Whatever happened to Republican values?…They’ve become practically nonexistent! Republican values have been dragged through the mud & are now drowning in their own sludge! It’s been happening steadily over this past decade. It began prior to that with the evil echo, the tea party then adopted that rhetoric, Fox News finally relented & became echo headquarters, from which all those factors came together & gave us Trump. From that point, most in the GOP & their base were indoctrinated into their cult. So now we have a situation where Republican values are abandoned & given over to the dark side.
As a close student of politics, I’ve come to firmly believe (which I don’t give a darn if GOP supporters don’t like it & somebody probably needs to tell them) their collective mindset has been possessed of that evil cult! When Republican values are now being defined by a full embrace of dishonesty, immorality & corruption, what better word to call it than a cult? And being accepting of this president, it sends a message to all Americans, future leaders & the rest of the world that selfish greed, chronic lying & sacrificing principles are now perfectly acceptable. More on this basic topic is presented at the bottom, just above the song. But first, let’s get to some economic topics as we always do in part 3.
Time is running out on Capitalism
I don’t endorse socialism & don’t like the thought of it, but I’m just making an observation. I’ve said over & over if we don’t soon fix capitalism, voters will soon opt for socialism, which millennials in particular will see to it. Collectively as a group, their group mindset can still be brought around to believe in capitalism, but it must be a drastic departure from currently accepted crony capitalism & be restructured so all can share in economic growth. As these excerpts below from a much longer article state from inside young-millennials-americans-prefer-socialism-over-capitalism-how-affects-workforce, we should consider “
that an egalitarian business model is a viable step up from a corporatist system that too often enshrines profit and greed, not workers and customers, as the overarching reason for existence.”
The current system needs to change, & we should find the courage & determination to see through such a change.
Believe me, tax cuts for the wealthy never was the answer. Both parties are now way off the mark in proposing viable ideas. And we can’t be so married to simplistic assumptions that jobs should be coming from the private or public sector, since success will require they work in tandem. Plus the employees of any organization should have more skin in the game. So I really think this article could be onto something that offers the promise of fixing capitalism which doesn’t fall into the trap of socialism, if we could ever come around to agree as a nation such changes are imperative, then work together on a wide-ranging comprehensive plan to perfect the model:
You might say that it was in a bread line where economics came into focus for Bernardo Vigil Rendon. He was employed, actually, at a bread factory. One day, word came from on high: A new client needed the loaves packed in a different kind of box. The workers would be packing the same amount of bread, but the job would now be more difficult, and there would be no extra time allowed to do it. No extra pay. “We just have to do this” was the message that filtered down, he recalls. What Mr. Vigil Rendon could see, along with fellow workers and even his immediate manager, was that, at about 15 cents extra per loaf, it meant a substantial new chunk of profit for the bread factory but nothing for those on the line. “It was exceedingly hard” for the workers, he says, and “quite a windfall for the owners.”
Today, Vigil Rendon has moved on to a workplace he likes much better, a bicycle store that’s owned by the workers collectively. The pay isn’t huge, but the job comes with perks that are unusual for such a small shop: a retirement savings plan, no staff cuts in the off-season, and a familial atmosphere that sometimes brings the shop’s adopted cat, Falkor, into an amiable nose-to-nose encounter with another worker’s towering dog. And in weekly meetings, everyone has a voice in decisions. Now, as Baltimore Bicycle Works looks to open a second store (after 10 years in operation), it’s also hoping to be a harbinger of a wider transformation in the US economy. The workers here want to prove, one employee-owner at a time, that an egalitarian business model is a viable step up from a corporatist system that too often enshrines profit and greed, not workers and customers, as the overarching reason for existence.
If Occupy Wall Street back in 2011 was a relatively short-lived protest, its spirit seems to be persisting and even expanding. All this hardly means that a Marxist revolution is imminent. But, beyond a mere symptom of polarized politics, it reveals a discontent with the economic system that’s echoed even by some economists on the conservative end of the spectrum. “Clearly US capitalism failed in providing what it promised,” says Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, referring to the benefits delivered by truly competitive markets. “Either we fix capitalism to provide what it promised, or we might end up losing capitalism or… democracy, or maybe both at the same time.” That’s a stunning assessment since the economy, by many measures, is not just strong but thriving. Unemployment is approaching half-century lows. Consumer confidence has revived. Economic growth topped 4% in the second quarter. Yet many Americans still feel fearful or disillusioned. Why?
