An Empty Cry For Unity

The Cry For Unity

I see where Oregon’s Governor Tina Kotek and other “leaders”, mostly on the left, are crying for unity.

What falls flat for me is that their unity seems to have strings attached and draws lines; they themselves refuse to cross to come to the middle.

Kotek quoted Dr Martin Luther King in her speech, “‘Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.’ It causes someone to ‘describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false.’

Here’s the problem: when someone on the left reads those words, they see the conservatives as the haters, and when someone on the right reads them, the blame goes to the left.

It’s easy to take someone like Dr King and “imagine” what he would think today.

The problem is, we really don’t know.

Would he be supportive of open borders?

Would he think it’s “fair” to give benefits to people who are not legally in this country while our own poor suffer?

You can say “yes,” but you really don’t know.

Unity means compromise.

How willing was Oregon’s governor to compromise on the tax package she and her democrat lawmakers tried to force down the throats of Oregon voters, without a voice.

Where was Kotek’s “Unity” when she was on vacation in Astoria, while the legislature was deciding the fate of Oregon taxpayers?

That’s not unity, that’s tyranny.

Where was unity when Kotek dragged her feet for a month so petitioners wouldn’t have enough time to gather the signatures needed to repeal the tax?

Now that a quarter of a million Oregonians turned on her and her democrat lawmakers, she claims to want unity?

They may fall for that in Pennsylvania, but she’s in Oregon now, and Oregonians are smarter than that.

In the article I read about the governors’ cry for “unity,” I saw plenty of President Trump bashing.

Many of the folks she professes to want to unify with support the president, so how is that going to lead to true unity?

It’s not.

It’s empty words covering lies and deception.

Unity sounds great.

But be honest, if you are a liberal and believe anyone who supports Trump is your enemy, do you really intend to unify?

You know, meet in the middle.

And to be perfectly honest, is someone who leans more right, and sees leftist ideology as what’s wrong with our country, willing to compromise? I doubt it.

What would Dr King want us to do?

We don’t know; he’s not here to tell us.

What we do know from history is that he believed in peaceful protests, not riots and property destruction.

He believed in equality, and that no matter what color our skin is, brown, black, or white, we all had the same rights and should NOT be judged on the color of our skin.

Maybe, rather than a hollow cry for unity being the goal, we could look a little deeper at what King stood for.

He thought all our dreams could come true.

Equality wasn’t just for those who agreed with the cultural narrative.

Remember, at the time, his message was not popular and went against cultural thought.

I read this out of Proverbs this morning and thought it defined a lot for me.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness does not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies does not escape.”

Perhaps rather than unity, the goal should be something simpler….The Truth…..period.