{"id":1143,"date":"2016-01-01T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/meanwhile-on-the-other-side-of-the-aisle.html"},"modified":"2016-01-01T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:54:00","slug":"meanwhile-on-the-other-side-of-the-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/meanwhile-on-the-other-side-of-the-aisle.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
<\/a>We have this<\/a>. \u00a0Next up, we see why old man Potter actually had a point. \u00a0Again, there is something out there called progressivism, or the Secular Left. \u00a0On the conservative side, it\u2019s not so clear. \u00a0Depends on what you are \u2018conserving.\u2019 \u00a0Likewise, many can be quite liberal and not be part of the Leftist movement. \u00a0But there is a movement, a world view, that is against the Christian belief of the world. \u00a0And not all who resist this are conservatives of the same stripe.<\/div>\n
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What seems to have happened \u2013 personal observation here \u2013 is that as this anti-Christian, anti-Western, and often anti-American movement gained \u00a0speed, those who would resist formed uneasy, and at times unnatural, alliances. \u00a0The blanket term \u2018conservative\u2019 came to be applied to anyone who wasn\u2019t part of this progressive tide. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Likewise, those who were of a more liberal, open, tolerant mindset were pushed into the tent of the \u2018progressive\u2019 or \u2018liberal.\u2019 \u00a0And that was probably not too far off, because based on my observations over the decades, try as you might to draw a line in the sand with the progressive movement while accepting certain viewpoints or opinions, the fact is you\u2019ll eventually compromise your values and change to keep up with the latest, hippest. \u00a0Look at many of the Western theistic faiths that have tried the same.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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On the \u2018conservative\u2019 side, however, there were definite groups with little to nothing in common except a profound dislike for this new progressive movement. \u00a0Within their alliance, there was often no more in common than the USSR had with the USA in WWII. \u00a0But it was an alliance.<\/div>\n
Then, during the disastrous Bush presidency, that alliance collapsed. \u00a0Whether it was Bush\u2019s deplorable communication abilities, or the disastrous policies, or basic incompetency, it was enough to push many within that alliance out. \u00a0And as the progressive movement became emboldened, and began to make its biases clear through such avenues as education and the media, the defeats began to pick up speed. \u00a0And with defeats, as any sports fan will tell you, comes the blaming. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Even in the late 90s, when the GOP suffered setbacks during the Clinton scandals \u2013 which showed the power of this movement to change hearts and minds literally overnight \u2013 finger pointing and anger was common. \u00a0I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh, and hearing callers spewing forth against those religious nut types who needed to be sent packing. \u00a0<\/div>\n
As those of the \u2018bombs and bank accounts\u2019 conservatives became more frustrated, their willingness to defend the indefensible became louder. \u00a0And as those who were team players and were going to do what they could to put the best face on the unthinkable, many who were allied against the threats of the progressive movement began to fall away, realizing that there were things within the tent of conservatism that were every bit as bad as that associated with the progressives. \u00a0Again, like realizing that the USSR, in the end, wasn\u2019t much better than Nazi Germany.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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But since that thing I currently call \u2018progressivism\u2019 is an actual movement, a distinct world view and religious and philosophical, social and political movement, as opposed to the somewhat loose alliance of varying and, at times conflicting, worldviews, that single movement is now winning victory after victory. \u00a0And it\u2019s not hard to see why. \u00a0When you have some who would resist this new threat to the Faith \u00a0turn around and try to spin for the bad guys simply because \u2018Money!\u2019, it\u2019s hard to imagine a world where decent folks won\u2019t scratch their heads and wonder if a victory by such people really would be a better alternative. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have this. \u00a0Next up, we see why old man Potter actually had a point. \u00a0Again, there is something out there called progressivism, or the Secular Left. \u00a0On the conservative side, it\u2019s not so clear. \u00a0Depends on what you are \u2018conserving.\u2019 \u00a0Likewise, many can be quite liberal and not be part of the Leftist movement. 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