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America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis.
Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.
Consequences.
We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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@tech_relevant@MichaelHyatt I am still Apple person (phone, MacBook, iPad, watch) and the ecosystem is still the best. I have just started to see cracks. AI (up to this point), Carplay, and the overall feel (although we do finally have some customization options) have left a lot to be desired.
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I tend to think that this precedent makes conversion and following the Lord in baptism as very separate events when Scripture tends to place them much closer together. Baptism is the first command that new believers should follow. Peter declares “ Repent and and Be Baptized” in Acts and not to attend a class first. The Eunuch, Cornelius and his family, Philip preaching to the Samaritans, Lydia and her household, and the Philippian jailer all follow this norm.
@SHistorians Government should actually work on reducing their expenditures and prove they actually can spend money efficiently before trying to extort more.
@TulsiGabbard Praying for your husband and his healing. Praying you have the peace of the Lord as you walk through it all. Thank you for your dedication to our country. May the Lord bless you and your husband.
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