On the 2020 Ballot: Discretion and Consistency

It is easy to despise the man above me because I know nothing about him, but the Bible counsels us to have a wider perspective, to look at things beyond our insular notions. Our current culture of hatred and grievance has prevented many Christians from having that wider perspective.

It is a great education to try and put yourself into the circumstances of others before passing judgement on them - especially those who happen to be political leaders. 

One of Judge Amy Barrett's strengths was her discretion - a discretion which put her in the state of mind whereby her face indicated a strength and boldness which did not waver. If you watched her as she listened to each senator's questioning, you could see exactly what the Bible indicates, an uninterpretable expression. 

The discretion of a political or court official is to keep a bold face. Society is based on playacting, it must be. You cannot say what you really think; if you do, other people will too, and if everyone were absolutely frank there would be no room for us!  Sadly, social media has pretty much eradicated discretion - the ability to not say what you really think. Twitter has given us few if any role models who can teach us discretion. 

Here is a different thought on discretion to ponder: Hell is an eternal and an abiding distress to whatever goes into it. Whatever goes into hell can never again be established as a right thing. Under our constitution and after World War II, we had hopes that Marxism and Communism had gone into hell to stay.  But the long months of covid lockdowns and isolation created an environment for these dangerous hellish ideologies to percolate and eventually erupt onto our streets with the foolish radical left in Congress, Black Lives Matter, and Antifa. Something has gone into hell, but it is difficult to say what.

Anything bound before the President is bound as by the oath of God, and the consistency of a political leader or court official is to abide by it. In America's case, we are bound by the Constitution.  We heard Judge Amy's consistent expression of commitment to be bound by the original intent of the Constitution. She understands that her oath to the constitution is also an oath to God. 

Her consistency to that oath was in stark contrast to the inconsistency of the Democrat senators who seem to have forgotten that their oath of office was an oath to God. They seem to have bound their interpretations of the Constitution to their personal whims and preferences. 

If political leaders live in the order of their bound oath to the Constitution and to God, they must not be a traitor. They cannot take the action of a free individual man. The existence of peace and order depends entirely on this being remembered and enforced.

With the election only two weeks away we have strong evidence of a presidential candidate who along with his family have taken such individual acts of treason and put our country at risk.  If the evidence is credible and true, will our leaders be consistent and enforce their bound oath and demand that he step down from running for the highest office in the land? Or, will they endanger Americans and take the chance of electing a traitorous president who will almost certainly threaten our country's peace and stability? Either way our leaders remain bound by their oath to God and are under His judgment.