I actually took their Constitution 101 course online a couple years ago. One aspect of their take on American history was that America had three major crises: (1) the legitimacy of the new government during the Founding — from Lexington and Concord to the first peaceful transfer of power between two major parties (Adams to Jefferson), (2) the endorsement of slavery as a public good, mostly by people in the South — leading to the Civil War, in which some Hillsdale students fought for the North — and (3) the current ongoing progressive dumpster fire that originally began in the late 1800s.
Maybe the people petitioning the college to denounce what they have always implicitly denounced should delve into that second crisis and the history of the Hillsdale students fighting for the right side (the Union).
The right side? Fighting against state's rights?
d (3) the current ongoing progressive dumpster fire that originally began in the late 1800s.@@@@@
This particular dumpster fire started with the backlash among black Americans in the south when the Union army of occupation left the south. The political vacuum erased the gains of black Americans in the south and led to the Jim Crow laws as well as poll taxes etc.
As black leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois (founder of the NAACP) left the fold of black society under leaders like George Wahington Carver in search of a quick solution to racial prejudice in America, Dubois became enamored of Russian communist society. His dream was for an uprising and overthrow of a broken system built on platitudes that could only be made right (in his lifetime) by violent revolutionary change.
This is key to understanding modern progressives. Leaders like MLK looked and dreamed of a day when all people in America looked at each other as children of God to be judged by the content of their character. He realized this would take time, perhaps generations (remember all baby boomers grew up into their teens face to face with racial segregation).
Martin Luther King knew there would be battles to be fought until his grandchildren would be color blind among a society of free men and women who would see the words of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution come to full fruition. Dubois had become an atheist (for he could not justify how a Holy God could allow this evil of racial discrimination) which led him to seek radical change now for there was no future past ones last breath.
Thus we see the dilemma of the progressives, if this life is all there is and the evils of the world (as I see it) are not solved then ones life is a waste and lived in vain. Contrast this with a Christian Worldview that understands this world is not perfect and people will inherently act in their own self interests apart from the leadership and guidance of Almighty God.
The Christian, think MLK, realizes that people can change but only as they see a better way of life lived out before them by a people that are not weary in well doing, that love their neighbors as themselves, that realize the same Jesus that died for me also died for you. If God loves me, He loves you, and it’s OK if we don’t look alike.
The best example of this is to see toddlers in the waiting rooms, play grounds, preschools play together in happy exultation. Celebrating the finding of another person their size going through the same challenges of walking and talking. Hopefully we will continue as a nation to strive to live up to the ideals of our Founding Documents. Our Founders were not perfect, neither are we. If we stay humble and always strive for the best for our nation before God then we will see that we have much more in common than we have to differ about. This is the Melting Pot that is America, the greatest country the Earth has ever seen, and what peoples around the world see as the example to strive to be. Pray for our nation and our leaders.
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