THE 2012 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RACE: WHY POLITICAL AGENDAS ARE DIVIDED BY AGE

The 2012 Presidential election is just a few weeks away.  People in both political camps are biting their nails – but for different reasons.  Biased media polls tout that Obama is ahead in virtually every key state.  A poll taken recently in Ohio had Obama leading Romney by double digits, however, after delving into the background of that particular poll it was revealed that only 162 people were polled in the entire state.  162 people are supposed to represent the majority of Ohio’s entire political view - a state that has been hit especially hard by the Obama’s administrative line on industry, particularly the coal industry.  Since Obama took office some 100 coal fired powered plants have been closed - many of which were located in Ohio.  With those closures, thousands of Ohioans lost their jobs under Obama’s reign.  Do you really think they want 4 more years of his policies?

Independent polls in Ohio and throughout the country show a very different picture than what the mainstream media is trying to present.  In fact, in more than half of the independent polls, Romney is leading, sometimes by a substantial lead, over Obama - but enough of polls.  As my earlier blog stated, polls can be twisted into anything the pollster wants it to reflect so let’s just dismiss the polls and start reflecting on what real, everyday people are actually saying.

Let me return back to my earlier statement that “People in both political camps are biting their nails – but for different reasons.”  For quite some time now I have been focusing on this, listening to the people around me at work, on the trains, in the stores, in restaurants, on the streets, etc.  I have also talked with friends I have around the country to see what they have been hearing in places like Massachusetts, Utah, Georgia, Mississippi, Arizona and California.  For the most part the results I am finding are not surprising but there is one factor constantly rearing its head above all other factors such as race, sex or political party – and that is the growing divide between age groups.

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  The Young People (from grade-school through mid-late twenties).  This group of people has been brought up in an age of entitlement and they cling hard and fast to it.  This age group fully, totally, and completely believes that they are “owed” virtually everything in life, including free money, free education, free healthcare, free housing, free cellphones, freedom from employment, freedom from doing anything.  They also fully believe that anyone who actually works for what they have in life is the “bad” guy and that “bad” guy owes them.  This mindset has been drilled into their heads since entering the public school system where today’s thinking is that the parent should have little to nothing to do with their social and moral development but that the schools and government are solely to mold them.  It becomes increasingly indoctrinated in them in colleges and universities where, again, more time, energy and classes are spent on molding favoritism towards communistic views and values than on teaching actual trades for people to make a living.  They don’t need to make a living because they are “owed” everything, free, and the government will provide for them.  They are smashing individual thinking into a collective, mindless mentality of enslavement.

A capitalistic society is a society that believes in the everyday man and woman.  That everyone has the right to try and better their lives through hard work, self-sacrifice, failures, achievements and being able to stand back up and try again until you reach success.  Not every person will succeed at the same level but the feeling of pride earned in the act of working for what you have is felt equally by all.  It is what a person “builds” themselves - not what has been handed to them.

In a communistic/marxist society, no one works to better themselves because there is no conceivable way to better themselves.  They live in a “collective” mentality where everyone must have the same as the other guy and no one is to have anything more – that is except for the few elite at the top of the social scale.  These few live by a very different rule.

So, in my own personal research, I have time and time again heard the young people voice a negative opinion towards capitalism, believing it is an “unfair” system.  That everyone is “entitled” to get the same thing - that the rich guy is “bad” and owes them.  That the rich guy somehow by osmosis just magically, unfairly, got his wealth.  That he stepped on the less fortunate people to get that wealth.  They ignore his or her hard work, their years of hard work – years of self-sacrifice – how they employed many, in some instances thousands, providing them with a livelihood.  Nope – their sole mentality is that if you are successful then you are evil.

Obama and his followers plug into the entitlement mentality.  They feed it.  They incite it.  They propagandize it.  They display it under the cloak of racism and political correctness.  They weave their web to the destruction of the United States of America and the young stand up and cheer – completely ignorant of their own demise.

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  The Older Generation (late twenties and up).  This group of people still remembers when America was the best nation on Earth.  Was she perfect?  No – but she and her values, her identity, her Constitution were the best things that this world has ever known.  She was a haven unto the world for peace and freedom.  To say you were an American was to be filled with pride and humbleness to enjoy her fruits.  To be an American made you proud to help others in the world less fortunate and we, as Americans, have poured billions/trillions into the world in aid and services to help others have a piece of what we had.  We knew, however, that what we had was earned.  It was earned by the death of millions before us who fought for that freedom.  We honored them.  We revered them and we strived to make them proud of their and our sacrifices to keep sacred what they fought for, died for and lived for.

