America and Americans are going through a rough time in the history of our nation. There is a lot of turmoil and racial upheaval right now. Just this week, in July of 2016 a black man from a sniper position, shot and killed 5 white police officers in Dallas, Texas. Police officers who were protecting mostly black protesters while they demonstrated. True, the demonstration was in opposition to the killing of two black men by police officers in the previous few days.
Too, we are at war with Radical Islam primarily in the middle east, but their terrorist tactics are spreading all over the world. An organization called ISIS is trying to establish what they refer to as a Caliphate State where they want to practice, what they call Islamic law or (Shari’a law after the teachings in the Qur’an, and the Hadith). Reports on the sayings and acts of their Prophet Mohammad which is the second most important source of the Islamic religion. Shari’a and Jihad in Hadith collections, means armed action or warfare to promote and further the Islamic Religion. More broadly they believe in forcing people to believe in Islam and if they refuse to become an Islamic worshiper they are put to death. Bernard Lewis finds that “the overwhelming majority of islamic classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists [i.e., specialists in the hadith]…understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.) The muslim or islamic radicals are extremely cruel and determined, even willing to blow themselves up in order to kill even one nonbeliever. An unbelievably ignorant and uncivilized doctrine (I hesitate to call it a religion unless you add, after the order of Lucifer) and yet they seem capable of recruiting fighters from all over the world. Our outgoing President (Obama)is incapable of doing anything about it, he can’t even say the word, “Islamic Terrorists” so we are waiting for the next president (Donald Trump) who will hopefully listen to his mili- tary commanders and be able to annihilate this threat against civilization. True, there are peaceful Muslims, probably those who do not understand the true doctrine of Islam.
America has always been a Christian Nation and as such we have been willing to fight evil wherever it has tried to dominate. Wherever the Hitlers and the Hirohito’s have thrived. Tony Blair the former Prime Minister of Great Britain said of Americans when asked by a Parliament member why he believes so much in America, he said: “A simple way to take measure is to look at how many want in …and how many want out. He added that there are only two defining forces that have ever offered to die for you: 1. Jesus christ and 2. The American G.I.—One died for your soul, the other died for your freedom.” However, our current military strength has diminished and our President is a pacifist. Right now, we wouldn’t be able to protect ourselves let alone other countries. This great country, has gone to support the ideals of freedom in many different places. We are a great country but when there are a hodgepodge of people from all over the world seeking asylum here or just wanting to immigrate, there are nearly as many different views as to what is right and how things should be. They did not grow up here seeing and hearing our American ideals. Too, there is great fear that Jihadists are infiltrating to cause terrorism on american streets.
The constitution was inspired of God and thank goodness the founding fathers built into it safeguards so that it takes a large majority to make any changes to it. Many people are unemployed and living on welfare, reasonable citizens do not want handouts they want to earn what they get. Many of the unemployed have stopped looking for work because there just aren’t any jobs available. Our President doesn’t know how to generate jobs and so the country is in a stalemate, while the national debt is rising at a furious pace (Now at 20 trillion).
Racial tension is high right now and a big part of the turmoil, hopefully, the next president, will be able to turn things around both to reduce racial tension and to control terroristic Jihadist. Our current black president, for the last eight years, Barack Obama, might well be the worst president in U.S. history. Here’s why. His liberal policies have set the country back 40 years in many ways. For example; “The keynote of America’s domestic politics for the last 60 or 70 years—sometime between the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs Board of Education, and the school desegregation deci- sion and the 1954 Civil Rights Act—has been the nation’s effort to undo the heinous wrongs that slavery and Jim Crow perpetrated on black Americans ever since the first slave was brought here in the 1640s. I am old enough to have had counterparts who were freedom riders, white college kids who went to Mississippi to register black citizens to vote. Some, I’ll never forget, returned with tales of old people, who had been blocking them from voting and exercising their rights as citizens. Many positive changes had been made in their lifetime some thinking they were a miracle in their own towns. Yet, there were many white people who were opposed. I remember how Sheriff Bull Connor turned the fire hoses and German Shepherds on those civil rights protesters, in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, and how that same year governor George Wallace stood at the door of the University of Alabama to prevent the enrollment of two black students, proclaiming himself Jefferson Davis’s spiritual heir and vowing “ segregation forever!” But what I most remember is skinny Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach walking heroically down that hostile Alabama street—alone, but followed by federal marshals—to force Wallace to stand aside and let the two students enter. It was a heart stopping moment like Gary Cooper walking toward the showdown on main street in ‘High Noon.’ I am old enough to remember all of those terrible times and we thought they were behind us but President Obama has supported a radical group designated as the “Black Lives Matter” movement. They have been divisive and hateful. Americans should agree and be one in saying that ‘all lives matter.’ There are racial turmoil, political turmoil and International turmoil affecting this great country right now. I know we will survive and thrive but this 2016 election will make the difference. We cannot afford to have another eight years of a democratic leadership. They do not know what they are doing. Their answer is welfare and to keep the poor on a leash. A republican with vision and guts is what this country needs right now. Of course the main ingredient in saving this great nation is getting God to bless us again. About 49% of the nation’s people have no faith in a Supreme Being. Hopefully, that as long as we have even a one digit majority that still have faith maybe there is a chance that God will bless us. Let us pray so!