It's Woe Woe Woe Feelings Thing

Dear America,

Devotion -- September 10:  "I am always available to you.  Once you have trusted Me as your Savior, I never distance myself from you.  Sometimes you may feel distant from Me.  Recognize that as feeling; do not confuse it with reality......Let these assurances of My continual Presence fill you with Joy and Peace.  No matter what you may lose in this life, you can never lose your relationship with Me."  Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

as much I just want to impress upon the idea of simply trusting in the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind....the part that really got to me, given the age we are in -- in America -- is that phrase in the middle of it all.  "Recognize that as feeling; do not confuse it with reality."  teehee

why do I love it so, pray tell?

for we -- in America -- have a lot of people who refuse to respect, let alone live, in reality. 

and not only that, my good ole papa sent me a link to something that goes right to this point.

 COUNTDOWN to CIVIL WAR by Linda Goudsmit

here's a wee bit:

The losing party of leftist Democrats began believing their own narrative of political correctness, moral relativism, and historical revisionism. They live in the world of subjective reality where facts do not get in their way. Let me explain.

Subjective reality is a dreamscape where saying is the same as doing, all ideas are equal, and trying is the same as achieving. In the surreal world of subjective reality FEELINGS are the determining value. So, if you feel like Hillary should have won then in your mind she did win. If you feel that Donald Trump should not have won then he didn't win - he is not your president.

and goes more in-depth to explain here --

How did this happen?

During the 1970s parenting and education shifted the focus from preparing children for adulthood to the elusive goal of assuring happiness for children. Happiness was no longer the consequence of competence and achievement - it became the goal itself. A seismic shift in the standards for behavior was launched. Those of us who had young children in elementary school in the late 70s and 80s witnessed a perplexing change in educational standards. Feelings replaced facts for what determined acceptable and unacceptable behavior. This is how it works.

and then even uses an old satirical comedy, Parental Guidance, starring Bette Midler and Billy Crystal --playing the age-old grandparents not playing into the new hip parental guidelines, applying lessons from the olden days all the way through -- to substantiate her point in technicolor.  Well played, Linda, well played.

The Left refuses to play fair in this day and age -- that's about all there is to it.

All I want to say to everybody is just get over it!

Move along already.

And what is with having no rhyme or reason as to who gets allowed to voice opinion and who doesn't?

So Twitter can suspend Alex Jones (who is now totally forbidden), but not Louis Farrakan?

So Twitter can suspend Kris Paronto -- a Benghazi Hero and patriot -- but not Ahmadinejad?

So does Carole Cook have a twitter -- cuz she should be suspended, if not barred for life -- calling out "where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?"  Did she just ask someone, anyone, to assassinate a sitting president?  And everyone is okay with this?

AND SERIOUSLY, Obama?

Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren't for those who don't look like us or don't sound like us or don't pray like we do, that's an old playbook. It's as old as time. And in a healthy democracy it doesn't work. Our antibodies kick in, and people of goodwill from across the political spectrum call out the bigots and the fearmongers, and work to compromise and get things done and promote the better angels of our nature. But when there's a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing and look for the newest diversion, the electronic versions of bread and circuses, then other voices fill the void. A politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold. And demagogues promise simple fixes to complex problems. They promise to fight for the little guy even as they cater to the wealthiest and the most powerful. They promise to clean up corruption and then plunder away. They start undermining norms that ensure accountability, try to change the rules to entrench their power further. And they appeal to racial nationalism that's barely veiled, if veiled at all.

thank you.
thank you for describing you, with a capital B and a capital O.

After eight years of preaching the political gospel of Divide and Conquer, you have your coming out party saying this?

thank you, and thank you from Townhall, too.

"Appealing to tribe..." he says... what a joke.  My tribe -- of conservatives -- believes in one tribe, as in e pluribus unum, that looks a lot like, every American all together.  We don't break out by color, or religion, or individual culture.

It's about one culture -- American.

Newsflash:  we know your feelings may be a wee bit hurt, but we had an election based upon the reality on the ground, and democrats lost, republicans won, fair and square.  NOT ONE VOTE WAS CHANGED by Russian meddling, not ONE vote.

Don't you get it?  Russian meddling was not even needed after eight years under the your administration; the American people voted based upon the economic reality you left; the immigration reality you ignored; the Obamacare fraud reality you led without one bipartisan republican vote; the terrorist attack -- upon Americans -- in an horrific Benghazi reality leading with a narrative based upon a downright lie, the same reality that ignored the reality of needing more security in Benghazi for years, by the way; the divisive nature of your leadership reality which pitted Americans against Americans and especially that of cops against crime makers, creating a movement based upon a lie in Black Lives Matter; the lack of security under your leadership under Hillary's State Department using a makeshift server out of a bathroom to send confidential information, providing a reality which was ultimately hacked; um, shall I go on?

This nonsense, based upon reality, gave many Americans reason to trust in a whole 'nother direction (again), for that is just what we do  in America; for THAT is just what happens in a democracy.   And for that, I, for one, can give thanks.

We take turns holding power.

We respect the office.

We follow the rule of law.

We accept the results.

......everyone seems to understand this, except democrats.

You know, quite honestly -- this past president's speech was a pathetic pouty pitch-fit.  And I can't wait for more...oh the blogs this girl has laying in wait....I'm speechless...dizzy with excitement.

And this, let's plug one more thing just for fun, from Obama --

It should not be Democratic or Republican, it should not be a partisan issue to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents.

UM What happened under your IRS... your Attorney General(s) Holder and Lynch... your FBI....james comey....the tarmac....

I love this part within that Townhall post (linked above) from Matt Vespa --

Here’s the difference, Barry. Maybe you had some achievements on the economic front when you were in office, but you weren’t a cheerleader for America. You sucked at that, making sure to downplay or marginalize America’s role in the world, which allowed Russia to kick you around like rag doll all over the place. The retreat bolstered Syria to reportedly launch a chemical weapons attack, a red line for your White House that was never enforced. And even there, you allowed the Russians to stake a claim in the Middle East, going back on nearly 50 years of U.S. policy in the region. 

(not sure why I went baby blue, maybe just cuz he's a boy)

but I digress, Vespa then goes right into this --

Also, sorry—Barry, you’re a Democrat. You’re a liberal. We don’t need you to lecture us about what’s wrong with the GOP. What’s wrong with your party, which lost over 1,000 seats since you were elected across state, federal, and local offices? You decimated your party, while the GOP has become the dominant political force in the country; Democrats are an urban and coastal party. Also, the Republican Party is the only party that has become paranoid, divisive, and bitter? Dude, that’s your party. Democrats and liberals are embracing Russophobia in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss, they adopt race-based safe spaces and bash white people, and they’re bitter over the success of others—hence the shift towards socialism: envy and bitterness are that philosophy's core tenets. 

and we're back to feelings.

 and we're back to Linda Goudsmit --

Those of us who had young children in elementary school in the late 70s and 80s witnessed a perplexing change in educational standards. Feelings replaced facts for what determined acceptable and unacceptable behavior. This is how it works.

feelings replacing facts.  feelings, woe woe woe feelings....(gosh I hate that song, now, more than ever)

And apparently, the Left wants to dictate how we feel about everything....choosing winners and losers, choosing to stand or kneel, choosing Nike or Under Armour, choosing free speech based upon ideology -- as in, we are to share the same feelings, or die.... or at least be suspended, maybe even barred and banned altogether.

this is a slippery slope to losing the very things that make America great, again and again and again.

Say it with me, now:  feelings replacing facts has fucked us up in every way.

good job.

I think.... therefore, I am; and I think, that's all I got.

the end.

Make it a Good Day, G