Capitalism is the only true way that all can achieve success.  Again, not everyone will achieve the same level of success for various reasons, including commitment to and belief in your own cause, but without free capitalism, economies will eventually collapse.  Capitalism cannot work without the dedication of people willing to do the work necessary.  Capitalism brings freedom to all.  Freedom is not FREE.  Older generations are fully aware of this.  Older generations do not expect to be given something for nothing.  Older generations do not believe they are entitled to anything that they haven’t worked their butts off to have.  Older generations understand that when times get tough, you pull your belt in a little tighter – you put the pedal to the metal and you work your way out of it.  Older generations know the government is not their savior.

Hence we are a nation struggling with two mindsets.  Those who feel entitled and fear losing “free” entitlements cling like frightened children in the night to Obama.  They see Romney as the boogey man and Obama is their savior – they worship their savior – not God – God is dead to them.

Those who love the ideals and values of America, of the Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution, freedom, freedom of ALL religions, freedom for the pursuit of happiness, freedom of speech, freedom to strive for your self-worth, freedom to achieve, and freedom to honor the sacrifices of so many men and women who fight for that freedom cling to Romney for hope, for the return to sanity, for the return to the sacredness and holiness of the family unit – unviolated by government control, for the return to the greatest nation that ever was or ever will be.  Romney is in no way perfect but he believes in freedom.  He believes in our Constitution and its divine inspiration.  The older generations see this – know this.  The older generations see Obama as an anti-Christ, as a destroyer of human will, a destroyer of humanity, a destroyer of true freedom and as the enslaver of souls.

Not every young person believes in Obama and not every older person believes in Romney but in percentages, the young favor Obama and the older folks favor Romney.  Come election day we, both old and young, will learn where our country is headed.  Will America survive if Obama wins?  Can Romney undo the damage of not only Obama’s administration but of a 100 years of progressive programs?  Can we ever truly become a “United” States of American again or are her days of glory truly gone?  Nail biting will increase as our future lies ahead or – as many people and nations in the past have predicted – is 2012 the beginning of the end of us all?

Politically incorrect,

Chris Broome

IS THE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICH SYMBOLIC OF RACISM?

Sometimes you think that things just couldn't possibly get any worse in this country and then a news article comes out like the one on September 11, 2012 in Portland, Oregon in which a K-8 school principal, Verenice Gutierrez, declared that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was racist and discriminated against minorities - that it was a sandwich of "white" people.  Are you freaking kidding me?

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Several comments to the article reflected people's frustration with the absurdity of associating a sandwich with racism.  In fact, many stated that they were speechless to say anything, that the idea was too preposterous to even deserve a comment.  I, too, thought that to give any attention to this lunacy would be to perpetuate the lunacy.  But after thinking about it for a few days I started to realize what the story was actually highlighting.  After all, what would be next?  Would apple pie be classified as being a racist symbol?  How about hot dogs and hamburgers or what about baseball, basketball and football?  Where will it end?

My first impulse was to think that this was just another reflection of the craziness of political correctness.  Are you beginning to notice that anything black, Hispanic, Muslim, gay, immoral and godless is considered to be politically correct and anything Christian, moral and American is considered to be politically incorrect?  So where does this article on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches fit in?

Well, it most certainly has nothing to do with racism.  In fact, the history of peanut butter goes back for centuries.  One of the first recordings of peanut butter is found in the Aztec history.  In 1880, George Washington Carver, an agricultural chemist and black American, discovered some 300 uses for peanuts, including peanut butter though he never patented his idea.  In 1884 the closest relationship to the peanut butter of today was patented in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Today the United States and China are the two largest exporters of peanut butter.  So its origin and development had little to do with "white" people.  Nope - so what does a peanut butter and jelly sandwich represent?  It has become an "American" sandwich.  America is a hugely diversified nation of many, many different cultures, religions and national backgrounds.  The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is enjoyed by all these Americans.  What Principal Gutierrez, a Hispanic woman, is stating is not racism but rather is an attempt to silence, subjugate and belittle Americans in their own country.  It echoes anti-American sentiments.

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We are constantly being bombarded on nearly a daily basis that we need to be sensitive and respectful to people of other races and religions and, at the same time, Americans are not afforded the very same sensitivity and respect.  Not even in their own country.

