“But in a stark display of what separates the nation’s political camps, voters who say they never attend church services sided just as strongly with the Democratic senator from Massachusetts. So did gay voters, single voters, union members and those most concerned about health care, jobs and Iraq.”
– Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, “How did he do it?”
It’s still early, and the fog of lies, dissembling, and flip-flops that was the Kerry campaign hasn’t yet lifted from large, populous areas of the nation. Even so, the question Democrats need to answer is beginning to evolve in the “primordial soup” of their consciousness. Here’s a quote from Democraticunderground.com:
“As EarlG told me this morning: The result is either massively fraudulent or deeply disturbing – Skinner.”
The size and scope of Bush’s victory, while not a landslide, is certainly convincing. That leaves the latter concern: It has to be deeply disturbing. In a sense, Democrats are no different than the rest of us. They have to be asking themselves, “How did we miss it so badly?” The easy answer embraced by the Gore campaign in 2000 – “We was robbed!” – doesn’t explain W’s convincing victory yesterday. Instead, it merely underscores how far off the mark that easy answer was – even four years ago.
Last week, I described the left’s coalition as the “unwilling, unwanted, bribed and coerced.” Even the Democratic tent – which is now so expansive and hot-air filled that it embraces nearly everyone’s favorite perversion or fetish for “free” goodies – couldn’t contain the crowd the party had gathered to “turn America around.” Indeed, it drove away Americans who really care about our nation and its future. Enough of us recognized that America wouldn’t be “turned around” so much as it would be chasing it’s tail, digging its way down into the black hole of oblivion.
Pundits today seem to be fixated on the nation’s various divisions. But the quote in our opening by Mr. Froomkin stumbles across the truth. How can we be a nation united when we share conflicting worldviews? As government plunders more and more of our resources through taxes and bureaucracy, what it does with those resources becomes of supreme importance. This suits the John Kerrys, Ted Kennedys and Hillary Clintons of the world just fine, because it puts them on center stage – right where they think they belong. Yet how can Americans agree when what divides the nation today is exactly what Jesus said would divide the nation some 2,000 years ago:
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law …
– Luke 12:51-53
Today, much of the world had no moral compass to help themselves or the nation get moving in the right direction. Gen. Omar Bradley, addressing an Armistice Day crowd at the end of World War II, expressed it well: “We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount … The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” Or as the Bible says, they “lean on their own understanding.”
While there are vast differences in what most people believe about God, there are similarities, too. One is that God sees farther into the future than we do. Because we have such a limited horizon – days, weeks, at most a generation or two – God has given us certain rules which we are to live by. He did this not because he is a spoilsport, but because He knows that if we follow those rules things will go well for us, both now and in the future.
This election asked us to make decisions. Decisions about homosexual couplings, fanatical homicidal bombers, fetal stem-cell research, and genetic engineering – which will alter humanity forever onward. Almost half of America “leaned unto its own understanding.” A small majority looked to God.
Secular culture does not concern itself with God. Secularists are ignorant of God, His long history of interaction with mankind as recorded in the Bible, and His hopes and dreams for our future. The secularist horizon is measured in weeks, months or years – not generations and centuries.
How could two such different worldviews yield supporters who agree on much of anything?
Post-debate I told Trump Kamala had the questions in advance
Wayne Allyn Root