{"id":6876,"date":"2024-09-18T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2024-09-18T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:21:01","slug":"in-war-no-substitute-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6876","title":{"rendered":"IN WAR, NO SUBSTITUTE FOR . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In war, there is no substitute for victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The prerequisite to peace is victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Peace through strength.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEI&#8212;Diversity, Equity, Inclusion&#8212;is the antithesis, the opposite of the above quotes, the opposite of standing for truth, fighting for truth, resisting the &#8220;broad road that leads to destruction.&#8221;*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three words of DEI seem to call for passivity and submission (weakness), instead of strength and conviction&#8212;except for those imposing and enforcing DEI on everybody else.<br>DEI condemns anyone who believes in truth and defends what is right and rejects what is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call for openness, acceptance, tolerance becomes the strongest agent for judging and rejecting and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">eliminating<\/span> anyone who does not comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEI in reality is a complete oxymoron&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DIVERSITY<br>&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">positive<\/span> &#8211; polished presentation to accept all kinds of &#8216;new&#8217; ideas for utopia<br>&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">negative<\/span> &#8211; oxymoron &#8211; reality &#8211; create dissatisfaction with what you have, to make socialism seem so desirable (hidden dagger&#8212;socialism leads to marxism to communism to totalitarianism to tyranny to death&#8212;by the millions&#8212;history)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EQUITY<br>&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">positive<\/span> &#8211; polished promise of fair and equal for everyone<br>&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">negative<\/span> &#8211; oxymoron &#8211; reality &#8211; create dissatisfaction with injustices of the past&#8212;corrected by dismantling existing structures, with total control to make everybody the same to force universal equality&#8212;equal poverty, equal slavery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INCLUSION<br>&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">positive<\/span> &#8211; polished claims of acceptance, to be all things to all people<br>&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">negative<\/span> &#8211; oxymoron &#8211; reality &#8211; create dissatisfaction over suppression of certain groups, invent blame on other groups, foster unrest, upheaval, and violence&#8212;total control takes over, decides who is included, who lives, who does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*DEI is the epitome of the &#8220;broad road that leads to destruction.&#8221;<br>It sounds so open, so inviting, so easy to enter.<br>Then reality sets in, brutal force takes over, and evil laughs. <br>\u201cEnter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 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