America is a melting pot.  People originating from other lands may keep their traditions when they come to America but if they come, they must be willing to melt into our society and embrace the customs and traditions of this land.  That is why we are the "United" States of America and not the "Multi-Divided" States of America.  We are a united people with American customs, ideals, traditions and respect for all.  Do not entertain the idea that you can come into this country and shove your native land's customs, traditions and values in my face and then cry foul play when I enjoy my country's traditions, values and customs.  If you do not like America - GO HOME.  I'm sure you'll be much happier there.

If you love America - then become an American.  Adopt her values, her customs, her traditions.  Eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, apple pie, hot dogs and hamburgers and sit back and relax while you watch a baseball, basketball or football game.

If Americans don't start taking a stand for America - one day, one day sooner than you think - you'll find she doesn't exist anymore and you are now a person without a country.  As for me - I think I'll go have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich right now.  A small act of being an American!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Politically incorrect,
Chris Broome

POLITICAL POLLS + THE MEDIA = PROPAGANDA

            Mark Twain once said that polls are nothing more than “lies, damned lies and statistics.”  This past week NBC and the Wall Street Journal undeniably proved the truth of that statement.

            While watching the Republican National Convention a commentator began to talk about what the current political polls were revealing.  According to the NBC commentator, Barack Obama was holding onto a strong lead over Mitt Romney and, second, that among African Americans, 0% said that they would vote for Mitt Romney.  Naturally there was no mention of just who was polled and, even more blaring was the 0% and this right after Mia Love, Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah and a black Republican woman, gave a phenomenal speech awarding her several rounds of boisterous cheers on the opening day of the RNC.  Of course the leftist media conveniently did not broadcast Ms. Love’s speech because it and what she represents did not comport with the propaganda picture they want to paint for Americans that there is a racial divide among Republicans and Democrats.

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            In actuality, what this supposed poll actually did was to demoralize and negate every single African/Black American person who holds to conservative values.  It painted each and every one of them as being a ZERO in the liberals’ eyes.  Now talk about being racist.

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            After hearing that idiotic and ridiculous statistic, I decided to do some research – as it seems many others did as well.  One of the first persons to openly voice his opinion on the 0% statistic was Herman Cain.  He took great offense to being referred to as a ZERO and he was not alone.  Below is a “small” list of well known conservative African Americans that represent only a small fraction of the African American community.

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Part of the 0% African American Republicans voting for Mitt Romney.

            Will more African/Black Americans vote for Obama?  I believe everyone knows the answer to that – yes.  But to discount those who don’t goes against everything the leftists profess to support – civil rights and freedom for all.

            Polls can be twisted and turned into reporting just about any fact the pollster wants it to be – on either side of the political arena.  Smart Americans know better and the only real poll that is relevant is the votes cast on election day.

UPDATE:  Pastors, Preachers, clergymen all over our nation are stepping up to the plate to denounce the Obama administration.  Below is one such African/Black American Pastor (E.W. Jackson) who sees the evil behind Washington and the Leftist.  He and his congregation are among the so-called 0%.  Check out what he has to say (at approx. 5 mins. in).

African American pastor calls for blacks to end “slavish devotion to the Democrat Party”

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"When this thing really starts to take off it's over for the Democrats"

Politically incorrect,
Chris Broome

A WORLD GOVERNMENT: IS IT REALLY THE ANSWER TO PEACE?

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            There is one fact that has become abundantly clear to me as I started to research this topic.  Liberals, throughout the world, believe that creating a global or world government will help to establish a global society – a society that will bring about peace and equality to all.  Conservatives, on the other hand, believe that a global/world government will destroy all societies and, eventually, bring about the demise of our entire planet.

            These viewpoints are so diametrically opposed that I decided to delve into the thought processes of both sides.  This article will in no way address all issues, that would take an entire book, but on a more simplistic, surface analysis, this is what I have found for each side.  I’ll begin with the liberal viewpoint.

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 LIBERALS

            Liberals believe that all men deserve equality in every facet of their lives regardless of what effort the individual person puts into achieving that success.  However, if a person puts a tremendous amount of work, effort and time into building a career and becomes successful economically, then liberals will deem that person as having an unfair advantage over a person who may have tried to build a business but was not willing or was unable to put in the effort to make it successful.

            Liberals believe that the government should oversee all aspects of a person’s life, including religious beliefs, moral issues, health issues, employment issues, housing issues, educational issues and social issues.

            Liberals are huge supporters of the United Nations and its growing control over a multitude of nations.  As supporters, liberals push to adopt UN philosophies even to the very detriment of the philosophies of the United States of America and its Constitution, including the UN idea that the government should have the ultimate control and influence on the minds of children and that parents should have little to no say in the rearing of their children.  Children should be taught to love government first and report any parent not voicing the ideals of the government.