In some ways, capitalism is a victim of its own success. When Soviet socialism essentially collapsed in 1989 and China started opening up its economy, both caused a surge in the pool of global labor to compete with Western workers. And the sheer magnitude of technological innovation, while widely cheered as capitalism’s biggest triumph, feeds insecurity as machines threaten jobs across the economy. Still, in other ways capitalism’s flaws are on display. Experts say moneyed interests have encouraged trends that fuel inequality and resentment. These include attacks on organized labor, rising concentrations of corporate power within industries, soaring pay for executives, and trade policies that have protected elites while putting blue-collar workers at risk. A “Trump effect” may have added some fuel. The attitude shift among millennials since the 2016 election reflects a decline in their affinity for capitalism (not rising support for socialism), and the change comes alongside negative views of a billionaire president who has cut taxes for the rich.
All this, coupled with the legacy of the Great Recession, has helped shape a young generation eager for economic change and whose collective voice may be large enough to have some impact. Many millennials appear to have more interest in tempering capitalism than replacing it. Still, the questions they’re raising are consequential, touching on values such as freedom and fairness and the viability of the American dream.
In short, while the travails of the economic system aren’t the sole cause of America’s political disarray, they’re a piece of it. Where citizens take that system next will do much to define America’s strength and social cohesion as a nation.
If you summed up what rankles Elena Botella about US capitalism today, it might boil down to two issues: equality and opportunity. Even in a land of abundance, she says a lot of people will “never have enough in savings to stop worrying,” let alone to fulfill their larger potential. “I don’t think we’ve done a good job at all of sharing the dividends from growth in a way that’s either fair to workers or good for society,” says Ms. Botella, a millennial in Washington, DC, who has worked in the credit-card industry and is now doing research for a possible book. For Botella, like many other younger Americans, the financial crisis and ensuing recession was a defining event. Back in 2011, as a college student, she was part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. But her view now is a nuanced one — a search for better ideas, not a firm commitment to socialism. “I think it’s clear that capitalism has done a good job of creating a lot of abundance and prosperity,” she says. That statement is a reminder that millennials are hardly lockstep foes of capitalism. She’s also voicing an assessment that’s widely shared among economic historians.
“[Socialism] sounds good on paper,” she says, “but knowing the trauma of such political environments based on where my family comes from, it’s easier said than done.” Yet “when we talk about the economy, I do feel a little bit disillusioned in the sense of just how the middle class is getting really strapped and the rich are getting richer,” says Ms. Men, who has a master’s degree in public policy. In fact, some of the earliest concerns about capitalism are the very ones that remain salient today: that the system fuels inequality, degrades the environment, and tears the social fabric with disruptive change. Ben Packer, a young technology worker in New York City, has no qualms about identifying as a socialist. “I think people in my generation have had a pretty profoundly negative experience with capitalism,” he says, citing student debt burdens, high rents, and the nation’s faltering progress on things such as poverty. Mr. Packer says you can preserve a market system of producers and consumers even with state-owned enterprises involved. Already, he adds, a lot of innovation comes from the public sector — from biomedical research to computers and the internet. “You really get innovation when the government subsidizes the costs and the risks.”
But already, even without socialists wielding much power, ideas such as worker ownership and transcending the profit motive have been making inroads in the US economy. Companies organized as worker cooperatives are on the rise. Some 32 million Americans have at least some equity in their workplaces through employee stock ownership plans, stock option plans, and 401(k) plans. Publix Super Markets, with 190,000 employees, is the nation’s largest employee-owned company. Another growing realm is “social enterprises” or public-benefit corporations — businesses that seek to earn profits but also frame their mission around benefits to society or the environment. Some economic research suggests employee ownership can enhance a company’s performance. And depending on the details, it’s an idea that can draw support from both liberals and conservatives. “Capitalism works best when normal people can freely participate in the economy, when they are rewarded for hard work, when they have a stake in the company that they work for, and when they can easily start a business,” says Andrew Kidd, a conservative economist and a millennial in Columbus, Ohio. “It just leads toward innovation.”
