I’ve said numerous times in these posts on Christian nationalism that the easiest thing to do in the destressing state of 2022 America is complain. Most Americans who see things this way also think there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it, but that is not true. God has given us the most incredible gift in America because it is the first nation in the history of the world where the people were given sovereign power to rule their own country. The problem with such a system is that if the people don’t take up the responsibility of their own rule, then tyrants will do it for them. These words of Thomas Jefferson from 1775 speak brilliantly to the responsibility before us:
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.
Over 200 years later another president, Ronald Reagan, said something along the same lines:
Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Too many Christians, not to mention Americans, don’t seem to understand that our freedoms are not the natural state of existence in a fallen world, that freedom is not free. A cursory overview of history will show us that. Yet, we so easily take them for granted, and do not thank God adequately for the blessings they are. The Democrat-left communists depend on the good people of America to do nothing to defend their liberties, so there are no lines they will not cross to keep and achieve power for their ideological, soul crushing, liberty destroying agenda. If we do not push back, our country and our liberties will be lost. If you think the last two years has been misery with the covid scam, stolen elections, and leftists controlling the Federal government, you haven’t seen anything yet if we continue to let them get their way.
In comments sections of some websites I visit, many of those who proclaim gloom and doom think things are so bad that our only option is revolution and war, but that is short sighted in the extreme. The founders gave us legal and peaceful means to fight the tyranny of those who would seek to control us without our consent. All of these include time and effort, and sometimes money. The least we can do if we are not going to run for any office, is to hold accountable those in office. More people than ever have realized the need to do this because of the overreach of government on many levels, and the overreach of the radical left (it is all radical today). How we hold our elected representatives accountable is by showing up. Sometimes that means in person and sometimes via phone and e-mail. It also means we have to educate and inform ourselves about what they are doing. I’m working on getting better at that myself. We should focus local because that is what a self-governing people do, keep accountable government closest to the people.
Locally, cities, towns, and counties have elected officials for legislative, executive, and sometimes judicial branches of their governments. Included in these are mayors, city council members, county commissioners, election boards and clerks’ offices (these are more important than ever for obvious reasons). At the state level, offices are the same as at the federal, including the executive, the governor, the legislative, congressman and senator, and the judicial. We all need to have our state representatives’ websites bookmarked so we can keep up with what they are doing, and call and e-mail when necessary. Then there are school boards, something none of us gave a thought to until the draconian and useless (harmful, actually) covid restrictions brought to light the rot being taught in our public schools. Now parents are holding their county school boards accountable, and many who never imagined themselves running for any office, are running for board seats. I learned about a wonderful organization helping people do just that, Mom’s for Liberty. Check them out. It is yet another opportunity to get involved. There is no excuse not to get involved in some way, unless we just don’t believe in what Jefferson and Reagan said. I certainly hope not.
We also have a political party that is sympathetic to Christianity and the Judeo-Christian worldview, and that would be the Republican Party. I have plenty of problems with Republicans, specifically the RINOs among them, but again, I can complain or do something about it. My activism was slow in coming because when I was younger, I was “involved in politics,” and eventually figured it wasn’t going to change much. I’m just one person after all. No fan of Trump initially, to say the least, I slowly came to appreciate him and what he stood for. Nobody could be as bad as his critics claimed he was. As those critics lied about him endlessly for four years, I figured he must be a significant threat to their money and power. Although I wish he had treated the covid scam differently, the Democrat-left’s response to covid is continuing that eye opening process.
Then when the election of 2020 was stolen, and the J-6 setup was revealed for what it was, I knew I could no longer sit on the sidelines and just vote and complain. Thankfully, I learned about Steve Bannon’s War Room after the election and have been watching it ever since. In February of 2021 I learned about something called the precinct strategy, and I was in. My wife and I were officially sworn in as precinct committeemen a few months later, and we are now voting members of our county GOP. It requires a meeting once a month, with many opportunities to volunteer especially in election years such as this one. The Republican Party is built from the ground up, which allows us a real voice in how it is run, and in due course if enough patriotic Americans get involved, we can drive out the RINOs who always seem to talk a good game, but never fight against the deep state globalists and have no interest in Making America Great Again.
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