I told you the natives here are very brilliant, but very dumb. The news provides a daily cache of case studies that underscore my point. It doesn’t surprise me that there is such a rich harvest of examples considering that many here believe the following: The universe and all that is within it came into being by some random act (perhaps of aliens); the theory of evolution has been settled by science; a fetus, a baby-in- the-womb, is a blob of tissue, not a person; abortion, the killing of a baby- in- the-womb, is not murder, and should be the most vigorously defended right of a woman, capitalism is evil; owners of businesses did not build their businesses and they do not create jobs; there is no such thing as objective truth; America is a bigger threat to world peace than ISIS; racism is a bigger threat to America than terrorism; Christianity is just as much to blame for terrorism as Islam (even more so than Islam, some say); the notion of climate change (or global warming) has long been settled by science and it is a bigger threat to the world than terrorism; the oil and coal industries are evil; there is no difference between a man and a woman; a man can marry another man and a woman can marry another woman and the resulting same-sex couple can arbitrarily assign the centuries-old terms of “wife” and “husband” peoples the world over, using different languages, have reserved only for the male or female halves of people in a spousal relationship; being homosexual is the same as being black; expressing views contrary to many of the foregoing constitutes “hate speech.”
I could go on and on about the liberal-inspired lies I hear in America. These lies are now deeply embedded in the worldview of the West, so it did not surprise me when a school district instructed teachers recently to stop using the term “boys” and “girls” and use instead the term “purple penguins.” Guided by the same gender-neutral thinking judges have ruled that men who think they are women can use women’s bathrooms. Parents of a six-year-old child, had their little girl undergo a gender- reassignment surgery that turned her into a boy.
With this level of confusion in a society is it a surprise that America is finding it hard to come up with a strategy to combat the many threats it faces? Political- correctness (adhering to the tenets of the liberal ideology — – liberal lies) now trumps common-sense. Glenn Beck was recently asked the sox things America must do to get up on track and I was thrilled to hear say “Common sense” six times.
Common sense dictates that the government takes extraordinary measures to repel the Ebola threat but the allegiance to political-correctness would not allow that. The public seems ahead of the experts —- government doctors and pubic-health officials —- in understanding what needs to be done to combat the virus. The experts are thinking globally and failing locally. The “locals” want their government to think locally and act logically.
The liberal-sounding nurse, Kaci, the first to be quarantined under state level laws, must have endured some form of deprivation while she cared for Ebola patients as a volunteer in Guinea, but she will not tolerate any form of discomfort in the U.S. to ensure that she does not infect others. She thinks globally only; thinking locally is not as heroic or exotic. Somebody please tell her they are Africans in the U.S. also and it is not fair that she put them in any kind of danger after saving the lives of their kinsfolk in Africa.
It is disconcerting to listen to highly-regarded professionals who oppose a travel ban or quarantine measures say things such as: The best way to stop an Ebola outbreak here is to stop the epidemic in Africa. Why can’t they do both . They are not mutually exclusive. Why can’t they apply the same logic in combating terrorism? If they do, U.S. government officials will be saying things such as: The best way to prevent terrorism at home is to stop it in the Middle East. What we hear is: No boots on the ground. We should be saying no Ebola on the ground too.
A family member just reported that our friend’s wife has forbidden him to associate with us because we are Africans. She said to her husband, “don’t you know they have visitors coming in from Africa.” This is a rational response to a real threat. The government can reassure the public that Africans here are Ebola-free by instituting quarantine measures for travelers coming into the U.S. from the Ebola-ravaged countries. Hysteria is more likely to develop if the public perceives that the government is not leveling with them and is not enacting common sense measures to combat a threat to public health or national security.
I continue to marvel that many Africans have been seduced by the liberal ideology. We should know better. I expect fellow Africans to still retain some native intelligence because we were not subjected to the damaging influence of the liberal ideology in our schools to the same degree as people here are.