Massive Debt
We’re living in a world swimming in debt. Be it personal debt, student debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt, company debt, government debt or global debt, we’re inflating a massive bubble that would become catastrophic when it bursts, as explained in the-u-s-economy-swoons-on-the-lip-of-the-global-debt-canyon. Don’t believe for a moment Republican values include being fiscally responsible. As Trump’s tax cuts contribute to our enormous deficits, his incessant lies are getting harder to camouflage, seen in these excerpts from the-economy-is-crushing-it–just-like-in-2008:
But now come scattered signs of trouble. The Fed has been raising interest rates — in part because Trump’s massive stimulus during an expansion threatens to set off inflation. China’s economy has been unstable, in part because of Trump’s trade dispute. And though the trade deficit with China hit a record in September, Trump’s tariffs have hurt many U.S. producers; Ford, claiming the tariffs cost it $1 billion, is planning workforce cuts. No amount of fact-checker Pinocchios will stop his followers from accepting Trump’s word that Robert S. Mueller III is on a witch hunt, global warming is a hoax, North Korea no longer is a nuclear threat and Democrats are a dangerous mob. But they can feel the economy personally. When the downturn comes, huge deficits, which Trump widened, will leave the federal government with little power to cushion the fall. If this happens on his watch, even Trump’s ardent supporters would see it’s not fake news — and that would be the end of him. Trump needs reassurance — and Kudlow, the former TV business pundit, now plays the carnival barker’s carnival barker.
We just got verification from the Treasury Dept.
Yes indeed, the budget deficit has gone up, as seen in these 3 articles:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-budget-deficit-779-billion-highest-since-2012-2018-10
Gig is Rigged!
This new gig economy is code for large corporations finding yet another way for large corporations to exploit workers through contract employment, seen in this article from chee-gig-economy-guild-union:
Welcome to the Gig Economy Guild. We represent freelancers, independent contractors and anyone else who wants to feel like part of something bigger. Regardless of what brought you here (got fired, enjoy misery, forgoing a dream because a millennial has destroyed it, etc.), we are pleased to have you join our guild. Here is helpful information and rules by which all members must abide: Upon entering a new office (read: coffee shop), identify yourself as a freelancer by asking for the Wi-Fi with a warm smile and a hint of apology (this is your regular speaking voice if you’re a woman). When you ask other freelancers in the shop to watch your stuff while you use the bathroom, they gain legal ownership of your items until your return. Should they wish to sell your laptop, bag or young child while you are urinating, they may do so. We have no way to assist you in this situation.
eople may shame you for checking your phone constantly; they are unaware that your work hours never end and that you must be on email at all times. Ignore those who scoff — they probably have “day jobs” and comfortable, routine lives filled with family, friends and bliss. Who wants that anyway? Check your email again. You are allotted three guttural murmurs of “What am I even doing with my life” per day. Work hours may never end, yet you will wonder, “Could I be doing more?” The union hereby declares that yes, you could be doing more, and yes, you are a failure, and yes, that feeling of dread will either drive you to do better or make you sad. If you ever feel content, know that it is fleeting, and you should be doing more. When switching from one gig to another, we highly recommend you literally wear different hats. This way your colleagues can easily recognize in what capacity you are working (“Artist,” “Architect,” “Dad”) and mistreat you in the appropriate manner. (Note: You must wear a top hat when working for a fancy person.)
If your clients are behind on your payments, the union protects you and your ability to email the employer to “just follow up” about your payment while clarifying that there is “no rush whatsoever,” because you know they’re also busy and probably overworked. Our health plan is: Don’t get sick. The official line to introduce your work is “I made a thing,” which fortunately can be repurposed if/when you announce a birth of a child (“My husband and I are extremely excited to announce that we made a thing!”). When directing someone to your online work, you may write, “Link in bio” or silly versions of it like “Lincoln biography” and “Lonk bolonko.” These iterations are hilarious. If someone ever asks you what it’s like to be a freelancer, you may send the official union-approved GIF of a hamster sprinting on a wheel — you know, the one where it has a blank, wide-eyed stare of panic as it runs ceaselessly with no evident progress. Please sign and return this agreement. We do not have a real address beyond the Starbucks that we regularly meet at, so email is best. Thank you.
