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A CONSERVATIVE’S CALL TO QUELL THE VITRIOL AND VIOLENCE

As a conservative for over 40 years, I’m compelled to call out fellow conservatives for driving divisions among us and stoking violence. When tragedy strikes, like a shooting or assassination, all should know to restrain impulses to disparage the deceased and refrain from a rush to judgement. Tragically, our nation’s leaders, President Trump and VP Vance chose to quickly and very publicly blame “the radical left” and “left-wing radicals who gunned down Charlie Kirk”.

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ECONOMIC MALFEASANCE       

As a conservative and a student of economics for over 40 years, it’s been downright painful to witness the economic malfeasance of the Trump Administration.  Were it not happening in real time, it would be hard to believe any President would intentionally initiate trade wars with our allies, reduce the pool of labor needed to sustain growth, dismantle teams of experts working on our most pressing problems, reduce funding for public and higher education that underpin future economic prosperity, cut the overseers of our fiscal integrity, and damage the confidence our economy is built on. Tragically, it’s inevitable that these actions will create more uncertainty, stoke inflation and push us into a recession.

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DECEPTION

Deception.  It’s been a plague on humanity since Eve was beguiled to take a bite from the apple.  Whether self-induced, or seeded and cultivated by those determined to profit from it, deception has driven many wars and resulted in incalculable destruction, heartache and loss of human potential.  Hitler lured Germans into believing Jews were to blame for their economic problems, President Johnson told the American people not to “worry about Vietnam” and sent tens of thousands of young men into a war he knew we wouldn’t win, and George W Bush pressured us into believing Iraq had WMDs while the CIA warned him they didn’t. These are just a few examples of “leaders”, bent on their own self-serving agendas, bent on gaining and holding onto power, choosing to lure people into believing falsehoods, with disastrous consequences.

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A PATH FORWARD FOR CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS

As we wade through this ever more divisive election cycle, the challenge of who to support has grown particularly acute for conservatives and ProLife Christians.  This challenge has been festering for years and will reach far beyond this election cycle.  We who are ProLife, who believe in the sanctity of life, are now facing a near impossible dilemma.  Those political figures who advocate for protecting fetuses, are the same people who have acted with a callous disregard for the health and well-being of children, teens and adults.  While I clearly lack the wisdom of Solomon, below is a path forward that largely aligns with ProLife principles and can pragmatically serve all life from conception through death.

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PUTTING PRINCIPLES ABOVE POLITICS

Given the near exponential growth in political disinformation and an unrelenting onslaught of highly polarized opinions coming from news channels and candidates, making political choices sometimes feels so onerous that many of us would like to either give up and either sit this one out or just retreat into our traditional political affiliation. I submit that if we want our choices to reflect who we are, what we want our nation to be, both in our lifetime and for future generations, and something we can be at peace with, it’s essential that we step back from all this rancor and reflect on what are the principles we hold most dear. Instead of trying to make choices based on who might help us financially in the short term, or who “we like” and “don’t like” for each office, I submit we’ll be much better served by measuring candidates by how likely they’ll be dedicated to policies consistent with the principles we hold most dear.

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A TRAGIC SYMBOSIS

Most of us learned in public school how a symbiosis is a “close biological relationship between different species”.  Most of the time these relationships are co-dependences that benefit both species.  Sometimes they’re fatal. Tragically, as a growing number of Christians have tried to assert their influence in political arenas, the accelerating ties between those who call themselves Christians and most Republican “leaders” dependent on their votes, has devolved to the detriment and mutation of both. 

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WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?

While advocating for America and protesting against candidates in my own Republican Party over the last five years, it’s been interesting to witness how much people have changed.  Typically, hundreds of people respond with a big thank you and thumbs-up, while a few dozen hurl demeaning names at me and curse me.  I’ve become accustomed to that, but several interactions lately, exemplifying a level of anger and ill-informed opinion I’d rarely seen before, lead me to wonder if it might be fruitful for all of us to take a step back and question the choices we’re making and what we’ve become.

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FREEDOM AND THE GREATER GOOD

Beyond a plague upon life, if Covid has been anything it’s been a most serious teacher. It’s taught us that life is fragile and can be fleeting.  It’s taught us to cherish time with family and friends.  It’s taught us to pay closer attention to protecting our health.  It’s taught us that effectively governing a diverse and polarized population is a really difficult thing.  It’s taught us how important social time is to our children, as well as all of us.  It’s taught us how a tiny virus can bring a huge and powerful country to its knees.  And it’s taught us that beneath our beliefs about freedom lies a growing, dark underbelly, where individual freedoms can be elevated far above the common good.  

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