My Abnormality

George Rasley (editor of ConservativeHQ.com) writes, “‘This is not who we are’ is what the liberal elite—abnormal Americans—always say when someone, such as President Trump, expresses what ‘normal Americans’ think.  The President may have been inelegant and may have caused an unnecessary media storm by his remark, but he wasn’t wrong to ask the question:  Why do we need more uneducated immigrants from underdeveloped countries? We think all the establishment huffing and puffing about his remark is cover for the fact that other than achieving their goal of fundamentally changing America, they have no answer for why we need more uneducated immigrants from underdeveloped countries, and what’s more, we think the vast majority of ‘normal Americans’ out at the truck stops, construction sites and factory breakrooms agree with him.”

The liberal elite is a pejorative term (as is “abnormal Americans”) used by conservatives to describe people (supposedly suburban, urban, educated, affluent) who are politically left of center (supporting things as diverse as secularism, public education,  universal health care as a right, environmentalism, immigration reform, feminism, equality, social justice, background checks for gun buyers, gay marriage, etc.). The label carries with it the implication that libertards claim to support the working class, but are really a part  the “establishment,”whose goal is “fundamentally changing America.” 

Mr. Rasley is absolutely right when he says the goal of these ‘abnormal Americans’ (liberal elites) is “fundamentally changing America.”  America needs to change!  And if “Mr. Trump expresses what ‘normal Americans’ think,”  then these so-called ‘normal Americans’ need to change the way they think. If  these ‘normal Americans’ reject climate change, science, equal rights, other religions, etc., and think all immigrants are uneducated rapists, criminals and drug dealers, and continually put down people who are different or from underdeveloped countries, then they need to change!  Why?  Because “this is not who we are.”  Nor is it who and what we are meant to be as human beings.

To paraphrase William Stringfellow, those who do not resist this present darkness will be consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness.  “That,” Stringfellow concludes, “of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.”

"O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years
thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control,
thy liberty in law."