Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022 | 2 a.m.
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There are three fashionable philosophies ruining the country today. Our education system has done a poor job debunking them, and it shows.
First: We don’t need law because we have love. We just have to stop regulating everyone’s behavior and all will be well. The problem is that Christian love just isn’t enough, and as even Jesus knew. Jesus said the “weightier matters” of life are “judgment, mercy and faith.” He put judgment first because, in a way, it is the most important. We can truly give free rein to mercy, or soft love, only if we have tough love, or judgment/regulation, to back it up. The regulatory state must be paired with the merciful church, reason must be paired with faith, and judgment must be paired with mercy.
Second: Capitalism trickles down and raises everyone up. This may be true in a society where capitalists have a conscience. But the scions of the 1% class in America think of their own pocketbooks and no one else’s. They won’t pay their fair share, so capitalism is only trickling up today.
Third: A populist president can be given all the power — to make war, laws and taxes. That’s not a problem in a democracy. Oops, great big problem, because this is not a democracy anymore, or a republic, but a dictatorship.
