If You Let Them, They'll Use Your Decency to Wreck All Decency

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D. C. McAllister: Don’t Be Fooled: The Left Doesn’t Care About Morals; It Cares About Power

 

"We are not living in a time of spiritual or moral awakenings. We are living in a time of cultural and political war. Morality is a weapon in the struggle, used by the Left to attack or defend. If it works for them to puff up their own legitimacy and “reputation” as do-gooders and cultural saints, then they’ll use it. If it works to beat up on their opponents who are making political decisions no different than voters have made throughout the course of American history on both sides of the aisle, then they’ll don the armor of morality and take aim.

 

I’ve seen writers, politicians, pundits, and everyday voters on the Right quake with fear at the thought of supporting the “vulgar” Donald Trump or even voting for Roy Moore despite their concerns about his character, particularly if they don’t believe the accusers, yet they think his dating habits from 40 years ago were questionable. ...

 

The worst thing any conservative can do today, in any situation that is politically motivated on any level, is to think the issues before them are just about maintaining one’s own reputation or simply standing for “principles” without an eye to the battle. If you’re willing to abandon those who are in the political and cultural foxhole with you because you’re afraid to lose your personal moral authority (or the moral authority of a political party) due to labels manufactured by the Left, you’ve already lost your moral authority.

 

You don’t keep it or gain it by running from those who truly believe in principles but are fighting the Left’s manipulations on the political and cultural battlefield. You don’t gain it by standing on the sidelines shooting your own in the back. And you certainly don’t gain it by joining the enemy that has lured you into their ranks with sweet words of purity, principle, and promises of respect.

 

You gain it by standing unified with those who are engaged in the cultural and political battle against a social movement — an ideology — that uses morality as a weapon to destroy the very moral principles you stand for and the peace only God’s moral authority can establish. You gain it by wearing the objective righteousness of God, which no man and no association can rip from you. You gain it by wielding the weapon of truth against a culture based on lies.".......

 

I just sent Roy a contribution.

He's earned our trust and respect.