TOLERANCE
Both Democrat and Republican parties have taken a dangerous turn to the left with their liberal, progressive, or moderate (whichever term you like to use) outlook on domestic and international affairs. This naive attitude of love your fellow man is not only foolish, it is impossible. When it comes to love, you can only love what you know. To expect me to love someone I’ve never met, who may be harboring murderous thoughts, who has professed to hate me for who I am, is ridiculous.
The French Revolution showed clearly that the concept of the Brotherhood of Man just doesn’t work. Belief in the old Beatles song, “Love is All We Need” is just plain silly. The best we can hope for is tolerance of each other. To think that one can transfer the love one feels for family members to the entire world is not only dangerous, it is preposterous.
In today’s society, liberals show their “love” of their fellow man by trying to shut them up every time they say something that doesn’t suit their idea of the perfect society. Political correctness is the essence of their love. Instead, if they had tolerance for those who they don’t agree with things would go a lot smoother.
In Nazi Germany, back in the 30s and 40s, Hitler carried intolerance to the next step. He exterminated those who did not fit into his idea of the perfect society. His concept of love was distinctly different than most. We see his example of love being carried out in the present by fundamentalist Islam.
Societies work together best when they tolerate each other’s differences. America became the richest most powerful country on the planet, not from loving our neighbors, but from tolerating the diverse ethnicities in our society. We believed in the “melting pot” theory where aliens pledged their allegiance to our country and kept their way of life to themselves. No one asked them to love Americans. We all tolerated each other. We all got along. It was only when intolerance reared its ugly head that civil rights became a problem.
To those of us who remember the Reverend Moon, the Korean charismatic who preached world love, we saw the absurdity of this love nonsense with his mass weddings. He would randomly pick from his congregation single men and women and have a mass wedding on the spot. Unbelievably, this is how most liberals view the entire world; that we can just as easily love one another on a mass scale.
Liberalism can’t work; it doesn’t, never has, and never will. It is based on lies rather than on any set of beliefs with solid moral foundations. It’s a lie that we must all “love one another.” It’s a lie that there are no differences between the sexes, that there should be economic equality, and that all people are equally intelligent, therefore, all should have equal access to higher education.
Instead of tolerating the differences in people, liberals insist upon society being lumped together and bringing everyone down to one level of equal misery. Such is their concept of love of the poor and intolerance of the rich.
I don’t love that fat person in front of me at the grocery checkout who is making me wait while she checks out a whole cart full of groceries, and pays with a government food card. I don’t hate that person when I check out my package of hotdogs and can of beans, and pay with my hard earned cash. I don’t hate that fat person as I watch her unload her booty into a new Lexus while I crank up my old beat-up Ford pickup. I can’t love her, but I can tolerate her until I can work my way up the pay scale.
So don’t insult my intelligence and tell me I must love mankind. And don’t tell me it’s the Christian thing to do because that is just another myth handed down from Reformation times. I give you “...in my father’s house there are many mansions.” He didn’t say there was room for all in one big house. Moreover, Jesus didn’t say we had to love those who hate us, in fact his advice, if I correctly remember, was to shake the dust off your heels and split the scene.
Is love going to solve our domestic and global social problems? I can’t see that happening in this century, but I can predict that tolerance is much more desirable than hatred. Tolerance doesn’t mean a show of weakness, merely giving in to those who try to push us around, but reasonably putting up with people may be the only common sense solution for now. Maybe, just maybe, far into our future we will have mellowed out and learned to love one another after generations of tolerating each other.