A Reflection on an Election.

The end of the election cycle this year brought relief for many Christians. Kamala Harris was soundly defeated, Donald Trump was overwhelmingly (in the electoral college) elected, and we expect the Millenium to start the day after inauguration.

At least that’s what I’m seeing from many evangelicals and conservative Christians.

I awoke Wednesday morning about 2:00 AM local time and checked my preferred news outlets to see what was happening. It seemed clear that President Trump was well on his way to winning. In past years, this would thrill me. This year the experience was different.

I felt sad.

After I checked the local elections, I was especially concerned about the various Missouri constitutional amendments, especially Amendment 3 which would legalize infanticide in the womb (I refuse to us the language of the Left. It’s not “abortion”…it is killing at best, murder at worst.) Three of the amendments I voted against (including Amendment 3) were passed by the peopl of Missouri, overriding the legislature and governor. The other two amendments created a “public school funding” amendment to allow sports betting and a mandate that increased the minimum wage, forced employers to allow their employers time off for family and personal reasons, and other “pro-employee” requirements.

I felt nauseous that my state, an otherwise conservative bastion, would tolerate allowing our unborn children to be slaughtered in the womb. Then I discovered that the same amendment mandates that children who want to “transgender” can have access to the procedure and even receive state funding for the procedure. Finally, I discovered that young minor girls can get abortions without mandating that their parents know and give consent.

I also see through the whole sports betting nonsense. All this does is solicit organized crime to blackmail professional athletes to blow games so these manipulators can make millions of dollars. They shroud their corruption in the “money for education” nonsense…the same drivel that was used to allow the poorest among us to spend their money on the lottery, hoping that their purchases of tickets will allow them to be millionaires. Of course, we still have problems funding salaries for our teachers here…and I predict we will even with this stupid new amendment passing.

And these “pro-emp[l;oyee” requirements will only make our state poorer and our workers face an increased risk of unemployment. Employers forced to pay their workforce more money will now be looking to increase efficiency with fewer employees, sending more of the poorest on social services for the sub-par pittance they provide. In addition, businesses will now raise their prices on goods and services to make their bottom lines balance, hitting their customers with inflation. Finally, some small businesses, already fighting to stay in business, will close their doors, sending their former employees onto the social service lines. Misery, indeed!

I did an analysis of this election. 67 million Americans voted for a candidate to be our president that was supremely ill-prepared and ill-equipped to be the most important person of the greatest country of the world. She received 47% of the vote in this country. This means, in simplified terms, that we were 4% away from electing a person who would destroy America, multiply the misery of the average American, and give the nuclear launch system to a person who can’t even put together a substantive sentence.

Finally, I remain appalled at the mainstream media. I call the the “LameStreamMedia” for a simple reason: they are liars and propaganda mouthpieces for the statist minority in America. They propped up Kamala Harris and trashed Donald Trump with lies, distortions, fake news, and outright slander. In America, we have a dirth of real, objective news. It’s time we ignore ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and yes, even Fox. We need real news and objective reporting, not the infected puss material hoisted on us regularly by the LameStreamMedia.

I pray for the President – whoever he or she is. I pray President Trump discovers ways to make America better. I believe it starts by neutering the federal establishment in Washington, DC…which he could easily do because he can only serve one more term this iteration. We need libertarian ideas, smaller government, and an America-first approach to economics that stops allowing other nation states to block access to their markets from our goods and services without cost to their own businesses. I’m hopeful.

But we better be ready, because the statists are coming to derail all that…and they are good at that. When it comes to the next two years, I hope the GOP has a “take no prisoner” approach and stop trying to compromise with people who never extend that courtesy when they are in power. Politics is war…and elections have consequences.

We have work to do. So let’s roll up our sleeves and get busy.