I recently published an article over at The Consortium Blog that offers a simple solution to one of the most enormous and complex bugbears facing society today. The hobgoblin I have in mind is not one of your typical most-wanted public enemies that dominate conversations in the public square.
In one particular way, it is a serpent more dangerous than legalized abortion, more slimy than same-sex marriage, and more frightening than the socialist left-wing agenda, the nationalist right-wing agenda, the “swamp” in Washington D.C., infringement on second-amendment rights, crony capitalism, the communist (and fascist) agendas threatening academia, the corruption in corporate America, the feminist, transgender, and LGBTQ agendas, the demise of the American church, the atheists, the attorneys, or the anarchists—or any one of the plethora of agendas belonging to the myriad culture-warriors and ideologues gracing primetime television and your Facebook newsfeed.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not dismissing the fact that these Basilisks are all very deadly. They represent a number of the most villainous monsters pulling at opposite sides of the very place where the nation’s fabric is sewn together—and it appears all of the seams may tear at once—but the viper I have in view is actually much stealthier and much more dangerous because it prevents all of the issues previously mentioned from being addressed truthfully.
To change metaphors momentarily, like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, the most serious troublemaker, the real enemy to blame, is… [Read the Rest on the Consortium Blog]
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