Silliness. We have real problems and people are arguing over a name of a tree. No wonder we are in such deep trouble.
I would say the governor, a public employee works for the people and is not a dictator so the people of RI should tell the government to STFU.
The tree is symptomatic of the trouble we are in.
“Silliness. We have real problems and people are arguing over a name of a tree”.
...progressives have such a hatred for christianity and liberty they can’t control themselves. When Chaffee walks by that Christmas tree it angers him to no end.
Your post exhibits a monumental lack of insight.
“Silliness. We have real problems and people are arguing over a name of a tree. No wonder we are in such deep trouble.”
You’re missing the larger picture of what’s going on here. This country’s turning it’s back on God by rejecting Jesus Christ IS the problem from which everything else ails us. Whether or not to call it a Christmas tree or call to eliminate ‘In God We Trust’ on our coins is representative of this.
It seems silly but is more important than it seems. There is reality. Then there are symbols through which we primitively and emotionally connect to reality and truth in a kind of right brain way. Finally, there are words, which are shorthand symbols and more left brain and reasoned ways of relating to reality. When you change the WORDS you are, bit by bit, changing the meaning of things and the truth and power of them.
There is a reason the left always focuses first on changing our WORDS. It is something that seems trivial and something people usually agree to...but ultimately they are changing reality and our connections to our own traditions and our connections to our children and grandchildren with whom we share less and less. Our culture goes on because, though music and places change, buildings are torn down, inventions come in that older people can’t relate to, etc., still we can connect to those things that have stayed the same. Our Valentine’s Day party at school with sugar cookies is like what our grandchild is experiencing, our Christmas party is like theirs and so on. Take away those things and replace them with the “new” things and the connection weakens over time. Lose the word CHRISTMAS and you have lost something intangible, but very real.
Not “silliness” at all. Think about it - its just another part of their larger socialist agenda.
Not “offending” anyone is only the excuse. If that wasn’t there, it would be on some other pretext.
De-Christianize the country, de-humanize human beings, demonize and distort everything worthwhile, deconstruct our past, and reconstruct the future into the Socialist Utopian paradise.
That’s what they do/are doing.
Chaffee is a Liberal. Liberals are the enemy of freedom, liberty, and basically everything American.
He’s only doing what Liberals do, and we shouldn’t expect anything else out of him.
Know the enemy, and you’re better able to defeat him.