            Liberals believe that we should try to get along with everyone, everywhere regardless of what a person’s or nation’s viewpoint is on annihilating anyone who does not hold to there own values.

            Liberals believe that a limited few should rule over the masses.  Those limited few should have all the benefits and wealth life can offer them and the masses should be kept on an equal footing, i.e., be reliant upon the government for everything they have.

            Liberals’ ultimate goal is to become united into a world government.  It is their belief that only then can this planet find true peace.

CONSERVATIVES

            Conservatives believe that all men have the right to pursue economic success through hard work and perseverance.  If a man or woman is willing to work hard to achieve their goals then they should be allowed to pursue them without interference of government blocking their every move to create their success - success which is spread to others through providing employment and stability.  The reality of life, however, is that not everything is equal but we all have the same opportunity to try even though some will fail or not achieve the same success as another.  However, Conservatives do not believe that the successful person should be punished for being able to achieve their level of success but, instead, use that individual as a beacon to inspire others that they, too, can strive to better themselves.  The pride is in doing and accomplishing rather than simply being handed a reward on a platter without making any effort to earn that reward.

            Conservatives believe that individuals should oversee all aspects of their lives, including religious preferences, moral beliefs, health issues, employment issues, housing issues, educational issues and social issues.  Men and women need to be responsible for their own choices and actions and reap the benefits of good choices and actions and suffer the consequences of bad choices and actions.  Conservatives believe that everyone has the right to make his or her own choice and government should only become involved when that choice becomes threatened or attacked – this includes choices of high morals and religious values and in the belief in the traditional lifestyle that, regardless of its age old stance, is as valid today as it was thousands of years ago.

            Conservatives are strongly opposed to the growing powers of the United Nations.  The philosophies of this governmental body are polar opposites to the ideals and philosophies upon which this nation was founded.  Conservatives believe that the Constitution of this nation is an inspired document and, if maliciously tampered with, will lead to the destruction of all of our freedoms.  Conservatives value the family unit and understand that if the UN philosophy of government control over children were to be enforced – a holocaust to the likes that this world has never seen before, will spring forth.

            Conservatives believe that we should try to get along with everyone, everywhere.  However, if a person or nation threatens to annihilate another person or nation, it is our duty and moral obligation to render service to that person and/or nation and not turn a blind eye on the perpetrators.

            Conservatives believe that government is essential but that it should have limited powers, powers to protect but not rule over the people.  The government is to serve the people and, in accordance with the Declaration of Independence, any government who usurps its power to rule the people is a corrupt government and it becomes the people’s moral and ethical obligation to take down that government and restore it to its true purpose.

            Conservatives’ ultimate goal is to restore strong values and confidence in people to make this country a strong, profitable and leading nation in support of individual freedoms.  It is their belief that only “in God we trust” will we be able to find true peace as a nation and as a world.

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MY 2 CENTS WORTH

            From my viewpoint, we focus far too much on what makes us different in a negative context, as though those differences are reason to hate, pass judgment, belittle and destroy each other.  To be sure, there are some cultural and religious value systems out there in the world that I believe are detrimental to all of us no matter what nation we live in and those threats need to be watched carefully least they wind up destroying us.  But, for the most part, I believe that is it our worldly differences that make us a stronger and better people.

            I am an American and I am very proud of that.  I am blessed to have been born in this wonderful land despite her many faults.  But just as I am proud to be an American, that doesn’t mean that I think everyone has to be an American or have American values.  I believe that people of all lands need to feel the pride of their own nations.  A person born in England needs to cherish their country as a person born in Russia, or Italy, or Spain, or Germany, or Sweden, or South Africa, or Australia, or Chile, etc.  No country is a perfect country on all fronts but we all deserve the right to be proud of our heritage.  Under a world government, this pride will be ripped away from us.  Would that really be a good thing?

            I do believe that all people have the right to be free but being free doesn’t mean everything in life is given to you.  Being free is a tremendous responsibility and takes an endless amount of work.  In those nations where freedom is denied to the average man and woman, you find poverty in horrendous degrees.  That poverty didn’t happen overnight.  It came about by people who wanted to control thoughts, religion, morals, and financial and ethical values of others.  These leaders lulled their people into believing that they, their government, would take care of them.  They would have inexpensive housing, free medical care, free higher education opportunities, guaranteed job positions and/or they wouldn’t have to work at all because they would be taken care of.  This lack of responsibility would make them truly free – and people clamored for it.  They got the ripe apple at the beginning but soon the apples being given to them showed signs of being rotten until, finally, there weren’t any apples at all.  By then it was too late because, by then, they were enslaved to a domineering government.  By then they were equal – equal in poverty of heart and mind.

