Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind
Janet Kuypers
10/13/22
Once you’ve made up your mind,
It’ll be next to impossible to change it back.
Say, if people believe in a god, they
Will go to war for their views on what’s right.
Or look at the political arena and
See card-carrying democrats and republicans—
For once they’re made up their mind,
It’ll be next to impossible to change it back.
Consider Herschel Walker (yes, the
NFL football player, but I meant the man in
2022 running to be a U.S. senator)...
He touts his conservative ways, stepping hard
With the conservative line that all
Abortions are wrong with no exceptions —
Then newspapers report that
He paid a woman he was dating to have an
Abortion.
Denying this, he said he didn’t
Know the woman, until we learned that this
Woman birthed another one
Of his kids. (by the way, he has 4 kids, not all
From the same mother, and
Don’t mind the divorce, though his ex-wife & son
Swear up and down about his
Violence to them... so much for “family” values.)
When asked about the $575
Check and the get-well card after the abortion,
His response was, “I give
money to people all the time, because I’m always
helping people.”* (This is from
the same man that threatened to kill one wife and
son repeatedly, remember this.)
And during an election year when the hot-button
Issue is abortion, you’d think
All this info on the real life of Herschel Walker
May be a real problem in the
Political world, but as far as I can tell, no one
Seems to care. He seems like a
Good man, and he says he’s a republican, so,
Cut the guy some slack. People
Make mistakes. (Yes, they do.) Because as I said,
Once you’ve made up your mind,
Especially about a political party, it’s next to
Impossible to change your mind.
Because after all this news came out, it seems
That democrats who support
Abortions hate Walker more, and republicans
Ignore the past of their candidates **
As long as their party can have more power.
This comforts me, how ethics
Are ignored... The Lutheran Brotherhood
Compiled stats that two-thirds
of all adults believe ethics “vary by situation”
and there is no “unchanging
ethical standard, or right and wrong.”*** So
maybe it’s not so hard to stay in
Lockstep with your political party, if no one
Holds any values. Because once
You’ve made your mind up about a political
Party, you don’t have to worry
About those pesky morals or values anymore,
Just stay in lockstep with whatever
They claim to believe, even if politicians didn’t
Act that way in the past, and you’ll
Never need an excuse to change your mind.
How convenient that politics
Exist now in such a way so you don’t have to
Think anymore. We don’t need
To think about half these United States taking
Rights away from of all women.
For if we don’t have to worry about morals
Or ethics, then why should we
Worry about women’s rights? Let big Brother
Do all your thinking for you.
Only a century has passed since women gained
The right to vote... but why on
god’s green earth should women have control
Over their own bodies?
Just sit in front of your mindless boob tube
(that’s now as flat as our minds)
and don’t fret about where your rights went.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker#Abortion_allegations
** https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/us/politics/herschel-walker-
abortion-allegation-georgia-senate.html
*** http://scars.tv/kuypers/poems/2005/flexible-ethics.htm and
http://scars.tv/kuypers/prose/1997/what-are-flexible-ethics.htm
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