Polarize This!

By Author: Ed Howes
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Surely the theme for the recent U.S. elections was polarization versus unity. According to Scripture, A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. A nation of double minded people is unstable in all its ways. A nation where street crime is punished and high crime rewarded. Where corporate drug pushers sell stock, kill millions of people annually (no one knows the actual numbers because drug poisoning appears as natural causes on a coroner's report, due to the time span.) and street drug pushers are locked in cages for many years. A nation that virtually eats its young while pretending nothing is more important than their welfare. A nation which responds to the mass murder of three thousand people by murdering and maiming hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions before they are done. A nation that pretends to economic and military might when it is economically, morally, politically and spiritually bankrupt. Polarized is the understatement of all time.

If one rotten apple spoils the entire barrel, the barrel of rotten apples has become unified; all apples the same because there was no discrimination between the spoiled ...
... and the healthy when polarization first began. America will reach unity when no good apples remain, so let us vote for rotten leaders who hold before us the great promise of unity. Let us become vinegar to the world that we not be cast off as worthless. And why do the apple packers put good and rotten apples in the same barrel? Because they have been told all apples are equal and if they are not equal, they must be treated as though they are. That is their job.

The whole idea of equality is a trap. Nobody buys every product in the supermarket to avoid discriminating between products, but that's what we do with government policy, local, state and national. We may protest one or another, but in the end, we buy whatever they are selling and shrug it off.

When you come right down to it, the only thing we are polarized about is the lesser evil. We accept evil as a given, then argue, debate and vote about degree. Do you know why? It is because smarter people than we want it that way. They write our laws, control our leaders, our finances, our educations and our tastes. They choose political candidates and finance their campaigns. There is no aspect of American life they do not influence or control to some degree. They are the reason America is completely worthy of the world's contempt. It is not necessary we know their names or where they live. We can call them democracy and make everything OK.

Abe Lincoln was probably not the first to say a house divided cannot stand but the saying is true enough. America was divided in its revolutionary beginning and has been all along. The most unification it has ever known has been to win and wage war. Now that we are war weary, or soon will be, we will fall into the abyss we have been teetering on more than two hundred years. It won't be pretty and neither will it be prevented by some charismatic uniter.

Polarity is good, though my bi -polar friends and those close to them might argue the point. It's as natural as night and day. Beware the great uniters who, like Stalin and Hitler would merge day and night into endless skies of gray. Beware the war mongers who receive their orders from powers unelected. Beware the holy men deceiving in the name of God. Beware the ignorance that leads to destruction. Seek the saving light so skillfully concealed.

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