            Today, globally, governments have been lulling their people into captivity by dangling a false freedom before them.  That is true in many countries, including the United States of America.  But what is happening is that the masses of people are becoming enslaved to government.  Is that where we will find real peace?  I think not.

Politically incorrect,

Chris Broome

ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY

We are all allowed to have our own opinions about everything and anything and, here in the United States of America, we are all FREE to openly express those opinions.  At least that’s one of the principals that this nation was founded upon.  But is that principal still true?  From what I see, read and hear nowadays – the answer is a sad and heartbreaking “no”.

People throughout hundreds if not thousands of generations have always had differences of opinions, beliefs and value systems and everyone accepted that.  There was nothing wrong with having different opinions and, in fact, those opinions helped us to understand each other more and to appreciate each other as an equal.  How did this appreciation of differences get so turned upside-down and inside-out to the point that instead of acceptance we now find open hatred and persecution with a constant battle being waged to demoralize and crush anyone who has a different belief and understanding than our own?

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I am certain that there will be a number of people who will disagree with me on this and that is okay because I do still believe in allowing others to have different opinions but - it is my opinion that there is so much hatred in the world today because religion has been taken out of the foundation of our lives.  I know immediately some will be saying, “There you go again – bringing religion into it – how weak – how lame.”  To that I say, “There you go again – avoiding truth just because it doesn’t allow you to have a blank check to do whatever it is you want to do.”



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 There is a simple basic truth that we ALL must face and that is that there are things that are unequivocally wrong and there are things that are unequivocally right.  (Check out my earlier blog on “Our Legal System – No Real Justice.”)  Many times things that are wrong to do seem to be fun and enticing but regardless of how fun, exciting and enticing they may be – they are still wrong.  Of course no one likes to be told that they are doing something wrong so in order to avoid facing that truth, they try to turn it around by insinuating that the person telling them that they are wrong is really the one who is wrong, closed minded and is committing a “hate” crime against them.  These same people will then go about demoralizing anyone who has any degree of high moral, ethical and spiritual values by which they live by.  And these people have the gall to think that they are the ones who are open minded? – How hypocritical!  What they are really saying is, “Accept who I am and what I do but do not expect me to accept who you are and what you do.”  Even the media cashes in on this philosophy.  (Check out my earlier blog on “Tolerance is a Word Valuable in the Service of Satan.”)



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A recent event that highlights this breakdown in acceptance of differences and spotlights the attack upon Christianity is the venomous rhetoric spewed out against Dan Cathy, President of the fast food chain Chick-Fil-A.  Mr. Cathy recently stated that the family owned business is “supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit.”  He then went on to say, “I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.”  As soon as Mr. Cathy’s statement came out the gay-right activists and liberal organizations came out of the woodwork decrying how horrible Mr. Cathy was and that he was attacking them.  Mr. Cathy did no such thing – not even slightly.  He merely lent his support to traditional marriage as defined by God.  He was not casting judgment on anyone – he was simply stating his belief and opinion.  But, what the leftist have revealed in this incident, as well as so many others, is that it is okay to espouse support for gay marriage but it is heresy to espouse support for traditional marriage.  Once again – how hypocritical.

           This event also highlights why religion is pushed aside because the truth it brings goes against what they want – a lifestyle that is anything but supportive of God.  Mr. Cathy was unequivocally right when he stated that this “generation has a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.”  Anything that goes against the laws of nature and God is wrong – BUT – we are all free to choose our own actions whether they be right or wrong.  So if you want to be different and follow a different lifestyle then so be it – that is your right – BUT – don’t you dare deny me the same right to choose my lifestyle – one based with God at its foundation.  It is I and those like me who do accept you (though not your values) – even with your differences.  It is you who do not accept us.  It is you who have brought hatred and turmoil to this world.  That hatred and turmoil are the very fruits you have garnered through your wrong actions.

For many decades now those opposed to God and His words have been gaining ground and stifling Christianity on all fronts.  If we who claim to be Christians continue to sit back and let the battle against our faith go unchallenged by bowing down to threats, intimidation and bullying by the radical non-Christians and liberalism, then we will have only ourselves to blame when we wake up one day and find that religion, all religions, have been banned and anyone trying to live by spiritual principals will be jailed.  God instructed us to proclaim His word.  His word is truth.  God told us “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  What does this mean?  It means that we are to proclaim to the world what is right no matter how much we are attacked for pointing out what is true – and we will be attacked.  We are to proclaim but we are not to force others to follow the right path - a path that if followed by all would lead us all to peace, joy and happiness.

