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<\/a>This might come as a shock to my fellow conservatives, but the simple truth is that America owes the world an apology.\u00a0 Actually, we owe the world an apology several times over for sins past, present, and even some future that are inevitable.\u00a0 Those shortcomings are not going to be paid <\/span>just <\/span><\/i>by Americans, but by all people.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
Today is both the anniversary of the signing of one of the five greatest political documents of human history, as well as the birthdate of the nation based upon that document. Somehow that seems the right time to offer that apology.\u00a0 So without hubris or further ado, please allow me to speak on behalf of all Americans.\u00a0 Well, all who are philosophically Americans.\u00a0 Too many <\/span>citizens<\/span><\/i> have abandoned the heritage that makes them Americans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> In fact, that is the first thing I want to apologize for.\u00a0 That America has permitted an environment in which so many <\/span>have<\/span><\/i> turned their backs on that heritage.\u00a0 Part of America\u2019s heritage is its tolerance; especially of ideas or beliefs that are hateful or downright wrong.\u00a0 Now the freedom to express even those ideas is sacred to America and must be defended.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> What <\/span>cannot<\/span><\/i> be defended is the silence of so many in failing to respond.\u00a0 Many simply believe that what we see happening now couldn\u2019t happen today.\u00a0 Or, they just want to live in peace.\u00a0 Yes, we are waking up and <\/span>speaking<\/span><\/i> up over the last few years.\u00a0 Yes, the pillars of federal and even global power are showing justifiable fear.\u00a0 However, it was wrong to hide from the need to speak and we hope that the world will someday forgive us.\u00a0 In fact, it is this great sin that leads to so many of the other apologies called for.<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for surrendering the meaning of the once noble words <\/span>Liberal<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Progressive<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 By their true meanings, America is still the most progressive and liberal nation in human history.\u00a0 However, we have allowed the most vile and perverted ideology in human history to abscond those meanings.\u00a0 Words mean things.\u00a0 By taking possession of those meanings Americans have allowed those who now bear the labels of liberal or progressive to manipulate the conversation or to shut it down entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for confusing the idea of tolerance with submission.\u00a0 This is especially true when that is applied to an ideology that is taken root in one third of a party that represents one third of our people <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> that ideology is one that has resulted in more death, poverty, and evil than all others in the scope of human history combined.\u00a0 And, yes, I am talking about socialism in all its principle forms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for surrendering our educational system to those same vile, self-labeled progressives.\u00a0 This is a sin against our future, so I also apologize to our own youth, though in my defense many of us have been actively standing against it.\u00a0 Some have been teachers, themselves.\u00a0 Others have taken their children out of those systems and homeschooled.\u00a0 Still, we haven\u2019t done enough though we are now beginning to speak up and loudly.\u00a0 Please forgive us for taking so long to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for neglecting the principles of our Bill of Rights which is a central part of American philosophy and our Constitution. America is unique amongst nations in that it is based upon the principles that sovereignty starts with the individual and is delegated to the central government, not the other way around.\u00a0 Those Amendments exist to empower individual liberty and to limit the federal power.\u00a0 They are precious and necessary to a truly free people.<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for permitting our government to delegate the authority to oppress people throughout the world to technological companies.\u00a0 We stood by while semantics were bandied and permitted these \u201cprivate businesses\u201d to do, in governments\u2019 (lower case \u201cg\u201d) name, that which is explicitly illegal for our Governments to do. True, even many of the Western Democracies do not fully recognize the liberty our First Amendment protects.\u00a0 Nevertheless, they are going to be impacted as we reassert those liberties that the – so called – \u201cBig Tech\u201d try to deny us.<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for Hollywood and the American entertainment empire.\u00a0 <\/span>Dear God<\/b>, do we apologize for inflicting <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> onto the world.\u00a0 That alone could make a nation into a laughing stock if anyone outside their own clique took them seriously.\u00a0 The good news is that few in America <\/span>do<\/span><\/i> take them as more than the embarrassing relatives that you try to hide from the public.\u00a0 The better news is that the trash that they are spewing is being increasingly rejected and that they are consuming themselves in response.\u00a0 Please do not judge the American people by what you see of the celebrity class.\u00a0 They are not representative of America or Americans.