WARREN GRANT: A pity party over politics, the next generation

I’m sitting here having a little pity party. George Jones (Ole Possum) wrote a song some years back: “Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes?”

I look around at the spoiled brats breaking the law and others who haven’t broken it but are confronting and antagonizing them, trying to bait them into a confrontation while someone films it and off to “You Tube” it goes. The whole world goes crazy hopping on the bandwagon just like the crowd in front of Pilate that screamed and demanded Jesus’ death. Even the two that were put on the cross with Jesus were men of crimes, and one was constantly rebuking Jesus.

See how easy it is to join in a crowd, even if the crowd is wrong? Someone asked Peter if he was with Jesus, and Peter denied it. One of the thieves with Jesus on the cross realized his mistakes and his confession was to ask Jesus to remember him when he got to his home. Jesus reassured him, “Truly I tell you today thou shalt be with me in paradise.”

I don’t know of any other place in the Bible that someone has been told as they were dying that they would be with Jesus that day in Heaven. As a young boy, I went to church. I was not given a choice and I never questioned it. It was Sunday, and we got dressed and went to church. Period. In todays’ world, according to ABC, “Sixty percent of people age 65 and older report attending religious services at least once a week; among 18- to 30-year-olds, just 28% go that often.

Are you starting to get the picture yet?

I watched a video of some young man in Miami during spring break randomly ask many young people, both black and white, both female and male, what the first verse in the Bible was. Most shook their head and walked away laughing with their friends.

I’ve worn many different hats in my time roaming around the country, working for different companies. Now that I’m unable to travel and work, I have time to sit and observe. I’ve given up on trying to understand the younger generation. But — and if my opinion is worth 2 cents — it appears that the young people who have gone to college today have been hypnotized into believing what the professor says rather than being taught how to think for themselves.

And then to top it off, I see or hear of a killing by some gangbanger. A young kid lies in a casket way before his time, having done nothing. Then the pictures and rhetoric start that resembles the Civil War, or rather the Un-Civil War as two lines of men, some barely old enough to be called men, march directly toward each other firing away with musket balls flying every which way so much so that trees were being cut down by the barrage.

Finally, the answer comes from opposite sides of the fence. Remove and outlaw all guns. It’s been shown that countries that allow weapons only for special people who can afford the taxes and only to be used for hunting have a lower murder rate. Chicago and New York have some of the strictest gun laws and what good has that done?

I like my guns, even if I haven’t shot some of them for 20 or more years, I’ve never pointed them at anyone, and with the world going crazy, I’m not giving them up without a fight.

Here are my closing thoughts. You cannot compare the U.S. with other countries. Each country has its own culture, laws, and government; plus they drive on the wrong side of the road. The only comparison that can be made is in this country, and that’s the good apples from the bad apples. If you make another law, it’s just one more law that somebody isn’t going to like, and they are going to challenge it. Count on it.

But wait, the election is coming up. As a farm boy, we had an old saying: “Don’t get in a wrestling match with a pig in a mud puddle, you’re going to lose, and the pig is going to love it.” I read the Squawkbox when I can. From the barbs going back and forth, it’s obvious to me that it’s two pigs wrestling in a mud puddle. Nobody wants to admit that the government we’ve got is totally dysfunctional, narcissistic, arrogant, and believe they are privileged, above the law and all citizens.

They disobeyed the constitution that they were supposed to be bound to uphold and voted themselves benefits that were at least most undeserving. Once they got that run through without much backlash, the flood gates were open. Many who get elected for the first time have only one concern: getting reelected.

If anyone is reading this, let me tell you something that is a fact: There is only one difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, it’s who they want to give your money to. And VP Harris is a perfect example of that. God help us if she gets in the oval office. Believe it or not.