To Heal our Nation’s Divide, Let’s Start by Praying that People Start Praying

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Published in American Thinker and Townhall, January 2022

Few exist in our nation who are better able — and inexplicably willing — than Keith Olberman to afford us a portal through which we may view the mindset of your average left-wing digressive on the topic of what is necessary to heal America’s present cultural divide. 

Last week, Olberman publicly condemned Biden — and even called for his resignation — due to his Administration’s failure over the last year to defend the country from what he called — by way of incredible hyperbole — the “terrorists” who reside amongst us throughout this country, as exemplified by those who entered our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021: i.e. “traitors, crooks, sadists, racists, gun fetish psychos, seditionist congressmen, plotters of coup d’état, still strung out on stupidity, and impunity and [who are] ready to do it all over again.”  

“Where is the President,” Olberman screeched forth, “…when the other side is trying to kill all of us?.... they have made it clear that America is going to be them or us, and G**D*** it, Joe, it is your job to make sure it is us, and if you don’t see it that way, resign!” (emphasis added)

As a point of curiosity, one might wonder whether Olberman is aware that his words just happen to have articulated the exact opposite of the Golden Rule. Rather than calling upon Resident Biden to do unto his ideological enemies that which he would have them do unto him, Olberman seems to be suggesting Biden must kill Olberman’s ideological foes before they can do likewise to him and his fellow ideologues.

At minimum, Olberman’s strategy to heal our nation’s cultural divide does not appear likely to be one that is either lawful or peaceful. In fact, it’s more likely to initiate a violent and bloody civil war.

Thus, those who prefer to retain a grip on sanity might want to seek a more civil alternative.

That search would do well to include serious consideration of the following tribute recently given by President Trump to the Author of the Golden Rule. In a speech he gave this last December at First Baptist Dallas discussing our nation’s present turmoil, he said the following: