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Joseph M. Lenard | Christian Activist & Author in Politics Season 3 Episode 151

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CTP (S3E151) Animal Farm And The Trap Of Equity
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond   
We leave the theater after Animal Farm and use its themes to question what “equality” really means in a messy world shaped by free will and human limits. We push back on equity as guaranteed outcomes, argue for reality-based thinking, and challenge you to act instead of getting lulled into bread and circus distraction. 
• reacting to Animal Farm as a warning about power and language 
• rejecting collectivist absolutism with examples from biology and daily life 
• separating spiritual equality from unequal talents and capabilities 
• defining equality of opportunity and critiquing equity of outcomes 
• explaining merit as the natural result of skill, effort, and calling 
• arguing that unrestrained capitalism leads to monopoly and cronyism 
• outlining the political spectrum from anarchy to total state control 
• stressing that limited government depends on moral citizens and self-restraint 
• using ladder and boat metaphors to challenge victimhood politics 
• urging listeners to think clearly, face hard truths, and stay engaged 
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Hello, welcome to another episode of Prostitutionless Podcast. I am your host, Joseph M. Wanner. That's L-E-N-A-R-D, it looks French, it's not it's wonderful down the O. Thank you for tuning in. As Framdow used to say on his show, let's get on with the show. Hello, gang. How are you doing? This is a cheat segment. I am recording this as a lead-in to a standard Saturday show that is going to uh now air through the audio platforms 25 plus of Christitutionalist podcasts. What was formerly a CTP video exclusive that I feel needs to go out as a regular show. So bear that in mind when recorded, it was a video exclusive. So uh the dates, it could be from a month ago, it could be from a couple months ago, so bear that in mind when you hear things regarding time frames, it may be from a while ago, so particular references may be a little dated, and this segment of cheat, right? I'm recording it, I'll be using it with several video exclusives turned Saturday episodes. Without further ado, let's get on with the show. Hello everybody, off the top. Let me say this is not going to be a perfect episode, obviously. How many times have I said there's no such thing as perfect, obviously, but I'm uh uh blue tongue, blue tongue. I just came from the theater, saw Animal Farm. It raises some tough questions. I want to run through some of those. So yeah, I have trouble at times articulating things well. I have no problem admitting that. So I hope you will bear with me through this as I on the fly try to work through this. I didn't jot down any notes, so hopefully, I'll throw my imperfect and giving less and less perfect memory. Hopefully, remember everything. Going to be part movie review, part history discussion, part philosophy discussion, part biblical discussion, part all kinds of things discussion. But start off with a quasi-continuation of last couple video exclusives. It's just May 2026. This is video exclusive special three, I believe, now already for May. We're only a few days in, and today is Saturday, May the second, only the second day in, but I'm recording my third May video exclusive special. So many things come up in the Animal Farm film. Good movie, great movie, can be confusing. Oh, other episodes. Collectivist absolutism. There is no such thing. And an example, even in God's creation, embrace yourself, this is gonna upset some. But even in God's creation and God's laws, there are no such thing as collectivist absolutism. Oh I know that's blowing some people's minds. So let me give an immediate example. We are male and female. You are either XX or XY. As a collectivist, absolutist statement, that is absolutely positively false. Yes, even in nature, even in God's creation, there are mutations and abnormalities, distortions of the XX or XY. Now, that doesn't mean my height is five foot eight. I don't get to gender, right? You don't just get to declare you're another gender, but let's not talk about that. Let me give an abstract analogy metaphor. I am five foot eight. I don't get to just declare overnight, how dare you call me five foot eight, which is verifiably measurable, provable, evidenced. Reality, I don't get to just delusionally declare, I am seven foot three, I am the best basketball player on the planet. I demand the NBA allow me to play to demonstrate I am the greatest, better than Michael Jordan, better than Robert Byrd, better than Isaiah Thomas, better