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Oct 25, 2016 06:44AM

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In Ignazio Silone's novel Bread and Wine, the night after Mussolini declares war on Ethiopia, one of the characters goes out and writes "NO!" on the walls of buildings in his village. When he's asked why he did something that pointless, he says something to the effect that, "I wanted people to know it wasn't unanimous." I'd like for people to know that America's suicide isn't unanimous.

Then I spent a sleepless night pondering the consequences of this election. There are many things those two stand for, but they are different shades of disgust. Hillary stands for abortion, even partial birth. In her gut, in the unfeeling, vacuous pit where her soul should be, she wants those babies dead. She doesn’t care if it is done by bashing a hole in their heads and sucking out their brains while they are in the birth canal – just so the inconvenience they might cause is disposed of. And if the organs in their lifeless bodies are harvested for scientific experimentation – so what?
But, isn’t that like a step and a half from Soylent Green?
We put labels on humans describing their stage of development; adult, toddler, middle age, infant, adolescent, fetus and more. Labels, that’s all – no stage is more or less human than any other. Isn’t ultrasound marvelous? You can actually watch these fetuses making faces, sucking their thumbs, playing with their fingers and toes. I have three great grandchildren, one still in the womb. I have seen the ultrasounds of all of them – beautiful small people doing what fetuses do. I have a toddler great step granddaughter who comes to see us regularly. She can’t carry on a conversation yet – is she worth less than a kindergartner because of that? She runs around the yard pointing at flowers and birds, bending over to watch ants, flipping her tongue in and out at lizards. A few weeks ago, her mother reposted on FB the ultrasound of her as a fetus at about six mouths. It was a view of her little face. And you know what was breathtaking about it – I could clearly recognize her. She had the same determined face I see when I hold her up to the fountain as she catches streaming water in her fingers. You want to know what evil is – it’s killing fetuses by the millions because they are inconvenient to their mothers. That is evil in its rawest form. I know progressives don’t see it that way. Directly from the Church Lady, “Well, isn’t that convenient?”
Hillary also stands for Single Payer health care as the only real fix for Obamacare. That means health care will be provided by the government and funded by the tax payers – including members of the Never Trump coalition.
If she is elected, within two or three months, Hillary will appoint a new (young) Supreme Court Justice. Before she is through, she will appoint two or three more young Supreme Court Justices. She will only appoint justices who support partial birth abortion and single payer health insurance. Even if Republicans don’t lose the Senate, there’s no way they can refuse to confirm new judges for four years. These judges will unbalance the court to progressivism and remain in the Supreme Court for rest of their lives. They will fundamentally change America to resemble the soulless shells they are. This is not theoretical bull crap. Millions of the unborn have already been killed. Hillary and her progressive court will put Stalin and Toa in the minor leagues when it comes to mass murder. And they will be killing the undisputed totally innocent victims of other people’s bad choices. They will be killing unborn babies who no way are Earth can speak up for themselves; these victims will not march in the streets, they will not vote in elections; they totally depend upon … upon whom? – the Never Trump people?
If Hillary wins, sometime, maybe as soon as 2018 or 2019, the IRS will be collecting money from me and my Never Trump friends; money we earn that will go to pay ghoulish doctors to punch holes in infants heads to suck out their brains. And there will be nothing we can do about that.
But there sure as hell is something that might be done about it NOW.
Trump is scum – I know that. But he says he will appoint judges who would overturn Roe v Wade. He says he will lead the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare with a private program. Maybe he’s lying; god knows he’s not above it. But he has listed the judges he would consider. I think Trump will keep those promises, but I am confident that even he doesn’t, he will not carry things to the limitless, godless levels of hell progressives will take us. I know exactly what Hillary will do. This is a close race – if the Never Trump crowd reconsiders, that might be enough to defeat Hillary.
My scary nightmare: There are thousands of toddlers in a terrorist slaughter camp. The terrorists say they are not human beings because they are Christians and therefore, do not deserve to live. They are killing them. A terrorist comes to me saying, “These Christians are an inconvenience. They can’t talk or feed themselves; they can’t even control their bowels. Put me in charge of the camp and I will reduce the paperwork so they can be destroyed quicker.” Then a pimp comes to me saying, “I will do everything I can to save these children by replacing judges who don’t think they are human.” Then a preacher comes saying, “I have been praying for the Christian children for fifty years. Choose me. Even though I will have no power to do anything, I will continue to pray for them.” Pick the preacher, if you must; I’m going for the pimp, with no apology over his moral turpitude.
Trump is the only chance to stop Hillary; I know he is grossly flawed. But is it possible that this election could inspire him to reconsider some of his actions? Is there no redemption? Is it even necessary?
So, do I want to stand before God alongside the Never Trump people with my hands extended palms up and proclaim, “at least my hands are clean; I didn’t soil them voting for evil Trump;” do I want to stand with Pontius Pilate, who also washed his hands? No – I don’t. So whatever influence I can bear, I will push to elect probably the second worst candidate to have run for the office. On the stage before me; one boldly supports mass murderer – one does not. One of the two will be President. This whole conversation is very theoretical for some; for others, now and in the future, it is a matter of life and death, and they don’t get to participate in the conversation. That is the cold, hard reality. Fail to stop Hillary and hundreds of thousands more innocent children will be viciously, mercilessly murdered – in time it will be millions. These people, who fight for the right to slaughter children in the birth canal, would cringe at the thought of someone doing the same to a dog or even a goldfish. I totally reject the idea that when I post my vote for Trump I will have lost moral credibility. To my Never Trump friends – when the number of mass murders of the innocent spikes, will you be satisfied with your vote for an impotent third party candidate to make some muted moral point in lieu of fighting with everything you had, including your vote, to stop Hillary – to stop or, at least, slow the slaughter?
Ultimately, even if my hands are dirtied by voting for Trump, I will still do it, because someone should, and the victims can’t; and I will face God with the consequences of my choice and He can decide the morality of it.

