The Election: What It All Comes Down To – Part 1
Over these remaining weeks leading up to November 5th, the Prayer Reports will focus on some of the major concerns and issues that should be on our minds and in our prayers. We’ll look at a range of issues as we try to define what the election will come down to. It is hoped this series will leave you better informed and more engaged, both in your praying and in your actions.
It seems we have come to a serious marking-off point concerning the future direction of our nation. It is not an overstatement to say that our very way of life is on the ballot this year. The lives of our children and grandchildren, whether they will continue to experience the freedoms and quality of life we have enjoyed, will be riding on the outcome of this year’s election. It has always been that way to some extent, but it is at an entirely different level in this election cycle. We are at a no-turning-back fork in the road. Many informed followers of Christ are sensing an urgency to pray for our nation like never before.
Certainly, we should be willing to put feet to our prayers by investing our time and treasure in standing for truth and righteousness. But obviously there is only so much we can do. We must rely on God to do what we cannot do. That’s why prayer is so vitally important. The 56 men who signed our Declaration of Independence expressed it like this: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” Quite a few of them kept that pledge at great personal cost. Some of them were great warriors, not only on the battlefield, but also on their knees before God. In the days leading to this election, there is a lot to pray about! We’ll begin this week by looking at a major election prayer concern.
It All Comes Down to Liberty Versus Tyranny
Never in our lifetime has there been such a stark contrast between the two major-party presidential candidates. This is also true of many of the down-ballot races. For the first time, one of the major-party candidates for President is clearly a Marxist. The policies she has advocated throughout her political career originate from a Marxist worldview, which poses a very real danger to our Constitutional Republic and the freedoms and way of life we have long enjoyed in this nation. She is not just a liberal Democrat. She is a radical Leftist. There is a monumental difference between those two positions. Liberals differ from conservatives on certain policies related to the size of the government and the amount and types of government spending, and the approach taken to interpreting and applying the Constitution. But liberals are usually defenders of the Bill of Rights, especially our First Amendment rights. Marxists, however, are willing to do whatever it takes to generate chaos and deconstruct an entire society in order to make way for the implementation of a form of government in line with their worldview. For Marxists, that new form of government is always communism, which is, of course, authoritarian, totalitarian, and tyrannical. Liberty is a dispensable commodity for a Marxist. (See the 5-part series: “The Marks of Marxism” posted on August 30th, and September 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th.)
Like all good Marxists, Kamala Harris views our freedoms and liberties as “privileges” that can be taken away, not as God-given unalienable rights. To a Marxist, our freedoms of speech and religion are impediments to their globalist ideals and aspirations. When Harris says we need to imagine “what can be, unburdened by what has been”, grab your First and Second Amendment rights and run! She especially wants us to move into a future “unburdened” by those two barriers to a Marxist state.
The other major party candidate for President, whether you like him or not, is the only one now standing in the way of a Marxist/Communist future for America – at least the only one who is on the ballot. What do we know about him? He was our President for four years. We know the good AND the bad.
Let’s deal with the bad first. He speaks and tweets in a way that is too coarse, too direct, and too potty-mouthed for most Christians to appreciate. We wish he wouldn’t do that. No one would describe him as gentile or refined, at least not in his public persona. A lot of it may just be his shtick, something he does to capture the attention of regular folks, but many of us think he is, at times, his own worst enemy. Later in this series, we are going to address the lies told about him by the Democrats and their publicity and propaganda arm, the biased Marxist Media (the mainstream corporate media). There are a lot of those lies. Many of them have been proven to be lies, and others can easily be seen as lies with just a little reflection and discernment. Yet these lies continue to be told, even though oftentimes those telling the lies know them to be lies. This is called “demagoguery” – preying on the ignorance of the hearers to get them to accept what you say as truth, even though you know you are lying. The more modern word for it is “gas-lighting”. A caricature has been created of Donald Trump by the Marxist Media. This caricature is continually held up before the public, and so much so that half the country believes that is who he is. But those who have taken the time to learn who he really is, and have come to know him well, know this caricature in no way matches the reality of who he is, or what he intends to do. He’s no threat to democracy. Never has been! In fact, he is the only one at this point who can save democracy!
Here’s what matters: we know what Trump will do. He’s already done it once before. Until covid hit in 2020 (the “China virus” he calls it), life under his policies was better for the vast majority of Americans – much better for many, the best it has ever been for some, and far better than the last four years have been for everyone. He achieved that success while being under constant and completely false accusations of Russian collusion, and going through impeachments, and overwhelming opposition, and efforts to undermine his agenda. He says he wants to do it all again, only better. And, most importantly, he wants to stop the chaos and deconstruction efforts of “Comrade Kamala” and her Marxist cronies. President Trump is on the side of liberty and freedom for the American people. Not tyranny!
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