than whomever, whomever, whomever. And the NBA just needs to roll over, move aside, get out of my way, and showcase me to prove it. Devoid of reality, complete delusional thinking, and I don't have the right to play in the NBA. Um so no such collectivist absolutisms. XXXY, yes, there are abnormalities. Now, as to the animal farm film and why do I feel it? This is gonna be a misunderstood episode. I know I'm gonna get flack, I know I'm gonna get you know feedback. This is confusing, this is gonna be nuanced. I'm going to challenge some major assumptions we've had for 250 years, or that's not true. Assumptions we've bastardized from the beginning of our nation to now, like in Animal Farm. All animals are created equal, except some are more equal. I joke ever since terror strikes coming soon to a city near you book came out. I and joked on X Grock, the XAI Grok and I have had fun back and forth. I coined the hashtag George E. Orwell, a cross between Orwellian Dystopian and Eeyore from the Pooh Universe, pessimistic AL attitude. Uh, imagine the two, but an animal farm sequel. It would be some animals get more equity than other animals, they get special privilege over other animals to, you know, create this bastardized, warped notion of equity rather than equality of opportunity. And here's where the history and the nuancing of language and how we equity of outcomes is a bastardization of equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity is there as a phrase because equality, we are not all equal. Oh, okay. I know, I know, give me a second. Please give me oh my god, that's what no. In God's eye, in God's creation, spiritually wise, our souls are equal. But we as humans are Michael Jordan, far better basketball player than I. It's not offensive, it's not upsetting, it's not a problem to say that and admit that. Some people are better at some things than I am. It's not offensive to me to say that, and I don't have the right to demand Michael Jordan. Well, we gotta use LaMoron James now, a current player, yes. It's not a God-given right that LaMoron James to show we are equal, he dumbed down his game to help me elevate mine to show to create an equitable outcome so we both look as good on the course. No one is owed that, no one is entitled to that. And our founders didn't say we are all 100% equal. We are granted, yes, created equal by our creator, endowed by our creator. That's a separate argument, that's a different set of equality. But on this planet, as humans, as human beings, men generally, general not collectivist absolutism. Men are always stronger than women. Wrong answer. And again, it's not insulting to me or offensive to me to say Honda Rousey could certainly kick my butt. She's way better shaped, she's far stronger. In general, the male of the species has greater bone density, greater muscle mass, testosterone levels, which give an extra kick that make men generally stronger. But you cannot make a collectivist absolutist statement to that effect. And Raza Ronda Rousey being able to kick the butt of most men I know is a case in point in that. It doesn't change the generality of the structural biology of men versus women. It's reality, it's the nuance, and we both have an equal opportunity, perhaps to get in the ring. I don't have a right to demand an equitable outcome in the ring. You then have the merit of your abilities. There it is. Right? Right? Again, it's not offensive to me. It's not upsetting to me. It's not insulting to me that to say, oh, George is better at calculus than me. That makes us unequal. In that respect, yes. That's not offensive, that's not a problem. And the reason the left is able to distort this communistic notion of equitable outcome idiocy is because we've lost the notion of the word equal. We have equality creation of our creator of our soul, not our physical bodies to one another. One person may be better at basketball, one better at ice hockey, and others not good at any sport. Now again, I cannot articulate things to the liking of everyone. And I'm not even happy with the way I articulate this metaphor. Uh pick your poison of your metaphor. Better a calculus. I can't play a fiddle. I can play a guitar. The fiddle player may not be able to play a guitar, and others can't play any instrument if their life depended on it. That makes us unequal in that regard. That doesn't make us unequal as souls. Unequal as humans. We have to have the equality of opportunity that our nation was founded on. I have the equal opportunity to attempt to learn how to play the fiddle. What if I'm not capable? Capable, capabilities. Some have better capabilities than others. That can't be insulting or offensive to say. That's reality versus this left delusion that we can somehow all be one hundred percent