An Election to Save Our Republic?

     Having compared Trump's first term with Biden's current reign, and Trump's latest campaign with Harris's shower of accusations, I thought this election might save or break our Republic. 

     Was I wrong? 

     Hunter Baker, a school dean in South Carolina, knows the tendency we have for seeing each election as "a contest for the fate of mankind." Now, he wrote in October, it seems to him that "such claims are untrue." 

     "Americans," he wrote, "have a great deal of protection thanks to the Constitution. Founders conceived of a government that frustrates sudden waves of passion and changes in policy. Separated powers and the division into federal and state systems work against ultimate power. Elections never expose the entire federal government at the same time. 

     "Christians," he wrote, "should take the longer view of God's sovereignty. None of us will conceive some plan that will surprise the Lord. That doesn't mean we don't have responsibilities and aren't accountable. We have the right to speak, to organize, to be involved, and to vote. We can act, rather than be acted upon. That means we should inform ourselves. There are important issues at stake." 

     "While all that activity has value, and what happens in our electoral process matters, it all pales in significance before the greater reality. Jesus Christ is King. Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Not because we created the perfect system. The truth will be undeniable to every soul who has ever lived." 

     Yes, Dean Baker. Meanwhile, we are preparing a blog for Sunday night/Monday, with a summary of truth and lies that voters were told during, and even after, the election. 

                    Jimmy