Can we find the peace, joy and happiness that we have been promised?  I believe that one day we shall but we will have to endure a period of great darkness before that day - a darkness that is already casting its shadow upon us.

Sounding off for truth,

Chris Broome

WHY KILLING PEOPLE HAS BECOME SO EASY

            Last week’s theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado sent a familiar shockwave through the nation – even the world.  It’s familiar because it seems to be a recurring theme echoing over and over again.  It’s become commonplace.  Still, we sit back, scratching our heads in an attempt to try and understand how it could have happened yet again.  What’s going on here?  How can someone just go off like that?  And then, before the victims’ blood even dries, we turn towards trying to understand what drove the shooter to do such a thing.

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            Instead of focusing on the anguish of the victims’ families, the media quickly scrambles to decipher the life of the shooter.  Whether it was the killings at Columbine High School, the mall at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, or the several fast food, post office and university massacres, the media is quick to jump in by “victimizing” the perpetrator.  We hear stories of how the shooter was bullied in school, was isolated and taunted for their sexual preferences, was preyed upon because of their religious beliefs or ethic background, that they came from a broken home, moved around a lot, had certain political affiliations, etc., etc., etc.  - as though any of that gives the shooter a justification for his or her act.

            While the media progandizes the viewers into believing that they somehow contributed to the events that led to the shooter’s desperate act, the real truth behind what caused the shooting gets swept under the carpet.  The media and the leftist don’t want you to focus on the actual reason because if you did, you might start hampering their efforts to completely change this world.  So what’s the reason that caused the act you ask?  Simple – political correctness.

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            You knew I’d get back to that topic – it was inevitable - inevitable because political correctness as I’ve been saying all along is the pivotal tool that is being used to destroy us all.  We don’t communicate with each other because of fear.  We cannot have moral, spiritual or economic values that would guide and shape us because those values are “offensive” to someone, somewhere.  We cannot raise our children to have a value system because they are taught that those value systems instill hatred of others.  We have Child Protective Services (“CPS”) that has infiltrated their influence in the schools and the homes, lodging a wedge between parent and child.  Schools, CPS, political activist groups, gay rights groups, and liberal governmental bodies indoctrinate their rhetoric of self entitlements over the good of the masses.  All of this is done under the umbrella of political correctness.

            For the past few decades we have been raising generations with no values, no understanding of self and where they are to fit into society, no cohesiveness of what a family unit is and should be, no understanding of a higher being beyond themselves, no understanding of working and working hard for what they have or what they want to obtain, no understanding of putting another’s well being before their own, no ultimate understanding of any purpose to life whatsoever outside of self-gratification.  We have generations of “it’s all about me” and you don’t matter – at all.  You have no worth.

            Technology, along with political correctness, plays a large role in our downfall as well.  Oh we think we’re advanced and it’s great but the truth is – technology, or to clarify – some technology, has separated us and put us into isolation – reinforcing the lack of actual worth we have for each other because we don’t connect – not really.  There was a day when I wanted to talk with someone I called them on the phone or went over to see them.  Not now – nope cause, in today’s world - we text or e-mail.  That’s wonderful you think?  Actually, it’s very cold and unfeeling – especially when it becomes your heavily favored way of communicating.  You don’t really communicate in a way to create a bond when you focus on presenting staged and censored wording of who you are.  In order to truly communicate you need to communicate through fluctuations in your voice – through direct eye contact – through smell and through hearing.  Those senses keep you honest.  Those senses allow another to get to know who you really are.

            Social media – got to love it – got to hate it.  Again, we have turned to a technology to communicate rather than to a person to person form of communication.  There is a commercial I have seen repeatedly where a teenage girl talks about her poor parents who are finally getting onboard with social media.  She ridicules them for having only nineteen friends while she has 600 plus friends.  That commercial irritates me every time I see it because the truth is – she doesn’t have 600 plus friends.  She probably has never met more than a dozen or so of the people she is communicating with.  They have nothing vested in her life and she has nothing vested in theirs but she, like so many others, is falsely lulled into believing that she has a multitude of “friends”.

