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Originally Posted by Ohio
The speed at which our country is moving left is frightening.
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I partly agree. It is heavily moving left.
Or at least the organized part of it is moving left.
And there is what I believe is the problem. There is plenty of "right" but not organized. Mostly in disarray.
Now before I move on, let me say that while there are some litmus test issues that we like to rant about relative to the left, the left is not uniformly for any particular thing. And just because it is liberal does not make it evil or bad. Just not what we on the right think is the better way to go.
But they do one thing that the right just can't get through their thick skulls. They tend to be more supportive of whoever is chosen as their presidential candidate. I understand that the final outcome is heavily about how many independents vote one way or the other.
But with some regularity, the Republicans refuse to get along with each other and a reasonably significant portion of them end out with a splinter group running for office as an independent who gains enough support to siphon more than enough support away that they become irrelevant. Even a lot of support from independents doesn't help. And the internal squabbles are often reasons to reject helping the "mainstream" Republican out.
We think of the Democrats as being these hopelessly ideological people determined to bring socialism to America. True for a few, but not the majority. They are all over the spectrum, with a large number just a little left of center.
But they tend to stick together unless something is seriously wrong. (And my idea of seriously wrong is not necessarily theirs.)
But on the conservative side of the spectrum are a bunch of silos. McCain was too "liberal" for the far right. (Of course "liberal" is relative here. McCain is just on the left side of the right, not the left side of the whole.) So a lot of "why vote?" or voting for independents. Palin didn't help. Someone less extreme was probably the better choice.
But if the Republicans can't decide that the overall stance of the Party is more important than which person is the presidential candidate then we are a lost cause. It won't matter how corrupt we think Hillary, Obama, or anyone else is.
And to top it off, this year we have our own version of corrupt. A different kind of corrupt. And (in my opinion) unfit to lead. So maybe fit to lead, saddled with a Republican Congress and Senate (hopefully) outweighs questioned (but never proved) allegations of corrupt actions over the years of clawing to the top. I know there were some things about Bill that are true and bring up the "unfit" issue. But still not the same as some of what I see in Trump. There were too many good choices but instead we get the guy who pulls at the heart-strings of people who want there to be some kind of "never been a politician" in the White House.
As for "moving left," my question is "what is it about "left" that is so scary that we would rather put a guy like Trump in the White House? Do we think that God will bring in the Babylonians to carry us away? For what? taxing more and spreading it around (very inefficiently) to those who have less?
I agree that there is too much. And the notion of what requires help may be way to high. But there are real needs that still have not been addressed. And if we declare that the church should be doing it, then maybe the church should get busy and do it. Not just some of it. Not just what they are doing now and gloat about it. Do it all. Otherwise, having government do it is probably how it is going to happen.
And the local level won't work. At the local level the need is where the poor are and the money is generally where they are not. So something broader than local has to happen. Some kind of socialism is inevitable — unless we intend to be the "be fed and clothed" brand of people.
Why are we afraid? I'm not saying that nothing can go wrong. But what is it that makes Christians — the people who believe in eternal life — so afraid of this life that they need to amass arsenals of assault weapons. What makes the people who are first commanded to love God and then to love their neighbor as themselves them so mean that they carry hateful placards deriding people they think are immoral?
And the fear is being preached from the pulpits of too many churches.
Are we going to rise up, sing "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and take the country back at gun point?
There's the most loving representatives of God. Just like he made us to be. (NOT)