60 Minutes Combative Debacle
Sunday night he once again came off as a boastful/clueless jerk! Gee, maybe that’s because he actually is a boastful/clueless jerk. Esquire offers some opinions on that interview inside president-trump-60-minutes-interview-reality & also president-trump-60-minutes-interview-dr-ford-ends-justify-means. More impressions of Trump’s 60 Minutes interview are seen in trumps-60-minutes-interview-transcript, with some of the strongest opinions posted here:
In short, his sit-down interview with 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl revealed the president of the United States to be grossly dishonest, woefully ill-informed, and congenitally incapable of admitting error or demonstrating any kind of moral or intellectual growth. He is, in other words, totally unfit for high office and fairly obviously so. Even more amazingly, despite Stahl covering an incredibly wide range of issues, she broke essentially no new ground. Every terrible, disqualifying thing he said was something he’s said before. Indeed, if Trump were drummed out of office in favor of someone less ignorant, mean-spirited, dishonest, corrupt, and arrogant, he would be replaced by someone who hewed closer to congressional Republicans’ policy views, not further. But Trump is right that at this point, he is the Republican Party and the Republican Party is him. If Republicans lose the House in a few weeks, there may finally be some kind of check on his conduct and oversight of the government, but he’ll still be president and still have no idea what he’s doing. All we can do is hope America’s luck holds up.
Hurricane Response
When we have a prez so easily distracted with such a short attention span, he finds it hard to focus on his big responsibilities. Last year the Puerto Rico hurricane recovery became a disaster, causing thousands of needless deaths, which Trump might be repeating the same mistakes as suggested inside these links:
https://twitter.com/briankarem/status/1051146386685726721?s=12
Dem Missteps
I hope Dems someday learn from the mistakes of the 2016 campaign. They failed to zero in on a basic message which could resonate with the working class, plus there should be a greater recognition & solutions for struggling rural areas, as this article mentions
“Democrats have lost focus on kitchen-table issues in general, and blue-collar jobs in particular”
: how-americas-urban-rural-divide-is-changing-the-democratic-party. And now is definitely not the time to bring up President Clinton’s affair with an intern or a Senator’s Cherokee DNA testing, as was recently part of the news cycle. In other mistakes made for too many years, the Dems boxed themselves in by relying so heavily on identity politics. When & if the party can advance policies which overall connect with/help all the people, there’s no need for demographic segmentation or divides. Below is how the article democrat-strategy-rally-base-moderates begins:
For the past two years, Democrats have been debating how to regain power: Should they try to mobilize the base or focus on winning over moderates? According to one camp, elections are all about turnout. The real reason Hillary Clinton lost is that she is unpopular with the party’s left and did not sufficiently appeal to minority voters. The remedy is therefore obvious. Democratic candidates need to make a more radical offer on the economy. And they also need to mobilize minority voters by demonstrating their unwavering commitment to police reform, the fight against mass incarceration, and transgender rights. Candidates like New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who consider themselves democratic socialists and call for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are likely to generate far more excitement than the same old moderates. According to the other camp, elections are all about persuasion. The real reason Hillary Clinton lost is that she played identity politics and was unable to retain the support of white moderates. Their supposed remedy is just as simple: Democratic candidates need to adopt economically moderate policies. They need to win back Obama-Trump voters by toning down their support for culturally divisive causes. Candidates like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who rarely criticize Donald Trump and are capable of attracting significant support among moderate white voters, are likely to do much better than the new crop of radicals. Both positions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of American voters. If Democrats focus exclusively on either group, they are setting themselves up for failure. The only path to victory consists in mobilizing the base
and in appealing to moderates. But the way to increase turnout among disaffected Democratic voters is very different from what the left advocates, and the way to win over swing voters has little to do with what traditional moderates assume.
Gerrymandering = Extremism & Needs Corrected
The ravages of partisan gerrymandering must be addressed to not only make elections more fair & competitive, but it could help mitigate the real problem of extremism in the House, which is causing so much of the frustrating obstruction & gridlock. See this conclusion to midterm-elections-are-likely-to-change-the-calculus-for-post-2020-census-redistricting:
Redistricting remains largely in the hands of the politicians, which means it is often an exercise of raw political power. But a third factor is at work that in the long run could have a sizable impact on the goal of producing fairer and more competitive district lines. That is the movement to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians and give it to citizens or other independent bodies. Not surprisingly, Americans see fair district lines as an essential in U.S. elections. A Pew Research Center study last spring found that 72 percent cited fair and reasonable districts as something they regarded as important. But just 49 percent said they thought that standard was being met at least somewhat well. Not surprisingly, there’s a big partisan split. Republicans were far more likely to say districts are fairly drawn than Democrats, by 63 percent to 39 percent.
