, and absolute monarchies. The stated philosophies of the various totalitarians may be different but the results are the same; a loss of individual rights, private property rights, freedom of speech, and religion. Although absolute monarchies are often toppled by other types of totalitarians the totalitarians still maintain absolute control of the masses and the results for the populace are no better than monarchies.
Absolute democracies are to the right (or left) of Republics (that have democratic principles) and were never intended by the founders. Majority rule is the next step to mob rule, which is anarchy, and is on the far right (or left) of the spectrum. Anarchy leads to totalitarianism and that is exactly how totalitarians gain power by fomenting anarchy. Absolute governing power with all power to the state is on the opposite end of the spectrum from anarchy. Anarchy leads to absolute control. You can reverse the left/right spectrum and it doesn’t matter. Republics are still in the middle of the spectrum and so called extreme conservatives who want to preserve the Constitutional Republic, established by the founders, are not extremists. They are only extremists in the sense they want to preserve the culture, traditions, and the form of government established by the founders and they are labeled extremists when they are marginalized by the majority. They want to stop the move away from constitutional principles, individual freedoms, and traditional culture.
Listen to a Democrat talk about our form of government sometime and they always refer to our system as a democracy and rarely mention that we are A Republic. WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY!! They really don’t even want a democracy. They want a pure oligarchy at best (which is closer to what we are now than a Republic). Of course totalitarian dictators are often the child of an oligarchy. The statists want power consolidated in the hands of an elite ruling class (an elite ruling class runs an oligarchy) governed by their godless religion which is their progressive political philosophy. They view themselves as the chosen oracles who know what is best for the masses and a lot of these fools really believe that they are enlightened. They want a Green New Deal, a “woke” (what a stupid foolish word) populace, economic equality for all guaranteed by the state, and a populace programmed to think the way they do with no tolerance for individual thought. They talk about defunding the police but that idea will eventually lead to is a police state which is what a lot of them probably want for those of us who are not politically correct enough to meekly stand aside and bow to their nonsense. The dupes who buy into this miss the rich irony somehow. Lenin was alleged tho have said that the masses were useful idiots. It seems nobody has ever been able to find a source tracing the comment to Lenin but it describes pathetic, uninformed, social justice warriors who really do sincerely want equality based on their altruism but they don’t understand the evil behind movements like BLM. The idea of BLM seems innocent, and even virtuous to some, but those behind it have an evil agenda. The real influence behind these movements is to topple our Republic and culture. Those movements are pure evil and Satan is at the foundation of them. If you put God out of your life something has to fill the void because nearly everybody needs some purpose for their existence.
As you stated Jesus Christ is the answer. There would be no need to speak of inequality, racism, sexism, and so forth if the clear majority was grounded in the gospel.
This is really long and I have a lot more I would like to say but I will save it for another time.
EDITED 7/20/2020 FOR CLARIFICATION
