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We are taught from childhood to be “tolerant”. Tolerance is a wholly different thing than “Acceptance.” Americans too often get confused when it comes to telling the difference.

Consider rat droppings in our food for instance:

The question is not whether Americans consume rat excrement (a small amount approved by the government) in our daily food but rather a matter of how much we are willing to accept. The same is true with other forms of human consumption. We are constantly fed a gluttonous diet of filth in an effort to slake our physical, moral and intellectual appetites. In too many cases, “tolerance” has become “acceptance.”

Most conscious Americans recognize that we are continuously fed perverted sex, filth, foulness and depravity via television, Internet, motion pictures, printed media, music lyrics, conversation and other public communication. But, it may surprise you to learn that many of the food products most Americans consume daily can contain rat droppings, maggots and insects and still be approved (accepted) by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA).

That’s right. The FDA allows, without penalty, certain minimum amounts of various foreign materials that we consume in many common foods. For instance, according to FDA bulletins, anything less than an average of 9 mg. of rodent excreta per kilogram (36 oz.) is allowed in wheat — a common ingredient in bread, cereals and the like. I don’t know exactly how much that is but it’s more than enough for me. I don’t want ANY rat droppings in my food. How about you?

The Feds dictate that we not only “tolerate” but “accept” their standards as the norm. Canned citrus fruit juices can contain 5 or more fly eggs and less than one maggot per 250 ml. – which is about 8 ounces or about the amount of liquid in a glass of orange juice. Turns your stomach right?

So it becomes a matter of how much filth in our daily lives are we willing to “accept” – not whether we will “tolerate” it. The same is true of other forms of muck that has stampeded into public and private life. We no longer argue whether we will “tolerate” filth thrust into our lives. It’s already here, but it becomes a matter of how much we are willing to “accept.”

The threshold of acceptance grows wider each passing year. Who would have thought a generation, or so, ago that we would even be discussing things as same-sex marriage, perverted sex, abortion on demand, foul language over the public airways, etc.? But our “acceptance” has grown little by little with each passing episode.

The level of acceptance has gone up in other areas as well. We once controlled immigration through our borders. No longer. And Congress is refusing to correct the problem. When will they? The Hispanic population has reached almost 15 percent of the national total and this doesn’t even count millions of illegals missed by the census. When will Congress balance the flow – when it reaches 25 percent of our population – 50 percent? When?

And how about taxes? Government waste and corruption climbs and so do our taxes. When do we reach a point that we are no longer willing to accept this? (See American Revolution, 1776).

Now consider filth in the public arena. Where does the right to speak, print, draw, act, etc., reach the point that it encroaches on the rest of America’s (children included) right to be shielded from such filth? We have already passed that threshold, but “Progressives” mark unfettered speech and action as an unlimited First Amendment right.

At one point in history, movies would not allow unmarried couples to be shown, EVEN fully clothed, in bed together. Fast-forward thirty years or so and observe what we see today – just about any sexual act, perverted or otherwise, is generally accepted. A few years ago, who would have ever imagined that we would hear lyrics over the airways and in public places that we find in “modern” rap, rock, hip-hop and other forms of music?

And look at what has happened to religion. We once were entitled to express our religions beliefs in public places. No more! We have accepted that the government has altered the Right OF Religious expression to an imagined Right FROM Religion. You can find ridicule of religion daily in letters to the editor, television shows, on the Internet and elsewhere.

We have reached a point in our moral history when it is “accepted” that other higher levels of debasement is expected as we “move forward” in our “Progressive” society. And many tell us that this is “good.” It frees the soul, they say, of human hang-ups that held society together for millennia. How much of this sort of moral rat droppings are we willing to accept?

Of course a little fertilizer can be a good thing when used properly. But too much in too many places will kill the crop. The crop in this case is our American civilization.

We seem content to raise the amount of filth allowed in our lives with each passing year.

It becomes a case, pure and simple, of just how much rat droppings are we willing to consume.