If I were vested with absolute power to personally appoint the next President from the two choices put forward by the establishment parties, yes, I would appoint Trump, for the reasons you stated. But the "cold, hard reality" is that I DON'T get to appoint the next President. Even if the playing field were level, my vote would count for perhaps one millionth of a per cent in determining the outcome. In reality, it counts for absolutely nothing, along with all the Trump votes that will be cast in Virginia, because the state's electoral votes are cast "winner take all," and Virginia is in the bag for Hilary. Yes, if every single non-Hilary supporter in the country --the supporters of every other third party candidate, plus those who don't plan to vote at all-- would magically decide to vote for Trump, he might stand a chance of being elected. If every one of those voters would magically decide to support Castle, he could be elected. But realistically, we know neither of these things will happen --for different reasons in each case. In Trump's case, it's because he's too toxic, in the estimation of too many voters for whom the welfare of the unborn isn't as important as it is to you and I. That's why, in point of fact, this election isn't close, though I understand why you want to believe it is. I'd like to believe it is, because the reality is a nightmare. But the reality is that we're facing a Hilary landslide, with probable down-ticket fallout. (Far from being a benefit to the unborn babies, Trump's candidacy is very likely to drag down many of their sincerest defenders in the Congress and the state governments.)
Do we then abandon the babies? No. But the political strategy that's best calculated to stop the killing is to build, and to consistently advocate, pro-life political options that will command the support of the persuadable non-Hilary supporters (and even of some of her persuadable supporters), IF their attention can be gained. (And if gaining their attention is hopeless, than we might as well hang it up, because then the long-term survival of America as anything resembling a free society is hopeless.) That political side of the strategy has to go hand in hand with a strategy of persuading the public to care about human life, human rights, and human decency, which will happen to the extent that the Christian church takes seriously its mission of being salt and light in this world (I don't despair of that possibility, either) and a strategy of meeting expectant mothers at risk for abortion with compassion and help to persuade and enable them to choose life. (That's what crisis pregnancy centers do every day.) In the decades since Roe v. Wade, the latter two strategies, by themselves, have greatly and steadily reduced the abortion rate in the U.S., even while, for much of that time, the country has been under Democrat dominion. No, tragically, this won't end abortion overnight. (Neither, alas, would electing Trump --or for that matter Castle-- even if either were possible.) But that three-pronged strategy, I submit, is the only one that would actually bring the end of the abomination closer.
The "support the GOP at any cost, no matter how vile their candidate, and no matter what ills their other policies will bring on the country, as long as they promise to put pro-life justices on the Supreme Court!" has been the mantra of the pro-life movement during all those decades. And we have precious little to show for it. Yes, some pro-life justices have been appointed --but never enough to turn the Court around. And pro-abortion Republican justices have often been appointed as well (we have Reagan to thank for Justice Kennedy). There are those who doubt that the GOP leadership really wants to end abortion; keeping it going makes a handy "wedge issue" to keep the pro-life voters forever on their leash. Be that as it may, they have never demonstrated the political will to fight for a pro-life Supreme Court, and there is no reason to think they've gained it in the Age of Trump.
Glen wrote: "Even if Republicans don’t lose the Senate, there’s no way they can refuse to confirm new judges for four years.". Well, actually there is. If, for discussion's sake, Trump were elected, and actually did nominate pro-life judges, especially to the Supreme Court, this is exactly what the Democrats will do. And they will do it openly, boldly, and without apology, and loudly make their case to the American people: "Yes, having one, two, three or even four vacancies on the Court is inconvenient, but that pales into insignificance beside the horror that confirming these monsters would be!" (And their lapdog media would support them, and their base would be energized to pour in campaign contributions.) Some would do this out of the courage of their benighted and fanatical convictions, and most would do it because the Democratic Party depends financially on the abortion industry as one of their four indispensable donors. And they wouldn't, under the Senate's bizarre rules, have to regain a Senate majority to make this stick --all they'd need is 41 votes, a pretty low bar. Under this state of affairs, I don't believe it would take Trump long to cave. Congressional Republicans, of course, could do exactly the same to Hilary (and would be supported by Fox News, and similarly reap the donations of a really energized base). But most congressional Republicans have no genuine convictions and no courage; and the pro-life movement, unhappily, isn't a large-scale cash cow that can write million dollar donations on one check. Yes, this state of affairs can be changed. But I don't believe that two-party, establishment party politics as usual will ever change it.
I don't write any of this with the intention of persuading you to act against your conscience, and I wouldn't attempt to persuade you to that if I could! (As the Apostle Paul wrote, in another context, "each one must be fully persuaded in his own mind.") I write in the hope, I suppose, that if my position isn't made convincing, it can be made understandable. In Lincoln's words, "We are not enemies, but friends." And it will behoove all pro-life Americans to be friends, as we strive to build a culture of life in the difficult days that are going to lie ahead.

Well, this thing is about over – what shall we talk about then?

Hmmm! After the election, we'll have to wait and see what else Alexandra wants to write about that can get us interacting. :-)

[Rom 13:1-2 ESV: 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgement.]
But, God is working through Plan A. And it works out in the end:
[Rom 8:28 ESV: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.]


We the bride, the church ARE that big cubic gold heavenly city of New Jerusalem, replacing the cubic holy of holies in the temple and the tabernacle before, missing the altar because God the Father and Son are eternally present in our midst.

