Here this one goes. Now that we are just months away from yet another election, this is something which may be a wise thing to consider.

Don’t panic because we aren’t going to talk about candidates, parties, red, blue or any of that.

There is something however that was brought to attention just recently, and this individual made a very valid and dignified point.

When it comes to politics, there are a zillion things we can talk about along with a zillion things we can disagree on. Truth be told America is not America if we agree on everything. It’s not how we work and is never going to be how we work. That being said, don’t lose any more sleep on that subject no matter what news network you watch. Make no mistake it doesn’t do any good to let your next door neighbor live inside your head rent free simply because they don’t agree with you on something.

We have better things to worry about.

Most of the time the things we are talking about in recent years aren’t even political issues. For some reason or another we seem to sadly be back to civil rights, and once again religion has been brought back into the mix.

There’s been a ton of discussion within just a few years on how we need, for some reason, to bring religion back into the classroom. Or more specifically bring Jesus back into the classroom.

By all means. By all means bring Jesus back into the classroom if it brings more peace along with a safer education. But don’t forget Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists will get to do the same with this logic, and will absolutely fight for it themselves.

“No. We are a Christian nation,” you might say. Predominantly this day and age sure this is true.

Given this fact, an old friend of mine who is a member of the Northern Arapahoe told me something that changed my life forever.

He said, “Rhett, unless your ancestors were here before 1492 you have absolutely no right to complain about illegal immigration.”

He later on would show me a copy of none other than Adolf Hitler’s vulgar ideologic manifesto, Mein Kampf. He then turned to a page where the infamous and despicable historical figure actually hinted praise to the United States for what they had done to Native Americans. A sort of inspiration if you will for what he and Heinrich Himmler ultimately had planned.

The rest as we know is history. 

“You see that?,” he said. “Your ancestors actually succeeded where he failed.” 

Not saying he was right, but really can’t say he was wrong either. Didn’t feel arguing with him at the time was the right thing to do. As a matter of fact I really didn’t have one. But indeed this was what a close Native American friend of mine showed me years ago.

Who was I to say he was wrong on that one? The suffering genocide of his ancestors was the topic of the conversation. We were talking about him, not me.

Moving forward from that, bringing Jesus won’t fix what we’re so angry at. More still and maybe even more specifically, it won’t cure what we’re afraid of.

The key word there is afraid. What is it we are so afraid of?

The Jesus this strange reporter came to know always spoke of tolerance, kindness, giving and enlightenment. Let Him sort everything else out, YOU just do the best you can while treating your fellow brothers and sisters with nothing but love and compassion. Fear and passing discriminating judgement rarely came into the equation when talking about the Jesus Christ I learned of.

That doesn’t seem to be the kind of Jesus a lot of this day and age Christians talk about these days for some reason. Quite the contrary it seems to be the exact opposite. So many use it as a tainted excuse to treat others whom they don’t like, or more likely understand, in any way they choose. 

But no worries because all is supposedly forgiven on Sunday. Once Monday rolls around, the whole thing starts right on over again.

Once again as a certain individual recently brought up, fear is a liar. It’s an outdated tactic used to instill terror, despair and subjugation upon others. For Heaven’s sake it’s a tactic every idiotic bully we went to school with used on us once upon a time. And remember how it felt to feel that kind of fear as a six year old? It didn’t feel too good did it?

Perhaps now is as good a time as any to get to the point.

Politics has changed, and not for the better. Science has been ignorantly ignored, astronomically wealthy corporate billionaires have the biggest hand in economics and once again we are back to the very ridiculous discussion about which people should or should not be able to use a public bathroom.

That discussion was already had during the Civil Rights movement, and sadly it looks like a small vulnerable group of people must peacefully fight for their rights again. All the while facing physical violence and persecution from people who claim to be “good morally conservative Christians.”

Over nothing but unenlightened fear and hateful intolerant anger.

As mentioned before these are not even political issues at all, but Civil Rights issues. There’s an old saying from a past president, and not one from recent years. He once said, “Good science means good economics. Good economics means good politics. And good politics is good for peace and prosperity.”

This is the sole purpose of separating of church and state. 

It should be pointed out over the last year and a half while regularly covering court cases for this sanctified local newspaper, nearly every single despicable perpetrator who sat in the defense chair was not, I repeat NOT today’s group of people; who on behalf of so much ignorant and irrational fear and anger have been targeted with violence and immoral intolerance.

On the contrary and perhaps very hypocritically, almost every single wife beating, child molesting, elderly abusing, raping, baseball bat assaulting defendant to sit in either in Goshen County Circuit or District Court was a straight, white, MALE.

Never has there ever been even the slightest hint of a gay man or woman sitting in the defendant’s chair. Never have I seen a transgender man or woman in our courtrooms who had done these things. Not one Muslim. Not on Asian.

Out of hundreds of cases, I saw only ONE black man and ONE illegal immigrant.

The illegal alien had come all the way from New Mexico and was pulled over for speeding on his way to South Dakota so he could give bone marrow to his dying brother. That was the one and only case of an “invasion” in this part of the country I ever saw. If we are being 100% truthful he actually smiled at me not knowing who I was or what I was there to do, shook my hand firmly and told me, “God Bless you.” 

He was then sent on his way with his pregnant wife who was there supporting him. And don’t worry, he did have consequences. Constitutional, lawful, humane and logical ones that is.

True story.

So many of us perhaps thought we were well past these discussions, but apparently we still have a long way to go. And it would be more than fair to say our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ would be incredibly ashamed.

This is not giving. This is not kindness. And this certainly is not compassion. Not by a long shot. It is however a spiritual way of life and enlightenment that has been corrupted as a self-righteous subterfuge to make the weak and vulnerable miserable and fearful for their own safety.

So this year exercise you Constitutional Right, get in there and vote for “whoever” you feel would be the best to lead this country into the future.

The future, not the past. The past is the past, and history is history. It’s not there for us to long for once again. It’s not coming back. It’s there for us to learn from, and we are already living tomorrow’s history. 

Make no mistake the children of tomorrow are watching and learning right now. And they know exactly what they want, and perhaps more importantly what they don’t want for their own future.

Let that sink in.

That being said, have a wonderful week. We’ll see you soon. And God Bless.