In 2015, I told everyone I could what would happen if Trump became president. I was accused of being a heretic, of causing disunity in the church, of speaking against God‘s anointed, of being woke, liberal, feminist, man bashing, you name it I was called it. I was told that I was being an extremist, sewing distrust, and hate, when all I …
In 2015, I told everyone I could what would happen if Trump became president. I was accused of being a heretic, of causing disunity in the church, of speaking against God‘s anointed, of being woke, liberal, feminist, man bashing, you name it I was called it. I was told that I was being an extremist, sewing distrust, and hate, when all I wanted to do was make people see who Trump was and what his platform was, and what kind of people supported him.
I don’t feel vindicated, I feel horrified and sick. I’m glad my parents are not here to see what is happening. They warned us when Reagan became president that he would be the beginning of an end for the next 50 years and I thought they were extremist thank you so much for your work. Jesus and John Wayne was one of our book club choices not a church book club but my Crossfit book club!
I wonder how many who voted, programmed by their choice of media sources, didn't know about Project 2025 and were not really aware of what they were voting for.
This type of argument will never work because it implies the other party in the tightly controlled and not at all democratic American system must be better, if not morally outstanding themselves. (Which is not true. Considered simply on foreign policy, it's a reasonable view that Trump is far less likely to inflame and accelerate US involvement in global conflicts.)
Recognizing the situation's double binds forces people to face the fraud of the system itself and their actual lack of power and freedom. This will make them attached all the more to people who say they will smash this system or at least ensure their interests prevail in it.
Aquinas said when all choices you have lead to immoral ends, it is because you went down a lot of bad paths previously. Historically considered, all states and empires do this. They all decline and die. Augustine or the Mennonite perspective on this is worth a look, or perhaps Christian anarchism. If you are into voting as a Christian because you think there is a correct Christian solution at the ballot box, you are already assuming the whole framework for religious nationalism. Most nations today are oligarchies that enslave people for money, as they have always done. We should expect less of them and politics.
In 2015, I told everyone I could what would happen if Trump became president. I was accused of being a heretic, of causing disunity in the church, of speaking against God‘s anointed, of being woke, liberal, feminist, man bashing, you name it I was called it. I was told that I was being an extremist, sewing distrust, and hate, when all I wanted to do was make people see who Trump was and what his platform was, and what kind of people supported him.
I don’t feel vindicated, I feel horrified and sick. I’m glad my parents are not here to see what is happening. They warned us when Reagan became president that he would be the beginning of an end for the next 50 years and I thought they were extremist thank you so much for your work. Jesus and John Wayne was one of our book club choices not a church book club but my Crossfit book club!
Horrified and sick. Exactly. And I’m angry. A simmering anger at everyone who chose this and continues to enable it.
I wonder how many who voted, programmed by their choice of media sources, didn't know about Project 2025 and were not really aware of what they were voting for.
I think many knew enough, and many others were willfully ignorant and complicit in that way.
This type of argument will never work because it implies the other party in the tightly controlled and not at all democratic American system must be better, if not morally outstanding themselves. (Which is not true. Considered simply on foreign policy, it's a reasonable view that Trump is far less likely to inflame and accelerate US involvement in global conflicts.)
Recognizing the situation's double binds forces people to face the fraud of the system itself and their actual lack of power and freedom. This will make them attached all the more to people who say they will smash this system or at least ensure their interests prevail in it.
Aquinas said when all choices you have lead to immoral ends, it is because you went down a lot of bad paths previously. Historically considered, all states and empires do this. They all decline and die. Augustine or the Mennonite perspective on this is worth a look, or perhaps Christian anarchism. If you are into voting as a Christian because you think there is a correct Christian solution at the ballot box, you are already assuming the whole framework for religious nationalism. Most nations today are oligarchies that enslave people for money, as they have always done. We should expect less of them and politics.