"Mr. Boehner...and Mr. McCain...and Mr. McConnell....and Mr. Graham....and Mr. Rove...and Mr. Bush.....we are not alone. We are Americans who trust in their God and recognize His hand in all of creation, His omniscience and omnipotence in forming this people, His power in sustaining us though we often strayed far away, and also His warnings to us after years and years and years of our increasingly ignoring Him..... the continuance of which you are advocating. You have become impervious to common sense, to wisdom or to any light in your darkened halls of power.
I posted the above in May of 2014. Twenty years before that I was writing letters-to-the-editor that the newspaper gave titles such as....Only God Can Save America. I was Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. I know first-hand what happened back in 2015 with Donald Trump. In essence we had an employment ad out there for decades....and people like Jim DeMint and Nikki Haley and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio showed up for interviews but it wasn't until Trump started shouting and stomping around that we put our own nominee in the Oval Office.
Oh I didn't like him....not at all....but after almost a half century of political awareness I knew that he was going to win.....and I voted for him in the general election....and I celebrated....for a few months.
The other side had just pushed and poked for too long. We were forced to watch our country decline beyond belief....until Trump came along....and bad and obnoxious and dangerous as he was....by 2024 we no longer had the capability to debate or even to reason. We were fully indoctrinated....and no one was ever going to take the power away from us again!
I know what these folks went through as cities were becoming war zones....and LGBTQ was being pushed on our children....and Joe Biden looked like death warmed over....and Kamala Harris was worse yet if that were even possible. I understand their frustration because I shared it....longer than most of them.
What these folks do not realize is that in Donald Trump's victory they gave up something precious....their minds....and their consciences. They are not cognizant of the fact that they have changed. What they are fighting for today....is not what they.....we....once fought for. Germany in 1933 had had enough of the communists on their streets....they would take their streets back....and they did....only they gave their power over to a force....which is exactly what we have done. I wrote the following in that same 2014 post to the Republican establishment....
"America's future does not lie in these elections that the Republican Party is selling more than its birthright for; and the winners of these elections will have no power that God does not permit and no wisdom that God does not give, for His purposes and to His glory! Our duty is to elect God-fearing leaders and pray for God's mercy knowing that His will is perfect, and that it may or may not include the United States of America as a source of stability in the world or even an entity in itself. Celebrate your polling figures all that you want. We'll celebrate a risen Savior and a returning King.
Those 2014 mid-term elections that I was posting about were a big victory for the Republican Party....but I was warning them that we can do nothing in our own power. Little did I know that one year after this post a man would arise in the Republican Party who would use God's name to subdue the evangelical mind....and give us a cult of personality....a malevolent personality.
I write this post to say that I know what is going through the minds of evangelicals. I know what they think that they want...and what they think they have already achieved. I know why they feel that they have to unconditionally support Donald Trump. I can commiserate with them on many things....but I can only feel sad for them....for they are as the Galatians that Paul wrote to....amazed at how they could so easily turn to a different gospel....or as Jude warned of...."dreamers....have [ing] run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit...speak [ing] evil of whatever they do not know....spots on [our] love feasts....serving only themselves.....clouds without water....raging waves of the sea....murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts....they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage....sensual persons....causing divisions."
