It’s not about red versus blue, but what do we value? What do we honor? What’s best for our families, for our descendants, for our friends and neighbors, for the freedom our forefathers did their best to create and preserve. For all those who gave their lives in battle fighting for freedom.
Politics has become one’s identity. A polarization of ideas and ideals creating a cultural war. To preserve the freedom we cherish and deserve, we must stop the hate, the evil, the promotion of the lawlessness, the corruption, the oppressive, unrighteous teaching of our children.
“Truth is only available to those who have the courage to question what they have been taught” or told to believe. What about moral law, seeking the truth, being open to being wrong, or faulty in opinion?
It’s become a battle between right and wrong, truth and lies, justice and injustice. Our world is falling apart, and we are allowing it to happen. Thoughts and opinions do not justify truth, we have to know for sure.
Courage is seeking the truth and standing up for it.
Ellie Ripley
Arroyo Grande
This article appears in Oct 13-23, 2022.
Unfortunately, “the truth” is often not obvious, and the “standing up” for the truth as perceived is often the source of the bitter polarizing conflict. And, on occasion, the conflicting sides may each possess an element of truth, and the conflict is over which truth is more important and should prevail. The debate over the homeless is an example. To liberals, the necessity of offering care and support to these wretched and pitiful people to alleviate their suffering, is their “truth”, while to conservatives the need to protect the larger public and to reclaim public spaces like parks, is their “truth”. Both concerns are “true”. Voters are required to weigh each “truth”, and to decide which is more important to them.