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The Party of 'No' Becomes the Party of Hate
The State of the Union, according to the President, is 'confident and strong'. The state of the Democrats, on the other hand, is anything but.
Since 2001, their entire platform has been one of obstruction, opposition and nay saying, regardless of the issue or whether or not it might be good for America. Because anything that turns out good for America is bad for them. They have become the Party of No, as Tom Delay described them in a post-speech interview.
Their hatred for George Bush and the GOP has begun to consume them as a political force. They are morphing from the Party of No that they have been for the last four years, into the Party of Hate. Openly and, evidently, unashamedly.
Howard Dean, who is a shoo-in to win the February 12 election as the new chairman of the Democratic Party, said in New York last week; "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for -- but I admire their discipline and their organization."
Noted Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe;
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for. Not "I oppose the Republicans and everything they stand for." Not "I'm determined to beat the Republicans." Not "I reject the Republican message." No -- Dean wants it understood that he hates the Republicans and all their works. That is the banner under which he is marching as a candidate to lead his party."
What makes this a different animal is the application of the word, 'hate' to the platform of the Democratic Party of Howard Dean. Politics at the national level is always intense and both sides practice the science with a cold, calculated ruthlessness.
The opposition is supposed to play hardball against the majority. That is what the Founders intended as part of the built-in 'checks and balances' system that keeps the country balanced.
Hatred is not cold, and usually, it lacks calculation. Unchecked, in its most extreme, it led Americans into civil war, and Jews into ghettos, concentration camps and finally, ovens.
Hatred, in the political sense, is what one feels for the enemies of one's country. War is the ultimate expression political hatred.
When expressed against one's fellow citizens, hatred is a CRIME so heinous that it has been judicially excluded from 1st amendment guarantees of freedom of speech!
The use, therefore, of the word to describe his view of a rival political party by the presumptive chairman of the Democratic Party is not merely eye-opening, its shocking.
We've both noted in the past that the Bible makes no mention of any nation resembling America during the Tribulation Period. Europe is there. Egypt, Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, -- they are all there. So is Syria, and most unlikely of all, Israel. But nothing resembling the existing American superpower.
But the Bible's description of the last days of the Church couldn't be more exemplary of America if the Author of Scripture had named it by name. Addressing the final Church Age of Laodicea, Jesus described it as 'lukewarm' and "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."
The Apostle Paul described the social decay during the last days of the Church Age. He described it as being a time "without natural affection." During the last days of the Church Age, "trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good," (2nd Timothy 3:1-7) would be a commonly accepted element of the existing social order.
Paul's description stands in such stark contrast to the America of only one generation ago, that it makes the identification that much more vivid to those of my generation: "Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
The characteristics Paul outlined were always part of the fabric of America. But only one generation ago, they were a badge of shame.
Traitors were executed. Philandering politicians lost their seats. Unwed mothers got married or were shamed. God was welcomed in our schools and ALL of America thought of itself as 'Jesus Land'.
'Sexual preferences' were unspoken and private. Abortion was illegal, pornography shameful, Rob and Laura Petrie slept in separate beds, and Barney Fife chaperoned Andy Taylor's first date with a new girlfriend.
Andy was a deacon in his church and played Gospel music on his guitar. America loved Andy Taylor and could identify with the fictional Mayberry, which was modeled after Andy Griffith's home town of Mount Airy, North Carolina.
I remember that America, and so do most people my age.
Paul's description of the final days of the Church Age amount to American politics as usual -- from both sides of the aisle.
It can be argued that America is the world's only Christian nation, but it is indisputable that America is the world's most powerful and influential, and therefore, the most REPRESENTATIVE Christian nation on the face of the earth at this moment in history.
The final days of the Church are a letter-perfect description of America's current acceptable moral code and mirror the American political dynamic developing before our astonished eyes.
America is all over Scripture during the final days of the Church, but utterly absent from the Tribulation Period. Where did it go?
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Psalm 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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