Generation X’ers and the Boomers were impassioned by the Nationalism of Ronald Regan in the 1980s peak of the Cold War. We were impassioned to witness on live TV George Bush Sr.’s Gulf War that liberated Kuwait and claimed victory within minutes without casualty. When the Twin Towers and Pentagon were attacked, we felt for the first time real fear since Pearl Harbor. Fear shifted to hope and pride when George W. Bush stood atop rubble and gave the most inspiring rally cry of his Oval Office tenure. Then what happened to hope and pride?
The trend toward a new global awareness and connectivity tugged at our moral and better judgment. As academia sought to “understand” the rationale behind Muslim extremists, Michael Moore was promoting entertaining and popular movies going as far as implicating the Bush administrations in the 9-11 and Columbine tragedies. All of a sudden, it was no longer politically correct in many parts of the nation to talk about God or be remotely conservative. We were swept away in the current of Bush-bashing on both sides of the aisle. Because we struggled with our own moral confusion, we criticized an administration that remained firm in their convictions despite great opposition.
Obama was elected because we have become a culture that finds it difficult to know for sure if there actually even is a right and wrong let alone be able to discern a difference, and Obama is the leader that best represents this predicament. Perhaps confusion about our own spirituality (or lack thereof) is the root of this dilemma. We have become a culture of tolerance no matter what cost of confusion this creates for domestic and foreign policy and our personal lives and community conduct.
The liberal agenda promotes the thinking that we might emulate Europe more for their govo-socio policies. Europe broke apart into approximately 50 nations, many were born in our lifetime, due to cultural and political inabilities to peacefully coexist. Why on earth would we want to emulate this? The world is a vast plethora of individuals and communities with unique heritages, ideas about God, ideas about women, ideas about children. No rational leader of the free world would envision a global kumbaya togetherness unless they were comfortable forcing a set of standards and laws upon everyone, robbing man of his greatest gift, free-agency.
Our schools are pumped with liberal agenda textbooks that some parents claim dedicate more pages to the Muslim faith than America’s own historical Christian/Judaism influence. Speaking about Christianity in schools is no longer tolerated, let alone politically correct in many parts of the nation, namely the east and west coastal urban areas. Yet there is media sympathy and coverage for homosexual prom dates or a student who violates the community dress code with a provocative prom dress while Christians are simultaneously silenced under the guise of “Political Correctness”.
Texas’ recent move to stand in defiance to the national education standards offered by the Obama administration may drive some momentum to swing the pendulum back. Texas alone may be changing the tone of our textbooks, as many publishers follow Texas’ lead in education text selection that is mass distributed throughout the nation. Glenn Beck is taking this a step further by peddling the notion that we disband the Department of Education. This is an alluring concept that would require parents and local governments step up and get involved with their kids’ education, which would in turn, strengthen families, which would in turn, reduce the welfare state (according to research) and other far reaching noble ideas. Is “noble” still a politically correct or relevant term in the U.S.A.?
~ H.L. Whitley
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