Opinion : Letter to the Editor: Moral Compass Spinning

Dear Editor, 

So many things are happening in our country that defies common sense. It absolutely blows me away when I read or learn of unbelievable situations that have and are occurring! Things that are being allowed or applauded should cause any person with a working mind and a moral compass to wonder what is happening to our country. Why have we allowed it?

Children are being allowed to identify as a cat. Or being allowed to say “Neigh” in class when answering the teacher because he/she is a horse.

People are being fired from their job or being sued because of a viewpoint they hold or something that they said that goes against the liberal agenda that has exploded throughout our country.

Schools require gender ID in classes starting in Kindergarten. No one with a moral compass would ever believe that young children should be taught this. They don’t have the frontal lobe development to even understand it. I was a tomboy growing up. I’d rather be out working on the farm with my dad and two brothers while my two sisters preferred to work around the house. I remember for a short time in my young childhood that I wondered if maybe I should really be a boy because I liked tractors and I hated to cook and still do! Had I had a teacher who had to teach a curriculum that pushed gender identity, I can not imagine the damage it would have done to me. Let alone seeing almost every t.v. program and company normalizing this agenda.

People who push for abolishing the police. Everyone who is sensible would foresee what would happen when that happens. (Many liberal mayors are now changing their minds as crime is out of control since they have trashed their police forces).

A president who has unleashed the worst border crisis in U.S. history and now the administration announced that Title 42 will end on May 23. This will cause an explosion in migrant arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border. Perhaps 13,000 people every single day coming into our country, unvetted and going who knows where! Again, common sense would tell us that this can’t turn out well for our country.

The president’s war on fossil fuels drove domestic production down and gasoline prices through the roof! He shuts down our pipelines but he then begs the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to produce more oil, which will result in the same emissions as domestically produced oil. American oil is cleaner than Russia’s by the way. It’s like the 1970s all over again. And now with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, why wouldn’t he just put a PAUSE on the Green Deal and resume American drilling. Why wouldn’t any president be willing to do that? What is stopping him? I’m so ticked every time I fill up my vehicle with gas or have to pay $24.49 for a chuck roast.

A president who tells Putin that 16 areas of the United States’ critical infrastructure were off-limits to Russian cyberattacks – which effectively told the Russian leader where they were and that the rest were not off limits! Why would he do that?

A supreme court justice not being able/willing to give a definition of a woman. Are you kidding me?! Look at science, not emotion or feelings.

Schools teach white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege”. Yeah, that’s not going to cause any issues!

None of this makes any human sense! So why are these people really doing this? Have they been blinded to what is good and what is true? How do we stop it? It’s scary when I hear of some of these things and I’m not surprised anymore.

We need to open our eyes and really watch all that is happening and become knowledgeable. Take the time to read, watch, listen, and speak the truth. No more complacency. Complacency leads to compromise, and compromise leads to wrong.

I sometimes get anxious and feel helpless in not knowing what to do to help our country change course until I remember that God is still King and He will someday set everything straight! We who are bothered by all of these crazy things need to stop feeling like we can’t stand up for what is True and Right. Yes, people will call us names and maybe even shun us. For me, I must only care what God thinks about me, not what the world thinks about me.

But for now, we need to see evil for what it really is! We are in a spiritual battle right now. Satan is deceiving the eyes and minds of people, convincing them that what is evil is good and what is good is evil. God tells us this will happen in His word (2 Timothy 4: 3-4 for one of many verses).

There is a saying that says “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Jill Struve