Lehigh Valley Conservative

Now we consider the position of agreement away of arriving at an answer to the issue.  Rarely will we ever consider the reasoning as to “Why” we made that decision when it comes to political positions.  The guiding rule and criteria sound something like this:
 
“He’s a nice guy.” 
“He is generally right on most issues I’m sure he will be ok on this issue.”
“We can’t expect him to be right all the time.’
“That’s a private matter and should not be considered in the political arena.”
“What we need is a good manager and he does have that, so forget those other things.”
“He is good for the district.”

If you combine this reasoning with some vague standards it is not hard to judge the politician as worthy of your vote and be easily convinced that we agree with him.  The fact that we are in agreement makes things appear to be all right and that fact allow us to be comfortable with our decision.  There will be no depth of analysis, no delving into the issue to find if this agreement is founded on truth.

I say this not to sound negative or suggest it is bad when one agrees or disagrees with a politician or political candidate.  This Phenomenon of  “political correctness” has allowed the politician to play on people’s emotion.  It has polarized the people into liberal  “correctness” or conservative “correctness” and we have found it difficult too break out of that pattern of reasoning.

We as social animals need each other therefore agreeing with one another become very important.  This fact of needing one another has been used to force and manipulate us into positions of correctness in most areas’ of life.  We must discard this political correctness in order that we can truly understand what is wrong.  It is not that agreeing is wrong, if in fact you agree, but I say we have lost the ability to judge using a set of standards. That standard once held this country together.  The standard that allowed us to judge positions and issues while still maintaining a semblance of unity is gone.   And to make matters worse we have not only lost the “how to” but we have lost the unifying “standard”.  That standard was “God’s Law” as put forth in the Holy Bible, it told us who we are and what was required of us.  The political correct crowd has made a mockery of this standard we once had and used.

At one time it was not uncommon to call into question a politician and his position and then ask him by what standard he came to that position.  Why is your position correct?  Is it not against God’s Law to do that?  We have drifted so far from that reasoning process that we are now only left with agreement and disagreement, and that folks is dangerous.