Words for Thoughts

YHWH is One  Yeshua is Lord!

“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extremism on either side is inconsistent with a peaceful and civil existence for a republic such as the one that exist as the United States of America in any epoch. This is why the President should be a centrist who’s only concerns should be to Father the nation like the first President George Washington.  It should not be the intent of the President to boldly and religiously exercise his will and agenda over the people but to protect provide and advance the nation by the councils of prudence and wisdom with the help of God Almighty.   

A political extremist is someone whose beliefs fall outside mainstream societal values and on the fringes of the ideological spectrum. In the U.S., the typical political extremist is motivated by anger, fear, and hatred — most commonly toward the government and people of different races, ethnicities, and nationalities. Some are motivated by specific issues such as abortion, animal rights, and environmental protection.

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-political-extremist-1857297

“In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. There's a big difference. You can have a philosophy that tends to be liberal or conservative but still be open to evidence, experience, and argument. That enables people with honest differences to find practical, principled compromise. On the other hand, fervent insistence on an ideology makes evidence, experience, and arguments irrelevant: If you possess the absolute truth, those who disagree are by definition wrong, and evidence of success or failure is irrelevant. There is nothing to learn from the experience of other countries. Respectful arguments are a waste of time. Compromise is weakness. And if your policies fail, you don't abandon them; instead, you double down, asserting that they would have worked if only they had been carried to their logical extreme.”
― Bill Clinton, Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy

The present president is the catalyst for further division of this nation under-girded by extremism from the four winds of greed, me-ism, idolatry and prejudice. Logical thought and reason have been replaced by the exercise of extremist views of those who hold the advantage of political power and money verses those who shout the loudest with a perverted form of protest. Healthy debate, insightful rhetoric have been replaced by dismissive rants and bullying by the political powerful. Citizens are being cheated out of unbiased decisions by the Judges.  1st amendment rights are being shattered by the misuse of protest that were mindfully and righteously used by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movement.  What we are seeing today is the  implosion of a nation.  We need a return to normalcy,  a backing off of the extremes.

If men can’t follow the Holy Spirit of God they ought to at least follow logic and reason. The grounded voice of solemn compromise and truth rings loud but extremism distorts the mind where logic and compromise is thrown out of the window. The extremist government attempts to exercise social control.  Social control and existential conditioning has tainted the soul of diversity in this nation, it has pushed down the Afro American since it’s inception.  It has pushed those who are deemed or who deem themselves different to the outskirts of society and have made them extreme in their fighting back.  

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

People are preoccupied trying to be something other than what they are or doing more and being better than someone else, proving something to somebody while putting down his neighbor all instead of being themselves. Presidents want to be legions, the haves want it all, everybody wants it their way without thinking of the rights and needs of the others. Being the best you and being seen righteous in the sight of YHWH is all you need to succeed mightily. In this era of me-ism people are doing the contrary.  Many are shouting individualism and self expression while attaching themselves to group-ism and the groups fights “all others” claiming their hegemony on society while the “all others” are doing the same. I prefer not to go down the road of extremism because eventually it all comes crashing together.  We all must learn to get along.