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What absolute folly: the threat of “Theocracy,” “no elections,” “rejecting pluralism,” and defining fellow Americans as “immoral lunatics,” is but your own hate and lies. Scare tactics often used by inept lefties.

Freedom to “disagree” and “hold power without litmus tests,” is not some liberal brain child, it is what our founders set up intentionally and according to and inline with the Christian faith. The one party system was again, their idea not mine.

Americans know better than to follow a political party of “immoral lunatics” off the edge of a cliff. Hence the last election which was a decisive victory, but also revealed a political base voting out of hate rather than love and caring. The former of whom, I guess you are talking to in your mind.

Americans are seeing a sharp contrast between this president who is totally real and the last who was a fake fraud with evil intent. But that’s not enough. Americans need to know that “scratch the surface of any [supposedly caring] liberal and you get nothing but hate and lies.” Because that’s all there is; hate foolishly standing behind a fraudulent political party who have questionable legitimacy at best.

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Your so good at obfuscation Alex. But as usual when it comes to politics you have it dead wrong. You have plugged in the wrong variables. You seem crippled by your misguided hate for Christianity.

What just unfolded before your eyes in our country was a brazen attempt at establishing an Atheocracy; an overthrow of our precious and sacred God-centered Constitutional Republic. Where God would be removed from our national spirit and replaced with state mandates (force), where political preferences were considered satanic will, where moral impurity ruled the day and set forth segments of our populace in a collective hate-filled froth. While the Democratic Party tried to justify the destruction of the Republican Party through tyranny, corruption, and abuse.

Then all was widely defeated. You lost. Big time. One minute your the windshield tooling down the road, the next minute your the bug splattered on the glass. Such is the fate of those who oppose the power of God.

Thankfully our brilliant founders anticipated such nonsense. Now we are watching the whole process correct itself and fly right with our newly elected applying a thing called “common sense.” For those not familiar with the concept it is: Gods wisdom; knowing what to do + discretion; knowing when and where to do it - self interest = success. A simple formula to thwart the Washington ruling class cabal seeking to enrich themselves and control the levers of power.

History is not kind to people who have felt the big hug of godless government. During the 20th century alone the death toll stands at 212,981,000 (https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/09/data-on-mass-murder-by-government-in-the-20th-century/). A small number of which occurred under Fascist regimes. Read about the Left-Wing leader of Fascism here (https://www.smallestminority.org/2022/09/is-fascism-left-or-right-wing/).

When in a voting booth remember two things: what would God want, who is the closest to God- probably the one demonized and vilified in the media the most.

“Trump is the first leader in the history of the world to be attacked for improving the lives of the citizens that voted for him.”

Charlie Kirk

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ps> Charlie Kirk’s claim ignores the reality that every leader in history—no matter how successful—has faced criticism, often from both supporters and opponents. Lincoln was attacked for freeing the slaves, FDR for the New Deal, and Churchill for his wartime decisions. Trump was not unique in being scrutinized while in power; rather, his policies, rhetoric, and leadership style made him polarizing. To suggest he was the first leader ever attacked for helping his citizens is not just historically false—it’s a self-victimizing narrative that reduces complex political dynamics to a simplistic, one-sided martyrdom.

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If an atheocracy is your fear, then a theocracy should be equally alarming—because once government starts declaring divine authority, there’s no limit to what can be justified in its name. The founders, in their brilliance, did not establish a nation where one party speaks for God and the other for the devil; they created a system designed to withstand precisely this kind of apocalyptic thinking. If you truly believe common sense is "God’s wisdom minus self-interest," then surely it must apply to both sides, not just the one you favor. After all, history is not kind to those who mistake political power for divine will—nor to those who assume God’s favor belongs exclusively to their tribe.

As for your voting booth test—if being demonized by the media is proof of godliness, then Bernie Sanders and Julian Assange must be saints. Maybe even, dare I say… Joe Biden?

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I do not want or advocate for a Theocracy. Why do you pretend I do? Is that just a fear tactic to win favor? Take a poll: ask Christians if they think the U.S. should move towards a Theocracy. The answer, to a person, will be “whats a Theocracy?” They will have no idea what your talking about.