guaranteed of an outcome that we choose. Merit takes over talents given to us by God matter, and we're each given different talents and abilities. The other thing is capitalism. I've heard said, and I trust angel studios. They are the Christian studio, other great movies like the Bonhoeff movie and the one sci-fi film, The Shift or something. Great film, and it's like some, oh my god, that's anti-religious. They're talking about other dimensions, other planes, and other planets, and oh relax. Relax the more look at the moral of the story. Stop getting upset at some of the superficial stuff, the way that the story is told. I have heard it said, you don't want to see this. This is anti-capitalist. It's anti-monopolistic. Yes, it's it's certainly not com. Some will say it's communistic. The concept of the animal farm as a commune and everyone equally putting in and getting out equal shares that the film addresses. But capitalism is what I want to address here. We do not have, never have, and can never have, complete unrestrained capitalism. To use the cultural Marxist term, free markets and it's like anarchy. No one I know. And I spoke on uh what was the show just the other day. Let me quickly look. Uh church and state show. The other day I was on, and we talked the political spectrum. Anarchy, absolutely zero governance on the far right of the spectrum. On the left of the spectrum, you've got absolute government, you've got monarchy, communism, fascism, socialism. Those are all left dictatorial edict, top down one or a few lording over the many. More government control, more government regulation, that is the left. More for some and a whole lot less for most. That's reality of this planet. Now, capitalism, we are a capitalist free market society for the most part. But we are dealing with humans. You can't generally have complete anarchy unless you have a group of people with God-given free will decide their plot, their you know, their established area of land will be anarchist and every man, woman, and child for themselves. John Adams said, our constitution is solely for a moral and religious peoples. It is wholly inadequate for any other. The constitutional limitations suggest our Judeo Christian foundations that we will be a moral people, but God gave us all free will, and some will use their free will for evil to gain power and control for themselves, exploit others, accumulate everything for them, and others with nothing. But an anarchical society, generally, we agree you can't have that. There have to be some rules. But yes, can a commune world biblical community, free will, choice, choose to be our brothers and sisters keeper and take care of widows and orphans. Yes, biblical community, voluntarily through free will. Worldly communism is not free will, it's at the barrel of the gun, forcing equitable outcomes. Those two aren't the same. And the same with anarchy. Could you have an anarchist commune? Yes, if, if, if, if indeed a hundred people came together, all voluntarily, not forced into it, put into that situation, and they agree to be moral people with each and understand without a written rule and law that other than God's law, you don't kill one another. It's pretty simple, but life is not that simple, that easy, and You're not likely to get many humans together to be able to have anarchy work. That's why our government is left of anarchy. It is also why we don't allow left-wing power and control in the hands of one or a few lording over the many. We are supposed to be left of the far right. We are supposed to be a right of center governance, limited government, some laws, but we have to be moral citizens for it to work, hence the John Adams quote. Why did I say that? I didn't get off track, actually. Capitalism, unrestrained capitalism, unrestrained markets will lead to monopolies and a complete distortion of what our system is in. So there have to be rules, there have to be some regulations, there have to be some laws. The problem again is back to human nature. We aren't perfect, we are frail, we are flawed, we are given free will, and again, some will use it for evil. If we were all good moral people, we wouldn't have the problems we have, but that's the reality of this planet. And again, the reality of capitalism is that it was never meant to be completely unrestrained, anarchist with no rules at all. The problem, human nature. Person A wants the rules to benefit person A. Person B wants the rules to benefit person, and person C and person, and so on and so forth. That is where society and we the people come in to try to, and I think we had, we've gotten too far away from it into corporate phonyism. I forget the uh political corporatism. We we've gone far from anarchy, never meant to be that, but we've gone far