“ok DEM. we agree not to elect anyone. Just cheer a few who get in there on their own.”
There will always be those who wish to worship at the false altar of elections, and I’m really not that concerned about them. They have their golden calf, let them bow low before it.
What I offer is nothing more than pure heresy to the devotees of the electoral religion. I point out that if elections were an effective methodology to implement comservatism, we would already have it. I offer the last 30 years as evidence that elections do not work. Those who wish to insist that elections do work are free to offer evidence. For the most part they are unable to do so. Their argument boils down to some variation on the theme of “this time it will be different.”
My goal is not to reach or persuade devotees of the electoral religion. My goal is to persuade those who are still using their good sense that maybe there is a different way.
those of us who participate in elections do so out of duty.
1. “Piety in place of duty isn’t piety at all”. So, yes, there is a religious aspect to duty.
2. Civics is considered “practical affairs”, not a religious matter. So, no, Christians should not be dogmatic about practical affairs.
Good luck with your new religion, whatever you call it.