Religious morality protects people from hurting themselves and others, some of whom they love. ( Dare I try another hypothetical with you Alex, what if- you could drive down the road and hit all the lights green, or avoid those awkward detours; road closed, bridge is out, do-not-enter…) Our founders are on record stating ‘we need that (moral guidance).’ ‘Lots of that.’ How does that translate to evil? Their not talking about government mandates as we saw being wrongly imposed on us from the highest levels on the left, they’re talking about the citizenry! In the U.S. if Mormons want to have Mormon teachers and Mormon civic leaders and send Mormons to congress they can do that. We even sent a Muslim to the White House. (Huge mistake. Never send anyone to the White House who does not understand or respect our Christian Heritage.) Of course our Christian God-based laws have to be followed. Making Sharia law illegal for instance.

God extends free will to Christians, Christians want to extend that freedom to everyone. Our Declaration states that we are “endowed” with “unalienable rights” given to us by “their Creator.”

I didn’t ruin the Democrat Party. You did. And you continue to support their immoral lunacy. As is your God-given right. Please understand that that thinking, immoral and proud, will not win elections, nor should it ever win an election in a God-centered country. So consequently the Democrat Party will fade away into the sunset. With me saying “good riddance” in the hopes that we have people smart enough to cast that stinking thinking away. Nothing to do with me mind you, thinking against God is to which I refer. God is a lot like Trump, he is right about everything!

This country does not need a two Party system and indeed would be much better off without. In my humble opinion you can trace every single one of Americas ills back to the Democrat Party but that is beside the point.

The Republican Party is not exclusively Christian and it never ever has been. It does however recognize God. As it should.

The founders set it up so that you vote for the best person and if things go south, you replace them. Simple. No second Party needed.

Do you agree?

As far as common sense. Here’s what we’re battling: a researcher carefully amputates all four of a frogs legs, then yells “jump frog jump.” The frog, reduced to a paraplegic, sits there motionless. So the researcher yells “jump frog jump” two more times getting louder each time. Still nothing from the frog. So the researcher records in their notes, “frog with no legs goes deaf.”

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If your argument is that the country should have only one political party because that party "recognizes God," then you are advocating for something functionally indistinguishable from a theocracy—even if you insist you’re not. You claim America is a "God-centered country" but reject pluralism, dismiss millions of Americans as "immoral lunatics," and celebrate the idea of one-party rule—all while insisting that Christians, uniquely, extend freedom to everyone. But true freedom includes the right to disagree, the right to worship differently (or not at all), and the right to hold power without religious litmus tests. If America were meant to be governed by divine mandate, the founders wouldn’t have designed a system requiring elections in the first place. The real irony? You invoke free will while arguing that only those who think like you should govern.

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Oops. The Tax cuts of 2017 although bringing in 500 billion over original projections (forecasts?), they did not pay for themselves given the obvious Covid debacle. Looks like I read the numbers wrong. Apologies.

I don’t mind being wrong. And when I become aware of it I quickly admit it and go on.

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What your witnessing in the Trump administration is leadership. Reagan, Bush, then Trump in ‘16, experienced stonewalling and severe obstructionism from the Democrats. It was ruthless and effective. Until now many Americans believed in the merits of a “two party system,” wrongly. They saw it as an extension of our system of checks and balances. Now people have woken up to the fact that the Democrats are horrible people who could care less about the electorate and instead have wisely put their faith back in God and the Republican Party.

President Trump is trying to get his authority respected by government employees who have the same bad attitude (questionable agenda) as you. As they flock to a judiciary rife with corruption, many refuse to hear their cases as they choose not to interfere with the “separation of powers.” In other words they choose not to usurp the power of the chief executive. Those who do not should be replaced. This is not a partisan act at all.

The President, backed by Congress, has the authority to remove the entire judiciary!

