Amus de Wauchope

In a recent YouTube video “disaffected liberal” commentator Tim Pool suggests Stephen Colbert’s comment concerning a possible future confederacy was merely a joke. Tim Pool errs by believing Colbert was joking or otherwise speaking sarcastically.

Stephen Colbert has repeatedly called Donald Trump and his supporters racist. Generally, these accusations are made without evidence or made by “individuals familiar with the President’s thinking.”

By suggesting Texas et al. are forming a new confederacy, Colbert was continuing his accusation that Trump and his supporters are racist. The original Confederacy supported and fought for the continued practice of slavery. Colbert’s behavior suggests he believes any future confederacy will share the same barbaric views.

In a Friday interview with CNBC, Texas Governor Greg Abbot stated that the number of companies moving to Texas has become a “tidal wave”. Oracle, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and real estate firm CBRE are among the major companies which have made plans to move from California to Texas in 2020. While noteworthy due to their size, these companies are far from alone. Over the past several years thousands of companies fled California and most settled in Texas.

In any other world, this would be a good thing. Oracle and HP are wildly successful businesses that employ thousands of workers. Sadly, as these businesses flee California, their Californian employees migrate with them.

These Californians are essentially tech groupies and they provide no real value for the businesses they work for. How often do we see the checkmarks on Twitter brag about their prestigious position while also disparaging their employer as racist, sexist, or even capitalist? Are these really the type of workers Texas wants?

"The church is false.  The gospel [of Jesus Christ] is true, but the church is false."

Some time ago I was spending time with one of my old friends and his wife, and those words are the only thing I remember him saying.  His argument was that a church, which are run by men, can never be perfect.  Men - humanity - make mistakes, we can be forgetful, we can be vengeful, and we can be stupid on occasion.  To put it another way, men and women in their mortal form are imperfect and these imperfections inevitably need to failings within the church - even a church built around a true and perfect gospel.  Yet without an organized church, however imperfect, there can be no gospel.  Without a church there would be no printing of bibles, building of buildings, nor energy behind the mundane tasks the gospel necessitates.

We can view the constitution and the US government in the same manner.  While not perfect, we can say with certainty that the constitution was written with divine inspiration.  The American constitution is probably the closest any mortal will ever come to crafting something which is truly perfect.  It was a prerequisite for cementing the first great awakening and allowing the later awakenings which followed.