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Dear Ladies,
Hello again from Poland.
LAF website is by now my familiar as well as highly valued place of visit. Having read your highly interesting pre-election debate, I thought I would let you share an observation made from Europe where I live. (in Poland, the one European country where pre-election polls indicated greater support for president Bush than Senator Kerry).
I was of course saddened and disappointed when I read on the LAF page that President Bush was not the kind of presidential candidate I had imagined him to be. I live too far from the USA to be aware of the nuances of policies he had in fact endorsed. I had innocently assumed he was as pro-Christian, pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-family as his reputation has it in Europe.
And yet...
To us in Europe who call themselves Conservative Christians the results of the US elections have nevertheless come as a very encouraging development. They showed that the danger of losing the very foundation of society - its moral values - has finally been noticed by millions. Not only that, but that they decided to actually use what powers they had to safeguard themselves against that danger. And that it is happening in the country which has for decades indicated the shape of things to come. The wind of change, if you will. As the rock and roll culture came from the US and as the hippy culture came, is it finally time for change for the good?
The "European response," the shocked abomination, as noticed for instance by CNN reporters, was not so much about politics as the US people's choice implies. It was precisely about the message that to millions of people moral values are still the main vector of their life. That message had been believed by many to be already obsolete, or honoured only by some isolated minority. The election results have shown them that they were wrong. And they abhore the implication.
But many have already started asking the question: have we been missing something? For all the disappointed rhetorics now, it is hard to seriously propose that over half of the voting America is ignorant, fanatical and just plain tasteless. While the first reaction went like something along those lines, already rationality is seeping in. And it is hard to escape the conclusion that this was a vote against the so-called progress in its peculiar, liberal sense and a stance for traditional values.
I am purposefully avoiding reference to strictly Evangelical Christian preference showed by the voters, because it is now revealed that different religious groups also had their share in the outcome. Even some non-religious people, it transpires.
The youngest voters that had been supposed such natural supporters of the pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, etc. ticket, clearly did not show the dedication expected of them, and largely did not come to uphold those "rights." Only 17% of those who could have come showed up; hardly a landslide turnout. Where, then, is the assumption that those are the preferences of the next generation?
All of which is food for thought now for politicians and serious media alike. I am finding it very hopeful. Those are the very issues that were so far always imposed on the public here, together with the imputation that surely no intelligent, caring, cool, upbeat, modern person may possibly be churchgoing or pro-life. Now you cannot shrug off fifty some million of people as that misinformed minority.
I will always remember that the communist rule in Poland really ended on the day when Pope John Paul II visited Poland in 1979, and for the first time ever people were allowed to attend a Mass in the open-air place in one of the largest squares of Warsaw. Prior to that moment, worshippers had been led to think that they were just a small, obsolete group, clinging to the old way for the short time yet remaining until the triumph of reason is complete.
But on that afternoon in June 1979 people came, looked around and noticed that there were in fact millions of them crowded on the pavement.
Next year the Solidarity movement began.
I know your reservations and understand your objections, but I shall now pray for the success of Christian citizens under this new presidency to try and hold President Bush to his electoral stance and promises. I shall hope and pray for the change of our world.
God bless,
Marzena Reich (Mrs.)
[Note: Mrs. Reich wrote a wonderful article for LAF this past spring about the ties between feminism and communism.]
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Dear LAF,
The moral conscience of America has spoken and has countersigned, via the ballot box, a clear mandate for change. It has said "no more" to the self-destructive hatred that is the trademark of the contemporary liberal left.
There are many many people who have helped realise this. There are a multitude of different factors to be considered when any movement for change is examined objectively. But brave and hardworking people such as yourselves, at www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com, are undoubtedly part of that movement and deserve full credit.
And you merit special praise for battling against perhaps the most dreadful aspect of the evil that is the contemporary left - feminism.
Under its banner of feminism, the women's movement has long since crossed that divide between just cause and fanatical creed motivated purely by blind hatred.
Although the success of this Republican administration has been associated with its moral stance towards the excesses of various other mindless and extreme liberal causes, such as Gay Rights and abortion, many many people know that the true "golden scepter" of the far left is feminist extremism.
The Republicans will be fully aware of this as well. And I hope to God that, in due course, the hateful and divisive reign of fear, tyranny, and lies that is the trademark of modern feminism will draw to a close. It has yet to be fully confronted. But that day is inevitable.
History has repeatedly demonstrated that extremism, of whatever nature, eventually creates, nutures, emboldens and eventually comes face to face with its own nemesis. Once any cause embraces mindless fanaticism, it ultimately exacts its own retribution upon itself.
If, consciously or unconsciously, a socio-political movement embraces extremism, there is only so far it, or any political doctrine, can go before reality becomes lost and the quality of people's lives begin to deteriorate.
The decision, by the American electorate, to grant President Bush a second term with the biggest popular vote secured by any US President in American history underlines this. The significance and magnitude of this profound statement by the American people is emphasised still further when it is put into context with the prejudiced nature of the information that has constantly been raining down upon them via their television sets, newspapers, magazines, movies and tainted educational system.
They have managed to see through it all. They have realised that the liberal left-wing ideological emperor is eventually going to feel a little chilly when the sun goes down. For he is completely naked.
This has been realised through a combination of what people instinctively know to be right and wrong - and the emergence and growing influence of many people, including yourselves, who are reaching out to more and more people in a way that cannot be censored by left-wing extremism.
Well done, Ladies Against Feminism. Each one of you who works on that website has but one vote. But, if it were possible to know the truth, I should not be suprised if, through your efforts here on the internet, you were each worth hundreds, possibly thousands, more.
Keep up the good work.
Kindest Regards,
Peter Charnley
(United Kingdom)
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