The economy, DOGE, and “taxing the rich:

The best way to fix a financial crisis is to grow the economy. The worse a financial crisis is, the harder it is for the economy to grow. High levels of taxation “depress economic activity.” (https://www.mercatus.org.) “Taxes discourage people from working, saving, and starting and growing businesses. The harms caused by these negative behavioral responses are called deadweight losses. For the federal income tax, deadweight losses created by every dollar of higher taxes are roughly 40 to 50 cents.” (https://www.cato.org/) Economists all agree that “taxing the rich” post WWII did nothing to increase revenues. It is economic growth that saved the day. And presently our government is dependent upon the top 20% of wage earners with the lower 40% paying nothing at all. This is unique to the U.S.

In 2022 the CBO released a prediction that the Trump tax cuts of 2017 would not only pay for themselves but add an additional 500 billion dollars to the pot. With corporate revenues only maintaining. Confirmation bias? When I looked again at the maybe 100 plus websites decrying the ‘17 tax cuts a failure, I noticed that not one offered specifics unless they were outdated charts, graphs, and predictions.

In the wake of Covid, Biden continued to spend endlessly until inflation was inevitable. The Democrat Party unilaterally kept the country shut down for an additional two full years after the “science” said STOP. This cut revenues right off at the worst possible time.

In the wake of this democrat-made disaster, President Trump and Elon Musk arrive on the scene like caped crusaders exposing all of our (the peoples) money being pissed away all over the world by horrible Democrats. As the the money gets reined in, the American people rejoice and express a level of gratitude only to criticized by you.

Election 2020:

It is a fact, not a matter of opinion, that the 2020 election was stolen. The Democrat Party, funded by Mark Zuckerburg, took complete control of the election, with Democrat operatives forcefully overtaking election offices in key battleground areas away from bipartisan election workers who did not expect, nor know what to do about it. The partisan hacks put threw all fraudulent votes regardless. All of which were for Biden. The rules governing fraudulent ballots had been tampered with as the Democrat Party had figured out how to circumvent the system: they challenged the laws governing the handling of ballots marked invalid and settled the cases “out of court.” Once they accomplished that, they put threw as many ballots as was needed. The entire process was manipulated from start to finish.

They got away with it! Nothing was done about it. They made protesting the election practically illegal. Even shut down free speech! If you research it, you will be shocked out of your mind. But you won’t! You are too comfortable where you are. And thats fine. That’s freedom. One day you will figure it out and you can remember that I told you the truth, but you weren’t listening!

Conservatives aren’t “followers,” using “talking points,” creating “narratives” to follow or entertaining “conspiracy theories” as you claim. It’s liberals who flock together using such tactics mired in their own group hate.

Government:

“The tragedy is that because government is doing so many things it ought not to be doing, it performs the functions it ought to be performing badly.”

Milton Friedman

Quotes from the Cato Institute:

“Aid programs shift program decision-making from local elected officials to unelected officials in Washington.”

“Privatized businesses have strong incentives to invest where market demands are, free from the politics and bureaucracy that plague federally owned businesses…”

However, without the need to earn profits government agencies face little pressure to increase efficiencies, such as by firing unproductive workers. Federal workers are protected by strong civil service laws, and many are represented by unions. The result is that federal workers are fired at only about one-sixth the rate of private-sector workers.”

“…federal workers are generally paid and promoted based on longevity, not performance. The result is that less competent workers tend to stay in federal bureaucracies for a long time and gain senior positions, while many of the best workers get frustrated and leave.”

The Trump quote:

As for the quote Trump posted about breaking the law: my guess is that he and Mr. “Bolz” (Elon) are just having some fun.

As Americans rally together similar to the brief moment post 9-11, traumatized by seeing a good man get attacked so viciously and shot at, it must kill the Communists amongst us. (A “progressive” is a Communist dressed in a Cub Scout uniform asking if they can help, and explaining the virtue of big government.) Communists want you to feel the warmth of government so you can sleep toasty and warm at night. The irony is although government seems like something, Americans have learned the hard way that unless or until we know God and follow God, His peace and love (not hate), we have nothing. As we get our house in order, the way our founders intended, pardon our mess.

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The fact that we have one political party lying about everything and one party lying about nothing is a very difficult, tough concept for many. Maybe a concept that many have never even considered. It offends our ‘mr. nice-guy’ sense of fair-play which dictates that each side of a two-Party system deserves equal respect and consideration. What if- one side is God and one side is the devil? Then we are reduced to fools!