from our limited republic. We were supposed to be. We're more a corporatocracy, unfortunately, than anything right now. Gotten too far from that. But we the people have to place reasonable rules and constraints so that we all maintain our equality of opportunity. We all have a chance to apply ourselves, but again, some people are better business people than other people. We're not equal in that regard. Our abilities and talents are never going to be equitable. They are not, it's just reality. Leftists refuse to deal in. And it's there in the Bible. We are individuals. Free will. We have choices, we have options, we have different talents. That's not insulting to say. So capitalism, yes, is addressed. Unrestrained capitalism, runaway and crony capitalism is addressed. The issue of monopoly is addressed in the animal farm book and film. We were never meant to be completely unrestrained anarchy in either the governance or business sense. And that's the problem. We have people trying to apply collectivist absolutism. Oh, equality must mean equity. No, those two aren't the same. They are not the same. And they cannot be. We cannot, we are and forever will be equal as God's created souls. But as humans, we need to best treat us each other as equal as we can, but still recognize that if person A is better at plumbing than electricity, you don't want them around the electricity. They are not equal in that sense. You let the plumber that's bad at electricity at the electricity, things are gonna blow up, and vice versa, the electrician, you probably don't want working on your plumbing. And I know, again, I may not be articulating this all that well, but I also know that you get it, you understand it. There are a bunch of people, however, that don't. And we've gotten away from and we've come up with this notion that equality is somehow a collectivist absolutist statement, and it's not. It's not, it's a bastardization of the term, it's a bastardization of the notion and the proper application as outlined by our fathers. Equality in opportunity to apply ourselves. The Bible says we have obligations to the unable, but not the unwilling. You have access to try and find the things that you're good at to then earn things for yourself. You're not entitled to someone else's stuff. You're not entitled, Atlas Shrugged, you're not entitled to. Let me back up. I apologize. For some, these are very tough concepts, so let me say that instead. They can be grasped, but they're especially the luck. There's a difference between ignorance and stupid. We are all ignorant of something. I'm not good at certain things. It doesn't mean I'm incapable of learning and figuring it out. It's I don't. I apply myself in other ways. You apply yourself to certain other things in ways. We excel, we have merit in the choices we make of the things we do. But we are all ignorant of some things. But the left is stupid. They don't know, they don't care to know. In fact, they prefer to not know because they refuse to deal in reality like I'm talking about here. They want their unicorn fart fantasy, they want to pretend they're seventh three and can play in the NBA. Delusional. So let's do the things we can, recognize the things we can't, work together the best we can, create the greater good. There's a term the left loves, but they ignore it. The greater good is what? When the greater number of people have it good. No, there's a meme I share all the time: socialism for dummies. A guy's got a ladder, another guy does not. They're in a pit instead of putting up the ladder, and the guy who has the ladder go up it, and then the other guy use it. No, they're fighting over the ladder. So what's their solution? What's the socialism solution? The equality solution? Well, I shouldn't just have the ladder and then let you use it. Let's saw the ladder in half. And we'd be both then own half a ladder. But then guess what? The half a ladder is not tall enough to get either of us out of the pit. As Abraham Lincoln said, you do not lift up another by tearing someone else down. In that case, obviously, duh. You've got to work together and cooperate to use the ladder to get out of the pit. Whichever the one of you that owns it. The solution if you don't own ladder, isn't that I have to either steal it or force someone to saw it in half so I get half, and neither of us gain. People either grasp that or they don't. And sadly, a lot on the left will never get it. Oh, yeah, I want half a ladder, even though I'll be stuck in the pit. But hey, what a win! I was able to steal half a ladder from Steve. Again, I apologize. I know this may not be the best analogy, metaphor, the best way to articulate these ideas, but I needed to address them. These are complex issues in a complex world. We need to boil