Politics is downstream from culture.
Andrew Breitbart
Normally, I start researching the topic for my column on the first of each week and try to complete a rough draft by Tuesday evening because I have to submit my completed essay on Thursday.
However, last Tuesday was anything but normal. The fate of our country hung in the ballot box and writing about anything else was just not possible. I actually considered two titles and two directions for my post-election column since I didn’t know the outcome. And I thought it might be days before the final results would be available from blue states. But the wipeout was complete by bedtime Tuesday, and so began America’s exile.
In 586 BC, the Babylonian army of King Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls of Jerusalem, destroyed the city and burnt Solomon’s Temple. Perhaps a million died of starvation and disease during the prolonged siege and in the final assault. The apostate Jewish leaders maintained until the end that God would not allow the sacred city and the temple to fall. But they were wrong. And those who survived the onslaught were carried off into exile and slavery.
A mere 50 years later, Babylon was conquered by the Persian Empire. And 20 years after that, the Persian King, Cyrus the Great, ended the 70 years of Babylonian captivity by allowing the Hebrews to return to their ancestral homeland and rebuild their broken lives.
It is hard to be creative and write when you are sad, and I am. Looking out on a darkened rainy landscape last Wednesday seemed like a metaphor of my spirit, a harbinger of winter and America’s exile.
The horrors of 6th century BC Jerusalem are not mine, but my despair is real. I will be alright. I have lived long and well, and that can never be taken away from me. But I am worried for my children and grandchildren.
I won’t attempt to “put lipstick on a pig,” but Tennessee held strong to common sense, whereas most of the rest of the nation succumbed to the Sirens’ song of Democrat crazies. Nor will I assign blame to a do-nothing Congress, the president or the Democrat Socialists. Rational people recognize propaganda. The political verbiage that we are ruled by a potentate is utter nonsense. We The People choose our leaders. And as Andrew Breitbart implied, our choices of leaders are a reflection of what we’ve become. That is what is disturbing. The corrupt polis (citizens of the city-state) chose their leaders from a party whose only policy is a perverse hatred of President Trump.
Two millennia ago, the disciples of Jesus watched their leader and dreams die horribly on the cross. Even atheists do not challenge the fact that Jesus existed and was executed. His followers were understandably devastated and confused. Their hope of a messiah to rescue the people from Roman occupation was then buried in a sealed tomb. But then mysteriously, the tomb was found empty and miraculously Jesus appeared to as many as 500 people. And in just a few short years, the news of the obscure rabbi spread across the world. Myths take generations to become impactful. So how can you explain the early adoption of the resurrection reality that changed the world?
The man from Queens who became president is not a Christ figure. Nonetheless, he has become in some sense a “man of sorrows.” He dared to challenge the corrupt establishment in 2015, and since then he has been under attack. Attempts to figuratively crucify him with lawfare, impeachments and assassination for opposing the corrupt status quo are obvious to those who have eyes not blinded by hatred, ignorance, and ideology.
And then Trump sacrificed his presidency and his future to prevent the apocalyptic Iranian mullahs from acquiring a nuclear weapon to destroy Israel, threaten the rest of the Middle East, Europe and even the United States with their ballistic missiles. Eight previous presidents did not have the courage to do so.
President Trump made the borders secure, improved the economy, promoted re-industrialization of the homeland, deported illegal aliens, lowered crime and I could go on, but what’s the point? The consortium of corrupt media, vacuous Holly-weirds, elitist intelligencia, globalists, socialists, communists, radicals and Islamists proclaimed “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to destroy President Trump. Damaging our country was acceptable collateral damage.
There comes a time when enough has been said because repeating the truth is useless to Democrats and their allies. Buyers’ remorse is inevitable because the Democrats have no constructive policies. They only have hatred for the president.
So it is time for me to step back from the front lines and, like a soldier, leave on sabbatical for needed R&R. It is my plan to take care of personal and family issues and then return the first of next year. But we’ll see how things go. Until such time, I’ll borrow from Garrison Keillor and a friend to recommend that all of you “Be well, do good work” and “Keep looking up.”
