This is in response to an electioneering video published by James Dobson,
Christian evangelical conservative:
https://www.facebook.com/DrJamesDobsonsFamilyTalk/videos/376064266765445/UzpfSTEwMDAxNDMzMjc1NzA4NDo5NDM2Mzc2OTk0NTczMTM/
Lincoln’s Republican Party was significantly different from
today’s Republican Party. Lincoln led to free the unpaid black laborers. Today’s
party opposes organized labor and fair wages, which cuts into profits and makes more people into wage
slaves. In the last 43 years, the formerly balanced portions
of income garnered by each class has shifted so that the middle class is
disappearing, and we have megalomaniac billionaires in a race to see who will
be the first trillionaire.
During the American Civil War, Lincoln’s party passed major progressive
legislation in Congress to promote modernization, including the first income tax, many excise taxes, a huge national debt, free
homesteads to farmers, and aid to education and agriculture.
In 1896, under McKinley, the GOP guaranteed a sort of
pluralism arguing that prosperity would be
shared by all ethnic and religious groups, clearly a Democratic position today.
In 1907, Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed, “But during the last few
years it has been the wealthy corruptionists of enormous fortune, and of
enormous influence through their agents of the press, pulpit, colleges and
public life, with whom I've had to wage bitter war." Today, Republicans are the party of the wealthy.
Lincoln’s Republican Party that Dobson refers to, was progressive.
Now, Dobson’s party is one that threatens armed revolution, the
overthrow of American freedoms in support of an extreme right agenda that will
continue to oppress the poor, and make the average American dependent on
corporations and government.
Dobson wants us to vote (in the order he listed them) …
For the second half of the 2nd Amendment, which
gives gun rights ... without the first half of the Amendment which conditions gun
rights on being “well regulated.”
Wants not just a 6-3 extreme right-wing court, but even the next supreme
court justice.
To maintain a college of elite electors ... to change a 3-million-vote
majority into a loss for the people and a win for the rich minority.
A republic ... with democracy in chains or even free of
democracy.
Police enforcing law and order .. instead of peace officers and
social workers operating community outreach programs that prevent most crime and
ensure everyone gets a fair chance at prosperity.
To grow what is already the most powerful military on Earth
and the military-industrial complex that provides 75% of the weapons to the
world. Jesus teaches this, you know.
The right to speak his opinion ... which is handed to him by misinformation
agents of the Koch political organization and its minions.
To secure the borders ... against hungry people seeking a chance
at a normal life.
The right to praise God without fear ... and to write laws that
enforce Dobson's version of God’s will on others.
To prevent all abortions by law ... even those that would save
a mother’s life, even though the Republican Party controlled both houses of
Congress and the Presidency twice in the last 20 years.
For freedom ... to not wear a mask, spread disease and
disrespect the vulnerable,
and the American Dream ... the liberty to lie, cheat and steal in a cut-throat
competition to accumulate more dollars than the next guy at the expense of
anyone who gets in the way.
For good and against evil ... good being whatever benefits the
rich and powerful, and evil being people who cry out for a fair chance and a
decent life.
For the future of the country ... restoring it to what it was 150
years ago.
For candidates who will exercise sound judgment ... like Trump
who dismisses the advice of Department of State, FBI, CIA, CDC, his military leaders, Dept. of Health
and Human Services, and uses his Justice Department as a personal legal team,
in favor of embracing dictators around the world, interference with our
elections, misleading Americans about the pandemic and proper precautions, and
pardons convicted felons who are his friends. A candidate who will deny aid to
a state on fire, and use funds from a federal health insurance program to
distribute cards with his name on them during an election campaign. Someone who
got caught illegally withholding Congressionally authorized military aid to a
country at war in the hope of manufacturing a scandal against his political
opponent.
Support Israel ... especially by keeping Palestinians locked in
hopeless poverty.
Protect children from leftist curricula ... instead of our
religious indoctrination programs, which religious oppression the Pilgrims
fled.
For the nation’s fiscal integrity ... including the $3.1
Trillion deficit this year alone, which could have been avoided if people were
paid a fair wage and could actually save some money.
For parental rights ... to continue the pandemic of child neglect
and trauma that results in virtually all depression, anxiety, drug abuse, and
crime.
For the right to fund our private schools with money meant
for public schools.
For freedom (from poor, oppressed people) in the suburbs.
To vote for Christian organizations.
For racial unity ... without equal rights and without admitting –
much less resolving – systemic racism.
In support of In God We Trust ... because God can’t deal with
these issues by himself.
For school prayer ... so everyone can learn our religion and
minority religions will feel minimized.
For freedom of conscious for physicians ... like they can’t
already refuse to do abortions, and haven’t been forced to deny the abortion of
a dead fetus in Texas.
For marriage ... loveless relationships that are harmful to the
children, and against any other actually loving relationship beside the one we
ordain.
For life in all its dimensions ... except those of which we
morally disapprove or evils we choose to ignore.
For wisdom in handling the pandemic ... because God knows we
haven't seen that yet.
For protection for the church and oppressive politicians, because
… wait: for protection of oppressive politicians? Wait, wait … government
protection of the church? Well, we knew he wasn’t thinking things through
completely.
Against euthanasia and physician assisted suicide ... because
everybody deserves to suffer hideously, screaming in pain for three days until they final
pass.
And against socialism ... because the government really is
trying to take over ownership of the means of production and distribution of
goods. And like social responsibility is a problem that the church and
government don’t already address with major resources. Like the government
never supported railroads, electrical wiring, interstate highways, and the
Internet. Like insurance isn’t about sharing the financial risk of illness, death and property loss.
This election is about you. It’s about our kids and
grandkids.
This election is about our Constitution and the immutable
God-given rights that it protects ... like protection for our churches and our guns.
It is about truth, values, greatness and hope.
Choosing a president based on frivolous personality
characteristics is so unfortunate ... because we certainly prefer a president who
has a personality disorder.
Pray that God will spare this nation from tyranny and
oppression of religious liberty … so we can dictate that everybody else live according
to our religion.
Vote for the candidates who will best uphold your values and
convictions … as they’ve been taught to you.
