It may be a good time for all of us to get a grip on the basic concepts of truth and faith. It seems to me that if there are contradicting facts of equal weight on more than one side of an issue, we are not necessarily dealing with "the truth". Taking a strong stance on one side of an issue is an act of faith, not truth, in a viewpoint.

Yet, the likes of Al Gore, the Clintons, and other democrats have recently shown that by promoting a one-sided issue and lying about it a lot, will establish the point certainly as “truth”. And it turns out that this old idea still works, especially to a newer dumbed-down generation. This isn’t truth, of course, but “faith” that is devoid of hope. Without a balanced approach, an issue like “global warming”, for example, becomes suspect as an agenda point. For Gore to get a “peace prize” for promoting a political viewpoint seems silly, (yet remember Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and Carter and Arafat got Nobel’s award also).

So what is the agenda of Gore and the left?

I don’t think the chicken little act really has anything to do with the planet. The Gore movement is really an evangelical effort to promote the sacred fulfillment of the big “Manifesto”, coming soon. These people really believe in that old-time 1848 religious document called "The Communist Manifesto" as the cornerstone of all insight and truth. Imagine.

I’m convinced that one of their patron saints, John Lennon, did the creative-artistic-thing by waking up one day and noting that his name sounded like Lenin. Lennon, in his wry manner, decided to put the Manifesto to music as a joke in defiance of the very system that made him famous. How imaginative! Lenin to Lennon and Power to the Lemmings! The poetry is clever, but if the communists cannot lead us all into the sea, perhaps they can lead the sea into us! Whatever the metaphor the result is the same – we’re all doomed without a revolution! In come Al and Hillary to save us against the Bourgeois earth warmers!

But for the right, it’s easy to defuse the global warming thing without thinking global, or warming. Just think terrorism. If we all drove hybrid cars, the oil savings would be equivalent to that of all of our foreign imports, the bad guys would be cut off at the pass, and the democrats would be happy to have saved the planet, not realizing they would be saving civilization at the same time. (I actually drive a Prius, not that I am a communist, but that I think it’s cool to get 51.5 mpg and feel a wee bit more independent in the good old fashioned American way. -- Issue resolved, at least for me...)

In the likely case that the reader of this article has never read the Communist Manifesto, here is the best kept secret of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. (The other Dems are too dumb to know where their dogma originally comes from). The left really believes these principles as a matter of truth, not faith. Note how far our governmental system has already merged into the Manifesto. It is the grand unification theory of the left that will be fulfilled prophetically sometime in the next 9 years under Hillary: (for space reasons, take a detour and Google up the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx – it looks just like the agenda of Move-On, Hillary, and the left).

The Manifesto is a worn down creed that replaces real imagination. The alternate religious faith of us stupid believers is just too much for the communist. It is, however, a more imaginative scenario. We believe, alternatively, in the existence of a Creator, a grand plan that extends beyond one lifetime, an interest in progress, and a purpose for humanity. But our faith can become inconvenient for us, too. At various times it looks as if our belief in the traditional Judeo-Christian God, the Commandments, the Bible and America tends to fail us. Although we believe that a supreme being may be watching us, and even caring for us, what are we to think if Hillary is elected? Is our faith in vain? And on a day to day basis what happens if we don’t get promoted at work, realize great expectations, or fail to become conquerors? What happens if Joel Olsteen turns out to be wrong, we get embarrassingly sick, lose our jobs, or worse?

Faith is funny, in that some of us who have faith in the God of the Bible and Hope in life after death don’t know why, don’t try much to understand why, and somehow stop questioning the experience at some point in our lives. The faithful simply can not shake the experience in spite of the obvious. To them, faith becomes truth even though they don’t know it, because they can’t get rid of it. It’s like a big fruitcake that shows up from nowhere and won’t go away. Some of us even like to act like we don’t have faith, you know, to keep up with the Jones’s, but are terrible at pretending not to have faith. Others do the phony faith act because it can be trendy, further donations, or help meet sales quotas. The rest are so limited in their imaginations (democrats), that they actually think humans are the highest form of life in the universe! So, if the weather is hot or cold, only humans can be responsible for that! And the humanism of communism ranks us mortals as subordinate to nothing, not even nature—how sad.

I suppose the whole point is what happens to our imaginations as we face death. One difficulty is to say there is nothing. “We came from nothing and are real nowhere men” is the creed of the communist and the political left. But is there no sky above us? Yet, as if connected to the universe, some, including the meek, mournful, poor in spirit, merciful, pure in heart, persecuted, and peaceful seem to have something else-- a gift of righteousness without consternation, a gift of imagination, in fact. Others seem only connected to themselves and scared to death of death. Where does this peace of mind come from? Can there be peace without imagination? Imagine.

America today is caught somewhere in the middle and headed left. We are “free” enough to allow the imaginatively challenged to thrive, yet we have a strong history of inconvenient sacrifice for the betterment of others. Where does that come from? And, scary as it seems, what will it take for a united nation to once again see the stars?