On the Future

As I look at what many consider the craziest election in history (isn't funny how people always think that the time they are living in is the worst, craziest, best, etc.), I find myself going back to some key principles and life lessons.

1) Life goes on. I know many people, especially Christians, think that we as a nation are over, no matter who wins. America has been the greatest instrument of prosperity and peace in the history of mankind. Without America, there would be no Jew people/nation (I know God would have ultimately saved them one way or the other, but for the sake of argument...), there would likely be a single EuroRussian Nation (think one world government), and millions of more people would have been killed by the Communistic nations of the world.

Yet this did not happen (despite the world likely deserving it). So God clearly has more in store for the earth and likely America. When He comes, the world will end. When we die, the world will end for us. Until that time, it is our job to do the most with what we are given. So unless one of these things happens, please forgive me if I tune you out when you said this is the worst ever. Speaking of which...

2) Speak truth in Love. with all the perceived craziness and general gloom, why aren't more Christians speaking of the assurance we have in Christ? He is the ultimate King and holds the world in his hand. He sets up rulers and brings them down. Throughout this process, we should not be joining in the craziness, but instead be examples of the Peace of God, which he has given us in spades.

So, instead of thinking of this election as the end of the world, we should be thinking of this election as the greatest opportunity for a Kingdom harvest in the history of the world.

3) You get what you sow. The way this nation has abandoned God, is there any surprise that the only people who can run for office are those who are immoral? Political correctness is such that it is surprising that anyone is offended by any of the charges going on. Every charge, allegation, conspiracy, and scandal has been glorified on TV and the movies. If the movie stars are doing it, is it any surprise that our politicians are doing it?

4) Tomorrow is a new day. Whatever happens on election day, this isn't over. It is just the next chapter. I say this as a caution and an exhortation. I caution you against putting too much hope in the election. Government has so much power that whoever win must be checked at the Congressional and Judicial levels. I can only hope that if the worst happens, maybe this will be an opportunity to bring down the power of the Presidency.

I also use this as encouragement to keep fighting. We must be working to get those who are God fearing people into office. This Presidential election has the greatest combination of conservative candidates since at least WWI. But we screwed it up trying to get perfect instead of good enough. During the next election, whether at the local or national level, we need to focus on getting one person elected who is acceptable, and going for that person. We cannot have 14 conservatives running, or we will ALWAYS lose.

5) Don't believe everything you read. In the future, allegations against political candidates should be taken with a pound of salt, especially right before an election. We have spent so much time this election talking about who did what to whom in what way, no one has been talking about issues beyond 2-4 big ones (abortion, a wall on the border, taxes).

Chicago has a higher murder rate (in my opinion) than Iraq or Afghanistan - but one one is talking about that. People can't get to work because the roads and bridges in this country are a disgrace. We have a 21st century economy, with 18th century roads and 19th century mass transportation. But no one is talking about how to fix this. I could go on, but look, we must be solution oriented, not scandal oriented.

Liberals Have Themselves to Blame For Trump

Well, I make it no secret, my first choice for the Republican Presidential race 4 years ago was Rick Perry and this year was Scott Walker. I guess I pick losers. :P

But I like Trump and I will be voting for him. Why? Well first, unlike most of my under 35 year old friends, I have been following politics since 1992, and Hillary is aweful. I oddly enough remember that election. I remember Vince Foster, Hillary's desire for a single payer government health care, and I remember the Contract with America.

I remember when she destroyed the lives of many with her Rose Law Firm mortgage scam, and, like her email issue today, lost all of the relevant records.

I remember when Bill shipped millions of jobs to China with the most favored nation trading partner status.

I remember when the Chinese gave millions illegally to his re-election bid around the same time - the Clintons apparently got better, since now they created a foundation for all their 'pay for play deals'.  Did you know that term was in one of the emails she deleted from her 'private server?'

I remember how China somehow got nuclear weapons right after all that (which oddly enough, their desire for nukes comes from America's thumping of the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, but that is a different post).

Do you remember them giving the Lincoln Bedroom to high dollar donators?

Do you remember the bombing of Kosovo in the middle of his impeachment?

Can you name one accomplishment Hillary made in the Senate?

What about as Secretary of State?

Since she isn't running on that experience, I think we all agree it was a failure.

Did you know she sent emails marked as classified over a non-secure network and then deleted them 3 weeks after she was ordered not to with a preservation of records order?

These are just a few of the reasons I could never vote with Hillary.

That being said, many people are mad at Trump for saying crazy things. And I think there are some crazy things he has said, but when you look at his actual policy positions, he is mostly reasonable. If anything, he is too moderate on many traditional conservative Christian issues. However, he is the best hope we have to get some of those goals achieved and is more likely than anyone else to nominate Justices that will overturn Roe v Wade.

Besides, and I can't say this more strongly, we are electing a president, not a king or the head of the church. Any excesses of the President should be checked by Congress and the Judiciary. So I think we have to take the best we can get.

Because when it really comes down to it, all Christians want a one world government overseen by a dictator -  we just want that dictator to be Christ and his Kingdom!

There are also a lot of people I know who are going to vote third party. I understand you want to do this; however, if you want to go with a third party, you have to set the ground work 3-4 years before the election, not 3-4 months. Also, Trump beat 16 other candidates, 14 of which I would have been thrilled to have running. If we take nothing else away from this election, we Conservatives need to pick someone early in the election cycle and stick with them. We need to accept good, instead of hoping for perfect and being stuck with the opposite. RINOs keep wining with 33-35% of the primary vote (Dole, McCain, Romney), with the remainder going to conservative candidates, so there is no reason a true conservative couldn't win the primary.

I think though that the biggest change of this election is that it appears we may have reached a turning point with trade, immigration, and prosperity. Like all socialist ideals, the social globalist appear to be running out of America's money. And here is the thing, it shouldn't have been this way. We Americans have exported our jobs, technology, ideology, power, and military all over the world.

The one thing we haven't exported are the unions. And I blame the Democrats and their union buddies for letting millions of people in Mexico and China work for pennies a day. They go on strike here if they don't make $30 an hour, with benefits, and 6 weeks of paid time off, when their blue collar 'brothers' in China are working for 30 cents a day without benefits or time off. And then they are surprised when businesses move their operations overseas! This is outrageous! I guess they were too busy playing golf on their memberships dime.

So, in my opinion, if unions were in other countries fighting for better wages over there, there would be better wages here (and Trump would just be a TV personality)!

Instead, we have what we have today, where no one is happy.

Which, oddly enough, is always the result of socialism.