I'm back home, and I'm taking it a little easier today after the long show hours and long drive to Indianapolis and back. I did meet some interesting folks on this trip.
Jerzi (YAIR-zhi) and Alina (a-LEE-na) came to America from Poland in 1982. Now in their 50's, they are entrepreneurs who occupied the booth across from me at the "Gift Show". They are concerned for their adopted country.
"When we came to this country 26 years ago," Alina told me, "people cried when they heard the story of how we left our home to come here, to freedom. Now they see Communism coming to America, and they applaud."
She was not referring, of course, to the Communist Party, nor to the Soviet Union. She meant the mindset that sees "our Uncle in Washington" as the supplier of prosperity and the regulator of our lives. She meant that people here, in this country, will trade their freedom for the empty promises of security from its politicians.
Yes, Communism is coming, and the American people applaud. It will be interesting to see how the Church of Jesus Christ fares under the American brand of "scientific" socialism. Will she capitulate to chains and slavery, or will she stand on the only ground of true liberty and speak with a prophetic voice to the insanity of our day?
When Alina spoke of the average American, she used the word naive. I prefer the term willfully and criminally ignorant.
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When Alina spoke of the average American, she used the word naive. I prefer the term willfully and criminally ignorant.
Either way, they're gaining ground.
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