them down as simply as we can and understand. We need to try to work together and the other episode. Jesus said the poor will always be among you. He said that because it's a human nature statement. There will always be some who refuse to do anything to help themselves and demand you give them stuff. Rising tide lifts most boats. There will always be leftists drilling holes in their boats to sink their own boat, just so so-and-so they can't admit so-and-so help their boat rise. Well, if they can't have a super yacht, they're gonna drill holes in their rowboat and sink the rowboat. Rather than have a rising rowboat, the rowboat gets additional niceties added onto the rowboat. No, if I can't have the super yacht, I'm gonna drill holes in my rowboat and claim you're at fault for it sinking. I have to have your super yacht. You must give me. I am entitled. I, you know, I am entitled, and you must give me your super yacht. No, that's and what's worse, as I discuss in there, they won't drill just holes in their own, they'll drill holes in other people's boats to sabotage them from rising. So they can try to convince them, oh no, I didn't drill holes in your boat, your boat sunk because so-and-so. So-and-so's at fault for doing it. The victimhood mentality. Oh, it couldn't possibly be me drilling holes in my boat why it sunk. But at the same time, I can't let you have any honor and credit for the fact that my boat grows. I'd rather sink my boat. I get it, these are convoluted metaphors and analogies. I I get it, I do, I understand. But this is the best way I can at this point think to articulate these complex issues that others, and that's the other others are I'm trying to simplify these explanations, and others purposefully, willfully, and malice aforethought, are trying to complicate them. Some things can be simple, but others want to overcomplicate it so that it doesn't get done or it gets done to their benefit and to your exclusion. And they're always the ones claiming, oh, I'm on the excluded sides, I'm being oppressed, I'm a victim. All right, I I think I've rambled enough. If I haven't come up with a proper articulation by now, I'm not going to. And if I've forgotten anything and can't remember it by now, I'm not likely going to remember it before I hit stop on this video, which has gotten too long. I just ask you, as always, to be a thinker, not one who emotes. Right deal in reality isn't always pretty. This show, I say it over the good, the bad, the ugly. There's often some bad that goes with the good and some ugly involved. I don't have to like it. I don't like it. But I deal in reality, and I want you dealing in reality and a thinker. Now, oh, just because my feelings, right? Ignorance and stupidity again. But you can own up to being ignorant on a subject, and I did it, I'm on disability since 2004. I have far more time here on my couch and with my OCD to constantly go down rabbit holes and think about these. I have far more time to think about all these things than the average person. But if the average person is engaged in bread and circus all the time, all some next mindless reality TV show, rather than taking time to think about important issues. That's the difference between ignorance and choosing stupid. To know you don't know, don't care you don't know, don't want to be bothered with knowing. I have more time on my hands than the average person, so I have more time to deal with these issues, and hence one of the reasons why I'm doing a show. To try as best I can in my frail state, both physically, mentally. I'm human, I'm frail, I'm flawed, I'm imperfect. I don't articulate as well as I'd like to a lot of times, but I'm trying. I'm trying to boil things down rather than overcomplicate to purposely keep people confused, purposely keep people dumbed down and uninvolved. More only thing necessary, evil prevail, good peoples do nothing. And evil wants you to feel small that you can't make a difference, that this is over your head. You can't possibly handle these concepts. Just leave it to them. No, they win when you aren't involved. It's we the people in our documents for a reason, and that goes for left right. Commie fashy socials want you dumb and uninvolved, or just pulling the jackass lover. Equally, rhinos and senos equally want you uninvolved. They get to stay in power that way. Left, right, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservatives, there's good, bad, and ugly in every group. Again, collectivist absolutism. There's no such thing. All these people bad, all those people all good all the time. No, collectivist absolutism. Back to the top of the even God's nature laws. Collectivist absolutism doesn't exist. Quit trying to apply it down here. Thank you all. Take care. God bless. Love you all.