The founders did not intend for us to have a two Party system. In fact they rallied against it knowing it was a huge mistake.

A note from John Adams to Jonathan Jackson, 2 October 1780

There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick [sic] into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under our Constitution.

Can you imagine a ‘State of the Union Address’ void of any Democrats refusing to cooperate in any way; where everyone in the Capital is genuinely interested in Making America Great Again! Oh happy day wouldn’t that be Keen!

"I agree to this Constitution ... and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

Benjamin Franklin

Thankfully the “despots” were voted out in 2024.

“All of this went along with Franklin's basic philosophy of sound government; namely, that no people can remain free if they become wicked and immoral. When a society decays to the point where people begin to fear for their lives and their property, the demands for a police state have always been inevitable.”

Donald M. Scott

Professor of History

nationalhumanitiescenter.org

We’re not in a police state thankfully. But we are close, after the Democrats opened the border overwhelming the entire country, while simultaneously stopping prosecution of criminals.

“They serve to organize factions ... to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority.... The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create ... a real despotism."

“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpations; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."

George Washington

The Democrats have successfully jammed identity politics down our throats creating division.

The Republicans are currently trying to restore our system of checks and balances after the Democrat Party has tried to usurp the power of the chief executive through the judicial branch and weaponized the federal agencies in “lawfare” against political opponents. (Obama used the IRS to end the TEA Party movement [TEA- Taxed Enough Already!]).

Thomas Jefferson- warned of an out of control judiciary. Nowhere in the Constitution was the federal judiciary given the power to enforce its will on the states or the other two federal departments.

Donald M. Scott

Professor of History

nationalhumanitiescenter.org

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

John Adams

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely, for the general welfare, [save our planet initiatives; the Green New Deal, Ukraine] and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare [DEI, CRT], they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, the establishing in like manner schools throughout the union; [the Department of Education] they may assume the provision of the poor.... [welfare] Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."

James Madison

(Italics added for emphasis)

At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."

Abraham Lincoln

… this nation is, in the providence of God, “destined to lead the way in the moral and political emancipation of the world.”

Lyman Beecher

“Americans did not consider their new nation to be simply another nation among nations, but a providentially blessed entity charged to develop and maintain itself as the beacon of liberty and democracy to the world.”

Donald M. Scott

Professor of History

nationalhumanitiescenter.org

Unfortunately we have a political Party which has become completely contrary to our national values, yet returns to the table every four years demanding equal consideration from our electorate. (A somewhat confused electorate.) They The Democrat Party) think being on our ballots is theirs by rote!

To be brave, courageous, and honest about the current political mele, and to correctly identify the asinine scruples emanating from

The Democrat Party as they work in conjunction with the Communist Party to ruthlessly capitalize on Americas moral and intellectual decline, a decline they caused, is called the truth- not hyper-partisanship.

We don’t always know the truth when we hear it. That’s okay. Give yourself some time to think, to mature, to grow!

If you read the Party platforms both now and down through history, you will see; the Republican Party speaks of God and solving problems, the Democrats attack the Republican Party, almost never speak of God and moral values, and quite obviously go out of their way to foster hate! Hate being the direct competitor to love. Democrats have been incredibly harmful to our nation (their racism dominating the south for a century for one thing) and have continually and endlessly committed atrocities against a trusting, non-suspecting Republic.

To say nothing of the fact that they have become completely immoral (pretending to be the arbiters of morality and justice; abortion, gay rights, racism) and refuse to enforce any laws except on a hyper-partisan basis.

Good riddance. We need to get smart!

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If one party is God and the other is the devil, then we are not in a democracy but a theocracy or a fairy tale—and in either case, the truth is beside the point. If moral purity belongs to one side and sin to the other, why even bother with elections? Just crown the righteous and burn the heretics. But history is unkind to those who mistake their own political preferences for divine will—because the moment you strip your opponents of legitimacy, you justify their destruction, and in doing so, you become the very tyrant you claim to oppose.

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