Posted on 09/07/2016 8:45:06 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
I have always been passionate about politics. I have always participated in politics as a citizen. I love America. I believe in our founding principles, and I hate watching those principles evaporate in the heat of pagan American culture. In 2004, I took my love of country to a new level, and I entered the political world, not merely as a citizen, but as a pastor. I have learned something during the last ten years about politics that you need to understand, because it will change the way you view your duty in the voting booth. With that said, I give you... Step 1: Something Is Wrong!
If I wanted to decide whether or not a particular product was worth buying, I would simply evaluate the product’s customer reviews, and determine whether or not it was worthy of my purchase. Intelligent people don’t want to repeat recorded mistakes. For example, if I discovered that a particular brand of hairspray was rumored to have a history of making people’s hair melt and fall-out, I would not run down to the store and try-it-out to see if the rumors were true. But that is exactly how most Americans treat politics, when they use situational ethics as the basis of their political decisions. With that said, I give you... Step 2: Listen To Yourself!
Maurice Duverger was a popular political sociologist (himself a communist) who became rather famous when he published empirical evidence for what became known as Duverger’s Law. His law concluded that a two-party system will tend to discourage the success of third, fourth, and fifth-parties in the political world for a simple, two-fold reason: 1) The tendency for alliances to be made by weaker factions seeking to win, and 2) the tendency for voters themselves to gradually abandon the best political choices in favor of a worse choice presumed to be better suited to actually win the contest. To make it very simple – Duverger correctly identified how the sin-nature of men who ignored God’s moral and civic laws would behave on any given day, in an environment where winning a contest was more important to them than defending proven truths. Step 3: Duverger is Lord?
I sinned by voting for John McCain in 2008. I caved into the pressure of Republican Party propaganda, and violated the Law of God. My ignorance of how Christian people were being disingenuously exploited by the Republican Party allowed Duverger to once again mascaraed as Lord. I knew McCain would be the supposed lesser of two evils, and I didn’t want Barak Obama to destroy Americanism, so I convinced myself I was voting for Sara Palin, and I voted for John McCain. I won't ever do it again, because I’ve learned from my sins of ignorance. Step 4: If I Were the Devil
Do you know what happens to a child that is never told no and is never punished for terrible behavior? Any psychiatrist worth his salt will tell you that if you reward a child for bad behavior they will eventually become a monster. A political party is a lot like a child, because, a political party is simply a group of human beings coalescing into a larger group, and bringing all of their own childhood proclivities (good and bad) with them. What happens to a child that is never told no and is never punished for terrible behavior, or worse, REWARDED for terrible behavior? The same thing that has happened to the Republican Party over the last many years. Step 5: A Fresh Plumbline
This is way to justify voting for Hillary by not voting for Trump.
It makes not sense “Punish Republicans” by punishing the whole country and equating Trump to the Republican establishment.
It ignores that political decisions effect the entire country, so when you elect to “punish a political party” by punishing the entire country, your punishment is counter productive.
It equates voting for McCain to “sin”. That seems an extreme view, and gives the author the authority to define a political choice as a sin.
Excellent material. This nails the social psychology of today’s politics perfectly.
Thank you!
Oh! Thank you!
I now see the error of my ways!
I sinned when I voted for John McCain instead of Baracks Obama!
Wash me!
Cleanse me in the righteousness of the Democrat Party!
I was pure.....pure until I voted for McCain.
Then, sin entered my life.
But I renounce my sinful ways!
I bask in my righteousness as I sit at home and refuse to vote for anyone who isn’t me.
Surely, helping Hillary become President will cleanse me of all sin!
Hallelujah Hillary!
Wow...misconstrue much? Where do you get THAT logic in ANY of what that guy said?
No, his point is NOT to vote for evil, PERIOD. That INCLUDES Hillary. Duh
“I sinned by voting for John McCain”
Sorry.
Can’t make it any plainer for you than the writer’s own words.
Did you even watch ALL the videos or listen to what was said? It’s not the act of voting for McCain...it’s the reasoning behind it.
Tell me what pro-Biblical values, McCain stands for?
Then tell me what anti-Biblical values McCain actually voted and acted on?
I bet you’ll find more often than not, he is not a very Godly man. And basically it starts with how America was founded...by the Constitution. And the Constitution was written and put together by men who believed in a Creator....in God. They came up with the laws and rules that this country was founded on, based on the 10 commandments and Biblical structure.
No, I don’t expect a pastor to run the country, so don’t go there. But McCain did not represent biblical values as it pertained to the Constitution being upheld.
vote Trump...often...
The job of President of The United States is not a ceremonial job.
The President is the chief executive of the Executive Branch of our government. The President is Commander In Chief of our armed forces. The President takes the lead of the three branches of our government in foreign policy.
Was John McCain better prepared for those duties than Barack Obama?
Of course he was.
McCain was clearly the better choice over Obama.
And Trump is clearly the better choice over Clinton.
People can sit around and wish for a perfect presidential candidate.
I live in reality.
If anything, Trump smashes this paradigm and exposes the logical flaws that we have been held captive to for so many generations.
Many Americans stood by their principles and refused to vote in the last two elections.
This gave us Obama who did not sit back and examine his principles.
He has acted.
And the country is the worse for his actions.
Now, we have people telling us to sit out this election.
The natural result of that will be Hillary Clinton as President.
She will take actions.
These actions will be detrimental to our country.
People can be contemplative. They can be angry. They can be above it all.
And they will be governed by Hillary Clinton and her merry band of criminals.
And therein lies the problem: dealing with how the system “is” as compared to how it “ought” to be. But we can't live in the fantasy world of “ought.” So we are left with the decision-making process as described by Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, there are no absolute solutions, only a series of trade-offs. It is this series of trade-offs that I am addressing. It leads us to what is referred to as Duverger’s Law. That's the trap that we as a society have found ourselves in up to this point.
Trump provides the first opportunity in many generations to confound this voting dilemma. We can vote for him because he actually is the best candidate; not because we have been boxed into an either/or choice between a socialist vs quasi-socialist.
Because “we” even just you and I - do not agree on everything. Therefore, we have to accept voting for the lesser evil.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
“And therein lies the problem: dealing with how the system “is” as compared to how it “ought” to be. But we can't live in the fantasy world of “ought.” So we are left with the decision-making process as described by Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, there are no absolute solutions, only a series of trade-offs. It is this series of trade-offs that I am addressing. It leads us to what is referred to as Duverger’s Law. That's the trap that we as a society have found ourselves in up to this point.
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