The Mindset of a Thoroughly Modern America

A politician said it best when he recently told a crowd that he would teach his two daughters morals, but if they made a mistake, he didn't want them to be "punished with a baby". That politician was the same one that voted several times against a bill (known as the Born Alive Infants Protection Act) in his state which protect babies who survived abortions, stating that it would put undue stress on the mother and negate her original decision to abort the child. No statement so eloquently sums up the liberal mindset that there is no such thing as personal responsibility; consequences are simply unfair. It would seem that the only people who deserve consequences are those that make too much money (whatever that means). In the real world, when people make mistakes; when we take drugs, have sex with strangers, neglect our finances, lose money, gain money, steal, fight when we shouldn't, neglect to fight when we should, neglect to ask questions, etc., there are consequences.

One last thing on abortion, and then I'm done with that topic for now. I believe in forgiveness and grace for those that have undergone abortion. I think that if you have, you were fooled into thinking that it was okay because you were afraid. The modern woman and man is easily suckered into believing her/his immediate desires are more important than her/his responsibilities. There is the belief that a decision to "hide" or "abort" something really does make it go away. But either decision results in consequence whether you choose to believe it or not. Someone who has undergone abortion has gone through a tragic experience and probably will at some point, begin to experience a sense of loss and guilt. If a friend of mine were to have done this, I would still care for her as I always had. My friends know that they can trust me with their secrets, and they know that if they want to know what I think, they have but to ask. All I can do is try to be objective and loving, yet remain honest. I will not deny that I think abortion is an extreme act of selfishness and is wrong (admittedly no one is without selfishness or sin). But this particular thing is swept under the ambiguous rug of "privacy" and "choice".

The whole idea gets wrapped up in a cocoon of fairness and becomes taboo. It gets translated in this way: "Surely in not supporting abortion, you are a far right winged conservative crazy person that wants to take away the rights of women." Supporters of abortion always throw out extremes to support their cause. They have to because they also know in their hearts and minds that it's wrong. But it conflicts with their desire to remove the responsibility factor. So they have to come up with a solution which will fill in the logic gap. An uncommon example is just the thing. What about the 12 year old that gets pregnant from rape? What about the woman that will die if she has the baby? Out of all the abortions that happen annually (and here's a link to Census Bureau data that counts them: Census), how many of those extreme situations do you think really apply to those millions upon millions? Keep in mind that the census bureau data is given in 1,000's. Do you know how many people died in WWII including the Holocaust? Compare those figures with abortions since 1980 real quick. It's unimaginable. Have you ever read Roe v. Wade? Here it is if you want to.

Roe v. Wade

Do you know what its purpose was? No one was in danger of death or rape except the child. It is a gruesome process that has been attempted to be validated by extreme situations yet actually performed under normal ones.

Now back to my main point. Most people, by an early age, recognize the concept of cause and effect. It seems that the liberal mindset aims to ignore the cause or simply provide a patch to cure or prevent the effect. What seems to happen, especially when big government gets involved, is a new regulation is imposed that is supposedly going to protect people from any negative consequences. The reality is, however, that this typically introduces new complications and loopholes and fails to protect in the way in which it was intended. It simply adds complexity to the law while failing to meet its goal. Think Sarbanes-Oxley Act; a reactive response to Enron and others. Did it prevent the failure of future big companies or create more transparency in the financial world? Considering today's economic "crisis" It would appear that it did not. Yet it did add additional burdens and costs to businesses which must offset those costs by increasing prices or cutting back costs somehow.

What I see people falling for lately is the trap of being promised a false freedom: freedom of choice, freedom from poverty, freedom from their mortgages, freedom from consequences, and freedom from responsibility. And they seem to love it. Count the divorces, suicides, and overdoses in Hollywood. They seem far more frequent and repetitive than average. You have but to wait a few years for a young star or starlet (probably once on Disney) to grow up a little and get on the news for DUI or an overdose. For all of their great "causes" and foundations, the Hollywood culture appears to be one of the most backward, self-centered, and delusional that there is. They sermonize from films and the podiums of social events about how America is the cause of so much atrocity while, ironically, their own lives are a mess. Is it any wonder that Hollywood and the country's media overwhelmingly supports a candidate that doesn't seem to believe in individual responsibility yet preaches it so well?