A survey by the Bipartisan Policy Center and USA Today conducted in 2013 found that a plurality of Americans (35 percent) favor the use of bipartisan commissions to handle redistricting, followed by the state legislature and governor (28 percent). Citizen commissions or other entities that reduce the influence of politicians have proved successful elsewhere, with California being the most populous state to move in that direction. Next month, four states will have redistricting commissions on their ballots: Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah. Earlier this year, Ohio voters approved a new redistricting system aimed at producing a more bipartisan process. Wendy Underhill, director of elections and redistricting at the National Conference of State Legislatures, notes that the number of states — five — with votes on redistricting proposals this year equals the number that took votes between 2010 and 2017. Even if all these initiatives are approved, most states will still rely on politicians for redistricting. But the combination of ballot initiatives and contested elections are likely to make the next round of redistricting more balanced than the last.
Healthcare a Hot Issue!
With the healthcare rhetoric giving Dems a wedge issue to ride the blue wave, the GOP is desperate to try mitigating the damage, so they’ve resorted to misleading voters about coverage for preexisting conditions: vulnerable-republicans-throw-hail-mary-on-pre-existing-conditions. Inside is-medicare-for-all-the-answer-to-sky-high-administrative-costs is an analysis of the projected costs & coverage of a possible Medicare for All program, while Trump dishes out lies about universal coverage: trump-lies-about-medicare-for-all-says-universal-health-care-doesnt-work-anywhere-in-the-world. In fact, that article spells out other countries have made it work, with health outcomes as good or better than ours at half the cost.
Voter Suppression through Lies & Cheating
As most of the energy among Dems is off the charts for the midterms over disgust for Trump, the GOP knows a blue wave could sweep them away, especially in the House. So they’re resorting to extremely underhanded tactics. As seen in excerpts from republicans-have-a-secret-weapon-in-the-midterms-voter-suppression, these tactics aren’t just an affront to the democratic process, it’s blatant cheating!:
With Democrats furious over Donald Trump, and many Republicans furious over the treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the 2018 elections are likely to see the highest turnout of midterm voters in recent history. But those voters will be confronted by a byzantine array of voter restrictions, voter-suppression efforts, and voter discrimination standing in their way. A review by The Daily Beast found at least five voter-suppression practices in active use today. All are led by Republicans, all have disproportionate effects on non-white populations, and all are rationalized by bogus claims of voter fraud. They include:
*Closing polling places in communities of color
*Purging eligible voters from the rolls without their knowledge
*Barring felons from voting
*Voter ID laws
*Eliminating early voting
Each one of these alone is troubling. In the aggregate, though, they paint an unmistakable picture of Republican efforts to hold on to power in an increasingly non-white nation by making it harder for non-white people to vote.
But voter suppression is unique in that it directly blocks voters from voting. It is a direct affront to their citizenship. And it is all based on a lie: that voter fraud is a crisis. In fact, there simply is no voter-fraud crisis. An exhaustive study by a Loyola law professor found that between 2000 and 2014, there were all of 31 reported instances of in-person voter impersonation. Out of more than a billion votes cast. In other words, the odds are 1 in 32 million that a vote is fraudulent—certainly not enough to swing any election. And by way of comparison, you are 237 times more likely to be struck by lightning. In the fact-free universe of Fox News, Sinclair, Breitbart, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal
, and the rest, it doesn’t matter that there is no voter-fraud crisis. They’ll just make one up. Remember, the president of the United States has alleged, without a scintilla of evidence, that between 3 and 5 million people voted illegally, a claim that every expert in the field has said is implausible to the point of absurdity. As a result, three-quarters of Republicans said that voter fraud happens “somewhat” or “very often,” including 68 percent of Republicans said that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in 2016. Both completely, unequivocally false.
