EXTINGUISHING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS RAMPANT

 EXTINGUISHING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS RAMPANT

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

 

We are living in the time when people are not encouraged to be responsible for their actions. There are many excuses for every misbehavior from early childhood to death. Every choice, no matter how predictably destructive to one’s life, has built in excuses to allow the person to blame someone or something else. 

 

On January 4^th, 2001 a federal lawsuit was filed asking for damages for school principal, Mary Williams, who was dismissed for a supposed alcohol addiction. The suit stated that the school district discriminated against her because of her disability not addiction. The ultimate question is whether her excessive drinking is because of her addiction or a disability caused by mental or physical reasons beyond her control. Mary William’s alcohol abuse was well documented. The denial that an individual’s life is not affected by bad choices undermines the American value of individual responsibility. 

 

Practicing personal responsibility should be promoted in school. However, children rarely pay a price for doing shoddy work or not bringing in their homework. Grade inflation is an attempt to pass below grade material and incoherent essays as acceptable.  Homework has become passe. Appropriate behavior, correct and comprehensive learning have been replaced by social and emotional learning. 

 

This “anything goes” behavior is evident in our political interest groups. Recently the progressive leaders are openly stating that criminal acts should be overlooked. Even fines and jailtime should be decreased or eliminated. The progressives are blaming “white supremacists” who should be punished for their privileged backgrounds while blacks are supposed to receive “equity” through reparations. Neither example of white privilege or black repression has to be specified or verified for reparations to be received by blacks and punish whites for their ancestors’ unfair behavior towards those blacks. This formula for equity is an injustice to both races. This is an injustice to many other American citizens who worked hard to accumulate their assets. 

 

Rewarding destructive behavior is also advancing injustice. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is praised for “peaceful demonstrations” by the democrat media while looting and burning inner cities and physically attacking citizens is overlooked. BLM demonstrators are reported to be advancing “social justice.” The pretense that they are committed to social justice for blacks while they are destroying black neighborhoods is ludicrous. The self-proclaimed mission of BLM, by its three female Marxists founders, is to replace the free market with government control of the economy. Incredibly BLM has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize after a summer of destructive rioting while receiving billions of dollars from corporate donors. 

 

During President Obama’s first term, he went on an apology tour throughout the world. He made it clear that the U.S. was a selfish, corrupt and racist nation that had to change. He did not get any concrete agreements from any foreign leaders to ensure peace in the world. Yet, he received a Nobel Peace Prize for his promised Hope and Change. On the other hand, President Trump negotiated with middle east leaders that produced a signed peace initiative. President Trump did not receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his concrete results produced by his straight business approach.

 

Citizens who believe in old-fashioned justice, according to the progressive elites, are deplorable fools.  Mainstream Americans that believe in good and evil, God and Satan, and freedom and opportunity based on right and wrong behavior are being cancelled for their traditional beliefs and need to be “de-programmed” according to media celebrities. Our past traditional values are now anti-American according to democrat and social media.

 

Democrats are turning our culture upside down by supporting irresponsible behavior. People who excessively drug, drink, eat, or abuse are given excuses for this self-destructive behavior. Many use pharmaceutical drugs that relieve the symptoms but do not correct irresponsible behavior. Adults and children’s inappropriate behaviors are labeled to excuse their actions or drugged to control but not to correct the behavior. It is no longer acceptable to identify causes as it might offend the adult who is complicit as well as the perpetrator.

 

Without appropriate societal punishment or rewards it is not possible to establish immoral or moral standards. When everything is equal regardless of its outcome, evil is encouraged to run rampant. When good and bad are strictly defined and enforced, stability and goodness reign supreme.

 

The idea that people are responsible for their actions encourages them to understand that they have the power to determine their own destiny.

 

When elites dictate to the people through reeducation (brainwashing) and cancelling their means to survive, people will either fight back or submit to a life of tyranny. If personal responsibility and freedom are extinguished, we are left with brain-dead sheeple. 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.