The Pendulum Swings
Times are certainly changing
When I was young I was a democrat
My mother never talked politics
My dad had converted to FDR
Families normally vote with their parents if they vote at all
We were blue collar
Dad a railroader while Mom raised ten kids
Blue collar workers and all union workers
followed the liberal-Progressive line of the democrats fairly blindly
As kids became educated during the forties and fifties
By mainly conservative teachers ,
Many, mainly Christians, changed their thoughts to conservatism with truth sanctified
Never all of course, but sufficiently so to create like- thinking voters
And politicians who commanded unending funds
Steadily changed our way of life
Upton Sinclair had written “The Jungle” in 1906
Which profoundly changed the meatpacking industry in Chicago and America due
to Teddy Roosevelt’s presidential and congressional action
Selfishness ruins any system man, and even God, has created
God stood alone in not giving it its’ way.
The point is that the selfishness of supposedly selfless socialists
Created communist systems in which the “Party”
Lived so much better than the Proletariat, ostensibly in the USSR
(Union of Soviet Socialist Russia), China, Cuba, Venezuela and several others.
The leaders proved by their selfishness and control, that their own followers
Were privileged over the proletariat
Thusly we live in a continually worsening troubled world
Whereby the real contributors (workers and earners) become fewer
While the followers grow more and more as takers
until the system just does not work
Some mistake God’s own system as weak because
He stressed love and caring
But our loving God also has wrath much stronger than any fascist system
And as with Noah’s Ark and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
God must be tiring of His people’s iniquities
To the point of our destruction although only He knows when
Our economy swings From the apex on the left
where we need socialistic steps to the Nadir on the bottom
where there is a very temporary balance
to the apex on the right where we need definite corrections
or a return to better our system
We continue on our economic swings
I pray for the inevitable love and kindness of our Christian God
Sam Kegley
Westerville Ohio
