Since outrage is the new American pastime, I thought I’d get into the act and list a few personal “outrages.”
1-Abortion on demand, and the “women’s health” offered by Planned Parenthood.
2-Suppression of free speech and the First Amendment…in the name of tolerance?
3-Senseless rioting destroying neighborhoods as political “leaders” go AWOL.
4-Vandalization of America’s founding, ideals, names and places in an ahistorical cancel culture purge.
5-Surrender of public universities as bastions of free inquiry to political correctness totalitarianism and “safe zones,” whatever that is.
6-Adoption in public schools of the bogus “The 1619 Project” as a substitution for real, accurate, and actual American history.
7-Feckless kowtowing of politicians to the new religion of the Left (not classical Liberalism) that brooks no disagreement, demands absolute fidelity to its woke doctrines, offers no forgiveness or grace only shaming for those who question, postures eternal victimhood, and presents itself as the savior of America.
8-American professional sports turning into a politicized circus.
9-Cultural appropriation, an undefined concept, used as a bludgeon to not just create guilt or yield change but to destroy careers and ruin lives for transgressions of the new holy list of wokeness.
10-Big Social Media – FB/Instagram, Twitter, Google/YouTube – blithe censorship of content, including religious presentations, they find somehow dangerous to the accepted (i.e., their) narrative.
Meanwhile, genuine discussion about how to extend liberty and justice for all goes wanting.
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