Societal progressivism

In the Monday, June 6, 2016 edition of The Courier, the front page story entitled, "Budget fight erodes programs," reported a program for youth offenders in a program in Rockford, Illinois, called, "Redeploy Illinois" had to be closed in October last year because there is no budget in Illinois to keep the program going.  In essence, the program diverted troubled youths after committing a crime to try to prevent them from committing other crimes.  The program was an alternative to jail.  The closing of the program left at least 40 juveniles without the one-to-one supervision they had been receiving.  Consequently, some of those very teenagers have been rearrested after at least 14 robberies were committed on one day in January.

Of course in the Twenty-First Century we obviously need to have special oversight with governmental programs to form an external control over the minds and behaviors of children and teens to keep them from robbing and pillaging from others.  Society has progressed so much over the past century that we have arrived at our carefully laid-out progressive, liberal utopia where there are few, if any, moral standards, and certainly no substantive internal controls on our behavior that may have in times past been taught in families, churches, and schools.  Our secularized society has ensured that our young people are aware of what might be "good" or "bad" according to their own personal desires and choices, as the system has stomped out of them any idea of "right" or "wrong."  There must be an external control factor to keep amoral people from praying on others' in our society.

The modern intelligentsia of society, especially in the most liberal, prestigious universities have taught several generations now the importance of rejecting anything that has any grounding in morality emanating from Deity.  Therefore, we have lost the teachings of family unity as a basic foundational function of teaching good conduct and righteous living.  A teaching that teaches youngsters the practice of avoiding those things that bring destruction to self and others.  Instead, they have taught those young minds that "the personal right to choose" is the paramount adventure in life. 

Any form of Deity, or even patriotism, is replaced by, "If it feels good, do it."  Deity has been replaced with the god of narcissism beginning with the love of self and no responsibility for anyone else. 

With materialism being the staple of economic commerce, in our newly developed world without borders, Idolatry has come roaring back as the god with power in wealth.  The world currency sits on the pedestal for every nation to acknowledge, as well as compete for dominance in the competition to be on top in the game of king on a hill.  Worship has been diverted to the new deities from Friday Night Gridiron to the Board Room titans of industry pulling the strings of the covey of politicians reading in vain the polls that send them in the direction they think they need to travel. 

 Honoring the family tradition has been replaced with the "government programs" that need to be funded with non-existent budgets.  Honoring parents has run out of steam by the political and economic practices that has separated families and placed them in the back of the line where they have been covered up by the idols of entertainment, celebrity, and wealth.  Even the life itself has gotten in the way of the liberal progressive who declares that life thought to begin with conception for thousands of years is now only fit to continue after conception if the person already living life decides to let the new life live or die.  Marriage is defiled at every turn; adultery is the mainstay of movies, television, billboards, and schoolrooms across the nation.

Stealing is considered a right; especially when youngsters are taught by the highest leaders in the land that those who are wealthy have likely stolen their wealth, or it has been built on the backs of generations preceding the current one.  The new mantra of idleness is "redistribution" because it is a "right" to give to those who do not have by taking from those who do.

Lying is not just a way of life anymore, it is a necessity of getting ahead.  Regardless if lying negates personal integrity or credibility, it will be used as legitimate methods to assert dominance over others, escape from misadventures and even convince some that lying "protects" others.  It propels people to the highest levels; perhaps even the highest political levels where its influence can continue the status quo. 

Finally, having a craving desire for having the materialistic things of others is a mainstay for robbery.  This, coupled with the personality disorder of the sociopathic personality that actually becomes the motto of gangs, corporations, workforces, Wall Street Hedge Fund operators, and almost everyone who seeks the possessions of others, they say, "You should be proud to give up what you have to give to me, because I am worth it, it is my right, and frankly, I deserve it."                   

America is in the process of losing morality, a personal relationship with the God of the Universe, a sense of knowing what is right versus wrong, the family structure that builds foundations on morality, the church that builds faith, love, and hope, educational systems that once lifted the morality of family and church, and the government that was once founded on a recognition of the Truth that rights are granted by God.

So, it should not be any surprise that even with the one-on-one supervision in a program funded by the government that has run out of money, the kids in that program return to their robbing, plundering, dissatisfied lives, disrespect for authority, lack of internal control that robs them of personal responsibility, and possible hopelessness and despair when they are lacking even a semblance of being taught the difference between right and wrong.  It is like a dog returning to its vomit.

Jim Killebrew