I'm convinced one of the major transitions we're witnessing -- culturally, politically, and spiritually -- flows from the long overdue demolition of a double standard.
In the past few weeks, Netflix and other studio heads have peevishly declared their unwillingness to film in Georgia because of more restrictive abortion legislation. A few months ago, Gillette essentially dumped all heterosexual men into the Harvey Weinstein bucket. Most famously, before the last presidential election, Hillary Clinton declared half the country "deplorable" for not embracing higher taxes, sexual fluidity, ISIS pandering, and open borders.
If Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush had been facing off against Hillary, they would have bowed their heads and politely apologized for their own deplorables. John McCain embodied a "kiss the wicked" approach as well -- saving most of his wrath for real Americans. They all would have lost, politely to a political Jezebel, and they would have congratulated themselves for being "gentlemen" on their way to the first tee at the country club.
Trump is emblematic of a larger phenomenon. Conservative politicians are fighting back. This week, the president called Bette Midler, colorfully, a "washed up psycho." This, of course, is painfully true, but no statesmen has had the courage to actually say what millions of Americans are thinking. It's exhilarating -- and it goads the left into making all sorts of sputtering mistakes. They are too angry to fight back rationally, because they are so used to the opposition apologizing for being attacked.
It's time now for businessmen and pastors to follow suit. The corporate left has been doing this for years -- virtue signaling to their liberal base and defying conservatives to object. I'm not a large business, but I'm big enough to have hired PR firms and advertising agencies, and the conventional wisdom is that nice, happy conservatives shops should never do what Netflix did this week. Nice, happy, community pastors should keep it polite and boring. Happy, polite daddies at the dinner table should just let the green-haired harpy sophomore home from college dominate the conversation with woke church nonsense.
No more. We are going to tell the truth. We are going to insult, to ridicule, to rebuke.
Get your prophetic voice on people. The best kind of love is savage truth.
