There's a Right and There's a Wrong

There's a Right and There's a Wrong by Bill Wilson

With all the visceral and the hate stirring the crucible of what has become of America's melting pot, people seem to forget there is a right and a wrong to all this. John Wayne, delivered an iconic line in the 1960 movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other."

How true. Many excuse the hate mongering by saying "well, both sides do it." Perhaps to an extent. There is no moral equivalence, however, if one side does it 620 times and the other side only half a dozen, mostly in defense from the other. We have to realize that there is a rebellion going on, a coup attempt at the highest level. Suspend your disbelief. It is happening. Right and wrong are coming into focus. Where do you stand?

It is not right for elected officials to say things like, "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," or "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?"

"The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic-you name it," or calling conservatives, ""virulent people, some of them the dregs of society," or "if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."

These statements by the immediate past president, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Maxine Waters are all very aggressive, depict hate for those who disagree with them, and have stirred unlawful and violent acts.

These kinds of comments have a far different tone than: "The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People,"

"Democrats are the problem. They don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13, or of Islamic terrorists."

"We don't want them here. We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. "

"We want to admit only those into our country who will support our country, and love deeply our people."

Each of these statements by President Trump have caused hour upon hour of so-called news commentary from liberals concluding that Trump and conservatives are racists, bigots, Nazis, and worse. There is no moral equivalency in comparing the statements from the two sides.

These are the statements of just a handful of elected officials. There are countless more by actors, mainstream media reporters and commentators creating an atmosphere of mistrust and contempt.

A statement about policy is twisted to mean something it didn't intend while statements accusing people of being a bigot or urging people to confrontation are heralded as what is right. They publicly tried and convicted a man of sexual offenses, while withholding information that proved his innocence in an admitted attempt to destroy his reputation-all because they believed they were morally right to prevent him from being on the Supreme Court.

Isaiah 5:20 says, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness."

Yes, there's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. Are you voting?