12 Wishes for 2018
As we look forward to a new, better year, what would a Christian with conservative political viewpoints want to see happen? Here are 12 things I wish for.
JANUARY: An End to Groundless Media Complaints About President Trump
I don’t ever want to hear the left and complicit left-leaning media whine again about how much they hate President Trump. They have nothing productive to say, just constant negativity.
Like about his tweeting. Trump can word them too strongly. He’s not always perfectly accurate. OK. But he successfully gets around a biased media to get his message directly to the American people. He forces the media to report on his tweets after the fact, repeating whatever spin he wants. He’s got the better of them and they simply don’t like it. Sour grapes. Sore losers.
He’s not Jesus, so why is he held to a standard of perfection as if he was? The media has deserted its standards for judging the right and replaced them with a perfectionist standard. Trump is being held to a higher standard than any other recent president, even Reagan or Bush.
FEBRUARY: An Increase in Younger Generations Turning to the Lord
Millennials are the least religious generation in a long time. Baby Boomer parents taught them to be skeptical of church and organized religion. They were raised by their counterculture.
But there are signs things are changing. A 2016 study found that church attendance during young adulthood was 41 percent among Generation Z, which comprises those born from the mid 1990s to the early 2010s. This is a vast improvement over 18 percent for Millennials at the same ages, 21 percent of Generation X, and 26 percent of Baby Boomers. Overall, 75 percent of Americans identify as Christians, down from 80 percent eight years ago. We need all these percentages to go up.
MARCH: A Return to Genuinely Funny Late-Night Comedy Like Johnny Carson and Jay Leno
I’d like to replace the left-leaning, late-night comedy show hosts and regular lefty guests like Alec Baldwin with genuine comedy, as we had in the 1990s and before. Hate speech is not comedy. Stephen Colbert and his peers offer nothing more than late night versions of the intolerably smug and biased Rachel Maddow.
The left has lost its sense of humor, which is fine. But why does the left take it out on the American people?
APRIL: An Alternative to CNN
While we’re in the business of replacing bad shows, let’s replace CNN. It has become nothing but a Trump-bashing fest. Just a bunch of angry people with nothing better to do than ignore real news and focus on tormenting someone in order to get their minds off their own problems. I’ve long suspected that people who focus their anger intensely on politics are trying to convert their own personal problems into a more acceptable subject.
MAY: Reality Check to the #MeToo Movement
I’d like to see an end to the #MeToo movement throwing under the bus men who merely engaged in flirting. They must draw a line between men who genuinely sexually harassed or assaulted women and men whose harmless flirting was accepted back then. I’ve enjoyed watching the left turn on itself as feminists go after the mostly left-wing men who control Hollywood and media and the men lacking moral values in politics, but at some point an honest line must be drawn.
JUNE: Hillary Clinton Indictment
Hillary Clinton should be indicted. It’s long overdue. She committed felony upon felony. There’s Servergate, where she sent classified government information over an unsecured private email server. And collusion with the DNC to ensure she won the Democratic presidential primary over Bernie Sanders. There’s pay-to-play, where she rewarded Clinton Foundation donors with favors while she was secretary of state. And now there’s evidence she colluded with the Russians to sell control of U.S. energy to them.
I realize people are afraid of the Clintons, who retaliate against their enemies. But at some point Sessions needs to stop ignoring the growing pile of evidence.
JULY: The Precious Millennials Grow Up
It would be nice to stop hearing about precious snowflakes, trigger warnings and safe spaces. Once the Millennials grow up and start having real jobs and families, they will lose interest in political correctness. They’ll be focussed on real life. Like making a living and raising a family in a hard world that’s not much interested in your feelings.
This can’t come too soon. No one wants to be around them while they’re like this.
AUGUST: Stop Calling Christians and Conservatives White Supremacists
I’d like to stop being told that Christians and conservatives are white supremacists. There are only a few white supremacists and neo-Nazis left in the country — and they don’t like Christians or conservatives anyway. They have a wide variety of views, including socialist. They’re not mostly on the right.
I’ve often suspected that the left calls the right racist in order to deflect from its own racist feelings. How many of you have a left-wing friend who doesn’t have any black friends or who has quietly confessed that he would never date any black woman except Halle Berry? (I do.)
SEPTEMBER: An End to Political Witch Hunts
Along the same lines, I want an end to the political witch hunts of conservatives, particularly those in government. The worst is the attacks on lower-level officials who are easy targets since they’re usually not well-off and are prohibited from speaking out to defend themselves. The left does this to destroy support for their boss and convince them to turn on him. He’s the real target.
The left has mastered using vague sounding legal words like “collusion” to make people think that Republican government officials and employees are breaking the law. And guess what? Collusion isn’t even a felony by itself.
They’ve spent millions of taxpayer dollars and assembled large teams of lawyers and FBI agents to try and find some sort of link between the Trump campaign and Russian interference with the presidential election, to no avail. All they’ve achieved is a guilty plea from former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn for failing to admit he’d merely talked to a Russian, and two indictments for vague financial dealings against two other Trump campaign officials unrelated to Russian collusion.
OCTOBER: Solving the Murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich
I’ve been covering developments in the strange murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich ever since he was shot in the back by an unknown killer or killers in July 2016. The left has gone to extensive efforts to stop the media from looking into the murder. The left started boycotts of Fox News host Sean Hannity’s advertisers until he stopped covering the story.
There is speculation that Rich leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks, which exposed Hillary Clinton’s collusion with the DNC to ensure that she won the Democratic presidential primary instead of Bernie Sanders. As a result, some believe he was murdered in retaliation. But anyone who dares to suggest this risks being labeled a conspiracy theorist.
NOVEMBER: Build the Wall
Candidate Trump pledged to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to reduce illegal immigration. Congress won’t agree to fund the wall. Congress should appropriate funds to build a wall, not to dream on.
DECEMBER: Google News Adding The Stream
The Stream has applied multiple times to appear in Google News searches as a news source since we launched in early 2015. So far, it has been rejected each time. It is well known that Google News harbors a bias against conservative sites. The Stream has conformed its technical specifications to everything required by Google News, so it is disturbing that it has not been included in three years. Let’s pray our fourth year brings good news.
I realize I’m asking for a lot. But if the left can hold Trump up to a Jesus standard, I can wish for a miracle.