{"id":6536,"date":"2024-05-18T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2024-05-22T02:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:47:15","slug":"just-say-no-or-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6536","title":{"rendered":"JUST SAY &#8220;NO&#8221; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR &#8220;YES&#8221; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Just Say &#8216;NO&#8217; To Drugs&#8221; was a worthwhile campaign against what is bad for kids&#8212;and everybody agreed drugs were bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, nearly everything is turned upside down for kids, AND everything imaginable and unimaginable is given a green light for kids, by adults, and even pushed and forced on kids, by adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Everything gay-accepting, gay-affirming, gay-endorsing is everywhere.<br>&#8212; Boys cannot be left alone to be boys.<br>&#8212; Girls cannot be left alone to be girls.<br>&#8212; Drag queen shows welcome and cater to kids.<br>&#8212; School libraries defend pornography.<br>&#8212; Unrestricted technology gives free tickets to any evil, at any age.<br>&#8212; Murder openly seen on TV breeds a right to unseen medical murder of kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, even the war on drugs to save kids, is turned upside down&#8212;by our leaders, BY ADULTS.<br>Do not think for a moment that the fentanyl crisis is accidental or unavoidable.<br>Just as surely as the border crossing crisis is totally intentional, so is the companion disaster of the drug crossing crisis catastrophe also by design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could stop both at one time by securing the border, like any other sane and healthy country.<br>But our leadership, adults, don&#8217;t want to.<br>They want to destroy this country, and are pleased to be well on their way by destroying our border integrity and destroying our kids&#8212;by doing nothing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know what needs to be done.<br>We know it can be done.<br>But it doesn&#8217;t get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We watch, and nothing happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, do we just have to leave things hanging, like when we say, &#8220;Why, God?&#8221; in our personal lives, without answers ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just Say &#8216;NO&#8217; To Drugs&#8221; was a worthwhile campaign against what is bad for kids&#8212;and everybody agreed drugs were bad. Today, nearly everything is turned upside down for kids, AND everything imaginable and unimaginable is given a green light for kids, by adults, and even pushed and forced on kids, by adults. &#8212; Everything gay-accepting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-family","category-health","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}