Likewise, one would think that the career of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, would be harmed by his humiliating, devastating losses on the “voter fraud” issue. First, Kobach lost in federal court, when it was found that his anti-fraud crusades, which suspended 36,000 Kansas voters (once again, disproportionately people of color), was totally unjustified. (It found exactly three cases of possible fraud, all of which were mistakes, in which senior citizens voted in two states by accident.) And if that weren’t enough, Kobach was humiliated again on the national stage, when the voter-fraud commission he chaired folded without finding a single case of fraud. And yet, Kobach is now running for governor of Kansas, and might just win.
Current Republican Values wallowing in the Gutter
Whether individually we’re seeing red or blue, we sure do look at the world through a different lens: midterm-elections-candidates-issues-health-care-immigration. If we are truly ever hoping to achieve MAGA, our nation must revolve around truths, logic & human values, as seen in these excerpts below from a-unified-nation-must-rest-on-something-real. Trump & his echo have turned the conservative cause into a bastardization of true conservatism, based on self-centeredness, false premises & outright lies. Please join the cause with us here at TheVORACS, warning others of the dangers of the far-right echo, since America could find itself in permanent decline should the GOP keep aligning itself with that destructive form of nihilistic demagoguery. As Republican values have been obliterated, we should strive to relocate them & bring them back. People should take these words to heart:
Our union is fragile and marked by conflict, but ultimately we can work toward a détente due to fear of the alternative — an economic form of mutually assured destruction. In a limited way, it’s possible that Cost is right. The society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
is held together not by any sort of patriotic affection between citizens but simply by a fear of losing the material comforts offered by modern society. Comfort, which is ultimately what Cost’s argument cashes out to, may well be sufficient grounds to hold our fragile republic together for a time. Material comfort, which is provided by a market economy that serves as the only true place of shared life in our republic, might be enough to preserve a polity for a time, but it is not sufficient to shape citizens capable of maintaining that economic order. Indeed, if we wish to quote Founding Fathers to support our arguments, we would do well to consider the words of John Adams, who, writing to the Massachusetts militia in 1798, remarked that our nation’s Constitution presupposes a “moral and religious” population. “It is wholly inadequate [to govern] any other,” the nation’s second president said.
It is not sufficient, then, to simply find something that both of the feuding parties dislike — poverty, in this case — and hope that their shared fear will bind them together in a lasting union. Ultimately all human communities, whether they are a family, a neighborhood, or a nation, will long to order their life together according to truth. The Left, to its credit, is beginning to understand this. Their vision of America, deficient and dangerous though it is, is united around common objects of love. They want an inclusive society that recognizes and protects the right of every individual to narrate his own meaning, to “define one’s own concept of existence.” They believe that this vision of life is true, and they work toward its accomplishment. Cost’s article, viewed through this lens, is an ineffective, timid response. And this is a pity. Conservatism at its best is concerned with conserving all that is good and beautiful, with recognizing the beauty inherent in the givenness of the world and wishing to protect it from those that would crush it. But this attempt to live according to truth (to borrow from Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule) has fewer and fewer adherents amongst today’s conservatives. The vision of political life put forward by many on the American right seems largely indifferent to these great human questions and may well bottom out into a virtue-free nihilism in which there is no possibility of a common life organized around truth.
Certainly, it’s possible that life together in today’s America cannot be sustained on the basis of anything beyond the lowest common denominator. If that is the case, then perhaps you can argue that Cost’s argument is simply the political version of the couple that has agreed to tolerate each other until the kids are older. But a single household, unlike a nation, has a fixed lifespan. It will be dissolved at one point or another. Nations, in contrast, can be sustained if they live under a story that is true and if they can rally their citizenry around that story. The Left is trying to do that. They are telling a bad story, but it is a story that resonates with many. The Right, with some notable exceptions, seems to have given up all attempts at cultural storytelling. Ultimately, human beings aspire to truth. “You have made us for yourself,” Augustine prays in his confessions, “and our hearts are restless till they rest in you.” We long to order our lives, including our political lives, to truth. The Right can choose to acknowledge this, or they can choose to ignore it. But if they do the latter, they won’t just be losing the narrative battle to the Left; they’ll be fighting against human nature — an odd posture, indeed, for a movement that aspires to be conservative.
Impossible to Love if we’re outside his Cult
Those of us who see Trump as he really is will never like or respect him, much as his ego tells him everyone loves him. I’m personally repulsed by him. This song provides a sad reality. No Donald, you can’t make us love you if we don’t:
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