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If the premise is wrong
Then the promise is gone
It is hysterical how historical this is.
Although many claims have been made over the years, once it was established that the premise—the thought behind the claim—was either ridiculous or evil, then those who were waiting for the promise ended up looking like they just bought a used car at “Lucky Billy’s Auto Emporium.”
I realize that as a reader you may have sympathies toward political parties, regional axioms, religious affiliations, and racial or cultural differences. But the shocking fact is:
Truth doesn’t care if our feelings get hurt on the way to marching toward justice.
Matter of fact, no matter how adorable, meaningful, helpful or God-given we insist our premise may be, once it is revealed to be wrong, there will be no promise forthcoming.
For instance, immigration.
The premise is made that if we build a wall, we can protect our country from all the murderers and rapists who are trying to come in.
Another premise is that if we open our country to those who wish to come, we will acquire great thinkers and build up the nation’s foundation.
Here’s the problem—we already have plenty of murderers and rapists right here and now, whose families have been around for many generations. We must also realize that people escaping to come to America may actually prefer to live in their own countries.
So both premises are found to be wrong, and therefore the promise doesn’t bloom. The truth? People shouldn’t have to come to America because they’re fugitives from crime, or they’re being tortured and starved.
America wants people to come because they want to.
These visitors are therefore willing to answer the needful questions and go through the procedures available. Then the promise is real—a country of immigrants who have found their home.
Based on that, our goal should be to go to the source, where the immigrants live, and assist them to make their country as pleasant as humanly possible—so they don’t have to relocate unless they truly wish to come.
Why don’t we try another one?
Let’s talk about poverty.
One premise is that if you give extra money to the rich and industrious, they can provide more jobs for people who don’t have the funds to begin their own businesses but will gladly step forward and receiving the work.
The other premise is that industrious and wealthy corporations, which should help, won’t. So we will tax them and force them to pour out their finances to people who live in poverty—whether these unfortunates are willing to work or not.
As you can see, neither premise will deliver the promise of assisting our fellow-human beings to be fruitful.
So what do we need to do? Obviously, we need to unveil a plan which taxes every American according to his or her prosperity—a sliding scale with the finance from such a collection being divided to fund those who want to work, assist the few that are disabled, and stimulate those who are impoverished due to their own lack of motivation.
Abortion.
The premise is that if we stop aborting babies, children can be born and grow into happy human beings.
Or the premise is that women who are already born and alive should have the only controlling decision on whether a baby will be born or aborted.
In both cases, the premise does not deliver a promise.
The real goal is to eliminate unwanted pregnancies.
We must do this by honoring the free will of the women and the babies. In order to achieve this, we must abandon archaic positions against birth control, sex education and allowing those who wish to adopt to include lifestyles that we may not favor.
As you can see, I could go on and on, but I will leave that to you.
Just remember, as you listen to these individuals running for President, who bought fifteen different suits of clothes, outfitted a bus and purchased buttons and flyers from the Cheapskate Publishing Company—yes, as you listen to them offer their premise, follow through to the promise.
Question whether the premise is faithful to what the Earth has already discovered to be true.
And always remember this:
If the premise is wrong, the promise is gone.
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