Truth, Justice and the American Way

Trump's victory is the first step

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As the battleground states fell one after the other into Trump's column late election night, ordinary Americans began feeling a sense of liberation; freedom from a system of social oppression imposed on them by wicked-minded overseers.

It was very much like an episode from Superman where a super human alien flies in and routes the evil empire's desire to vanquish Americans.

And make no mistake, Trump is absolutely alien to the ruling elites. No matter what they do, they cannot figure him out and, as a result, they cannot come up with a winning strategy against him. He is from the planet of Krypton – which roughly translated – means 'common sense'. 

In fact, in the last week of the campaign as both Trump and Harris were making their closing arguments, the 47th President pivoted (as well as summed up) his entire campaign: "We are the party of common sense." For their part, Team Joy made the fatal mistake of cloaking their candidate in the robes of anti-Trump.

Posturing the anti-Trump candidate, when Trump is carrying the banner of common sense, went about as well everyone who was not a Democrat predicted it would; that is to say – it was a total train wreck.

But further exploration of why 'common sense' became so front-and-center is warranted for two reasons. First – what defines 'common sense'? Second – Democrats can never appeal to 'common sense' with their current leadership and philosophical worldview.

Common sense, generally speaking, refers to the simple reality that human nature – fashioned by God – recognizes certain truths and responds accordingly, even if eventually. Despite the major caveat that humans are notoriously slow, error-prone and emotionally-driven more than we would all like to admit, the arc of humanity does tend toward a common perception of truth, as well as justice. Why?

Because these concepts, these realities, are written on the heart of man by God Himself as a route to Him – a path toward divine life in eternity. Without these "common" perceptions we would truly be lost. The problem is that far too few people correspond their lives to these divine realities properly.

The Democrats, for example, constantly appeal to equality, but in a severely flawed way. Notice that it is divine law that is appealed to – even if it is a twisted, perverted approach. It is said the Devil can only twist and pervert; he can never create. He can only corrupt good; he has no power to create an actual alternative. 

This is why so many times, the rhetoric from both sides sounds similar. Frankly, who is going to run for office by appealing to INequality and expect long-term success? Good people, therefore, must spend a disproportionate amount of time defining what words and terms mean and how they are properly applied.

Further, political presentations of twisted concepts are successful in fooling many voters – but in the end, they are lies. Not for nothing did the Son of God name Satan as "the father of lies" who has no truth in him.

The concepts of truth and justice resonate with men and women of goodwill – but not everyone possesses a will that is good. At some point in their lives between the cradle and knowingly embracing lies – they lost their goodwill. In politics, it's clear that many cast aside their goodwill for power – like King Herod, whose casting aside of it, turned him into a mass murderer of infants – a reality that still burdens the American political landscape.

Just as Truth resonates in man's soul, likewise the concept of Justice rings loudly. For many – again, those of goodwill – justice plays out in the day-to-day under the umbrella of "fairness." Americans are loath to situations being unfair. They want a level playing field, a fair fight – to name just two 'common' expressions denoting this truth.

But Justice extends beyond simply a fair fight. Justice in its basic sense is the giving to each man what he is due (deserves). So, it is never enough to just make sure there are rules to ensure a level playing field, but consequences to breaking them. And the greater the trespassing of the rules, the greater the common man understands the punishment should be.

After all, it is this reality that has made illegal immigration such a hot-button issue, even, and especially, among many legal immigrants who rightly perceive that they themselves are victims of injustice. Many of them played 'by the rules', waited in line, paid large sums of money, filled out endless hours of paperwork, had in-person meetings with authorities, studied and sat for tests and so forth. Their inherent sense of justice is offended by people who skip over the same grueling process they had to endure. 

However, the old adage – if common sense were so common, more people would have it – comes into play here. Aside from many Democratic leaders actually being of bad will, the truth is that all of us – even those with good will – make intellectual and emotional mistakes in applying what we believe to be truth and justice in particular circumstances.

But for the leaders with bad will – they capitalize on their followers' mistaken perceptions and are often able to win (or steal) elections. The problem with winning when you possess bad will is that the laws and policies you institute, sooner or later, produce bad outcomes (not infrequently, devastating ones) and it is the common man who pays ultimately.

The Democratic leadership – and large numbers of their second- and third-tier surrogates – are Marxist in their worldview. They accept Communism and have committed themselves to it. If one phrase could be spoken which sums up Communism it would be this: a system which denies the dignity of man being made in the image and likeness of God.

If that is the starting point – which it is – there are really no limits to what Communists can and will impose; and it doesn't matter what the arena is – political, educational, legal, cultural, economic. Every area will be superseded by a philosophy that the individual does not matter; that he has no inherent God-given rights.

That will never be a winning political approach, and it is why since the days of the Bolsheviks, Communism has always been imposed through force. America, with its unique circumstances, would not permit a violent imposition of Communism. On these shores, it would have to be instituted through the ballot box (with some 'tweaking'.) 

Trump arrived as Superman because he trained the focus of a sufficient number of American voters on the reality of common sense and they understood – whether he arrived in a garbage truck or was handing out french fries at the drive-through window.

The Communist-Democrats kept handing him what they thought would be the final dose of kryptonite – lawfare, media slurs, spying on his campaign, undermining his first term, even trying to kill him. None of it worked.  

In fact, the argument can easily be made that, owing to their common sense, a large number of Americans simply came to disregard all of these efforts for what they were – attempts to take out Superman. 

What Trump '24 has done is begin the re-establishment of Truth, Justice and the American Way. And he did it by legitimizing 'common sense' – which, in this election at least, did begin to reemerge as a governing principle for the common man. 

Gary Michael Voris holds a graduate degree, Cum Laude, from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Voris earned multiple awards for 40+ years of news media experience for writing, producing, and investigative work from the Associated Press, Detroit Press Club, Michigan Broadcasters Association, as well as four news Emmys in multiple categories. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 with an undergraduate major in Communications and a minor in History.

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