\u00a0 Many of them are not even Americans, but are immigrants themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n We apologize for not preserving the integrity of our process of choosing our leadership.\u00a0 Unlike most of the world, too many in America have either forgotten or intentionally try to subvert the importance of our electoral process.\u00a0 The mistaken idea that \u201cEvery vote counts,\u201d has taken precedence over preserving the integrity of the election.\u00a0 Without the latter the actual votes don\u2019t mean anything.\u00a0 This is not a new problem.\u00a0 John Fund has been writing about it and documenting it at least a far back as 2000.\u00a0 It goes back in an institutional manner, at least to the 1960 election of John Kennedy.\u00a0 It\u2019s taken 60 years, but at least the public at large is now taking off the blinders.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry for the instability this is going to cause.<\/span><\/p>\n We also apologize for the next three years.\u00a0 Because of our failure above, we have allowed the installation of a leader that, at best, is mentally impaired or, at worst, is actively opposed to the core principles of American political philosophy.\u00a0 This, at least, is something we can correct in the next year.\u00a0 This failure is going to harm the rest of the world far more than it will harm us.\u00a0 Americans are a cheerful people.\u00a0 We are resilient, hard working and have access to unimaginable wealth because we understand that wealth is something that we can create.\u00a0 We will weather the pain that Joe Biden will create and come out stronger in the end.\u00a0 The rest of the world will suffer far more for it, and for that we are sorry.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, we apologize for allowing the collective guilt of a political party that throughout its history supports slavery and oppression to project its institutional guilt upon the rest of our great society.\u00a0 Just know that their numbers, in spite of what Hollywood or their own elite might suggest, are shrinking.\u00a0 Also know that those among them that currently hold power and use the current President as little more than a sock puppet represent only about a third of its members.\u00a0 Almost all the Democrats that I know are good, hardworking people who still believe in those core American principles.\u00a0 They are beginning to awaken to the deception of their leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, there are a few things I will not apologize for, on behalf of myself <\/span>or<\/span><\/i> America.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I will not apologize for sins of the past.\u00a0 Those sins have been paid for already, and in blood.\u00a0 In theology we have an idea called sanctification.\u00a0 It recognizes that humans are a fallen and imperfect creature.\u00a0 That after repentance and forgiveness, we enter a period of slow perfection by the Holy Spirit where we strive and fail.\u00a0 Pick ourselves up again, and strive further.\u00a0 This is a process that will not be complete until a person stands before God and is perfected.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Similar is true for America.\u00a0 We are amongst the most enlightened people in history, and I will never apologize for that, either.\u00a0 Yet we are imperfect since we are made up of fallen individuals.\u00a0 We, as a nation, are in a continuing process of sanctification that will never be finished.\u00a0 We will succeed.\u00a0 We will fail.\u00a0 We will pick ourselves up and do better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But understand this, dear world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We will <\/span>not<\/b> be bowed by guilt for the few, or by the Necessity that forced historical compromise with them, or for our successes in overcoming them.<\/span><\/p>\n Nor will we apologize for our wealth.\u00a0 I am not talking about the wealth of multinational corporations that have little connection to American values and principles.\u00a0 I am talking the immense wealth of the American people as a whole.\u00a0 This is one of the great blessings of American liberty.\u00a0 It allows the <\/span>creation<\/span><\/i> of wealth.\u00a0 That blessing creates a responsibility, though, to help spread that wealth and better the world as a whole.\u00a0 That is not done as so many failed ideologies believe, by taking by force from those who have it and giving it to those who don\u2019t.\u00a0 It is done by preserving and \u201cEnsuring the blessings of liberty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n There is a reason that so many risk their lives to come to America.\u00a0 It is the same reason that so many <\/span>give<\/span><\/i> their lives to preserve it.\u00a0 In spite of everything, America remains a shining beacon on a hill.\u00a0 The beacon may be flickering at the moment.\u00a0 We might even need to stir the embers a bit.\u00a0 Rest assured, though, it is far from going out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Now, with that said, go and celebrate our Independence Day.\u00a0 Let the world celebrate it with us.\u00a0 The principles of our Declaration of Independence do not just apply to America.\u00a0 It applies to all people.\u00a0 Institutionalizing those principles in our documents and our ways of life is our gift to posterity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This might come as a shock to my fellow conservatives, but the simple truth is that America owes the world an apology.\u00a0 Actually, we owe the world an apology several times over for sins past, present, and even some … Continue reading
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