Good. Something not bad. Something that helps to promote or advance the general welfare of a person or thing toward a useful end goal. Something constructive or helpful in some way.
Good. Something that we try to teach our kids to be while still striving, throughout our lives, to be the same way ourselves. Something we hope we find in everyone we will encounter and possibly engage with today.
Good is something right, something more than simply beneficial by mere chance alone. Good is promoted, good is pursued. Good is desired and recognized as essential to any society.
Well, almost any society. There are those throughout history which managed to escape good altogether but most of those went far enough to become downright evil. Couldn’t happen here though.
Take our own government for example. It is good, they are good, are they not?
They take from those who have and give to those who have not. And it matters not if those who are diminished earned what they have and it likewise matters not if those who are enhanced are made so without the slightest expenditure of any effort of their own making. It is simply good that those who can make it so do make it so. And it is good for them to have those devoted patrons to depend upon come the Fall.
It is good that we have reduced our international standing, both economically and militarily. The respect paid our country continues to erode and that must be good because it makes those who were so far behind now closer to us. Not through their own speeding up but by our own slowing down. And never mind the more powerful countries who will then edge into the lurch- they mean no immediate harm.
Or so they say.
It is good that our officials can now have us under constant watch and know what we are doing. We remain suspect in all we do while those who would bring us down are treated with all desired respect and essentially left alone.
It is good that those who disagree with the administration do so with the fairly likely assurance that they will be targeted by the mighty IRS. Is there any organization more powerful than that?
And the fact that the Department of Justice continues to cherry pick the cases of lawlessness that they will choose to pursue and prosecute must be good for they say it is so. Never mind the actual law.
And it is oh so good and just that the Department of State continues to neglect its function and put so many in harm’s way. They seem inept and quite incapable but, at this point, what difference does it make?
We choose to not pursue any sensible path toward energy independence but continue to pursue technologies that cost far too much and yield even farther too little in return. How can that not be good? Some day when we no longer need it we will have it- cheaply and in abundance.
The world moves and so do we. Our largest and most dangerous enemies are granted more and more appeasement, by us, and that, too, is good. If we want them to move toward the leadership spaces we are vacating at an amazing rate then it must actually be very good.
Our good remains intrinsic and personal. It remains good. Focus on legalizing illegal residents within our borders. Perpetuate racism and sexism as catalysts for change regardless of the legitimacy involved. Make gay marriage an inalienable right and a primary focus on all fronts. Allow the federal government to dictate the re-education of our children; to completely control the medical care of its citizenry; to regulate our living based on false assertions of global warming or climate change, all based on indefensible data; to have more people pay no taxes while consuming more and more tax-provided goods and services; to promote the general demise of any decent cultural norms; to promote Islam while denigrating all things Christian; to raise wages where small businesses, and any competition to nationalization of such provided goods and services, can no longer exist; to control the media and all but eliminate objective journalism; to override state sovereignty more and more with each passing day; to vastly and continuously raise our national debt; to take away our right to speak freely and bear arms; to dismantle or completely neuter out very Constitution.
To allow our supposed leader pass after pass on all things of any importance. To allow such a tremendous intellect to time and again avoid any responsibility at all for these things that happen on his watch. How could he possibly know?
How could he possibly not?
In all regards, though, that too must be good or we wouldn’t allow it to happen would we?