{"id":1333,"date":"2017-10-16T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T03:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/felixculpa\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2017-10-17T04:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:47:09","slug":"gettingbacktotruthandrespectinamerica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/felixculpa\/2017\/10\/gettingbacktotruthandrespectinamerica.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Truth and Respect in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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\u201cWe made a person who admitted sexual assault president.\u201d<\/p>\n

As you probably know, those words were uttered by Hillary Clinton, not long after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein <\/a>was exposed for decades of womanizing and sexual assault. Spoken like a woman who is as bitter as wormwood, Hillary is intent on never letting go of the fact that she lost the election. She desires to take President Trump down, and lying is just one of the ways she is attempting to pound a few more nails into the coffin of her rival, while taking the spotlight off her friend, Harvey.<\/p>\n

President Trump has never admitted to sexual assault. <\/span>He was accused of it<\/a><\/span>,<\/span><\/a> but unequivocally denied all accusations. One case in which he was accused of assault has gone to court more than once. But the young lady (Katie Johnson) involved keeps backtracking, saying she doesn\u2019t have a case after all, due to what she feels are threats on her life if she legally proceeds. A judge has also thrown out the case due to lack of of ability on Johnson\u2019s part to file a case correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe Johnson is telling the truth. Maybe she could use the 100 million bucks she\u2019s seeking. Maybe Trump is guilty and paid her off already, but she\u2019s a spender and needs more cash flow. Who knows? And that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

Who knows?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Certainly not Hillary. Definitely not me. Trump and Katie Johnson (and <\/span>maybe<\/span><\/i> billionaire Jeffrey Epstein) are the only ones who know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And at this point, all we know for sure is that Miss Johnson has been nothing short of willy nilly and ineffective in her attempt to prosecute, and Trump remains insistent on his innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it was the tape recording of the convo with Billy Bush that Hillary was suggesting made Trump guilty of admitting sexual assault, she needs to think again. Trump\u2019s vulgarity and suggestions of groping women without their consent in that recording were disgusting and inappropriate, no doubt. But verbal puke that could easily be mistaken for the rhetoric of a twelve year old pubescent boy does not automatically make one guilty of sexual assault. As suspicious and disgusted as that recording made all of us, none of us can say without a doubt that Trump acted out his words or has ever admitted to sexual assault, as Hillary claims.<\/p>\n

Also to be noted is that Trump has publicly apologized for that recording,<\/a> which is more than we can say for Hillary\u2019s husband, who did nothing but publicly defend himself after cheating on Miss Hillary. With his intern. While he was in the White House.<\/p>\n

Trump clearly tried to impress a fellow \u201cman\u201d with juvenile claims about grabbing women\u2019s body parts without consent. <\/span>But being a crude loud mouth doesn\u2019t automatically equal the actions of what that mouth claims. <\/b>If\u00a0it does, I\u2019ve got a list of celebrities who will, at some point in time, kill, or hire someone to kill President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly, the first female Democratic presidential candidate is out to discredit and destroy Trump, and she doesn\u2019t care how low she must go to do so. Harvey Weinstein was the focal point of the conversation in which she accused Trump of admitting to sexual assault, and her attempt to equate Trump with Weinstein was unfounded, untrue <\/span>as far as we know<\/span><\/i>, and unabashed.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got to get back to telling the truth in this country, even if it means our opponent doesn\u2019t look as bad as we would like him to look. Same as when rumors surfaced that Barack Obama is gay and prefers old men. Same as when Michelle Obama was accused of being transgender. If you don\u2019t know it\u2019s the absolute truth, don\u2019t spread it.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Hillary and the entire left could relax a little if they valued what our forefathers valued:\u00a0the balancing of powers.<\/em> Human nature, they knew, tends to veer off onto one side of the ditch or the other. If left unchecked, the left tends toward socialism or communism. If left unchecked, the right tends toward anarchy. Thank God neither of those ideologies were the plan for America. And thank God for the electoral college, which also protects us from ourselves.<\/p>\n

Truth is, twelve to sixteen years straight of gassed up liberalism (Obama years plus Hillary years) could have very well ended America as the forefathers intended. The other truth is, the forefathers were more in tune with the trends of humanity than 99.999% of Americans today. They didn\u2019t set up the American system on a whim. They forethought. They prayed. They studied humanity. They studied man\u2019s generosity, tendencies, and downfalls. <\/span>Then <\/span><\/i>they penned, after they grasped the extent of man\u2019s depravity, including their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has been good for America in many ways. He has balanced out some wicked and potentially destructive socialist and immoral thinking. You may be a socialist, and therefore offended at my praise of Trump for nixing what you view would be beneficial to America. But the only reason you think such thoughts is that you\u2019ve never lived socialism. And if you have, you\u2019ve not experienced how ugly things can get under that type of government.<\/p>\n

America is not perfect. Never has been. Never will be. But I cannot find another country in the history of mankind that has done better by way of economy, religious freedom, freedom of speech, or any kind of freedom. And if we want that to continue, we will stop the false accusations. The hate. The threats. The disrespect that only leads to division.<\/p>\n

Love your neighbor as yourself. I\u2019ve said that many times in my writings. But until we start doing it, we will fall short of being \u201cone nation, indivisible.\u201d And as the Good Book says \u2026 every city or house divided against itself will not stand.<\/p>\n

Neither Trump or Hillary are outstanding at unifying a country. We have to look back in history to find that kind of deep character, and I wish for my country\u2019s sake we would study up on the great people and minds who came to America so long ago to form a nation unlike any other. They were wise, thoughtful men. They were not perfect men. Likewise, America is not perfect and never will be. But their ideas of how a country should operate (which were not based on dictatorial methods or obese government) are the closest to perfect you\u2019ll ever find on earth.<\/p>\n

We would do well to respect what the forefathers intended. The forefathers\u2019 timeless ideas. And each other.<\/p>\n

Or, we could just continue to tear each other apart.<\/p>\n

Our choice, really. You think North Korea and little man Kim Jong-Un are a threat?<\/p>\n

Harrumph<\/span><\/i>!<\/span><\/p>\n

We are our biggest enemy.<\/p>\n

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.<\/span><\/i> \u00a0~Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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