Preface: I have posted on Donald Trump since he first became a candidate....and all the posts are still here. I knew little about him over the decades and had no desire to learn about who he was. He disgusted me in the primaries but after the nomination he had to stop Hilary Clinton. Unlike other conservatives....I did not lay down my vigilance....as it became obvious almost immediately that there was a big problem here. I started reading. It's over sixty books now on Donald Trump....with another one every few days. I know him now more than I've known any other American leader in our history. I know who he was in his twenties....and thirties and forties....right up till today. It is sickening that we choose him to be our nominee. Every word he says....every attack...every tactic....every psychological manipulation....is recognizable in how he has always been. My consistent prayer every day is...."Lord....open our eyes to this man....even only if it be the eyes of your children!" He is no better than any Democrat alternative. God has judged us....His church....and found us wanting. A winnowing may indeed happen....should God will it....where actually redeemed Christians would see Donald Trump....and many many do already....but there would be great regret as we would then see who we have followed....who we trusted....whose Lordship we rejected....and what we have become as a result.
The last decade or so has been like watching a movie....where the main character has everything going for him....talent and ability. He's likable....and the film is fun and nonthreatening as his star rises....but then turns into a dark drama. The Days Of Wine And Roses from 1962 comes to mind....as Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick slide into alcoholism....with their life and careers destroyed. I haven't seen the film in fifty years but the darkness of it still sticks with me. I think of it when Henry Mancini's Oscar winning theme....sung by Andy Williams.....is played on Sirius/XM's easy listening channels.
Conservatives are what I have in mind for Jack Lemmon's character. We once had honor....we held the high ground.....we were smart and logical....determined and principled.....but that is all gone.....drowned in a drunken stupor in Donald Trump's personal swamp....this as it pertains to our failure to hold the President accountable as to his impetuous risky actions for a few dollars more....his vindictiveness and personal destruction of anyone who has the audacity to question his motives....his disdain for truth....whether it be outright lying or daily even hourly embellishments....his disrespect for military people who did much more than what he did not do....and that is show up....his casual betrayal of allies....his use of flattery and repetition ad nauseam as weapons....and his attacks on any and every journalist that does what journalists have done in relation to every president before him...that is ask tough questions....calling them....enemies of the people....destabilizing an already tottering domestic peace in the process! Had we held our ground....and held the new President accountable from day one....he might not be the caricature that he is today....and there would not have been a Ukraine issue....for at the very least his people would have nipped it in the bud right away....but we didn't....and we are enabling a man who if we would stop laughing off his tweets....and actually consider what he is saying....we might then repent of that which we have wrought.
Oh we still love the truth....and shout it from the rooftops....about 10% of it....the rest of it we ignore. We shout justice but the sound is hollow. The film....The Days Of Wine And Roses....ended on somewhat of a note of rehabilitation. May God have mercy on us....all of us....that we might see that we never really had a grip on reality....even in our best days....and that hitting rock bottom was the place we needed to be.....and that as a famed Puritan minister once penned in a prayer.....and edited in book form....The Valley Of Vision....(Banner Of Truth)....by Arthur Bennett...."LORD HIGH AND HOLY, MEEK AND LOWLY....Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.....Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy riches in my poverty, thy glory in my valley."
The last decade or so has been like watching a movie....where the main character has everything going for him....talent and ability. He's likable....and the film is fun and nonthreatening as his star rises....but then turns into a dark drama. The Days Of Wine And Roses from 1962 comes to mind....as Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick slide into alcoholism....with their life and careers destroyed. I haven't seen the film in fifty years but the darkness of it still sticks with me. I think of it when Henry Mancini's Oscar winning theme....sung by Andy Williams.....is played on Sirius/XM's easy listening channels.
Conservatives are what I have in mind for Jack Lemmon's character. We once had honor....we held the high ground.....we were smart and logical....determined and principled.....but that is all gone.....drowned in a drunken stupor in Donald Trump's personal swamp....this as it pertains to our failure to hold the President accountable as to his impetuous risky actions for a few dollars more....his vindictiveness and personal destruction of anyone who has the audacity to question his motives....his disdain for truth....whether it be outright lying or daily even hourly embellishments....his disrespect for military people who did much more than what he did not do....and that is show up....his casual betrayal of allies....his use of flattery and repetition ad nauseam as weapons....and his attacks on any and every journalist that does what journalists have done in relation to every president before him...that is ask tough questions....calling them....enemies of the people....destabilizing an already tottering domestic peace in the process! Had we held our ground....and held the new President accountable from day one....he might not be the caricature that he is today....and there would not have been a Ukraine issue....for at the very least his people would have nipped it in the bud right away....but we didn't....and we are enabling a man who if we would stop laughing off his tweets....and actually consider what he is saying....we might then repent of that which we have wrought.
Oh we still love the truth....and shout it from the rooftops....about 10% of it....the rest of it we ignore. We shout justice but the sound is hollow. The film....The Days Of Wine And Roses....ended on somewhat of a note of rehabilitation. May God have mercy on us....all of us....that we might see that we never really had a grip on reality....even in our best days....and that hitting rock bottom was the place we needed to be.....and that as a famed Puritan minister once penned in a prayer.....and edited in book form....The Valley Of Vision....(Banner Of Truth)....by Arthur Bennett...."LORD HIGH AND HOLY, MEEK AND LOWLY....Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.....Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, thy joy in my sorrow, thy riches in my poverty, thy glory in my valley."
