It is sadly remarkable the number of “journalists” and Democrats
who do not understand the founding principles of the nation they purportedly
“serve.” The examples are legion. Recently, MS Now host Katy Tur not only mixed
up the founding documents, but seemed dumbfounded at the idea that all men derive their rights from God. Yet. this is the irreplaceable idea, the
principle that separated the United States from all other nations that came
before. This concept should be obvious, but, tragically is not.
Tur noted that House Speaker Mike Johnson recently prayed at an event
in Washington, stating: “Our rights do not derive from the government; they
come from you, our Creator and Heavenly Father.” So the vapid talking head
asked, “Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?” Um, Ms.
Tur, it was in the Declaration of Independence that the Founders clearly
stated that our rights come from God.
I have written about this for more than a decade, because it is the key to everything. No matter what
anyone else thinks, if this notion isn’t true, than nothing really matters. If
an individual’s—or even group’s—rights don’t come from God the Creator, than
you, I, and everyone else don’t have any. If rights come from other men,
whether that be individuals, groups, or government entities, if that person or
those people determine you don’t have any…than you don’t. If the Third Reich
says Jews have no rights and should all be baked in ovens, that is what they
decided and it can’t be wrong…by definition—if rights are granted—or not—by
other people and not by God.
If Bob, or the legislature, decides that Capricorns should be
imprisoned and that Libras should be denied free speech, freedom of religion,
and the right to gather, well, that’s just the way it is. They have decreed it
so. If a political party decides that, say, white people should not be allowed
to own firearms, then white people should not be allowed to own firearms.
Period. It is what it is if there is no higher or more legitimate authority,
right? Consider that, for more than a century and a half, Democrats fervently
denied that black people should have the same rights as white folks. So they
enslaved them and put them on plantations. To this day Democrats desperately
try to put blacks on mental, moral, and political plantations, chaining them to
welfare, victimhood, and entitlement while attempting to earn their votes by
telling them they “care.” Monstrous. Vile.
If other people somehow have the right to determine your rights, you
have no rights. If you and
I had the right to determine what rights others have or don’t have, that would
not be a good thing, either, because they would have no inherent rights.
And we would be playing God.
The American founders recognized that every human being is born with
certain unalienable rights. And, just as importantly, that legitimate
governments are instituted among men to protect those rights, not grant
or deny them. This is why they were so leery of pure democracy. They didn’t
believe it was just for 51% of the voters to have the power to do whatever they
wanted to the other 49%.
And it is also the reason that Democrats and other big government
types are so disdainful of America, the Founders, the rule of law, and
Christianity. They believe they should determine all, and they can’t
countenance competition. No one hates the idea that our rights are derived from
our Creator more than actual—or would-be—tyrants and totalitarians. Like, for
example, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
and the Democrat Party.
If a nation or society doesn’t believe there are unalienable rights
granted unto us by our Creator…than nothing can be wrong…and evil doesn’t
exist. And that nation won’t long exist, either.
Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
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