Article II, Section 3 of our Constitution states of our President, He shall from time to time give to Congress Information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. The President is not required to appear in person and give a speech. In fact, Thomas Jefferson refused to give this report as a speech for he considered it too close to the Speech from the Throne in the monarchical traditions.
I've been writing posts with words such as these prior to the annual State of the Union Address for the past eight years, and I feel no differently with Donald Trump as president. The event is a sham....as is the National Prayer Breakfast coming up a week later. The pomp and circumstance of the spectacle is nauseating, and the political ploys are an insult. In 2016 I watched Barack Obama's speech with the sound turned off. I only wanted to see what Republicans would clap even once for the man who purposely left office with our national defenses in such a terribly weakened state.
There may have been a place for such a speech in the distant past as there may have been a place for the National Prayer Breakfast but we have fallen so far as a culture and society that these events are no more relevant or respectable than the Grammys or the Academy Awards.
We are a people lost in a technosphere of games and toys and gadgets and Facebook and Tweeting and sound bytes that challenge our limited communicative skills. Our dignity is gone with the wind. Our future is one of mistrust...violence....surveillance....robots.....artificial intelligence....and fakery. This is the state of our union!
There was a nation like us once before.....blessed of God....but who no longer "incline (d) their ear, but stiffened their neck"....a nation that...."did not obey he voice of the LORD their God or accept correction." This would be....according to Jeremiah....."The generation of His wrath."
Maranatha.....Come Lord Jesus!
I've been writing posts with words such as these prior to the annual State of the Union Address for the past eight years, and I feel no differently with Donald Trump as president. The event is a sham....as is the National Prayer Breakfast coming up a week later. The pomp and circumstance of the spectacle is nauseating, and the political ploys are an insult. In 2016 I watched Barack Obama's speech with the sound turned off. I only wanted to see what Republicans would clap even once for the man who purposely left office with our national defenses in such a terribly weakened state.
There may have been a place for such a speech in the distant past as there may have been a place for the National Prayer Breakfast but we have fallen so far as a culture and society that these events are no more relevant or respectable than the Grammys or the Academy Awards.
We are a people lost in a technosphere of games and toys and gadgets and Facebook and Tweeting and sound bytes that challenge our limited communicative skills. Our dignity is gone with the wind. Our future is one of mistrust...violence....surveillance....robots.....artificial intelligence....and fakery. This is the state of our union!
There was a nation like us once before.....blessed of God....but who no longer "incline (d) their ear, but stiffened their neck"....a nation that...."did not obey he voice of the LORD their God or accept correction." This would be....according to Jeremiah....."The generation of His wrath."
Maranatha.....Come Lord Jesus!