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Only thing necessary. For evil prevails. What they say, good peoples do nothing. Do nothing. Stay most day. The world keeps turn. A dark strange place. Good folks a year for a saving grave. A ship as sail, they sail on a trouble tide. But what do you do today? With no it high questions I've been asking all my ride to watch your move. Just what about is it? You're willing to try to do it. We could just sleep. Why you take a five? Lost in the batteries. Don't have to lower the ground. They say it's all off the pause. A losing fight. But what about her applause? But what is the right? Only thing it takes the time to prevail is a crowd of fire. Then turn away. That's the wildest on the pause. Someone else to move Or will you stand, will you stand, will you stand and be the proof?

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Tell me what are you doing What are you doing?

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Good folks in a quiet room, hands clean, eyes closed, say someday I'll make a change, someday never shows every hurdle over past, cuts a deeper line, everything that's not up to me, helps the darker line So what are you doing? What are you doing now? To help the light, help the light, help the life break through the doubt Are you just awaiting someone else to move? Or will you stand, will you stand, will you stand and be approved? Tell me what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? It's a hard, hard question. Looking back at you, yeah, in the mirror, in the silence you already know is true. If you're breathing, you're required to answer with your life every minute that you're given.

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I might be shessing other ben and all Yeah I watch you juggle glitter in grief. Cheap thrill, dress up like belief. You sell distraction by the pound, but I won't buy what drags others down. Yeah, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. In your brain, circus, focus, now just go away. You will not disrupt my soul, you will not corrupt my mind. What the foul you say? You turn my kind temporary indulgence into a stage. Try to cast me and others into your rage. But I won't dance inside your frame. I walk away, I keep my name. I'm number, I'm just disappointed. In your bread and circus focus, now just go away. You will not disrupt my soul, you will not corrupt my mind with the foul you say. With the foul you say, all your empty fireworks fade. All your pain, the truth feels fake. I am not your easy bread. I am not the game you play. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. In your bread and circus focus, now just go away. You'll not infect my soul, you'll not infest my mind with the foul you say. This isn't the circus, but you sure play the clown. Huh? I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. In your bread and circus focus, now just go away. You will not disrupt my soul, you will not corrupt my mind with the foul you say. Yeah, just go go away.

Is There A Blood Test

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Is there a blood test for stupid? Can we just scream for that? Stick out your arms for a moment, find where the thinking's flat. Can't fix stupid, they tell me like it's a law of a land, but I'd sign up for the trial run if someone just took a stand. Yeah, is there a blood test for stupid? Line 'em up, take a try. For the sake of everybody who still cares enough to ask why ignorance is bliss. They're laughing. High on their own illusion.

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We're the ones paying the price.

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Drowning in the confusion. They say they're saving the future. Shouting in matching shirts, sharing a thousand truth memes, till reality hurt. Faith in a cartoon version. Facts in a shallow grave. We're stuck cleaning the wreckage of every feel good crusade. As Barnum said long ago, sucker porn every minute. These leveloons constantly show they got TDS and just can't quit it. Is there a blood test? What's stupid? Line 'em up and take a try. For the sake of everybody who still cares enough to ask why ignorance is bliss. They're laughing high on their own illusion. We're the ones paying the price. Drowning in the confusion. Draw the light, draw the vial. Can we diagnose denial? If there's a cure, one small shot.

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Hit the heart, change a thought. Is there a blood chest or stupid? Love it up and take a try. For the sake of everybody who still cares enough to ask why ignorance is bliss. They're laughing, lost in their bright illusion.

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We're the ones holding the bill. Bleeding out in the confusion. Is there a blood test for a stupid? Can't fix stupid, so they say. Wish someone would try. For sake of all anyway. Ignorance is bliss, left love's their delusion. Rest of us suffer in the confusion. They scream about no kings in a nation, ditch the crown. Two fifty-ish years ago now. These folks are clowns.

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Warm hands, soft words, pretty quiet. If I cut out the thorns from the story, I'd be dressing up a gravest glory. This is tough love gospel. Not just camp fashion. If I sand down the edges, I turn truth into lie. Reality or delusion. I can't serve both sides. I'm not here just for the choir. I'm here where the hurt heart's hide. Yeah. Some pages bleed red in the margins. Hard lines, hard calls, hard bargains. If I skip over stones for your comfort, then your house gets washed in the flood water. This is true, love gospel. Not just camp, fire shine. If I sand down the edges, I turn truth into a lie. Reality or delusion. I can't serve both sides. I'm not here just for the choir. I'm here where the hurt hearts hide. Oh do you want a dream or do you want a mirror? Do you want a dump or do you want it clearer? If the truth cuts deep, let it cut through fear. Better scar that heel than a sweet lie in your ear. This ain't cotton candy truth. Ain't a campfire send along right. You can't sell sweet dreams while the house burns behind. If it never cuts deep, it will sugar all along. If you skip the hard pages, you just rewrote the song. This is tough love gospel, not rainbows on a wire. If you hide the hard word, you're just fanning the fire. I won't preach delusion just to make it sound lighter. If I only sue the choir, I'm a singer, not a fighter. You can hum all the feel-good lines while your neighbor breaks inside. Quote hope like a slogan and look away from the crime. But a bandage on a bullet woo is a pretty little lie. If the truth never offends us, do we ever even try? This is tough love, gospel. Not rainbows on the wire. If you hide the hard word, you're just fanning the fire. I won't preach delusions, just to make it sound lighter. If I only sued the choir, I'm a singer, not a fighter. I'd rather lose that crowd and sell them painted grace. I'd rather stand alone and smile and dodge the way. Don't ask for easy comfort, then curse the honest cause. Love that never warns you and leave you more than love. This is tough love gospel. Not rainbows on the wire. If you hide the hard word, you're just fighting the fire. I won't preach delusion. Just to make it sound lighter. If I only sue the choir, I'm a singer, not a fighter.

