Elections matter, folks.
Let’s be clear, this has nothing to do with ethics because by ethics they mean conservatives keep making rulings in conservative ways and won’t stop!
Packing the court would put an end to the only brakes that currently exist for the left. Let’s be honest, they own the intelligence agencies or the intelligence agencies own them. I don’t care about which owns which. I judge a tree by its fruits and these fruits are rotten and poison. The left has a stranglehold on the executive branch. They do. They cheat to win and when they don’t cheat enough they impeach and allow assassination attempts to continue. They own the media. They own academia.
They have EVERYTHING but the court. And they can’t have anything outside their power grip so they intend to pack the court.
Think about this, they plan to get rid of the filibuster and pack the court. What recourse do we have then as religious people? We will have no levers of power available to us. The steamrolling will only grow worse. Pro-lifers will see the inside of jails more frequently. You will be ordered to bake that cake and like it. You will be told to shut up and sit down and enjoy your daughter playing against a young man twice her size.
Elections matter, folks.
September 26, 2024 at 4:33 pm
… and then, when and if the Republicans ever got back in power, they would add 12 new justices, and so forth.
This is what a republic looks like when it is dying.
For a century before Julius Caesar, the Roman Republic played fast and loose with its own laws and constitution. (Yes, it had supreme laws sort of like we do. But Ten Bears was right: “No signed paper can hold the iron.”) Then they discovered that after treating laws and constitutions for a century as mere wordplay that a clever man can circumvent, when they really needed the public to have a patriotic dedication to those laws and constitution, it strangely had evaporated.
September 26, 2024 at 4:44 pm
“What recourse do we have then as religious people?”
That depends. Is your religion really true?
If not, it’s a goner, and good riddance.
But what if there really is a God, and He actually hears your prayers? What if you can speak directly to the Lord and Creator of the universe? What if you can also speak to his mother and his friends?
Elections matter, you say. They give you access to the levers of power, you say — but if you look at it seriously and honestly, it gives you very little if any access and very little if any power. We are told not to put our faith in princes, and you want to put it in the Electoral College? Have you ever read Ecclesiastes? Weren’t you alive at the fall of the Soviet Union? You will never have as much secular power as Gorbachev had, and what good did it do him? Now look at the Blessed Virgin Mary. How much secular power did She have? HOW MUCH POWER DOES SHE HAVE RIGHT NOW?
September 26, 2024 at 6:12 pm
“Elections matter” I totally agree with you. As I’ve said before we’ve been given this country as a gift from God. We utilize what ever electoral process our constitution gives us. As Catholics we do not put faith in man made processes yet we ask God to guide us to do the right thing within those electoral processes of our country.
If we are so totally pessimistic about voting, or the power or lack of power the populace holds, then all I can say is for them to stay home and cower in their little corners and get out of the way of those of us that love this country. I am voting for Trump as I’ve said before, not as my Messiah, because I’ve got one, but as a leader of my country. I refuse to lose hope that God will protect our nation. We may not be the Christian nation we once was and yes, we were a Christian nation and I will not debate that point. But I do believe that the remnant of us that pray God to save our nation will be heard no matter who wins this election. I refuse to be a pessimist of our country as some are. Thanks for this Matt.
September 26, 2024 at 11:00 pm
It’s not pessimism. It’s realism. I can tell you with great certainty who will win the electoral votes in my state; my state is “not in play”. But even if I were the only voter, and I could choose the next president regardless of what you or anyone else wanted, I could not control that person when he or she was in office. And whoever is elected is not guaranteed each night that he or she will wake up the next morning. If you think you can control the political, let alone spiritual, trajectory of this country, you have delusions of godhood. Neither you nor I are the Author of History. Get over it.
“And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.'” Do you reject that? St. Paul was willing to rejoice in his weakness, and he never tried to determine who would be the next emperor; he knew that was not given to him. He died a martyr. He also did far more to change the world than any emperor — even Augustine, even Constantine.
September 27, 2024 at 6:04 am
For the last time. I never said I can control people, political or not. I never said I was Author of History. “And whoever is elected is not guaranteed each night that he or she will wake up the next morning” and you may die in 5..4..3..2…Get over it. What I did say is that we ask God for guidance. Does that sound like being in control??? Wow…you are so full of yourself you can’t even read or refuse to. God is control and we pray God he will help us. Did you read that big guy? GOD is in control, not us but we work with his grace to the best of our ability in order to bring about a God centered world.
One more time. Don’t vote. Stay home.