Another Monday morning rears it’s ugly, hoary head. For whatever reason I’m quite the grouch at the moment. A night of disturbing dreams no doubt contributes to this; constantly waking from twisted visions as far removed from Gord the polar bear’s yesterday whispers as can be imagined.
Fortunately, there is little time for grousing about such things. The work week commences. Website updates and ad customization leave no time for brooding over a waking edge dulled by quasi-nightmares. Sufficient are the duties of today for that. Who needs foul dreams for a foul mood when you have department meetings? 
Anyway, a song that’s been rumbling through whatever portion of my brain isn’t in a state of trying to recover sans coffee from ill-tempered nocturnal theater is “Square Go,” Fish’s dark tale of a solo mercenary seeking, as he puts it, to fight back on his terms. A sentiment most of us have embraced at some point. At least on the inside.
For those of us possessing a conservative bent, these days it’s sorely tempting to want to go square go, a Scottish slang term for a fair fight with no outside interference. The problem is the other side has no intention of responding in like kind. Our President is making no effort to disguise his liberal theology, a wholehearted embrace of government trumping the private sector in knowing and directly determining what is best. His economic policy treats money like Jay Leno to Doritos (crunch all you want; we’ll make more) as it conjures hundreds of billions of dollars to pour into the feeding trough of assorted pet pig projects having nothing to do with genuine economic relief by stimulating business and everything to do with furthering government’s direct control over individuals via strengthening the welfare state. His definition of acceptable social mores has been demonstrated by his loosening the federal pursestrings when it comes to funding abortions overseas. All this is accompanied by the whoops of the left wing’s victory dance while they celebrate what they perceive as their triumph over the right.
It’s difficult to respond by taking the hit, yet in many respects this is what we must do for we are the main reason for our decrease even as the left luxuriates in increase. We are the ones contantly fighting each other; we are the ones who failed to move with sufficient speed or strength to weed out those who in the name of conservatism embraced corrution and greed. We are the ones seeking the grace of God’s good blessing while heralding words uttered by godless people such as Christopher Hitchens as validing our views. Can there be any cause of wondering why we are where we are?
Now is the time to re-evaluate, refresh, renew and reinvigorate. Now is the time to resist all tempation to respond in like kind to what we are hearing about ourselves from the outside, instead speaking the truth in love. We must be precise in articulating our views, but never hateful toward others who see things differently. Instead, we must always extend the open hand no matter how many times it is spat upon and slapped away. Now is the time to clean our own house before opening the door to others.
Going square go is not an option. Even on an ugly Monday morning. We must instead fight back with love.