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Oh, if I dress up the danger, I'm a liar.

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Not a rider.

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Tough love. The Bible isn't just rainbows and lollipops. Singing combire around the campfire. You cannot ignore the harsh reality drops. The pedal such makes you a liar. Speaking not just to the choir. This transpire.

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Different cultures. We stand together. On the same ground, ground, grab, grab, grab, grab, grab, grab, different hands, same long row. Paper cuts and names we know. One small table full of plants. Many voices, one set of hands.

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Muddy boots and tired eyes. Still we stand, still we lean into one shed dream.

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From any one It pluribus We rise as one on take our sky. Turn them to gold. From any one That's how we roll.

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Uh yeah, uh yeah. One kid cries on the front step, one old song on a cassette, harvest dust on denim sleeves. Every half mile still believes we came in from every side. Muddy boots and tired eyes.

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Still we stand, still we lean into one shared dream. From any one, from many one We rise as one, we rise as one, take all our scars, take all our scars, turn them to gold, turn them to gold from many one.

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That's how we roll. All the names on the same wall. All the rain on the same straw. If you fall, I'll pull you through.

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If I'm weak, you carry too.

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Stone by stone, brick by brick, hands in the dust, making one thing stick. Every voice carries weight, different paths at the same gate.

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Step by step we find the thread. Many times one word said. Side by side we make it true. I am me and still I'm ready. From anyone, from any one, eat flurizzona, till the work is done. From anyone, one from anyone, from any one. We rise, rise, we rise as a white.

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Rain on corn, mud on boobs, same hard roll with different rules. Some came north, some came west. All these dreams in one long chest.

Free Will Makes Us Individuals

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Step by step we find a thread. Many tongues, one word, side by side we make it true. I am me. Glory by soon. From any one. We rise as a woman. We rise. From any one. From any one. Before it was so none. We rise as one. Free will, individually created. God gave us all free will.

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Gave it as individuals to both you and me.

Hope Is Not A Strategy

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Not collectivist minds. Not even exactness in identical twins. Thinking otherwise, ungodly hubris sino winds. Free will, individually created. God gave us all free will gave it as individuals to both you and me. Not collectivist, mind I beast Not even exactness in identical twins. Thinking otherwise And I got ignorance Ungodly hubris win when we forget the spark You and I we don't arrive from one stance mode. Free will, free will, you free will, free will Not a house to be free will, free will, may you not just you and me One face, one step, one name Still two different hearts Same blood, same room, same sky, still two different marks. I won't call the soul a room matching parts We bend, we choose, we bird We learn where we start Ungolly hubris wind to make yourself mistake I was made to answer you a man Frickle Little You Frickle Lree oil Na na hope Frickle Free oil May you need just you and me try to love the grace you lose the living flame if you try to copy well you break the sacred frame So let the two of us stolen our own skin free to turn free to choose free Eight billion souls in habit this world to believe identical thought for discredit to God free free will free well free well free free will free well for both you and me You gotta move your feet You gotta feel that Hope is not a strategy. For you and for me. Talk is cheap, a dime, a dozen phrase. Pretty words spin through all your days. But action speaks louder. A thunderous sound. When your boots hit the ground, no turning around. We can dream big dreams, paint pictures in our head. But if we just sit still, we might as well be dead. The fruits of our labor are what the world will see. Not just what we wish for. But what we choose to be. Cause hope is not a strategy. No, it ain't a strategy. You gotta move your feet, gotta feel that be.

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