The urban left is waking up this morning to the fact that they will now have a much harder time shaping or changing truth into what they want it to be.
Whether through a single vote on the US Supreme Court, or the occupant of the White House declaring a popular cultural narrative disseminated by a compliant media and through the halls of the Academy, they’ve had it “their way” for some time now. And “their way” has been to create so-called rights from this popular cultural narrative, regardless of the truths they used to establish those rights.
To so many others, those “truths” were not self-evident. And because they weren’t self-evident, they voted against the continuation of this national rave. You can say what you want about the Russians and the tweets and the nastiness. This morning, the nation thinks it has determined what the meaning of “is” is.
Sadly, for the urban left, the unthinkable has happened. So-called rights they’ve created from their own hands are suddenly in jeopardy. No one will be in the White House to steward them. “The truth is best when left to shift for itself,” Jefferson wrote. My sense is the urban left has no confidence that the truths that support their “rights” can stand on their own.
Let me put it this way. If I showed you how “relative truth” standards we’ve adopted will lead to our ultimate demise as a culture, would we still fail to establish the absolute truth standards that will promote our survival? If you are diagnosed with cancer, do you not wish to have the cancer removed from your body? If a dentist discovers you have tooth decay, do you not request a dental treatment regimen? Then why are we content with the truth that moral decay is prevalent and spreading throughout our culture?
Do we believe that nothing can defeat us and replace the way we order ourselves? Ask native Americans or native Hawaiians what they think about losing their cultures, now long replaced with something we’ve called “modernity.” If we are intolerant of decay in general, then why should we be tolerant of the cultural decay of relative truth?
Our founders confidently opined that the God-given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can never be taken from us, and the voters affirmed that idea on November 8, 2016. That day will be known as “the mother of all push-backs.” The Declaration and the Constitution matter. There are absolute truths out there and even a rascal can lead us if he agrees.
The urban left can find some solace in the fact that the sun came up this morning and will tomorrow. The country they had and the “rights” they created will still be around and allowed to “shift” for themselves a little while longer.
But if rights aren’t based upon God’s truth, or God’s reality with which truth cooperates, then they are subject to every changing wind of doctrine, and can be replaced or simply go away. It is up to us then to speak truth to those whose self-fashioned rights are now in jeopardy, and to do so in love—tough love to be sure, but love. What do we tell them?
Tell them it’s morning in America. And God is still on His throne. His Truth is marching on.