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Right and Wrong

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After watching Meet the Press this morning and hearing all the reporters discuss the malaise in the country, they completely missed the point: we’ve removed God from everything and taken morals away. Nobody does any wrong any more.

The media has to confess that they don’t report facts; they report people’s feelings and their own. If we don’t get back to recognizing that we have a right and wrong, we’re only heading down. Right and wrong came from our belief in God. It is through knowledge from God and the Ten Commandments we have morals. Without it, people pursue their own greedy way. The reason for so much dislike of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that they show no moral principles. Trump is hedonistic, narcissistic and arrogant. Clinton is a seeker of power and money in any form, in any way.

We are becoming a godless society, in danger. Look at the Roman Empire: they were so far flung they spread themselves too thin and were completely without morals.

Chuck Todd and his guests did not once talk about morals, but one on thing we can agree: no matter who is elected, there will be more turmoil. This will go on unless everyone, especially our leaders, recognize right and wrong and truth, which is morals.

I don’t know what all the answers are, but I know there are too many people running around blind-sided. The media must begin to realize what their purpose is, and that is to give the facts, not their opinions. We’ll never know what the true story is unless they do.

And that’s where we are.

 

 

Politics is stuck in a Catch-22

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After I listened to Meet The Press this morning, I could not keep my mouth shut another minute. I could not believe  Chuck Todd nor his guests didn’t see what I heard: the Catch-22 in American politics today.

In 1961, Joseph Heller published Catch-22 and gave us the perfect example of what’s happening now. All political speech today is Catch-22. If you don’t know what it means, go to the dictionary and look it up. [Editor’s note: I’m not linking to it because Puff would like you to look it up yourself and we all do what Puff says around here.]

Politicians speak in Catch-22-ese, so voters don’t get real answers, and that’s why voter turnout is so low. But it’s not just on the politicians. All American people need a course in basic Logic, so they can discern whether something is a contradiction (black and white) or a contrast (grey matter).

We don’t have logic today; we live in Catch-22: politicians don’t want to say anything that someone might vote against, so nobody knows what they’re saying. We need to make people’s brains move a little bit better and argue a point. We need to look at something someone is saying and ask ourselves, “What are the points here?”

This really affects everyone out there who is running for election and all the elections coming up next week. Let’s see if the men and women who are running for office can speak in logical terms on election day.