Common sense is in short supply in the United States and I believe it’s time for Americans to culturally appropriate some. I believe Hungary is a prime candidate and I don’t think they would mind. These people are building walls to keep out Islamic invaders, they kicked George Soros’ Open Society Foundation out of the country, and now they’ve banned gender studies from state universities. Here is an excerpt from the College Fix:
Citing “no tangible use” and “ideology rather than science,” the Hungarian government announced that gender studies courses will no longer be taught at state universities.
Secretary of State of Hungary’s Ministry of Human Resources Bence Rétvári compared the gender studies field to the study of Marxist-Leninism, according to a report in Heti Világgazdaság.
A Hungarian government spokesman told Breitbart the country’s employers have “no demand for gender studies graduates.”
The new rule won’t affect many; only eleven students were admitted to the gender studies program at ELTE, and only two more at George Soros’s CEU according to the Breitbart report.
I can think of whole bunch of college programs and so-called studies that are of “no tangible use,” and let’s face the facts most of this crap is ideology without scientific basis whatsoever. Hungary is onto something. I’m all for cultural appropriation, especially when it’s warranted.
Don’t you love being lectured to by a sanctimonious prick like Sen. Chuck E. Schumer? This man purports to speak for the American people. He claims to be the arbiter of American values and common sense when in fact he understands nothing. This man is a beltway troll with totalitarian aspirations.
Progressives, like Sen. Chuck E. Schumer, do not believe in the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution. I’m reminded of the time when he and a handful of his colleagues demanded the IRS violate the First Amendment rights of Tea Party organizations. Now he’s using the NRA and its members as a foil to take away our Second. This man is a menace to liberty and the American creed. It is time we call out these people. We need to expose their ideology for what it is: Marxism.
Mark Steyn summed it up on Tucker Carlson’s show by stating, “for a people to have common sense, we must have something in common.” I can honestly say this country hasn’t been this divided since the American Civil War. Back then, the fundamental difference was between North and South. Today, it’s between rural and urban America; blue state vs. red state.
Just to emphasize the division within our country, one only has to look to our churches. There are places of worship where parishioners don’t bring a Bible, the gospels are forsaken, and Jesus Christ is an afterthought. They have transsexual preachers who emphasize the importance of not just embracing the sinner, but the sin itself; inclusiveness is more important than salvation.
Last July, I visited Shiloh Battlefield and came across a book that I’ve seen many times before, but passed over. Because of the polarizing era in which we live, I decided to buy it and just finished reading. I recommend, The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, & the Triumph of Anglo-America. I know the title will irk the snowflakes, but this book is a fascinating read. Here is an excerpt on the politicalization of churches and divisions therein:
Of the Calvinist churches, closest heirs to the Reformation, the Congregationalists were almost nonexistent below the Mason-Dixon line, the Dutch Reformed and German Reformed few and far between. The Presbyterian Church had divided, in several stages beginning in 1837, into a southern-centered “Old School” denomination and a northern “New School.” The latter was close to Congregationalism in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes, overtly antislavery by the war’s outbreak, and a favorite church of Yankee businessmen. The official regional separation came only as the war began. Upon retiring back to Pennsylvania in 1861, ex-President James Buchanan, an old Presbyterian, refused to join the New School Church.
Church separatism was sectional politics by another name. The Southern Baptists, too, broke away in 1845 to become a separate, pro-slavery church. The Southern Methodists had done so in 1844. The Southern Presbyterians not only defended slavery but worked up a biblical theology on its behalf. As late as 1864, they formally avowed that “it is the peculiar mission of the Southern Church to conserve the institution of slavery and to make it a blessing both to master and slave.
No industrializing nation could have produced such theology, but that was part of what the South lacked: factories. In 1860, Dixie had just 16 percent of U.S. manufacturing capacity, 35 percent of the railroad mileage, a small sliver of the bank deposits, and under one -third of the nation’s white population. Northern states had manufactured 97 percent of the country’s firearms and 93 percent of its pig iron. City dwellers constituted 36 percent of the 1860 population of the North, but only 9.6 percent in the South.
Prior to the Civil War, the citizens of the United States didn’t have common sense because they didn’t have anything in common as a people. We have reached that point in 2017 and I’m afraid it will only get worse.
Conservatives are starving for a voice that can
articulate their values, while shining a mirror on the ugly face of liberalism. It shouldn’t be hard to point out progressive
failures. We are living their dystopian
nightmare where common sense is a villain, facts are fraudulent, and opposite
day is a never ending national holiday.
When Senator Ted Cruz announced his candidacy,
Democrats and establishment Republicans alike, pounced on him. They know this man is prepared to shake their
grafting trees. Here he is exposing the
fraud that is Obamacare:
“Well, you know, those numbers don’t
tell the whole picture,” Cruz responded. “For one thing, the bulk of those
numbers are coming from expanded Medicaid. And Medicaid is a program where a
lot of people who are on Medicaid are not getting health care. Medicaid is a
system that is already overburdened and more and more people are just getting
waiting lists and not actually getting health care.”
He continued:
“Beyond that, remember six million people had their health insurance canceled
because of Obamacare. You are not doing someone a favor is you cancel the
health insurance they like, and then force them to buy new health insurance at
higher premiums that covers less.”
