By Daniel Bobinski
Go ahead and convict me. I’m a hater.
First of all, I hate lies. I especially hate lies that are intentional and made with a purpose to deceive me. I hate lies about Supreme Court nominees, lies about Presidential activities, and lies about people who want to conserve the principles around which our founders created the Constitution. I hate lies perpetuated through a complicit media that’s in bed with a particular political party – one that misrepresents truth and twists facts into pretzels on a daily basis; one that makes evil look good and good look evil.
I hate lies that result in innocent people getting killed because a President and a Secretary of State want to use a small, remote embassy to run guns under the radar. I hate when our country’s top legal personnel quickly and furiously defend the delivery of guns into a neighboring country, only to see those guns used to kill our own citizens. I similarly hate alphabet government agencies using our tax dollars to cover up their illegal operations, and otherwise operate in ways contrary to the principles of our country’s founding. I hate it when citizens working in those government agencies get paid with our tax dollars to spy on and do damage to their fellow citizens. I also hate it when people appointed to high offices lie to Congress under oath and can’t acknowledge what difference it makes to families when those families lose loved ones because of lies.
I hate it when people who are elected to represent United States citizens breathe out lies to their constituents and the country so they can gain financial donations and political power. I hate it when people ascribe motives to others that are obviously not true but present those motives as facts. I hate it when people put words in other people’s mouths and claim the person made those statements.
I also hate when people in positions of power sow dissention and discord among their country’s citizens – and when the media and senior government officials perpetuate discord and false narratives so that people burn and loot their own communities. I hate when an “us versus them” discord is stirred so much by the media and those in power that innocent police officers are assassinated while sitting in their patrol cars – leaving widows and fatherless children – all so a country can be fundamentally transformed into something it was not designed to be through the decimation of the country’s fabric instead of through the vote of its citizens. I also hate when people in positions of political power feign innocence, using passive-aggressive plausible deniability when they know full well the damage and pain they are purposefully inflicting.
Yes, I hate it when political candidates deceive the electorate, using words that have double meanings so that people will hope to have change for the better, only to be used as voters who are later told that things will not get better. I also hate it when people are told they can keep what they like, when such phrases are knowingly deceptive from their inception, and plans that have long been in waiting are enacted to decimate the health – and the economy – of a country.
I hate it when people want to challenge in court the qualifications of a national candidate, only to be told they don’t’ have “standing,” when in fact, the candidate’s decisions will have major financial impact on those same people’s lives. I hate it when bills are passed in the House of Representatives that impact the lives of every United States citizen, but lawmakers are not allowed to read the bill before voting on it. I hate it when one branch of government uses the word “tax” in one setting but “fine” in another, for the purpose of deceiving both the nation and an entirely different branch of government. I also hate when such deceptive and wicked plans include forcing a country’s population to purchase things they do not want.
I hate it when leaders of our country who have never built a business swagger up to a microphone while smugly lecturing business owners that they didn’t work to build their business – especially when such leaders have never built businesses. I also hate it when those same leaders claim to be of a particular faith yet arrogantly look down on and mock people who adhere to that faith.
I also hate it when people who have a particular skin color run to – and even instigate – events that create dissention and division of people based on skin color. I also hate that our nation’s media outlets focus on these needless divisions instead of focusing on things that unite us.
I also hate that laws punish citizens with fines and jail time for harming an egg that contains our national bird while at the same time fining and jailing citizens for videotaping the confessions of people who chop up unborn human babies and sell the body parts for huge profit. I hate that our government gives our tax dollars to an organization that promotes and performs the killing of innocent babies in the womb while that same organization donates money to candidates who will, in turn, give that money back to the organization.
I hate that 62 percent of our citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 think it’s okay to murder a baby before it’s born, and that more than 1/3 of our citizens over the age of 65 agree with them. I also utterly hate that some states in our union have made it perfectly legal to kill human beings immediately after they are born, all in the name of “choice.”
I also hate many more things along these lines. Why do I hate them? Because the wisest man who ever lived once wrote some very wise words. He said, “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”
In other words, I hate the things I listed above because the Creator of the universe also hates these things, and I am not better than the Creator. He is my Lord. If He hates these things, I will hate them, too.
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Daniel Bobinski, M.Ed. is a certified behavioral analyst, best-selling author, columnist, corporate trainer, and a popular keynote speaker. In addition to working with teams and individuals to help them achieve workplace excellence through improving their emotional intelligence and improving the way they do training, he’s also a veteran and a Christian Libertarian who believes in the principles of free market capitalism while standing firmly against crony capitalism. Daniel writes on both workplace issues and political issues for multiple publications. Reach Daniel for help with your workplace through his website, MyWorkplaceExcellence.com. For things political, use @newbookofdaniel on Twitter.
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