The Power of RIGHT

While I am proposing questions of preponderance, the right marches on! And this right, left thing . . . don’t think it isn’t a political ploy from the beginning. There is a real stigma with not being Right in something. I am left handed and have literally heard someone refer to that as “wrong handed.” We desire to be in our “right minds.” In every discussion we want to be right. Certainly in an argument, everybody wants to be right! And the various terms that are associated with the word RIGHT are the key to why it is best to be right! I looked up Right first for antonyms and found three: center, left, wrong. Well do these three words sound like anything we listened to through the debates and campaigns. Politically, center is moderate and both sides aren’t terribly proud of that position. The Bible instructs us to “let our moderation show to all . . .” Well, the only time I have heard politicians refer to the Bible in the last four years is on the campaign trail or at time of war. Left is the opposite of right when one is referring to hands or turns. Left does not, however; have the same definition as the word wrong except in American politics. Wrong is still considered the opposite of right, but not necessarily the opposite of moral or righteous. For you see, moral people can kill now, they call it pre-emptive strikes. And righteous people can hate, as long as it is someone that politically disagrees. And somehow, the American public and certainly the ones claiming to be right, have associated all the synonyms of the word right with their politics. Correct, decent, good, proper, powerful, justly, mighty, suitable.
The true reality is: we know that totalitarian government is no better than communism and a dictatorship is not superior to socialism. They are all extremes that we have read about and observed in other countries and governments that we say, we do not want here in America. What so many Americans seem to be forgetting is the farther left or right anyone leans, the more diminished is the chance to simply move in the forward direction.
Where would our American society be if way back before there were republicans and democrats, the political extremes had been labeled in the opposite manner. Let’s face it, the republicans have something going for them that the democrats are never going to have. People like to be RIGHT.
do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded you: don`t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.