Friday, October 23, 2020

Seeking Christ in this Election

I must preface this by saying that I am not telling anyone not to vote or for whom to vote, I am saying it is dangerous and reckless to idolize a person merely on their promises and public persona. Seek Christ is this so that you will fulfill God's Will, whatever that may be.
In an effort to find out if my sense of things was correct about our president I began reading his book. My suspicions were right, the deception is calculated and targeted toward those who often believe what they wish to believe while missing all the clues that would warn them something is not right.
Judge for yourselves!
A quote from "The Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump
"“I play to people’s fantasies,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 memoir, The Art of the Deal. “I call it truthful hyperbole,” he explained. “It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.” Copywritten in 1987
Notice He often uses grandiose language like; "doing a wonderful job" or "big things are going to happen", "the greatest economy", everything is cloaked in flowery exciting language to make us feel that we would miss out on all these wonderful things if we did not vote for him. This is a typical and common tactic, even modern-day preachers do it, God calls it ear tickling to disarm. It causes people to believe whatever is said without evaluating any of it.
With multiple divorces and remarriage as well as an abortion advocate for many years except in very recent years, there has been a calculated change to accommodate a run for the presidency. There seems to be a disconnect between evangelical Christians and the truth when they rely on words and a public persona more than factual information about someone's life.
I have always been suspect when a person is a life long Democrat, even financially supporting Democrat candidates but at the eleventh hour before running for office they change parties and take on views that are opposite of what was embraced for many years.
I have seen this time and time again in politics, having been politically involved with candidates in past years I know how they think. It is not possible to make it all the way to the presidency in any campaign without seriously compromising one's views and telling half-truths to win the votes of people who might not like you at all if they knew the entire agenda.
I can hear the verbiage in those back rooms where people plot and plan their strategy. They might say things like;
"We must reach that voting block of people who have stopped voting, that is the Evangelical Christians. In order to win them, we will have to pretend to be one of them."
The problem is that someone who pretends to be a born again believer will make very big verbal mistakes because they don't know the Bible and they don't know the expectations of a true born again believer.
Trump clearly said "I don't believe I have done anything to be sorry for. If I make a mistake I just try to do better next time." He doesn't believe two divorces, and affairs and third adulterous marriage is a problem, they were just mistakes, no big deal.
I guess the evangelicals do not care about character as much as they do their finances and their freedom. But who am I to talk I voted for him both times. My thinking was that I went purely on what he says he will do and the other candidate has a murderous attitude in his abortion stance as well as a socialist bent. My honest assessment of things is that it doesn't matter who wins, America is going down for its monstrous sins, that's it!
Notice there were no questions on the abortion issue in either debate, interesting!
A politician might say things like this, I have heard verbiage like this over the years, it is not a stretch to believe this could happen.
"This group of people will accept all our flaws when we say we are one of them." "We will even pretend to be for all the things they are for, their advocate while blasting the other side but never being absolutely clear about our agreement with their desires. "
For years there was a block of people who were not voting, that being those who didn't like voting for the lesser of two evils. They needed to be courted, schmoozed by hearing everything they like to hear. These were the people that put our president over the tipping point to win the election.
I hope I will not lose good friends for saying these things. I hope my good friends who might disagree with me will go and pray to be discerning. Make no mistake I vacillated back and forth several times in the past four years wondering if I was seeing things that were not there. I wasn't hallucinating, I was given discernment only God could give because I prayed about my misgivings.
When all we have is the media coverage and what the candidate says we cannot possibly accurately judge the character of a person.
Often people will take the side of the "underdog", the one who is attacked every day by the media simply because they don't like those attacks, without realizing that even though the attacks are ruthless and wrong, it does not absolve the candidate of all the other clues we see that show a wicked side.
I have heard stories of people who lived with narcissism every day, seeing the carnage of their evil behavior in their own homes. When these victims were in the world, school, church and other venus they observed people who admired and nearly worshiped those who never showed them the evil side of themselves. When the victims would tell on the narcissist the world would not believe the victim.
Far too many people base their assessment of someone on what they can see in the moment and the words they say. This is truly very little information to evaluate someone.
Narcissists are deeply adept at hiding the wicked person inside only exposing their victims in private. They know their reputation in public is so revered that if the victims come out to expose them they will not be believed.
Since most people are predisposed to believe whatever people say to them when they are courted and flattered, they cannot possibly exercise discernment. The clues are there that something is off, in the case of our president the clues are not hard to see but they will deny them in favor of believing what they want.

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