            Social media can be a good thing – don’t get me wrong.  Good if it is used correctly but today’s generations have become enslaved to it and have become desensitized to relationships with actual people.  Because of the fears imposed by political correctness, the lack of any value systems enforced by political correctness and the enslavement of communication through computers, people have no real comprehension or emotions in regards to the value of life of another human being because those people are not real.  They’re just words on a screen.  They’re expendable if you get bored with them.  They’re expendable if they don’t provide you with what you want.  They’re really “nothings”.  And if you feel fed up, angry, and have a tantrum because you are not getting your way – then it’s okay to go out and shoot up some of those unreal people because they were interfering with your life and they don’t really matter anyway.  Killing a “nothing” is easy.  Killing something you have no connection with – no understanding of and no emotional connection with is easy.

            Last week’s killings will not be the last.  I think we’ve just seen the beginning of the tip of the iceberg on what is to come.  We have millions and millions of unconnected children growing up.  The only one who has any value to them is themselves.  If you want to stand back and let political correctness and desensitized communications continue to flourish – then you only have yourselves to blame for what is to come because then you ARE part of the problem.

(Photo: georgia.com)

            If you want things to change then you must be willing to fight back against political correctness and fight for the values that once made us all great.  Help the children of today know who they are, where they belong in life, what a real family unit is, where they need to give thanks for what they have in life and an understanding for what they don’t have.  We need to instill in them the need to value the lives of others as well as themselves.  We need to teach them to love the family, to love God and to love their country.  We need to communicate face to face.  We need to stand up against anything and anyone who tries to take any of this away.  If we don’t – then the killings will just get easier and easier.

Politically incorrect,

Chris Broome

IS MARRIAGE TAKEN SERIOUSLY ANYMORE? - Part 2 - Response to Comment to Clarify.

I'd like to follow-up my prior blog on the topic of whether marriage is taken seriously anymore.  In response to a comment I received, I wanted to add some clarification to my statements.  Please remember that this is my sounding off as to my viewpoints and I do appreciate the fact that others have different viewpoints.  I want you to feel free to express them - I don't take offense.  Sometimes our viewpoints can open another's eyes to situations not anticipated or thought about by that person and sometimes my viewpoints can open eyes and understanding to others who had different understandings.  Either way - this is a place to say what you like whether we agree or not.

The article I first wrote on this topic was meant to be more reflective of the importance given to marriage today by the younger generation and society as a whole.  The sacredness and importance of marriage and ALL that it entails is not honored, revered or given the full commitment that it was in days gone by. (Naturally I do not mean this statement to be a blanket statement for everyone but it does by far cover the vast majority of today's mentality on marriage.)  This is in great part due to the deplorable lack of morality that exists in today's world.

As for being a stigma - perhaps your understanding of that word and mine differ.  I do not think of a stigma as being that a person is bad, unworthy, horrible or unwilling to make compromises and work out problems.  How I mean stigma to be in the text of my posting was that after you got a divorce you would give far deeper thought into marriage, making sure that the next time you would get married that you would be more thorough in getting to know the person and how you and that person connect. You would weigh changes that life could bring you and talk out how each of you would re-act and act.  Overall, you would have a far better understanding of just what you were getting yourself into so the next time - you would be as certain as humanly possible that you would do all in your power to make it work as would your spouse.

The thinking of days gone by was that "I've gotten a divorce.  It was horrible.  I felt horrible.  No one really wins.  I don't want to go through that again."  And with that mentality, you worked harder to make sure you didn't go through it again.  However, today's generation does not see or feel that stigma.  Today's generation sees divorce as a contest - as something to be admired.  I have heard countless conversations in which people laugh, "I've been divorced three times," or "I've been divorced four times."  In one conversation I was with 3 other women (all of whom will remain unnamed) and Woman A said, giggling, "Well, it's official, I've filed for a divorce."  Woman B said, "It's about time.  I never could see what you saw in him in the first place."  Woman A again giggled and said, "Well, he does have a great boat! I'm hoping to get that in the divorce."  Woman C says, "So how many divorces will this make?"  And Woman A says, "Seven."  Woman C says, "I've got some catching up to do then cause I've only had four."  Woman B says, "I've only had three.  I've been thinking about divorcing this one but - well the economy is not all that great right now so he's safer than being out there."  I then mentioned that I had never been divorced and the 3 women looked at me like, "What's wrong with you."  Then Woman C said, "I don't know how you do it.  I'd go crazy if I had to stay with anyone for more than seven or eight years.  By then things just get boring." -- Now the woman who is now on her seventh divorce is only 41 years old and the other two women are in their mid to late 30's.  Why is divorcing just a joke to them?  Because there is no stigma attached.  They have no incentive to look at what didn't work and what to do to try and make it work next time.  In fact, their not interested in making anything work but are rather more interested in seeing what they can come out of the marriage with (like a boat).  And believe me, this conversation was not a unique conversation.  I hear it or something very similar to it nearly every week on the train, in the mall, at the grocery store, at the post office - you name it.  People laugh, joke and brag about divorcing as something to do rather than something to try and avoid.  That's why I think there should be a stigma.  People should be compassionate to those who divorced through tough situations and be supportive in helping them regain their lives - not standing back and applauding them, rooting them on and asking, "So what did you get out of that marriage?  A house?  Stocks?  A boat?" (Although not mentioned here - I've heard many similar conversations from men as well although their reasons for divorcing differ such as - "she got fat", "she doesn't cook well," and, as I've heard women say, "It's boring now.  No excitement anymore.  I'm still young and can attract some great looking women.")

