Let's begin with a question and an answer: what do we mean when we say, "The perfect storm?" The answer is, "The perfect storm is an unusual combination of events or things that produce an unusually bad or powerful result." Therefore, it would be proper to say that we have finally arrived at a perfect storm in the presidency of Joe Biden. It's taken a long, long time to get us where we are, but, the perfect storm has arrived.
This perfect storm contains that unusual combination of events or things that produce unusually bad or powerful results, as the definition states. Regarding those unusually bad and powerful results, who would have imagined that a local mayor could stop citizens from worshipping while a casino could still operate? Who would have imagined that federal, state, and local leaders could punish Americans for living according to the objective truth that we are created male and female? Who could have imagined that adoption agencies would be punished for living out their belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? Or that a baker, a florist, or a web designer could be ruined for their Christian beliefs and practices?
Who would have imagined that a New Hampshire high school student was suspended from playing football for one game after a conversation taking place off-campus in which he insisted there are only two genders. Who would have thought that a law in Colorado prohibited Lori Smith from stating her biblical beliefs about marriage on her business website and that law also forced her to design websites promoting same-sex weddings since she promoted traditional weddings. (John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote that to punish a person by depriving him of his livelihood is the same as sending him to prison.)
Who would have thought that this quotation inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC would be rendered null and void by any state in the Union: "Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man . . . shall suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively."
Who would have thought that our Founding Fathers would become controversial, even vilified; who would have thought that "The Star Spangled Banner" would be controversial; who would have thought that an elementary school in Connecticut would require its students to engage in its "Social Justice Lesson Standards," which includes transgender content being exposed to children as early as kindergarten? And who would have thought that libraries would promote a story reading time for children with stories read by men dressed and made up as women? And who would have thought that approving parents would take their children to such perverted events?
Leaders lie. Leaders know they lie. The people to whom they are lying know they lie. The leaders know that people know they lie. They lie anyway. Who would have imagined that a TV news reporter would stand outside with a city being burned in the background and call what we're seeing "a fiery, but mostly peaceful protest."?
Enough already. Those are symptoms of the perfect storm, but the question is, what has caused the storm? The perfect storm has been building for a long time; we've observed its thunder and lightning in the distance for decades and now, in the presidential administration of Joe Biden, its fury has hit land and that fury cannot be said to be its full wrath. .
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