Jim Croce is responsible for the title of this article; he sings a song by the same name, with the following lyrics:
Which way are you goin’?
Which side will you be on?
Will you stand and watch while
All the seeds of hate are sown?
Will you stand with those who say
Let his will be done?
One hand on the bible
One hand on the gun
One hand on the bible
One hand on the gun
Which way are you looking?
Is it hard to see?
Do you say what’s wrong for him
Is not wrong for me?
You walk the streets, righteousness
But you refuse to understand
You say, you love the baby
Then you crucify the man
You say, you love the baby
Then you crucify the man
Every day, things are changing
Words once honored turned to lies
People wondering, can you blame them
It’s too far to run, and too late to hide
Now you turn your back on
All the things that you used to preach
Now it’s let him live in freedom
If he lives like me
Well, your light has changed, confusion reigns
What have you become?
All your olive branches turned to spears
When your flowers turned to guns
Your olive branches turned to spears
When your flowers turned to guns
My parents are hippies; that is the simplest way to describe them. A lesson learned from my youth is the essence of this song from Jim Croce; we all have to make a choice. One of my parent’s favorite sayings, “You made your bed, now lie in it.” Meaning, I made choices, and the consequences are now mine to enjoy or suffer depending upon how I choose to evaluate the consequences.
For example, on my birthday in sixth grade, a school bully pushed me into the mud and called it my birthday present. I was holding a math book and a borrowed clipboard; the mud ruined my book and clipboard. I stood up and made a choice; in my right hand were the clipboard and book were used as a balance to swing stronger with my left and began beating the tar out of the bully. I earned a seven-day vacation from school for fighting; the bully got a three-day vacation for pushing me, a bruised cheek, two black eyes, and a really fat lip. All of which were still healing when I returned to school.
To this day, I do not regret beating that bully. I had spent a year being bullied and was done. No, I am not proud of the beating I gave him, but I was done being pushed at that exact moment. I made a choice, and life has been significantly different ever since.
That is the point, the point we each need to understand and accept. Carefully consider the words of the song above. We each have a choice to make. In making that choice, we have natural consequences, and how we evaluate those consequences determines our destiny. Hence, which way are [we] going?
We have a fraudulent president, a congress that refuses to listen to the American people; we have legislatures, governors, mayors, and so much more working against the citizenry for political power and personal gain. Well, America, which way are you going? Will we step up and resist, or will we sit and lose?
Will we choose to see and understand the truth of this stanza:
Every day, things are changing
Words once honored turned to lies
People wondering, can you blame them
No, I cannot blame people for wondering, the world has been turned on its ear things are changing, words are being turned into lies, and the worst thing about it, is too few are willing to choose to see and not decide to do, and in failing to choose, they are choosing and the consequences are dire.
Do you understand the complex truth hidden in this stanza?
Now it’s let him live in freedom
If he lives like me
Well, your light has changed, confusion reigns
What have you become?
If a person chooses to allow the COVID vaccine, like a lab rat, we can now live in a “new freedom.” But, in choosing that path, confusion reigns, freedom is lost, and the American light is shadowed. What has America become? Why did we allow freedom to be lost?
Hold one; why not shift the paradigm and change the questions?
Which way are you goin’?
Which side will you be on?
Will you stand and watch while
All the seeds of hate are sown?
Will you stand with those who say
Let his will be done?
Whose “will be done?” The enemies of freedom and liberty or someone else? I am not speaking theologically, philosophically, or metaphysically; I am speaking as a person who is observing, desiring a new set of consequences, and knowing that a different set of choices is required to make a change.
Therein is the problem, how does an entire population become motivated to make different decisions? It is not just marketing at this moment in time; we must lose the political divisions and other divisive elements that have been falsely employed to create divisions and sow chaos. I am talking about making a new conscious choice, logically deciding what we want, need, and desire. The question spreads the spectrum from politics and government to media and food consumption and employment and shopping.
I am done with both the Republicans and the Democrats; neither party is aware nor even listening to the citizens. The extreme elements in the Democratic Party, the environmentalists, the LGBTQ+ community, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, etc., all have made their choices and must live with the consequences. However, this does not mean the rest of the country has to take the same path to death and destruction.
The Republicans have chosen to act without spine, reason, or even cohesion in thinking and doing. Yet too often, all the political choices come down to Republican or Democrat, and there is less and less difference between them from day to day. Why have we settled for just two political parties in America? America has been through changes in the dominant political parties before, and we must do so again for the good of the Republic. We, the citizens, must force a change by refusing the Kool-Aid, refusing the political madness, and refusing to lose the Republic. Which way are you going?
Which way are you going? How will you choose to move forward? Do you realize that your emotions are your own choice? That by taking control over your emotions, you become empowered to choose more powerfully and more logically. The media, the politicians, and the bureaucrats all want to control your emotions, and they want you to be controlled by the marketing hype, the big pharma, big-tech, and big-box retail. Do you realize that your privacy is invaded 24/7 by people tracking the products you buy, the websites you visit, and so many other methods and means, including your cellphone? Why did we give up our privacy?
Which way are we going to choose? As each of us makes an individual decision, our country will begin to change. I offer the first choice, choose a “Liberty FIRST Culture!”
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