ALL marriages take two people who are 100% into the marriage and making it work.  No marriage can survive if one partner is only giving 20% or 40% and the other is giving 100%.  For the one giving 100% they are victims of mental abuse which I mentioned as a criteria for divorce.  As the one giving 100% you do have to eventually come to realize that no matter how much you give, you will never get the other person to be as committed to the marriage as you are and in that realization, there is a great deal of pain.  A million lost dreams are realized and a divorce is very hard but, in the long run, can be very therapeutic to healing - for both parties.  A person in this situation does take marriage seriously.  If they didn't, they would have never even made any attempt to try and save the marriage.  The point in my article was that today's generation, for the most part, will not make even the slightest effort to try and make a marriage work.  Their mentality is that marriage should be fun and if things get a little rough - I'm outta here and they do just that.  Divorcing for many has even been termed as being "fun".  Years ago I very much doubt if you would have talked to anyone who had been through a divorce as it having been "fun".

As far as falling out of love - I'm not really sold on that.  People can lose their way, forgetting what originally brought them together, but falling out of love - not without allowing it to happen.  Again, though, if both parties are not giving 100% to the marriage, then emotional abuse is taking place.  But let's address the falling out of love part.  A friend of mine a few years back went through a really rough time in her marriage.  For twenty years things went very well.  Suddenly, or it seemed to me to be suddenly, she stopped communicating.  After several months she finally spoke to me and told me that she and her husband were going through a bad time.  He had started to become distant to her to the point she started to think that he was having an affair.  Finally after several months she confronted him and he said that he hadn't had an affair but he was questioning whether he wanted to be married to her anymore.  He had hit 40 years of age and she had been his only girlfriend - the only woman in his life and he was now wondering what his life could have been had he had more girlfriends, had he travelled the world, had he done this thing or that thing.  He was wondering about just how much of life he had missed out on and now that he was 40, he didn't want to miss out on anything else.  She started to represent an entrapment to him so he stayed at work longer, closed himself off at home and eventually moved into one of the other bedrooms in the house.  After living this way for nearly a year, he finally told her that he wanted to get a divorce.  She was devastated.  During that year she had tried to give him the space he needed - telling him to pursue some of the interests he had expressed.  She tipped toed around him - hoping this was just a mid-life crises for him and now - he hit her with wanting the big "D".  A few weeks later he filed for divorce but continued to live in the home.  The two never spoke after that.  I'm not certain of what the exact circumstances were after that but she came home one day had found him crying, divorce documents in his hands.  He finally told her that he had the papers for the past few days and all he had to do was sign them and have her sign them.  He said that the papers were supposed to represent his freedom but he felt they were his doom.  He started to think about - not all the things he never did - but what would life be without her in it.  In the more than a year that they had been going through this tough time he had never thought about what his life would be without her.  He didn't want life without her.  He rediscovered the love he had had for her back when they were teenagers, when they first married, when they had their first child, when they had lost a child.  He was now terrified that she would want to go through with the divorce and he didn't but he knew she had the right to go through with it after the way he had been treating her.  She never did want it and although the next couple of months were still rough, they were once again both 100% committed to making the marriage work.  This year they celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary, stronger in love and commitment to each other than ever.  Although they had gone through a really rough time, they built upon what they learned during that time.  They learned about themselves, the other person in the marriage and the importance of the institution of marriage.  Her husband had believed he had fallen out of love with her, wanting what he had never had, but when it came to actually losing her he realized that he hadn't fallen out of love - only had become confused and lost by "what ifs" but in the long run - "what if's" didn' matter.  This type of dedication to each other just isn't seen by the generations of today nor do the children of today see that type of commitment.  So, I stand by my statement that the answer to the question, "Is Marriage Taken Seriously Anymore," to still be a resounding "NO".  And if we don't change that attitude, the institution of marriage may become extinct.

Thanks again for listening to my sounding off!