Liberals, or "progressives," as they like to call themselves these days, have a secret for gaining power.
They make promises about all the things they're going to do for you – with your money, of course.
You would think, after 50 years of this scam, Americans might be on to it by now.
Maybe even more surprisingly effective than the so-called progressives' strategy for political domination is how often they are taken seriously when they offer political advice to their opposition.
A great example of this is a recent piece in Salon, the unabashedly left-wing e-zine, in which the author pleads with Republicans to dump its appeal to Christians.
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Understand, this has nothing to do with Salon's own disdain for Jesus and its embrace of sin. Oh no, Salon is genuinely concerned with the future of the Republican Party. It's advice from the heart: "Get with the times or shrink to obscurity."
Right.
Like Salon wouldn't love for all political opposition to shrink to obscurity in what it dubs "post-Christian America."
Right.
Instead, Salon suggests, Republicans should be catering to those who identify as "unaffiliated" with any religious tradition – a whopping 23 percent of Americans.
Never mind that's just who the Democrats are now going after. If both parties target 23 percent, that leaves no party appealing to the other 77 percent.
But have no fear, says Salon: "The trend away from faith is only bound to increase with time. According to Pew, about 36 percent of adults under the age of 50 have opted out of religion. At present, claiming no faith is the fastest growing 'religion' in the United States. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of people claiming 'nothing in particular' increased by 2.3 percent, those saying they were agnostics increased by 1.2 percent, and those claiming to be atheists increased by 0.8 percent. No actual religious group has experienced anywhere near such growth during this time period."
While it's refreshing for a secularist to recognize that "no belief" is every bit as much of a religion as Catholic, Protestant, Jew or Muslim, the numbers just aren't there yet.
But here's the $64,000 question not raised by Salon: How do you appeal to people who don't believe in moral absolutes? How do you appeal to people who don't believe there is a Creator God who defines right and wrong? How do you appeal to people who don't believe in sin? How do you appeal to people who believe right and wrong is just a matter of opinion?
The real question is not the future of the Republican Party here. The real question, assuming the trend of spiritual ambiguity in America is real, is: Will the nation be able to remain a self-governing society?
How does a nation without moral absolutes do that?
If everyone does what is right in his or her own eyes, the result is moral chaos.
The only thing that can fill that void is stronger and more powerful government. And that is a frightening thought.
But it's nice to know that so-called "progressives" have such concern for the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, isn't it?
Yeah, right.
I see this all the time.
It's what passes for journalism today.
Here's a writer for a media company that doesn't believe in God, doesn't believe in moral absolutes, doesn't believe in sin, but we're supposed to believe it cares about the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
Why would that be?
Because they can't wait to achieve their utopian society in which there is no right or wrong any longer, no boundaries, no opposition, no more institutions throwing guilt at them for their own sin.
All I can say is beware of such people when they come to offer their help and advice.
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